Roy Schestowitz

• The tiny Rapsberry Pi Zero 2 W is great gopher://box.matto.nl/0/the-tiny-rapsberry-pi-zero-2-w-is-great.txt    

posted Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 23:30:25

• "The first year of Panning for Tunes is over (unless I manage to come up with 4 banger albums in the space of a month, which seems unlikely). It's been a fun project, and a pleasure for me to share the musical treasures I manage to find. Long may it continue." gemini://mediocregopher.com/treasures/2025-11-music.gmi    

posted Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 23:31:28

• "I know I daydream about throwing away the internet entirely but for this one post let me pull back on that fantasy, almost all the way back, and instead just make a much more reasonable and smaller request: Give up on all “push algo” apps. Yes, all of them." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/slop-cure    

posted Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 23:32:37

• "Someone in Mississippi signed up for Disney+ which isn't very remarkable, except that they gave the wrong email address, and I got the messages. I assume we have the same name." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2025-11-16_I_didn_t_get_free_Disney_.gmi    

posted Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 23:33:15

• "The demise of the search engines and the embrace of untrustworthy, useless AI-generated results, optimistically referred to as "AI-powered" are upon us. It is time to rethink the way we search." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/wikipedia-as-search-engine-in-eww.txt    

posted Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 23:34:57

• "it's amazing that this ex-Director is only suing for a lousy $1,050,000 in damages, along with back pay, front pay, costs, attorney's fees and interest. She should have sued for at least $10 million in addition to all those costs, lawyer fees etc. IBM has a ton of money - if they can pay a pathetic schmuck like Alvind more than $25 million for compensation in 2024, she should ask for more after being at the Blue Wheel for 26 years."    

posted Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 23:37:43

• "IBM SVPs only learn about respect for DEI when they bleed (sorry, hemorrhage) lots of $$$ for their business units as a result of lawsuits. They should take it out of Alvind's compensation and bonus for 2025." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka0gxw0h    

posted Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 23:37:49

• "Yes, IBM Management is so classy they will have another layoff on Dec. 31, 2025 to kickoff the New Year 2026 with a bang. It's Alvind getting warmed up for his 2026 bonus and perks." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka45m7at    

posted Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 23:38:27

• "The dividend rate is sky high + stock buybacks" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka6g0njx    

posted Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 23:39:25

• "Because IBM will soon have Quantum Blockchain, which will simultaneously be all possible blockchains everywhere. IBM Quantum Blockchain will be outdated and irrelevant from the day they announce it's availabilitiy...guess Alvind didn't see it coming." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka6g0njx    

posted Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 23:39:43

• "all my work will be dumped on my teammates when they kick me to the curb soon...they will be miserable [...] Where I am very few who got notice even show up or pretend to work from home." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka68k07z    

posted Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 23:40:24

• "Ginny completely wrecked the company" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka22q9dh    

posted Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 23:40:47

• Web3Privacy Now has not uploaded any talks - not even of RMS (yet) https://www.youtube.com/@Web3PrivacyNow/videos    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 01:33:49

• Nor has anyone else uploaded it to common hubs https://inv.nadeko.net/search?q=stallman&page=1&date=week&type=all&duration=none&sort=relevance    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 01:34:44

• "IBM is the person who brags he has VHS when DVDs took over" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka6g0njx    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 01:37:27

• "People who went to the office 3X a week got RA'd but people who went in once a month did not. Wanna guess why?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka68k07z    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 01:37:53

• "The H1B thread was deleted - A thread talking about how some H1B workers got by because of reservation (aka quotas or DEI) has been deleted. Why?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka7m9489    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 01:38:42

• Moving to Wayland won't work any time soon https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/10/contributions/405/attachments/250/337/Screencasting%20on%20Wayland.pdf    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 01:49:15

• "Guess those H1B comments touched raw nerves on the collective backsides of Alvind and his Pipmunks, and maybe even drew blood. LOL." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka7m9489    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 03:22:06

• "The thin skinned executives (reprobates) are getting very touchy about comments posted at this site because the truth hurts and it hurts a lot. But then, the truth shall set you free...if you weren't laying off so many Americans, you wouldn't have these ugly comments posted about IBM and it's leaders, would you?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka7m9489    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 03:22:17

• "sure we need to import less. But we were told that there are some skills in short supply and we need people. Okay . But why don’t we import the top 10 percent? It’s frikkinnn insane that we have to get stuck with people who got selected because of quotas."    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 03:22:38

• "Well at 60 I don’t get to choose which dept hire me. I have seen my picky coworkers collect unemployment and remain jobless so I’m just grateful I found something that will last few more years. Kudos that you are doing better than us." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka0h0hhd    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 03:23:38

• "The stock will go to $325 before year end. After that who knows, especially if RT becomes CEO." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka6g0njx    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 03:24:48

• "it is kind of odd that a society that created most of the modern technology [...] need people from countries that don't have even clean piped water something doesn't add up" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka7m9489    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 04:43:45

• "didn't snake oil man Elon delete h1b posts as well" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka7m9489    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 04:43:51

• "Sadly with the amount of people who got RA’ed in cloud don’t know how any of those teams will be able to take on that much new workload over their existing workloads. If you haven’t updated your resumé it’s time you started. This isn’t the IBM of old. RA’ing people in the thousands to “rebalance” what a crock" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka68k07z    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 04:44:33

• Webhost: "In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary. Nov 15, 2025 - 00:00 GMT "    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 04:49:40

• "Prince Andrew" ☛ https://thegrayzone.com/2025/11/16/prince-andrews-epstein-buckingham-palace/ | Source: The Gray Zone    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:45:12

• "Dina personuppgifter ska snart kunna användas för att träna AI – utan ditt godkännande | Teknik | Svenska Yle" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://yle.fi/a/7-10088168    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:45:24

• New life | "Nytt liv | Ditt & datt" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://www.johanl.se/2025/11/16/nytt-liv.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:45:47

• "Pro-Trump Nobel winner begs Maduro's troops to surrender as Venezuela's forces challenge US army | Videos" https://www.hindustantimes.com/videos/protrump-nobel-winner-begs-maduros-troops-to-surrender-as-venezuelas-forces-challenge-us-army-101763343184360.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:46:00

• "MBS in Washington: What is at stake for US-Saudi relations?" https://www.dw.com/en/mbs-in-washington-what-is-at-stake-for-us-saudi-relations/a-74728747    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:46:15

• "Chat Control 2: Senaste nytt" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/11/16/chat-control-2-senaste-nytt/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:46:24

• "All three models use the quad-core Arm Cortex-A72 processor found in the CM4 and support RAM configurations up to 8 GB and eMMC options up to 32 GB depending on variant" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/unipi-edge-e410-e411-and-e413-controllers-built-on-raspberry-pi-cm4/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:49:07

• New bug doors ready to install: "Microsoft this week pushed security updates to fix more than 60 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software" ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/microsoft-patch-tuesday-november-2025-edition/ | Source: Krebs On Security http://techrights.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_the_NSA/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:49:58

• "Support for site or content blocking measures usually turns on individual needs." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/blocking-pirate-sites-inevitably-goes-wrong-even-when-you-do-it-yourself-251116/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:50:25

• "And sure enough, Claude will happily spit out whatever Blob utilities you need when prompted: [...]" ☛ https://nolanlawson.com/2025/11/16/the-fate-of-small-open-source/ | Source: Nolan Lawson    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:50:37

• "The U.S. Postal Service can’t fix its finances through cuts alone, Postmaster General David Steiner said Friday." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2025/11/postmaster-general-says-us-postal-service-needs-revenue-growth-not-just-cuts/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:52:51

• "Many of the scenes in Kim A. Snyder’s new documentary The Librarians are chin-droppers: there are MAGA hat-wearing men brandishing guns in school board meetings and a young gay man confronting the right-wing activist mother who abandoned him." ☛ https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/11/14/Librarians-Traces-Battle-of-Lifetime/ | Source: The Tyee    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:53:33

• "Several scholars say they were abruptly removed from the speaker lineup for a session with General Secretary Tô Lâm during the 7th International Conference on Vietnamese Studies (ICVNS 2025)" ☛ https://www.thevietnamese.org/2025/11/academic-freedom-under-fire-as-party-blocks-speakers-at-vietnam-studies-conference-in-ha-noi/ | Source: The Vietnamese Magazine    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:53:42

• zeptofetch – ultra-minimal system information tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/zeptofetch-ultra-minimal-system-information-tool/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:54:49

• RsMixer – PulseAudio volume mixer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rsmixer-pulseaudio-volume-mixer/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:55:14

• Fjira – fuzzy finder and TUI application for Jira ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fjira-fuzzy-finder-tui-application-jira/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:58:42

• Lyvoxa Stellar – GNU/Linux system monitor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lyvoxa-stellar-linux-system-monitor/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:58:56

• 4 Best Free and Open Source Matrix Servers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-matrix-servers/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:59:07

• Picsort – tool for sorting images into folders ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/picsort-sort-images-folders/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:59:15

• shiny-mirrors – find the best mirrors for Arch-based distros ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/shiny-mirrors-best-mirrors-arch-based-distros/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:59:31

• Pagume – Ethiopian calendar ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pagume-ethiopian-calendar/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 07:59:39

• Debian 13.2 now available with new security updates rolled into updated ISO ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/debian-132-now-available-with-new-security-updates-rolled-into-updated-iso/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:00:48

• Mini review – NormCap is a simple but powerful text capturing screenshot tool for GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.reallinuxuser.com/mini-review-normcap-is-a-simple-but-powerful-text-capturing-screenshot-tool-for-linux/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:02:34

• "Nearly a month after the 9.18 release, DietPi, a lightweight, performance-focused Debian-based Linux distro for SBCs (such as Raspberry Pi) and server systems (with an option to install desktop environments), has just unveiled its latest iteration, version 9.19." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/dietpi-9-19-introduces-birdnet-go-expands-debian-trixie-support/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:03:32

• "Many people are turning to chatbots for health advice because doctors feel rushed, costly, or hard to reach." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/frustrated-by-the-medical-system-patients-turn-to-ai/articleshow/125375324.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:04:23

• "bipartisan commitment toward raising a new generation of radicals" ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/we-need-a-moderate-revolution/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:06:14

• "The recent round of Amazon corporate layoffs isn’t a sign of an imminent AI apocalypse. It's an expression of the company's brutal corporate culture, enabled by its use of the H-1B visa program." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/11/amazon-layoffs-artificial-intelligence-h-1b-visa/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:06:23

• "I keep thinking that part of the problem of modern American society is that we have amply demonstrated our intellectual equality but are still denied economic equality." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2025/11/16/reemerging-orality-and-serf-brain/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:06:32

• "a private individual who is not a public figure." ☛ https://www.tmz.com/2025/11/16/jeffrey-epstein-brother-bubba-not-bill-clinton/ | Source: TMZ    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:08:47

• "titled the Epstein Files Transparency Act, was first introduced in July by Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California and Republican Rep. Thomas Massie" ☛ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein-files-house-november-vote/ | Source: CBS    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:09:02

• "All this offloading of parental responsibility to AI is alarming because one of ChatGPT’s biggest flaws, its manipulative and sycophantic nature" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/parents-chatgpt-rear-children | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:09:46

• "Either way, new survey data shows that 67 percent of Americans say billionaires are making society less fair, up eight points from a year ago." ☛ https://www.vox.com/podcasts/468697/evan-osnos-book-billionaires-taxes-musk-bezos-backlash | Source: Vox    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:09:57

• Windows TCO: "In the ClickFix attacks, it is used to retrieve a malicious script via the finger protocol." ☛ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32492 | Source: SANS    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:11:46

• Social Control Media: "But it is illegal. Under United States law and international law." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-tiktok-doctrine | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:12:40

• "In the age of “AI” Agents generating the code, is your programming language choice still relevant?" ☛ https://alexn.org/blog/2025/11/16/programming-languages-in-the-age-of-ai-agents/?pk_campaign=rss | Source: Alexandru Nedelcu    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:13:04

• "People would be shocked if they knew how little code from LLMs actually makes it to production." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/ai-code-doesnt-survive-in-production-heres-why/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:13:15

• "What I mean by push algo apps are the ones that have a robot that “recommends” things for you to “explore” and “discover”." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/slop-cure | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:13:25

• "who are we building the web for?" ☛ https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop |    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:13:37

• "In fact, given the amount of money that’s been invested in the industry, it’s shocking how many “new AI products” are just chatbots." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-products/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:13:56

• "By the end of his first semester, Lee checked off one of those boxes." ☛ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html | Source: NYMag    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:14:06

• "But the very thing that makes agentic AI powerful — its ability to make independent decisions in real-time — is also what makes it an unpredictable threat vector." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/15/dont-ignore-security-risks-agentic-ai/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:14:16

• "That, it turned out, was just the tip of the iceberg" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-stuffed-animal-pulled-after-disturbing-interactions | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:14:33

• "McDonald’s prices have risen so high at the iconic fast food chain that traffic from one of its core customer bases, low-income households" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-11-16/mcdonalds-is-losing-its-low-income-customers | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:15:25

• "By 2021, just before the full-scale invasion, Ukrainian soil was already showing signs of strain." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-11-ukraine-farms-fed-billions-soil.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:15:33

• "The computers that I write about on this blog are mostly machines that I owned when I was younger." ☛ https://celso.io/posts/2025/11/15/acorn-a3020/ | Source: Celso Martinho    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:21:22

• "But what if we started off from the goal of emulating this chimera of a beast?" ☛ https://solhsa.com/oldernews2025.html#MUSINGS-ABOUT-EMULATING-ZX-NEXT | Source: Jari Komppa    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:22:37

• "So, I was going to be a pen nerd. I think I might be a cheap pen nerd. And I mean really cheap. I’ll pay $30 for a pack of pens. That doesn’t sound so bad." ☛ https://mtwb.blog/posts/2025/i-was-going-to-be-a-pen-nerd/ | Source: Matthew Weber    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:22:49

• "The clock has been hanging in a central place in one of our rooms for almost 10 years now. Every time I walk past it, I think of this story, of how important it was, and of the lady's sadness." ☛ https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/16/the-lady-of-the-clock/ | Source: Stefano Marinelli    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:23:00

• "For it is AI that has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education." ☛ https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack | Source: The Baffler Foundation    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:24:51

• "These awards raise some questions: [...]" ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/11/test-of-time-awards-good-idea-but.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:25:02

• "Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations, such as Starlink, are reshaping how people connect to the Internet." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/11/17/network-resilience-in-space-solar-storm-impacts-on-leo-satellite-networks/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:25:39

• "The same pulling force that causes “tears” in a glass of wine also shapes embryos." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/how-genes-have-harnessed-physics-to-grow-living-things/ | Source: Wired    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:25:47

• "I keep hearing and reading people bitching and moaning about the web being dead" ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/y-all-are-great | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:26:33

• "But they can also do the opposite" ☛ https://emilkowal.ski/ui/you-dont-need-animations#purposeful-animations |    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:26:43

• "For those just tuning in: I got married to Hamilton Nguyen (you dronies may know him as the business and tech guy, as well as the cameraman for The Drone Girl — yes, a true renaissance man!) in September 2025." ☛ https://www.thedronegirl.com/2025/11/15/new-york-times-wedding-drone-show/ | Source: The Drone Girl    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:26:57

• "I am really happy with how I made it look for a temporary setup, and I am at the point in the fishkeeping hobby where I just have extra lights and filters and wood and extension cords and timers and cinderblocks lying around as to not have to spend anything." ☛ https://smallcypress.bearblog.dev/about-the-goldfish-pond-in-the-basement/ | Source: Small Cypress    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:27:19

• "Modern Mechanix was an influential American monthly magazine launched in 1928 by Fawcett Publications to compete with established titles like Popular Science and Popular Mechanics." ☛ https://www.vintag.es/2025/11/1930s-modern-mechanix-covers.html | Source: Vintage Everyday    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:27:31

• Steinar H. Gunderson: Game slowrunning ☞ http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2025-11-16-12-46_game_slowrunning.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:32:47

• New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road and Windswept - 2025-11-15 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2025-11-15-edition/index.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:33:17

• "robots.txt is, of course, a voluntary mechanism, but including these directives is still prudent" ☛ https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/updating-forgejos-robotstxt | Source: Cory Dransfeldt    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:41:08

• "When testing Go code that spawns subprocesses, you usually have three options." ☛ https://rednafi.com/go/test-subprocesses/ | Source: Redowan Delowar    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:43:50

• "I recently read and shared You’re Wasting Time in Java Without These 10 Libraries. I commented on it a bit in my newsletter, but given the amount and intensity of reactions, I think a full-blown post is in order. The referenced libraries are: [...]" ☛ https://blog.frankel.ch/wasting-time-without-10-libraries/ | Source: Nicolas Fränkel    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:43:59

• "Direnv is a utility that makes it easy to set and unset environment variables as you move between directories on the command line." ☛ https://esham.io/2023/10/direnv | Source: Benjamin Esham    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:44:16

• "I recently switched my primary workflow engine from Snakemake to Parsl (Parallel Scripting Library)." ☛ https://danmackinlay.name/notebook/parsl.html | Source: Dan MacKinlay    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:44:33

• [Old] "Let's start with the beginning." ☛ https://blog.balthazar-rouberol.com/just-enough-makefile-to-be-dangerous | Source: Balthazar Rouberol    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:44:55

• "That blog post explained why that rule was important: often a mock doesn’t work at all if you do it wrong. But in some cases, the mock will work even if you don’t follow this rule, and then it can break much later." ☛ https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202511/why_your_mock_breaks_later.html | Source: Ned Batchelder    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:45:13

• "I’ve been working on OSS projects for almost 15 years now. Things are simple in the beginning - you’ve got a single project, no users to worry about and all the time and the focus in world." ☛ https://batsov.com/articles/2025/11/16/burst-driven-development-my-approach-to-oss-projects-maintenance/ | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:45:24

• "With great pleasure we can announce that the following project will have a stand at FOSDEM 2026!" ☛ https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-11-16-accepted-stands/ | Source: FOSDEM    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:45:48

• "The HTTP X-Forwarded-For header is something that I normally expect to see only on something behind a reverse proxy" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/XForwardedForOutThere | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:46:13

• "I love my (sort of) home grown Emacs config, but maintaining it can be exhausting" ☛ https://baty.blog/2025/11/im-not-sure-i-want-to-maintain-a-complex-emacs-config/ | Source: Jack Baty    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:47:04

• "Traefik, a well-known name in cloud-native open-source proxies, released version 3.6, “Ramequin,” bringing together three major additions, with the multi-layer routing support being the most significant one." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/traefik-proxy-3-6-introduces-multi-layer-routing/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:47:13

• "This was such a weird pan that it required us to download an application for it to self regulate temperature against our stove top." ☛ https://connortumbleson.com/2025/11/17/hestan-cue-smart-pan-rebate/ | Source: Connor Tumbleson    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:49:40

• "I just finished the second editions of two of my books: Raspberry Pi Assembly Language Programming and RP2040 Assembly Language Programming" ☛ https://smist08.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/upgrading-to-raspberry-pi-os-trixie/ | Source: Stephen Smith    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:50:20

• Intel layoffs continue with hundreds more jobs cut in Oregon https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1jcmzwxwg    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:51:49

• "[...] Some former Window users are exploring beginner friendly Linux distributions and, in particular, looking for distributions which make migrating easier." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20251117 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:53:59

• [Old] "Take a look at the following design: [...]" ☛ https://ishadeed.com/article/modern-css-section-layout/ | Source: Ahmad Shadeed    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:54:53

• "To fix this, I use ExifTool to add the relevant EXIF tags to the scanned files." ☛ https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-11-16-tagging-film-scans | Source: Eliseo Martelli    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:55:05

• "The earliest collaborations were humble affairs conducted over email, shared tarballs, and phone lines" ☛ https://machaddr.com/blog/articles/2025-11-17-linux-origins-collaborators/ | Source: André Machado    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:55:43

• "In this inaugural episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel examines the state of the [Internet] as it stands now in November 2025 with Hank Green" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2025/11/the-internet-is-a-misery-machine/684925/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:56:14

• New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients - 2025-11-12 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-clients-2025-11-12-edition/index.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:57:39

• Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 46 (Nov 10 – 16, 2025) ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linuxiac-weekly-wrap-up-week-46-nov-10-16-2025/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:57:48

• Install Rocky GNU/Linux on Raspberry PI: a Red Hat-based OS ☞ https://peppe8o.com/rocky-linux-raspberry-pi/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:58:24

• How To Install VeraCrypt on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-veracrypt-debian-13/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:59:06

• How To Install Observium on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-observium-fedora-43/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 08:59:48

• How To Install Apache on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-apache-fedora-43/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 09:00:02

• How To Setup Virtual Host Apache on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/setup-virtual-host-apache-fedora-43/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 09:00:16

• How To Install DokuWiki on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-dokuwiki-almalinux-10/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 09:00:31

• How To Install Lighttpd on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-lighttpd-fedora-43/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 09:00:53

• "So much energy, so much heart, such a unique sound. Their other album Madness in Miniature, is also incredible. Thank you for coming to my microblog." gemini://mediocregopher.com/posts/mr-gnome.gmi    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 09:05:29

• "Randomly chosen images from Geminispace" gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-11-17.gmi    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 09:08:20

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1477.jpg    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 09:09:17

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1827.jpg    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 09:09:21

• [photos] [japan] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-11-16.gmi    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 09:09:26

• "Some high schoolers I know experience chromebooks, and phones with their multitude of apps as more restrictive than freeing." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2025-11-17-hiskoo.txt    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 09:10:41

• opensource.net Dead Since Middle of Summer, opensource.org (OSI) Still Leaderless ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/17/opensource_net_Dead_Since_Middle_of_Summer_opensource_org_OSI_S.shtml    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 09:19:02

• 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 16th, 2025 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-november-16th-2025    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 09:19:11

• container: v1.1.0 on CRAN ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/container-v1-1-0-on-cran/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 09:20:34

• Portmaster, an Open Source Firewall for the Desktop ☞ https://thenewstack.io/portmaster-an-open-source-firewall-for-the-desktop/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 13:49:23

• Hyprland ☞ https://sparkylinux.org/hyprland/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 13:49:52

• Download latest SeaMonkey ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202511/download-latest-seamonkey.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 13:50:15

• Q4OS 6.3 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/q4os    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 13:52:35

• Refracta 13.1 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/refracta    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 13:52:44

• LainOS 2025.11.16 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/lainos    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 13:53:17

• UP TWL Hey Hi (AI) Dev Kit review – Benchmarks, features testing, and Hey Hi (AI) workloads on Ubuntu 24.04 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/17/up-twl-ai-dev-kit-review-benchmarks-features-testing-and-ai-workloads-on-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 13:53:55

• Simon Ser: Status update, November 2025 ☞ https://emersion.fr/blog/2025/status-update-81/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 13:56:07

• US aircraft carrier arrives in Caribbean as Washington ramps up pressure on Venezuela ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20251116-us-aircraft-carrier-caribbean-washington-venezuela    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 13:56:38

• Iran Claims It's Not Enriching Uranium After US, Israeli Strikes ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-enrichment-uranium-iaea-israel-us-strikes-nuclear/33593181.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 13:56:51

• The Unlikely Mother of a Movement, on a Hunger Strike to Avenge Her Son ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/world/europe/sebia-mother-hunger-strike.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 13:57:10

• Latest U.S. Strike on Boat in Pacific Kills 3, Southern Command Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/us/politics/strike-boat-pacific-caribbean.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 13:57:29

• Rights group calls on South Africa to show global leadership at the G20 Summit ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/rights-group-calls-on-south-africa-to-show-global-leadership-at-the-g20-summit/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 13:58:15

• Slopwatch: Surveillance Giant Google News Full of Slop ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/16/Slopwatch_Google_News_Full_of_Slop.shtml    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 13:59:30

• nmilosev: TPU Monitoring in MLFlow ☞ https://nmilosev.svbtle.com/tpu-monitoring-in-mlflow    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:00:43

• Pluralistic: Zohran Mamdani's world-class photocopier-kicker (15 Nov 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/15/unconscionability/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:00:59

• Lazy Reading for 2025/11/16 ☞ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/11/16/lazy-reading-for-2025-11-16/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:02:25

• The fate of “small” open source ☞ https://nolanlawson.com/2025/11/16/the-fate-of-small-open-source/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:03:21

• Microsoft's proprietary prison is a step BACK https://copyninja.in/blog/move-back-to-github.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:04:36

• BILD is Apparently Covering Up Cocaine Use at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the European Patent Office, as It's Based on Germany ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/15/BILD_is_Apparently_Covering_Up_Cocaine_Use_at_Europe_s_Second_L.shtml    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:05:39

• Germany-Based Focus Online is Apparently Covering Up Cocaine Use at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the European Patent Office ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/17/Germany_Based_Focus_Online_is_Apparently_Covering_Up_Cocaine_Us.shtml    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:06:05

• Shutting the Patent Office Door: YMTC and the Entity List ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/11/shutting-patent-office.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:06:19

• Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc6 ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1046651/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:06:34

• China races for space dominance: Its bold plans for the moon and beyond ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251116-china-races-for-space-dominance-its-bold-plans-for-the-moon-and-beyond    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:07:01

• Upgrading Fans with a Custom Shroud on a RTX3090 - Goodbye Fan Noise! ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/upgrading-fans-with-a-custom-shroud-on-a-rtx3090-goodbye-fan-noise/index.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:07:21

• Ukraine hits major Russian oil refinery and site of elite drone unit ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/11/16/world-news/ukraine-hits-major-russian-oil-refinery-and-site-of-elite-drone-unit/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:07:47

• Amid Corruption Scandal, Zelenskyy Vows Energy Sector Overhaul, Signs Gas Deal With Greece ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-zelenskyy-energy-sector-scandal-mindich/33592648.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:09:47

• Former associate of Zelensky accused of corruption ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251116-former-associate-of-zelensky-accused-of-corruption    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:10:04

• Zelensky vows to reform Ukraine’s energy sector amid corruption storm ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251116-zelensky-vows-to-reform-ukraine-s-energy-sector-amid-corruption-storm    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:10:38

• Russia’s wartime economy loses steam as oil revenues fall and the budget deficit grows ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251116-russia-s-wartime-economy-loses-steam-as-oil-revenues-fall-and-the-budget-deficit-grows    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:10:58

• They Got Low Mortgage Rates During the Pandemic. Now They Can’t Move. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/business/homeowners-moving-mortgage-rates.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:12:05

• Man arrested in India over deadly Delhi car bomb attack ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/india-arrests-kashmir-resident-over-delhi-car-blast    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:12:27

• Owning a Cat Could Double Your Risk of Schizophrenia, Research Suggests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/owning-a-cat-could-double-your-risk-of-schizophrenia-research-suggests    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:13:47

• The King Of Rocket Photography ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/the-king-of-rocket-photography/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:14:15

• AMD vs. Intel: a Unicode benchmark ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/11/16/amd-vs-intel-a-unicode-benchmark/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:15:27

• Microsoft backdoored Windows boss posts lackluster response to ‘agentic OS’ backlash — Abusive Monopolist Microsoft is working to address broad problems with the OS ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-boss-posts-lacklustre-response-to-agentic-os-backlash    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:21:08

• AI pioneer Yann Le Cun is quitting Meta over the future of intelligence ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/tech-24/20251116-ai-pioneer-yann-le-cun-is-quitting-meta-over-the-future-of-intelligence    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:21:24

• Intel 4000 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/supersized-calculator-brings-the-whole-intel-4000-gang-together/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:21:46

• "Arduino or otherwise" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/the-simplest-ultrasound-sensor-module-minus-the-module/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:22:23

• Seven NATO ships arrive in Rīga, Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/16.11.2025-seven-nato-ships-arrive-in-riga-latvia.a622724/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:23:07

• Netanyahu insists there can be no Palestinian state ahead of UN vote ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20251116-netanyahu-insists-there-can-be-no-palestinian-state-ahead-of-un-vote    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:23:20

• The Insurrectionist's Gaza plan arrives at the UN Security Council ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251116-donald-trump-s-gaza-plan-arrives-at-the-un-security-council    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:23:40

• China urges citizens to reconsider studying in Japan amid diplomatic row ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/update1-china-urges-citizens-to-reconsider-studying-in-japan-over-security-concern    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:24:50

• Man nabbed for alleged bestiality on cat in Malaysia apartment building ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/man-nabbed-for-alleged-bestiality-on-cat-in-malaysia-apartment-building    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:25:11

• Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/us/politics/dhs-agents-reassigned.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:25:33

• In Israel, Adams Raises Doubts About Safety of Jews in New York ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/nyregion/eric-adams-israel-safety-mamdani.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:27:57

• AI Companies Are Treating Their Workers Like Human Garbage, Which May Be a Sign of Things to Come for the Rest of Us ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mercor-meta-ai-labor    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:28:48

• People Are Starting to Get Divorced Because of Affairs With Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/couples-divorce-because-ai-cheating    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:29:00

• Child Development Researcher Issues Warning About AI-Powered Teddy Bears Flooding Market Before Christmas ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/child-development-researcher-ai-powered-teddy-bears    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:29:22

• The MP944 was the ‘real’ world’s first microprocessor, but it was top secret for nearly 30 years ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/the-mp944-was-the-real-worlds-first-microprocessor-and-key-to-the-flight-of-the-f-14-tomcat-but-it-lived-in-the-shadow-of-the-intel-4004-for-nearly-30-years    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:29:52

• The Elegance of TCP/IP ☞ https://harishpillay.com/2025/11/16/the-elegance-of-tcp-ip/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:30:19

• Carter Anderson’s Jeans Are Gigantic. His Internet Fame Is Too. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/style/jeans-carter-anderson-indigo-invitational.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:30:52

• Your Vision Can Predict Dementia 12 Years Before a Diagnosis, Research Suggests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-vision-can-predict-dementia-12-years-before-a-diagnosis-research-suggests    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:33:54

• Shock Discovery Reveals Sea Urchins Are Basically 'All Brain' ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/shock-discovery-reveals-sea-urchins-are-basically-all-brain    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:34:06

• Is Melatonin Bad For Your Heart? An Expert Explains The New Findings. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/is-melatonin-bad-for-your-heart-an-expert-explains-the-new-findings    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:34:17

• New Breakthrough Could Help Prevent The Devastating Impact of Glaucoma ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-breakthrough-could-help-prevent-the-devastating-impact-of-glaucoma    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:34:43

• A Crucial Genetic Mutation Behind Crohn's Disease Has Finally Been Revealed ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-crucial-genetic-mutation-behind-crohns-disease-has-finally-been-revealed    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:34:53

• A Pill for Women’s Libido Meets a Cultural Moment ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/style/cindy-eckert-pink-pill-addyi.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:35:04

• Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/style/epstein-emails-reveal-a-lost-new-york.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:35:23

• Dihydroxyacetone Man-Style Candidate Heads to Runoff in Chile’s Election ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/world/americas/chile-presidential-election-on-sunday.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:35:36

• World's Largest 'Modern' Crater Found Hiding in Plain Sight in China ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-largest-modern-crater-found-hiding-in-plain-sight-in-china    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:35:58

• China authorities approve arrest of ex-abbot of Shaolin Temple ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/11/16/china-authorities-approve-arrest-of-ex-abbot-of-shaolin-temple/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:36:47

• Japanese divided on military response to China over Taiwan, Kyodo poll shows ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japanese-divided-on-military-response-to-china-over-taiwan-kyodo-poll-shows    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:37:01

• Chinese scientists name new frog species after gongfu ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-scientists-name-new-frog-species-after-kung-fu    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:37:25

• China authorities approve arrest of Shaolin Temple’s ex-abbot over embezzlement ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/ex-abbot-of-chinas-shaolin-temple-arrested-for-embezzlement    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:37:42

• Top US admiral says South Korea’s new submarine should keep China in check ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/top-us-admiral-says-south-koreas-new-submarine-should-keep-china-in-check    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:37:57

• China’s expanded travel access for Taiwan a ‘high-visibility outreach tool’, but will it boost ties? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-expanded-travel-access-for-taiwan-a-high-visibility-outreach-tool-but-will-it-boost-ties    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:38:06

• University in Tokyo releases Japan ‘Bear encounter Hey Hi (AI) prediction map’ online ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/university-in-tokyo-releases-japan-bear-encounter-ai-prediction-map-online    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:39:21

• China Escalates Japan Feud With Island Patrols and Warnings to Citizens ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/world/asia/china-japan-relations-coast-guard.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:39:35

• South Korea’s new president, injured as a child labourer, cracks down on ‘workplaces of death’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-new-president-injured-as-a-child-labourer-cracks-down-on-workplaces-of-death    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:39:53

• MIT Invents Injectable Brain Chips ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/mit-injectable-brain-chip    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:41:46

• What’s More Dangerous Than India’s Frequent Heat Waves? Heat Stress. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/world/asia/heat-stress-women-india.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:42:19

• How Many People Die in India From Hot Weather? Nobody Really Knows. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/world/asia/india-heat-wave-deaths.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:42:31

• Your Questions About Climate Change, Answered ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/world/climate-cop-brazil-jeffrey-epstein-trump-greene.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:43:18

• La complainte du technopunk ringard gemini://ploum.net/2025-11-17-techpunk.gmi    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:44:58

• 🔤SpellBinding — CIKWTUO Wordo: JELLO gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-11-17.gmi    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:46:02

• [japan] [photos] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-11-17.gmi    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:46:49

• " Besty gifted me his #diy #printrbot #3dprinter that he's honed to perfection over the years, and I've been having a lot of fun learning to use it! I've also been brushing up on my #freecad skills so that I can design more portable computers and #cyberdecks in future." gemini://tobykurien.com/microblog.gmi    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:48:34

• "An AI [sic] by Any Other Name" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/an-ai-by-any-other-name/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:49:31

• Quadcopters ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/using-multiple-quadcopters-to-efficiently-lift-loads-together/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:49:52

• DC Motor Technology ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/16/an-introduction-to-dc-motor-technology/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:50:12

• This Windows-on-Linux tool isn’t as good as everyone says it is https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-on-linux-tool-isnt-as-good/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:53:16

• "Hyped on the Rust wagon? How about using these Rust-based, modern, easier to use, better-looking alternatives to the classic Linux commands." https://itsfoss.com/rust-alternative-cli-tools/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:53:45

• Another try to get Wine running after years // wine-proton // Gnu Gentoo linux / gog.com: The Outer Worlds https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/another-try-to-get-wine-running-after-years-wine-proton-gnu-gentoo-linux-gog-com-the-outer-worlds.342955/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:54:22

• Linux PC Gaming Is On The Rise While Windows Trips Over Itself https://www.theouterhaven.net/linux-pc-gaming-is-on-the-rise-while-windows-trips-over-itself/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:54:47

• "Have you been thinking about biting the bullet and learning Bash scripting? Or perhaps you're like me, and you're always looking for ways to improve. I have three tips that will improve every Bash script you write." https://www.howtogeek.com/beginner-friendly-ways-to-level-up-your-bash-scripts/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:55:11

• "You've probably used top and htop for many years, and while they've served us well, it's 2025—modern software has moved on to more functional and visually appealing designs. Both top and htop feel outdated and could use a modern refresh, which is exactly what btop++ brings." https://www.howtogeek.com/heres-why-btop-became-my-favorite-linux-terminal-resource-monitor/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 14:55:36

• "it's all about $$$. For the corrupt executives and management at IBM. money talks and every US employee can walks." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka7m9489    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 16:02:28

• "IBM cooking the books is not breaking news. It's how they've survived the past 20+ years -- pure unadulterated fluff presented as authoritative data. Wall Street analysts are being duped or bribed. The stock price is elevated just to give insiders a chance to sell at huge profits at the expense of IBM employees." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka6g0njx    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 16:03:31

• "Former Amazon engineer says he broke down after unexpected layoff amid confusion over support"    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 16:08:04

• "‘Bigger than AI [sic] job loss’: Anand Mahindra warns of ‘silent labour emergency’ as Ford CEO, Musk raise red flag"    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 16:08:35

• "Nothing that he said proved your point. Everything you said proved you are a bigot." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka0h0hhd    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 16:39:06

• GNU/Linux usage up a bit lately https://analytics.usa.gov/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 17:47:49

• "As a Linux enthusiast, there's something deeply satisfying about the moment when someone complains about Windows, and your first reaction is "I told you so." I've been recommending people switch to Linux for years now. No bloatware, telemetry tracking, forced updates, and invasive software tracking everything you do." https://www.makeuseof.com/just-use-linux-isnt-helpful-advice-anymore/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 18:15:36

• "Some people will claim Linux gaming is awesome, while others will complain that it’s broken and doesn’t work! This vast difference in experience largely boils down to the choice of distribution. As such, I only recommend three Linux distros, because they’re the best when it comes to gaming on Linux." https://www.howtogeek.com/these-are-the-only-3-linux-distros-i-recommend-for-gamers/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 18:16:31

• Lack of rootkits framed as a "problem" https://www.engadget.com/gaming/pc/for-the-steam-machine-to-change-pc-gaming-valve-must-solve-linuxs-anti-cheat-problem-130000088.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 18:18:54

• "Are you looking for really good open source software for your Linux computer? There are some applications that I use so much, I'd be first in line to pay if there was suddenly a price tag on it." https://www.howtogeek.com/open-source-linux-apps-id-use-even-if-they-werent-free/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 18:22:28

• I tried out this unknown Linux distro for gaming, and it's better than Bazzite https://www.xda-developers.com/this-unknown-linux-distro-better-than-bazzite-for-gaming/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 18:23:37

• "This release adds support for multiple printers in the HP LaserJet Enterprise series." https://9to5linux.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing-hplip-3-25-8-adds-support-for-new-printers    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 18:23:51

• "This release also brings enhanced support for DASD devices on S/390 and JSON profile validation without running Agama." https://9to5linux.com/opensuse-releases-agama-18-installer-with-cleaner-and-more-intuitive-storage-ui    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 18:24:07

• "Over the years, I have tried enough NAS operating systems to know that most of them are designed to cater to a particular kind of user." https://www.xda-developers.com/ubuntu-server-vs-nas-os/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 18:26:00

• "Earlier this month, I started the review of the Intel-based UP AI development kits with an unboxing of the UP TWL, UP Squared Pro TWL, and UP Xtreme ARL single board computers" https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/17/up-twl-ai-dev-kit-review-benchmarks-features-testing-and-ai-workloads-on-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 18:27:16

• "I have repeatedly observed this site deleting posts in recent years. It would be nice if they posted their guidelines here someone on what are considered unacceptable posts that will be subject to removal. Just tell us ok?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka7m9489    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 18:28:05

• Apple fast-tracks CEO succession plans as Tim Cook could step down next year https://www.techspot.com/news/110279-apple-fast-tracks-ceo-succession-plans-tim-cook.html    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 18:29:21

• "This article is a continuation, of "Part Base", to understand the evolution of cryptography. Do read the previous, "Part Base", article." gemini://tilde.club/~keyboardan/gemlog/2025-11-17__Cryptography_of_the_Internet_-_Part_0.gmi    

posted Monday, November 17, 2025 at 19:19:12

• Block Them All gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/11/17/block-them-all.gmi    

posted Tuesday, November 18, 2025 at 00:42:21