Roy Schestowitz

• New $150 Cellik RAT Grants Android Control, Trojanizes Surveillance Giant Google Play Apps ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-150-cellik-rat-grants-android-control-trojanizes-google-play-apps/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:25:10

• Memory Corruption Vulnerability in GNU/Linux "Memory Safe" Rust Code ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/memory-corruption-vulnerability-in    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:25:25

• Will US pressure Lithuania to lift sanctions on Belarus? Three scenarios ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2777303/will-us-pressure-lithuania-to-lift-sanctions-on-belarus-three-scenarios    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:25:48

• Lithuanian Seimas postpones resolution on Belarus in hope of de-escalation – speaker ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2778087/lithuanian-seimas-postpones-resolution-on-belarus-in-hope-of-de-escalation-speaker    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:25:58

• Minister: border rail track question requires a regional decision ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/17.12.2025-minister-border-rail-track-question-requires-a-regional-decision.a626782/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:26:19

• In Ukraine, Kyiv residents haunted by nightly Russian attacks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/focus/20251217-in-ukraine-kyiv-residents-haunted-by-nightly-russian-attacks    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:26:26

• EU Holds Talks On China's Support For Russia, Including Possible Weapons Transfers ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/china-russia-ukraine-war-eu/33623752.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:26:36

• Lithuania to fund program of repatriating young professionals to Ukraine ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2778198/lithuania-to-fund-program-of-repatriating-young-professionals-to-ukraine    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:26:44

• EU leaders launch compensation commission for Ukraine war victims ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/eu-leaders-launch-compensation-commission-for-ukraine-war-victims/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:27:15

• Latvia signs up to International Claims Commission for Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/diplomacy/17.12.2025-latvia-signs-up-to-international-claims-commission-for-ukraine.a626758/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:27:24

• Latvian parliament holding Christmas charity auction for Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/saeima/17.12.2025-latvian-parliament-holding-christmas-charity-auction-for-ukraine.a626800/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:27:36

• Film show: 'Avatar' makes a fiery return ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/arts24/20251217-film-show-avatar-makes-a-fiery-return    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:28:00

• Modern Kubernetes monitoring: Metrics, tools, and AIOps ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/17/modern-kubernetes-monitoring-metrics-tools-and-aiops    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:28:39

• Calibre 8.16’s Hey Hi (AI) Wants to Talk Books. It Can’t Even Find Mine. ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/12/calibre-8-16s-ai-wants-to-talk-books-it-cant-even-find-mine/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:30:20

• TikTok unlawfully tracks your shopping habits – and your use of dating apps ☞ https://noyb.eu/en/tiktok-unlawfully-tracks-your-shopping-habits-and-your-use-dating-apps    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:31:07

• More Than 2,000 Dinosaur Footprints Are Found in the Italian Alps ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/science/dinosaur-footprints-olympics-italy.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:31:25

• Yale researchers document evidence of mass killings in Sudan’s El-Fasher ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/yale-researchers-document-evidence-of-mass-killings-in-sudans-el-fasher/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:31:53

• South Korea to ban free disposable plastic cups at cafes, restaurants ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-to-ban-free-disposable-plastic-cups-at-cafes-restaurants    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:32:23

• Thai victim of scalding case to sue South Korean husband ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/thai-victim-of-scalding-case-to-sue-south-korean-husband    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:32:40

• Surveillance: In JB, Malaysia’s first ‘leading smart city’, Hey Hi (AI) is used to ease jams and detect potholes ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/in-jb-malaysias-first-leading-smart-city-ai-is-used-to-ease-jams-and-detect-potholes    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:33:11

• China voices support Venezuela amid US blockade, but makes no aid pledges ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-voices-supportvenezuela-amid-us-blockade-but-makes-no-aid-pledges    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:33:40

• Finland Apologizes to China, Japan and South Korea for Racist Gesture ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/world/europe/finland-scandal-beauty-queen-china-racist.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:34:11

• At Tokyo Zoo, Visitors Worry Pandas Could Be China’s Next Target ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/world/asia/japan-china-pandas.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:34:34

• China seeks to mediate Thai-Cambodia clash Convicted Felon says he ended ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/china-seeks-to-mediate-thai-cambodia-clash-trump-says-he-ended    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:34:44

• Sales of chip production equipment to reach $156 billion by 2027 — China, Taiwan, and Korea lead intense demand ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/sales-of-chip-production-equipment-to-reach-usd156-billion-by-2027-china-taiwan-and-korea-lead-intense-demand    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:35:15

• US Senate confirms Jared Isaacman as NASA chief amid budget cuts and moon race ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20251218-us-senate-confirms-jared-isaacman-nasa-chief    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:41:39

• A Winning Combination Of Video Games And Anesthesia ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/17/the-pedisedate-a-winning-combination-of-video-games-and-anesthesia/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:42:11

• There's a Scientific Reason December 'Arrives Sooner' Every Year ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-scientific-reason-december-arrives-sooner-every-year    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:42:29

• JWST Confirms: First Runaway Supermassive Black Hole Tearing Through Space ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/jwst-confirms-first-runaway-supermassive-black-hole-tearing-through-space    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:42:42

• This 105-Meter Ice Core Could Explain A Bizarre Glacier Anomaly ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-105-meter-ice-core-could-explain-a-bizarre-glacier-anomaly    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:42:52

• Common Home Appliances Emit Trillions of Harmful Particles, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/common-home-appliances-emit-trillions-of-harmful-particles-study-finds    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:43:05

• "Most of us choose our own outfits on a daily basis. [NeuroForge] decided that he’d instead offload this duty to artificial intelligence — perhaps more for the sake of a class project than outright fashion." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/17/ai-picks-outfits-with-abandon/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:43:52

• Evidence of Intel's 'Big Battlemage' GPU continues to mount, as BMG-G31 chip gets another official confirmation ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/evidence-of-intels-big-battlemage-gpu-continues-to-mount-as-bmg-g31-chip-gets-another-official-confirmation    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:44:05

• Scam Altman Uses His New Image Generator to Show Himself As a Jacked Fireman With Washboard Abs… With an Absolutely Hilarious Error ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-ai-firefighter    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:44:57

• GhostPoster Firefox Extensions Hide Malware in Icons ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ghostposter-firefox-extensions-hide-malware-in-icons/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:46:07

• France probes 'foreign interference' after passenger ship hit by remote-control malware ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251217-france-probes-foreign-interference-after-malware-found-on-ferry-1    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:46:25

• BMG Inks Expanded Fentanylware (CheeTok) Deal Prioritizing ‘Deeper Value for Songwriters’ — But Questions Remain Ahead of a Rumored Royalty-Model Pivot, Fentanylware (CheeTok) U.S. Ownership Change ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/17/bmg-tiktok-deal/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:46:55

• Canada’s Population Shrinks Amid Tightened Immigration ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/world/canada/canada-population-decline-immigration.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:47:58

• People are talking about the Vizio suit! ☞ https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/17/people-are-talking-about-the-vizio-suit/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/25/Software_Freedom_Conservancy_SFC_Inc_Lost_2_Million_Dollars_Las.shtml    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:48:49

• Red Hat Goes Shopping for Hey Hi (AI) Safety, Comes Home With Chatterbox Labs ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/12/red-hat-goes-shopping-for-ai-safety-comes-home-with-chatterbox-labs/ waste https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/17/Red_Hat_Wastes_Money_on_Slop_and_on_Slop_Pushers_While_Laying_O.shtml    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:49:31

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Administration Threatens Action Against Spotify if EU Regulators Don’t Back Off American Tech Companies ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/17/trump-admin-threatens-spotify-eu-regulators/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:50:47

• Gedit Technology blog: Mid-December News ☞ https://gedit-text-editor.org/blog/2025-12-17-mid-december-news.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:51:11

• Rights group raises concern over conviction of Egyptian economist ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/rights-group-raises-concern-over-conviction-of-egyptian-economist/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:51:45

• Bobcat challenges competitors Caterpillar and Zeppelin with Quinn Emanuel ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/bobcat-challenges-competitors-caterpillar-and-zeppelin-with-quinn-emanuel/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:52:44

• Using OpenSearch data streams in syslog-ng ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/other/syslog-ng-using-opensearch-data-streams/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:53:16

• Enthusiast modder stuffs an entire gaming PC inside a gutted Commodore PET 2001 — replaced the screen with an iPad Retina LCD, but the original keyboard still works ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/enthusiast-modder-stuffs-an-entire-gaming-pc-inside-a-gutted-commodore-pet-2001-replaced-the-screen-with-an-ipad-retina-lcd-but-the-original-keyboard-still-works    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:53:40

• Maxell PSB2032 35 mAh all-solid-state coin cell battery targets industrial IoT devices ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/17/maxell-psb2032-35-mah-all-solid-state-coin-cell-battery-targets-industrial-iot-devices/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:54:22

• Compact development board features a single ESP32-P4 + ESP32-C5 dual-band Wi-Fi 6 module, MIPI display and camera interfaces ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/17/compact-development-board-features-a-single-esp32-p4-esp32-c5-dual-band-wi-fi-6-module-mipi-display-and-camera-interfaces/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:54:47

• Sven Hoexter: exfatprogs: Do not try defrag.exfat / mkfs.exfat backdoored Windows compatibility in Trixie ☞ http://sven.stormbind.net/blog/posts/deb_exfatprogs_defrag_wincompat/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:55:07

• Investigating Starlink’s performance during the May 2024 solar superstorm ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/17/investigating-starlinks-performance-during-the-may-2024-solar-superstorm/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:55:27

• Kiwi TCMS: Kiwi TCMS is going to FOSDEM 2026 ☞ https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2025/12/17/kiwi-tcms-is-going-to-fosdem-2026/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:55:55

• Dihydroxyacetone Man administration takes aim at EU over treatment of US tech giants ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/16/trump-administration-takes-aim-eu-treatment-us-tech-giants/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:57:18

• "Anyone with an inkling of interest in super-sized remote control aircraft probably has at least seen some of the mind-blowing projects that [Ramy RC] has worked on over the years" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/17/building-a-flying-blended-wing-body-aircraft-prototype/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:58:09

• "The jet pack is one of those pre-war sci-fi dreams that the cold light of rational consideration reveals to be a terrible idea. Who wants to cook their legs with hot exhaust while careening out of control? Nobody." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/17/underwater-jetpack-is-almost-practical/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:58:38

• "Over on ScienceDaily we learn that an international team of scientists have turned a common semiconductor germanium into a superconductor" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/17/germanium-semiconductor-made-superconductor-by-gallium-doping/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:59:00

• Latvian President officially proclaims 2026 budget ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/president/18.12.2025-latvian-president-officially-proclaims-2026-budget.a626920/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:59:14

• ICE Must Allow Lawmakers to Inspect Detention Centers, Judge Rules ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/ice-inspections-democrats-congress-lawsuit.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:59:30

• Japan govt sued over ‘unconstitutional’ climate inaction ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-govt-sued-over-unconstitutional-climate-inaction    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 01:59:51

• ASCAP Faces $123 Million Radio Royalties Lawsuit from Production Music Owners: ‘ASCAP Severely Underpays Its Non-Feature Music Members for the Utilization of Their Works’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/17/ascap-radio-royalties-lawsuit/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 02:00:24

• Bots again gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-12-18-bots    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 02:03:09

• "The first integrator outputs the velocity, and the second integrator outputs the position, i.e., from the drop altitude. I set the drop altitude with a potentiometer. I also used a comparator to flat-line the display once the object has hit the ground, which I defined to be GND voltage." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20251218-0.gmi    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 02:04:44

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1509.jpg    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 02:05:11

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1859.jpg    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 02:05:31

• Zelenskyy: 'Finalizing work' on revised peace plan https://www.dw.com/en/zelenskyy-finalizing-work-on-revised-peace-plan/live-75083319    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 02:09:27

• UNESCO https://www.dw.com/en/unesco-honors-india-s-diwali-as-intangible-cultural-heritage/a-75084629    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 02:09:51

• Convention https://www.dw.com/en/uk-denmark-want-reform-of-european-convention-on-human-rights/a-75090855    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 02:10:09

• WINE Cooler https://tedium.co/2025/12/10/404-media-zine-linux-affinity/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 02:10:56

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-12-19.gmi    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 02:51:30

• Layoffs in Microsoft proxy. "IT Layoffs 2025: Over 12,000 Fired at TCS"    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 02:52:51

• "Emails I get from Linkedin are always from Indian recruiters" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcpb0aa5    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 02:54:26

• "Also understand that 70-80% of jobs posted on LinkedIn are fake. Mostly used by companies just to provide evidence to the government that they "tried to find an American but couldn't" for an H1B/PERM that they are trying to get approved. Also used by staffing agencies to fill their CV database. Applying to LinkedIn job postings is like folding your CV into a paper airplane and throwing it into the abyss."    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 02:54:37

• "and those Indian recruiters are a total waste of time and effort. They come with a bunch of fancy titles to impress you. They want you to tailor your resume to fit some fake job opportunity that they think they have and you waste a lot of time doing what they tell you. Best advice is to tell the clueless Bast--ds to go to he-l and not to call back. It is yet another 'Made In India' job scam like the LinkedIn Premium Scam."    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 02:54:49

• "I saw someone post that he would take any job like Bagging Groceries. He is in danger of losing his house. I really feel bad for people in that situation. I had to get off that site. People begging for minimum wage jobs is not normal. This country is in some serious trouble." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcpb0aa5    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 02:55:01

• "What's next? We outsource our military to that G0d forsaken country?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcpb0aa5    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 02:55:12

• "Alvind and the Pipmonkeys need to be FIRED!!!!!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kchgf6qt    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 02:56:20

• "While it is “bullsh-t” it does hold real world consequences." "Alvind is getting Porky. And Jim Krabanaugh is getting Porkier" "Evaluations are a joke. I had a manger that rated the brown noses high and others low. One person rated high no one the account on the wintel side knew what he did" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcmx0g24    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 02:57:12

• https://www.fsf.org/ fund raising now just 124k USD away from goal    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 04:26:18

• Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/18/firefox_no_ai_alternative_waterfox/ in the past, Waterfox sold out users by signing up with a surveillance company, System1    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 04:32:26

• "Windows claimed 59.2% of developer personal use in 2024, but Android surged 11 percentage points to reach 29% adoption in 2025, overtaking Ubuntu for the first time. The Stack Overflow Developer Survey, with over 65,000 respondents in 2024 and 49,000 in 2025, documents how operating system preferences shift across 185 countries as developers balance personal choice against enterprise requirements."    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 04:41:02

• "The 2024 Stack Overflow survey collected responses from 65,437 developers across 185 countries between May 19 and June 20. Windows secured the largest share at 59.2% for personal development and 47.6% for professional work." https://commandlinux.com/statistics/developer-os-preference-stack-overflow-survey/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 04:41:36

• "The end of the year often brings a sense of nostalgia. Lately, it made me think about the first time I used Linux, nearly 16 years ago. It was Ubuntu 9.04. Since then, Ubuntu has experimented with many ideas. Some worked well, others didn’t." https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-51/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 04:42:08

• cancer-linked genes https://www.dw.com/en/sperm-bank-sold-man-s-cancer-linked-genes-across-europe/a-75072227    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 04:47:59

• neanderthals https://www.dw.com/en/signs-of-400-000-year-old-neanderthal-campfire-found-in-uk/a-75098034    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 04:48:23

• Foreign pension giants sour on banks over green issues https://www.theage.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/foreign-pension-giants-sour-on-banks-over-green-issues-20251210-p5nmhm.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 04:49:44

• Faster isn’t always better. Our super system needs ‘speed bumps’ https://www.theage.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/faster-isn-t-always-better-our-super-system-needs-speed-bumps-20251211-p5nmy3.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 04:50:06

• Teva Capitulates to Federal Trade Commission Coercion https://patentdocs.org/2025/12/11/teva-capitulates-to-federal-trade-commission-coercion/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 04:56:33

• Surveillance https://cphpost.dk/2025-12-11/life-in-denmark/skat-will-access-data-from-foreign-digital-banks/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 04:57:02

• Climate Change Might Dull Children's Intellectual Growth https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-12-09/climate-change-might-dull-childrens-intellectual-growth    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 04:59:42

• UN Says World Must Jointly Tackle Issues of Climate Change, Pollution, Biodiversity and Land Loss https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-12-09/un-says-world-must-jointly-tackle-issues-of-climate-change-pollution-biodiversity-and-land-loss    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 04:59:53

• IMF Approves $1.2 Billion for Pakistan From Bailout, Citing Progress on Economic and Climate Reforms https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-12-09/imf-approves-1-2-billion-for-pakistan-from-bailout-citing-progress-on-economic-and-climate-reforms    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:00:05

• Inaction on Climate Change https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2025-in-review/climate-change-donald-trump    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:00:16

• UN environment head warns of climate complacency https://www.dw.com/en/un-environment-head-warns-of-climate-complacency/a-75065762    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:02:28

• Climate: 2025 likely second hottest on record, EU scientists say https://www.dw.com/en/climate-2025-likely-second-hottest-on-record-eu-scientists-say/a-75072441    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:03:53

• electrostate https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/china-energy-solar-electric-vehicle-climate-9.7005003    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:04:10

• Climate-Change Summer or Nuclear Winter? https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/10/climate-change-summer-or-nuclear-winter-2/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:04:42

• concerns over climate targets https://nltimes.nl/2025/12/10/fall-greenhouse-gas-emissions-stagnating-raising-concerns-climate-targets    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:04:56

• climate disaster risk https://www.vox.com/climate/471758/zillow-climate-risk-score-real-estate-wildfire-tahoe    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:05:17

• Climate Change Is Straining Alaska's Arctic https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/alaska/articles/2025-12-11/climate-change-is-straining-alaskas-arctic-a-new-mining-road-may-push-the-region-past-the-brink    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:05:37

• The EPA Website Got the Basics of Climate Science Right — Until Last Week https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-epa-website-got-the-basics-of-climate-science-right-until-last-week/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:07:27

• How rain is connected to climate change https://www.dw.com/en/how-rain-is-connected-to-climate-change/a-75102918    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:07:38

• Goodbye climate protection? How the EU is weakening its Green Deal https://www.dw.com/en/goodbye-climate-protection-how-the-eu-is-weakening-its-green-deal/a-75105710    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:07:56

• NSW should end coal expansions to meet net zero targets https://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/nsw-should-end-coal-expansions-to-meet-net-zero-targets-20251211-p5nmyj.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:08:11

• Catastrophic US floods linked to hotter climate https://www.dw.com/en/catastrophic-us-floods-linked-to-hotter-climate/a-75102918    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:08:23

• Polar bears are adapting to climate change at a genetic level – and it could help them avoid extinction https://theconversation.com/polar-bears-are-adapting-to-climate-change-at-a-genetic-level-and-it-could-help-them-avoid-extinction-269852    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:08:35

• Energy Ties = fuelling the anti-Europe war machine https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-12-10/putin-meets-indonesias-prabowo-to-discuss-military-and-energy-ties-wheat-exports    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:09:22

• Do Energy Drinks Increase Stroke Risk? https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-12-10/do-energy-drinks-increase-stroke-risk-one-patients-story    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:09:34

• Cheeto Mussolini Bashes Renewable Energy https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-12-09/southeast-asia-embraces-offshore-wind-power-as-trump-bashes-renewable-energy    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:09:51

• Utah Leaders Are Hindering Efforts to Develop Solar Despite a Goal to Double the State’s Energy Supply https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-solar-energy-operation-gigawatt-spencer-cox    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:10:08

• Cheeto Mussolini’s CAFE Rollback is a Short-Sighted Bet Against America’s Energy and Economic Future https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/12/trumps-cafe-rollback-is-a-short-sighted-bet-against-americas-energy-and-economic-future/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:10:22

• suppression of independent reporting https://cpj.org/2025/12/under-the-radar-israel-steps-up-censorship-and-suppression-of-independent-reporting/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:11:04

• American Child Marriage https://www.projectcensored.org/wedding-bell-alarm-american-child-marriage/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:11:51

• toddler steering car on German autobahn https://www.dw.com/en/police-spot-toddler-steering-car-on-german-autobahn/a-75087513    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:12:29

• Digital Restrictions (DRM): HDMI Forum Continues To Block HDMI 2.1 For Linux, Valve Says https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/12/10/1652206/hdmi-forum-continues-to-block-hdmi-21-for-linux-valve-says    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:13:37

• Fedora Magazine: Find out how your Fedora system really feels (with the linux-mcp-server!) https://fedoramagazine.org/find-out-how-your-fedora-system-really-feels-with-the-linux-mcp-server/ IBM is pushing slop via Red Hat    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:15:01

• This seems like an obvious slopfarm https://commandlinux.com/statistics/linux-container-kubernetes-adoption-statistics/ https://commandlinux.com/qa/linux-on-chromebook/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:18:09

• "What We Don’t Accept: Plagiarized or AI-generated content without significant human editing and expertise: https://commandlinux.com/write-for-us-tech-saas-ai-guest-post/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:20:38

• But they do seem to be using LLMs. Very dodgy domain.    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:20:55

• "Linux kernel 6.18 LTS is already available in the stable repositories of various distributions, including openSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch Linux." https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-17-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-6-18-lts    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:21:39

• NVIDIA release Linux driver version 590.48.01 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/nvidia-release-linux-driver-version-590-48-01/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:22:46

• NVIDIA 590 Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-590-linux-graphics-driver-released-with-more-wayland-improvements    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:23:12

• This seems like sponsored chaff https://www.gbnews.com/tech/expressvpn-linux-desktop-app    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:26:32

• "This release also adds support for the reinstall option on bundle installations and cancellation support for cURL downloads." https://9to5linux.com/flatpak-1-16-2-linux-app-sandboxing-framework-enables-va-api-for-intel-xe-gpus    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 07:08:59

• "Supports over 300 Armbian-supported single-board computers organized by manufacturer and supports smart filtering of Armbiian builds." https://9to5linux.com/meet-armbian-imager-the-official-flashing-utility-for-armbian-linux-beta-out-now    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 07:09:28

• Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” Beta Is Available for Download with Cinnamon 6.6 https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-22-3-zena-beta-is-available-for-download-with-cinnamon-6-6    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 07:10:02

• Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” Enters Public Beta https://linuxiac.com/linux-mint-22-3-zena-enters-public-beta/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 07:11:15

• "A very smart recruiter once shared this gem with me: if you’re not good enough at your job you’ll be fired. If you’re too good at your him, you’ll be fired. The trick is to be mediocre. After many jobs across several large corporations including IBM, this explains what I observed about who is rewarded and for what." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcmx0g24    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 07:18:12

• Drew Devault so quiet lately. Does he accept what a pest he became?    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 08:57:19

• Steam Winter Sale is live with Steam Awards 2025 open for voting | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/steam-winter-sale-is-live-with-steam-awards-2025-open-for-voting/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:00:15

• Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch' | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/firefox-dev-clarifies-there-will-be-an-ai-kill-switch/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:00:36

• Mesa 25.3.2 brings more bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/mesa-25-3-2-brings-more-bug-fixes-for-open-source-linux-graphics-drivers/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:02:54

• NVIDIA release Linux driver version 590.48.01 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/nvidia-release-linux-driver-version-590-48-01/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/nvidia-release-linux-driver-version-590-48-01/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:04:14

• "The Trump Kennedy Center: Trumpgrad's Newest Attraction" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/the-trump-kennedy-center-trumpgrads    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:05:38

• "The Economy Is Flatlining—and So Is Trump" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-economy-polling/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:05:48

• "The New Europeans, Trump-Style" https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-europe-populism-far-right/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:05:57

• "Prince Andrew Left Out in the Rain — Royal Moment Goes Viral" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prince-andrew-left-out-rain-royal-moment-goes-viral-1764027    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:06:06

• "Yet, on reflection, I realized that there’s a story here that’s bigger than Trump, a story in which Trump is one especially egregious example of a larger pattern. What is that pattern? That being vicious and bigoted is cool, is based in current slang." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-trumps-viciousness-matters    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:06:44

• "Trump is one data point in the midst of an epidemic of performative hatemongering in America. And while most of this is emanating from right-wing extremists, not all of it is." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-trumps-viciousness-matters    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:06:49

• "A Conspiracy of Capital - by Mike Brock" https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-conspiracy-of-capital    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:06:58

• With AI in education, it's damned if you do - damned if you don't | "Med AI i uddannelse er det damned if you do - damned if you don't | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/med-ai-i-uddannelse-er-det-damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-dont    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:07:20

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:07:41

• The climate goals for Tønsberg have been scrapped, in complete silence | "Klimamålene for Tønsberg er vraket, i all stillhet | Lars Egelands blogg" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://larsegeland.com/2025/12/18/klimamalene-for-tonsberg-er-vraket-i-all-stillhet/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:07:51

• "Signs of trouble in the U.S. economy: Where are all the jobs?" https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/armstrong-tariffs-trump-jobs-9.7019960    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:08:00

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:08:11

• "When One Honest Politician Isn’t Enough" https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2025/12/james-garfield-good-man-complicated-story/685327/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:08:23

• "The whole case against him was based on the idea that privacy itself is criminal. This is his story." https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Samourai:e    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:08:42

• politics strikes again... this time against Tor: "The Tor Project is Making a Switch to Rust, Ditches C" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/17/0154226    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:09:02

• The wrong people are being monitored with new law https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/12/18/fel-personer-overvakas-med-ny-lag/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:09:24

• Continuing to make things weird Two Point Museum and Revenge of the Savage Planet do crossovers | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/continuing-to-make-things-weird-two-point-museum-and-revenge-of-the-savage-planet-do-crossovers/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:11:56

• Arriving early next year, Dune: Awakening - Chapter 3 is sounding great | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/arriving-early-next-year-dune-awakening-chapter-3-is-sounding-great/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/arriving-early-next-year-dune-awakening-chapter-3-is-sounding-great/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:12:27

• Total War: THREE KINGDOMS gets a GOG release along with various DLC | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/total-war-three-kingdoms-gets-a-gog-release-along-with-various-dlc/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:13:20

• The excellent BALL x PIT is getting three major updates in 2026 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/the-excellent-ball-x-pit-is-getting-three-major-updates-in-2026/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:13:34

• Zombie horde shooter World War Z is getting a big The Walking Dead DLC | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/zombie-horde-shooter-world-war-z-is-getting-a-big-the-walking-dead-dlc/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:16:34

• Rogue Legacy developer's next game is Neath, an eldritch roguelike tactical RPG | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/rogue-legacy-developers-next-game-is-neath-an-eldritch-roguelike-tactical-rpg/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:16:41

• "Early December, Denmark's Ministry of Culture submitted a bill that aims to combat viewing of pirated content on illegal IPTV platforms." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/govt-denies-iptv-piracy-law-bans-vpns-because-it-never-did-didnt-need-to-251218/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:22:44

• Tweaks to IPTV Piracy Law That "Bans VPNs" Won't Change Its Intent or Scope

  Early December, Denmark's Ministry of Culture submitted a bill that aims to combat viewing of pirated content on illegal IPTV platforms. Public debate was more concerned with proposed restrictions on VPNs, with some concluding that the government wants a "total ban". In a statement this week, Denmark's Minister of Culture said VPNs will not be banned, and to avoid doubt, references to VPNs will be removed. Whether that will change anything seems extremely unlikely.

   

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:23:13

• "The rest is just making up the numbers to fit." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/17/youtube-the-problem-not-billboard-everybody-music-industry-agrees/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:23:31

• "it turns out, that’s simply not true. According to a new report by a group of anti-poverty researchers that uses AI tools to achieve unusually granular data of the picture on the ground" ☛ https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/472422/the-low-low-cost-of-ending-extreme-poverty | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:23:52

• "The agency plans to renew a sweeping cybersecurity contract that includes expanded employee monitoring as the government escalates leak investigations and casts internal dissent as a threat." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/ice-seeks-cyber-upgrade-to-better-surveil-and-investigate-its-employees/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:24:10

• "In 2026, let’s take back the media — and our minds and spirits — from the billionaires." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/billionaires-are-encroaching-on-the-free-press-lets-act-to-defend-it-in-2026/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:24:25

• "We want to reassure you that journalists across Africa and around the world are following your case closely." ☛ https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Aline-Sandra-Muhoza-Letter_Final_December-16_EN.pdf | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:25:14

• "Muhoza is expected in court on December 19, a family member familiar with her case told CPJ, on condition of anonymity, citing safety concerns." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/12/127-african-women-journalists-write-to-jailed-burundian-sandra-muhoza-as-she-returns-to-court/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:25:23

• "The legal problems are significant." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/18/trump-administration-orders-fbi-to-compile-lists-of-antifa-related-americans-for-investigation.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:25:58

• "The filmmakers have said the film is ‘a modern tale built in the spirit of feminism’, the pro-government media outlet Kinobiz noted." ☛ https://oc-media.org/baku-film-festival-removes-film-over-immoral-depiction-of-12th-century-poet/ | Source: Open Caucasus Media    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:26:13

• "since Donald Trump returned to office in January" ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/trumps-war-on-epistemic-institutions/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:26:28

• "It is disgraceful that a sitting U.S. president would spend a portion of his tenure suing media companies" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/12/cpj-trumps-bbc-lawsuit-is-yet-another-attack-on-us-media-freedom/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:26:46

• "The reality is quite different, as Finland grapples with an unemployment crisis that is especially difficult for foreign nationals." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20200602 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:27:19

• "Impacted employees told Federal News Network they’re not sure what kind of work they’ll be doing as part of this reassignment. Federal News Network spoke to four IRS employees." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/it-modernization/2025/12/irs-moves-1000-it-employees-out-of-its-tech-shop-with-few-clear-signs-of-what-work-theyll-do-next/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:28:34

• "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://www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-storage/battery/ford-to-convert-ky-battery-plant-for-energy-storage-business-reportedly-laying-off-1500-workers/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:28:46

• "While Nexperia does not produce cutting-edge semiconductors like TSMC and Samsung, it’s still one of the largest legacy chip manufacturers in the world." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/honda-to-temporarily-shut-down-factories-in-china-and-japan-because-of-chip-shortage-disruption-caused-by-fallout-from-on-going-conflict-within-nexperia | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:28:58

• "I came across this book review via Cory Doctorow’s blog. It’s a review of, I think, two different books relating to finance." ☛ https://darthmall.net/notes/2025/a-useless-profession/ | Source: W Evan Sheehan    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:29:15

• "Aiming to get that position enshrined in law, [cryptocurrency] companies and executives donated more than US$245-million" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/cryptos-trump-era-boom-faces-a-2026-reality-check/275753/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:29:27

• "To put this in perspective, HR workers now outnumber NHS doctors three to one. Second worldwide only to the Dutch, the UK is now an HR superpower" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/18/workplaces-scrub-christmas-christianity/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:29:35

• "It's a long and fascinating piece and it's certainly left me wanting to read both books, but that's not what convinced me to do one more newsletter before going on break" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/18/self-licking-ice-cream-cone/#job-creators | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:30:39

• "I know, from personal experience, that it takes a significant amount of effort to research, write, revise, and submit a decently plausible funding proposal to the US government's National Science Foundation." ☛ https://harihareswara.net/posts/2025/python-software-foundation-national-science-foundation-and-integrity/ | Source: Sumana Harihareswara    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:30:49

• "The prestigious publication added a forceful editorial that constitutes a full-fledged condemnation of the anti-renewable energy and pro-fossil fuel policies implemented by Donald Trump" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-12-18/the-journal-science-criticizes-trumps-anti-renewable-energy-policy-the-us-is-failing-to-benefit-from-its-own-innovations.html | Source: El País    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:33:03

• "Allen, alongside three University of Michigan students — Ciara Cade (right), Calvin Kraus (center) and Sydney Allen (second from right)" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/18/university-develops-ai-training-groupd-googlecloud/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:33:16

• "The stations’ opening was delayed for years, partly because their construction revealed remnants of Rome’s past that had to be carefully excavated by archaeologists." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/you-can-now-see-2000-year-old-thermal-baths-and-military-barracks-without-ever-leaving-romes-new-subway-stations-180987896/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:33:40

• "Cloud-computing firms including Oracle, Microsoft, and Meta have amassed a combined $500 billion in obligations toward data center leases, Bloomberg reported" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/12/17/2025/oracle-stock-falls-over-us-data-center-funding-troubles | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:33:53

• Who DIDN'T SEE this fraud coming?    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:34:08

• Oracle's Debt Continues Rising to All-Time Highs, The "Slop Bubble" is a Smokescreen for Larry Ellison https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/01/Oracle_s_Debt_Continues_Rising_to_All_Time_Highs_The_Slop_Bubbl.shtml    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:34:31

• "Senate Bills 761, 762 and 763 each propose amending existing state statutes." ☛ https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/12/bills-would-target-water-use-utility-costs-tied-to-michigan-data-center-boom.html | Source: Michigan News    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:34:40

• "Yes, energy demands are increasing. Yes, we must keep rates low." ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/12/18/continued-coal-use-serves-out-of-state-interests-not-nebraskans/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:34:54

• "Now this year, even some of the loudest voices calling for global action to curb emissions have begun to drop the pretense." ☛ https://www.vox.com/climate/472626/climate-change-1-5c-2025-goal-warming | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:35:06

• "The photograph was reportedly taken at the Microsoft founder’s Seattle office in 2014, almost 10 years after Epstein was arrested for soliciting a child for prostitution." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/12/18/epstein-files-lolita-quotes-woman-body/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:35:32

• "The 68 images published by Democrat lawmakers from the US House Oversight Committee are taken from a cache of around 95,000 images which Congress acquired from Epstein's estate" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/new-epstein-estate-images-released-ahead-of-deadline/a-75233792 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:35:43

• "That includes flight logs and references to named individuals, including potentially government officials." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/epstein-files-release-deadline-justice-department-b2887239.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:37:44

• "The release did not include information about where or when the photos were taken." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/house-oversight-jeffrey-epstein-photos-december-18-2025/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:38:07

• "An email address listed on The Edge’s website did not respond to WIRED’s request for comment."    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:38:35

• "There are still questions about what materials could be withheld or redacted, but it’s extremely likely we’ll see something" ☛ https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/472928/epstein-files-deadline-trump-doj-what-to-know | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:38:55

• "A Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System drone, known as a LUCAS drone, was launched from the flight deck of the USS Santa Barbara, an Independence-class littoral combat ship currently operating in the Arabian Gulf." ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/12/19/navy-launches-suicide-drone-from-ship-at-sea-for-first-time/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:39:31

• "This calculated institutional forgetfulness nurtures extremist revisionism, highlighting the crucial intersection of memory politics and momentous political shifts in contemporary Germany." ☛ https://neweasterneurope.eu/2025/12/18/krupp-fuels-far-right-narratives-in-germany/ | Source: New Eastern Europe    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:40:13

• "A decade ago, IS would have been far more likely to stamp its mark more explicitly on an attack as soon as possible links emerged." ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/12/the-islamic-state-is-taking-advantage-of-a-new-kind-of-terrorist | Source: New Statesman    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:40:19

• [Old] "These failings were perhaps most clearly seen in the prison’s approach to rehabilitation." ☛ https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/news/kent-jail-is-failing-says-new-report-263207/ | Source: Kent UK    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:40:36

• "CEO Shou Zi Chew has confirmed to employees that ByteDance and TikTok have signed the binding agreements with the investor consortium." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/18/tiktok-signs-deals-oracle-silver-lake-mgx/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:43:06

• "A recurring theme is the perception of widespread violence, including bullying by both prisoners and staff, as well as unchecked gang control, particularly by religious gangs [sic], which many prisoners report feeling powerless and unsafe against" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/17/muslim-gangs-take-control-of-drug-ridden-prison/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:43:17

• "The agreement forming the TikTok U.S. joint venture is set to close Jan. 22, 2026." ☛ https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/tiktok-us-joint-venture-deal-close-date-oracle-silver-lake-1236612315/ | Source: Variety    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:43:34

• "Oracle, Silver Lake and Abu Dhabi’s MGX will collectively own about 50% of the new entity, with ByteDance retaining roughly 20%, addressing national security concerns about Chinese control of user data." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-12-18/tiktok-says-it-signed-agreements-for-new-u-s-joint-venture | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:43:49

• "The deal, set to close on January 22, would end years of efforts to force ByteDance to divest its U.S. business over national security concerns." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-12-18/tiktok-signs-deal-to-sell-us-unit-to-american-investor-led-venture | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:44:06

• "protect Americans’ data and U.S. national security." ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/tiktok-signs-deal-to-sell-us-unit-to-american-investors-including-oracle-silver-lake-1924877 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:44:17

• "Whether this unit would still be owned by ByteDance was not made clear in the memo." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20251219-tiktok-joint-venture-deal-us-ban-ownership | Source: France24    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:44:32

• "Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX, to form a new TikTok US joint venture named TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/tiktok-signs-deal-to-sell-us-unit-to-american-investor-led-venture-9843469#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:44:50

• "White House officials have said Oracle, which was co-founded by Donald Trump’s supporter Larry Ellison" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/18/tiktok-signs-deal-us-entity-sale | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:45:00

• "retraining the content recommendation algorithm on U.S. user data to ensure the content feed is free from outside manipulation" ☛ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/tiktok-sale-done-oracle-silver-lake-buyers-1236454493/ | Source: Hollywood Reporter    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:45:12

• "as well as content moderation, data security, and deployment of the US version of the app and platform." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/847858/tiktok-sale-deal-memo-january-close | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:45:34

• "three managing investors: Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi-based MGX." ☛ https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/tik-tok-us-sale-china.html | Source: CNBC    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:45:45

• "According to the note, the American entity will be overseen by a fresh, seven-person board of directors, the majority of whom will be from the United States." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bytedance-signs-tiktok-us-deal-forced-sale-fears-peak-creators-face-upheaval-1764072 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:45:55

• "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-real-threat-of-trumps-madness | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:46:05

• "will manage global product interoperability and certain commercial activities, including e-commerce, advertising, and marketing" ☛ https://www.reuters.com/business/american-investor-consortium-acquire-tiktok-us-entity-axios-reports-2025-12-18/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 09:46:16

• "As part of this effort, in October 2025, 7aSecurity conducted a code audit of those tools." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/code-audit-network-health-tools/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:11:53

• "Meta might be trying to save face, but a year ago, it was so distraught as to file a legal complaint to retain its “pay or consent” model." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-eu-advertising-privacy/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:12:23

• "Austrian Supreme Court (OGH): Meta must provide full access to all personal data of user within 14 days" ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-supreme-court-meta-must-give-users-full-access-their-data | Source: NYOB    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:12:34

• "MSC Cruises is prohibiting “devices capable of covertly or discreetly recording or transmitting data” which, as written, is pretty vague without the subsequent “(e.g. smart glasses)”." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/msc-cruises-smart-glasses/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:12:54

• Openwashing ☛ https://linuxiac.com/arch-linux-makes-its-wsl-image-fully-reproducible/ | Source: Linuxiac | A new form of attack on GNU/Linux and the brand http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/22/The_Evolution_of_Microsoft_s_War_on_GNU_Linux.shtml    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:14:16

• Windows TCO ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/18/nhs_tech_supplier_cyberattack/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:14:43

• also Windows TCO ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-will-finally-kill-an-encryption-cipher-that-enabled-a-decade-of-windows-hacks/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:14:50

• "In this post, I’ll explain what I see as the key issues facing institutional social media archiving: what can be saved, what resists preservation, and how context is so hard to keep." ☛ https://alexwlchan.net/2025/hard-problems-in-social-media-archiving/ | Source: Alex Chan    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:15:48

• "The former HR manager has hired Dini von Mueffling, a communications consultant who previously represented Monica Lewinsky and Virginia Giuffre, to raise awareness about the harms of pile-ons by [Internet] mobs." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/12/18/hr-boss-breaks-silence-coldplay-kisscam/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:16:52

• "Her kids accidentally overheard one of the phone calls when Cabot played it on speakerphone for her mom." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-12-18/coldplay-kiss-cam-woman-kristin-cabot-real-story | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:17:22

• "Who controls love: Men, women, or capital? At first, the question sounds absurd." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/12/dating-apps-men-women-capital/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:25:31

• "However Techcrunch reported news publishers are not currently included in the experiment." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/facebook-tests-charging-creators-and-businesses-to-post-more-than-two-links-per-month/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:25:45

• "There's outrage in the computer science community over a new feature rolled out by the ACM Digital Library that generates often inaccurate AI summaries." ☛ https://anil.recoil.org/notes/acm-ai-recs |    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:27:02

• "Wall Street traders have sharply increased how much they’re spending on credit default swaps tied to artificial intelligence." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/12/wall-street-is-starting-to-short-ai/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:27:15

• "When Your Avian Intelligence Agrees a Little Too Muc" ☛ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1107/when-your-avian-intelligence-agrees-a-little-too-much | Source: David Revoy    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:27:49

• "What does the Internet Make of Us? is a piece I wrote in Medium that has had 2,500 views so far." ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2025/12/11/re-collections/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:28:25

• "The risks are just too darn high and the lack of transparency and recourse doesn’t help the situation." ☛ https://initialcharge.net/2025/12/buttfield-addison-locked-apple-account/ | Source: Mike Rockwell    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:28:35

• "Systemd v259 has been released, delivering one of the most wide-ranging updates in recent cycles while preparing users and distributions for more disruptive changes planned for v260." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/systemd-259-released-with-major-changes-ahead-of-legacy-sysv-removal/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:29:31

• "The vulnerability, detailed in Cisco Advisory ID cisco-sa-sma-attack-N9bf4" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/cisco-cve-2025-20393-secure-email-cyberattack/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:29:51

• "admin-like privileges" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/18/crypto_crooks_use_stolen_aws/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:30:08

• "the basic promise is simple: commit a lockfile, and any machine running install gets the exact same dependency tree. Cargo and nearly every other language ecosystem has something equivalent now." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/18/docker-is-the-lockfile-for-system-packages.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:30:35

• "NATO is in an existential race to develop sovereign cloud-based technologies to underpin its mission" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/sovereign_cloud_is_existential_nato/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:30:48

• "This benchmark is pretty simple, you give it an audio or video file and it transcribes the file using Apple's on-device language model over and over and over again." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/oops-i-made-a-benchmark/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:31:04

• "Hyperlinks Should Have Context" https://btxx.org/posts/hyperlinks/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:33:16

• "The past few months, I have thought a lot about aging, retirement and disability a lot." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/disability-and-retirement/ | Source: Ava    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:33:53

• "Those victims number in the hundreds of thousands and include Vietnam veterans, Gulf War veterans, and post-9/11 veterans." ☛ https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/12/18/first-ever-wreath-laying-ceremony-at-utah-agent-orange-memorial/ | Source: Utah News Dispatch    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:34:03

• "The security hole could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive data and conduct pre-boot code injection." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/uefi-vulnerability-in-major-motherboards-enables-early-boot-attacks/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:34:25

• "The tool was reportedly developed by reverse engineering existing scanners from ASML and is said to be on-track to make prototype chips in 2028." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/china-may-have-reverse-engineered-euv-lithography-tool-in-covert-lab-report-claims-employees-given-fake-ids-to-avoid-secret-project-being-detected-prototypes-expected-in-2028 | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:34:34

• "China's machine is operational and successfully generating extreme ultraviolet light, but has not yet produced working chips, the people said." ☛ https://www.reuters.com/world/china/how-china-built-its-manhattan-project-rival-west-ai-chips-2025-12-17/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:35:20

• "The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) is consulting on plans that will require exam boards to stick to paper-based exams for the 13 most taken GCSEs" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/england_pen_paper_exams/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:36:08

• "Key findings in the report include: [...]" ☛ https://www.ala.org/news/2025/12/ala-welcomes-pathbreaking-study-state-nations-library-facilities | Source: American Library Association    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:36:31

• "I have survived another year of self-employment! Business has changed over that time. Gone are the days I can freely share a neat case study online." ☛ https://dbushell.com/2025/12/18/year-in-review/ | Source: David Bushell    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:37:00

• "We’ll implement three classic sorting algorithms on the Commodore 64, visualizing each as an animated bar chart using PETSCII characters" ☛ https://imapenguin.com/2025/12/sorting-algorithms-visualized-on-the-commodore-64/ | Source: Mike Doornbos    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:37:35

• "And over the course of the following months, billions of dollars of grants supporting research projects across disciplines, institutions and states were terminated." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-12-year-broke-scientist-science.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:37:51

• "Though small, that difference could be critical in situations where time on Earth, the Moon, and Mars needs to be coordinated with split-second precision." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/time-moves-faster-on-mars-and-scientists-finally-know-by-how-much | Source: Science Alert    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:38:02

• "NCAR, founded in 1960 and administered by the National Science Foundation, provides state-of-the-art data and technology resources for 129 North American university partners." ☛ https://www.vox.com/climate/472796/ncar-climate-science-trump-administration-colorado | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:38:24

• "Why target NCAR now? Hurting NCAR also hurts the state of Colorado" ☛ https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/472774/trump-russ-vought-dismantle-climate-research-center-ncar | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:38:53

• "What does become a problem is when the argument stops being about the idea and starts being about the person who shared it." ☛ https://remkusdevries.com/we-all-lose-with-ad-hominem-arguments/ | Source: Remkus de Vries    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:39:22

• "So much happened, but here’s a quick bullet-point overview before I dive in: [...]" ☛ https://nesslabs.com/annual-review-2025 | Source: Ness Labs    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:39:33

• "So if there's no general purpose computer, that's meant for everyone (or Joe Six Pack in General Magic terminology)" ☛ https://blog.viditb.com/why-every-iphone-killer-will-fail/ | Source: Vidit Bhargava    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:40:04

• "What has been the most surprising impact of blogging?" ☛ https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/the-impact-of-technical-blogging | Source: Cynthia Dunlop    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:40:37

• "So what does this mean to you as an end-user? First of all, thread uses wireless radios and to make things more difficult, it uses the 2.4GHz band." ☛ https://danieldk.eu/Thread-Networks | Source: Daniël de Kok    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:40:48

• "Y’see, I was born in Scotland, and Scottish law – in contrast to the law of England & Wales4 – permits a change of name to recorded retroactively for folks whose births (or adoptions) were registered there." ☛ https://danq.me/2025/12/18/actually-yes/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:41:17

• "If I were to open a shop, I think it would be a coffee shop." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/12/17/coffee-shop | Source: James G    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:41:40

• "I am grateful for so many people making cool things and sharing them on their websites. I have been inspired countless times by blog posts and websites this year." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/12/17/grateful-for-the-indie-web | Source: James G    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:41:59

• "The mil-std-882e standard specifies levels of software control, i.e. how dangerous the software can be based on what it is responsible for." ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/mil-std-882e-software-control | Source: Chris    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:46:28

• "Deadlocks, race conditions, and goroutine leaks are probably the three most common problems in concurrent Go programming." ☛ https://antonz.org/detecting-goroutine-leaks/ | Source: Anton Zhiyanov    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:49:05

• "Jubilant is a Python API that I created for Juju, a deployment and operations tool made by Canonical." ☛ https://benhoyt.com/writings/jubilant/ | Source: Ben Hoyt    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:49:56

• "In coverage.py, I have a class for computing the fingerprint of a data structure." ☛ https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202512/a_testing_conundrum.html | Source: Ned Batchelder    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:52:12

• "Wow, the updates to the graphical moteus monitoring application tview just won’t stop!" ☛ https://blog.mjbots.com/2025/12/18/tview-logging/ | Source: Robotic Systems LLC    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:52:22

• "I think everyone agrees on the fact that the Economist magazine produces very-well designed graphics, sometimes the best in the world." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/how-to-draw-the-economist-style-graph-with-ggplot2-in-r/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:52:59

• "He cast his mind back to the App::Crag calcs he had done last time – sure all the distances, times and speeds had worked out" ☛ https://raku-advent.blog/2025/12/13/day-13-christmas-crunching-part-ii/ | Source: Rakulang    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:53:46

• "Data is persisted in a DB. Each table and field lies in the responsibility of one of these components." ☛ https://raku-advent.blog/2025/12/14/day-14-taming-concurrency/ | Source: Rakulang    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:54:02

• "Let’s fragment the system a little bit by introducing an expression language just for this sort of composition." ☛ https://raku-advent.blog/2025/12/15/day-15-an-expression-language-for-vixen/ | Source: Rakulang    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:54:14

• "To their surprise, Raku behaved as if it had been waiting for precisely this job." ☛ https://raku-advent.blog/2025/12/16/day-16-melian-and-the-helpers-of-evergreen/ | Source: Rakulang    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:55:17

• "that cute one that I abstracted from the REPL module I worked on earlier this year. Ah, and there’s Steve‘s issue!" ☛ https://raku-advent.blog/2025/12/17/day-17-an-issue-with-evaluation/ | Source: Rakulang    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 13:55:30

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 630 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/12/17/this-week-in-rust-630/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 14:05:24

• "This year, Advent of Code only had 12 days instead of the usual 25." ☛ https://blog.pecar.me/advent-of-code-2025 | Source: Anže Pečar    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 14:05:55

• "In this article I give an overview and explanation of various functions that people have developed to calculate whether a year is a leap year." ☛ https://www.benjoffe.com/fast-leap-year | Source: Ben Joffe    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 14:07:58

• "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work." ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/ | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 14:08:09

• "This is the entirety of the implementation in ZJIT1: [...]" ☛ https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/jit-perf-map/ | Source: Max Bernstein    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 14:10:33

• "Kyle ran some benchmarks to compare the different implementations: [...]" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/swift-justhtml/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 14:10:42

• "In this post, we describe one approach which allows rOpenSci members to use alternative platforms while still staying connected to rOpenSci operations on GitHub." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/code-hosting-options-beyond-github/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 14:10:52

• "This turned out to be my own fault (as suggested by a helpful Fediverse denizen)." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GitConcurrentUsageOops | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 14:11:44

• Deploy and customize JBoss Web Server on Red Bait OpenShift ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/18/deploy-and-customize-jboss-web-server-red-hat-openshift    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 14:16:19

• "The site is organized into easy-to-navigate sections: [...]" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/explore-the-pharmaverse-examples-your-gateway-to-clinical-reporting-with-open-source-tools/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 15:00:32

• "But honestly, law needs the opposite! Law needs you. I miss you in law. I miss all you freaks. There is space for you here." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/law-freak/ | Source: Ava    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 15:00:53

• "If you accept “doing online banking” and “checking train times” as purposes, attestation is an existential threat to software freedom." ☛ https://kellett.im/a/attestation | Source: Ed Kellett    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 15:01:29

• "2025 was an exciting year for Thunderbird. Many improvements were shipped throughout the year, from faster updates with a new release cadence, to a modernized codebase for the desktop app." ☛ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/12/thunderbird-2025-review-building-stronger-for-the-future/ | Source: Thunderbird    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 15:02:25

• "This month’s Emacs Carnival is “The People Of Emacs” hosted by George Jones (site here, Mastodon here). whirls suburbs typewriting" ☛ https://macadie.info/2025/12/14/emacs-carnival-people-of-emacs/ | Source: Eric MacAdie    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 15:02:34

• "I resigned from IBM Canada and gave them a whole one month notice, even time to train and knowledge transfer with my replacement. My last day I was told. “If you ever decide to come back to IBM Canada, our doors are always open “ leave people in good terms always" https://x.com/AdmiralMMI/status/1998319791069663300    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 15:23:17

• "The Armbian team has introduced Armbian Imager, a new official tool designed to simplify flashing Armbian OS onto single-board computers. Until now, installing Armbian has typically relied on third-party imaging utilities. With this release, the project now offers a first-party solution built specifically around its ecosystem and hardware support matrix." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/armbian-team-launches-new-official-imager-for-flashing-armbian-os/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 15:52:22

• NZBGet – binary Usenet downloader ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/nzbget-binary-usenet-downloader/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 15:52:50

• "The Armbian team has introduced Armbian Imager, a new official tool designed to simplify flashing Armbian OS onto single-board computers. Until now, installing Armbian has typically relied on third-party imaging utilities."    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 15:53:07

• "With this release, the project now offers a first-party solution built specifically around its ecosystem and hardware support matrix." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/armbian-team-launches-new-official-imager-for-flashing-armbian-os/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 15:53:11

• ParserLib – CSS3 SAX-inspired parser ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/parserlib-css3-sax-inspired-parser/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 15:53:25

• AyanDict – basic dictionary app ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ayandict-basic-dictionary-app/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 15:53:57

• 4 Best Free and Open Source Noise Suppression Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-noise-suppression-tools/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 15:54:11

• ferp – grep clone ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ferp-grep-clone/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 15:54:24

• PyGlossary – convert dictionary files ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pyglossary-convert-dictionary-files/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 15:54:31

• timesup – simple cli timer with notifications ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/timesup-simple-cli-timer-notifications/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 15:54:46

• amalgo – create consolidated snapshots of source code ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/amalgo-create-consolidated-snapshots-source-code/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 15:54:52

• Linus Benedict Torvalds turns 56 in 9 days    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 15:56:18

• 10 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based Git Clients ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-web-based-git-clients/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:06:04

• 4 Best Free and Open Source Native XML Databases for Big Data ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/nativexmldatabases/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:06:19

• 11 Best Free and Open Source File Systems for Big Data ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/filesystems/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:06:34

• Frappe Learning – Learning Management System ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/frappe-learning-management-system/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:08:13

• Linux Candy: cutieascii displays random ASCII art emojis ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-candy-cutieascii-displays-random-ascii-art-emojis/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:08:20

• doudou – personal music player that puts privacy first ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/doudou-personal-music-player/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:08:35

• Omeka S – web publication system for universities, galleries, libraries, archives, and museums ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/omeka-s-web-publication/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:08:52

• 10 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Documentation Generators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/documentationgenerators/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:09:09

• cmdcreate – create custom commands ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cmdcreate-create-custom-commands/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:11:39

• Musoq – SQL Swiss Army Knife ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/musoq-sql-swiss-army-knife/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:12:06

• TigerBeetle – financial transactions database ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tigerbeetle-financial-transactions-database/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:12:18

• Slop Fatigue ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/18/Slop_Fatigue.shtml    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:12:25

• RPM and DNF features and enhancements in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/rpm-and-dnf-features-and-enhancements-red-hat-enterprise-linux-101 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:13:14

• "NVIDIA has released Linux display driver 590.48, marking the first stable release in the R590 New Feature Branch. One of the most notable changes is a raised minimum Wayland requirement to version 1.20, alongside an increased minimum glibc version to 2.27 and an X.Org Server minimum of 1.17." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/nvidia-releases-linux-driver-590-48-with-wayland-and-vulkan-fixes/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:15:31

• Red Hat under IBM as slop pusher: "LLM training represents one of the most compute-intensive workloads in modern AI infrastructure." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/resilient-model-training-red-hat-openshift-ai-kubeflow-trainer | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:16:03

• "This gets the job done, but nobody enjoys maintaining 2 sets of infrastructure with 2 different lifecycles. It’s a tax we all pay because there hasn’t been a clean alternative." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/f5-big-ip-virtual-edition-now-validated-red-hat-openshift-virtualization | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:16:13

• HEY HI!! "AI-powered management across RHEL, Red Hat OpenShift, and Red Hat Ansible" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/master-modern-hybrid-cloud-security-and-scale-red-hat-updates | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:16:35

• IBM Ponzi-isms https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/10/red-hat-leverages-cloud-native-toolbox-ai-kubeconna/ SPONSORED by IBM    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:18:44

• Promotion of slop again https://aimagazine.com/news/how-red-hat-and-aws-power-openshift-ai-at-re-invent-2025    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:19:28

• boosted by IBM Red Hat https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/friday-five-december-19-2025-red-hat    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:19:56

• "AI agents" !!!!!!!!!!!!! https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/looking-ahead-2026-red-hats-view-across-hybrid-cloud    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:20:22

• IBM pushing nonsense, CTO must follow what IBM says https://www.fierce-network.com/cloud/red-hats-cto-keeps-open-mind-ai    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:20:54

• All about slop https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-accelerates-ai-trust-and-security-chatterbox-labs-acquisition see https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/17/Red_Hat_Wastes_Money_on_Slop_and_on_Slop_Pushers_While_Laying_O.shtml    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:22:22

• "all the custom firmwares worked almost flawlessly without much need for tinkering – bearing in mind my modest requirements." ☛ https://kevinboone.me/pixel-degoogle.html | Source: Kevin Boone    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:22:59

• The resident Microsoft shill has turned from "let's punch people" to "let's DOX people" and "let's issue threats to women... in social control media"... stay classy    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:23:53

• "Hello again — it seems to be close to a year since I last managed to get some words published on this blog." ☛ https://blog.cavelab.dev/2025/12/rpi-diy-alarm-update/ |    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:24:01

• "The project turns an E-ink tablet into a mirrored clone of an existing second display in a desktop setup." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/engineer-turns-e-ink-tablet-into-computer-monitor-in-linux-perfect-secondary-reading-screen-to-reduce-eye-strain-over-network | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:24:12

• "When faced with a broken Amstrad PPC 640, Mikey Damager had two choices: return the machine to its former glory or tear it apart and rebuild it using modern parts." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/amstrad-ppc-640-cyberdeck-gets-a-raspberry-pi-makeover/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:24:24

• "And just like that, I could give away a fully interactive workspace terminal Journal entry to my players." ☛ https://blog.balthazar-rouberol.com/running-an-interactive-ypsilon-14-terminal | Source: Balthazar Rouberol    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:24:32

• "Stocking stuffers anyone? Santa brought 6,000 index cards down the proverbial chimney today. Should have enough now to index all the books in the house?" ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2025/12/18/brodart-colored-blank-punched-catalog-cards/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:24:46

• "The most prominent change comes with the Cinnamon 6.6 desktop environment, which will be the default in the Cinnamon edition of Linux Mint 22.3. It introduces a redesigned application menu applet with configurable symbolic category icons, enhanced support for Places and Bookmarks, and several visual refinements that improve navigation and clarity." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/linux-mint-22-3-zena-enters-public-beta/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:25:26

• Colin Watson: Preparing a transition in Debusine ☞ https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/debusine-transitions.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:27:20

• Australia to Crack Down on Hate Speech After Bondi Beach Attack ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/australia-hate-speech-legislation.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:28:06

• Court blocks Michigan conversion therapy ban on free speech grounds ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/court-blocks-michigan-conversion-therapy-ban-on-free-speech-grounds/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:28:26

• Kdenlive 25.12.0 released ☞ https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/25.12.0/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:28:58

• "One of the most practical user-facing changes is the addition of reinstall support for bundle installations. Until now, applications installed from local .flatpak bundle files required manual removal before reinstalling or updating."    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:31:14

• "With 1.16.2, Flatpak can now cleanly overwrite an existing bundle-based installation, bringing bundle installs in line with repository-based workflows." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/flatpak-1-16-2-adds-reinstall-support-for-bundle-installations/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:31:17

• "Jason and I recorded the next BSD Now episode!" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/bsdnow-642-look-harder/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:34:39

• "rtsold(8) and rtsol(8) are programs which process router advertisement packets as part of the IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration (SLAAC) mechanism." ☛ https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-25:12.rtsold.asc | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:34:47

• "I answered that I used to run an IBM Model M clone (the Unicomp Spacesaver), and had the same issue on every OS I used to run." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/newsgroup-ibm-model-m-issue-on-netbsd/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:34:57

• FreeBSD Closes the Laptop Gap: Year One Project Update ☞ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-closes-the-laptop-gap-year-one-project-update/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:35:53

• BSD Now 642: Look Harder ☞ https://www.bsdnow.tv/642    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:36:55

• OpenZFS 2.4 Released    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:37:40

• TrueNAS 25.10.1 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/truenas    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:37:59

• NVIDIA 590 GNU/Linux Graphics Driver Released with More Wayland Improvements ☞ https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-590-linux-graphics-driver-released-with-more-wayland-improvements    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:39:03

• "This is a effectively a guest blogpost where I, as usual, take the credit for the work someone else has done." ☛ https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/update-on-kde-home-automation-kiot/ | Source: David Edmundson    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:52:36

• "One of the most significant changes is the introduction of a new, more flexible docking system. Widgets can now be grouped more freely, shown or hidden on demand, and saved as independent layout files." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kdenlive-25-12-released-with-interface-and-workflow-improvements/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:52:55

• "Layouts are also stored directly inside project files, ensuring that when a project is reopened, the exact workspace used during the last editing session is restored automatically." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kdenlive-25-12-released-with-interface-and-workflow-improvements/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:52:59

• "The Delta emulator which I've used for mobile retro-gaming in the past has added beta support for SEGA Genesis and Master System games! Riley and Shane made the announcement through the Delta emulator Patreon and also on Mastodon." ☛ https://sethmlarson.dev/delta-emulator-adds-genesis-support | Source: Seth Michael Larson    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:53:42

• "So LightNode appears to have precomputed SSH host keys for each of the unique system templates it offers as an install option." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/18/journeys-in-hosting-1-x-precomputed-ssh-host-keys/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:54:51

• "So somebody tweeted about the Seagate Mach.2 , a harddisk with two independent heads “combs”, and I commented in german : “It’s two drives in one chassis, even shown as two drives." ☛ https://blog.koehntopp.info/2021/05/25/nvme-is-not-a-hard-disk.html | Source: Koehntopp    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:55:00

• "An overview of the new classroom unit ‘Programming with AI’, helping students learn to code using LLM tools." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/introducing-our-new-programming-with-ai-unit/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:56:39

• "Thousands of open source contributors and enthusiasts attend, often with several folks from Canonical among them. The next one is coming quickly, with FOSDEM 2026 being held across the weekend of January 31st – February 1st." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/design-and-documentation-clinics-at-fosdem-fringe-2026 | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 16:57:10

• "The Youyeetoo K1 integrates a quad-core, quad-thread Intel N100 processor with boost frequencies up to 3.4 GHz and a 6 W thermal design power." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/intel-alder-lake-n-n100-powers-modular-x86-embedded-platform-with-optional-nfc-interface/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:03:21

• Mozilla once again hires from GAFAM; monopolists running Mozilla ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/welcoming-john-solomon-mozilla-chief-marketing-officer/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:04:50

• Scientists Intrigued by Huge Structure Under Bermuda ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/scientists-intrigued-by-huge-structure-under-bermuda    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:05:22

• Truth Social Stock Explodes as It Merges With Nuclear Fusion Company ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/truth-social-stock-fusion    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:05:49

• Latvian public media council member appointed ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/media/18.12.2025-latvian-public-media-council-member-appointed.a626986/ "Public Electronic Mass Media Council (SEPLP)"    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:06:26

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s ‘Warrior Dividend’ for troops is housing money approved by Congress ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/pay-benefits/2025/12/trumps-warrior-dividend-for-troops-is-housing-money-approved-by-congress/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:08:53

• Blank lock screen in Hyprland ☞ https://major.io/p/blank-lock-screen-hyprland/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:09:32

• Quantum Quantum Quantum Quantum Quantum Quantum ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/18/quantum-secure-gateways-openshift-service-mesh https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/30/IBM_s_Stock_is_Tied_to_Vapourware_Quantum_Bets_and_Circular_Fin.shtml    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:11:55

• Nyarch 25.04.3 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/nyarch    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:14:00

• Putin’s Year-End News Conference Set for Friday ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/world/europe/putin-russia-ukraine.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:14:20

• Zelensky Appeals to E.U. Leaders for Frozen Russian Funds to Fight War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/world/europe/ukraine-zelensky-russia-putin.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:14:29

• The Putin Confidant Who Pushed Back Against Russia’s War in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/world/europe/russia-putin-aide-dmitri-kozak-ukraine-war.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:14:40

• Turkey warns Russia, Ukraine over Black Sea drone incident ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-warns-russia-ukraine-over-black-sea-drone-incident-314652    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:14:54

• Prisoner releases are welcome news but talk of a Belarus thaw is premature ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/prisoner-releases-are-welcome-news-but-talk-of-a-belarus-thaw-is-premature/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:15:29

• What’s in the new US defense bill for Ukraine? ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/whats-in-the-new-us-defense-bill-for-ukraine/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:15:44

• 'This night may show us whether Europe is capable of being a real leader' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251218-this-night-may-show-us-whether-europe-is-capable-of-being-a-real-leader    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:16:08

• Decision time in Brussels: Will EU ignore threats and seize frozen Russian assets? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20251218-decision-time-in-brussels-will-eu-ignore-threats-and-seize-frozen-russian-assets    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:16:22

• EU Leaders Locked In Late Night Talks Over Using Russian Assets To Fund Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/eu-talks-russian-assets-ukraine/33627675.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:16:39

• 'Money Today Or Blood Tomorrow:' EU Leaders Meet On Ukraine Funding ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-drone-attacks-eu-summit-zelenskyy/33626299.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:16:51

• Germany’s defense of European values ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/1218/Germany-s-defense-of-European-values    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:17:02

• Amid destruction, a determination to live ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2025/1218/favorite-photos-2025-scott-peterson    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:17:09

• Europe’s Fight Over Russian Assets Is Testing Its Ability to Support Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/world/europe/russia-eu-ukraine-frozen-assets.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:17:24

• "Consulting exists to justify a modernized enterprise - Infrastructure exists to develop enterprise Technology - SW exists to purchase innovation around enterprise - Everything else will slowly but surely get sold or partnered off" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kce987ns    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:18:28

• The German Chancellor Betting on America ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/world/german-chancellor-america-ukraine-europe.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:18:39

• EU Agrees To $106 Billion Loan For Ukraine After Shelving Russian Asset Proposal ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/eu-talks-russian-assets-ukraine/33627675.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:18:50

• "frozen assets" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/12/18/we-will-not-leave-without-a-solution-european-leaders-meet-to-discuss-using-russia-s-frozen-assets-to-support-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:19:02

• Pro-Kremlin activist arrested in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/18.12.2025-pro-kremlin-activist-arrested-in-latvia.a627023/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:19:26

• Russia’s most important Middle East base is not where you think ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/russias-most-important-middle-east-base-is-not-where-you-think/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:21:19

• Trying to blame Free software instead of back doors hidden in proprietary software ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/tom-cotton-open-source-software-foreign-influence-national-cyber-director/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:22:12

• EU targets 41 additional vessels in Russia's shadow fleet ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251218-eu-targets-41-additional-vessels-in-russia-s-shadow-fleet    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:22:22

• EU targets 41 additional vessels in Russia's shadow fleet ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/eu-targets-41-additional-vessels-in-russias-shadow-fleet    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:22:42

• With Russia looming, Europe tries to beef up its youth military service ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/1218/france-europe-national-service-conscription-military-russia    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:22:58

• "2025’s biggest verdict How Russia’s Supreme Court redrew the legal lines in a hotly disputed Moscow apartment sale" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/12/19/2025-s-biggest-verdict | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:23:40

• "an activist trying to save them from deportation" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/12/18/the-u-s-is-sending-russian-asylum-seekers-back-to-the-country-persecuting-them | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:23:49

• Another 20 Belarusian political prisoners arrive in Lithuania ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2779250/another-20-belarusian-political-prisoners-arrive-in-lithuania    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:24:08

• Belarus opposition leader says new leaders should emerge after prisoner releases ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2779076/belarus-opposition-leader-says-new-leaders-should-emerge-after-prisoner-releases    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:24:20

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: dang 0.0.17: New Features, Plus Maintenance ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/12/18#dang_0.0.17    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:25:22

• Clearview and the long arm of the law ☞ http://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5715/clearview-and-long-arm-law    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:26:20

• privacyinternational and migrants... seems like conflation of two different 'activisms' ☞ http://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5716/international-migrants-day-2025-year-review    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:27:07

• UK Justice and Home Affairs Committee publishes report on electronic monitoring ☞ http://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/5717/uk-justice-and-home-affairs-committee-publishes-report-electronic-monitoring    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:27:24

• It Won't be Long Before Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Shuts Down Microsoft's Surveillance Arm LinkedIn (Already Subjected to Many Waves of Mass Layoffs, Offices Shut Down) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/17/It_Won_t_be_Long_Before_Microsoft_Shuts_Down_LinkedIn_Already_S.shtml    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:27:33

• Rob Reiner Family Tragedy Strikes a Nerve for Families Fighting Addiction ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/rob-reiner-family-murder-addiction.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:28:23

• After strike on American troops, what’s next for the US in Syria? ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2025/1218/syria-attack-soldiers-isis    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:28:32

• Thailand strikes building in Cambodia’s border casino hub ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodia-says-thai-military-bombed-poipet-casino-hub-on-border    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:28:54

• Dihydroxyacetone Man's Boat Strikes Are Illegal. The Public Needs Answers. ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/trumps-boat-strikes-are-illegal-the-public-needs-answers    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:29:13

• Argentina’s election authorities must guarantee the right to a universally accessible secret vote ☞ http://privacyinternational.org/report/5718/argentinas-election-authorities-must-guarantee-right-universally-accessible-secret-vote    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:29:35

• Resource delegation review update: Q4 2025 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/19/resource-delegation-review-update-q4-2025/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:29:59

• MSVC - Debugging the Static Initialization Order ☞ https://www.kdab.com/msvc-debugging-the-static-initialization-order/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:30:34

• NASP NeuroVoice VAD chip enables always-on voice activity detection at microwatt-level power consumption ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/18/nasp-neurovoice-vad-chip-enables-always-on-voice-activity-detection-at-microwatt-level-power-consumption/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:31:59

• Openwashing in a SPAM site ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/18/exclusive-sandisk-open-sources-technique-speed-testing-ultra-high-capacity-ssds/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:32:38

• Qt 6.11 Beta 1 Released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.11-beta-1-released    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:33:10

• Qt keeps boosting proprietary software of Microsoft    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:33:47

• How to Navigate Politically-Charged Conversations This Holiday Season ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/how-to-navigate-politically-charged-conversations-this-holiday-season    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:34:51

• How to install Java 25 on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://www.linuxcloudvps.com/blog/how-to-install-java-25-on-almalinux-10/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:35:19

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1051156/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:35:42

• How To Install Squid Proxy Server on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-squid-proxy-server-debian-13/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:36:18

• How To Setup APT Proxy on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/setup-apt-proxy-linux-mint-22/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:36:36

• But GAFAM promotes back doors https://itbrief.asia/story/linux-foundation-unveils-orca-to-contain-cyber-attacks    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:48:42

• "The Mesa team have released Mesa 25.3.2 as the latest bug-fix release for the current main stable branch of open source Linux graphics drivers." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/mesa-25-3-2-brings-more-bug-fixes-for-open-source-linux-graphics-drivers/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:48:59

• I ran the one command in Linux you should never run. Here's what happened https://www.howtogeek.com/i-ran-the-one-command-in-linux-you-should-never-run-heres-what-happened/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:49:20

• AI could spell the final end of Firefox - unless Mozilla does this https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-new-ceo-firefox-adopt-ai-privacy-linux/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:49:57

• SPAM https://www.factmr.com/report/server-operating-system-market    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:50:29

• Armbian's Raspberry Pi Imager alternative is here https://www.howtogeek.com/armbians-raspberry-pi-imager-alternative-is-here/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:50:52

• "Switching to Linux can be challenging. But once you've overcome the learning curve, you'll find that Linux offers a more efficient and productive workflow than Windows or Mac. From dynamic workspace management to unique desktop tweaks, here's how Linux will make you more productive." https://www.howtogeek.com/5-features-that-make-linux-more-productive-than-windows-or-mac/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:51:52

• Safely shutting down Linux on your single board computer https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/12/17/safely-shutting-down-linux-on-your-single-board-computer/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:52:18

• Engineer turns E-ink tablet into computer monitor in Linux — perfect secondary reading screen to reduce eye strain over the network https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/engineer-turns-e-ink-tablet-into-computer-monitor-in-linux-perfect-secondary-reading-screen-to-reduce-eye-strain-over-network    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:52:44

• https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/qt-desktop-apps-linux-macos/ https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/qt-linux-macos-apps/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:53:21

• Fastly report finds bot traffic now makes up nearly a third of all web requests ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/18/fastly-report-finds-bot-traffic-now-makes-nearly-third-web-requests/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 17:59:51

• But do they really mean BIOS? ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/critical-motherboard-flaw-allows-game-cheats-riot-games-blocks-valorant-players-that-dont-update-bios-security-patches-pushed-live-by-all-major-motherboard-vendors http://techrights.org/n/2024/03/19/By_Sami_Tikkanen.shtml    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:02:08

• Positive trends related to public IP ranges from the year 2025, (Thu, Dec 18th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32584    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:04:09

• USPTO Publishes November 2025 Revision of the Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/12/uspto-publishes-november-2025-revision.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:04:46

• North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/north-korean-infiltrator-caught-working-in-amazon-it-department-thanks-to-lag-110ms-keystroke-input-raises-red-flags-over-true-location    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:05:40

• Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” Beta Is Available for Download with Cinnamon 6.6 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-22-3-zena-beta-is-available-for-download-with-cinnamon-6-6    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:06:23

• LibreOffice 25.8.4 Is Now Available for Download with More Than 70 Bug Fixes ☞ https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-25-8-4-is-now-available-for-download-with-more-than-70-bug-fixes    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:10:46

• Linux Kernel 6.17 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to GNU/Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS ☞ https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-17-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-6-18-lts    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:11:10

• OpenZFS 2.4 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS Support, Quotas, Uncached IO, and More ☞ https://9to5linux.com/openzfs-2-4-released-with-linux-6-18-lts-support-quotas-uncached-io-and-more    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:11:47

• Firefox Will Ship with an “AI Kill Switch” to Completely Disable all Hey Hi (AI) Features ☞ https://9to5linux.com/firefox-will-ship-with-an-ai-kill-switch-to-completely-disable-all-ai-features    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:12:19

• Brioche – package manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/brioche-package-manager/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:13:29

• Amiga 600 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/18/chip-swap-fixes-a-dead-amiga-600/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:13:50

• Scientists Identify 6 Key Depression Symptoms That Predict Dementia Risk ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-6-key-depression-symptoms-that-predict-dementia-risk    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:14:56

• Cheese Linked to Lower Dementia Risk in 25-Year Study ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/cheese-linked-to-lower-dementia-risk-in-25-year-study    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:15:03

• Swearing Actually Seems to Make Humans Physically Stronger ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/swearing-actually-seems-to-make-humans-physically-stronger    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:15:14

• Microdosing Cannabis Pauses Alzheimer's Decline in Unprecedented Trial ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/microdosing-cannabis-pauses-alzheimers-decline-in-unprecedented-trial    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:15:26

• Hydrogen Isn't as Climate-Friendly as We Thought, Concerning Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/hydrogen-isnt-as-climate-friendly-as-we-thought-concerning-study-finds    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:15:41

• Integrating Abuse Case Scenarios to Improve Authorization Testing ☞ https://blog.nviso.eu/2025/12/18/integrating-abuse-case-scenarios-to-improve-authorization-testing/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:16:42

• IBM "to prepare them for future jobs." https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/ibm-announces-plan-to-skill-5-million-people-in-india-over-the-next-five-years-article-13733676.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:20:34

• Windows has fallen below Android https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/morocco/#monthly-200902-202512    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:21:19

• Did Avram Piltch leave The Register MS? Nothing in 4 weeks now... https://www.theregister.com/Author/Avram-Piltch    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 18:58:43

• "I'll have to respectfully disagree, otherwise I won't be able to take any aspirin, hoover my carpets, or ride my jet ski." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2025-12-19_Re__Don_t_call_it_a__Zoom_meeting_.gmi    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:13:49

• "Automated snack vending machine is a solved problem since nearly a century. Why do you want to make your vending machine more expensive, more error-prone, more fragile and less efficient for your customers?" gemini://ploum.net/2025-12-19-prepare-for-that-world.gmi    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:14:27

• 🔤SpellBinding: GUIMNPH Wordo: BEVVY gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-12-19.gmi    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:14:58

• "My website setup has been more than a little janky for a while now. It's been very gemini-first: all my posts are written as .gmi files with the date in the filename." gemini://tilde.town/~hush/gemlog/2025-12-19-rebuild.gmi    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:15:53

• The senator gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2025-12-19-senator.txt    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:16:30

• "even if it is completely stupid, AI will be everywhere, get used to it!" gemini://ploum.net/2025-12-19-prepare-for-that-world.gmi    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:17:00

• "Automated snack vending machine is a solved problem since nearly a century. Why do you want to make your vending machine more expensive, more error-prone, more fragile and less efficient for your customers?"    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:17:11

• "The first thing that blew my mind was how stupid the whole idea is. Think for one second. One full second. Why do you ever want to add a chatbot to a snack vending machine? The video states it clearly: the vending machine must be stocked by humans. Customers must order and take their snack by themselves. The AI has no value at all."    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:17:30

• "But what appears to be journalism is, in fact, pure advertising. For both WSJ and Anthropic. Look at how WSJ journalists are presented as "world class", how no-subtle the Anthropic guy is when telling them they are the best and how the journalist blush at it."    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:17:42

• "I haven't blogged for quite a while.. Well, life is happning and I just don't have the time or energy to sit down and write posts. Until now." gemini://gemini.clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2025/12-09-running-openbsd-in-hostile-environment.gmi    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:18:59

• Inspectors find no violations in 'starvation' of vulnerable man at care centre ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/18.12.2025-inspectors-find-no-violations-in-starvation-of-vulnerable-man-at-care-centre.a627087/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:46:12

• Study urges South Korea to curb rising multiple births, citing health risks ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/study-says-south-korea-has-too-many-twins-warn-of-health-risks    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:46:22

• S. Korean President’s remarks on hair loss treatment open up debate about health insurance ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-korean-president-lee-jae-myungs-remarks-open-up-debate-about-coverage-in-more-ways-than-one    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:46:33

• North Korea stole $2.57b of crypto in 2025, report says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-stole-2-57-billion-of-crypto-this-year-report-says    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:46:44

• What AUKUS teaches Seoul about nuclear-powered submarines ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/what-aukus-teaches-seoul-about-nuclear-powered-submarines/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:47:32

• Floods in Malaysia force thousands across six states to evacuate ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-floods-force-thousands-to-evacuate-across-six-states    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:48:10

• Malaysian police officer bends car door open to nab suspected thieves ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-police-officer-pries-bends-car-door-to-nab-suspected-thieves "Captain America."    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:48:37

• At Tokyo zoo, visitors fear a spat with China will cost Japan its pandas ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/at-tokyo-zoo-visitors-fear-a-spat-with-china-will-cost-japan-its-pandas    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:49:08

• China says arms trade with Cambodia, Thailand unrelated to border conflict ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-says-arms-trade-with-cambodia-thailand-unrelated-to-border-conflict    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:49:25

• China’s Hainan island takes steps towards goal of becoming a leading free trade port ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-hainan-island-takes-steps-towards-goal-of-becoming-a-leading-free-trade-port    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:49:38

• How America Gave China an Edge in Nuclear Power ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-america-gave-china-an-edge-in-nuclear-power    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:50:01

• US announces $11 billion arms package for Taiwan, largest ever ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20251218-us-announces-11-billion-arms-package-for-taiwan-largest-ever    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:50:18

• Cisco customers hit by fresh wave of zero-day attacks from China-linked APT ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/cisco-zero-day-attacks-china-apt/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/17/CALEA_CALEA2_is_the_Real_Problem_Not_Chinese_Operatives_Exploit.shtml    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:50:49

• "government control over state broadcaster" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/12/19/thousands-of-lithuanians-protest-against-law-to-expand-government-control-over-state-broadcaster | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:51:28

• ORG End of Year Review 2025 ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/org-end-of-year-review-2025/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:52:59

• GIMP 3.2 Release Candidate 2 Brings a Glut of Fixes ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/gimp-3-2-rc2-released-for-testing    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:53:18

• REETLE SmartInk I – An AI-powered E-Ink phone case with voice recording (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/18/reetle-smartink-i-an-ai-powered-e-ink-phone-case-with-voice-recording/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:53:49

• Qt for Android Automotive 6.8.6 is released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-android-automotive-6.8.6-is-released    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:54:12

• France Probes ‘Foreign Interference’ After Remote Control Malware Found on Passenger Ferry ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/france-probes-foreign-interference-after-remote-control-malware-found-on-passenger-ferry/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:54:44

• Kubernetes v1.35: Job Managed By Goes GA ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/12/18/kubernetes-v1-35-job-managedby-for-jobs-goes-ga/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:55:02

• Solvay wins Dutch chemicals case ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/solvay-wins-dutch-chemicals-case/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:55:55

• Idaho’s Anti-Troll Law Takes Aim at Federal Court Complaints: Federal Circuit Punts on Preemption ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/12/federal-complaints-preemption.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:56:22

• Three stable kernels for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1051157/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:56:50

• EPO Violates Laws to Profit More From Invalid Patents, Then Cuts the Budget Allocated to Staff ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/19/EPO_Violates_Laws_to_Profit_More_From_Invalid_Patents_Then_Cuts.shtml    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:56:59

• A change of maintainership for linux-next ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1051179/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:58:24

• Only !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/first-linux-kernel-rust-cve/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 19:58:58

• csc – command-line scientific calculator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/csc-command-line-scientific-calculator/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:00:31

• bp – cross-platform clipboard tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bp-cross-platform-clipboard-tool/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:00:41

• rumdl – Markdown linter ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rumdl-markdown-linter/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:00:47

• Zemlin the scammer pushing Ponzi schemes and disgracing the Linux Mark ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Foundation-2025-Report https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/12/To_Linus_Torvalds_the_Microsoft_Linux_Foundation_is_Increasingl.shtml    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:01:25

• Unraid 7.2.3 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/unraid    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:01:48

• TUXEDO 20251218 is out also ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tuxedo    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:01:55

• Someone Boarded a Plane at Heathrow Without a Ticket or Passport ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/someone-boarded-a-plane-at-heathrow-without-a-ticket-or-passport.html    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:02:53

• Flatcar 4459.2.2 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/flatcar    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:03:49

• OSINT VM 2025.12 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/osintvm    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:03:58

• "The theory behind hydropower is very simple: water obeys gravity and imparts the gained kinetic energy onto a turbine, which subsequently drives a generator." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/18/building-and-testing-a-turbine-driven-hydro-generator/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:04:38

• '$100 Steam Machine' uses a cut-down PS5 APU with Bazzite — DIY console offers 60 FPS at 1080p with 16GB of GDDR6 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/usd100-steam-machine-uses-a-cut-down-ps5-apu-with-bazzite-diy-console-offers-60-fps-at-1080p-with-16gb-of-gddr6    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:04:58

• YouTube’s the Problem, Not Billboard — And Everybody In the Music Industry Agrees ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/17/youtube-the-problem-not-billboard-everybody-music-industry-agrees/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:05:27

• Oscars to stream on YouTube from 2029 ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251218-oscars-to-stream-on-youtube-from-2029    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:05:34

• "Hopscotch is a game usually played with painted lines or with the aid of a bit of chalk." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/18/interactive-hopscotch-tiles-make-the-game-more-exciting/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:06:29

• "What is free software and why is it important?" https://www.unibzmagazine.it/en/magazine/article/fighting-for-software-freedom-interview-with-richard-stallman    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:07:47

• "Richard Stallman developed the GPL license, defining the four freedoms that would become central to our work, and. Linus Torvalds used that GPL to share" https://www.linuxfoundation.org/hubfs/Publications/2025%20Linux%20Foundation%20Annual%20Report_121825a_lr.pdf    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:08:14

• They sued 12 months later https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmn4kwpkydo    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:31:44

• Because UK libel law is a lottery ticket for people and jackpot for law firms    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:32:24

• Dead site for 3 months now... https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:36:45

• Games industry layoff figures were down slightly in 2025 – but it was still horrendous | Year in Review https://www.gamesindustry.biz/games-industry-layoff-figures-were-down-slightly-in-2025-but-it-was-still-horrendous-year-in-review    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 20:55:07

• Fwupd 2.0.19 Linux Firmware Updater Supports Lenovo Sapphire Folio Keyboard https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-2-0-19-linux-firmware-updater-supports-lenovo-sapphire-folio-keyboard    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 21:40:35

• "Linux kernel 6.18 LTS is already available in the stable repositories of various distributions, including openSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch Linux." https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-17-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-6-18-lts    

posted Friday, December 19, 2025 at 21:43:13

• Anon "I may have to stop using and probably uninstall Firefox soon What browsers can use FF plug-ins? That's the only thing I am interested in at the moment because without the custom plug-in, it is not feasible to collect links. Google appears to have been successful in killing of FF from the inside, thanks to Baker and others."    

posted Saturday, December 20, 2025 at 05:54:18