Roy Schestowitz

• Wardrobe – prettify your desktop ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/wardrobe-prettify-desktop/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:10:08

• OpenMediaVault, a Linux-Based Solution for Building a NAS ☞ https://thenewstack.io/openmediavault-a-linux-based-solution-for-building-a-nas/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:10:27

• Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 1, 2026 (Dec 29, 2025 – Jan 4, 2026) ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linuxiac-weekly-wrap-up-week-1-2026-dec-29-2025-jan-4-2026/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:17:22

• Another fix for drive read speed test ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202601/another-fix-for-drive-read-speed-test.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:17:49

• One Week Without Smartphones on a College Campus ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/style/smartphone-tech-fast-college-students.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:18:12

• Good news for gamers: KDE Plasma will no longer sleep while your game controller is in use ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/good-news-for-gamers-kde-plasma-will-no-longer-sleep-when-your-controller-is-plugged-in/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:18:54

• GNU/Linux Surges to About 4% in Peru This Year ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/04/GNU_Linux_Surges_to_About_4_in_Peru_This_Year.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:19:02

• GNU/Linux at All-Time High in Algeria ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/04/GNU_Linux_at_All_Time_High_in_Algeria.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:19:12

• A 'Cancer That Attaches Itself' to Bulgaria? ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/04/A_Cancer_That_Attaches_Itself_to_Bulgaria.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:19:20

• simagef – find similar images ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/simagef-find-similar-images/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:19:41

• OtoClone – automatic backup and sync utility ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/otoclone-automatic-backup-sync-utility/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:20:02

• 12 Excellent Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Relational Databases ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/excellent-free-linux-relational-databases/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:20:22

• 7 Tools to Empower Librarians ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/librariantools/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:20:41

• VLC 3.0.23 Released with Security Fixes & Qt6 Pre-support [Ubuntu PPA] ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/01/vlc-3-0-23-released-ubuntu-ppa/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:21:17

• LXQt 2.3.0: Best New Features ☞ https://www.debugpoint.com/lxqt-2-3-0-features/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:21:46

• VailuxOS 1.6 is released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/vailuxos    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:22:50

• Manjaro 26.0 is also released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/manjaro    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:23:04

• 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 4th, 2026 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-january-4th-2026    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:23:14

• Manjaro 26.0 Released with GNU/Linux 6.18 LTS, Xfce 4.20, KDE Plasma 6.5, and GNOME 49 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/manjaro-26-0-released-with-linux-6-18-lts-xfce-4-20-kde-plasma-6-5-and-gnome-49    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:23:31

• GNOME OS 972056 is released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/gnomeos    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:23:42

• Puppy 2601 is also released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/puppy    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:23:58

• Jon Chiappetta: Going back to re-implement the work I once started for the VPN TUN C program… ☞ https://fossjon.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/going-back-to-re-implement-the-work-i-once-started-for-the-vpn-tun-c-program/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:25:32

• Jon Chiappetta: Generating better random numbers in C with the help of /dev/urandom (practical-random) and (s)rand (pseudo-random) [88-bit seed] ☞ https://fossjon.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/generating-better-random-numbers-in-c-with-the-help-of-dev-urandom-practical-random-and-srand-pseudo-random-88-bit-seed/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:25:58

• Jon Chiappetta: A Year Of The Releases Of My Free Apps – 90 Day Stats ☞ https://fossjon.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/a-year-of-the-releases-of-my-free-apps-90-day-stats/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:27:16

• Three of the best: Measurement ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/01/05/three-of-the-best-measurement-4/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:28:04

• Venezuela and Truth ☞ https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/01/venezuela-and-truth/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:28:50

• Top Hong Kong gov’t adviser calls for end to civil servants’ pay freeze ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/05/top-hong-kong-govt-adviser-calls-for-end-to-civil-servants-pay-freeze/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:29:19

• What does it mean to write in 2026? ☞ https://blog.cornelius-schumacher.de/2026/01/what-does-it-mean-to-write-in-2026.html https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/05/No_Writing_Isn_t_in_Decline_Some_of_the_Large_and_Centralised_P.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:29:39

• "Additionally, there's no peaceful moments at home except for maybe after the kids go to bed. They used to take naps when they were smaller, but they don't do that anymore. It's kind of hard to make a good gemcast when kids are screaming in the background!" gemini://kwiecien.us/gemlog/202601052126.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:47:26

• "The Mastodon web interface is so sluggish on a #raspberrypi 4 that I decided to write a quick-and-dirty lightweight CGI script to display just the content and links to media (deliberately avoided embedding previews). Now I can read my Mastodon feeds anywhere in comfort, even on Netsurf or w3m." gemini://tobykurien.com/microblog.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:48:04

• "Pseudonymous maker "Z3_R0" has released 3D print files and a guide to building a tool that will be of considerable interest to the do-it-yourself enthusiast looking for a project to celebrate the new year: a self-leveling rotary laser level." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202601/20260105-laser.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:48:48

• "tl;dr: You can now serve map files for _CoMaps_ from your own servers, including local ones. I made a small and simple command-line tool to help you download the maps to your computer and serve them in a local network[1]." gemini://tilde.club/~gedankenstuecke/blog/2026-01-05-comaps-map-distributor.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:49:22

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1877.jpg    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:50:23

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1527.jpg    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:50:28

• How about a book? gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/art/2026-01-05-how-about-book.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:51:01

• "The topic of greylisting [1] came up on Hacker News [2] and it reminded me—it's been eight years [3] since I last checked my greylist daemon [4]. Well, it still easily blocks 50% of the spam sent my way." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/01/05.1    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:51:49

• "A random walk can be used to produce a random musical line, though such lines will generally lack the repetition, phrasing, harmonic context, and etc. of better composed lines." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/01/06/inertialmusic.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:52:26

• "Yesterday although it was quite windy (force 5 southwest) around the island, i managed to find a north facing bay in the village of asos which was shielded by the wind." gemini://u.2f30.org/dsp/2026-01-05.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:53:47

• Clarice Lispector gemini://bitacora.anacronico.rocks/poemasdeotres/saudades.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:54:10

• "It was a fantastic start of the new year in the island of cephalonia where we currently are. The sun was shining, but it was still cold,so i took the chance to go for a quick shore dive" gemini://u.2f30.org/dsp/2026-01-01.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:54:50

• "Hey friends. I'm dsp, and this is my attempt to communicate with other humans over something nicer than the current state of the net. We all know it sucks so let's try to focus on the positive things." gemini://u.2f30.org/dsp/home.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:55:27

• Óscar Oliva gemini://bitacora.anacronico.rocks/poemasdeotres/entantalibertad.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:56:16

• H.G. Wells gemini://bitacora.anacronico.rocks/resenas/elhombreinvisible.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:56:40

• Pierre Lemaitre gemini://bitacora.anacronico.rocks/resenas/elanchomundo.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:57:20

• "I am sure more people suffer from the same problem, and maybe writing about it here is a way to exorcise it, so here it goes. Today i thought that i might be able to go for a little shore dive, although the weather around the island was quite windy (5bft)" gemini://u.2f30.org/dsp/2026-01-03.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:58:32

• "I carry a travel router when I am on trips. Part of my workflow needs high LAN bandwidth between my devices and hotel WiFi just doesn't cut it. I bought one from TP-Link for cheap expecting things to just work." gemini://gemini.clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2026/01-01-psa-tplink-wr3002x-needs-more-then-10w-to-be-stable.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 03:59:24

• Dirty chaotic minimalist gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/chaoticClean    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 04:01:06

• QR Gopher gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/qrGopher    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 04:01:44

• "Stallman many times on many topics said he wouldn't use a product that's a walled garden and where his presence would contribute to that products dominance" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499120    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 04:26:18

• sarcasm: "absolutely, put it down under Hybrid cloud and AI learning. Your Think40 rewards will multiply." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ke3n3tjk    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 04:27:59

• The Microsoft shill is shilling some more Windows https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/06/hp_keyboard_pc/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 06:10:28

• Coming soon https://www.recruitingnewsnetwork.com/posts/is-microsoft-preparing-for-mass-layoffs-in-2026    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 06:15:02

• GNU/Linux up in Ethiopia https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/ethiopia/#monthly-200902-202601    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 06:36:19

• 3% in Mali https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/mali/#monthly-200902-202601    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 06:36:58

• Also 3% in Niger https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/niger/#monthly-200902-202601    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 06:37:47

• S***GPT traffic down 5%+ https://www.similarweb.com/website/chatgpt.com/#ranking    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 06:55:26

• "Freedom is the ability to take personal responsibility." https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/malinfluence/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:05:20

• "The difference between Software Freedom and corporate Big Tech lies in the choices we make. Monopoly tech is prescriptive. It tries to tell us what we want, how to live our lives. It presents technology as a fait accompli, a total one-stop take-it-or-leave-it package." https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/malinfluence/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:05:55

• "Free Software is holistic. It is a deliberately unfinished work. It preserves flexibility, openness to change and improvement, choice, configuration and personalisation by the end user with genuine meaningful control. It is the seed of innovation that makes the difference between nations that are leaders and those who follow."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:06:13

• "I'm now hearing from people who finally got-off social media. They're very angry. They realise they wasted ten or more years of their lives. Some people went down a technological rabbit-hole after 2010 and only recently escaped." https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/malinfluence/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:07:44

• "They poured tens of thousands of hours into building "profiles", gaining "likes", making themselves "competitive" and "attractive" by laying sacrifices of selfies and tweets before the machine." https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/malinfluence/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:08:07

• "Finally, social control media is collapsing, and like Web 2.0 before it leaves those who participated all washed-up, empty, bereft, and feeling cheated. The winners are whoever bought-up the companies and all the data. One older person tells me "I feel lonely. There's nobody left on Facebook, I only get adverts and robots now"."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:08:32

• "I ask whether they have the email addresses of their old friends. "I'm not sure who is still on email, or how to reach them", they say. Worse some say, "I'm not really good at writing long messages any more. What am I supposed to say?""    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:09:00

• "Fortunately, those who broke-free are too busy finally living to engage in over-reflection. They're just spending time in reality at last, enjoying walking on the beach - instead of making a video of walking on the beach to post on Instagram according to some mass-hysterical social pressure."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:09:39

• "But the danger remains; that people will simply jump on to the next addictive and sapping technological trend the broligarchs and pushers have lined up. Whether that is "AI chat bots" that send people psychotic, or new forms of online gambling, for most of us, the next big thing that consumes years of our lives, breaks our relationships, health and prosperity, will be offered to us by someone close."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:10:02

• "Take the "bans" on social media for children. I don't think that children or adults should waste their time on that rubbish, maybe because I'm an "elitist". Maintaining real relationships and seeking out knowledge does and should require some effort. Effort is what underpins quality."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:11:14

• "But "Age Verification" is the stupidest and most ineffective approach imaginable. Every smart kid already figured out how to get around it. It's nothing but an excuse to roll out more fascist nonsense. It attacks the very important place of anonymity in society, in adolescent development"    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:11:45

• "Are governments scared of Google and Microsoft's lawyers? Oh, shudder! Why do governments around the world lack the basic courage to say "Tik Tok, Facebook, Instagram… are your enemy. They harm your mental health"?"    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:12:43

• "Pause for a moment to realise; none of this has any relation to rational, meritorious judgement and selection of technology. It is patently unscientific. Science may provide us with technology, but it is conspicuously absent when it comes to our use of technology."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:13:56

• "Malinfluence propagates though work-places with bosses who push policy to use biometrics, policy to use "AI", policies to push invasive surveillance. They're largely unaware that they're making a few oligarchs rich, while paying very little attention to any actual benefits to their company or product."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:14:35

• "So "uses" or "purposes" of products created by companies like Google or Microsoft, have to be creatively conjured-up post facto."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:15:51

• "But a centrally run network of camera doorbells on every house in your street - with the only benefit stopping your Amazon parcel getting stolen or stopping the neighbour's dog shitting on your lawn - is a dystopian and insecure society that's barely worth living in. It is infantile and regressive."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:17:53

• "A computer that remotely spies on your every thought and feeling, in order to "help you remember and be productive" is the very antithesis of "intelligence amplification". Only Nick Park's evil Gnome-bots approach this level of technological stupidity. It's patently not something a sane, reasonable and dignified person would want or accept."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:18:14

• "Widespread leakage and normalisation of surveillance and militarised technology is a catastrophe for peaceful civic life. The issue is not physical limitation of production and movement. The arms trade is as well regulated as we can manage."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:19:28

• "The problem now is with systematic, actively inculcating the social normativity of offensive technologies. Don't like where your neighbour parks their car? Cover your driveway in CCTV cameras! Neurotic about where your kid is? Give them a phone stuffed with trackers to "chip" them like a farm animal!"    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:20:17

• "People get the wrong idea that these industrial, capitalist and military models of technology are the only possible ones. They represent only a tiny modicum of the vast and rich spectrum of technological possibility, most of which isn't rooted in domination and control. But to even see beneficent technology we must change our whole way of thinking about it."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:21:45

• "Taking thoughtful technological responsibility, versus being compelled by blind economics to enter an arms race therefore requires resistance against preventable industrial injury on a society-wide scale. It applies as much to digital technologies as to guns and bombs, to the cogs, wheels and pulleys in factories or the processes in chemical plants."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:22:16

• The latest blog posts from Andy are many miles better and more informative than the latest Schneier book    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:25:11

• Microsoft-sponsored Wikipedia: "Stallman argues that it fails to be neutral unlike the similar term; "Free/Libre and Open Source Software" (FLOSS). Free software." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 07:52:50

• "Why are older adults more likely to share misinformation online? " https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/01/why-are-older-adults-more-likely-to-share-misinformation-online/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 08:09:05

• iophk: "I bet the conclusion is wrong and that older adults are merely called out more often for spreading disinformation and actually spread it somewhat less than younger cohorts."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 08:09:30

• But our guess is, they use a certain def of "fake news" or "misinformation", i.e. "racist" (conservative, trad values) stuff, then the older people would be seen as bigger culprits    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 08:11:00

• "Yes, younger cohorts are more conforming to what the owners of social control media dictate."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 08:11:49

• Just an overhyped forum all along https://devclass.com/2026/01/05/dramatic-drop-in-stack-overflow-questions-as-devs-look-elsewhere-for-help/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 08:27:11

• SO FAR no GAFAM https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus-2026.en.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 08:32:52

• Microsoft GitHub https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus-2025.en.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 08:33:42

• Microsoft TOP sponsor https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus-2024.en.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 08:34:02

• Hopefully they DECIDED to NO LONGER take money from MICROSOFT.... AND... to NO LONGER attack the FSF    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 08:35:12

• That would be... PROGRESS (but it's probably NOT what's happening)    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 08:35:34

• Stack Overflow was very heavily dependent on Google Search referrals, but now Google is just plagiarising other people's work with P.I.S.S., then presenting that as "AI" and "Google" https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Plagiarized+information+synthesis+system    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 08:37:12

• Augmented Steam browser plugin added AI features from VaporLens | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/augmented-steam-browser-plugin-added-ai-features-from-vaporlens/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:33:05

• The excellent free Command - Conquer - Combined Arms gets more missions and co-op | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/the-excellent-free-command-conquer-combined-arms-gets-more-missions-and-co-op/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:33:24

• One of the best puzzle games ever, Baba Is You gets a final big update | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/one-of-the-best-puzzle-games-ever-baba-is-you-gets-a-final-big-update/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/one-of-the-best-puzzle-games-ever-baba-is-you-gets-a-final-big-update/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:33:48

• "How Do We Hold Companies Accountable for "Do as I Say, Not as I Do" Security Practices?" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/01/02/1614239    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:34:28

• "Rethinkings Out Loud" https://doc.searls.com/2026/01/05/rethinkings-out-loud/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:34:40

• "Stephen Miller and Plans for Post-Decapitation" https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/05/stephen-miller-and-plans-for-post-decapitation/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:34:51

• "The Real Donroe Doctrine - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-real-donroe-doctrine    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:35:01

• "Trump Is Making the Same Mistakes Bush Made in Iraq - Truthdig" https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trump-is-making-the-same-mistakes-bush-made-in-iraq/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:35:13

• iophk: barking mike https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/05/ny-orders-apps-to-lie-about-social-media-addiction-will-lose-in-court/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:35:31

• "Trump’s Fake Drug War: Pardons Honduran President Convicted Of 400 Tons, Illegally Invades & Arrests Venezuela’s President Over Weaker Charges" https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/05/trumps-fake-drug-war-pardons-honduran-president-convicted-of-400-tons-illegally-invades-arrests-venezuelas-president-over-weaker-charges/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:35:44

• dubbed to English: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-von-groschen-und-spurlos-gnu-taler-auch-auf-eurem-event ("Von Groschen und SpurLos - GNU Taler auch auf eurem Event! - media.ccc.de")    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:36:03

• Criticism of religion and the limits of freedom of expression | "Religionskritik och yttrandefrihetens gränser" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/01/05/religionskritik-och-yttrandefrihetens-granser/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:36:30

• Freedom of expression in Sweden is under threat | "Yttrandefriheten i Sverige hotas | Mauricio Rojas | SvD Ledare" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://www.svd.se/a/16n3XM/den-svenska-yttrandefriheten-hotas    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:36:59

• Maduro ☛ https://thegrayzone.com/2026/01/05/indictment-maduro-cia-network-witness/ | Source: The Gray Zone    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:37:26

• Eagles, Wolves, and Whales ☛ https://therevelator.org/2025-wildlife-mvps/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:37:48

• Intel launches Core Ultra Series 3 at CES with Arc B390, teases new "handheld gaming platform" | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/intel-launches-core-ultra-series-3-at-ces-with-arc-b390-teases-new-chips-for-gaming-handhelds/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:40:00

• The Legion Go with Bazzite is an excellent machine for gaming | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/the-legion-go-with-bazzite-is-an-excellent-machine-for-gaming/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/the-legion-go-with-bazzite-is-an-excellent-machine-for-gaming/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:40:19

• "Popular shadow library Anna's Archive has lost control over its main domain name. Annas-archive.org was suspended and put on serverHold status" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-loses-org-domain-after-surprise-suspension/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:43:26

• "Japan’s new Smartphone act requires that Apple allow browser vendors to use their own engines in Japan." ☛ https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/how_apples_key_tactic_could_prevent_japans_smartphone_act_from_improving_browser_competition/ | Source: Open Web Advocacy    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:44:02

• Check out the new Games For Everyone podcast and have a listen | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/check-out-the-new-games-for-everyone-podcast-and-have-a-listen/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/check-out-the-new-games-for-everyone-podcast-and-have-a-listen/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:45:06

• Start 2026 off right with the massive 77 map mod Quake Brutalist Jam III | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/start-2026-off-right-with-the-massive-77-map-quake-brutalist-jam-iii/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:45:25

• Based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe, OpenTTD gets some big new features in v15 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/based-on-transport-tycoon-deluxe-openttd-gets-some-big-new-features-in-v15/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:45:53

• Some releases to look forward to in 2026 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/some-releases-to-look-forward-to-in-2026/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/some-releases-to-look-forward-to-in-2026/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:46:22

• The best Linux distributions for gaming in 2026 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/the-best-linux-distributions-for-gaming-in-2026/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/the-best-linux-distributions-for-gaming-in-2026/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 09:46:28

• "Gamifying the IPv4 address space seemed to reflect a very specific set of skills and interests" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/01/06/an-interview-with-the-creators-of-ipv4-games/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:24:35

• "Fast forward to 2025. Apple releases macOS Tahoe. Main attraction? Adding unpleasant, distracting, illegible, messy, cluttered, confusing, frustrating icons" ☛ https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/ | Source: Nikita Prokopov    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:27:00

• "So it often happens that I find some blog post. A fun one. A freaky one. A profound one. A critical (in the sense of Critical Science, not everyday criticism!)" ☛ https://aartaka.me/easy-fixes.html | Source: Artyom Bologov    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:27:10

• "ACRs are Accessibility Conformance Reports, which are the output of a VPAT, or Voluntary Product Accessibility Template maintained by ITIC" ☛ https://adrianroselli.com/2026/01/how-i-evaluate-an-acr-vpat.html | Source: Adrian Roselli    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:27:17

• "By now it’s pretty clear that right wing, billionaire, Trump ally Larry Ellison bought CBS to convert what was left of the news division into lazy agitprop" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/05/remaining-cbs-journalists-pen-letter-to-david-ellison-politely-asking-him-to-stop-destroying-whats-left-of-journalism/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:29:48

• "Who does a journalist work for? You work for your editor, sure, and you work for your employer, but more importantly, you work for your readers." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-public-good-not-patriotism | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:29:56

• iophk: Note that in Microsoft view, "multiplatform" means different versions of Windoze, no other systems / platforms. gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/06/Ahead_of_Mass_Layoffs_Microsoft_Tries_to_Rebrand_or_Redefine_XB.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:30:52

• almost a week into the new year    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:31:00

• "There are at least three things now called Microsoft 365 Copilot:" https://www.howtogeek.com/no-microsoft-office-didnt-just-get-renamed-to-microsoft-365-copilot/ ("No, Microsoft Office didn't just get renamed to Microsoft 365 Copilot")    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:31:14

• "How [Microsoft] Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem" https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html http://techrights.org/o/2019/11/11/delete-github/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:31:42

• Censorship ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/01/05/a-dark-chapter | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:33:06

• Misinformation ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/technology/nicolas-maduro-ai-images-deepfakes.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:33:42

• "To be a billionaire is to be a solipsist – to secretly believe that (most) other people don't really exist" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/fisher-price-steering-wheel/#billionaire-solipsism | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:34:12

• "Wired is reporting on Chinese darknet markets on Telegram." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/telegram-hosting-worlds-largest-darknet-market.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:35:23

• "Nowbar spent 28 years at Microsoft, where he was most recently chief legal officer" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/servicenow_hossein_nowbar_president_legal/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:35:38

• "Mikolai Gütschow and signum gave a talk at the 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3) in Hamburg, Germany" ☛ https://www.taler.net/en/news/2026-01.html | Source: GNU Taler    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:36:00

• "Aside from the delay, this is nowhere near enough of the 155MW that the 100,000 H100 GPUs running on the site require." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/u-s-electricity-grid-stretches-thin-as-data-centers-rush-to-turn-on-onsite-generators-meta-xai-and-other-tech-giants-race-to-solve-ais-insatiable-power-appetite | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:36:23

• "Corporate media must recognize they're being openly lied to—and report accordingly." ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-venezuela-power-grab-corporate-media-coverage | Source: Marisa Kabas    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:38:00

• "Since this corridor will pass through international waters, its imposition amounts to a pure exercise of power, violating international laws." ☛ https://kyivindependent.com/slavoj-zizek-welcome-to-the-age-of-corridors/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:38:44

• "One indicator of a polity’s health is whether a citizen can be punished merely for telling the truth about the law." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/01/hegseth-mark-kelly-demotion-vengeance/685512/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:39:01

• "send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way." ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2026/01/05/repub/pentagon-will-try-to-penalize-arizona-sen-mark-kelly-for-illegal-orders-video/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:39:41

• "Some of them seem to enjoy the limits on access to social media, according to Österlund." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20202709 | Source: YLE    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:40:21

• "Chinese mining firms in Zambia have started paying royalties and taxes in yuan, as the currency gains ground on the continent." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/01/05/2026/zambia-accepts-mining-taxes-in-yuan | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:43:20

• "to defend the Constitution, including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/pete-hegseth-senator-mark-kelly/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:43:54

• "dependence on US big tech vendors, from Amazon, Google and Microsoft, through to Palantir" ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/digital-sovereignty-briefing-on-the-cybersecurity-bill/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup https://techrights.org/n/2023/11/23/Privatisation_Catastrophe_Starting_with_NHS_England_Microsoft_a.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:44:40

• "In the last five years, the world's richest trading bloc has introduced the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which regulates digital platforms" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/eu_us_tech_regulation/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:44:58

• "There's just one big problem with Elon Musk's latest generous humanitarian offer: Starlink isn't available in Venezuela." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/starlink_free_service_venezuela/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:45:16

• "I Am Not Going To Back Down" ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/mark-kelly-i-am-not-going-to-back | Source: The Next Move    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:45:52

• "love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control" ☛ https://robert.ocallahan.org/2026/01/trump.html | Source: Robert OCallahan    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:46:17

• "If the United States decides to attack another NATO country, then everything would stop — that includes NATO and therefore post-World War II security" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/nato-could-end-if-us-takes-over-greenland-danish-pm/a-75401270 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:46:40

• Surveillance ☛ https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/01/messages-craves-cloud-syncing-even-when-you-dont-want-it/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:47:07

• Windows TCO: "The technical complexity of the infection chain reveals a clear intent to evade detection and maintain long-term persistence." ☛ https://therecord.media/russian-hackers-europe-hospitality-blue-screen | Source: The Record    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:47:55

• Windows TCO: "has taken down the school IT system" ☛ https://therecord.media/cyberattack-british-high-school-closes | Source: The Record    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:48:03

• "Why is digital technology so often a cultist, hive-minded mass hysteria that knowingly disregards grave harms? The 'excuse' that "nobody knew about the harms" simply doesn't hold-up." ☛ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/malinfluence/ | Source: The Cyber Show    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:48:48

• "The move follows outcry last week when Grok responded to a user’s prompt to remove clothing from an image of a 14-year-old actress, amid a surge of similar activity in which the tool was used to “undress” images of women and pose them in bikinis." ☛ https://therecord.media/eu-grok-regulation-deepfake | Source: The Record    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:51:01

• "So what caused this shift in the [Internet]? And was the change inevitable? Read tells us on the latest episode of Explain It to Me. Below is an excerpt of our conversation, edited for length and clarity." ☛ https://www.vox.com/explain-it-to-me/473852/is-the-internet-worse-now-millennials | Source: Vox    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:51:14

• "How AI affects research writing follows a trend not unlike other AI applications." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/01/ai-and-research-papers.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:55:21

• "We are experiencing world events like the kidnapping of Maduro through the lens of the most depraved AI you can imagine." ☛ https://www.404media.co/groks-ai-csam-shitshow/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:55:30

• IBM. "You can always expect RA's any month , week. Big ra's usually hit the news but all during the year smaller ra's are done unnoticed. And with contractors either they cut hours or just let them go with no notice since they aren't IBM employees. RA is in the executive bible." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdmwe55y    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:56:49

• "Elon Musk's AI tool Grok faced growing international backlash Monday for generating sexualized deepfakes of women and minors, with the European Union joining the condemnation and Britain warning of an investigation." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/elon-musks-grok-faces-global-backlash-over-sexualised-images-10368878#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:57:03

• "It’s worth noting that these apologies and avowals of fixing the issue are almost certainly complete hokum from Grok." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/elon-comment-grok-children | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:57:34

• What next? MElon makes Grok/Twitter produce monkey images for people, esp. blacks? (He's a known racist from Apartheid SA)    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 13:59:07

• On IBM: "Rearranging the chairs on the Titanic." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ke7exa4g    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:00:11

• "Started 4-1-93 when the G Man Gerstner came in and quickly burned the 3 IBM Basic Beliefs that made IBM the best for decades. Since then it has been 4 decades of fear and intimidation with every IBMer going to bed every night putting their heads on their pillows wondering if my RA number comes up in the AM." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ke7exa4g    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:00:31

• "There’s a reply by @1xq+1kcmx0g24 on an older thread (“Employee evaluation”): https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcmx0g24 Probably the most coherent explanation I’ve seen of our infinite reorg loop. Says out loud what everyone’s been thinking, but apparently leadership keeps missing." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ke7exa4g    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:01:01

• "While this particular move, and others like it, are being publicly lauded and celebrated, a more impartial assessment would treat them as cautionary signals rather than successes. The repeated reshuffling of the same group of leaders does not reflect organizational health; it suggests unresolved structural issues. In a stable and well-functioning environment, such levels of internal rotation would be unnecessary."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:01:39

• And Techrights was right. Microsoft (MSFT) Eyes Major January Layoffs as AI Costs Rise https://www.tipranks.com/news/microsoft-msft-eyes-major-january-layoffs-as-ai-costs-rise    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:02:31

• But of course! What else? Microsoft cannot grow when the debt is surging so fast.    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:03:44

• "Anyway, I'm sure you can guess the most obvious problem with Windows 11 in 2025: [...]" ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/2025-disastrous-year-windows-11/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:07:45

• "Some days I imagined the time when I could actually buy software." ☛ https://afranca.com.br/the-saas-takeover/ | Source: Andre Franca    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:08:04

• "Trying to control cloud spending after you get the bill never works. The solution is shifting optimization left into design and deployment." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/why-cloud-optimization-is-an-engineering-problem/ | Source: The New Stack    

POSTED tUESDAY, jANUARY 06, 2026 AT 14:08:23

• "About sixty percent of American adults have turned to AI like ChatGPT for health or healthcare in the past three months." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/chatgpt_playing_doctor_openai/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:09:14

• "Today, because of the wonderful RAM shortages1, the Mini PC is the same price as a fully kitted-out Raspberry Pi 5." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/raspberry-pi-cheaper-than-mini-pc/ | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:15:42

• "Imagery is thin on the ground, but I can only assume that the item of jewelry either opens up like a locket or you simply slot the SD card inside." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/memory-cards/you-can-buy-a-necklace-that-holds-an-sd-card-genius-idea-or-total-gimmick | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:16:18

• "The XPS 14 and 16 are launching in select configurations on January 6th, with entry-level and higher-end configs coming in February" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/851047/dell-xps-14-16-13-laptops-brand-return-ces-2026 | Source: The Verge    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:16:30

• "As a brief bit of background, I’m going to be referring to my current job quite a bit, but how I’m doing so is probably going to be a bit confusing because it’s been a very unusual journey" ☛ https://hazelweakly.me/blog/observations-of-leadership-part-one/ | Source: Hazel Weakly    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:18:20

• "Hey again! Welcome back to part two of me reflecting on the past few quarters and writing down my answers to John Cutler and Tom Kerwin’s questions on how leaders navigate uncertainty and ambiguity." ☛ https://hazelweakly.me/blog/observations-of-leadership-part-two/ | Source: Hazel Weakly    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:18:32

• "Why? Well, for the obvious, but also, because, at the time, the military were desperately recruiting as many young women as they could into the services." ☛ https://alexwolfe.ca/my-mother-the-runaway/ | Source: Alexandra Wolfe    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:19:05

• "Many of the most talented, thoughtful and experienced people in the industry are feeling worried, confused, and ungrounded in a field that no longer looks familiar." ☛ https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a-tech-career-in-2026/ | Source: Anil Dash    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:21:31

• "This took me a long time to understand, in part because the people giving me that advice were not wrong about their experience." ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1119 | Source: Unmitigated Risk    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:21:52

• [Old] "This post introduces the basics of the worst-case optimal Generic Join algorithm." ☛ https://remy.wang/blog/wcoj.html | Source: Remy Wang    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:24:55

• "But as I said then, the people who care about coercing finite automata into doing useful things at scale are My People (there are dozens of us)" ☛ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/01/Quamina-2026 | Source: Tim Bray    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:25:07

• "While doing some research about Luhmann’s numbering system’s antecedents" ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2026/01/02/niklas-luhmanns-zettelkasten-method-one-pager-1968/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:25:31

• "Writing something down forces you to fully understand it. When the idea is on paper, you can see all the missing assumptions and leaps in logic." ☛ https://maurycyz.com/misc/starting_a_blog/ | Source: Maury    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:25:42

• "I have walked the circles of JavaScript dependency hell." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/05/the-nine-levels-of-javascript-dependency-hell.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:25:52

• "My book has about 65 short chapters. Each chapter has a quote at the beginning. I thought it would be fun to gather all of these together in a blog post, so here they are." ☛ https://www.manton.org/2026/01/05/indie-microblogging-epigraphs.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:26:06

• "So it was a few days ago I finally got around to deleting my old registrar email address." ☛ https://boston.conman.org/2026/01/05.1 | Source: Sean Conner    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:30:25

• "Pederson was a fixture in the field of science fiction filmmaking, particularly thanks to his involvement on Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” in 1968." ☛ https://variety.com/2026/film/news/con-pederson-dead-2001-a-space-odyssey-1236624108/ | Source: Variety    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:30:35

• "Waiting for that perfect blog platform before you publish your thoughts to the world? Unsure whether you even should publish articles? This article is for you." ☛ https://marijkeluttekes.dev/blog/articles/2026/01/05/create-that-blog/ | Source: Marijke Luttekes    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:30:51

• "Akvorado collects sFlow and IPFIX flows over UDP." ☛ https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-reuseport-ebpf-go | Source: Vincent Bernat    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:38:29

• "Go 1.26 is coming out in February, so it's a good time to explore what's new." ☛ https://antonz.org/go-1-26/ | Source: Anton Zhiyanov    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:40:57

• "I need everyone to stop looking at go.sum, especially to analyze dependency graphs. It is not a “lockfile,” and it has zero semantic effects on version resolution. There is truly no use case for ever parsing it outside of cmd/go." ☛ https://words.filippo.io/gosum/ | Source: Filippo Valsorda    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:41:22

• "I was making some radar image formation visualizations using Python and thought that it would be nice if it was instead written in Javascript and ran on my browser." ☛ https://hforsten.com/online-radar-image-formation-simulator.html | Source: Henrik Forstén    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:42:17

• "There are numbers every Python programmer should know." ☛ https://mkennedy.codes/posts/python-numbers-every-programmer-should-know/ |    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:42:35

• "SciML has 200+ packages with stricter standards than most of the Julia ecosystem." ☛ https://sciml.ai/news/2026/01/04/SciMLHealthBots/index.html | Source: SciML    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:43:26

• "Git has strong conventions for colors, pagers, environment variables, and configuration that users expect without thinking about them." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/04/making-git-pkgs-feel-like-git.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:43:38

• "In a mindset of accelerating development, we can therefore take a look at individual nodes (writing code, debugging, or reviewing code) for elements to speed up, or at overall workflows by influencing the cycles themselves." ☛ https://ferd.ca/software-acceleration-and-desynchronization.html | Source: Fred Herbert    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:44:20

• "Sixteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of December 31, 2025): [...]" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-december-gnu-spotlight | Source: FSF    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:45:18

• Phosh 0.52 GNOME-Based Mobile Shell Brings QR Codes for Wi-Fi Hotspots ☞ https://linuxiac.com/phosh-0-52-brings-qr-codes-for-wi-fi-hotspots/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:47:15

• Disable Lock Screen Media Controls in GNOME 49 (Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora 43) ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/01/disable-lock-screen-media-controls-gnome-49/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:48:01

• "Some projects keep surprising me with their “solutions,” and this is one of those cases. A proposal under review by developers from GNOME and Mozilla could change how middle-mouse-button paste behaves on Linux and other Unix-like systems." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/gnome-and-mozilla-discuss-proposal-to-disable-middle-mouse-paste-on-linux/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:49:03

• "The discussions, visible in Mozilla’s Phabricator revision D277804 and a linked GNOME gsettings-desktop-schemas merge request, focus on disabling the traditional primary selection paste by default." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/gnome-and-mozilla-discuss-proposal-to-disable-middle-mouse-paste-on-linux/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:49:19

• Removing functionality is NOT improving things. It is NOT. You make it harder for people to do the SAME thing they did before (easily).    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:50:36

• Previously, Firefox removed a traditional menu for a bloody hamburger    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:51:01

• Then, it demanded you hold down the button to keep the menu active    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:51:30

• It is REGRESSIVE and NOT consistent with OTHER UIs. It's brain damage from stupid Mozilla infiltrators.    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:51:56

• Like "modern" "smart" TVs that have popups, lag, out-of-sync streams, and interfaces that have just one button that takes longer to learn and use than 1980s remote controls    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:52:59

• Open Source in 2026 Faces a Defining Moment https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/open-source-in-2026-faces-a-defining-moment-177630.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:54:03

• Parch – Persian Arch ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/parch-persian-arch/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:55:15

• PLINK – whole genome association analysis toolset ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/plink-whole-genome-association-analysis-toolset/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:56:52

• eilmeldung – TUI RSS reader ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/eilmeldung-tui-rss-reader/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:57:11

• Amiberry – optimized Amiga emulator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/amiberry-optimized-amiga-emulator/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:57:20

• Packet – terminal multiplexer and broadcast system ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/packet-terminal-multiplexer-broadcast-system/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:57:38

• RazTodo – CLI task manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/raztodo-cli-task-manager/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:57:47

• oyo – step-through diff viewer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/oyo-step-through-diff-viewer/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:58:01

• 4 Best Free and Open Source eBook Web Apps ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-ebook-web-apps/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:58:22

• InfoDash – displays RSS feeds, weather and stock information ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/infodash-displays-rss-feeds-weather-stock-information/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:58:40

• idntag – identify and tag audio files ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/idntag-identify-tag-audio-files/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 14:59:51

• Former Abusive Monopolist Microsoft dev's AnduinOS project opens upgrade path to version 1.4.2 ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/former-microsoft-devs-anduinos-project-opens-upgrade-path-to-version-142/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:00:32

• Six Practical Ways to Use lspci When Troubleshooting GNU/Linux Hardware ☞ https://www.ghacks.net/2026/01/05/six-practical-ways-to-use-lspci-when-troubleshooting-linux-hardware/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:01:02

• Remi Collet: 🎲 PHP version 8.3.30RC1, 8.4.17RC1 and 8.5.2RC1 ☞ https://blog.remirepo.net/post/2026/01/02/PHP-version-8.4.17RC1-and-8.5.2RC1    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:01:32

• CodeWeavers CrossOver 25.1.1 review ☞ https://www.wine-reviews.net/2026/01/codeweavers-crossover-2511-review.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:02:26

• Isoken Ibizugbe: Thinking About My Audience ☞ https://isokenibizugbe.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/thinking-about-my-audience/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:03:58

• Russell Coker: Phone Charging Speeds With Debian/Trixie ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/01/05/phone-charging-speeds/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:04:35

• First Good News of 2026!COCOS 4 Game Engine Goes Open Source ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/cocos-4-game-engine/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:05:44

• "Let's then start to get the answer: [...]" ☛ https://binaryigor.com/mysql-vs-postgresql-performance.html | Source: Igor Roztropiński    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:06:53

• [Old] "So why shouldn’t you compare to DuckDB? Because scientific progress is not a straight line." ☛ https://remy.wang/blog/duckdb.html | Source: Remy Wang    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:07:01

• "I’ve also been helping Vivaldi take the fight to Microsoft as a member of the Browser Choice Alliance, and we’re certainly seeing some success, at least in the European Union." ☛ https://brucelawson.co.uk/2026/2026-out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new/ | Source: Bruce Lawson    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:08:44

• "With that in mind, my goal is not to build something that grows: my goal is to build something that I can use and that others can use, too, should they be interested." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/01/05/why-artemis-is-invite-only | Source: James G    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:08:55

• "This had me thinking about how to communicate what “the time required to maintain the software” means in more depth." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/01/05/software-maintenance | Source: James G    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:09:37

• "It tells me that there’s loads of you fine people reading the content on this site, which is very heart-warming." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/blog/how-you-read-my-content-the-answers/ | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:10:07

• "The switch to Discourse means conversations will be preserved and they will be able to benefit people for years to come." ☛ https://netnewswire.blog/2025/12/29/moving-from-slack-to-discourse.html |    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:11:27

• "Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, has an Authors page that lists all of the websites to which you are subscribed." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/01/05/a-z-navigation-web-component | Source: James G    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:11:39

• "You’ll need ID to confirm you are who you say you are, after which you will get a QR code to scan on your phone to activate the eSIM" ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/01/esim-in-zimbabwe/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:12:45

• "Normally, when weighing filament, people use a separate scale and a calculator" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/rp2040-powered-3d-printer-filament-scale/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:13:51

• "VailuxOS, a German desktop Linux distribution with a customised KDE Plasma desktop, has been upgraded to version 1.6." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12694 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:14:24

• "I finally fixed the problem thanks to this post on the FreeBSD forums: all you have to do is set LANG and it will work: [...]" ☛ https://www.ncartron.org/vdirsyncer-and-crontab-on-freebsd.html | Source: Nico Cartron    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:14:57

• "a whole new set of UI" ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/com/next | Source: Rui Carmo    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:15:29

• "I made substantial changes in the KDE Developer Platform documentation over the years" ☛ https://rabbitictranslator.com/kde-onboarding/ |    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:16:07

• "The first stable release of System76’s COSMIC desktop is now available, making its debut in Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/how-to-install-cosmic-desktop-on-ubuntu-24-04-lts/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:17:13

• "Baybayin is an ancient writing system in which a consonant-vowel syllable is written as one letter — it is an abugida." ☛ https://leanrada.com/notes/baybayin_abugida_keyboard_qmk/ | Source: Lean Rada    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:18:45

• "This is GNU Emacs' notation for 'Super', one of the theoretical extra key modifiers that you can have on keyboards." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsSuperNotes | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:19:09

• [Old] "With its implementation of IPv6 routing tables using radix trees" ☛ https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2017-ipv6-route-lookup-linux | Source: Vincent Bernat    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:19:41

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

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:20:18

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

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:20:54

• How To Install Rocket.Chat on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-rocket-chat-almalinux-10/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:21:19

• How To Install Apache ActiveMQ on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-apache-activemq-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:22:11

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

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:23:16

• How to Install Needrestart on Fedora ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-needrestart-on-fedora-linux/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:23:51

• How to Install Surveillance Giant Google Antigravity on Fedora ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-google-antigravity-on-fedora-linux/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:23:59

• How to Enable SSH on Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-enable-ssh-on-ubuntu-26-04    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:24:41

• How to Disable IPv6 on Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-disable-ipv6-on-ubuntu-26-04    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:24:53

• Sebastian Wick: Improving the Flatpak Graphics Drivers Situation ☞ https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/flatpak-graphics-drivers/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:26:08

• What I watched, Week 1 2026 ☞ https://rubenerd.com/what-i-watched-week-1-2026/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:26:41

• Aqemu orange-ball supposed to run as root ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202601/aqemu-orange-ball-supposed-to-run-as-root.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:28:20

• Vincent Bernat: Using eBPF to load-balance traffic across UDP sockets with Go ☞ https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-reuseport-ebpf-go    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:28:48

• NVIDIA GeForce NOW Gains Native GNU/Linux Support ☞ https://linuxiac.com/nvidia-geforce-now-gains-native-linux-support/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:30:09

• Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1052795/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:30:36

• 5 GNU/Linux Resolutions to Level Up Your Skills in 2026 ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-resolutions-2026/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:33:18

• Hellen Chemtai: Starting out on Open source: Try the OpenQA Debian Image Testing Project ☞ https://hellenchemtai.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/starting-out-on-open-source-try-the-openqa-debian-image-testing-project/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:34:47

• The Rust Programming Language Blog: Project goals update — December 2025 ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/01/05/project-goals-2025-december-update/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:40:57

• pgtwin as OCF Agent ☞ https://azouhr.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/pgtwin-as-ocf-agent/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:45:08

• TTABlog Quarterly Index: October - December 2025 ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2026/01/ttablog-quarterly-index-october.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:46:07

• USPTO Forms Working Group to Bolster SEP Owner Rights [sic] ☞ https://consortiuminfo.org/intellectual-propery/intellectual-property-rights/uspto-forms-working-group-to-bolster-sep-owner-rights/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:46:52

• "I recently purchased a XFX AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Swift 16GB upgrading from an old NVIDIA GTX 1660 Super card with 6GB." ☛ https://jasontucker.blog/optimizing-bios-settings-for-my-new-amd-rx-9070-xt-gpu-upgrade/ | Source: Jason Tucker    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:51:08

• "After years of making do with aging hardware, I finally took the plunge and upgraded to an AMD RX 9070 XT." ☛ https://jasontucker.blog/seeing-games-as-they-were-meant-to-be-seen-my-graphics-card-upgrade-journey/ | Source: Jason Tucker    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:51:17

• "Today, we are excited to introduce the latest updates to the Red Hat Partner Program." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/accelerating-success-red-hat-partner-program | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:53:00

• "As a PMM, I spend a lot of time at the intersection of technology and the way we communicate it." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/ai-resolution-will-still-matter-2030 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:53:12

• AI nonsense to lift up IBM's stock based on a lie    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:53:38

• Maduro Pleads Not Guilty ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/briefing/maduro-pleads-not-guilty.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:56:22

• For Many Jan. 6 Rioters, a Pardon From Convicted Felon Wasn’t Enough ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/trump-jan-6-pardons-rioters.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:56:43

• Appeals Court Upholds Prohibition on Convicted Felon’s Medical Research Cuts ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/trump-nih-grant-cuts-court.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:57:25

• RFK Jr. Scales Back the Number of Vaccines Recommended for Children ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/health/children-vaccines-cdc-kennedy.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:57:44

• Doing drugs, says kids get too many drugs... (RFK)    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:58:04

• US scraps universal child vaccine guidance, drawing expert concern ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260106-us-scraps-universal-child-vaccine-guidance    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:58:19

• MAHA: make america homeopathic again    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:58:43

• Because medicine is poison... or something something bad    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:59:11

• Michigan sits on $35M fund to improve nursing homes. It’s largely unused ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/michigan-has-35m-fund-to-improve-nursing-homes-not-worth-applying-some-say/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 15:59:46

• Choosing a nursing home can be tough; these tips can help ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/choosing-a-nursing-home-can-be-tough-these-tips-can-help/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:00:01

• Abuse, neglect common in Michigan nursing homes — and no one is coming to help ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/abuse-neglect-common-in-michigan-nursing-homes-and-no-one-is-coming-to-help/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:00:30

• Michigan doctors criticize changes to US childhood vaccination schedule ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/michigan-doctors-criticize-changes-to-us-childhood-vaccination-schedule/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:00:46

• Give me your poor, your hungry... I will kill them young -USA    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:01:11

• Analysis of PPPP “encryption” ☞ https://palant.info/2026/01/05/analysis-of-pppp-encryption/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:03:22

• Kubernetes v1.35: Extended Toleration Operators to Support Numeric Comparisons (Alpha) ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01/05/kubernetes-v1-35-numeric-toleration-operators/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:07:26

• Rakudo Weekly 2026.01 Year::Happy.new ☞ https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/01/05/2026-01-yearhappy-new/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:08:11

• Openterface KVM-GO – An ultra-compact KVM-over-USB solution with HDMI, DP, or VGA video input ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/05/openterface-kvm-go-an-ultra-compact-kvm-over-usb-solution-with-hdmi-dp-or-vga-video-input/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:13:29

• ESP32-DIV V1 handheld pentesting tool supports Wi-Fi Attacks, BLE spoofing, 2.4GHz scanning, and Sub-GHz jamming ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/06/esp32-div-v1-handheld-pentesting-tool-supports-wi-fi-attacks-ble-spoofing-2-4ghz-scanning-and-sub-ghz-jamming/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:14:06

• Andy Wingo: pre-tenuring in v8 ☞ https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/01/05/pre-tenuring-in-v8    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:14:55

• Creating “Edit” Links That Open Plain-Text Source Files in a Native App ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/os-as-cms/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:15:55

• Colin Watson: Free software activity in December 2025 ☞ https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/activity-2025-12.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:21:58

• Valve & AMD Developers Delivered The Most Code Contributions To Mesa In 2025 ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Git-Stats-2025    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:22:38

• Entity resolution: the security technology you probably haven’t heard of ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/entity-resolution-the-security-technology-you-probably-havent-heard-of/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:23:19

• The mineral deficiency in America’s economic health ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2026/01/the-mineral-deficiency-in-americas-economic-health/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:26:57

• South Korean leader Lee snaps Pooh-tin selfie with Chinese ‘backdoor’ phone ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-leader-lee-snaps-xi-selfie-with-chinese-backdoor-phone    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:27:23

• Chinese, South Korean companies sign nine cooperation agreements ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-south-korean-companies-sign-nine-cooperation-agreements    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:27:45

• 2025 in retrospect & happy new year 2026! ☞ https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/01/05/new-year.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:28:33

• Zero trust security and dynamic credentials on OpenShift ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/05/zero-trust-security-and-dynamic-credentials-openshift    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:34:26

• 'Coalition of the willing' to gather in Paris to revive Ukraine peace talks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260106-coalition-of-the-willing-to-gather-in-paris-ukraine-peace-talks    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:49:59

• Lithuanian, German ministers say regime change in Venezuela may lead to ‘positive change’ ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2797272/lithuanian-german-ministers-say-regime-change-in-venezuela-may-lead-to-positive-change    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:50:16

• Western Leaders To Meet Zelenskyy In Paris To Discuss Ukraine's Future Amid Peace Push ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/coalition-zelenskyy-paris-ukraine-peace-proposal/33640623.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:50:27

• Ukraine Prepares For Crucial European Talks Amid Deadly Russian Attacks ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-zelenskyy-peace-paris-russia-macron/33639842.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:50:40

• Russia Once Offered U.S. Control of Venezuela for Free Rein in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/world/americas/russia-us-venezuela-ukraine.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:51:03

• Zelensky Taps High-Profile Canadian Politician as Economic Adviser ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/world/europe/chrystia-freeland-ukraine-economic-adviser.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:51:24

• Russia moans because Latvia didn't let its 'neutral' luge team in ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/sport/05.01.2026-russia-moans-because-latvia-didnt-let-its-neutral-luge-team-in.a628583/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:53:56

• The US capture of Maduro reveals Russia’s weakness ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/the-us-capture-of-maduro-puts-russias-weakness-on-display/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:54:19

• Time to restore America’s cyberspace security system ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/us-cyber-defense-falling-behind-cisa-leadership-funding-op-ed/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:54:43

• Former intel official: Baltic Sea cable damage ‘result of coinciding factors’, not Russia ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2797196/former-intel-official-baltic-sea-cable-damage-result-of-coinciding-factors-not-russia    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:55:11

• Lithuanian FM calls Maduro illegitimate, rejects comparisons between US and Russia ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2797079/lithuanian-fm-calls-maduro-illegitimate-rejects-comparisons-between-us-and-russia    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:55:27

• Why are so many leaders warning of war with Russia? ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2791137/why-are-so-many-leaders-warning-of-war-with-russia    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:55:42

• Censorship: Welcoming three new members to the PostgreSQL Community Code of Conduct Committee ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/welcoming-three-new-members-to-the-postgresql-community-code-of-conduct-committee-3209/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/01/03/linux-kernel-code-of-conduct-committee/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:56:23

• North Korea’s Kim inspects memorial for soldiers who died in Russia mission ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-kim-inspects-memorial-for-soldiers-who-died-in-russia-mission    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:58:30

• Dihydroxyacetone Man warns of higher tariffs on India over Russian oil purchases ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/trump-warns-of-higher-tariffs-on-india-over-russian-oil-purchases    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:58:41

• Taiwan sees Convicted Felon’s arrest of Maduro as helpful in deterring Pooh-tin ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-sees-trumps-arrest-of-maduro-as-helpful-in-deterring-xi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:59:11

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Foray Into Venezuela Could Embolden Russia’s and China’s Own Aggression ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/world/europe/trump-venezuela-china-russia.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:59:24

• Russia sees opportunity in thawing Arctic. But it’s looking for partners, too. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0105/russia-arctic-development-trump-india-china    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 16:59:39

• Global Ripples From Venezuela ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/world/venezuela-global-implications-trump-maduro-iran.html "It’s only been days since the U.S. raid, but it already feels like the world is living in a new reality. China and Russia are watching."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:00:00

• "Russia’s pro-war bloggers on the U.S. operation in Venezuela" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/01/05/maybe-it-s-time-we-started-hiring-american-generals | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:00:18

• Special Episode: After Maduro’s Ouster, What Are Convicted Felon’s Plans for Venezuela? ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/special-episode-after-maduros-ouster-what-are-trumps-plans-for-venezuela    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:01:12

• How a COVID-era Law Banning ‘Fake News’ in Puerto Rico Targets the Press ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/how-a-covid-era-law-banning-fake-news-in-puerto-rico-targets-the-press    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:04:26

• How to Give the Government New Power to “Un-Person” Someone, in Three Easy Steps ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/un-personing-with-digital-id    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:05:36

• "Back in the 2025 edition of the article I suggested Kubuntu, and while it worked reasonably well overall it feels a bit like an unloved child. I used it for a long time and was mostly happy with it, but times change and so does the Linux and open source world." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/the-best-linux-distributions-for-gaming-in-2026/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:12:08

• GitHub Disables Rockchip’s Linux MPP Repository After DMCA Request https://hackaday.com/2026/01/05/github-disables-rockchips-linux-mpp-repository-after-dmca-request/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:15:30

• Hytale will launch with native Linux support, though the Steam Deck is "not officially recommended" https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/hytale-will-launch-with-native-linux-support-though-the-steam-deck-is-not-officially-recommended    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:16:11

• "Actually, these are mostly based on my New Year resolutions, and not all of these will be applicable to you, but you will surely find one or two to add to your new year resolution as a desktop Linux user." https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-resolutions-2026/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:16:43

• I turned my TV into a Linux PC for $100, and I won't go back https://www.howtogeek.com/i-turned-my-tv-into-a-linux-pc-with-a-raspberry-pi/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:17:11

• NVIDIA Prepares Native GeForce NOW Support for Linux-Powered Operating Systems https://www.techpowerup.com/344675/nvidia-prepares-native-geforce-now-support-for-linux-powered-operating-systems    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:17:47

• NVIDIA's GeForce NOW Will Allegedly Get Native Linux Support https://80.lv/articles/nvidia-s-geforce-now-will-allegedly-get-native-linux-support    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:18:51

• Hey hi nonsense galore https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/open-source-in-2026-faces-a-defining-moment-177630.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:19:38

• Nvidia GeForce Now expected to gain official Linux support as early as this week https://www.techspot.com/news/110801-nvidia-geforce-now-expected-gain-official-linux-support.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:20:00

• Nvidia is reportedly bringing official Linux support to GeForce Now soon, not just for Steam Deck https://www.pcguide.com/news/nvidia-is-reportedly-bringing-official-linux-support-to-geforce-now-soon-not-just-for-steam-deck/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:21:28

• NVIDIA GeForce NOW set to introduce native Linux support launch in 2026 https://www.livemint.com/gadgets-and-appliances/nvidia-geforce-now-set-to-introduce-native-linux-support-launch-in-2026-11767614840353.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:21:53

• New GeForce NOW native Linux support could lure Windows 10 refugees https://www.neowin.net/news/new-geforce-now-native-linux-support-could-lure-windows-10-refugees/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:22:24

• "When hardware behaves oddly on a Linux system, the fastest answers are often already available from the terminal. One of the most useful tools for this is lspci, a small command that reports what devices are connected to the PCI bus and how the kernel sees them." https://www.ghacks.net/2026/01/05/six-practical-ways-to-use-lspci-when-troubleshooting-linux-hardware/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:22:46

• 6 practical uses for the lspci command on Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/practical-uses-for-the-linux-lspci-command/ https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/6-practical-uses-lspci-command-170016925.html    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:24:33

• What to Do When Your Linux Hard Disk Is Running Out of Space https://www.maketecheasier.com/fix-linux-hard-disk-running-out-of-space/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:25:05

• You may not want to switch to Linux for these reasons https://www.howtogeek.com/you-may-not-want-to-switch-to-linux/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:27:10

• Manjaro 26 makes a strong case for leaving Windows 11 behind https://betanews.com/2026/01/05/manjaro-26-makes-a-strong-case-for-leaving-windows-11-behind/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:29:32

• Huracán - Jorge Luis González gemini://bitacora.anacronico.rocks/poemasdeotres/huracan.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:36:25

• [japan] [photos] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2026-01-06.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:48:48

• L’urgence de la souveraineté numérique pour échapper à la merdification gemini://ploum.net/2026-01-06-merdification-et-souverainete.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:49:15

• Microsoft set for major job cuts in January 2026, impacting up to 22,000 employees https://www.dimsumdaily.hk/microsoft-set-for-major-job-cuts-in-january-2026-impacting-up-to-22000-employees/    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 17:53:06

• we hear epo people admire tr coverage of epo affairs, but they say we are TOO SOFT! That we need to become more combative    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 19:01:49

• 🔤SpellBinding: YCIRTUB Wordo: BOZOS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2026-01-06.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 19:13:23

• 🖼️ xkcd: Tensegrity #3190 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3190.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 19:13:57

• "For all the US citizens who are angry and disappointed about how they world is treating them only because they happen to be citizens of a country ruled by wanna-be dictators, all I have to offer is my impression of how the world treated Germans for decades after the second World War." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-01-06-responsibility    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 19:14:48

• "And people elsewhere hated them all the same. Yes, it was probably unfair to some. But what has haunted me ever since is this: How much resistance is required for you to be cleared of the stain of collective guilt? Not on the individual level, but on the collective level."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 19:15:09

• "Collective responsibility is hard because most of us were taught that the children must not suffer for the sins of their ancestors. But at the same time, we live in a society, benefit from it, suffer from it, and share responsibility for it. Even if we don't like it."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 19:15:28

• (For future readers some historical context: The Trump administration has kidnapped Maduro from Venezuela much like the Bush administration kidnapped Noriega from Panama and now the Trump administration is once again threatening to take Greenland from Denmark.)   

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 19:15:52

• "Actually maybe playing with Nokia 2780 would make sense? I could write gemini browser, misfin client, and some proxy client for signal..." gemini://liladi.site/tinylog.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 19:16:30

• "Maker Aiden Chostner has designed a PCI Express graphics card that you can build yourself — though expectations as to its performance must be tempered by the understanding that it's powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W microcontroller board, albeit one that's been heavily overclocked." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202601/20260106-pico2dvi.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 19:17:06

• 2025 Review gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/2025Review    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 19:18:05

• TV Detox 5 gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/tvDetox5    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 19:18:42

• "I am less hungry ever since I stopped watching tv, one or two meal a day is fine. When I practiced intermittent fasting, I noticed that I needed less sleep. Last night I've slept only 6 hours and I feel really good this morning."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 19:19:15

• Happy New Year gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2763    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 19:20:18

• "I hid from layoffs at IBM for 32 years and then hid from them another 2 years at Kyndryl. Decided to resign from Kyndryl when my main customer left to support them. I’ve been with them another 3 years and will retire this summer at 65! Not the ideal working situation for sure, but it is possible. I decided not to make a career out of IBM but used it as a game to see how long I could last (sad I know….). Good luck!!!"    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 19:23:55

• "you got lucky that your number wasn’t called…had nothing to do with performance" "it's not just a low cost country, it's a total sh-thole country.    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 19:24:28

• "That's why Alvind needs to innovate and rebuilt the toilet infrastructure there. One job at a time."    

posted Tuesday, January 06, 2026 at 19:24:36