Roy Schestowitz

• "Proposed amendments to the country's laws on copyright and broadcasting would see VPNs limited for common uses under changes to combat access to illegal streaming services." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/denmark_vpn_ban/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:43:09

• "As we look back on 2025, it’s clear that the internet as we know it is changing. Technology-enabled access to knowledge should be flourishing." ☛ https://creativecommons.org/2025/12/15/cc-signals-what-weve-been-working-on/ | Source: Creative Commons    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:43:21

• "The technology has been endorsed by some 1,500 media organisations around the world including People Inc, Yahoo! and Associated Press." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/major-publishers-back-universal-ai-licensing-technology/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:43:31

• Software Patents ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/hollywood-warns-extortionary-codec-patent-fees-could-hike-streaming-subscription-prices/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:43:48

• "So I guess I have mixed feelings about the news that they are going away. Then again, I tend to have mixed feelings about most things." ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/posts/so-long-mass-market-paperbacks | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:46:01

• "The decision made this winter by ReaderLink to stop distributing mass market paperback books at the end of 2025 was the latest blow to a format that has seen its popularity decline for years." ☛ https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/99293-last-call-for-mass-market-paperbacks.html | Source: Publishers Weekly    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:46:11

• "The text of a recent government bill said it would ban the use of VPNs in Denmark “to access media content which would otherwise not be available in Denmark" ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20251215/denmark-drops-plan-to-restrict-use-of-vpns | Source: The Local DK    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:46:52

• "In its 2025 Year in Review, Cloudflare notes that [Internet] traffic worldwide grew by almost a fifth, with the increases coming in fits and starts." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/cloudflare_report_bot_traffic/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:47:01

• "Unions are not perfect. Indeed, it is possible to belong to a union that is bad for workers: either because it is weak, or corrupt, or captured (or some combination of the three)." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/15/class-war-labor-peace/#workplace-democracy | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:47:22

• "Valorie Moser was the one who picked me up and drove me to the hotel where I was trafficked" ☛ https://www.404media.co/valorie-moser-girls-do-porn-sentence/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:47:32

• "Cities stopped building not by accident but by design. Our housing system is constructed on scarcity, speculation, and private veto power." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/12/america-cant-build-homes-anymore/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:47:41

• "The provision stems from Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in education, housing, health care and transportation." ☛ https://arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/15/justice-dept-action-leaves-feds-without-key-tool-to-prove-bias-in-schools/ | Source: Arkansas Advocate    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:47:55

• "First, there’s an antitrust issue. In an earlier era, when the U.S. government took monopoly power seriously, both proposed acquisitions would probably have been blocked by regulators." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/maga-the-broligarchs-and-the-media | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:48:21

• "We are relieved that journalist Maryna Zolatava is finally free, but she shouldn’t have spent a second in jail" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/12/belarusian-journalist-maryna-zolatava-released-after-serving-over-4-years-in-prison/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:48:37

• "The lawsuit was filed Monday by Trump’s lawyers in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Miami, alleging defamation and violation of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act" ☛ https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/trump-sues-bbc-10-billion-damages-edited-jan-6-panorama-documentary-1236609532/ | Source: Variety    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:48:57

• "A firestorm erupted over the edited clip in early November, leading the BBC director-general and the organization's top news executive to resign." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/trump-says-he-will-file-lawsuit-against-bbc-today-9822365#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:49:15

• "The documentary drew scrutiny after the leak of a BBC memo by an external standards adviser that raised concerns about how it was edited, part of a wider investigation of political bias at the publicly funded broadcaster." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251216-trump-sues-bbc-edited-us-capitol-speech | Source: France24    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:49:36

• "tried under 'foreign agent' article" ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/democracy-and-media/barents-observer-journalist-olesia-krivtsova-to-be-tried-under-foreign-agent-article/442207 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:49:48

• "In a complaint filed on Monday evening, Trump sought $5bn in damages each on two counts: alleging that the BBC defamed him, and that violated Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/15/trump-bbc-lawsuit | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:49:58

• [Old] "On March 1, 1990, the United States Secret Service (USSS) nearly destroyed Steve Jackson Games (SJG), an award-winning publisher of roleplaying games in Austin, Texas." ☛ https://www.eff.org/effector/13/2 | Source: EFF    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:50:21

• [Old] "We are not here merely because we are angry, but also because we are grieving over the imminent death of academic freedom at CMU." ☛ https://www.sjgames.com/SS/godwin-CMU.html |    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:50:37

• "Admittedly, that was worse than the new one. It said anyone using the phrases “Muslim grooming gangs” and “Asian grooming gangs” was an “Islamophobe”." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/15/labour-watered-down-islamophobia-definition-still-bad/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:50:53

• "The briefing highlights how, in the months since the OSA came into effect, we have seen the legislation: [...]" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/eff-open-rights-group-big-brother-watch-and-index-censorship-call-uk-government | Source: EFF    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:51:15

• "As home sales continue to plummet, Beijing has curbed independent reporting of real estate figures." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/why-chinas-property-crash-must-be-kept-top-secret/a-75074157 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:51:29

• "Mohammadi, who won the 2023 Nobel prize, was detained Friday after addressing a memorial ceremony in the eastern city of Mashhad for lawyer Khosrow Alikordi, who was found dead earlier this month." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/iran-nobel-winner-unwell-after-violent-arrest-supporters-1080679454 | Source: RTL    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:51:39

• "Eleven other Russian nationals were sanctioned for their alleged roles in Kremlin-aligned media platforms, think tanks or a GRU-linked cyber unit accused of attacks on European targets." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/15/eu-sanctions-target-russias-shadow-fleet-backers-and-disinformation-network-a91447 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:52:15

• "After the Bondi Beach shooting in Sydney, false claims and AI-generated content are spreading online. DW debunks viral misinformation about the attack." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-fake-news-spreads-after-bondi-beach-shooting/a-75165552 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:52:49

• "Those deals had one thing in common: They allowed companies that make massive quarterly profits to reduce their financial exposure to the frenetic, global buildup of data centers." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/technology/ai-risks-debt.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:54:21

• "The company says operations, products and customer support will continue without disruption." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/roomba-maker-irobot-files-for-bankruptcy-to-go-private-after-buyout/articleshow/125969210.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:54:37

• "Oh, I’ll sort security, hotels, lawyer, flights, everything.’[She] charged me £75,000 ($150,000) – she has taken a big chunk of the money and then has reported me to the police, so thanks." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/us/only-fans-star-bonnie-blue-breaks-silence-over-bali-arrest-10-year-ban-from-country-im-rich-and-101765808315084.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:55:20

• "Functions in binary files need to have unique names, so Rust needs to decide what to call its functions and statics. This format needs to be standardized so that debuggers and profilers can recover the full names (e.g. alloc::vec::Vec instead of just Vec)." ☛ https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/rusts-v0-mangling-scheme-in-a-nutshell/ | Source: Alisa Sireneva    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:55:41

• "OpenAI’s chief communications officer, Hannah Wong, announced internally on Monday that she is leaving the company in January, WIRED has learned." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chief-communications-officer-hannah-wong-leaves/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:55:54

• "it often turns out that Scam Altman was, if not the first to articulate it, at least the most persuasive and influential voice behind it." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1129169/a-brief-history-of-sam-altmans-hype/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:56:27

• "Former Palantir CIO Jim Siders has departed the company to join Shield Technology Partners as CEO, in a bid he says is meant to bring AI to bear in the sprawling managed services landscape." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/shield_technology_partners_nabs_palantir/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:56:42

• "It was 10 days before Christmas in 2021, and Representative Nancy Pelosi, then the speaker of the House, was asked at her weekly news conference about an issue to which she had not given much thought." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/politics/pelosi-stock-trading-ban.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:56:56

• "Prior to this, Facebook, Instagram, Signal, Viber, Google Meet and several more services were also blocked." ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/banned-and-blocked-russia-says-goodbye-to-messaging-apps/441875 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:57:14

• "Ford Motor Co. will lay off about 1,500 workers in Kentucky as it converts a ballyhooed plant in Hardin County from making batteries for electric vehicles to making batteries..." ☛ https://kentuckylantern.com/2025/12/15/ford-to-convert-ky-battery-plant-for-energy-storage-business-reportedly-laying-off-1500-workers/ | Source: Kentucky Lantern    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:58:30

• "Maryland is one of many battlegrounds across the country that have sprung up over the rapid construction of AI data centers." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/fox-news-christmas-trees-ai-data-centers | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:58:52

• "The directionality of the correspondence is nearly entirely Epstein to Chomsky, with, as far as I can tell from the searchable databases" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/noam-chomsky-jeffrey-epstein-emails/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 03:59:26

• "an association of Edwards County irrigators" ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/12/15/kansas-supreme-court-examines-roiling-water-dispute-between-crop-irrigators-and-hays-russell/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:00:33

• "On Dec. 4, the Mexican Senate approved changes reinforcing human rights to water, banning the transfer of water concessions between private entities, limiting changes in water use" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/mexico-begins-water-deliveries-to-us-avoiding-5-trump-tariff/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:00:43

• NVIDIA have discontinued Quake II RTX | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/nvidia-have-discontinued-quake-ii-rtx/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/03/The_Circular_Financing_Bubble_Company_NVIDIA_Harming_People_Wit.shtml    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:02:03

• If you need a new retro boomer shooter check out Ctesiphon | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/if-you-need-a-new-retro-boomer-shooter-check-out-ctesiphon/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:02:23

• Free 3-16 player party shooter of teamwork and betrayal, Klaus Veen's Treason added Linux support | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/free-3-16-player-party-shooter-of-teamwork-and-betrayal-klaus-veens-treason-added-linux-support/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:12:18

• The popular Megabonk gets a mega update with new content | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/the-popular-megabonk-gets-a-mega-update-with-new-content/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:12:49

• The results are in - Bullet Heaven moves forward to be an official genre | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/the-results-are-in-bullet-heaven-moves-forward-to-be-an-official-genre/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:13:25

• From Ruins - A Detective Adventure looks worth keeping an eye on | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/from-ruins-a-detective-adventure-looks-worth-keeping-an-eye-on/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:14:05

• "EU:s ministerråd: Datalagra allt!" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/12/15/eus-ministerrad-datalagra-allt/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:14:27

• "Full of Trumpian bluster and contradictions, this document represents a complete break from the world America built with its allies in the wake of the Second World War. It is a red, white, and blue middle finger to the free world." https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-national-security-strategy-aligns-putin-russia-1235483818/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:14:56

• "In places, it even sounds like it was written by the Kremlin, framing our foreign policy approach to date as being the result of “elites [who] convinced themselves that permanent American domination of the entire world was in the best interests of our country.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-national-security-strategy-aligns-putin-russia-1235483818/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:15:03

• "USA Wants Your Social Media History If You Visit" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/11/092209    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:15:20

• "The State of Open Source Software in 2025" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/13/1619207    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:15:29

• "Curiously, the US ‘peace’ plan for Ukraine is the same as the Russian ‘peace’ plan for Ukraine. One possible reason for this is that the US is close to becoming a Russian client state, the other is that Trump, famously, just parrots whoever he last spoke to. Neither option is good. Both are true." https://www.tfeb.org/fragments/2025/12/14/the-kingdom-of-lost-hope/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:15:51

• techdirt still boosting social control media https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/15/australias-social-media-ban-was-pushed-by-ad-agency-focused-on-gambling-ads-it-didnt-want-banned/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:16:15

• ""Perverse": Trump Faces Outrage Over "Sick" Post On Rob Reiner, Wife's Death" https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/perverse-trump-faces-outrage-over-sick-post-on-rob-reiner-wifes-death-9821567#publisher=newsstand    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:16:29

• "Ford scraps fully-electric F-150 Lightning as mounting losses and falling demand hits EV plans" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ford-detroit-donald-trump-joe-biden-americans-b2885116.html    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:16:46

• "Links to Trump's son-in-law: Serbian minister indicted over Kushner-linked hotel plan" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/serbian-minister-indicted-over-kushner-linked-hotel-plan-904933891    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:17:13

• "Trump’s fake peace plan for Ukraine" https://neweasterneurope.eu/2025/12/15/trumps-fake-peace-plan-for-ukraine/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:17:23

• "Flaming out" https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-bondi-beach-rob-reiner-flaming-out    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:17:37

• "What is Trump Derangement Syndrome? POTUS' Shocking Claim That Caused Rob Reiner's Death" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/what-trump-derangement-syndrome-potus-shocking-claim-that-caused-rob-reiners-death-1763224    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:17:53

• "Should U.S. be worried about AI bubble?" https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/12/should-u-s-be-worried-about-ai-bubble/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:18:06

• "Truly Unhinged: Trump Suggests Rob Reiner Had It Coming For Criticizing Him" https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/15/truly-unhinged-trump-suggests-rob-reiner-had-it-coming-for-criticizing-him/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:18:20

• "The Real Reason For Boat Strike ‘Double Taps’ Is Preventing Survivors From Challenging Extrajudicial Killings In Court" https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/15/the-real-reason-for-boat-strike-double-taps-is-preventing-survivors-from-challenging-extrajudicial-killings-in-court/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:18:32

• "Trump mocks slain director Rob Reiner, drawing swift bipartisan condemnation" https://www.ksl.com/article/51419520/trump-mocks-slain-director-rob-reiner-drawing-swift-bipartisan-condemnation    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:18:46

• "Trump’s callous political attack on Rob Reiner shows a shameful moral failure" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-15/trumps-callous-political-attack-on-rob-reiner-shows-shameful-moral-failure    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:18:57

• "Donald Trump Doubles Down on Insulting Rob Reiner After Tragic Deaths" https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/15/donald-trump-rob-reiner-insult-white-house/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:19:08

• "Conservationists" ☛ https://therevelator.org/piping-plovers-inspire/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:19:44

• Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor gets mid-game saves and CPU optimizations | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/deep-rock-galactic-survivor-gets-mid-game-saves-and-cpu-optimizations/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:27:09

• The incredibly complex sci-fi grand strategy game Terra Invicta has a release date | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/the-incredibly-complex-sci-fi-grand-strategy-game-terra-invicta-has-a-release-date/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:27:31

• Retro arcade-style rally racer Parking Garage Rally Circuit gets a DX edition with a lot more content | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/retro-arcade-style-rally-racer-parking-garage-rally-circuit-gets-a-dx-edition-with-a-lot-more-content/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:28:04

• GOG formally announce their GOG Patrons subscription donation system | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/gog-formally-announce-their-gog-patrons-subscription-donation-system/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:28:40

• "hybrid threats on Svalbard" ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/russia-uses-hybrid-threats-on-svalbard/442164 | Source: The Barents Observer https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Russian_Hybrid_Attacks_Are_Typically_Microsoft_TCO_and_or_Windo.shtml    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:30:02

• "in a political and human sense" ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/after-three-decades-of-bridgebuilding-comes-a-plan-for-detonation/442284 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:30:21

• "Two IS flags were found in the shooter's car at Bondi Beach, according to ABC." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/bondi-beach-hanukkah-shooting-antisemitism-attack-sydney-australia/a-75171696 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:30:39

• "the attention of authorities around the time a cell of IS acolytes" ☛ https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/bondi-gunman-linked-to-is-radical-sydney-islamic-centre-20251216-p5no2o.html | Source: The Age AU    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:31:25

• "let’s be allowed a brief Mr. Smith moment." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/indiana-gerrymander-supreme-court/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:31:46

• "Gen. George S. Patton wanted a headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany" ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/12/15/he-went-from-mowing-fdrs-lawn-to-the-battle-of-the-bulge/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:32:16

• "The mass migration of Islamic extremists destroyed Europe. Now, are [sic] witnessing it destroy Australia. We CANNOT allow it to destroy America" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-call-for-muslim-americans-to-be-deported-after-australia-shooting/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:32:45

• "Naveed Akram, 24, came to the attention of Australia’s spy agency in 2019 over concerns that he had been radicalised [sic] by an IS leader" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/12/15/bondi-beach-mass-shooting-latest-news/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:33:06

• "Let's have a slow clap for the corporate tools who still have to show up at work and try to spin their bankruptcy fire-sale as Line Goes Up: [...]" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/12/roomba-doom/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:33:52

• "Here in the States, it’s the inevitable enshittified outcome of our corrupt inability to pass even basic internet privacy protections" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/15/literal-enshittification-smart-toilets-play-fast-and-loose-with-your-pooping-data/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:34:27

• "Passing an order over an application moved by CCI seeking clarification over the previous order passed by NCLAT, the appellate tribunal said, "Appellant (WhatsApp and Meta) cannot assert unilateral or open-ended rights over user data." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/users-consent-mandatory-for-whatsapp-for-collection-of-advertising-non-advertising-data-nclat/articleshow/125986177.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:34:55

• "Appellant (WhatsApp and Meta) cannot assert unilateral or open-ended rights over user data." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/users-consent-mandatory-for-whatsapp-for-collection-of-advertising-non-advertising-data-nclat/articleshow/125986177.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:35:17

• "But instead, the UK is pushing forward with its plans to rollout digital ID in the country. Here’s three reasons why those policymakers have it wrong." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/15/the-uk-has-it-wrong-on-digital-id-heres-why/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:35:29

• ""Cloaking" is when a phishing site takes steps to hide itself from the Internet security companies." ☛ https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/anticloaking.html | Source: James Stanley    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:36:12

• Windows TCO ☛ https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/why-qilin%e2%80%99s-rise-is-a-wake-up-call-for-australia%e2%80%99s-financial-sector.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:39:09

• "According to Reuters, Meta's Chinese ad revenue more than doubled between 2022 and 2024, from $7.4 billion to $18.4 billion. By last year, nearly one in five of those dollars came from banned content." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/15/meta-knew-chinese-ads-were-scams-kept-money.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:39:53

• "I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of a reference implementation for the Public Key Directory server." ☛ https://soatok.blog/2025/12/15/announcing-key-transparency-fediverse/ | Source: Dhole Moments    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:40:06

• "Despite travel warnings from your government, are you thinking about visiting the United States?" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/14/social-media-posts-may-stop-you-from-visiting-the-united-states.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:40:20

• "online predators known as 764 that specializes in coercing minors to perform sexual acts and self-harm on camera" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-15/violent-online-groups-like-764-are-threatening-teen-lives-heres-how-to-protect-your-kid | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:40:47

• "This May, the Catholic Church welcomed a new pope. Somewhat surprisingly, the cardinal electors chose an American-born candidate as their new leader." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/artificial-intelligence-ai-2025-1235483574/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:41:24

• "Kind of feels like this boils down to: How do we know what we know?" ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/uncomfortable-i-dont-know/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:41:57

• "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence." ☛ https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/word-of-the-year |    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:42:23

• "2025 Word of the Year: Slop. Slop lost to "brain rot" for Oxford Word of the Year 2024 but it's finally made it this year thanks to Merriam-Webster!" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/2025-word-of-the-year-slop/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:43:16

• "Just as expected, the service — dubbed “Your Personal Podcast” — turned out to be an error-laden disaster right from the jump." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/washington-post-ai-generated-podcasts-internal-tests | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:43:37

• "AI is worrisome enough as is — its insatiable thirst for energy and water, its capacities to override the wishes of human beings, its potential to destroy the planet." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/again-beware-the-oligarchs-bubbles | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:43:53

• "But despite those moves, state lawmakers are continuing to prefile legislation related to artificial intelligence in preparation for their 2026 legislative sessions." ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/12/15/repub/states-will-keep-pushing-ai-laws-despite-trumps-efforts-to-stop-them/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:44:20

• "But despite those moves, state lawmakers are continuing to prefile legislation related to artificial intelligence in preparation for their 2026 legislative sessions." ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/12/15/repub/states-will-keep-pushing-ai-laws-despite-trumps-efforts-to-stop-them/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:44:48

• "AI models bungling breaking news stories." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-rob-reiner-death | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:44:55

• "Scammers allegedly used an AI-generated deepfake video of Musk to convince Hendricks he had won a car and a cash prize, and later to build trust." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/tesla-elon-musk-florida-scam-ai-generated-b2885120.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:45:27

• "What I am stunned by is the breadth of impact this lockout has, and what a similar problem would mean for me, personally" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/apple-account-lockout/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:45:56

• "The final release of the Linux 6.19 kernel series is expected in early February 2026." https://9to5linux.com/linus-torvalds-announces-first-linux-kernel-6-19-release-candidate    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:46:35

• "The final release of the Linux 6.19 kernel series is expected in early February 2026." https://9to5linux.com/linus-torvalds-announces-first-linux-kernel-6-19-release-candidate    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:46:53

• "Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) is behind a years-long campaign targeting energy, telecommunications, and tech providers" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/amazon_ongoing_gru_campaign/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:47:05

• "The business entered Chapter 11 proceedings on Sunday and initiated a restructuring support agreement (RSA) that would see Shenzhen-based Picea Robotics acquire the company in full." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/irobot_chapter_11/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:47:34

• "Roomba users fear “bricking” — the risk that their smart vacuums will stop working without software updates after the Chinese acquisition takes effect." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-12-15/what-happens-to-roombas-now-that-company-has-declared-bankruptcy | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:48:10

• "HPE Alletra is designed to deliver mission-critical storage at mid range economics, with a consistent data experience across various cloud environments." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical_lxd_hpe_alletra | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:48:22

• "This may explain why psilocybin keeps showing positive results for people with depression in clinical trials" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/psilocybin-breaks-depressive-cycles-by-rewiring-the-brain-study-suggests | Source: Science Alert    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:49:44

• "Old habits are sneaky little monkeys. They work every angle they know to quietly slip back into the circus of our lives without us noticing." ☛ https://jimmitchell.org/2025/12/15/old-habits/ | Source: Jim Mitchell    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:49:52

• "For my alpha source, I used a 37 kBq amerercium source from a smoke detector (glued to a stick for easier handling)." ☛ https://maurycyz.com/projects/spinthariscope/ | Source: Maury    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:50:23

• "The first step in the value chain for water utilities is extracting water from natural sources, such as rivers, groundwater, oceans, or reservoirs." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/visualise-and-analyse-bathymetric-survey-data-with-r/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:50:35

• "First, uranium glass emits gamma rays too, not just alpha and beta particles. More importantly, these numbers are hot nonsense." ☛ https://aphyr.com/posts/401-the-future-of-radiation-safety-is-lies-i-guess | Source: Kyle Kingsbury    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:50:49

• "Let's go back to when the web felt like a frontier. The late 90s were a magical time — the [Internet] existed, but nobody really knew what it was going to become." ☛ https://www.artmann.co/articles/30-years-of-br-tags |    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:51:38

• "The galactic painting that debuted ahead of Star Wars nearly 50 years ago just sold at auction for $3.9 million." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-painting-introduced-the-world-to-star-wars-it-just-became-the-most-expensive-item-connected-to-the-franchise-ever-sold-at-auction-180987863/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:51:48

• "If you haven’t tried blogging yet, make sure you do. It’s wonderfully rewarding in so many ways." ☛ https://birming.com/2025/12/15/the-blogging-community/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:52:01

• "Programmers often want to randomly shuffle arrays. Evidently, we want to do so as efficiently as possible." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/15/multiplying-the-shuffle-speed-in-go-with-batched-shuffling/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:53:00

• "In this article, I’ll dig into how traceroute works and show you how to build a simple version from scratch using Go." ☛ https://kmcd.dev/posts/traceroute/ |    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:53:10

• "Fuck this whole "ecosystem". I mean really get right up in there and fuck it." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/12/fucking-python-2/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:53:34

• "Most of the talks will be held in German, German talks will have English slides at least. English talks are welcome as well" ☛ https://act.yapc.eu/gpw2026/ | Source: Perl    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:53:53

• "Vale is a prose linter that can help catch these issues automatically." ☛ https://amanhimself.dev/blog/smart-quotes-in-documentation/ | Source: Aman Mittal    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:54:23

• "I’ve published four Ruby gems that work together to help people build supply chain security tools: purl, vers, sbom, and swhid." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/14/supply-chain-security-tools-for-ruby.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:54:36

• "Here's a little unscientific chart showing the compile/run times of a "hello world" program in different languages: [...]" ☛ https://antonz.org/timing-hello-world/ | Source: Anton Zhiyanov    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:54:52

• Kali Linux 2025.4: New tools and “quality-of-life” improvements https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/15/kali-linux-2025-4-new-tools-improvements/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:55:43

• "I like this a lot. It makes me want to go even harder: [...]" ☛ https://kerrick.blog/posts/2025/re-more-fluent-method-signatures-in-ruby/ | Source: Kerrick Long    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:57:09

• "The CRA will inevitably raise expectations for security design and transparency across the software industry." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/making-the-cyber-resilience-act-work-for-open-source/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 04:57:34

• APT vs Pacman: Which Linux package manager is better for beginners https://www.howtogeek.com/apt-vs-pacman-which-linux-package-manager-is-better-for-beginners/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:01:14

• "but also with the creation and improvement of more traditional software tools to improve your code: local, free, deterministic." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/better-code-without-any-effort-without-even-ai/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:01:37

• "Licensing has to be sorted. If a library doesn’t have an OSI-approved license, I won’t use it, and I don’t spend time negotiating or hoping." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/15/how-i-assess-open-source-libraries.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:01:52

• "I built simonw/justjshtml, a dependency-free HTML5 parsing library in JavaScript which passes 9,200 tests from the html5lib-tests suite and imitates the API design of Emil’s JustHTML library." ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/porting-justhtml/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:02:04

• "Unauthenticated attackers can abuse the flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-55182, to remotely execute code, and the Chocolate Factory's threat hunters said multiple groups are using this vulnerability to deploy backdoors" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/react2shell_flaw_china_iran/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:02:28

• "ASPA is now available in the RIPE NCC RPKI Dashboard, adding a way to express and validate your upstream relationships on top of ROA-based origin validation." ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/tim_bruijnzeels/aspa-in-the-rpki-dashboard-a-new-layer-of-routing-security/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:05:29

• "In my career at IBM that spans 3 decades, I had 3 decent managers, technical enough to understand the challenges . The other dozen were real useless pieces of sh1t." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kchgf6qt    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:11:16

• "There are many people asleep at the desk at IBM, they know how to make charts, sit in meeting and spew nonsense. It takes them more time to describe their achievements, when asked, than the time it takes to perform the tasks. I wish, they were let go." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcj2t7th    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:12:31

• "I understood this, as I said at the time. But it doesn’t flow well, and assumes too much prior knowledge." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/wikipedias-orientability-article-revisited/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:21:33

• "Development of 5.3.0 is now in feature freeze, meaning no more features will be added before release. This includes the Text Tool, marking the end of a long phase of development for Wolthera, code reviewer Dmitry, and everyone else who contributed." ☛ https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/monthly-update-33/ | Source: Krita    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:21:57

• "The initial crowdfunding drive for the new Jolla Phone seems to have gone well: at the time of writing" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/jolla_sailfish_5_hands_on/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:22:23

• "But the news this week is that a court in Singapore has jailed a man not for launching an attack himself, but instead for teaching others exactly how to do it." ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/man-jailed-for-teaching-criminals-how-to-use-malware | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:22:32

• "In last month’s issue of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine, we looked at different forms of WS2812B LEDs (also known as NeoPixels) that you can use to make Christmas lights." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/designing-patterns-for-your-christmas-lights/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:22:55

• "The release pulls in packages from the Debian and Sparky testing repositories as of December 14, 2025." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/sparkylinux-2025-12-brings-kernel-6-17-and-updated-desktop-isos/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:23:19

• "It ships with the Linux kernel 6.17 by default, while long-term-supported kernels, 6.18 LTS, 6.12 LTS, and 6.6 LTS, are available through the Sparky repositories."    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:23:30

• "The Emmabuntus project has announced a new version of their Debian-based distribution. The new release is based on Debian 13 and places a focus on accessibility options: [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12667 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:23:51

• "Emmabuntüs is a Linux distribution widely used in humanitarian and educational projects, especially in regions with limited access to new hardware." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/emmabuntus-debian-edition-6-released-with-strong-focus-on-accessibility/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:24:10

• "OpenSSH Server is installed by default on FreeBSD. But on a fresh FreeBSD system, remote SSH logins are not allowed." ☛ https://ostechnix.com/how-to-enable-ssh-on-freebsd/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:25:01

• "As most of my readers are aware, I ported FreeBSD to run on the Amazon EC2 cloud, and have been maintaining the platform ever since." ☛ https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2025-11-08-How-to-support-FreeBSD-on-your-cloud.html | Source: Daemonology    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:25:09

• "If you use systemd units or systemd-run to conveniently capture output from scripts and programs into the systemd journal" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdJournalPriorityEtc | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:25:43

• "On the web, it’s easy to take line breaks for granted." ☛ https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/15/ | Source: Markup from Hell    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:26:33

• "Since then I have occasionally thought about what a visual search engine would look like for the web." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/12/15/brainstorming-visual-search-for-the-web | Source: James G    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:26:44

• "All our communication channels are morphed into content distribution networks." ☛ https://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.html | Source: Lionel Dricot    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:26:56

• "And he mentions that the original Macintosh had a screen the same physical size as the iPad mini." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/why-hasnt-the-desktop-ui-evolved-in-years/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:27:16

• "Jayantika and Ruturaj’s journey from learners to leaders, mentoring 200+ young learners in Pune Code Clubs." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/from-learners-to-leaders-jayantika-and-ruturajs-journey-as-code-club-youth-mentors/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 05:27:35

• iophk on GenZ: "They are _*NOT*_ digital natives, they know *NOTHING* about computers rather they lost their formative years to Zuch and Musk and Xi. One, at another shop, looked really angry when I paid in cash there."    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 06:03:42

• "A Quarter Century After Cyberselfish, Big Tech Proves Borsook Right" ☛ https://puri.sm/posts/a-quarter-century-after-cyberselfish-big-tech-proves-borsook-right/ | Source: Purism    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 06:33:39

• "PureOS Crimson Development Report" ☛ https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-development-report-november-2025/ | Source: Purism    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 06:33:50

• "The Luna SL1680 is built around the Synaptics SL1680 system-on-chip, which integrates a quad-core Arm Cortex-A73 CPU running at up to 2.1 GHz." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/toradex-luna-sl1680-sbc-features-synaptics-sl1680-soc-with-8-tops-npu-starts-at-105/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 06:34:11

• "To manage these challenges, enterprises need to adopt a formal approach by using a set of frameworks that map AI threats, define controls, and guide responsible adoption." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/harden-your-ai-systems-applying-industry-standards-real-world | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 06:35:03

• Timur Kristóf: How do graphics drivers work? ☞ https://timur.hu/blog/2025/how-do-graphics-drivers-work    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 06:35:26

• Unpacking VStarcam firmware for fun and profit ☞ https://palant.info/2025/12/15/unpacking-vstarcam-firmware-for-fun-and-profit/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 06:36:11

• Set up FSx for NetApp ONTAP on Red Bait OpenShift Service on proprietary trap AWS ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/15/set-fsx-netapp-ontap-red-hat-openshift-service-aws    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 06:39:22

• Late Night Linux – Episode 364 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-364/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 06:40:21

• Gunnar Wolf: Unique security and privacy threats of large language models — a comprehensive survey ☞ https://gwolf.org/2025/12/unique-security-and-privacy-threats-of-large-language-models-a-comprehensive-survey.html    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 06:41:23

• Announcing Key Transparency for the Fediverse ☞ https://soatok.blog/2025/12/15/announcing-key-transparency-fediverse/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 06:43:11

• "Keychain cameras are rarely good. However, in the case of Walmart’s current offering, it might be worse than it’s supposed to be. [FoxTailWhipz] bought the Vivitar-branded device and set about investigating its claim that it could deliver high-resolution photos" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/15/tearing-down-walmarts-12-keychain-camera/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 06:43:38

• "This release adds support for the recently released Linux 6.18 kernel series, which can be installed from the SparkyLinux software repositories." https://9to5linux.com/sparkylinux-2025-12-tiamat-released-with-debian-forky-base-linux-kernel-6-17    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 06:50:52

• "Ready for the holiday period, Klaus Veen's Treason is a fun looking 3-16 player party shooter of teamwork and betrayal that now has Native Linux support." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/free-3-16-player-party-shooter-of-teamwork-and-betrayal-klaus-veens-treason-added-linux-support/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 06:51:48

• Microsoft operatives attack Linux some more https://devclass.com/2025/12/15/rust-boosted-by-permanent-adoption-for-linux-kernel-code/ see https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/15/Situation_Publishing_s_DevClass_Sister_Site_of_The_Register_MS_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 06:54:11

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

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:01:18

• How To Install MERN Stack on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-mern-stack-fedora-43/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:01:24

• "expelled most to Ukraine without passports" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/12/15/in-return-for-trump-lifting-sanctions-belarus-freed-123-political-prisoners-then-expelled-most-to-ukraine-without-passports | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:11:38

• Braže: Latvia will never recognize occupied Ukraine as part of Russia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/diplomacy/15.12.2025-braze-latvia-will-never-recognize-occupied-ukraine-as-part-of-russia.a626548/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:11:53

• R Package Development in Positron workshop ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/r-package-development-in-positron-workshop/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:12:04

• Statement by President von der Leyen following the meeting on peace for Ukraine convened by German Chancellor Merz ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_25_3084    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:12:24

• Statement by Chancellor Merz, Prime Minister Frederiksen, President Stubb, President Macron, Prime Minister Meloni, Prime Minister Schoof, Prime Minister Støre, Prime Minister Tusk, Prime Minister Kristersson, Prime Minister Starmer, as well as President Costa and President von der Leyen ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_25_3086    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:12:47

• EU adopts new measures against Russian shadow fleet ecosystem and Belarus ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_3070    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:12:59

• Don't go to Russia or Belarus, security service warns again ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/15.12.2025-dont-go-to-russia-or-belarus-security-service-warns-again.a626433/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:13:11

• "These Meduza readers emigrated from Russia. Here’s what strikes them when they visit home." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/12/16/these-meduza-readers-emigrated-from-russia-here-s-what-strikes-them-when-they-visit-home | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:13:31

• "Oil-soaked sands and rescued animals: One year after the Kerch Strait spill, beaches in southern Russia remain polluted" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/12/16/oil-soaked-sands-and-rescued-animals-one-year-after-the-kerch-strait-spill-beaches-in-southern-russia-remain-polluted | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:13:44

• A full-time job for an i586 in 2025? gopher://i-logout.cz:70/0/phlog/posts/2025-12-15_a_full_time_job_for_an_i586_in_2025.txt    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:18:07

• [Winter] gopher://i-logout.cz:70/I/phlog/posts/2025-12-15_webcam.jpg    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:18:39

• "Pseudonymous maker "CrazyScience" has built a Wi-Fi signal strength guide with a difference: it moves a physical dial on a gauge to let you know when you're straying from an access point's sweet spot." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202512/20251215-wifi.gmi    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:19:43

• "My roommate had a friend over last night, and we spent part of the evening making our 2026 bingo cards. This is not a game of predictions, but a goal setting exercise - a list of things we might like to do, that we can post on the fridge and keep tabs on." gemini://tilde.town/~hush/gemlog/2025-12-15-bingo.gmi    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:20:58

• "I was searching for something. As always, I have found many other things. In past months I returnerd a few of my Sharp Zauri to (well, very infrequent) use." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2025_12_03.txt    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:21:41

• SOMETHING NEW IN THE CUPBOARD gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2025-12-16Something_New_in_the_Cupboard.txt    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:22:30

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-12-16.gmi    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:23:11

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1506.jpg    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:23:41

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1856.jpg    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:23:46

• "ah yes, gemini, the place i go to talk about gemini :3 in the past i've had scripts and generators, but honestly, i don't think i want to have an atom feed after discover the gemini companion file format." gemini://tilde.pink/~emily/log/generating-less.gmi    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 07:24:59

• SAME THING! "So please, learn the difference between AI slop and AI tools" https://www.reddit.com/r/accelerate/comments/1pn4j3v/a_rant_about_people_calling_everything_aislop/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 08:15:45

• Or maybe just stop calling it "AI" and instead call it "computer program"    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 08:16:03

• "If they allow AI slop then it’s just another win for LLVM" https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1599258-gcc-developers-considering-whether-to-accept-ai-llm-generated-patches    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 08:17:03

• "Just wait till we have nuclear submarines running with AI written codes and nuclear power plants." https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1599258-gcc-developers-considering-whether-to-accept-ai-llm-generated-patches    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 08:17:30

• "So yeah, another "engineer", facing his own inability to actually produce anything of value, chose instead to delude himself into trusting his "GPT5-Codex" and wasting valuable time of maintainers..." https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1599258-gcc-developers-considering-whether-to-accept-ai-llm-generated-patches    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 08:17:56

• Weeks after huge layoff, Amazon makes new, smaller cut to WA workforce https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/weeks-after-huge-layoff-amazon-makes-new-smaller-cut-to-wa-workforce/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 08:23:44

• Amazon to lay off 84 employees in Seattle and Bellevue in latest job cuts https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2025/12/15/amazon-layoffs-84-february.html    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 08:24:25

• GNU/Linux up above 4% in Egypt https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/egypt/#monthly-200902-202512    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 08:53:22

• Defense, health care, oversight and spending; these four fronts are exposing deep divides on Capitol Hill ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2025/12/defense-health-care-oversight-and-spending-these-four-fronts-are-exposing-deep-divides-on-capitol-hill/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 08:53:52

• China Is Absolutely Obsessed With Copying SpaceX’s Starship Rocket ☞ https://futurism.com/space/china-copying-spacex-starship-rocket    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 08:54:37

• SpaceX Furious at China, Saying It Almost Destroyed One of Its Satellites ☞ https://futurism.com/space/spacex-furious-china-satellites-collision    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 08:54:46

• EPO breaking the law even well after COVID-19 was a thing. Typical EPO. http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/vico-oral-proceedings-whatever-happened.html    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 13:27:18

• Growing a mix of plants in fields can save farmers money and help the environment https://theconversation.com/growing-a-mix-of-plants-in-fields-can-save-farmers-money-and-help-the-environment-new-research-271432    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 13:28:22

• Exotic animal https://theconversation.com/exotic-animal-cafes-cute-trend-or-welfare-crisis-271147    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 13:28:41

• fair trade https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-wadephul-pushes-for-fair-trade-in-china/a-75054509    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 13:29:30

• Benin https://www.dw.com/en/with-benin-elections-near-failed-coup-shakes-democracy/a-75061963"    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 13:31:41

• Middle East authoritarians https://www.dw.com/en/what-donald-trump-likes-so-much-about-middle-east-authoritarians/a-75078375    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 14:11:03

• Tanzania https://www.dw.com/en/tanzania-s-muted-independence-day-raises-more-questions/a-75078232 https://www.dw.com/en/tanzania-streets-deserted-on-independence-day/a-75081454    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 14:11:26

• A trillion‑dollar player knocking on the G20's door https://www.dw.com/en/poland-a-trillion‑dollar-player-knocking-on-the-g20-s-door/a-75019831    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 14:12:10

• mpox = More expensive patents to licence https://www.dw.com/en/new-strain-of-mpox-virus-what-you-need-to-know/a-75077995    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 14:17:40

• Indian airline ordered to cut flights by 5% https://www.dw.com/en/indigo-s-woes-indian-airline-ordered-to-cut-flights-by-5/a-75073906    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 14:18:04

• Sudan https://www.dw.com/en/icc-sentences-sudan-janjaweed-leader-to-20-years-in-prison/a-75077572    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 14:18:28

• "Sanoma to repay violinist over apology to fashion tycoon who was later convicted as a sex offender" https://yle.fi/a/74-20200094    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 14:18:48

• antitrust inquiry over Google's AI search summaries https://www.dw.com/en/eu-opens-antitrust-inquiry-over-google-s-ai-search-summaries/a-75075325    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 15:25:51

• Children feel isolated https://www.dw.com/en/australia-social-media-ban-children-feel-isolated-ignored/a-75075938    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 15:27:05

• You Control The Future Of Xorg On Linux!! https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=N_X7clyPE5Q    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 15:27:58

• Cloudflare Has A Serious Stability Problem https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=HAhmUhLVuAc    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 15:28:12

• I Am Using This Tiny Open Source Software For Past 20 Years https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=sOgNT5WxBhA    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 15:28:32

• Publication Plans for the Coming Weeks https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/Publication_Plans_for_the_Coming_Weeks.shtml    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 15:49:39

• The Scientifically Correct Arch Linux User https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=PmjBZDGJzDQ    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 15:49:52

• Zorin OS 18 Core Quick OverviewQA071 https://www.yewtu.be/shorts/p01kzf6OQuE    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 15:50:35

• Cosmic a great Linux desktop, but still limited https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=ob-Y77kuVwM    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 15:50:46

• Top 5 INSANE Zorin OS Features You Can't Get On Ubuntu (#3 is a Game-Changer) https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=azVdJFNUFXM    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 15:51:22

• How to install CachyOS 251129 https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=xiCIZ868cjw    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 15:51:34

• Belgian Court spares rich-kid inner turmoil-driven plotlines from copyright protection http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/belgian-court-spares-rich-kid-inner.html    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 15:53:27

• How to Have a Plastic-Free Holiday Season https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/12/how-to-have-a-plastic-free-holiday-season/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 15:54:32

• privacy https://theconversation.com/everything-from-air-fryers-to-tvs-suck-up-our-personal-data-heres-how-to-give-gadgets-that-respect-privacy-this-xmas-271352    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 15:55:24

• resist overspending at Christmas https://theconversation.com/its-so-hard-to-resist-overspending-at-christmas-heres-how-to-reinforce-your-willpower-270389    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 15:55:49

• On IBM: "My Ex First line. Wow what a mo--n she is. Knows nothing about coding, I am surprised she knows how to put something in the USB port. But she knows how to schedule calls, Say stupid cr@p like Synergy and all those other awful corporate jargon. Nobody knows how to troll a Monday board like her and ask for updates ever 10 minutes. How the Eff did she ever become a band 10?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kchgf6qt    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:03:27

• GNU/Linux growing in Australia https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/australia/#monthly-200902-202512    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:16:48

• Toradex Luna SL1680 SBC Features Synaptics SL1680 SoC with 8 TOPS NPU, Starts at $105 ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/toradex-luna-sl1680-sbc-features-synaptics-sl1680-soc-with-8-tops-npu-starts-at-105/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:18:21

• Harden your Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/harden-your-ai-systems-applying-industry-standards-real-world    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:18:42

• SparkyLinux 2025.12 Brings Kernel 6.17 and Updated Desktop ISOs ☞ https://linuxiac.com/sparkylinux-2025-12-brings-kernel-6-17-and-updated-desktop-isos/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:19:21

• Wikipedia’s orientability article, revisited ☞ https://rubenerd.com/wikipedias-orientability-article-revisited/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:19:46

• Better Code, Without Any Effort, Without Even Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/better-code-without-any-effort-without-even-ai/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:20:10

• Multiplying the Shuffle Speed in Go with Batched Shuffling ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/15/multiplying-the-shuffle-speed-in-go-with-batched-shuffling/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:20:33

• Grok Is Making Wildly Contradictory Claims About Rob Reiner’s Death ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-rob-reiner-death    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:22:12

• The Washington Post Deployed Its Disastrous AI-Generated Podcasts Even After Internal Tests Showed It Was Failing Miserably ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/washington-post-ai-generated-podcasts-internal-tests    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:22:43

• Fox News Instructs Viewers to Buy Plastic Christmas Trees So the Real Ones Can Be Sacrificed to Feed the Insatiable Hunger of Hey Hi (AI) Data Centers ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/fox-news-christmas-trees-ai-data-centers    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:23:50

• How Tech’s Biggest Companies Are Offloading the Risks of the Hey Hi (AI) Boom ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/technology/ai-risks-debt.html    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:24:25

• Pluralistic: Break up bad companies; replace bad union bosses (15 Dec 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/15/class-war-labor-peace/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:25:10

• Major publishers back universal Hey Hi (AI) licensing technology ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/major-publishers-back-universal-ai-licensing-technology/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:25:45

• CC Signals: What We’ve Been Working On ☞ https://creativecommons.org/2025/12/15/cc-signals-what-weve-been-working-on/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cc-signals-what-weve-been-working-on    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:26:12

• The Servo Blog: November in Servo: monthly releases, context menus, parallel CSS parsing, and more! ☞ https://servo.org/blog/2025/12/15/november-in-servo/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:27:11

• U.S. Strikes 3 More Boats in Eastern Pacific, Killing 8 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/politics/drug-boat-strikes-pacific.html    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:31:57

• USA: Military carries out strike on three vessels in Pacific ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251216-usa-military-carries-out-strike-on-three-vessels-in-pacific    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:32:17

• Rights group condemns Israel attacks on civilian reconstruction facilities and equipment in Lebanon ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/rights-group-condemns-israel-attacks-on-civilian-facilities-and-equipment-in-lebanon/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:32:29

• Louvre Museum Staff Go on Daylong Strike, Shutting Out Tourists ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/world/europe/louvre-strike-crisis-tourists.html    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:32:51

• Scribus 1.6.5 Released with Dozens of Fixes [Ubuntu PPA] ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/12/scribus-1-6-5-released-with-dozens-of-fixes-ubuntu-ppa/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:33:30

• GIMP 3.2 RC2: Second Release Candidate for GIMP 3.2 ☞ https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/12/15/gimp-3-2-RC2-released/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:33:59

• DietPi 9.20 Brings RustDesk Server and Broad SBC Improvements ☞ https://linuxiac.com/dietpi-9-20-brings-rustdesk-server-and-broad-sbc-improvements/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:36:45

• Tracking kernel commits across branches ☞ http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2025/12/15/tracking-kernel-commits-across-branches/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:37:21

• Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1050523/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:37:39

• Sparky 2025.12 ☞ https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-2025-12/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:37:57

• Fresh Launches as a New Terminal-First Text Editor ☞ https://linuxiac.com/fresh-launches-as-a-new-terminal-first-text-editor/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:38:33

• GIMP 3.2 RC2 added Barrel Rotation support for Mypaint Brushes ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/12/gimp-3-2-rc2-added-barrel-rotation-support-for-mypaint-brushes/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:39:18

• TReX – terminal app for RegEx visualization ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/trex-terminal-app-regex-visualization/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:39:39

• RADIUSdesk – RADIUS management platform ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/radiusdesk-radius-management-platform/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:39:54

• Lichen – multi-headphone audio router for GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lichen-multi-headphone-audio-router/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:40:02

• Helio – music sequencer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/helio-music-sequencer/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:40:10

• Benchmarking the BOSGAME M6 HX370 Hey Hi (AI) Mini PC ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/benchmarking-bosgame-m6-hx370-ai-mini-pc/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:40:29

• rustffetch – neofetch-like information manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rustffetch-neofetch-like-information-manager/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:40:43

• mcat – extended cat command ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mcat-extended-cat-command/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:40:51

• 7 Projects Killed by Ubuntu (But I Still Miss Them) ☞ https://itsfoss.com/projects-ditched-by-ubuntu/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:41:20

• The New Chief Editor at The Register MS is a Microsofter, Now They Increase Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Coverage and Add Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Slant to 'Linux' Coverage ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/15/The_New_Chief_Editor_at_The_Register_MS_is_a_Microsofter_Now_Th.shtml    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:41:52

• Due to 'Secure Boot' (An Anti-Security Measure, a Kill Switch) Computer Users Are Afraid of GNU/Linux ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/15/Due_to_Secure_Boot_An_Anti_Security_Measure_a_Kill_Switch_Compu.shtml    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:42:00

• Google News Still Has an LLM Slop Problem (With Slop Images Too), But Surveillance Giant Google Itself is a Pusher of Slop ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/16/Google_News_Still_Has_an_LLM_Slop_Problem_With_Slop_Images_Too_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:42:15

• Why it’s time to reset our expectations for Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/16/1129946/why-its-time-to-reset-our-expectations-for-ai/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:42:48

• Use GWP-ASan to detect exploits in production environments ☞ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/12/16/use-gwp-asan-to-detect-exploits-in-production-environments/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:44:07

• How to Install OpenJDK 21 on Ubuntu ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-openjdk-21-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:45:04

• How to Install Caddy on Fedora ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-caddy-on-fedora/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:45:13

• How to Install Swift on Fedora ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-swift-on-fedora/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:45:21

• LocalSend – Local Network File Sharing Between Linux, backdoored Windows and Mac ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/localsend-share-files-linux-windows/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:46:27

• How to Learn Qt in 2026: Free Courses, Tutorials & What's New for Developers ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/how-to-learn-qt-in-2026    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:46:52

• Day 15 of Daily Writing ☞ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/15/Day-15-of-Daily-Writing/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:48:09

• Pgpool-II 4.6.5, 4.5.10, 4.4.15 and 4.3.18 released. ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgpool-ii-465-4510-4415-and-4318-released-3193/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:48:36

• Download and Install Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in VirtualBox or VMware ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/ubuntu-26-04-lts-virtualbox-vmware-install-guide/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:49:37

• Commands for Installing Bottles on Any Ubuntu Version ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/install-bottles-ubuntu-commands/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:49:46

• How To Install PhpStorm on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-phpstorm-manjaro/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:50:39

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

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:50:53

• Qt (proprietary) pushing slop ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/making-your-prompts-personal-qt-ai-assistant-0.9.8-released    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:51:50

• Alien Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Just About to Make Its Closest Approach to Earth ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/alien-comet-3i-atlas-is-just-about-to-make-its-closest-approach-to-earth    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:52:37

• Destination Linux 446: Ubuntu From The BIOS & The Quest for an Open Source Mac ☞ https://destinationlinux.net/446    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:53:46

• KDE Ni! OS Is a Playful Take on Immutable GNU/Linux Built on NixOS ☞ https://linuxiac.com/kde-ni-os-is-a-playful-take-on-immutable-linux-built-on-nixos/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 16:54:29

• Spectrometer ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/15/mass-spectrometer-tear-down/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:01:58

• History Of The Spreadsheet ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/15/a-brief-history-of-the-spreadsheet/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:22:06

• An Ancient Form of Plant Communication Still Lures Pollinators Using Heat ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/an-ancient-form-of-plant-communication-still-lures-pollinators-using-heat    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:22:58

• DNA Study Reveals Carrier of World's Earliest-Known Plague ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dna-study-reveals-carrier-of-worlds-earliest-known-plague    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:23:11

• Ice Age Lake Reappears in Death Valley Following Record Rains ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ice-age-lake-reappears-in-death-valley-following-record-rains    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:23:35

• Want to Know if Somebody Is Truly Listening? Count Their Blinks. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/want-to-know-if-somebody-is-truly-listening-count-their-blinks    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:23:50

• Psilocybin Breaks Depressive Cycles by Rewiring The Brain, Study Suggests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/psilocybin-breaks-depressive-cycles-by-rewiring-the-brain-study-suggests    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:24:29

• Earth Estimated to Lose 3,000 Glaciers a Year at 'Peak Extinction' ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-estimated-to-lose-3000-glaciers-a-year-at-peak-extinction    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:24:45

• Uranus And Neptune May Not Be 'Ice Giants' After All, Study Suggests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/uranus-and-neptune-may-not-be-ice-giants-after-all-study-suggests    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:25:20

• Nearly Half of All Heart Attacks May Be Missed by Current Screening Tools ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/nearly-half-of-all-heart-attacks-may-be-missed-by-current-screening-tools    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:25:32

• https://analytics.usa.gov/ measures Firefox at 1.7%    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:47:08

• https://stallman.org/ down for at least an hour or overblocking IP addresses    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:49:06

• Slop promotes by It's FOSS seems like a new low ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/check-snap-packages-vulnerabilities/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:50:55

• Yes, use a tool made by someone who cannot code or cannot be bothered to code    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:51:26

• 700Credit Data Breach Impacts 5.8 Million Individuals ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/700credit-data-breach-impacts-5-8-million-individuals/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:52:12

• Improve RAG retrieval and training with Feast and Kubeflow Trainer ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/16/improve-rag-retrieval-training-feast-kubeflow-trainer    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:53:02

• User Data Compromised in SoundCloud Hack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/user-data-compromised-in-soundcloud-hack/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:53:34

• Opexus claims background checks missed red flags on twins accused of insider breach ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/opexus-background-checks-insider-attack-muneeb-sohaib-akhter/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:54:10

• ISIS ‘Ideology’ Is Linked to Australia Killings, and Convicted Felon Files New $10 Billion Lawsuit ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/podcasts/the-headlines/isis-australia-trump-lawsuit.html    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:54:22

• What’s in the SOSS? Podcast #47 – S2E24 Teaching the Next Generation: Software Supply Chain Security in Academia with Justin Cappos ☞ https://openssf.org/podcast/2025/12/16/whats-in-the-soss-podcast-47-s2e24-teaching-the-next-generation-software-supply-chain-security-in-academia-with-justin-cappos/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:54:49

• Podcast: 'Prospects for Polish-Baltic Military Industry Cooperation' ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/video/16.12.2025-podcast-prospects-for-polish-baltic-military-industry-cooperation.a626677/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:55:02

• OpenShot 3.4 Open-Source Video Editor Released with New Effects and Features https://9to5linux.com/openshot-3-4-open-source-video-editor-released-with-new-effects-and-features    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:56:17

• OpenShot 3.4 Released | Improved Performance, New Effects, Exciting Updates! ☞ https://www.openshot.org/blog/2025/12/15/new_openshot_release_340/    

posted Tuesday, December 16, 2025 at 17:56:46

• 🔤SpellBinding: DYINOPH Wordo: COCOA gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-12-16.gmi    

posted Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 00:42:18

• 🖼️ xkcd: Jumping Frog Radius #3181 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3181.gmi    

posted Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 00:42:55

• Chris Huang's Quad Stick is a Low-Cost, 3D-Printable Accessible USB Input Device gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202512/20251216-quadstick.gmi    

posted Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 00:44:00

• "One tap wasn't connected to the basin any longer, and the other was very hard to turn off. Time for new taps. Today the plumber came to fit them. Yay, taps that work!" gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2025-12-16_Tapped.gmi    

posted Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 00:44:54

• "And they drive on the wrong side of the road in America, and their light switches have to be flicked up to turn on, rather than the correct down." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/12/16/wrongs.gmi    

posted Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 00:45:29

• [japan] [food] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-12-16.gmi    

posted Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 00:45:59

• [japan] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-12-15.gmi    

posted Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 00:46:26

• "Yesterday, my aunt's annual Christmas parcel. Today, a couple of cards: one in my grandmother's shaky writing, the other from the UK, in neater script. No return address on either card (though I'd know my grandmother's writing anywhere)." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/12-16.gmi    

posted Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 00:47:05

• "One of the few news outlets I still watch regularly (as opposed to reading or listening only) is Euronews. Though I don't live in Europe, I have several friends and relatives who do, and Euronews covers other global news enough to make it relevant to me." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202512/20251216-no-comment.gmi    

posted Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 00:48:06

• I really tried to understand "wokeness" gopher://redterminal.org:70/0/phlog/2025-12-16-I_really_tried_to_understand_wokeness.txt    

posted Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 00:49:52

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1507.jpg    

posted Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 00:50:25

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1857.jpg    

posted Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 00:50:33