Roy Schestowitz

• Cancerous Tumors ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/the-use-of-ultrasound-to-take-on-cancerous-tumors/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:22:37

• Retro Amiga Experience ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/pistorm68k-offers-supercharged-retro-amiga-experience/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:22:54

• Even Mild Strength Training Now Can Save Your Mobility Later ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/even-mild-strength-training-now-can-save-your-mobility-later    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:23:11

• DC Thomson reports flat revenue but growing profit ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/dc-thomson-reports-flat-revenue-but-growing-profit/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:23:43

• A bit of glass and freedom is all you need ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/01/07/a-bit-of-glass-and-freedom-is-all-you-need/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:24:48

• Study Raises Serious Questions About The Benefits of Intermittent Fasting ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/study-raises-serious-questions-about-the-benefits-of-intermittent-fasting    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:25:12

• Mysterious 'Cloud-9' May Be The Dark-Matter Bones of a Failed Galaxy ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-cloud-9-may-be-the-dark-matter-bones-of-a-failed-galaxy    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:25:26

• Jellyfish Snooze Like We Do, And It Could Explain The Origins of Sleep ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/jellyfish-snooze-like-we-do-and-it-could-explain-the-origins-of-sleep    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:25:41

• Tropical Spiders Make Fearsome 'Puppets' of Themselves For Protection ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/tropical-spiders-make-fearsome-puppets-of-themselves-for-protection    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:25:54

• "Tired Of Burnt Fingers?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/tired-of-burnt-fingers-try-pid-tuning-the-hot-glue-gun/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:26:42

• We Emit a Visible Light That Vanishes When We Die, Surprising Study Says ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/we-emit-a-visible-light-that-vanishes-when-we-die-surprising-study-says    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:27:16

• 10-Minute Bursts of Exercise Can Trigger Anti-Cancer Signals in The Body ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/10-minute-bursts-of-exercise-can-trigger-anti-cancer-signals-in-the-body    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:27:30

• Why Does Mint Make Your Mouth Cold? A Scientist Explains The Strange Sensation ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/why-does-mint-make-your-mouth-cold-a-scientist-explains-the-strange-sensation    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:27:58

• Darwin's Headache: Evolution's Clock Might Tick at Different Speeds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/darwins-headache-evolutions-clock-might-tick-at-different-speeds    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:28:07

• Live Blog: Protests Continue In Iran As Currency Plunges And Crackdown Widens ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protests-live-blog-trump-khamenei/33640284.html    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:28:41

• "8-Bit Commodore" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/this-8-bit-commodore-pet-was-hard-to-fix/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:29:13

• The C.I.A. assessed Venezuela’s future without Maduro before the U.S. raid. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/05/world/venezuela-maduro-trump/venezuela-without-maduro-cia-intel-report    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:32:01

• Can You Optimize Love? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/style/love-symposium-artificial-intelligence-keeper.html    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:32:27

• How AI-generated images contributed to the disinformation about Maduro's capture ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260106-ai-generated-images-contributed-disinformation-spreading-maduro-capture    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:32:49

• Microsoft might "Delay" it to "Prove it Wrong" https://www.greatandhra.com/articles/special-articles/microsoft-braces-for-massive-job-cuts-151997 https://www.mixvale.com.br/2026/01/07/rumors-indicate-layoffs-of-11000-to-22000-at-microsoft-due-to-artificial-intelligence-costs-en/amp/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:45:15

• "Or copying the Valve / Steam model...." (Microsoft) https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9xrq91e    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:46:52

• "ah yes because those people will never get another job I suppose. Companies are not charities. They don't keep people employed so they can "buy more stuff", they keep people employed to make more money for the company. When they don't, they get laid off. It's really simple math here. You may not like it, but that's the way it is." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcyazpc9    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:47:28

• "Total horsepucky. Am manager, have not been directed to "issue 30% more PIPs"" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ke65sa3y    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:48:31

• DIY Hydroelectric Generators ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/the-many-questions-and-challenges-with-diy-hydroelectric-generators/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:51:12

• Optical Magnetic Field ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/faraday-effects-emerging-from-the-optical-magnetic-field/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:51:33

• American Federation of Teachers Sues Texas Over Educators’ Comments on Charlie Kirk ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/us/american-federation-teachers-charlie-kirk-lawsuit.html    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:52:22

• Once High-Flying Ticketing Startup Fanimal Sues Ticketmaster/Live Nation for Putting It Out of Business ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/01/05/fanimal-sues-ticketmaster-live-nation/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:52:47

• Michigan nursing homes have few staff, little training. Misery can follow ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/michigan-nursing-homes-have-few-staff-little-training-misery-can-follow/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:53:23

• Tesla Accused of Killing Family, Plus Their Dog, by Steering Vehicle Head-on Into Oncoming Semi-Truck ☞ https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/lawsuit-tesla-kills-family-semi-truck    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:53:51

• Bondi reviewer Richardson has already said our security laws are no good ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/bondi-reviewer-richardson-has-already-said-our-security-laws-are-no-good/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:54:56

• Analyst: al-Shabaab Seizure of Mogadishu May Be a ‘Matter of Time’ ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2026/01/analyst-al-shabaab-seizure-of-mogadishu-may-be-a-matter-of-time/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:55:31

• Housing crisis puts rent control in spotlight, in New York and beyond ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2026/0106/rent-control-housing-mamdani    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:56:05

• Iran Says It’s Investigating Violence at Weekend Protests ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/world/middleeast/iran-protests-violence.html    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:56:23

• On IBM: Any layoffs planned in Austin office? https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kedsm8dt "Just keep free bird on, no worries."    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 03:58:12

• 8 hours ago by Anonymous: https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdzx31jp "Has anyone who signed the release also brought an age discrimination case in arbitration? I'm the in NY area and looking for a lawyer recommendation"    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:03:36

• Syria and Israel Revive Security Talks Mediated by the U.S. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/world/middleeast/syria-israel-us-talks-paris.html    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:04:55

• Armed police patrol streets of Caracas as CIA reportedly advises to keep Maduro loyalists in power ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/armed-police-patrol-streets-of-caracas-as-cia-reportedly-advises-to-keep-maduro-loyalists-in-power    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:06:00

• What would be the consequences of a Greenland invasion? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/what-would-be-the-consequences-of-a-greenland-invasion    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:06:10

• 'Before returning to Venezuela US oil companies will want to be given assurances' , analyst says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20260106-before-returning-to-venezuela-us-oil-companies-will-want-to-be-given-assurances-analyst-says    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:06:33

• atlanticcouncil shilling some illegal policies. strike 1. atlanticcouncil shilling abduction of leaders. strike 2.    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:08:05

• NordVPN Denies Breach After Hacker Leaks Data ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/nordvpn-denies-breach-after-hacker-leaks-data/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:08:35

• Dozens of Major Data Breaches Linked to Single Threat Actor ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/dozens-of-major-data-breaches-linked-to-single-threat-actor/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:09:02

• Sophisticated ClickFix Campaign Targeting Hospitality Sector ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/sophisticated-clickfix-campaign-targeting-hospitality-sector/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:09:18

• Survey: many in Latvia want to save money in 2026 ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/06.01.2026-survey-many-in-latvia-want-to-save-money-in-2026.a628732/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:10:04

• US appellate court upholds injunction on federal funding cuts to medical research ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/us-appellate-court-upholds-injunction-on-federal-funding-cuts-to-medical-research/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:12:31

• virt-manager works in EasyOS ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202601/virt-manager-works-in-easyos.html    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:13:02

• Rwanda Building Lab to Detect Zoonotic Diseases ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2026/01/rwanda-building-lab-to-detect-zoonotic-diseases/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rwanda-building-lab-to-detect-zoonotic-diseases    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:13:33

• Michigan ‘a pretty sick state’ amid surge of ‘super flu,’ COVID cases ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/michigan-a-pretty-sick-state-amid-surge-of-super-flu-covid-cases/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:13:45

• Kushal Das: 2025 blog review ☞ https://kushaldas.in/posts/2025-blog-review.html "I wrote only 8 blog posts. The year was difficult in many different ways"    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:29:03

• Tomasz Torcz: I Voted, F43 edition ☞ https://enotty.pipebreaker.pl/posts/2026/01/i-voted-f43-edition/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:29:31

• Michigan has ‘zero tolerance’ for child care fraud, agency says amid push for audit ☞ https://bridgemi.com/talent-education/michigan-has-zero-tolerance-for-child-care-fraud-agency-says-amid-push-for-audit/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:29:53

• ESP32-S3 development board features 4.2-inch Reflective LCD (RLCD), dual microphone array, onboard speaker ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/06/esp32-s3-development-board-features-4-2-inch-reflective-lcd-rlcd-dual-microphone-array-onboard-speaker/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:30:20

• Meet the Man Hunting Spies in Your Smartphone: MIT Tech Review ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/2026/01/meet-the-man-hunting-spies-in-your-smartphone-mit-tech-review/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:31:01

• Software Patent: CAFC Upholds District Court Invalidation of Wireless Transmission Decoding Claims Under 101 ☞ https://ipwatchdog.com/2026/01/06/cafc-upholds-district-court-invalidation-wireless-transmission-decoding-claims-101/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:32:12

• Dozens detained in money laundering probe centered on İstanbul’s Grand Bazaar ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/dozens-detained-in-money-laundering-probe-centered-on-istanbuls-grand-bazaar-315306    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:33:17

• 100,000 Foot View of Core-Banking Systems ☞ https://yottadb.com/100000-foot-view-of-core-banking-systems/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:33:37

• Opinion | Michigan schools need more than Mississippi ☞ https://bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-michigan-schools-need-more-than-mississippi/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:34:16

• Software Patent: Ascend Innovations entity, Byteweavr, cloud data patent monopoly found invalid ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/1/2/ascend-innovations-entity-byteweavr-patent-found-invalid    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:35:03

• Ariscale’s Failed Ordered Combination 101 Argument ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/01/ariscales-combination-argument.html    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:35:39

• An X11 Thing! Your Favorite Middle-Click Paste is Likely to be Disabled in Future GNOME Releases ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/gnome-firefox-middle-click-paste-removal/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/06/Mozilla_s_Assisted_Suicide_Assisted_by_GNOME.shtml    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:38:20

• Lawfare at Oxford: ‘No student outlet can afford to go against Carter-Ruck’ ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/lawfare-at-oxford-no-student-outlet-can-afford-to-go-against-carter-ruck/ "Student journalist Eleanor Grant says lawfare is stifling free speech." https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/10/13/justice-means-justice/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:39:22

• openSUSE 15.6 to 16.0 upgrade notes ☞ https://freeaptitude.altervista.org/articles/opensuse-15-6-to-16-0-upgrade-notes.html    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:40:42

• Jonathan Almeida: Rebase all WIPs to the new main ☞ https://jonalmeida.com/til/jj-rebase-all/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:41:04

• Jonathan Almeida: Update jj bookmarks to the latest revision ☞ https://jonalmeida.com/til/jj-tug/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:41:23

• Lenovo brings handheld-favorite SteamOS to the flagship Legion Go 2 — the AMD Z2 Extreme gets official SteamOS support for the first time ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/lenovo-brings-handheld-favorite-steamos-to-the-flagship-legion-go-2-the-amd-z2-extreme-gets-official-steamos-support-for-the-first-time    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:41:46

• Live Nation Continues Its Global Expansion With the Acquisition of France’s Paris La Défense Arena, Plans ‘To Host Significantly More Productions Year-Round’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/01/06/live-nation-paris-la-defense-arena-acquisition/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:43:06

• Berlin households grapple with prolonged blackout as a cold snap grips Europe ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20260106-berlin-households-grapple-with-prolonged-blackout-as-a-cold-snap-grips-europe    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:43:53

• If the capital of Germany and economic core (one of several) of the EU cannot provide basics such as power, just because climate change hits, what hope is there for poorer countries where rent doesn't start at 1k (EUR) a month?    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:45:45

• Schachfreunde Berlin https://schachfreunde.berlin/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:46:34

• Schadenfreude rather    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:47:57

• Privileged Conversations | Jan. 2026 ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/privileged-conversations-jan-2026/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:48:43

• Maduro's legal team includes seasoned lawyer who defended WikiLeaks' Assange ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260106-maduro-s-legal-team-includes-seasoned-lawyer-who-defended-wikileaks-assange    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:49:09

• The Forgotten Campuses of American Higher Education ☞ https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-forgotten-campuses-of-american-higher-education    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:49:59

• Amazon’s Hey Hi (AI) agents spark backlash from retailers after listing their products without permission ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/06/amazons-ai-agents-spark-backlash-retailers-listing-products-without-knowledge/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:50:32

• Raspberry Pi and mini PC home lab prices hit parity as DRAM costs skyrocket — price hikes force hobbyists to weigh up performance versus power consumption ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-and-mini-pc-home-lab-prices-hit-parity-as-dram-costs-skyrocket-price-hikes-force-hobbyists-to-weigh-up-performance-versus-power-consumption    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:50:54

• Verifier-state pruning in BPF https://lwn.net/Articles/1050779/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:54:43

• A high-memory elimination timeline for the kernel https://lwn.net/Articles/1051010/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:55:09

• Episode 29 of the Dirk and Linus show https://lwn.net/Articles/1050317/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:56:41

• Monolithic https://lwn.net/Articles/1051235/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:59:07

• Tools for successful documentation projects https://lwn.net/Articles/1049976/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 04:59:47

• A 2025 retrospective https://lwn.net/Articles/1051230/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:02:32

• "If you build it, you can create just about anything" https://www.makeuseof.com/transform-linux-into-a-ruthless-content-creation-beast/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:04:56

• "Containers > Virtual Machines." https://www.makeuseof.com/i-stopped-distro-hopping/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:05:29

• "Plus, I can learn and play with Ubuntu when I'm not monitoring my home" https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-home-assistant-chromebook/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:05:56

• Everyone’s switching to this GPU-accelerated terminal — and I get it https://www.makeuseof.com/everyones-switching-to-this-gpu-accelerated-terminal/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:06:49

• "Manage Docker containers faster with a visual terminal UI." https://www.makeuseof.com/this-gorgeous-terminal-ui-changed-how-i-use-docker-on-linux/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:07:52

• "4 years in the making." https://www.makeuseof.com/system76s-rust-based-cosmic-desktop-for-linux-is-here-and-its-amazing/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:08:14

• "Use Linux without fearing updates, breakage, or drift." https://www.makeuseof.com/a-week-with-nixos-changed-how-i-think-about-linux/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:08:47

• "The new amifuse project uses an original AmigaOS driver in Motorola 68k CPU emulation." https://www.howtogeek.com/amiga-filesystem-is-now-on-linux-and-mac-thanks-to-an-emulated-driver/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:09:50

• "It's time for your game to rumble." https://www.howtogeek.com/this-linux-app-for-cooperative-controller-gaming-just-got-a-big-update/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:10:21

• An introduction to the most useful special and environment variables in Bash https://www.howtogeek.com/bash-variables-i-use-in-almost-every-script/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:10:53

• "Congrats on installing Linux. Now install these five apps to get the best experience." https://www.howtogeek.com/install-these-5-must-have-apps-on-day-one/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:11:31

• Taiwan heavily reliant on Russian energy for chip manufacturing https://www.dw.com/en/taiwan-heavily-reliant-on-russian-energy-for-chip-manufacturing/a-75222206    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:12:43

• Russia expands biometric ID system (again) https://off-guardian.org/2025/12/29/russia-expands-biometric-id-system-again/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:13:02

• A gentle introduction to Bash functions https://www.howtogeek.com/stop-repeating-yourself-learning-bash-functions-keeps-your-code-dry/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:17:05

• Why printf is superior to echo in Linux scripts https://www.howtogeek.com/heres-why-printf-beats-echo-in-your-linux-scripts/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:17:39

• 52 years later, UNIX V4 has been rediscovered and digitized https://www.howtogeek.com/52-years-later-unix-v4-has-been-rediscovered-and-digitized/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:18:47

• "There's a simple shortcut for connecting to VPNs that everyone should use." https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-connect-to-a-vpn-service-from-the-linux-command-line/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:20:06

• "Discover why learning the terminal is powerful and inevitable for all Linux users alike." https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-learning-the-linux-terminal-is-worth-it-even-for-beginners/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:20:29

• "Tired of Nano's confusing keyboard shortcuts? Let's modernize your terminal text editor." https://www.howtogeek.com/terminal-text-editors-that-are-better-than-nano/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:20:56

• "Who said Linux Mint was a Windows-like distro? I'm customizing it for Apple fans." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-made-linux-mint-look-like-macos-with-these-tweaks/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:21:43

• "Linux doesn't have to look like Linux—and these five desktops prove it." https://www.howtogeek.com/best-windows-like-linux-desktops-for-a-familiar-look-and-feel/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:22:12

• "The boy who cried "Year of Linux" might finally be right this time." https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-2026-could-finally-be-the-year-of-desktop-linux/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:22:34

• "Get the Mac experience without the Mac price—or the limitations." https://www.howtogeek.com/the-best-macos-like-linux-desktop-environments/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:22:59

• "Explore refreshing alternatives to tired-looking ancient unix commands." https://www.howtogeek.com/modern-cli-tools-that-have-replaced-ps-df-and-curl-for-me/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:23:28

• "From the utilitarian to just the plain cute and fun, I've found several apps that I refuse to uninstall." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-i-tried-in-2025-that-are-actually-worth-installing/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:23:58

• "Now based on Alpine Linux 3.23." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-phones-are-getting-even-better-with-postmarketos-25-12/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:24:28

• A beginner's guide on expanding Bash arrays and word splitting https://www.howtogeek.com/bash-for-loops-confused-me-until-i-learned-these-expansion-rules/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:24:57

• "Sometimes, the best way to get ready for a switch is nothing at all." https://www.howtogeek.com/x11-is-going-away-on-linux-heres-how-to-prepare/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:25:34

• This is NOT a feature https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-distros-that-work-with-windows-secure-boot/ see http://techrights.org/wiki/UEFI/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:26:02

• "I prefer KDE Plasma, but these changes made me feel more at home." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-finally-fixed-my-xfce-workflow-with-these-simple-settings-and-apps/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:26:42

• Putin in the White House? https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-calls-american-general-ukraine-negotiations-idiot-saying-zelensky-was-courageous-1767505    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:31:36

• Also spreading disinformation from the Kremlin https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-tries-save-face-after-believing-putins-made-ukraine-attack-plot-1767494    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:32:15

• Disinformation is fast becoming the norm in the world    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:32:39

• the   

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:33:05

• Microsoft, seeing that MSM talks about mass layoffs, might DELAY these to "disprove" the media    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:33:11

• So no point repeating the lies, which were just some tweet from a military-connected PR man of Microsoft    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:33:55

• "This brings with it several improvements and what will be a disappointment for 32-bit owners." https://www.howtogeek.com/alternative-nas-operating-system-openmediavault-version-8-released/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:34:50

• "Soon it won't just be a gaming distro anymore." https://www.howtogeek.com/cachyos-announces-upcoming-server-edition/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:35:19

• "The project is starting just in time for GNOME and KDE to rip out X11 support." https://www.howtogeek.com/another-x11-revival-has-arrived-but-what-is-the-point/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:35:59

• "That old laptop you installed Linux on will collect dust no more." https://www.howtogeek.com/ways-to-have-fun-on-linux-this-weekend-december-26/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:36:23

• "Will any of these new distros last? Only time will tell." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-distributions-that-first-appeared-in-2025/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:36:45

• "Otherwise, it was just going to rot in storage forever." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-repurposed-my-old-chromebook-as-a-linux-server-heres-how-it-went/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:37:07

• "Taking bullets for all of us, to keep the world running." https://www.howtogeek.com/what-exactly-makes-linux-so-bulletproof/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:37:39

• "Begun, the Linux Wars have." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-wars-that-shaped-the-os-you-use-today/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:38:02

• The best laptop for learning to code is probably the one you already have https://www.howtogeek.com/the-best-laptop-for-learning-to-code-is-probably-the-one-you-already-have/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:38:39

• "While you might think you need a high-powered machine to learn to code, your current machine or even an older laptop will likely be all you need to get started. Here's why."    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:38:54

• "Want to ditch Windows but you're stuck with Adobe? You have options." https://www.howtogeek.com/photoshop-on-linux/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:39:37

• "An all in one solution to bid farewell to your text manipulation woes." https://www.howtogeek.com/the-linux-command-that-makes-text-processing-ridiculously-easy/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:39:56

• "Hint: I had to solve 10 CAPTCHAs just to install Windows 11" https://www.howtogeek.com/new-article-1766610469/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:40:18

• "And why Canonical's movements have such an effect on the Linux community." https://www.howtogeek.com/what-is-canonical-the-company-behind-ubuntu/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:40:40

• "Locked out of your Linux system? Here are two safe and easy ways to reset your password without reinstalling." https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-reset-a-forgotten-password-in-linux/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:41:11

• 9 easy Linux terminal commands that make you faster right away https://www.howtogeek.com/the-terminal-doesnt-have-to-be-scary-or-slow-just-learn-these-easy-commands/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:42:20

• "Zorin OS says it hit 1M downloads in just over a month, mostly from Windows PCs. I installed it to see if it’s a real Windows 10 replacement." https://www.howtogeek.com/this-linux-distro-has-windows-10-users-flocking-to-it-heres-why/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:42:54

• "Do you wish you could switch Linux devices without switching keyboards? Look inside." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-to-try-this-weekend-january-2/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:43:15

• "Miss glossy, playful UI? These GNOME extensions add 3D flair and fun effects in minutes, no theme overhaul required." https://www.howtogeek.com/take-your-linux-distro-back-to-the-2000s-with-these-3d-gnome-extensions/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:43:44

• "Don't want to look away from the terminal to check the time? Use these methods to add a live clock to your terminal!" https://www.howtogeek.com/i-wanted-to-tell-time-in-the-terminal-heres-how-i-added-a-live-clock/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:44:06

• Docker Desktop is convenient, but native containers taught me how Docker actually works https://www.xda-developers.com/docker-desktop-convenient-native-containers-taught-how-docker-works/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:45:44

• I switched to the COSMIC Linux desktop, and I can't wait for the future https://www.xda-developers.com/switched-cosmic-linux-desktop-and-cant-wait-for-the-future/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:46:42

• I stopped installing Linux distros for fun and finally settled on one https://www.xda-developers.com/i-stopped-installing-linux-distros-for-fun-finally-settled-on-one/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:49:17

• Flathub breaks its previous record of yearly app downloads for 2025 https://www.xda-developers.com/flathub-breaks-its-previous-record-of-yearly-app-downloads-for-2025/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:50:06

• Now IBM and GAFAM will need to find some 'nazi' connection or some other BS https://www.xda-developers.com/phoenix-keep-x-server-ball-rolling/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:54:19

• I ran a modern-day Linux distro off a floppy disk, and here's how it went https://www.xda-developers.com/i-ran-modern-day-linux-distro-off-floppy-disk-heres-how-it-went/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 05:56:28

• Conic Sections https://xkcd.com/3189/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:07:53

• Comments on Formatting Gopher Posts gopher://gopher.unixlore.net:70/0/glog/comments-on-formatting-gopher-posts.md    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:10:53

• "We used ngircd because it can federate so now we have a little network of two servers. That's good for resilience. There are more modern IRC servers but they don't federate like that. If you don't need federation, then by all means pick something new like Ergo." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-01-07-discord    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:11:50

• Some context: gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-03-09-discord-ipo    

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

• "Plato hated myth and would have poets banished from his Most Excellent If Perhaps Hypothetical Of Republics. He of course invented his own story to replace their stories, with his being obviously superior in every which way." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/01/08/stories.gmi    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:13:25

• "When two potentiometers are chained together, the fractional voltages are multiplied. I.e., if you set the two potentiometers each to output 50% of their input voltage, the final output would be 25% of the first input voltage, or hopefully something close to that depending on several actual engineering details" gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260107-0.gmi    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:14:14

• "They're just a rip-off and they are mainly used to extort and blackmail mail administrators to make themselves buy off the list, just to be readded later, to repeat the whole process. And for mail administrators: DON'T PAY THEM! They are scammers!" gemini://redterminal.org/gemlog/2026-01-07-Dont_use_UCEPROTECT_Spam_DNSBLs.gmi    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:14:48

• "Anyone dismayed at the news that Roomba maker iRobot has entered into bankruptcy proceedings may be wondering about building their own robotic cleaning devices — and if you want something simple as a starting point, mononymous maker Tsufai has released designs for a floor-sweeper driven by nothing more than a battery and two motors." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202601/20260107-sweep.gmi    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:16:02

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1529.jpg    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:16:32

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1879.jpg    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:16:37

• power outage gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/powerOutage    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:17:59

• High Altitude Cooking Instructions https://xkcd.com/3187/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:18:37

• Anyone Else Here https://xkcd.com/3188/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:18:43

• "The FSFE had the most impactful intervention in the EU’s highest court” https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260102-01.en.html    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:19:00

• https://www.maketecheasier.com/use-old-pc-linux/   

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:22:39

• GNU/Linux https://www.maketecheasier.com/use-old-pc-linux/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:22:47

• Fedora Continued At The Forefront Of Upstream Linux Innovations In 2025 https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/12/29/2330252/fedora-continued-at-the-forefront-of-upstream-linux-innovations-in-2025    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:23:00

• How to Control Hidden Background Apps in Linux https://www.maketecheasier.com/control-hidden-background-apps-linux/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:23:23

• Quick Fixes for Docker Permission Denied Error on Linux to Save Time https://www.maketecheasier.com/docker-permission-denied-error-fixed/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:23:46

• 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 Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:24:15

• Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (01/2026): Happy New Year! https://linmob.net/weekly-update-01-2026/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:24:40

• Fedora Community Blog: DEADLINE 2026-01-07: Fedora Linux 43 FESCo Elections https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/deadline-2026-01-07-fedora-linux-43-fesco-elections/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 06:25:05

• So Isis is now repeatedly saying, in public (every few weeks or months), that "if I die", then it's the fault of the husband Matthew Garrett. Also keeps saying last year of my life, as if a death is imminent and should be blamed on Matthew Garrett. Matthew Garrett has made absolutely no comment about this.    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 07:00:03

• That sort of makes one think of Hans Reiser, which is odd because it was his ilk that kept comparing innocent men like Eben Moglen to Reiser    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 07:03:21

• Lenovo Legion Go 2 will get a SteamOS version in June | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/lenovo-legion-go-2-will-get-a-steamos-version-in-june/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:00:09

• SteamOS 3.7.19 arrives with a bunch of essential bug fixes | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/steamos-3-7-19-arrives-with-a-bunch-of-essential-bug-fixes/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:00:35

• 007 First Light gets PC specifications released and that's a lot of RAM needed | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/007-first-light-gets-pc-specifications-released-and-thats-a-lot-of-ram-needed/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

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

• "It ain’t over til the fat lady sings." https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/01/07/chat-control-hall-motstandet-levande/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:02:00

• "Tom the Dancing Bug: A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at invading Venezuela" https://boingboing.net/2026/01/07/tom-the-dancing-bug-a-calvinesque-and-hobbesian-look-at-invading-venezuela.html    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:02:13

• "The Anti-Anti-Trump Right Looks to Marco Rubio for Salvation" https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-anti-anti-trump-right-looks-to    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:02:29

• "The True Cost of Greenland - by Evan Gottesman" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/the-true-cost-of-greenland    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:02:41

• "Venezuela and the Long Shadow of the Monroe Doctrine" https://jacobin.com/2026/01/venezuela-monroe-doctrine-trump-imperialism/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:02:53

• "Can ICE officers be prosecuted for the Minneapolis killing?" https://www.vox.com/politics/474434/supreme-court-ice-killer-minneapolis-minnesota-prosecution    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:03:09

• "Minneapolis shooting: One killed after ICE agent opens fire" https://www.vox.com/politics/474352/minneapolis-fatal-shooting-ice-agent-what-to-know    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:03:21

• "Trump’s War on Women Somehow Got Worse" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-war-on-women/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:03:38

• "Saudi opens stock market to all" https://www.semafor.com/article/01/07/2026/saudi-opens-stock-market-to-all    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:03:50

• "Can Europe actually defend Greenland against the US?" https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0107/europe-trump-greenland-why-does-the-us-want    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:04:02

• "Trump withdraws U.S. from 66 international organizations and treaties, including major climate groups" https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-01-07/trump-withdraws-u-s-from-66-international-organizations-treaties-including-major-climate-groups    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:04:15

• "Zambia - DefenceWeb" https://defenceweb.co.za/security/african-militaries/zambia/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:04:43

• Read – and listen – Agnes Ravatn! | "Les – og høyr – Agnes Ravatn! – Biblioteket tar saka #librarycase" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://bibliotekettarsaka.com/2026/01/07/les-og-hoyr-agnes-ravatn/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:05:11

• After a poor relaunch, SPLITGATE: Arena Reloaded devs release a statement | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/after-a-poor-relaunch-splitgate-arena-reloaded-devs-release-a-statement/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:06:51

• Sprint City from the creators of SpeedRunners sounds like a great spiritual successor | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/sprint-city-from-the-creators-of-speedrunners-sounds-like-a-great-spiritual-successor/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

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

• See the new trailer for Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional taking survivor-likes to an infested family computer | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/see-the-new-trailer-for-antivirus-survivors-2003-professional-taking-survivor-likes-to-an-infested-family-computer/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:07:48

• Species to Watch in 2026 ☛ https://therevelator.org/species-to-watch-in-2026/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:08:27

• "Riot police raid Moscow punk concert and search attendees’ phones for anti-war content" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/01/07/batons-stun-guns-the-full-package | Source: Meduza    

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

• Dystopian Future? ☛ https://fair.org/home/is-it-worth-running-a-race-where-the-prize-is-some-dystopian-future/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:12:00

• Mesa RADV driver on Linux looks set for a big ray tracing performance boost | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/mesa-radv-driver-on-linux-looks-set-for-a-big-ray-tracing-performance-boost/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/mesa-radv-driver-on-linux-looks-set-for-a-big-ray-tracing-performance-boost/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:21:32

• Popular mobile creature collector EvoCreo now available on PC | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/popular-mobile-creature-collector-evocreo-now-available-on-pc/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/popular-mobile-creature-collector-evocreo-now-available-on-pc/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:21:38

• Humble Bundle have a nice collection of games for handhelds | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/humble-bundle-have-a-nice-collection-of-games-for-handhelds/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/humble-bundle-have-a-nice-collection-of-games-for-handhelds/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:21:45

• AI will compromise your cybersecurity posture ☞ https://rys.io/en/181.html    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:23:13

• Anthropic – who has vested interest in convincing everyone that their coding automation product is the next best thing since sliced bread – makes pretty bombastic claims, using sciencey-sounding language"    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:24:13

• "In other words, code regurgitation machine was able to regurgitate code when example code was provided to it. Again, in no way is this an actual, real threat to you, your infrastructure, or your data."    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:24:58

• TLP: Polkit Authentication Bypass in Profiles Daemon in Version 1.9.0 (CVE-2025-67859) ☞ https://security.opensuse.org/2026/01/07/tlp-polkit-authentication-bypass.html    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:28:15

• "One of the taxi drivers affected by the vandalism, Omar Al-Qarttani, noted to the newspaper that only cars that do not belong to local taxi firms were targeted in the attack." https://yle.fi/a/74-20203076    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:31:27

• "2025 was the year of technoligarchy." ☛ https://www.citationneeded.news/the-year-of-technoligarchy/ | Source: Molly White    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:35:20

• "People who use a Logitech mouse on macOS spent a few hours…" ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/logitech-options-plus-g-hub-issue-certificate/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:36:04

• "The sentence shouted in resistance was not a threat. It was a refusal. A refusal to accept the rewriting of events, the minimization of a life lost, or the idea that Americans will unilaterally surrender to fascism." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/01/07/you-cant-kill-us-all-nazis-shouted-after-ice-killed-an-observer-in-minneapolis.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:37:17

• "The job simply cannot be done remotely. Also tech CEOs: Most workers can be replaced by AI. Hosted remotely." ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/tech-ceo-workers-ia-office-remote/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:37:42

• "This is Nick’s story, as told to me: [...]" ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kavanaugh-stop-maryland-colombia | Source: Marisa Kabas    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:38:03

• "Tonight, I was honored to speak at a vigil for Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis earlier today." ☛ https://organizingmythoughts.org/the-cost-of-staying-human/ | Source: Kelly Hayes    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:38:21

• "But later in the day, a DHS officer shot and killed an ICE observer, Renee Good, in Minneapolis. Both the Star Tribune and MPR have a running threads of developments." ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/07/time-to-ask-if-stephen-miller-has-authorized-assault-and-murder-on-peaceful-ice-observers/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:41:07

• "Without accurate data, communities underestimate both the magnitude and the urgency of the crisis." ☛ https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/01/07/why-utah-still-cant-confront-violence-against-women/ | Source: Utah News Dispatch    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:41:26

• "It’s not clear how Renee Nicole Good’s SUV ended up in the street between ICE vehicles—and many other details of what preceded the shooting remain unknown." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/ice-shooting-minneapolis-trump/685548/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:41:40

• "According to Mahmoudian, protesters are no longer calling for reforms to the clerically dominated political system but are demanding fundamental change." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protests-activists-change-military-intervention/33642208.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:41:56

• "STV Central is currently produced in Glasgow while STV North runs in Aberdeen, with the latter set to be cut." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/up-to-80-journalists-strike-in-scotland-over-stv-job-cuts/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:43:34

• "On January 5, 13 journalists and media workers affiliated with international media outlets and news agencies, and one working for a national outlet" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/01/at-least-14-journalists-detained-during-presidential-inauguration-in-venezuela/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:43:46

• "The developments at APSU follow the filing of a federal lawsuit by a former state employee who was fired over comments made about Kirk." ☛ https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/clarksville/apsu-settles-with-professor-fired-over-charlie-kirk-post/ |    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:44:21

• "Charlie Kirk says gun deaths are ‘unfortunately’ worth it to keep 2nd Amendment" ☛ https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/professor-fired-for-charlie-kirk-post-gets-500000-from-school-is-reinstated/ | Source: Mediaite    

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

• "Michael shared a factual headline from a news outlet. He didn't celebrate anything or add commentary." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/01/07/professor-fired-for-sharing-charlie-kirk-headline-gets-500000-and-his-job-back.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:45:05

• "Maybe it's late capitalism, maybe it's a side effect of new drugs circulating among the bigwigs of the world's most powerful companies. Or maybe it's just plain stupidity. The fact is that the practice is spreading, and fast." ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/microsoft-office-dell-xps-rebranding/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:45:54

• "From threats to the first concrete retaliation. Fiercely opposed to Europe’s digital regulations, Washington crossed a new line in late December by directly targeting former European commissioner Thierry Breton, who has now been barred from entering the United States." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/us-threatens-europe-over-tech-regulation | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:46:09

• "Why think about these metaphors? In the last weeks, I’ve been conducting interviews for a project, and I tried to reach out to some people whose wider worldviews are, I guess, rather different from mine" ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2026/01/07/changing-beliefs-moving-house-suggestion-for-a-change-of-metaphor/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:46:33

• "rOpenSci’s activities and spaces are supported by a Code of Conduct that applies to all people participating in the rOpenSci community, including rOpenSci staff and leadership." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/01/ropensci-code-of-conduct-annual-review-7/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:46:51

• "How much energy is consumed when querying an LLM? We're largely in the dark when it comes to proprietary models" ☛ https://muxup.com/2026q1/per-query-energy-consumption-of-llms | Source: Muxup    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:47:25

• "The spending package would fund several federal agencies and scientific bodies, including the EPA" ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-business/policy-and-regulation/epa-funding-salvaged-in-us-congress-spending-bill/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:48:08

• "Much of the oil is extra-heavy, which has low recovery and a high cost to produce." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-emperors-new-oil-wealth | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:48:25

• "The Global Environment Outlook, Seventh Edition: A Future We Choose, the product of 287 multi-disciplinary scientists from 82 countries" ☛ https://wedocs.unep.org/items/bba44efd-7715-4054-8432-92b270ee9d67 |    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:50:28

• "Following current development pathways will bring catastrophic climate change, devastation to nature and biodiversity" ☛ https://www.unep.org/resources/global-environment-outlook-7 | Source: UN    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:51:18

• "In the GEO-7 foreword, UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen cautions" ☛ https://overpopulation-project.com/major-un-report-highlights-overpopulation-and-overconsumption-need-for-profound-transformation/ | Source: Overpopulation    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:51:35

• "A collapse of NATO over Greenland would be contrary to US national interests as defined in the Trump administration" ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/trumps-quest-for-greenland-could-be-natos-darkest-hour/ | Source: Atlantic Council    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:52:59

• "Formed in 1996 from a coalition of Ugandan militant groups seeking to overthrow Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s government" ☛ https://defenceweb.co.za/joint/diplomacy-a-peace/why-islamic-state-attacks-are-surging-in-dr-congo/ |    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:53:54

• "Representative Seth Moulton is a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/congress-trump-venezuela-maduro/685539/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:54:19

• "Nebraska sued TikTok in May 2024 claiming TikTok marketed itself as “family friendly” and “safe” when it actually contributed to a mental health crisis" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/tiktok-accuses-nebraska-of-public-record-violations/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:54:41

• "On January 6th five years ago, a sitting U.S. president incited violence against our nation in a shameless attempt to overturn a democratically-held election." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/january-6th-five-years-on-our-democracy-crisis-persists | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:55:20

• "Our telemetry from Caracas on the night of the operation doesn't expose or indicate the use of any specific cyber capability" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/cyberattacks-part-military-operation-venezuela | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 08:55:58

• "Five years ago today, a mob stormed the US Capitol trying to stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 election." ☛ https://chrisamico.com/blog/2026-01-06/jan-6/ | Source: Chris Amico    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:21:35

• "a veteran foreign-policy hand and an old friend of mine." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/a-conversation-with-a-former-us-ambassador | Source: The Next Move    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:22:21

• "The plaque is not symbolic. It is not optional." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/01/07/mike-johnson-wont-hang-a-plaque-honoring-the-cops-who-defended-congress.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:22:38

• "In response to the GPG.Fail attacks, a Hacker News user made this claim about the 64-bit “Long Key IDs” used by OpenPGP and GnuPG" ☛ https://soatok.blog/2026/01/07/practical-collision-attack-against-long-key-ids-in-pgp/ | Source: Dhole Moments    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:31:27

• "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new budget under the current administration" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/ice-going-surveillance-shopping-spree | Source: EFF    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:31:47

• "Multi Theft Auto (MTA), one of the longest-running and best known modding projects in gaming history, has officially returned to GitHub." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/github-restores-repo-of-gta-mod-multi-theft-auto-after-take-two-fails-to-sue/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:34:19

• "Developers I spoke to said the community estimated around 80 to 90 repositories containing the work of 40 to 50 people went down recently" ☛ https://www.404media.co/github-ban-suspension-adult-modding-games-illusion/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:35:08

• "This interview has been edited for length and clarity." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/piper-rockelle-onlyfans-interview-1235494798/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:36:20

• "The European Commission called the content "appalling" and "disgusting."" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/01/06/x-faces-global-investigations-as-grok-generates-deepfake-porn-of-women-and-minors.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:36:38

• "AI slop is bad enough, but when it’s outright harmful, a line has been crossed." ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/01/grok-images/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:38:39

• "When immensely complex, poorly-understood systems get hurriedly integrated into your toolset and workflow, or deployed in your infrastructure, what inevitably follows is leaks, compromises, downtime, and a whole lot of grief." ☛ https://rys.io/en/181.html | Source: Michał Woźniak    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:38:51

• "In 2025, 42% of companies abandoned most of their AI initiatives - up from just 17% the year before." ☛ https://robertgreiner.com/the-1-percent-error-that-ruins-everything/ | Source: Robert Greiner    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:39:05

• "I’ve been programming in C for 25 years and have not yet found AI useful for writing code." ☛ https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/code-agents/ | Source: Daniel Hooper    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:39:21

• "It appears AI is simultaneously the problem and the solution." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-security-shakedown/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:39:42

• "An Act of Resistance" ☛ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1112/an-act-of-resistance | Source: David Revoy    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:39:54

• "Venture capital turns out to work the same way now. They’re just putting their whole bag on red and spinning the wheel: [...]" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/06/most-venture-capital-deals-are-now-ai/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:40:24

• "Despite the overwhelming marketing push in all the media all the time, it turns out normal people still think AI … sucks." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/07/us-voters-hate-ai-and-politicians-are-noticing/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:40:39

• "Researchers investigate such questions by peering inside AI systems and studying how they represent scenes and sentences." ☛ https://www.quantamagazine.org/distinct-ai-models-seem-to-converge-on-how-they-encode-reality-20260107/ | Source: Quanta Magazine    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:40:54

• "Grok did no such thing. Grok cannot apologize. Grok is not a human. Grok has no sense of what is happening. Grok just generates content." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/07/journalistic-malpractice-no-llm-ever-admits-to-anything-and-reporting-otherwise-is-a-lie/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:41:05

• "The only reason Stuxnet was discovered was because it accidentally spread beyond the Iranian nuclear facility." ☛ https://defenceweb.co.za/cyber-defence/the-rise-of-cyber-security-in-modern-warfare/ |    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:41:47

• "I was just minding my own business this week, not thinking about my simmering annoyance with Logi Options+" ☛ https://mattstein.com/thoughts/replacing-logi-options/ | Source: Matt Stein    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:41:59

• "My PS5 is going to travel to college with one of my daughters, so I picked up a lightly-used one to replace it. Some points of reference if you ever are doing this and have trouble transferring data between the systems on your network." ☛ https://bjhess.com/posts/problems-transferring-from-an-old-to-new-playstation-5 | Source: Barry Hess    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:42:13

• "we were able to do this with the access we had on their infrastructure" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/crimson-collective-disconnects-brightspeed/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:42:29

• "He was joined by dozens of netizens who jeered the misfiring feature using a tough-but-fair new pejorative: “Microslop.”" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/video-microsoft-ruining-windows-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:42:46

• [Old] "The Liberal Democrat MP Roger Williams said in an adjournment debate in the Commons that there was "compelling and reliable evidence for this carcinogenic substance to be banned from the UK food and drinks market altogether"." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/dec/15/immigrationpolicy.foodanddrink | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:48:02

• [Old] "At the time, Donald Rumsfeld was the CEO of Searle. He was also on the transition team for Ronald Reagan, who was inaugurated in 1981." ☛ https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-story-of-how-fake-sugar-got-approved-is-scary-as-hell/ | Source: Vice Media Group    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:48:20

• "the American Beverage Association; Ajinomoto, an aspartame supplier; and the Calorie Control Council, to name just a few." ☛ https://www.vox.com/2023/7/1/23780348/aspartame-cancer-carcinogenic-health-risk-who-iarc-fda-efsa-diet-coke-sugar-free | Source: Vox    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:52:20

• "This phenomenon, also known as ‘mind wandering’, lasts much longer than the notification itself. Even after the sound is gone, those thoughts linger in your head, and your performance continues to decline." ☛ https://jeroensangers.com/2026/01/07/mobile-notifications-cause-significant-distraction.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:52:57

• "One of the dominant ways of thinking about addiction is as a disease. While there is evidence for this approach, it often leads to a dismissal of addiction’s social causes, rooted in alienation and purposelessness." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/01/social-causes-drug-addiction/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:53:09

• "To support this effort, researchers at Texas A&M University have developed an innovative solution by chemically modifying sand into a highly hydrophobic material" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-01-sand-layer-resilience-drought.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:53:42

• "American dietary guidelines have gotten an overhaul. The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture unveiled a new food pyramid on January 7." ☛ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-dietary-guidelines-food-pyramid | Source: Science News    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:54:00

• "After launching the InfinityBook Max 15 in November 2025, TUXEDO has now introduced the next generation of its powerful Linux laptop line, the InfinityBook Max 16. It’s a new ultra-slim 16-inch Linux workstation designed to combine business-class portability with desktop-level CPU and discrete GPU performance." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/tuxedo-launches-infinitybook-max-16-linux-laptop/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:56:04

• "Every year, for my birthday, I collect my thoughts. This year I want to share some things I’ve learned: one lesson for each year I've been around. You might agree or disagree with them; maybe a bit of both." ☛ https://werd.io/47-lessons/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:57:54

• "Compare this to someone over at a large corporation selecting hardware based on my “go ahead, pick anything!” advice. They’d be left holding the bag if anything disappoints. This is not good for you at a corporate place." ☛ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/aws-and-microsoft-are-selling-much-more-than-cloud/ | Source: Bert Hubert    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:58:08

• "And so, we end up with huge competency gaps between people who are in their 30s, 40s, 50s." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/01/08/what-i-got-wrong-about-hard-work-in-my-20s/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:58:36

• "Here's the thing about every successful writing workshop I've been in: they don't necessarily make writing enjoyable (indeed, they can be painful), but they make it profoundly satisfying." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/07/delicious-pizza/#hold-the-gravel | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 09:59:06

• "Williams and Beer (2010) introduced partial information decomposition (PID) as a way to split the mutual information that a set of sources has about a target into non‑negative “atoms” corresponding to redundant, unique, and synergistic information" ☛ https://danmackinlay.name/notebook/information_decomposition.html | Source: Dan MacKinlay    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 10:01:36

• "With less than a month to go until NASA attempts to send astronauts around the Moon, the agency is demolishing facilities that got it there the first time around." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/07/nasa_test_stand_demolition/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 10:01:54

• "The nonprofit museum, which first opened in 2016, is based in Norman, Oklahoma." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-is-the-only-museum-dedicated-to-weather-artifacts-in-america-it-may-shut-down-due-to-funding-shortages-180987962/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 10:02:16

• [Old] "This is just a short note to document how my current blog is deployed with zero downtime." ☛ https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2025/11/26/zero-downtime-deploys-at-last/ | Source: Martin Hähne    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 10:02:57

• [Old] "I will now try to go-live with the self-hosted blog version. I expect some small amount of downtime when the dns cutover happens, but I don't expect any problems otherwise." ☛ https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2025/11/23/the-move-of-the-blog-is-happening-now/ | Source: Martin Hähne    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 10:03:13

• [Old] "I am not updating the blog as much, because the few brain cycles I have left for doing "blog things" are spent moving the blog off of Cloudflare and onto OVHCloud (previously)." ☛ https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2025/11/14/rough-roadmap-and-status-quo-of-moving-the-blog/ | Source: Martin Hähne    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 10:03:33

• "I'm in the middle of moving my things off of Cloudflare and on to a VPS with OVHCloud. OVH is a European (French to be precise) Hosting company that offers everything I need and is maybe not as problematic as Cloudflare. I wrote about this recently Where To Go From Here." ☛ https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2025/11/06/another-try-at-self-hosting/ | Source: Martin Hähne    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 10:03:48

• [Old] "At the moment all my projects live on Github. Github is Microsoft and Microsoft is not exactly EU-based. Github has also become a symbol for "AI" hate" ☛ https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2025/10/27/where-to-go-from-here/ | Source: Martin Hähne    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 10:04:19

• "I set as a threshold a number of recorded page visits an article needed in order to be included in our year end ranking." ☛ https://thenewleafjournal.com/our-most-visited-articles-of-2025/ | Source: The New Leaf Journal    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 10:05:01

• "Tech Shadow Work is a concept I have been thinking about ever since I saw this meme." ☛ https://rebeccawilliams.info/welcome-to-tech-shadow-work/ | Source: Rebecca Williams    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 10:05:32

• "But do it yourself, and for yourself, on a platform you own if you can." ☛ https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/this-got-shared-on-mastodon-i-think-but-i-dont-know-by-whom-it-got-my-mind-all-in-knots-about | Source: Jasper Tandy    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 10:05:55

• "The guide launched as a 1200 page book at CD-ROM in 1992, moved onto the Gopher text-based information service in 1994 and onto the web shortly after." ☛ https://ethanzuckerman.com/2026/01/07/listening-to-all-the-music/ | Source: Ethan Zuckerman    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 10:06:15

• "This is the one thousandth post to this blog in the 212 months since the first post. That is an average of 4.7 posts per month" ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2026/01/meta-post-1000.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 10:06:38

• "I went back and checked other links from LWN to this blog and other places. I am trying to get rid of twitter dot com links, because news among other reasons." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/lwn/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 10:07:43

• "The small web thrives on links, visibility, and reuse. Hiding content (even unintentionally) in favor of aesthetic choices may please you, but it weakens discoverability and discourages return visits, regardless of the quality of what’s being published." ☛ https://afranca.com.br/your-content-should-be-easy-to-find/ | Source: Andre Franca    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 10:08:15

• Why Microsoft Employees Over 40 Fear They're Being 'Targeted' in January 2026 Layoffs https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/why-microsoft-employees-over-40-fear-theyre-being-targeted-january-2026-layoffs-1769297    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 10:16:50

• "This was about metadata, but also generally data retention and what the server sees in general." ☛ https://blog.mathieui.net/xmpp-and-metadata.html |    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 10:19:31

• "A live coding stream with Bill Kennedy, Kevin Enriquez, Andrey Nering, and me." ☛ https://carlosbecker.com/posts/live-ardanlabs-software-design-63/ | Source: Carlos Becker    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 13:56:35

• "Time in C++: Additional clocks in C++20" ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/01/07/clocks-part-6-cpp20 | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 13:57:11

• "ID.me is a shining example of why Agile is not a valid software development methodology." ☛ https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/id-me/ | Source: Logikal Solutions    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 13:57:53

• "The popular go web framework Gin has a middleware that allows you to recover from and log panics while serving HTTP." ☛ https://eblog.fly.dev/faststack.html | Source: Efron Licht    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 13:58:07

• "This isn’t the same as prioritizing things." ☛ https://world.hey.com/jason/the-obvious-the-easy-and-the-possible-2e11a3fb | Source: 37signals LLC    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 13:58:34

• "Big-O is a way to mathematically express the upper bound on an algorithm’s scalability. Understanding this requires covering three key aspects: [...]" ☛ https://pythonspeed.com/articles/big-o-tests/ | Source: Python Speed    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 13:58:52

• divide, isolate, conquer: "Interest in languages overall is waning." https://yle.fi/a/74-20203171 ("Finnish border town cools on Russian language")    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 13:59:29

• "I am very sympathetic to free software. (And I regret not using more software of this kind.)" ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/fsf-free-software-creation-printer-jam/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:00:09

• "Ok, you aren't here (I assume) to peruse my books and see how few books I consume (teenage Ray would be embarrassed by the number)." ☛ https://www.raymondcamden.com/2026/01/07/adding-hardcoverapp-data-to-eleventy | Source: Raymond Camden    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:00:31

• "That most recent post struck a chord. " ☛ https://rubenerd.com/shame-surrounding-spreadsheets/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:01:24

• "Not only is RSS the best way to keep up with websites, it’s also a great way to follow channels on YouTube and the best method for consuming and distributing media in general." ☛ https://initialcharge.net/2026/01/use-rss-moreale/ | Source: Mike Rockwell    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:02:08

• "A Website To Destroy All Websites" ☛ https://bix.blog/posts/2026-01-05-quite-achievable-for-whom/ |    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:02:24

• "Maybe that means starting up a small server or instance or domain where some of your friends and family can post." ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/posts/an-open-web-that-real-people-can-actually-use | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:09:29

• "When your code runs long, you’re not causing “jank” in some abstract technical sense; you’re ignoring someone who’s trying to talk to you" ☛ https://denodell.com/blog/the-main-thread-is-not-yours | Source: Den Odell    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:09:51

• "These days there are a lot of things crawling everything in sight, and our server has no general defenses against them (we don't even have much of a robots.txt)." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/OurWebServer24Hours-2026 | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:10:44

• "This time there is no less than six separate vulnerabilities announced." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/07/curl-8-18-0/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:11:06

• "I am not the official spokesperson for the group. I just got into the habit of summarizing the meetings every month, and adding my own opinions about things." ☛ https://macadie.info/2026/01/07/2025-12-austin-emacs-meetup/ | Source: Eric MacAdie    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:11:48

• "This Emacs thing is getting out of hand and eating away all my free time." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/01/thinking-about-email-workflows/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:11:55

• "Well, maintaining a Jellyfin instance allows you to have a centralized access point for all your music, movies, tv shows, etc. that you own." ☛ https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2026/01/06/trying-out-jellyfin/ | Source: Martin Hähne    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:15:14

• "I think I have polished it enough to publish it without too much shame. It is a C application. You only need a C compiler and the GNU version of Make to build it. The principal design goals are: [...]" ☛ https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20260107.155832.f6507e8f.en.html | Source: Dyne    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:15:22

• "To be certain what kind I had, Charlie and I pulled my quill out and took it apart." ☛ https://cagrimmett.com/2026/01/07/shopsmith-mark-v-single-vs-double-bearing-quills/ | Source: Chuck Grimmett    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:15:57

• "The latest issue of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine featured half a dozen products from around the world that are helping improve things like driver and passenger safety, drone pilots’ chances of a successful landing, and marine pilots’ navigation accuracy." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/hundreds-of-products-now-powered-by-raspberry-pi/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:24:51

• "They don't have anywhere near enough cooling power to cover all of the systems we normally have running in our machine rooms, but we might be able to keep a few critical systems up rather than being completely down." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/NetworkedACUnits | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:25:06

• "The Senseair S88 is a pretty great CO₂ sensor for its price. It can be bought locally (NL) for ~22 Euro and it has a stated accuracy of ±40 ppm and ±3% of reading." ☛ https://danieldk.eu/Hardware/Smart-Home/ESPHome-Senseair-S88 | Source: Daniël de Kok    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:25:35

• "Getting Started with Java on the Raspberry Pi" ☛ https://webtechie.be/post/2026-01-07-x86-arm-riscv/ | Source: Frank Delporte    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:25:50

• "and would be production-ready for hobbyist projects (if you’re a professional, you’ll just manufacture your own board). " ☛ https://qsantos.fr/2026/01/07/no-alternatives-to-the-rp2350-usb-a/ | Source: Quentin Santos    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:26:01

• "By default FreeBSD does not work well in such environments … in this article we will configure FreeBSD to make everything work as needed." ☛ https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/freebsd-and-poudriere-in-high-security-environments/ | Source: Vermaden    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:29:56

• "After OpenBSD had split from NetBSD, there had been no real work on the VAX support in OpenBSD" ☛ http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/dragon.html | Source: Miod Vallat    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:36:07

• IPFire 2.29 Core 199 ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12695 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:37:07

• "It's not just in GNOME – he's additionally filed bug 1747207 against Firefox, also proposing to remove this behavior." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/07/gnome_middle_click_paste/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:37:42

• "Quake is the mythical game created by John Carmack and the rest of the id Software folks, and solely responsible for an entire generation’s vastly enhanced spatial visualization skills (as well as the uncanny ability to hit moving objects in mid-air with other moving objects)." ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/games/quake | Source: Rui Carmo    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:39:03

• "integrated into Mover as a more up-to-date replacement to the very old default Walking Mode of the Character Movement Component which as far as I know dates back to the Unreal Tournament days." ☛ https://theorangeduck.com/page/new-movement-model | Source: Daniel Holden    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:39:20

• "I was having trouble visualising the dice probabilities for some Forged in the Dark-based1 RPGs2, so I drew myself a diagram." ☛ https://danq.me/2026/01/07/probabilities-in-the-dark/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:47:29

• "Rugby is a sport defined by collisions, structure, and constant tactical adaptation." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/01/rugby-analytics-with-r-complete-guide-to-performance-analysis-in-rugby-union-and-league/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:49:06

• "Here's how MDN describes the new color function: [...]" ☛ https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/light-dark-isnt-the-same-as-prefers-color-scheme/ | Source: Stefan Judis    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 14:59:33

• "The Nitrux team has announced the release of Nitrux 5.1, an immutable, systemd-free Debian-based Linux distro that bets on AppImage-based software delivery and ships with Hyprland as its default desktop environment." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/nitrux-5-1-drops-virtual-machine-support-and-shifts-fully-to-bare-metal/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:00:13

• "The logical solution to this is to split it in the smallest chunks instead. Have one package for every module in the kernel." ☛ https://blog.brixit.nl/splitting-a-linux-kernel-package/ | Source: Martijn Braam    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:00:27

• "I'm not a kernel developer, but I found myself poking around kernel source code to understand the problem better and figure out what was going on under the hood." ☛ https://questdb.com/blog/async-profiler-kernel-bug/ |    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:00:39

• "This has been a fun project, but as I worked with it, I realized that there wasn’t really a single resource available" ☛ https://oxcrag.net/projects/self-hosted-grafana-server/ | Source: Mikael Hansson    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:01:17

• "I couldn’t find any good resource describing the complete process, so I’ve documented my setup, and am sharing the documentation via my Projects page." ☛ https://oxcrag.net/blog/2026/01/04/server-monitoring-with-grafana.html | Source: Mikael Hansson    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:01:35

• "A special Hello World podcast reflects on key developments in computing education during 2025 and considers trends shaping 2026" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/what-shaped-computing-education-in-2025-and-what-comes-next/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:02:34

• "Was the rumor stemming from just that one Blind user, or are there other people claiming that they've also heard about it? I'm not sure who to believe here." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ked3b7br    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:08:19

• IBM's "Huiming and his circle really need to go." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ke7exa4g    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:09:51

• Even some MICROSOFT INSIDERS are sceptical of Microsoft's weak denial (a mete "tweet" in a deepfake child porn site) to the mass layoffs, which can be merely delayed    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:10:49

• IBM "Research is going to get sla-ghtered" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kedsm8dt "The answer to the @OP question is the same as the answer to the following question: Can the work be moved to India immediately ?"    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:11:27

• "Just came here after reading the Reddit thread. Another immigration program IBM was abusing. These "landed" resources were supposed to be brought over short term to support a specific project/client. Not be on the bench or switch clients. Yet many of them would do just that. It's not that IBM is ending the program it's that they're sending back the ones who were violating the law. Which is over 90% of them." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1keeqnjw3    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:12:11

• "Just came here after reading the Reddit thread. Another immigration program IBM was abusing. These "landed" resources were supposed to be brought over short term to support a specific project/client. Not be on the bench or switch clients. Yet many of them would do just that." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1keeqnjw3    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:12:46

• "It's not that IBM is ending the program it's that they're sending back the ones who were violating the law. Which is over 90% of them." "Is HCAM no more in the US?" "Good finally cracking down on this stuff."    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:12:53

• "OP must be referring to something that happened at IBM a few years ago. The craze to promote women and minorities over white males no longer exists at IBM. Mainly because there aren't many Black or White employees left. The company is almost entirely Indian now. The current discrimination is more caste/language based within that demographic."    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:13:35

• "Alvind and his pipmunks were caught on tape being r@cist sc*m" "It’s funny how they really were yet nothing really happened" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ked3sgr0 moderator already censored some comments previously shown in this page    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:14:15

• It's the comment that said "DEI is deport every Indian" (3rd from top here) https://techrights.org/i/2026/01/demography-ibm.png    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:15:23

• New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with My Winter Car - 2026-01-03 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-01-03-edition/index.html    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:19:10

• Kubernetes v1.35: A Better Way to Pass Service Account Tokens to CSI Drivers ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01/07/kubernetes-v1-35-csi-sa-tokens-secrets-field-beta/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:19:39

• curl 8.18.0 ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/07/curl-8-18-0/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:20:00

• “Microslop”: Infuriating Video Sums Up How Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Is Ruining backdoored Windows With Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/video-microsoft-ruining-windows-ai    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:24:33

• Three of the best: George Michaelson ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/01/07/three-of-the-best-george-michaelson-4/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:25:28

• Chrome Extensions With 900,000 Downloads Caught Stealing Hey Hi (AI) Chats ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-extensions-with-900000-downloads-caught-stealing-ai-chats/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:25:50

• Debian's Data Protection Team is No More, Maybe You Can Help? ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/debian-data-protection-team/ will they help dox people? https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/07/Projection_Tactics_Part_II_Causing_Serious_Harm_to_Many_People_.shtml    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:26:46

• Or will Debian harbour people who threaten to punch people?    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:27:27

• Backdoors in VStarcam cameras ☞ https://palant.info/2026/01/07/backdoors-in-vstarcam-cameras/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:27:54

• Jon Chiappetta: Surveillance Giant Google Cancels Gmailify! :O :( ☞ https://fossjon.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/google-cancels-gmailify-o/ "I’ve been using Gmail for many many years since it was Beta as my default mail client but now that time has come to an end sadly…"    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:32:50

• Manage AI-powered inventory with Red Bait Lightspeed MCP ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/07/manage-ai-powered-inventory-using-red-hat-lightspeed    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:33:38

• Fedora 44 Will Be the First Distro to Adopt KDE's Plasma Login Manager ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/fedora-44-plasma-login-manager/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:37:37

• Ravi Dwivedi: Why my Riseup account got suspended (and reinstated) ☞ https://ravidwivedi.in/posts/suspension-of-my-riseup-account/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:38:05

• most possible basic apache2 web log file analyze script ☞ https://dwaves.de/2026/01/07/most-possible-basic-apache2-web-log-file-analyze-script/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:38:53

• Pluralistic: Writing vs Hey Hi (AI) (07 Jan 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/07/delicious-pizza/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:40:06

• Pluralistic: Writing vs Hey Hi (AI) (07 Jan 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/07/delicious-pizza/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:40:20

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 633 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/01/07/this-week-in-rust-633/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:40:51

• This Week in Linux 330: Arch, Bazzite, elementary, Mint, Kali, Parrot OS, Qubes OS, & more 2026 GNU/Linux news ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-330/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:42:03

• Back doors sold as "confidential containers" ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/07/tee-backed-zero-trust-integrating-spire-confidential-containers    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:42:54

• What I Got Wrong About “Hard Work” in My 20s ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/01/08/what-i-got-wrong-about-hard-work-in-my-20s/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:46:58

• Potential Anti-Cancer Fungal Compound Finally Synthesized After 55 Years ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/potential-anti-cancer-fungal-compound-finally-synthesized-after-55-years    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:47:45

• 5 Easy Tips to Have a Great Day at Work, From a Workplace Psychologist ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/5-easy-tips-to-have-a-great-day-at-work-from-a-workplace-psychologist    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:48:00

• Caffeine in Your Blood Might Affect Body Fat And Diabetes Risk, Study Shows ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/caffeine-in-your-blood-might-affect-body-fat-and-diabetes-risk-study-shows    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:48:33

• Multiple Sclerosis May Have Two Distinct Subtypes, Scientists Discover ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/multiple-sclerosis-may-have-two-distinct-subtypes-scientists-discover    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:48:55

• Expert Reveals 5 Surprising Sources of Microplastics in Your Daily Diet ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/expert-reveals-5-surprising-sources-of-microplastics-in-your-daily-diet    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:49:06

• Old Foe Tops Expert's List of Viruses to Watch in 2026 ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/old-foe-tops-experts-list-of-viruses-to-watch-in-2026    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:49:25

• Betelgeuse Is Definitely Not Alone, 8-Year Study Confirms ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/betelgeuse-is-definitely-not-alone-8-year-study-confirms    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:49:48

• Moroccan Cave Fossils Capture a Crossroads in Modern Human Evolution ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/moroccan-cave-fossils-capture-a-crossroads-in-modern-human-evolution    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:49:57

• Earliest Direct Evidence of Poisoned Arrows Revealed in 60,000-Year-Old Relics ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/earliest-direct-evidence-of-poisoned-arrows-revealed-in-60000-year-old-relics    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:50:35

• Hundreds of Nearby Stars Flagged as Prime Candidates to Support Life ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/hundreds-of-nearby-stars-flagged-as-prime-candidates-to-support-life    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:50:51

• State Audit: 'disabled' status in Latvia of limited practical value ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/07.01.2026-state-audit-disabled-status-in-latvia-of-limited-practical-value.a628880/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:51:46

• "How Do PAL And NTSC Really Work?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/07/how-do-pal-and-ntsc-really-work/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:52:16

• "Laughing Gas For Rocket Propellant" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/07/testing-laughing-gas-for-rocket-propellant/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:52:59

• "USB-C Upgrade" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/07/graphing-calculator-gets-usb-c-upgrade/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:54:42

• DIY Grid Dip Meter Teardown ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/07/diy-grid-dip-meter-teardown/ | Source: Hackaday    

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

• "Carbon Fiber FDM Filament" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/07/co-extrusion-carbon-fiber-fdm-filament-investigated/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:56:39

• Co-Extrusion Carbon Fiber FDM Filament Investigated

  After previously putting carbon fiber-reinforced PLA filament under the (electron) microscope, the [I built a thing] bloke is back with a new video involving PLA-CF, this time involving co-extrusion rather than regular dispersed chopped CF. This features a continuous CF core that is enveloped by PLA, with a sample filament spool sent over by BIQU in the form of their CarbonCore25 filament.

   

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:57:10

• Terrified Investors Are Bracing for an Hey Hi (AI) Bubble “Reckoning” ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/investors-bracing-ai-bubble-reckoning https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/03/Definitely_Not_a_Ponzi_Scheme.shtml    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:59:05

• Dell Admits That Customers Are Disgusted by PCs Stuffed With Hey Hi (AI) Features ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/dell-admits-customers-disgusted-pcs-ai    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 15:59:30

• National Weather Service Uses Hey Hi (AI) to Generate Forecasts, Accidentally Hallucinates Town With Dirty Joke Name ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/national-weather-service-ai-hallucinates-town    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:00:00

• Abandoned and angry Palisades residents mark fire anniversary with reckoning ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/01/07/us-news/palisades-fire-anniversary-draws-thousands-to-burned-out-town-center/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:00:31

• Complex Routing, Misconfigurations Exploited for Domain Spoofing in Phishing Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/complex-routing-misconfigurations-exploited-for-domain-spoofing-in-phishing-attacks/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:01:22

• Hackers Exploit Zero-Day in Discontinued D-Link Devices ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-exploit-zero-day-in-discontinued-d-link-devices/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:01:53

• Several Code Execution Flaws Patched in Veeam Backup & Replication ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/several-code-execution-flaws-patched-in-veeam-backup-replication/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:02:13

• Vulnerability in Totolink Range Extender Allows Device Takeover ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/vulnerability-in-totolink-range-extender-allows-device-takeover/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:02:42

• The Loudest Voices in Security Often Have the Least to Lose ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/the-loudest-voices-in-security-often-have-the-least-to-lose/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:05:26

• WATCH: Latvia makes its debut at the United Nations Security Council ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/diplomacy/07.01.2026-watch-latvia-makes-its-debut-at-the-united-nations-security-council.a628908/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:05:48

• ‘Wells of isolation’: Prisoners allege severe abuse in 'maximum-security' prisons ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/wells-of-isolation-prisoners-allege-severe-abuse-in-maximum-security-prisons-315344    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:06:06

• "3D Resin Printer For Cheap" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/07/build-a-2k-resolution-msla-3d-resin-printer-for-cheap/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:06:37

• Mozilla Localization (L10N): Mozilla Localization in 2025 ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2026/01/07/mozilla-localization-in-2025/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:07:05

• Shame surrounding spreadsheets ☞ https://rubenerd.com/shame-surrounding-spreadsheets/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:08:15

• Practical Collision Attack Against Long Key IDs in PGP ☞ https://soatok.blog/2026/01/07/practical-collision-attack-against-long-key-ids-in-pgp/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:09:10

• Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in December 2025 ☞ http://blog.alteholz.eu/2026/01/my-debian-activities-in-december-2025/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:12:03

• Ludovic Hirlimann: Are mozilla's fork any good? ☞ https://ludovic.hirlimann.net/2026/01/are-mozillas-fork-any-good.html    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:12:54

• I Thought This Wikipedia App for GNU/Linux was Pointless (I Was Wrong) ☞ https://itsfoss.com/wike-wikipedia/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:15:09

• Nitrux 5.1 Drops Virtual Machine Support and Shifts Fully to Bare Metal ☞ https://linuxiac.com/nitrux-5-1-drops-virtual-machine-support-and-shifts-fully-to-bare-metal/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:15:53

• IPFire 2.29 Core Update 199 Brings WiFi 6 and WiFi 7 to the Firewall Platform ☞ https://linuxiac.com/ipfire-2-29-core-update-199-brings-wifi-6-and-wifi-7-to-the-firewall-platform/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:16:02

• TUXEDO Launches InfinityBook Max 16 With OLED Display and RTX Graphics ☞ https://linuxiac.com/tuxedo-launches-infinitybook-max-16-linux-laptop/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:17:21

• Netplan Configuration Guide on Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://linuxconfig.org/netplan-configuration-guide-on-ubuntu-26-04    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:17:45

• New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including DunHero - 2026-01-07 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-clients-2026-01-07-edition/index.html    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:18:14

• Ewww! https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/01/ropensci-2025-code-of-conduct-transparency-report/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:18:51

• penguins: Cloze Quiz for Exploratory Analysis of Penguins Data ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/01/penguins-cloze-quiz-for-exploratory-analysis-of-penguins-data/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:19:25

• More ewwww https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/01/ropensci-code-of-conduct-annual-review-7/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:19:44

• Nikos Roussos: 39c3 notes ☞ https://www.roussos.cc/2026/01/07/39c3/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:20:48

• GNOME says GNU/Linux Should be Like Windows, Moves to Disable "Middle-Click Paste" ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/gnome-says-linux-should-be-like-windows    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:21:51

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

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:22:21

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

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:22:31

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

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:23:43

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

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:24:30

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

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:28:24

• The state of open source Hey Hi (AI) models in 2025 ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/07/state-open-source-ai-models-2025    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:28:47

• Dev snapshot: Godot 4.6 beta 3 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-6-beta-3/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:30:41

• Lithuanian border guards are picking up migrants who have moved on from Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/07.01.2026-lithuanian-border-guards-are-picking-up-migrants-who-have-moved-on-from-latvia.a628926/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:31:17

• "seizes Russian-flagged tanker linked to Venezuelan oil" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/01/07/u-s-military-seizes-russian-flagged-tanker-linked-to-venezuelan-oil | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:36:01

• "Pay to pray" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/01/07/pay-to-pray | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:36:17

• "O Bella, ciao! U.S. seizes sanctioned tanker after weeks-long Atlantic pursuit and brief standoff with Russian naval escort" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/01/07/o-bella-ciao | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:36:32

• Dihydroxyacetone Man greenlights tough Russia sanctions bill, Sen. Lindsey Graham announces ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/01/07/us-news/trump-greenlights-tough-russia-sanctions-bill-sen-lindsey-graham-announces/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:36:48

• Some Russians' businesses are turning 'Latvian' for a couple of reasons ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/07.01.2026-some-russians-businesses-are-turning-latvian-for-a-couple-of-reasons.a628870/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:37:39

• Baltic states aim for resilience on rails ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/features/07.01.2026-baltic-states-aim-for-resilience-on-rails.a626451/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:37:50

• Another video about Donut battery at CES2026 ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202601/another-video-about-donut-battery-at-ces2026.html    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:38:23

• Help button in BootManager doesn't work ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202601/help-button-in-bootmanager-doesnt-work.html    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:38:39

• Daiki Ueno: GNOME.Asia Summit 2025 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/dueno/gnome-asia-summit-2025/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:39:17

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Golden Smartphone Is Getting Sketchier and Sketchier ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/trumps-golden-smartphone-sketchy    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:40:23

• "There are many misconceptions about Linux, and some I've believed myself. Long ago, I stuck with Windows because I misjudged Linux. Now, I wish to clear up some misunderstandings; here are 6 things that people often get wrong." https://www.howtogeek.com/things-windows-users-always-get-wrong-about-linux-and-whats-actually-true/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:41:36

• "During a recent visit to Stack Exchange's Unix and Linux section, I came across an interesting question from a user who wanted desktop widgets on their Zorin OS desktop." https://www.howtogeek.com/3-must-try-tools-if-you-want-windows-like-desktop-widgets-on-ubuntu/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:42:07

• Because.... BECAUSE! https://www.spiceworks.com/software/rust-moves-from-experiment-to-a-core-linux-kernel-language/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:44:22

• Sabotage... because they CAN https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/07/gnome_middle_click_paste/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:44:43

• As RAM prices skyrocket and Windows 11 flounders, Linux gains native NVIDIA GeForce NOW support — turning the cloud into a sanctuary for priced-out gamers https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/linux-gains-native-nvidia-geforce-now-support    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:45:14

• "The IPFire 2.29 Core Update 199 release also brings improvements to the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Web UI, OpenVPN, and proxy." https://9to5linux.com/ipfire-linux-firewall-distro-adds-wi-fi-7-and-wi-fi-6-support-lldp-and-cdpv2    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:45:55

• "This release features a Hyprland 0.52.2 desktop with new key bindings, revamped Waybar with a modern floating “island” design, and more." https://9to5linux.com/immutable-distro-nitrux-5-1-released-with-linux-kernel-6-18-lts-new-tools    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:46:47

• Want to try the original KDE desktop from 1996? I did, and it took me back - here's how https://www.zdnet.com/article/midesktop-experience-original-kde-linux-desktop/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:47:16

• Sick of Microslop? New Linux distro could win over Windows 11 haters https://www.techradar.com/computing/software/sick-of-microslop-new-linux-distro-could-win-over-windows-11-haters    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:47:48

• "The laptop also features up to 96 GB DDR5 5600MHz RAM, up to 16TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD storage, and a 99 Wh Lithium polymer battery." https://9to5linux.com/tuxedo-infinitybook-max-16-gen10-linux-laptop-unveiled-with-new-oled-display    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:48:15

• AMD highlights ROCm 7.2.2 at CES 2026 with Ryzen AI 400 support and a single Windows plus Linux release https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-highlights-rocm-7-2-2-at-ces-2026-with-ryzen-ai-400-support-and-a-single-windows-plus-linux-release    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:48:48

• ZAWYA-PRESSR: Red Hat expands collaboration with NVIDIA to pair enterprise open source with rack-scale AI https://www.tradingview.com/news/reuters.com,2026-01-07:newsml_Zaw8cVnrF:0-zawya-pressr-red-hat-expands-collaboration-with-nvidia-to-pair-enterprise-open-source-with-rack-scale-ai/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:49:23

• What if Linux ran Windows… and meant it? Meet Loss32 https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/06/loss32_crazy_or_inspired/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:49:54

• "In fact, it is simple enough that you can even make your own tray icons with a lowly shell script. Well, of course, like most interesting shell scripts, you need some helper programs and, in this case, we’ll use YAD — which is “yet another dialog,” a derivative of Zenity." https://hackaday.com/2026/01/06/linux-fu-yet-another-shell-script-trick/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:51:16

• "A new, fully local voice control application called EasySpeak has arrived on the Linux desktop, with accessibility and hands-free control for users running modern GNOME environments. Developed by Matt Hartley, EasySpeak is free, open source, and designed to turn voice commands into action." https://www.howtogeek.com/this-new-linux-app-lets-you-control-your-pc-with-your-voice-and-its-free/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:51:39

• Nvidia’s GeForce Now is getting native Linux and Fire TV apps https://www.theverge.com/tech/854688/nvidias-geforce-now-is-getting-native-linux-and-fire-tv-apps    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:52:03

• "Linux hardware vendor StarLabs announced today that its StarBook Horizon Linux-powered laptop is now on sale as a 13-inch Coreboot notebook designed for privacy and as a daily driver." https://9to5linux.com/starbook-horizon-linux-laptop-now-on-sale-with-32gb-ram-wi-fi-6e-and-coreboot    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:52:51

• "You hear declarations every year about the long-told "year of the Linux desktop" arriving this year, having arrived years ago, or maybe not ever arriving. I think it's easier to predict, though, that inside the Linux world, 2026 is definitely KDE's year to take." https://www.howtogeek.com/2026-could-be-the-year-of-the-kde-linux-desktop/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:54:19

• Nvidia Announces DLSS 4.5 and GeForce Now Apps for Linux and Fire TV https://www.thurrott.com/games/331399/nvidia-announces-dlss-4-5-and-geforce-now-apps-for-linux-and-fire-tv    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:55:34

• "The community behind the Devuan GNU+Linux project has published Raspberry Pi images of the latest release, Devuan 6.1 (codename Excalibur), so I took it for a test drive on my Raspberry Pi 5 to give you guys a first look at what Devuan can do on the tiny single-board computer." https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-devuan-gnulinux-6-excalibur-on-raspberry-pi-5    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:56:20

• "This is not some super-heavy technical talk, but more of a chilled out chat about the industry amongst friends so hopefully you will enjoy the casual nature of it. It's a lot of fun to do collabs like this, especially as I don't really get to do this sort of thing very often." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/check-out-the-new-games-for-everyone-podcast-and-have-a-listen/    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 16:56:51

• 🖼️ xkcd — Superstition #3191 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3191.gmi    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 19:28:22

• 🔤SpellBinding — BEMSTYU Wordo: BASES gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2026-01-08.gmi    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 19:29:05

• "i'm putting together a big feature grid of all the gemini clients and what features they support. the first step is to know which features are important for a gemini browser / client to have." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Gemini/36458    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 19:29:58

• "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 Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 19:31:01

• "My usual web client for fedi is @phanpy@hachyderm.io and I wonder if there's a way to add the following feature using tamper script or grease monkey: Replace every image attachment with the clickable alt text. If there is no alt text, no problem, just drop it." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-01-08-phanpy    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 19:31:35

• New Year, Old Plans gopher://jonsharp.net:70/0/gl2/01-07-2026-New-Year-Old-Plans.md    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 19:34:35

• "Pseudonymous maker "alyssagsmi," hereafter simply "Alyssa," has built a guitar-shaped electronic instrument with a difference — taking inspiration from the nautilus shell and the concept of cognitive flow states: the Sensory Neurofeedback Acoustic Instrument, or SNAIL." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202601/20260108-snail.gmi    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 19:35:58

• A good investment gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ralfwause/phlog/printer.txt    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 19:36:41

• "The artificial intelligence bros are scraping the net and they don't care if the small websites fall over or not for days on end. But you already know all that. It's the founding story of my Butlerian Jihad." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-01-08-shared-block-lists    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 19:37:44

• Phirst Phost! gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2026/20260107_1st_phost    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 19:39:25

• secret society gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/spiritual    

posted Thursday, January 08, 2026 at 19:40:14