Roy Schestowitz

• "I met Mr Gerstner at a book signing for Who Said Elephants Can't dance? My College thesis was based on Mr Gerstners success of bringing IBM Back to profitability. Mr Gerstner is one of the most influential CEOs in the last 100 years." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 04:50:12

• "There's always a 30 day notice period and they want the people out by quarter end for financial reasons, so it has to happen before the end of February." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdmwe55y    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 04:51:18

• "The Indian cabal at IBM has been working hard in recent weeks. IBM is required to notify the state agency of any incoming layoff 90 days in advance. The performance reviews and rankings have been set. So each area affected will receive in few days the number of employees to be thrown away. Many people's fate has been decided before the end of the year. Happy new year."    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 04:51:35

• "Unless you're me you should expect it real soon now."    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 04:51:47

• "Burn in H E L L, Lou; share a bunk bed with that S-B Jack Welch that you were so in love with." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 05:29:31

• Old: https://www.eurogamer.net/xbox-reportedly-set-for-major-job-cuts-from-next-week https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2025/07/18/microsoft-layoffs-hit-legal-department-as-ai-reshapes-staffing-strategy/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 05:42:39

• Also: Massive Xbox Layoffs Expected Again in Q1 2026, Likely as Big as the Last Round https://tech4gamers.com/xbox-layoffs-expected-q1-2026/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 05:43:23

• IBM to cut thousands of jobs as Red Hat growth slows https://www.cio.com/article/4084855/ibm-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs-as-red-hat-growth-slows.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 05:44:01

• Red Hat Layoffs Will Continue in 2026 https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/03/Red_Hat_Layoffs_Will_Continue_in_2026.shtml    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 05:44:20

• Microsoft pushing lockin: "Mastodon Stories for systemd v259" https://0pointer.net/blog/mastodon-stories-for-systemd-v259.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 05:57:07

• "How Mozilla can SAVE Firefox" https://odysee.com/@switchedtolinux:0/how-mozilla-can-save-firefox:7    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 05:57:17

• iophk: fatpaks are an intractable mess; "The One Thing I Hate About Linux Flatpaks" https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/the-one-thing-i-hate-about-linux:f    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 05:57:39

• "Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Native American senator, dies at 92" https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/30/ben-nighthorse-campbell-native-american-senator-dies-at-92/87967999007/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 05:57:50

• "Afghanistan goes back to dark ages: Taliban rulers have ordered dozens to be killed by stoning and four convicts to be executed by pushing a wall onto them | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15424679/Taliban-brutality-exposed-Afghans-rulers-ordered-dozens-killed-stoning-four-convicts-executed.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 05:58:02

• "Kennedy Center Altered Rules Ahead of Trump-Inspired Name Change" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kennedy-center-altered-rules-donald-trump-name-change-1235492753/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:03:25

• "Lars Bjorn Receives SEMJA’s Ron Brooks Award" https://www.semja.org/update/update.pdf    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:03:39

• DRM: "Wheelchairs have paywalls and digital locks now" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/wheelchairs-have-paywalls-and-digital:9    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:04:02

• "Jolla's Community Linux Phone Surpasses its Funding Goal" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/29/1810235    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:04:18

• "The Inaugural Donald J. Trump Awards" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/31/the-inaugural-donald-j-trump-awards/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:04:32

• "Trump Sends 'Creepy' Fundraising Email About Needing Donations Due To 'Woke Mind Virus' Infiltration" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-sends-creepy-fundraising-email-about-needing-donations-due-woke-mind-virus-infiltration-1767422    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:04:54

• "Trump Administration Furious As Artists Cancel NYE's Performance At Kennedy Centre Amidst Trump Renaming" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-administration-furious-artists-cancel-nyes-performance-kennedy-centre-amidst-trump-renaming-1767421    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:05:10

• EFF for GAFAM, CPC https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/states-tried-censor-kids-online-courts-and-eff-mostly-stopped-them-2025-review    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:05:44

• "President Edgars Rinkēvičs' New Year message / Article" https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/president/31.12.2025-president-edgars-rinkevics-new-year-message.a627654/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:05:55

• "Trump was bent on revenge and endangered the life of his VP: The top takeaways from Jack Smith’s Jan 6 testimony" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jack-smith-testimony-jan-6-highlights-b2892984.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:06:23

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1522.jpg    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:34:50

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1872.jpg    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:34:55

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-01-01.gmi    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:35:19

• "Search engine are fucked up, LLM ... not usefull ... worse than search engine. Advance search does not working as expected, I wish I can grep the internet. Sometimes things I search didn't show up until I put in exact word/paragraph I already know." gemini://tilde.club/~silica/gemlog-en/2026-01-01_search_situation.gmi    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:36:38

• "I was inspired by apalrd's post[1] on setting up a Postmarks server. Postmarks federates public bookmarks so you can easily subscribe to them from a Mastodon, etc., account. He and other creator on YouTube have pointed out the importance of human recommendations to find good stuff online." gemini://lxak.net/posts/2025-12-31.gmi    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:37:31

• December 31: Seventh day of Christmas gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2025-12-31-christ.txt    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:38:11

• 2025 Comes to a Close gemini://vigrey.com/journal/2025-comes-to-a-close.gmi "Unfortunately as a result, there was one particular individual who decided that these breaks were signs of mental health decline/collapse and decided to break all contact with me."    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:39:29

• "I wrote a reflection post at the end of 2024, but didn't make a goals post in early 2025. I want to write a reflection, but I don't know that I had a set list of goals to review like I did last year. I won't have this problem next year; I've already created a bingo card of goals. And don't tell anyone, but I've already started on a few of them." gemini://tilde.town/~hush/gemlog/2025-12-31-reflecting-on-2025.gmi    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:40:16

• Mindful computer use: "This is something I've been wanting to work on for a long time. I finally accomplished some real things I can point to regarding that, including spending 2 months without youtube."    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:40:55

• "I'm currently on a two-week streak. On top of that, I'm not spending quite so much time locked in consumption. Reading a couple posts about resilience, doing things scared or alone, etc. have helped motivate me to get out more. Plus, just having friends around who invite me to stuff."    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:41:16

• "In all, it's been a really good year for me. Next year's goals center a lot on gaining confidence in myself - pushing myself to actually spend money and time on my hobbies, actually put effort into learning transition-related skills, actually put myself out there romantically. It's going to be big. I'm excited to begin."    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:41:20

• Last Phost! gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2025/20251231_last_phost "I will be making the jump at home alone again, like I did for xmas. I have no problems with this and I would actually rather not be around drunk people in the rain, like on xmas. I enjoy my solitude when I can."    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:42:16

• "Have you ever suddenly realised something about yourself that provides a basis for understanding many of your quirks? Like most people, there are certain things that I find fascinating. Lots of technical things. Lots of technical ideas. Certain games. Recently I found a common thread that seems to connect most of them: that of tiny isolated worlds." gopher://thelambdalab.xyz:70/0/phlog/2025-12-31-One-thing.txt    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:43:31

• "Here are some examples: - Computers house incredible complexity within a physically tiny chassis. The cheaper and smaller the computer on the outside and the bigger they are on the inside, the more fascinating I find them."    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:43:52

• "And again a year ended. And as always I'm glad it's over. Although this time the end of the year was not such a pain as last year, which was a real struggle. My mood was relatively well at the end of the old year and I had a lot to do, especially with my GTL Gemini Tinylog Reader/Editor fork from @bacardi55, who seems to have abandoned the project." gopher://redterminal.org:70/0/phlog/2026-01-01-Another_year_is_gone.txt    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:45:24

• "Curiously the annual music festival seemed to end before New Year's Eve this year. No bass notes reverberating from the distant glow of lights, and no mini fireworks display to watch while the sounds of their countdown reaches me." gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2026-01-01A_Chinese_New_year.txt    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:46:08

• "I tried a few square root problems with the A Scale. The A Scale is fairly simple, except one must remember whether to use the first or the last half of the scale, depending on the number of significant digits." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20251231-0.gmi    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:47:45

• "I can hardly tell what my New Year's Resolutions will be, or for that matter, if one particularly needs resolutions to start the new year." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2759    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:49:13

• happy new year, bartender gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2760    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:49:42

• "Haven't found myself in these parts for years, lot has changed on main street. Almost unrecognizable, not really my type of place anymore to be honest. If memory serves, there's a quiet alley off the main street, something a little more my speed." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2758    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:54:28

• "My entire gemlog is now in a single file, index and served with a specialized Fornax server from RAM. No disk. I found myself no longer gemlogging, because it became too annoying to deal with hundreds of files! And indices! And making sure names work with dates... And keeping all the links working across the entire site..." gemini://spell.mywire.org:1960/~stack/0250.gmi    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 06:55:50

• Parroting mindless "AI" lies: "BM is eliminating around 3,900 positions, while investing heavily in n AI and hybrid cloud initiatives. While many of these cuts occur worldwide, a meaningful portion affects US employees, even if precise numbers aren’t publicly available." https://americanbazaaronline.com/2025/12/31/major-corporate-layoffs-in-2025-a-year-in-review-472422/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 07:27:48

• "On with the countdown." ☛ https://copyrightlately.com/the-5-worst-copyright-decisions-of-2025/ | Source: CopyrightLately    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 07:28:20

• "Below are just a few of the historical and cultural works that entered the public domain in 2026." ☛ https://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2025/12/lifecycle-of-copyright-1930-works-in-the-public-domain/ | Source: US Library of Congress    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 07:28:37

• My Five GNU/Linux and Open Source 2026 Resolutions (Oh… and BSD) ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/12/my-five-linux-and-open-source-2026-resolutions-oh-and-bsd/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 07:34:45

• "While the Packers didn’t event the foam cap, they did buy the rights to it decades ago and those hats are now official Packers products sold on the team’s storefront." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/31/how-the-viral-cheese-grater-foam-hat-came-from-a-gb-packers-cd-letter/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 07:35:21

• "What if Ed Zitron is an optimist? And for at least some of these companies, their legacy monopoly businesses are in trouble, too?" ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/what-if-ed-zitron-is-an-optimist/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 07:36:12

• "What proponents call “Post-Capitalism” is merely monopoly extraction optimized for the digital age." ☛ https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/post-capitalism-is-dead-long-live | Source: Michael Green    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 07:36:27

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/31/taylor-swift-uk-vinyl-2025/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 07:50:00

• "The fight for net neutrality never seems to be truly won or lost" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/report/851629/net-neutrality-fcc-retrospective-2025 | Source: The Verge    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 07:50:30

• "Today, both 4G and 5G networks have been rolled out and cover large parts of the country." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3015888/time-to-ditch-normal-internet-how-to-know-if-mobile-broadband-is-enough.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 07:50:40

• "IPv6 was an extremely conservative protocol that changed as little as possible" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/ipv6_at_30/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 07:52:35

• [Old] "I asked myself, as a powerless Black man in America, what can I do to the cops that kicked my door in" ☛ https://www.npr.org/2023/03/24/1165822372/afroman-police-raid-lawsuit-music-videos | Source: NPR    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 07:55:36

• "Will you help me repair my gate? Will you help me repair my door? Did you find what you was looking for? Will you help me repair my gate and door?" ☛ https://genius.com/Afroman-will-you-help-me-repair-my-door-lyrics | Source: ML Genius Holdings LLC    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 07:56:00

• "Emoji Selector is the Kubuntu default emoji selector application. Its purpose is to view a wide range of UTF characters to insert them into a document or a chat in the form of symbols, including country flags" ☛ https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2025/12/emoji-selector-intro-to-kubuntu-default-emoji-picker-application.html | Source: Ubuntubuzz    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 08:09:20

• These are the 3 Linux distros I recommend for servers https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/3-linux-distros-recommend-servers-123116134.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 08:51:32

• "For the latest example, we can look to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit" ☛ https://reason.com/2025/12/29/innocent-man-sues-for-over-60000-after-police-blew-up-his-business-a-court-says-hes-entitled-to-nothing/ | Source: Reason    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 08:51:43

• "Defenders of the ruling (police unions) will insist that letting property owners recover damages would somehow tie the cops' hands and thus end civilization." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/30/cops-blow-up-the-an-innocent-bystanders-business-courts-shrug.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:00:23

• "All three women who spoke to the Guardian and Zan Times, an Afghan news agency, said they had been forced to confess to alleged moral crimes before they were punished." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/06/afghanistan-taliban-sharia-law-mahram-women-flogging-public-moral-crimes-guardians | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:00:32

• "The protests triggered by Amini’s death were among the largest Iran had seen in decades, spreading to more than 150 cities." ☛ https://sites.uab.edu/humanrights/tag/women/ |    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:00:42

• "One key limitation: agents can only access data stored locally on the device, not cloud content." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/31/what-travelers-need-to-know-about-phone-searches-at-the-u-s-border.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:00:51

• "the ICE tactics are blatantly illegal according to legal experts, they have been allowed by a corrupt Supreme Court that is clearly more intent on enabling authoritarianism than on than protecting the Constitution." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/immigrant-derangement-syndrome | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:01:13

• "“Pseudoterminals”, usually known as just PTYs, are important building blocks in UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems." ☛ https://blog.jchw.io/grantpt/ |    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:02:44

• "Restic is a modern and open-source backup software that both deduplicates and encrypts file contents at the blob level." ☛ https://brandonrozek.com/blog/backups-with-restic-btrfs/ | Source: Brandon Rozek    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:02:52

• "Yesterday afternoon, my server was graced with a large wave of crawlers, hitting me with over 800 requests / second." ☛ https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/that-wonderful-cloud/ | Source: Gergely Nagy    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:03:00

• "This appears because incorrect white balance (WB) exaggerates color shifts, while snow reflects surrounding light more intensely than most surfaces." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/photo-editing/this-is-why-your-snow-images-look-blue-yellow-or-green-and-this-is-how-to-fix-them-after-you-take-the-shot | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:03:09

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

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:03:45

• How To Install Ansible on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-ansible-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:03:56

• How To Install NTP Server and Client on openSUSE ☞ https://idroot.us/install-ntp-opensuse/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:04:08

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

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:04:20

• How To Install Micro Text Editor on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-micro-text-editor-debian-13/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:04:29

• "This was an advantageous arrangement for a few reasons." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/a-daiso-stand-for-old-computers/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:12:37

• "Veteran OpenBSD developer Miod Vallat (miod@) has written another deep dive article on porting our favorite operating system to a new platform and maintaining the code, this time the OpenBSD/hppa platform." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251231080327 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:12:54

• Orange Pi Unveils Hey Hi (AI) Station with Ascend 310 and 176 TOPS Compute ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/orange-pi-unveils-ai-station-with-ascend-310-and-176-tops-compute/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:13:19

• "Salaries are a good indicator for prestige. In the USA, in Australia and in Switzerland" ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/31/the-culture-war-that-we-won/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:40:51

• "[...] Gary Kildall, of Digital Research fame, was his co-host in many 1980s episodes and the most notable of an august crew that also included George Morrow and Paul Schindler" ☛ https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/12/stewart-cheifet-has-died.html | Source: Old VCR    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:41:18

• "I’ve reached the point where my homeopathic levels of work (as Tom aptly described them) are so low that I’ve begun to say I’m “pretty much retired”." ☛ https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/12/31/2025/ | Source: Phil Gyford    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:41:45

• "Go’s arithmetic operations on standard integer types are silent by default, meaning overflows “wrap around” without panicking." ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/12/31/detect-gos-silent-arithmetic-bugs-with-go-panikint/ | Source: Trail of Bits    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:42:24

• "Write a script to return the maximum number of words that appear in a single sentence." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/max-validate.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:43:04

• "The implementation was pretty straight-forward because we did the difficult part (figuring out which direction the arrows should be pointing) before we went to write some code." ☛ https://ettolrach.com/blog/bidirectional_inference.html |    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:43:23

• "As we already know, modularity matters more than whether we have one or many deployment units - single monolith or multiple services." ☛ https://binaryigor.com/modular-monolith-and-microservices-data.html |    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:43:33

• "So let’s do this once and for all." ☛ https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/solid-bull | Source: Loup Vaillant    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:44:07

• "Replay brings it to Swift." ☛ https://nshipster.com/replay/ | Source: NSHipster    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:44:20

• "The answer is at least 4 kibibytes but surely more." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/30/by-how-much-does-your-memory-allocator-overallocates/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:44:30

• "The main theme for this year was text." ☛ https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2025-12-29-what-i-did-in-2025/ | Source: Amit Patel    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:44:58

• "Now, what's Lisp, and why would I want to do that? Well, let me tell you a little story about that." ☛ https://explainextended.com/2025/12/31/happy-new-year-17/ | Source: Explain Extended    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 09:45:07

• "CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry" ☛ https://text.npr.org/2025/12/22/g-s1-103282/cbs-chief-bari-weiss-pulls-60-minutes-story | Source: NPR    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 10:52:44

• "Ackerman takes great pains to indicate that CBS was never the bastion of independent journalism that commentators with rose-tinted glasses might have suggested: it had a cozy relationship with the CIA and was indisputably an instrument of power." ☛ https://werd.io/watching-bari-weiss-murder-investigative-journalism-at-cbs/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 10:53:02

• "I'M NOTICING A PATTERN among certain people within my profession who've jumped to the defense of Bari Weiss, the oligarch functionary installed at CBS by new owner David Ellison to enforce ideological discipline upon its journalists" ☛ https://www.forever-wars.com/watching-bari-weiss-murder-investigative-journalism-at-cbs/ | Source: Forever Wars    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 10:53:45

• "Caitlin Flanagan, Chris Cilizza—these are not people who produce investigative journalism. These are take-merchants and mouthpieces who publish what powerful people tell them over text and DM as if it's a transgressive secret and not a comms strategy."    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 10:54:17

• "Such people would not understand what it means to censor the 60 Minutes piece about the CECOT torture prison, because they don't understand what it takes to produce it. As it happens, I do."    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 10:54:36

• "Last week the National Security Archive released the transcripts of meetings between then-President George W. Bush and still-President Vladimir Putin, made public as the result of a Freedom of Information lawsuit." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/trust-dictators-garry-kasparovs-new | Source: The Next Move    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 10:54:53

• "I don’t think you can talk about good feature articles in 2025 without talking about the amazing journalism being conducted day after day during the first three months of the year." ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/12/31/best-feature-story-2025-white-house-signal-leak/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 10:55:38

• "As a tradition, we use the last day of the year to look back at some of the biggest stories of the past twelve months." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/2025-two-decades-of-piracy-reporting-torrentfreaks-retrospective/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 11:05:50

• "develop tools to combat the spread" ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/12/31/rotc-students-are-helping-the-military-defend-against-ai-deepfakes/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 11:06:19

• "But here’s the paradox: If the exact same feature is available in an open source project maintained by an employee, suddenly people get suspicious." ☛ https://00f.net/2025/09/01/opensource-by-internal-contributors/ | 0f    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 11:06:38

• "Despite numerous setbacks, ByteDance spent 85 billion yuan on Nvidia chips throughout 2025, marking a significant increase for next year, South China Morning Post reports." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/tiktok-owner-bytedance-to-reportedly-purchase-usd14-billion-worth-of-nvidia-ai-gpus-in-2026-company-betting-on-beijings-approval-following-trump-admins-ease-on-ai-export-controls | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 11:06:50

• "Despite numerous setbacks, ByteDance spent 85 billion yuan on Nvidia chips throughout 2025, marking a significant increase for next year, South China Morning Post reports." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/tiktok-owner-bytedance-to-reportedly-purchase-usd14-billion-worth-of-nvidia-ai-gpus-in-2026-company-betting-on-beijings-approval-following-trump-admins-ease-on-ai-export-controls    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 11:06:59

• "If you want to see the past final posts of the year, they’re here: [...]" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/31/use-the-failures-of-the-past-as-inspiration-for-a-better-future/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 11:07:16

• Watch: President Stubb's New Year address https://yle.fi/a/74-20202187    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 11:27:48

• "Colossus 2." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/30/elon-musk-reveals-plan-expand-xais-colossus-data-center-2-gigawatts/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:36:45

• "For over 100 years, Wolverine World Wide Tannery made the leather for many well-known shoe brands, many of which were coated with Scotchgard, a water and stain repellent created by 3M." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/millions-across-michigan-may-be-exposed-to-pfas-in-private-water-wells/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:37:09

• "This year, TOP researchers published four new scholarly studies: [...]" ☛ https://overpopulation-project.com/top-end-of-year-roundup/ | Source: Overpopulation    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:37:19

• "A while ago, we discovered a way to scrape Spotify at scale. We saw a role for us here to build a music archive primarily aimed at preservation." ☛ https://annas-archive.org/blog/backing-up-spotify.html | Source: Anna’s Archive    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:37:50

• "Does somebody at the DOJ want to tell me why my American Airlines booking information and flights in July 2019 are part of the Epstein files (attached to a grand jury subpoena)?" ☛ https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/epstein-files-doj-julie-brown-flight-b2891476.html |    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:40:27

• "The document dump has been, in Brown's words, "sloppy at best." She's pointed out that Trump-linked images remain heavily redacted while her unrelated booking details got published for the world to see." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/31/doj-tracked-journalist-who-exposed-epstein.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:41:10

• "With 2025 nearly over, Mashable decided to revisit his predictions related to this year. Time has run out" ☛ https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-failed-to-deliver-on-2025-promises | Source: Mashable    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:41:57

• "wartime preparedness" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20202073 | Source: YLE    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:42:35

• "sea cable disruption" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20202087 | Source: YLE    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:42:43

• "Patriots" ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/patriots-populists-and-putinists | Source: The Next Move    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:43:05

• "suspected of damaging subsea cable in Baltic Sea" ☛ https://therecord.media/finland-seizes-ship-suspected-damaging-undersea-cable | Source: The Record    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:43:17

• "Authorities are currently investigating whether the vessel's movement and anchoring caused the incident, reports Postimees." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/cables-connectors/finnish-authorities-seize-ship-and-crew-after-undersea-cable-cut-pursuing-criminal-charges-finnish-special-forces-board-ship-detain-all-14-crewmembers | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:43:42

• "en route ​from the Russian port of St Petersburg to Israel at the time of the incident" ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251231-finland-seizes-ship-sailing-from-russia-after-suspected-undersea-cable-sabotage | Source: France24    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:44:02

• "According to the Border Guard, the vessel's anchor chain had been lowered into the sea." ☛ https://kyivindependent.com/finland-detains-russia-linked-ship-suspected-of-sabotage/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:44:18

• "Responsibility for leading the investigation has been transferred from the Gulf of Finland Coast Guard to the Helsinki Police Department." ☛ https://raja.fi/en/-/police-investigate-cable-damage-in-the-gulf-of-finland-in-cooperation-with-other-authorities |    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:44:33

• "Neovim is a very powerful text editor that, with some upfront configurations, could replace your current editor for programming and much more." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/is-neovim-your-next-favorite-development-tool/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:45:30

• "Here’s the stats breakdown: 9,485 contributions, 8,893 commits, 127 pull requests (117 merged), 101 issues opened, 336 PR reviews, and 53 new repositories." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/31/open-source-activity-in-2025.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:45:46

• "Until now, 10-bit video support was limited when working outside GPU effects, forcing users to avoid transitions, blending, or many CPU-based filters to prevent a fallback to 8-bit processing." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/shotcut-25-12-video-editor-delivers-full-10-bit-cpu-video-processing/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:46:00

• "This release includes the following changes to the previous release: [...]" ☛ https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=176710395831597&w=2 | Source: Mailing list ARChives    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:46:47

• "The OpenBGPD project have announced their new release, OpenBGPD 9.0." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251231070524 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:46:56

• Linux App Release Roundup (December 2025) ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/linux-release-roundup-december-2025    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:56:22

• Gentoo 20251231 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/gentoo    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:57:22

• Calam 2026-01 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/calam    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 12:57:29

• "This year, at the inaugural OpenSSL Conference, several talks provided more background information about the performance regressions and other changes in the 3.x branch: [...]" ☛ https://www.feistyduck.com/newsletter/issue_132_openssl_performance_still_under_scrutiny | Source: Feisty Duck    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:01:07

• "The high tech rings — which tracks users' health metrics, providing insights about their sleep, activity and stress levels" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20201766 | Source: YLE    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:02:23

• "you can age gate everything." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/31/judge-to-texas-you-cant-age-gate-the-entire-internet-without-evidence/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:02:36

• "In the name of 'protecting kids online,' Congress pushed forward legislation this year that could have severely undermined our privacy and stifled free speech." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/congresss-crusade-age-gate-internet-2025-review | Source: EFF    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:14:20

• Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub): "I’m slowly trying to drop GitHub. I moved some of my repositories to Codeberg this month." ☛ https://evanhahn.com/notes-from-december-2025/ | Source: Evan Hahn    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:14:58

• "Finland is no stranger to very volatile spot electricity prices. Last year, Yle News explained the reasons behind those sometimes drastic fluctuations." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20202093 | Source: YLE    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:15:19

• Windows TCO: "taking a cut of stolen funds from the cybercriminals" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/851467/cybersecurity-employees-plead-guilty-alphv-blackcat-ransomware | Source: The Verge    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:15:53

• Windows TCO: "As the first year of the Trump administration approaches its end" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/expired-tired-wired-federal-cybersecurity/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:16:12

• "These platforms don’t do anything. It is completely unchecked. They make money and they don’t care." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/31/boy-dead-squid-game-prank-yorkshire/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:16:37

• "In 2025, I ran ten polls on Mastodon exploring various topics, mostly to outsource my research to the hivemind. Here are the poll results organized by topic, with commentary." ☛ https://abhinavsarkar.net/notes/2025-mastodon-polls/?mtm_campaign=feed | Source: Abhinav Sarkar    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:46:31

• "These are scams involving fraudulent employers convincing prospective employees to send them money for various fees. There is an entirely different set of scams involving fraudulent employees getting hired for remote jobs." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/linkedin-job-scams.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:46:42

• "This year I finally realized that I no longer want any social media. Instead, every time I had a spare minute, I improved some detail on my homepage, my very own place in the World Wide Web." ☛ https://victor.kropp.name/blog/2025/year-in-review/ | Source: Victor Kropp    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:47:40

• "Her movie-length autopsy of cancellation inspired by the incident, “Mask Off,” is no longer on the video-sharing juggernaut" ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/12/30/lindsay-ellis-best-online-video-2025/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:48:10

• "She was then charged under section 19(1) of the Public Order Act 1986" ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/society/2025/12/when-should-social-media-posts-have-legal-consequences | Source: New Statesman    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:50:02

• "You can't blame the Sipekne'katik First Nation for wanting to protect its people nor can you blame MacIsaac for feeling that this AI generated bullshit might endanger his life" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/30/musician-falsely-accused-of-sex-crimes-by-google-ai.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:51:02

• "The City of Santa Monica did not suddenly decide it hates technology." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/30/waymo-sues-santa-monica-for-trying-to-make-it-stop-beeping-all-night.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:51:45

• "Some people describe LLMs as the ultimate programming tool. Others describe it as an extra machine teammate. It's a dark parody of both." ☛ https://orib.dev/nofun.html |    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:52:07

• "For me, the joy of programming is understanding a problem in full depth, so that when considering a change, I can follow the ripples through the connected components of the system."    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:52:36

• "The joy of management is seeing my colleagues learn and excel, carving their own paths as they grow. Watching them rise to new challenges. As they grow, I learn from their growth; mentoring benefits the mentor alongside the mentee. Using LLMs undercuts both."    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:52:52

• "As 2025 comes to a close, some of the artificial intelligence industry's biggest skeptics may be poised for a victory lap." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/contrarians-no-more-ai-skepticism | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:53:06

• "Most drones require a human pilot. But some new Ukrainian drones, once locked on a target, can use A.I. to chase and strike it — with no further human involvement." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/magazine/ukraine-ai-drones-war-russia.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:53:27

• "The model captured nearly three times more unemployment disclosures than previous rule-based approaches while maintaining high precision." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-12-ai-social-media-unemployment.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:53:56

• "advances the Army’s ongoing transformation into a data-centric and AI-enabled force" ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/12/31/army-stands-up-ai-machine-learning-career-field-for-officers/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:54:24

• "Perhaps that puny market penetration would be less alarming if Tesla offered advanced tech and a passenger experience that Waymo doesn’t" ☛ https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/tesla-robotaxi-smoke-mirrors | Source: Futurism https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-autopilot-staged-engineer-says-company-faked-full-autopilot/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:54:56

• "So I guess it needs to be said: suing your customers is gross — and being sued by your customers is shameful." ☛ https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/31/love-your-customers/ | Source: Bryan Cantrill    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:55:30

• "Unfortunately, Microsoft squandered most of its good will with the Xbox One." ☛ https://www.engadget.com/gaming/xbox/2025-was-the-year-xbox-died-130000467.html | Source: Engadget    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:56:56

• "This is the fifth and final in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2025 across their major product lines. You can also read my wearables (only Apple Watch) 2024 and 2023 report cards." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/apples-2025-report-card-wearables/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:57:51

• "all their private Bitbucket repositories as well." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/european_space_agency_hacked/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 13:58:13

• "But! I now have a strong theory as to why my book reading has been down. This was the year that I finally stopped living in denial and bought reading glasses." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/12/recent-books-5/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:25:29

• "Science did lose out this year, though, in ways that researchers are still struggling to tabulate" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2025/12/american-science-2025-trump-ambition/685467/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:26:05

• "On 22 Oct 1925, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (a Polish1 professor in Germany) patented the field-effect transistor (FET).[LIL1] In 1928," ☛ https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/who-invented-the-transistor.html |    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:28:20

• "Weather has always significantly influenced my life." ☛ https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/ | Source: Stefano Marinelli    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:28:51

• "30 years of blogging." ☛ https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/30-years-of-blogging.html | Source: Chris O'Donnnell    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:29:35

• "I’ve also read somewhere that, while the Terrifying Triplets had an identical design, the Palisades version had to fit the same height onto a smaller footprint" ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2025/12/30/on-the-scariest-roller-coaster-ever-built/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:29:56

• "I created a blogroll that does the same." ☛ https://box.matto.nl/added-a-blogroll-like-in-the-old-days.html | Source: MJ Fransen    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:30:25

• "Over the years, especially as I’ve become more competent at this web development thing, I’ve rebuilt my blog a few times." ☛ https://vereis.com/posts/rebuilding-my-blog | Source: Vereis    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:30:36

• "All of which made me wonder what other technologies are likely to still be in use 50 or more years after they were first released. Here are the ones my friends and I came up with." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/long_lived_tech/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:30:54

• 13 Open-Source Apps I Use from a Web Browser (And You Can Too) ☞ https://itsfoss.com/open-source-apps-from-web-browser/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:33:31

• UHU-Linux – GNU/Linux distribution from Hungary ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/uhu-linux-distribution/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:34:22

• These are the GNU/Linux Apps I Couldn't Live Without in 2025 ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/my-choice-linux-apps-2025/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:35:08

• Best Free and Open Source Software: December 2025 Updates ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-software-december-2025-updates/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:35:42

• Cronicle – multi-server task scheduler and runner ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cronicle-multi-server-task-scheduler-runner/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:36:02

• orphanhunter – identify and remove orphaned packages ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/orphanhunter-identify-remove-orphaned-packages/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:36:51

• Dawn – lightweight document drafter ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dawn-lightweight-document-drafter/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:37:08

• Stormfetch – system profiler ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/stormfetch-system-profiler/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:37:35

• Pyroscope – continuous profiling platform ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pyroscope-continuous-profiling-platform/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:38:01

• Rare – graphical interface for Legendary ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rare-graphical-interface-legendary/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:38:23

• VisionFive 2 Lite SBC Review – Ubuntu 24.04 on a low-cost RISC-V SBC in 2026 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/31/visionfive-2-lite-sbc-review-ubuntu-24-04-on-a-low-cost-risc-v-sbc-in-2026/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:43:49

• Amin Bandali: The People of Emacs ☞ https://kelar.org/~bandali/2025/12/31/people-of-emacs.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:44:44

• "Ian Kelling, president of the Free Software Foundation" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/a-message-from-fsf-president-ian-kelling | Source: FSF    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:45:17

• "Instead of "privacy" we really should be talking about "control"" ☛ https://toidiu.com/blog/2025-12-25-privacy-and-control/ |    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:45:35

• "This is a personal look back at that year" ☛ https://www.paulox.net/2025/12/31/looking-back-at-python-pescara-2025/ | Source: Paolo Melchiorre    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:47:13

• "A personal retrospective on Django On The Med, three months later." ☛ https://www.paulox.net/2025/12/30/django-on-the-med-a-contributor-sprint-retrospective/ | Source: Paolo Melchiorre    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:47:26

• Timur Kristóf: A love song for Linux gamers with old GPUs (EOY 2025) ☞ https://timur.hu/blog/2025/love-song-for-linux-gamers-with-old-gpus-eoy2025    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:48:37

• Petter Reinholdtsen: Some of my 2025 free software activities ☞ http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Some_of_my_2025_free_software_activities.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:51:30

• BiglyBT – BitTorrent client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/biglybt-bittorrent-client/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:51:47

• kpcyrd: 2025 wrapped ☞ https://vulns.xyz/2025/12/2025-wrapped/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:53:22

• Sergio Cipriano: Zero-Code Instrumentation of an Envoy TCP Proxy using eBPF ☞ https://sergiocipriano.com/beyla-envoy.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:54:16

• Having another go at it (he, yes) after putting forth a misguided lawsuit, stealing money to fund it (allegedly, according to the spouse), then asking for help from the Serial Strangler from Microsoft    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 14:56:28

• Linux's contemporary filesystem mount API went without documentation for six years — latest man-page package finally adds content for 2019 code ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linuxs-contemporary-filesystem-mount-api-went-without-documentation-for-six-years-latest-man-page-package-finally-adds-content-for-2019-code    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 15:04:02

• Shotcut 25.12 Released with 12-bit & Improved 10-bit Video Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/12/shotcut-25-12-12-bit-video-support/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 15:05:39

• Microsoft layoffs soon. "There will be some top-level shuffling, if it hasn't already happened, and large re-organizations / layoffs to follow as the new upper echelon looks to make their marks." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcyazpc9    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 15:16:44

• "The hate and Bile towards a man who is not here to defend himself. And now trashing Welch? The Venom is spewing here." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 15:18:16

• "Well let’s see if you change your tune this spring"    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 15:18:35

• "What does that mean? 2026 Is going t be a big year for me at IBM"    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 15:18:40

• "My reading this year has been dominated by a book club I started going to. I've had little time to read outside of that because my year got rather more interesting than last — I left my job and went back to college. I'm proud of making that big change but it does mean life is a lot busier now!" gemini://lim.me.uk/2025-reading.gmi    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 15:35:24

• 🔤SpellBinding — CEUGLNF Wordo: SOLAR gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2026-01-01.gmi    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 15:35:51

• When the year starts 📆 gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2026-01-01_When_the_year_starts.gmi "I notice a few people mentioning the arbitrariness the first day of the year. It's true, there's no magic to new year's day."    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 15:36:43

• 🖼️ xkcd — Anyone Else Here #3188 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3188.gmi    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 15:38:01

• [japan] [paper] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2026-01-01.gmi    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 15:40:20

• [japan] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-12-31.gmi    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 15:40:26

• "On the Fediverse, when someone starts to follow me, I look into their account and what they have posted. If there is no history, I ignore them, otherwise I try to get an impression of the kind of posts and decide if I follow back." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/januari-questions-of-christina.txt    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 15:42:12

• Clownflare ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/31/escaping-the-linux-networking-stack-at-cloudflare/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:01:03

• Arch GNU/Linux Installer Archinstall 3.0.15 Adds Support for the rEFInd Boot Manager ☞ https://9to5linux.com/arch-linux-installer-archinstall-3-0-15-adds-support-for-the-refind-boot-manager    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:01:22

• MidnightBSD 4.0.1 is outn ☞ https://distrowatch.com/midnightbsd    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:01:37

• "Pop-ups are back, and they’re worse than ever. The pop-up ad developers have evolved to work around browser’s built-in pop-up blockers" ☛ https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/12/31/web-browsers-have-stopped-blocking-pop-ups/ | Source: Andrew Eikum    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:02:11

• "For years, this application seemed pretty trivial and obvious to me, with the only somewhat complex bit being figuring out how the person is holding the phone" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/LevelPhoneAppDesignComplexity | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:02:38

• "This represents a clear step up (+21%) from 360.4 million downloads in 2024, continuing a multi-year growth trend. For context, total annual downloads stood at 322.7 million in 2023" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/flathub-sees-over-435-million-downloads-in-2025/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:03:19

• "One of the most visible changes is that the COSMIC desktop environment is now available without requiring the advanced flag, making it easier to select during installation." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/archinstall-3-0-15-brings-cosmic-desktop/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:06:39

• "This sketch leaves a lot of questions open, such as what 'source packages' should look like when published by distributions." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/MyIdealSourcePackageFormat | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:07:01

• "CSS is a programming language, and you can make games in it. Let's install NoScript and make some together!" ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-css-clicker-training-making-games-in-a-styling-language#t=567 | Source: CCC    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:07:22

• "While AMD GPUs generally have a good reputation on Linux, these old GCN graphics cards have been a sore spot for as long as I’ve been working on the driver stack" ☛ https://timur.hu/blog/2025/love-song-for-linux-gamers-with-old-gpus-eoy2025 | Source: Timur Kristóf    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:08:03

• "It occurred to me that resolving some of the long-standing issues on these old GPUs might be a great way to get me started on working on the amdgpu kernel driver and would help improve the default user experience of Linux users on these GPUs. I figured that it would give me a good base understanding, and later I could also start contributing code to newer GPUs."    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:08:07

• "This week Steve reviews Expedition 33. We take your feedback, and Steve builds a new PC and talks motherboard." ☛ https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/473 | Source: The Ask Noah Show    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:09:01

• Seniors with disabilities not asking for help, Michigan survey finds ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/seniors-with-disabilities-not-asking-for-help-michigan-survey-finds/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:12:37

• Michigan caregivers have a new one-stop, online resource to find help ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/michigan-caregivers-have-a-new-one-stop-online-resource-to-find-help/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:12:57

• Doctors Find Evidence Microplastics Are Clogging Arteries, Leading to Heart Attacks and Strokes ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/microplastics-clogging-arteries    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:13:25

• Scientists Graft Human Ear Onto Foot ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/scientists-graft-human-ear-foot    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:13:41

• Freexian Collaborators: How files are stored by Debusine (by Stefano Rivera) ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-file-storage/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:14:50

• Lennart Poettering: Mastodon Stories for systemd v259 ☞ https://0pointer.net/blog/mastodon-stories-for-systemd-v259.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:15:20

• European Space Agency Confirms Breach After Hacker Offers to Sell Data ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/european-space-agency-confirms-breach-after-hacker-offers-to-sell-data/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:15:50

• Kubernetes 1.35: Enhanced Debugging with Versioned z-pages Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/12/31/kubernetes-v1-35-structured-zpages/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:16:24

• Fix for crashing bluetoothd ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202601/fix-for-crashing-bluetoothd.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:18:47

• Orange-ball apps fix ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202512/orange-ball-apps-fix.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:19:10

• New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including Street Basket Challenge - 2025-12-24 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-clients-2025-12-24-edition/index.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:20:22

• Workers in South Korea may soon be able to ignore late-night work messages ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/workers-in-south-korea-may-soon-be-able-to-ignore-late-night-work-messages    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:28:24

• Bangladesh mourns ex-PM Khaleda Zia with state funeral ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/topshots-bangladesh-mourns-ex-pm-khaleda-zia-with-state-funeral    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:29:04

• Drones dive into aviation’s deepest mystery as MH370 hunt restarts ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/31/drones-dive-into-aviations-deepest-mystery-as-mh370-hunt-restarts/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:29:17

• China will push more proactive macro policies in 2026, Pooh-tin says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-will-push-more-proactive-macro-policies-in-2026-xi-says    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:29:41

• Has China gone soft on drugs? Law on keeping drug use records confidential divides netizens ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/has-china-gone-soft-on-drugs-merits-of-sealing-drug-use-records-divide-netizens    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:29:51

• China says to impose extra 55% tariffs on some beef imports ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-says-to-impose-extra-55-tariffs-on-some-beef-imports    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:31:57

• Taiwan’s president vows to defend sovereignty after China drills ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwans-president-vows-to-steadfastly-defend-sovereignty-after-china-drills    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:32:09

• Inside China’s six-decade campaign to dominate rare earths ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/inside-chinas-six-decade-campaign-to-dominate-rare-earths    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:32:18

• How Japanese scallops became a pawn in diplomatic tensions with China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/how-japanese-scallops-became-a-pawn-in-diplomatic-tensions-with-china    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:32:40

• China warns the Netherlands to ‘immediately correct its mistakes’ over Nexperia saga that has disrupted auto production ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/china-warns-the-netherlands-to-immediately-correct-its-mistakes-over-nexperia-saga-that-has-disrupted-auto-production-chip-shipments-remain-suspended-auto-industry-suffering-from-undersupply    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:32:54

• Chinese homeschooled students embrace freer youth in cutthroat market ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/01/chinese-homeschooled-students-embrace-freer-youth-in-cutthroat-market/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:33:21

• Hyprland Becomes More Attractive with Crash Recovery and Safe Mode Features ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/hyprland-0-53-release/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:33:47

• Ravi Dwivedi: Transit through Kuala Lumpur ☞ https://ravidwivedi.in/posts/kuala-lumpur/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:34:28

• Explainer: How deadly Tai Po fire brings to light bid-rigging epidemic in Hong Kong renovation industry ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/01/explainer-how-deadly-tai-po-fire-brings-to-light-bid-rigging-epidemic-in-hong-kong-renovation-industry/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:34:58

• My “job” as family admin or GNU/Linux rules the house ☞ https://blog.bembel.net/2025/12/my-job-as-family-admin-or-linux-rules-the-house/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:36:10

• Shadow-utils 4.19.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1052435/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:37:08

• Turkey detains 357 ISIS suspects in nationwide police raids ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/turkey-detains-357-isis-suspects-in-nationwide-police-raids/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:38:09

• LOL. "Am excited to be starting my new job on the 5th Jan as a Principle Business Systems Analyst at Red Hat/IBM". Principle? Or Principal? He's in Ireland (first language English) and even his work history now says "Principle". Very bad typo in one's ROLE.    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 16:41:23

• 3D Print With Rubber ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/31/why-cant-i-3d-print-with-rubber/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:17:34

• Measuring Caffeine Content At Home ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/31/measuring-caffeine-content-at-home/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:24:40

• Ending 2025 with thoughts and a wordle cloud ☞ https://rubenerd.com/ending-2025-with-thoughts-and-a-wordle-cloud/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:25:28

• Warner Bros. Board Expected to Vote Against Paramount Offer—Will ‘Stay the Course’ with Netflix’s $80B Buyout ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/31/warner-bros-board-paramount-offer/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:25:48

• XBox is Likely Dead Already, But the Threat It Posed to Us All for Two Decades Isn't Over ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/31/XBox_is_Likely_Dead_Already_But_the_Threat_It_Posed_to_Us_All_f.shtml    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:25:59

• US forces obliterate five alleged drug boats, killing 8 ‘narco-terrorists’ in separate strikes ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/12/31/world-news/3-killed-as-us-forces-obliterate-trio-of-alleged-narco-terror-convoys/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:26:39

• US military says three killed in strikes on alleged drug boats ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20251231-us-military-says-three-killed-in-strikes-on-alleged-drug-boats    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:26:49

• What we know about the Saudi-led air strikes on ships in Yemen ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20251231-strike-ships-yemen-saudi-arabia-uae    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:26:59

• Iran Protests Intensify Amid Rial Free Fall, Mounting Regional Tensions ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protests-rial-free-fall-israeli-strikes/33637316.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:27:17

• Iran In 'New Phase Of Turmoil' As Protests Spread Beyond Capital ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-trump-iran-economic-protests-tehran-israel/33636196.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:27:31

• Tatiana Schlossberg Submitted a Heartbreaking Essay to The New Yorker on Her Cancer Diagnosis, Fully Formed ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/style/tatiana-schlossberg-new-yorker-essay-david-remnick.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:30:46

• Protests spread across Iran, as the country faces unrest over economic struggles ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251231-protests-spread-across-iran-as-the-country-faces-unrest-over-economic-struggles    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:30:59

• Flat-Headed Wild Cat, Not Seen in 30 Years, Caught on Camera in Thailand ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/flat-headed-wild-cat-not-seen-in-30-years-caught-on-camera-in-thailand    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:31:17

• Prehistoric Sea Monster Didn't Stick to The Oceans, Suggests Fossil Study ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/prehistoric-sea-monster-didnt-stick-to-the-oceans-suggests-fossil-study    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:31:28

• Promising New Drug Reverses Mental Decline in Mice With Advanced Alzheimer's ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/promising-new-drug-reverses-mental-decline-in-mice-with-advanced-alzheimers    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:31:38

• Scientists Found a 'Yellow Brick Road' at The Bottom of The Ocean ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-found-a-yellow-brick-road-at-the-bottom-of-the-ocean    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:31:52

• This Stunning 'Blue Marble' Fruit Isn't Actually Blue – It's a Wild Optical Illusion ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-stunning-blue-marble-fruit-isnt-actually-blue-its-a-wild-optical-illusion    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:32:33

• What Is Biophobia? Your Guide to The Hidden Experience of Millions ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/what-is-biophobia-your-guide-to-the-hidden-experience-of-millions    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:32:41

• Bits from Debian: DebConf26 dates announced ☞ https://bits.debian.org/2025/12/debconf26_dates.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:33:51

• Finland seizes ship sailing from Russia after suspected cable sabotage in Baltic Sea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/finland-seizes-ship-sailing-from-russia-after-suspected-cable-sabotage-in-baltic-sea    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:44:08

• Sabotage Suspected in Cutting of Undersea Cable, Finnish Police Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/world/europe/underwater-cable-damaged-sabotage-finland-estonia.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:44:24

• How Thousands of Secret Russian Documents Were Exposed ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/world/europe/russia-ombudsman-complaints.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:44:40

• Oil Tanker Fleeing the Coast Guard Now Listed in Russian Ship Database ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/us/politics/russia-oil-tanker-venezuela.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:45:11

• China says live-fire drills around Taiwan ‘completed successfully’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-slams-countries-that-criticised-taiwan-drills-as-irresponsible    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:45:28

• Vessel Held In Finland After Suspected Baltic Cable Sabotage ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/baltic-sabotage-finland-russia-nato-telecom-cable/33637374.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:46:00

• Lithuania updates security strategy, highlighting ‘existential’ threat from Russia ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2791120/lithuania-updates-security-strategy-highlighting-existential-threat-from-russia    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:46:29

• Ukraine wants peace, Russia wants a piece (of Ukraine), and Cheeto wants prize (while he commits war crimes he wants to be hailed for "peace")    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:47:30

• Germany to drop Russian oligarch investigation following €10M settlement ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/germany-to-drop-russian-oligarch-investigation-following-e10m-settlement/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:47:54

• Finland seizes ship sailing from Russia after suspected undersea cable sabotage ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251231-finland-seizes-ship-sailing-from-russia-after-suspected-undersea-cable-sabotage    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:48:20

• Iran launches satellites on Russian rockets as Moscow-Tehran ties deepen ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/12/31/world-news/iran-launches-satellites-on-russian-rockets-as-moscow-tehran-ties-deepen/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:48:38

• Man in Intensive Care Unit After Slamming Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail That Ruptured His Stomach ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/liquid-nitrogen-cocktail-russia    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:49:29

• In Ukraine, an Arsenal of Killer Hey Hi (AI) Drones Is Being Born in War Against Russia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/magazine/ukraine-ai-drones-war-russia.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:49:47

• North Korea’s Kim hails troops fighting in ‘alien land’: State media ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-attends-new-years-celebrations-kcna-says    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:50:02

• Russia Hits Ukraine's Energy Infrastructure As Winter Cold Sets In ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-ukraine-energy-zelenskyy-coalition-talks-strikes/33637111.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:50:12

• Zelenskyy Prepares for Next Round Of Talks As Ukraine Strikes Back At Russian Oil Assets ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-zelenskyy-russia-coalition-trump/33637408.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:50:27

• Ukraine: War medics confront their trauma in mountain retreat ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251231-ukraine-war-medics-confront-their-trauma-in-mountain-retreat-1    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:50:51

• Game Engine v0.60 Released    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:51:30

• GNOME Dishonestly Uses LibXML2 Support as Fundraising Tactic ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/gnome-dishonestly-uses-libxml2-support    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:51:41

• They say stuff like, Free software depends on just one person; proprietary depends on one company. At least that one developer can easily pass on stewardship for maintenance    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:53:06

• Micro Text Editor 2.0.15 Released After More Than a Year of Development ☞ https://linuxiac.com/micro-text-editor-2-0-15-released-after-more-than-a-year-of-development/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:53:48

• Wishing All Linuxiac Readers a Happy, Healthy, and Bright 2026 ☞ https://linuxiac.com/wishing-all-linuxiac-readers-a-happy-healthy-and-bright-2026/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:54:09

• Reviving a Roland SoundBrush: Floppy MIDI Playback Without the Computer ☞ https://linuxjedi.co.uk/reviving-a-roland-soundbrush-floppy-midi-playback-without-the-computer/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:54:53

• FOSS Weekly #26.01: Distros of 2026, Terminal Customization, CachyOS Server Edition and More GNU/Linux Stuff ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-01/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:55:26

• New Year Countdown Quiz for GNU/Linux Users 🎆 ☞ https://itsfoss.com/quiz/new-year-countdown/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:56:03

• Match the Resolution: New Year Intentions Meet GNU/Linux Commands 🎯 ☞ https://itsfoss.com/quiz/match-new-year-resolution/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:56:14

• 6 Best Free and Open Source Human Resource Management Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/humanresourcemanagement/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:57:44

• 13 Best Free and Open Source Python Data Analysis ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-python-data-analysis/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:57:52

• 9 Top Free and Open Source Graphical User Interfaces for R ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/guisforr/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 17:59:51

• Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cron ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/alternatives-popular-cli-tools-cron/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:00:00

• Recruiters Don't Use Abusive Monopolist Microsoft LinkedIn, Spammers Use Microsoft's Surveillance Arm LinkedIn (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/31/Recruiters_Don_t_Use_Microsoft_LinkedIn_Spammers_Use_LinkedIn.shtml    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:00:10

• The Slop Industry is Failing So Badly (Mountains of Debt, Losses) That It's Merging With the SPAM Industry (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/31/The_Slop_Industry_is_Failing_So_Badly_Mountains_of_Debt_Losses_.shtml    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:00:18

• "efficient workload scheduling." https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-finally-getting-key-performance-boost-feature-that-windows-1110-has-had-for-years/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:19:30

• "Since I started working here at MUO, I've spent a lot of time trying to find ways to modernize and update my smart home. One of the biggest projects I've undertaken initially started out sounding like the simplest — finding a way to turn my washer and dryer into smart appliances." https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-home-assistant-chromebook/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:19:56

• "StarFive has sent me a sample of the VisionFive 2 Lite RISC-V SBC for review. It’s a low-cost credit card-sized board based on the StarFive JH7110S quad-core RISC-V SBC and designed to get started with Linux RISC-V on the cheap." https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/31/visionfive-2-lite-sbc-review-ubuntu-24-04-on-a-low-cost-risc-v-sbc-in-2026/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:20:14

• How much RAM does your Linux PC actually need in 2025? An expert weighs in https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-much-ram-does-your-linux-need-2025/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:20:53

• It’s Time To Make A Major Change To D-Bus On Linux https://hackaday.com/2025/12/31/its-time-to-make-a-major-change-to-d-bus-on-linux/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:21:32

• "2025 has been quite the year for me. It's been full of ups and downs, both on the professional and personal fronts. The challenges I faced this year have made me a stronger person." https://itsfoss.com/news/my-choice-linux-apps-2025/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:22:00

• "Something something good code comments itself." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linuxs-contemporary-filesystem-mount-api-went-without-documentation-for-six-years-latest-man-page-package-finally-adds-content-for-2019-code    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:23:20

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:23:49

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:23:54

• "From COBOL and C to Linux and SQL, the unglamorous software that keeps the world running refuses to disappear" https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/long_lived_tech/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:23:59

• The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/long_lived_tech/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:24:21

• "Looking for a Linux distribution to challenge you? AerynOS delivers that - plus atomic-powered security and stability." https://www.zdnet.com/article/aerynos-linux-distribution-atomic-challenging-install/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:24:46

• choose?" https://www.zdnet.com/article/puppy-linux-vs-linux-lite/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:25:08

• "You can revive your aging PC with a lightweight Linux distro such as Puppy Linux and Linux Lite."    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:25:18

• "As we countdown to 2026, what better way to celebrate than with a quiz about Linux time and date commands? Whether you're a complete beginner or just brushing up on your command-line skills, this festive quiz will test your knowledge of how Linux handles time." https://itsfoss.com/quiz/new-year-countdown/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:26:05

• "With Distrobox, you can run and experiment with distributions inside containers. No virtual machine required." https://www.zdnet.com/article/distrobox-test-multiple-linux-distros-in-containers/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:27:38

• How I run Photoshop on Linux with this open-source app (no Windows needed) https://www.howtogeek.com/photoshop-on-linux/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:31:15

• "Tuxedo Computers' InfinityBook 14 Pro runs Tuxedo Linux, based on Ubuntu." https://www.zdnet.com/article/tuxedo-computers-infinitybook-14-pro-review/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:32:13

• How I run Photoshop on Linux with this open-source app (no Windows needed) https://www.howtogeek.com/photoshop-on-linux/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:33:45

• Tim Sweeney highlights satirical Fortnite Linux advocacy https://tradersunion.com/news/billionaires/show/1177541-tim-sweeney-fortnite-linux/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:34:58

• Microsoft subsidiary of sorts https://www.howtogeek.com/what-is-canonical-the-company-behind-ubuntu/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:35:30

• "The developers announced a dedicated Server Edition coming in 2026 to bring Clear Linux style optimizations to the enterprise" https://dataconomy.com/2025/12/30/cachyos-challenges-ubuntu-in-new-server-benchmarks/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:36:04

• Steven Vaughan-Nichols Promoting Complex, Microsoft-Controlled, Prone-too-Breakage Rust, Then Says "the most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere" (Contradicting Himself) http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Steven_Vaughan_Nichols_Promoting_Complex_Microsoft_Controlled_P.shtml    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:38:25

• At LF, advice follows the bribes. Slop bad? TAKE BRIBE. Now it's "GOOD"! SHILL it!!! Praise it! Same for Rust, which GAFAM incubated in the corpse of Mozilla.    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:40:23

• LF is a bribery hub, a money laundering org. Buy influence not only over "Linux" but in the media also: https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/08/Linux_Foundation_Research_Marketing_Has_New_Report_About_Open_S.shtml    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:41:10

• SJVN is one of their lying operatives, a coin-operated person whom they boast about in their brochures. Jono Bacon was too: http://techrights.org/o/2019/04/08/jono-bacon-works-for-microsoft/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:41:59

• Kubernetes buys a lot of puff pieces about itself because in practice adopting Kubernetes means relying on GAFAM "clown"    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:43:01

• Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1052425/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:43:30

• Kushal Das: johnnycanencrypt 0.18.0 released ☞ https://kushaldas.in/posts/johnnycanencrypt-0-18-0-released.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:43:41

• Ncurses 6.6 Released    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:44:06

• Open Source New Year Almanac: What Does 2026 Hold for You? 🗓️ ☞ https://itsfoss.com/quiz/open-source-new-year-almanac/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:44:41

• OpenCV 4.13 also out    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:45:35

• New year special ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1110/new-year-special    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:46:04

• TTABlog Test: Is LA PACHANGA MARGARITAS Y FIESTA Confusable with PACHANGA MEXICAN GRILL for Restaurant Services? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/12/ttablog-test-is-la-pachanga-margaritas.html    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:46:40

• "This release also introduces Zram algorithm configuration support and CUPS installation support, and stable support for the COSMIC desktop environment." https://9to5linux.com/arch-linux-installer-archinstall-3-0-15-adds-support-for-the-refind-boot-manager    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:48:10

• New York's Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero — devices join explosives, guns, drones, and beach balls on prohibited items list ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/new-yorks-mayoral-inauguration-bans-raspberry-pi-and-flipper-zero-devices-join-drones-guns-and-beach-balls-on-prohibited-items-list    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:57:30

• UN Security Council holds emergency meeting over Israel recognition of Somaliland ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/un-security-council-holds-emergency-meeting-over-israel-recognition-of-somaliland/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 18:59:18

• Judge blocks White House’s attempt to defund the CFPB, ensuring employees get paid ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2025/12/judge-blocks-white-houses-attempt-to-defund-the-cfpb-ensuring-employees-get-paid/    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 19:00:20

• We May Be Misreading Our Dogs' Emotions in Surprising Ways ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/we-may-be-misreading-our-dogs-emotions-in-surprising-ways    

posted Thursday, January 01, 2026 at 19:01:06