Roy Schestowitz

• "I'm trying to understand why the fund managers aren't selling off the Magnificent Seven. Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, Alphabet, and Meta Platforms make up about 35% of S&P 500." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-01-10-ai-bulls    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 03:19:38

• ls but 'The Unix Way' gemini://spell.mywire.org:1960/~stack/0257.gmi    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 03:20:20

• Andy has a new post: https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/shortwave/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 03:27:28

• new year resolution https://theconversation.com/what-to-do-if-you-fail-at-your-new-year-resolution-271050    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 04:36:54

• procrastination isn’t laziness https://theconversation.com/why-procrastination-isnt-laziness-its-rigid-thinking-that-your-brain-can-unlearn-270838    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 04:37:16

• What a dumb new comment (also false): "Let's not forget IBM reached 107 billion due to the whites. After the Asians came it stared to burn like the Cali fires. Sell your stock as fast as possible if you are white. Do it asap" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ked3sgr0    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 04:46:53

• The thugs who attack Tux Machines and Techrights are HYPER-sensitive about being called 'hired guns' https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/feb/16/uk-solicitors-warned-not-to-act-as-hired-guns-to-silence-critics-of-super-rich    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 04:54:10

• BECAUSE it IS what they are    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 04:54:24

• Bing is losing a lot this year https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/morocco/#monthly-200902-202601    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 04:56:50

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

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:14:39

• Windows all-time low https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/kuwait/#monthly-200902-202601    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:15:37

• Here also https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/swaziland/#monthly-200902-202601    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:18:18

• Canonical call for testing their Steam gaming Snap for Arm Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/canonical-call-for-testing-their-steam-gaming-snap-for-arm-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/canonical-call-for-testing-their-steam-gaming-snap-for-arm-linux/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:33:35

• "Trump’s Losing Streak Continues as Jobs Report Shows Weak 2025 Labor Market" https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/trumps-losing-streak-continues-as-jobs-report-shows-weak-2025-labor-market    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:34:07

• "Donald Trump’s Greenland Obsession Is Growing More Dangerous" https://jacobin.com/2026/01/trump-greenland-denmark-nato-imperialism/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:34:21

• "The ace of aces: This Marine Corps aviator shot down 23 enemy planes" https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/veterans/military-history/2026/01/10/the-ace-of-aces-this-marine-corps-aviator-shot-down-23-enemy-planes/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:34:33

• "and will likely spur distrust and scrutiny of the federal government." https://www.courthousenews.com/minnesota-legal-experts-caution-against-state-exclusion-in-ice-shooting-investigation/ iophk: what if that is their main goal?    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:35:16

• "Greenland's party leaders firmly reject Trump's push for U.S. control of territory" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-01-10/greenlands-party-leaders-firmly-reject-trumps-push-for-u-s-control-of-territory    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:35:29

• "Post-Cold War order crumbling: 'Trump's US is no longer Europe's ally', says political scientist - RTL Today" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/trumps-us-is-no-longer-europes-ally-says-political-scientist-1162831380    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:35:48

• iophk: the clear goal of his master(s) https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-10/a-trump-intervention-in-greenland-would-destroy-nato.html    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:36:06

• "organise resistance" ☛ https://thegrayzone.com/2026/01/10/eu-plotted-orban-resistance/ | Source: The Gray Zone    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:36:40

• "Specifically, the suit against Sony Music Entertainment focuses on unpaid royalties for the song “Canción del Mariachi” featured in the movie Desperado." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/01/09/los-lobos-lawsuits-sony-music-sony-pictures/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:40:49

• "For the past few weeks, Elon Musk’s Grok AI bot has been generating pornographic images of women and underage girls, without their consent, at an astounding rate." ☛ https://www.vox.com/culture/474772/grok-deepfake-porn-elon-musk | Source: Vox    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:41:14

• "As Lopatto rightly points out, this exposes Apple’s entire argument that the App Store is there to protect its users for the sham that it has always been." ☛ https://sixcolors.com/link/2026/01/apple-cowardly-still-has-not-pulled-x-and-grok-from-the-app-store/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:41:50

• "What’s happening on X and Grok is sick, and clearly breaks Apple’s terms." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/apple-could-do-the-right-thing-im-not-holding-my-breath/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:42:07

• "Message boards are not just relics from the past, but a fascinating pocket of the Old Internet that still persists among the algorithms" ☛ https://www.theringer.com/2024/12/10/tech/internet-forum-message-board-90s-nostalgia-social-media |    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:42:47

• "So let's say you can find the email address you want. The chances of your message getting there are slimmer every day." ☛ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/shortwave/ | Source: The Cyber Show    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:43:28

• "The prime minister's first question, according to Eutelsat and French defence officials, was how the proposal would affect the Telesat Corporation, a former Canadian Crown corporation that was privatized in the 1990s." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/satellite-eutelsat-starlink-musk-defence-communications-9.7038830 | Source: CBC    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:43:41

• "Southwest to Cut 15% of Corporate Jobs in First-Ever Layoffs"    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:45:30

• Indonesia blocks access to Grok over sexualised images https://m.economictimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/indonesia-temporarily-blocks-access-to-grok-over-sexualised-images/amp_articleshow/126449412.cms    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:45:52

• Nope. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/is-ai-replacing-workers_uk_6960d472e4b0120ab25d0392    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:46:49

• Because XBox is dead/dying https://gamerant.com/rumor-xbox-exclusive-fable-ps5-launch/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:48:21

• "HP to Lay Off 4,000 to 6,000 Employees by 2028"    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:48:57

• "Ordinarily, a death such as Good’s would provoke hand-wringing and inquests at all levels. But D.H.S. has refused to share evidence with local authorities" ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/an-ice-killing-puts-minneapolis-on-the-brink | Source: New Yorker    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:50:59

• "Emmanuel Mauleón, a law professor at the University of Minnesota, said the decision to withhold evidence from the state serves as a roadblock to justice" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/minnesota-legal-experts-caution-against-state-exclusion-in-ice-shooting-investigation/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:51:14

• "The old tri-colored flag with a lion and sun -- used in Iran before the Islamic revolution -- stayed in place for several minutes before being removed" ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/protesters-put-pre-islamic-revolution-iran-flag-on-london-embassy-10616566 | Source: NDTV    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:51:50

• "Khamenei has always crushed dissent with brute force, which succeeded in 2009 and 2019, when protests were more concentrated geographically." ☛ https://www.theage.com.au/world/middle-east/iran-has-brutally-crushed-protests-before-this-time-could-be-different-20260111-p5nt4i.html | Source: The Age AU    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:52:17

• "Forty-seven years ago, Iran had a revolution that replaced a U.S.-allied monarchy with an anti-American theocracy." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/01/iran-revolution-protests-collapse/685578/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:52:41

• "With the internet down in Iran and phone lines cut off, gauging the demonstrations from abroad has grown more difficult." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2026/0110/Iranian-protests-intensify-amid-blackout-and-crackdown | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:53:46

• "Horrific, widely viewed footage shows what happened next: The sirens and unmarked cars, masked thugs getting out, Good's car straddling the road, protesters shouting" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/further/fucking-bitch | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:54:29

• "Today, a new wave of protests—the largest since the 2022 “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising—is rocking the country." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/im-an-iranian-dissident-my-people | Source: The Next Move    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:54:42

• "The administration’s explicit attempts at censorship work alongside the more insidious ways in which press freedoms are eroded, like the right-wing capture of legacy media institutions and social media platforms by ideologues and billionaires." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/this-tribal-news-agency-shows-how-to-defend-a-free-press-at-the-grassroots/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:59:27

• "Just to be crystal clear about what we’re talking about here: a member of Congress subpoenaed a journalist and referred him for criminal prosecution for posting information that was publicly available on a university website." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/09/rep-luna-threatens-journalist-with-prison-for-posting-public-university-bio/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:59:40

• "Guzman is said to have expressed disagreement over the editorial direction of the evening newscast, which has undergone a revamp under CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss. Guzman did not respond to a request for comment." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2026-01-09/cbs-evening-news-producer-fired-amid-turbulent-relaunch | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 05:59:55

• "grasping models of power are unsustainable and require ever-greater levels of escalation; and that models predicated on care and equity are both more natural and more sustainable. Solidarity and compassion therefore become threats." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/amid-trumps-war-on-antifa-activists-face-arrest-for-zines-and-group-chats/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:00:24

• "Lydia Gall, a senior Europe and Central Asia researcher for HRW, summarized the organization’s position on these approaches, saying: [...]" ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/group-warns-uk-protest-restrictions-undermine-democracy-and-human-rights/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:00:35

• "Following the decision, X made the account invisible to users accessing the platform from within Turkey. MA announced its new X handle as "@maturkce2"." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/two-pro-kurdish-news-agencies-x-accounts-banned-in-turkey-315429 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:00:53

• "Influencers and OnlyFans models" ☛ https://www.wlrn.org/immigration/2025-11-19/the-o1-visa-is-for-extraordinary-talent-among-its-users-influencers-and-onlyfans-models |    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:01:39

• "Darshan himself now has over seven lakh followers on Instagram, which only adds more 'weight to his application'." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/lifestyle/why-influencers-and-onlyfans-models-are-on-top-of-us-extraordinary-artist-visa-list-10391245 | Source: NDTV    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:02:03

• "and a high salary or other reliable remuneration. As it's a merit-based, non-immigrant visa for temporary stays, there's no annual limit on O-1B visas." ☛ https://hyperallergic.com/influencers-and-onlyfans-models-turn-to-artist-visas-to-enter-us/ | Source: HyperAllergic    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:02:31

• "Concerns have been raised by immigration lawyers that this shift, relying on algorithm-based metrics, may dilute the visa's original purpose and overlook traditional artistic talent." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/onlyfans-influencers-us-artist-visas-b2895612.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:02:58

• "the total number of non-immigrant visas issued grew by 10 per cent." ☛ https://www.ft.com/content/8816fcec-4148-4cda-be7f-fc59d5bcbf59 | Source: Financial Times    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:03:19

• "You want change? Pick up the phone and start calling your representatives." ☛ https://crescentro.se/posts/llm-discourse/ | Source: Ivan    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:03:33

• "What's the point of fining Apple billions of Euros if they refuse to pay? What's the point of ordering Apple to open up its App Store if it just refuses?" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/10/markets-are-regulations/#carney-found-a-spine | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:04:12

• "The criminals know this. That’s why they work so hard to make you think you’re alone." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/there-are-more-of-us-than-there-are | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:04:25

• "Given this threat landscape, why does the UK's flagship Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill exclude both central and local government?" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/10/csr_bill_analysis/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:04:43

• "The entrepreneur, who owns a point-of-sale payments company and has little in the way of traditional credentials or experience for the job" ☛ https://futurism.com/space/billionaire-nasa-head-bizarre-perk | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:05:00

• "Those devices, Ternus reasoned, tended to be purchased by Apple's most loyal customers, who would be excited about new technology. Average consumers, on the other hand, probably wouldn't care." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/the-man-who-could-be-apples-next-ceo/articleshow/126457264.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:05:29

• "One recent bet on Venezuela paid off particularly well, and has raised concerns about whether someone used inside information to their advantage." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/prediction-markets-maduro-bets-9.7038860 | Source: CBC    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:05:47

• "Frequent WestJet flyer Alexandra West said in an interview with CBC News that she first noticed she couldn’t comfortably fit in their economy seats last year." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/westjet-passenger-legroom-regulations-9.7040507 | Source: CBC    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:09:48

• "Against this backdrop, climate and energy expert Hans-Josef Fell sees the world at a crossroads." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/fossil-fuel-subsidies-are-leading-the-us-and-eu-into-industrial-decline/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:10:18

• "Thankfully today has gone from 42° back down to 21°, which is a huge relief." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/it-was-hot-in-sydney-yesterday/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:10:29

• "These couples’ reasons run the gamut from high child-rearing costs to career concerns." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/11/dual-income-no-kids-chinas-birth-rate-push-sputters-as-couples-stay-child-free/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:12:55

• "The river and the 40 million people who depend on it cannot wait" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/colorado-river-basin-states-get-first-look-at-proposed-operating-rules/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:13:13

• "New photos from Afghanistan show a Taliban law banning images of people and animals is now being enforced across most of the country" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-taliban-ban-on-living-images-censorship/33644012.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:15:06

• "Open-source technologies have the potential to enable greater control over digital infrastructure and to reduce the EU’s dependencies" ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en#PDF | Source: European Commission    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:15:41

• "a strategic approach to the open source sector in the EU that addresses the importance of open source as a crucial contribution to EU technological sovereignty" ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en | Source: European Commission    

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

• "Therefore I will argue, that the wise choice for EU is option three." ☛ https://www.version2.dk/holdning/mit-svar-til-eu |    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:16:33

• "In Europe we are right to worry about the end of the last illusions of the existence of international law and of the international system of government." ☛ https://www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1291852/the-europeans-at-their-rubicon/ | Source: Greece    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:16:52

• "The group’s digital presence functions across three overlapping layers." ☛ https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/staying-in-the-feed-the-islamic-state-s-digital-survival-strategy | Source: Observer Research Foundation    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:17:14

• "Earlier this week the Air Force announced that the 562nd Electronic Warfare Squadron would be based out of Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas" ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-electronic-warfare-squadron-nellis/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:17:37

• "Penalizing a state for how its citizens vote also violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-constitution-prohibits-trumps | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:18:03

• "I talk again with my favorite military historian/analyst about the regime change that wasn't and why America wins battles but loses wars. Transcript follows." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/phillips-obrien-on-venezuela-and | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:18:19

• "Here’s what I told them, and what I want to tell you: [...]" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/why-i-document-this-isnt-about-revenge | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:19:02

• "I am a friend of police, more than any president who’s been in office." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/02/trump-indecency-jan-6-pardons/685324/?gift=aQyUJR7AIw1mJWdQ6Ed6yKamvkJf5cw73KeIYXcSxQ4 | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:19:33

• "Europe is experiencing a crisis of digital autonomy." ☛ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/ft-on-european-cloud/ | Source: Bert Hubert    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:19:51

• "To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them to strip out confidential and personally identifiable information" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/openai-contractor-upload-real-work-documents-ai-agents/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:20:26

• "Such geopolitical volatility has also brought to the fore key questions that national intelligence services, including India’s own, must grapple with." ☛ https://www.orfonline.org/research/swords-and-shields-navigating-the-modern-intelligence-landscape | Source: Observer Research Foundation    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:20:38

• Openwashing ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/860294/elon-musk-open-source-x-algorithm | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:21:09

• "The screenshot above shows a page from the Help book of one of my apps" ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/09/hiding-text-in-pdfs/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:22:40

• "What I do think is going to happen more and more is far more dynamic inference pricing, with 'off peak' times being significantly cheaper than when demand is at its highest through the day" ☛ https://martinalderson.com/posts/the-coming-ai-compute-crunch/ | Source: Martin Alderson    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:23:01

• "If you ask people why they are using AI (or want other people to use it) you get a ton of different answers. Typically none of them contain the real reason" ☛ https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/01/ai-and-money.html | Source: Jussi Pakkanen    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:23:22

• "They are features for no one." ☛ https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/ai-features-for-no-one/ | Source: Rnb37    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:23:46

• "MCP is bidirectional. Servers can request LLM completions from the host. The tool asks the agent for help. This isn’t RPC. It’s a conversation. REST can’t express this pattern at all." ☛ https://yuexun.me/why-mcp-matters/ | Source: Yuexun    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:24:02

• "Both X and Grok are units of Musk’s xAI company." ☛ https://therecord.media/lawmakers-call-on-app-stores-to-remove-grok-x | Source: The Record    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:24:15

• "In 2022, a friend recommended the book Fettlogik Überwinden (also available in English: Conquering Fat Logic) by Nadja Hermann" ☛ https://blinry.org/weight-loss/ | Source: Blinry    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:25:22

• "Perhaps it sounds like a strange thing to say, but I’ve been feeling a lot of guilt whenever I’ve felt even the smallest amount of joy lately." ☛ https://nikitagill.substack.com/p/the-guilt-of-feeling-joy |    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:25:40

• "agreed to settle a lawsuit that had accused the companies of providing harmful chatbots that led a teenager to kill himself, according to a legal filing on Wednesday" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/technology/google-characterai-teenager-lawsuit.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:25:56

• "In summer of 2024, Google injected $3 billion into Character.AI" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-settlement-lawsuit-teen | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:26:26

• "Point and shoot cameras are back in some sort of fashion." ☛ https://chrisglass.com/2026/01/09/camera-broke/ | Source: Chris Glass    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:27:09

• "As the stats above show, adoption is extremely rapid. The other curve that is happening from my last post which blew me away is the improvement in agent success rates from METR." ☛ https://martinalderson.com/posts/travel-agents-developers/ | Source: Martin Alderson    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:27:33

• "This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Bix Frankonis, whose blog can be found at bix.blog." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/interview/bix-frankonis | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:27:50

• "I have a vague sense that if I keep track of everything that I read, I’ll be able to analyze it in some meaningful way to identify trends or new ideas." ☛ https://matt.routleynet.org/2026/01/10/why-am-i-bookmarking-everything.html | Source: Matt Routley    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:28:11

• "Donald Knuth wrote his 1989 paper “A Simple Program Whose Proof Isn’t” as part of a tribute to Edsger Dijkstra on the occasion of Dijkstra’s 60th birthday." ☛ https://research.swtch.com/fp-knuth | Source: Russ Cox    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:28:59

• "An international group of researchers says that biodiversity conservation and scientific research are not benefiting from the vast knowledge about the world's plants held by botanic gardens" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-01-botanic-gardens-vast-knowledge-untapped.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:29:12

• "And risk is exactly what omniscient agents are designed to eliminate" ☛ https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/the-middle-is-a-graveyard/ | Source: Jono Alderson    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:29:52

• "Your thoughts, your ideas, your personality and quirks are the essence of your website. Everything else is optional." ☛ https://susam.net/writing-first-tooling-second.html | Source: SusamPal    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:30:04

• "Recently, I have been pretty bored with what I am reading. Online or otherwise. My RSS feed is full of the same voices writing about similar topics." ☛ https://www.amitgawande.com/blog/2026/losing-patience-reading/ | Source: Amit Gawande    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:30:18

• David Rosen, RIP ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/01/09/david-rosen-rip/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:30:42

• "In 2025 I made 8 blog posts, totalling around 36k words. Less than last year, mostly just because I’ve been busier (or at least in less of a normal routine, which would usually have me writing more)" ☛ https://nate.mecca1.net/posts/2026-01-10_2025-retrospective/ | Source: Nate    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:31:00

• "I made my first website when I was in third grade, and I've maintained some sort of web presence since that first version of Tim's World." ☛ https://timbornholdt.com/blog/we-re-so-back-baby |    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:31:21

• "Neither a computer engineer nor a programmer, Mr. Cheifet had a law degree from Harvard and a background in television production and journalism." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/technology/stewart-cheifet-dead.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:32:02

• "AI agents" is a passing fad already, so they move on to "AI factories". What a bloody PONZI SCHEME!!    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:32:40

• "Singer-songwriter-guitarist Bob Weir, a cornerstone of the Grateful Dead and the San Francisco psychedelic band’s many latter-day offshoots for more than half a century" ☛ https://variety.com/2026/music/news/bob-weir-dead-grateful-dead-1236628170/ | Source: Variety    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:32:59

• "The Dead also released eight “official” live albums, as well as a long-running series of curated live shows known as Dick’s Picks and, later, Dave’s Picks" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2026-01-10/bob-weir-grateful-dead-dies-obituary | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:33:27

• "Weir was one of the group's two frontmen and main vocalists for ‍most of the band's history." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-10/bob-weir-grateful-dead-co-founder-has-died-at-age-78 | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:33:43

• "The acoustic Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions evolved into the electric Warlocks, who changed their name to the Grateful Dead." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-weir-grateful-dead-dead-obituary-1234810106/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:34:00

• Almost 100 ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/obit-ruth-jones-mcveigh-mariposa-9.7041034 | Source: CBC    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 06:34:24

• These comments are interesting: https://www.version2.dk/holdning/mit-svar-til-eu#comments    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:05:52

• climate collapse worsens: https://yle.fi/a/74-20203581 iophk: Kittilä is the hub for pretty much all of the ski resorts except for one. Without new tourists illegal drug sales must be unseasonably low    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:06:31

• "Anil Dash’s essay on how Markdown conquered everything is a good reminder that most “standards” don’t win because they’re perfect — they win because they’re good enough" ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2026/01/10/1511 | Source: Rui Carmo    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:08:37

• "Markdown is a text-to-HTML idiom, conversion tool and all-out ecosystem for web writers, content editors and…" ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/markup/markdown | Source: Rui Carmo    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:09:16

• "Team Rcpp is thrilled to share that an exciting new version 1.1.1 of Rcpp is now on CRAN (and also uploaded to Debian and already built for r2u)." ☛ https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/01/10/#rcpp_1.1.1 | Source: Dirk Eddelbuettel    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:10:03

• "In this post, I want to extrapolate these thoughts a bit and write out what could be the final stages of software." ☛ https://blog.sshh.io/p/most-code-is-just-cache | Source: Shrivu Shankar    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:10:37

• "About three months ago I started using Jujutsu (JJ), a new Version Control System, for my personal projects." ☛ https://abhinavsarkar.net/posts/jj-usage/ | Source: Abhinav Sarkar    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:10:58

• "Unbeknownst to me, SQLite3 now has a UUID extension that can generate valid UUIDs on the fly." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/messing-with-uuid-in-sqlite3/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:11:20

• "At its core, Orion is built on WebKit, the same browser engine used by Apple Safari." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/orion-browser-takes-first-step-toward-linux-availability/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:11:59

• "Here, I think it’s safe to assume the page is going to contain details of different products." ☛ https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/fixing-the-url-params-performance-penalty/ | Source: Web Performance Calendar    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:12:14

• "A few months ago, users started reporting that Ghostty was consuming absurd amounts of memory, with one user reporting 37 GB after 10 days of uptime." ☛ https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-memory-leak-fix | Source: Mitchell Hashimoto    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:12:48

• "I hope these numbers set off an alarm in Apple's design department." ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/ios-26-low-traction-iphone-users/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:13:27

• "Robb Knight inspired this post, although my list is not nearly as long or as exhaustively researched as his." ☛ https://mihobu.lol/my-mobile-phone-history | Source: Michael Burkhardt    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:13:46

• "Our friends over at Sixfab, one of our long-standing Raspberry Pi Design Partners, are kicking off 2026 in serious style." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/sixfab-wins-big-at-ces-with-raspberry-pi-powered-ai-gateway/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:14:45

• "What's the difference between my left and right hand? On my left, I wear my wedding ring, on my right, I wear an NFC ring!" ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/01/why-my-nfc-passport-didnt-work-at-heathrows-egates/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:15:50

• "Palo Alto Crosswalk Signals Had Default Passwords" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/palo-alto-crosswalk-signals-had-default-passwords.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:16:10

• "Turns out Caltrans didn’t change the passwords for the crosswalks that the manufacturers set, making them vulnerable to hackers." ☛ https://padailypost.com/2025/12/29/crosswalk-signals-were-hacked-because-of-a-weak-password/ |    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:16:22

• "Over two months after the previous 13.2 release, the Debian Project rolled out the third update to the stable 13 “Trixie” series, consolidating corrections for security vulnerabilities and serious functional issues across a wide range of packages." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/debian-13-3-released-with-security-fixes-and-stability-updates/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:17:30

• "The Mageia team has announced an alpha development snapshot of the upcoming Mageia 10 release. The final release is expected in April 2026. [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12698 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:20:05

• "In mid-December, I informed you about Mageia’s plans for its upcoming tenth release." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/mageia-linux-10-first-alpha-iso-is-ready-for-public-testing/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:20:19

• "Today, that takes a step forward with the arrival of the first alpha ISO for Mageia 10, powered by the Linux kernel 6.18 LTS and officially available, giving developers, testers, and early adopters the opportunity to evaluate what is coming next."    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:20:30

• "ArchBANG Linux has been through many changes in recent times, including the renaming of ArchBANG, to GreenBANG and back to ArchBANG again. The most recent update involves a new desktop user interface, moving from the Openbox window manager to the labwc Wayland compositor.    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:24:16

• "Inspired by Openbox, labwc is a window-stacking compositor for Wayland. The latest release of ArchBANG also comes with a new wmenu: [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12697 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:24:26

• [Old] "It is finally happening. Raspberry Pi 5 users can now look forward to proper support in openSUSE Tumbleweed." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/11/04/raspberrypi5-opensuse/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:26:26

• "And it is not just about U-Boot, it is so much more. This is thanks to the hard work of many parties like SUSE Hardware Enablement team, RaspberryPi, Ideas on Board, Linaro, and many other engineers, along with Linux and U-Boot subsystem maintainers and many other engineers were patient enough to review our patches."    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:26:43

• "In not so distant past I used shar(1) tool that was part of the FreeBSD Base System to generate information needed to either create new port or to update the old one. It was also one of the officially supported ways to do that … but shar(1) tool is no more – it was removed from the FreeBSD Base System and (fortunately) kept as sysutils/freebsd-shar port." ☛ https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/add-port-to-freebsd-ports/ | Source: Vermaden    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:27:43

• "The Arch approach is isomorphic to the source RPM format, which has various extras and instructions plus a pre-downloaded set of upstream sources." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SourcePackagesEmbedSourceOrNot | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:28:17

• "Nobody wants a computer. They want what it does. Not the annoying machine. Including phones." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/10/if-users-notice-your-software-youre-already-a-loser/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:28:32

• "The KDE desktop has long been known for offering nearly limitless customization, but one option has always felt oddly missing: the ability to adjust frame border intensity and contrast for Breeze-themed UI elements, letting users make frames more subtle or more pronounced according to their preference." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-6-adds-a-feature-users-have-been-asking-for-forever/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:29:37

• "In not so distant past I used shar(1) tool that was part of the FreeBSD Base System to generate information needed to either create new port or to update the old one."    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:30:56

• "It was also one of the officially supported ways to do that … but shar(1) tool is no more – it was removed from the FreeBSD Base System and (fortunately) kept as sysutils/freebsd-shar port." ☛ https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/add-port-to-freebsd-ports/ | Source: Vermaden    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:31:06

• "Budgie Desktop 10.10 has been released, delivering its first full migration from X11 to Wayland and marking the end of a development spanning more than a decade" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/budgie-10-10-released-as-the-desktops-first-wayland-based-version/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:37:02

• "(the initial 10’s release came out in December 2015). With that said, with the new 10.10 release, Budgie 10 series now enters maintenance mode as the project shifts its primary focus toward the upcoming Budgie 11."    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:37:19

• "These are two of the defining features of the Macintosh, pioneered in the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center" ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/10/explainer-copy-and-paste-drag-and-drop/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:37:35

• "This is a the first post in a series about building a virtio-serial device in Verilog for a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) development board." ☛ https://blog.vmsplice.net/2026/01/building-virtio-serial-fpga-device-part.html | Source: Stefan Hajnoczi    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:38:17

• "This is the second post in a series about building a virtio-serial device in Verilog for an FPGA development board." ☛ https://blog.vmsplice.net/2026/01/building-virtio-serial-fpga-device-part_01619779257.html | Source: Stefan Hajnoczi    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:38:38

• "This is the third post in a series about building a virtio-serial device in Verilog for an FPGA development board." ☛ https://blog.vmsplice.net/2026/01/building-virtio-serial-fpga-device-part_01938158793.html | Source: Stefan Hajnoczi    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:38:58

• "This is the fourth post in a series about building a virtio-serial device in Verilog for an FPGA development board." ☛ https://blog.vmsplice.net/2026/01/building-virtio-serial-fpga-device-part_01060935865.html | Source: Stefan Hajnoczi    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:39:48

• "This time we'll look at the UART receiver" ☛ https://blog.vmsplice.net/2026/01/building-virtio-serial-fpga-device-part_04001134.html | Source: Stefan Hajnoczi    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:40:13

• "This time we'll look at the firmware running on the PicoRV32 RISC-V soft-core in the FPGA." ☛ https://blog.vmsplice.net/2026/01/building-virtio-serial-fpga-device-part_01486670629.html | Source: Stefan Hajnoczi    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:40:32

• "Somehow when I tried to access my new Hetzner service from my laptop I got myself in a terrible muddle." ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/hetzner-login-problems-solved | Source: Jeremy Cherfas    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:40:54

• [Old] "The answer unsurprisingly is yes. All you need to do is add an AAAA (IPv6 version of an A) record to the DNS and it all just works." ☛ https://martinalderson.com/posts/i-finally-found-a-use-for-ipv6/ | Source: Martin Alderson    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:41:22

• "When I first encountered virtualization, I was quite confused about the exact roles of KVM and QEMU." ☛ https://popovicu.com/posts/how-kvm-and-qemu-run-vms-in-linux/ | Source: Uros Popovic    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:41:52

• Tithon – IRC client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tithon-irc-client/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:42:18

• Hammer – story editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hammer-story-editor/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:42:28

• Orion Browser Takes First Step Toward GNU/Linux Availability ☞ https://linuxiac.com/orion-browser-takes-first-step-toward-linux-availability/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:44:18

• Tiny Deer Takes on 1.7-Ton Rhinoceros ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/deer-vs-rhinoceros    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:45:16

• People Who Go Off GLP-1s Are Experiencing a Sudden and Terrible Hunger ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/go-off-glp-1s-sudden-hunger    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:54:51

• Social media cooks up new flavours for South Korea’s ramyeon ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/social-media-is-rewriting-south-koreas-ramyeon-rules    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:06:58

• Buddhist monk gets jail term for wife beating in South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/buddhist-monk-gets-jail-term-for-wife-beating-in-south-korea    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:07:25

• Nearly all Seoul students use generative Hey Hi (AI) as teachers warn of overreliance ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/nearly-all-seoul-students-use-generative-ai-as-teachers-warn-of-overreliance    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:08:13

• North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong urges South Korea to investigate drone incidents ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-kim-yo-jong-urges-south-korea-to-investigate-drone-incidents    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:08:39

• Two passports, one grudge: Roots of South Korea’s unease with ‘black-haired foreigners’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/two-passports-one-grudge-roots-of-south-koreas-unease-with-black-haired-foreigners    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:09:19

• Zoo visitors in Malaysia thrilled as panda enclosure opens to public ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/zoo-visitors-in-malaysia-thrilled-as-panda-enclosure-opens-to-public    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:09:57

• Rights groups praise Istanbul bar association acquittal ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/rights-groups-praise-istanbul-bar-association-acquittal/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:13:33

• iophk: Microclimates vary here. Some people not far away have had -38C these last weeks, several locations.    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:14:28

• Anon: Bob Weir, a close friend and collaborator of the late John Perry Barlow, passed away the other day. He was an indirect influence on the EFF in the early, pre-GAFAM days.    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:14:59

• Arrests reported, cross removed amid China’s growing crackdown on unofficial churches ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/11/arrests-reported-cross-removed-amid-chinas-growing-crackdown-on-unofficial-churches/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:20:27

• Dihydroxyacetone Man exits global bodies in the name of ‘America First.’ Who benefits? ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2026/0109/trump-america-first-global-ngos-china    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:20:45

• China sells the world on its duty-free Hainan island, amid a $1.28 trillion trade surplus ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-sells-the-world-on-its-duty-free-hainan-island-amid-a-1-2-trillion-trade-surplus    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:32:42

• HP reportedly eyes Chinese suppliers for DRAM as global shortage sparks shake-up — analyst says memory chips are commodities that can easily be replaced ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/hp-reportedly-eyes-chinese-suppliers-for-dram-as-global-shortage-sparks-shake-up-analyst-says-memory-chips-are-commodities-that-can-easily-be-replaced    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:33:03

• HRW calls on Canada to confront China’s heightened repression ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/rights-group-urges-canada-to-confront-chinas-heightened-repression/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:33:55

• Dual income no kids: China’s birth-rate push sputters as couples stay child-free ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/11/dual-income-no-kids-chinas-birth-rate-push-sputters-as-couples-stay-child-free/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:34:20

• Behold This Massive Airborne Wind Turbine Hovering Over China ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/china-airborne-wind-turbine    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:37:41

• China Builds Wild Gravity Machine ☞ https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/china-builds-hypergravity-centrifuge    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:40:17

• Magnetohydrodynamic ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/10/yamato-1-the-worlds-first-ship-with-magnetohydrodynamic-propulsion/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:40:48

• This Week in Science: Anti-Cancer Fungal Compound, a Golden Shark, And More! ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-week-in-science-anti-cancer-fungal-compound-a-golden-shark-and-more    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:44:00

• Think The World Is Getting Worse? Science Has Some Surprising Good News ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/think-the-world-is-getting-worse-science-has-some-surprising-good-news    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:44:15

• The Pigment in Red Hair Has a Secret Superpower We Never Knew About ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-pigment-in-red-hair-has-a-secret-superpower-we-never-knew-about    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:45:02

• 'Mammoth' Bones Kept in a Museum For 70 Years Turn Out to Be An Entirely Different Animal ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mammoth-bones-kept-in-a-museum-for-70-years-turn-out-to-be-an-entirely-different-animal    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:45:47

• Do 'Focus Apps' Increase Your Productivity? Here's The Science ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/do-focus-apps-increase-your-productivity-heres-the-science    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:45:58

• Texas Instruments Explain Low-Dropout Linear Voltage Regulators ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/10/texas-instruments-explain-low-dropout-linear-voltage-regulators/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:48:48

• Why Are Iranians Protesting? What to Know About the Unrest. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/article/iran-protests-inflation-currency.html    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:49:05

• Live Blog: Thousands Reported Detained, Dozens Dead As Iran Protests Continue ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protests-live-blog-trump-khamenei/33640284.html    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:49:20

• Western Leaders Crank Up Pressure On Iran Amid Crackdown On Protesters ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protests-pressure-internet-western-leaders-crackdown/33644771.html    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:49:39

• 'Nothing to Lose': Nationwide protests challenge Iran’s regime ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/nothing-to-lose-nationwide-protests-challenge-iran-s-regime    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:49:50

• Furious Hey Hi (AI) Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-prompt-plagiarism-art    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:50:44

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: Rcpp 1.1.1 on CRAN: Many Improvements in Semi-Annual Update ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/01/10#rcpp_1.1.1    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:51:50

• Russell Coker: Terminal Emulator Security ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/01/11/terminal-emulator-security/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 12:52:49

• I love KDE too much to retire! Snap beta releases trickling in. Stay tuned. ☞ https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/i-love-kde-too-much-to-retire-snap-beta-releases-trickling-in-stay-tuned/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:02:58

• Tech Billionaire Says It’s Time for the Government to Suspend Freedom of Speech ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/tech-billionaire-shlomo-kramer-speech    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:07:32

• GAFAM Wants War ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/10/GAFAM_Wants_War.shtml    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:08:18

• Migrated From X11 To Wayland = many things won't work, they don't care ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Budgie-10.10-Released    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:08:47

• U.S. Launches Major Strikes on Islamic State Targets in Syria ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/us/politics/us-strikes-islamic-state-syria.html    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:09:38

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Is Briefed on Options for Striking Iran as Protests Continue ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/us/politics/trump-iran-strikes.html    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:09:49

• 6.8-magnitude earthquake strikes off Indonesia’s Talaud Islands ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/magnitude-6-8-earthquake-strikes-off-indonesias-talaud-islands-gfz-says    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:10:26

• iophk: Over 20 years ago the BBC quoted His Billness regarding the spam problem which Microsoft caused: "Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time." The original page seems to have disappeared there at the BBC. I'm not sure what to look for in IA to find it."    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:26:14

• In Defense of Capitalism ☞ https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-11-in-defense-of-capitalism.en.html    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:30:28

• Nigeria overturn Algeria to set up AFCON semi-final clash with Morocco ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/sport/20260110-nigeria-overturn-algeria-to-set-up-afcon-semi-final-clash-with-morocco    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:32:19

• US carries out 'large scale' retaliation strikes against Islamic State group in Syria ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260110-us-carries-out-large-scale-retaliation-strikes-against-islamic-state-group-in-syria    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:32:28

• KJournald Update January 2026 ☞ https://cordlandwehr.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/kjournald-update-january-2026/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:33:54

• Arch Linux-Based ArchBang GNU/Linux Distro Introduces New Application Launcher ☞ https://9to5linux.com/arch-linux-based-archbang-linux-distro-introduces-new-application-launcher    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:35:27

• Techrights is not afraid of thin-skinned thugs with skeletons in their closets. They realise their bullying won't be entertained, it'll only backfire the harder they try.    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:36:20

• Debian 13.3 “Trixie” Released with 108 Bug Fixes and 37 Security Updates ☞ https://9to5linux.com/debian-13-3-trixie-released-with-108-bug-fixes-and-37-security-updates    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:36:31

• KDE Plasma 6.6 Desktop Is Coming on February 17th, Here’s What to Expect ☞ https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-6-desktop-is-coming-on-february-17th-heres-what-to-expect    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:36:41

• Budgie 10.10 Desktop Environment Released as the First Wayland-Only Version ☞ https://9to5linux.com/budgie-10-10-desktop-environment-released-as-the-first-wayland-only-version    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:36:50

• First Look at Mageia 10 – Alpha Release Now Available for Public Testing ☞ https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-mageia-10-alpha-release-now-available-for-public-testing    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:36:59

• Dr. Richard Stallman Has Done No Harm to the GNU Project or the FSF (He Had Benefited Both, Always, Even After the Attacks on Him Began) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/09/Dr_Richard_Stallman_Has_Done_No_Harm_to_the_GNU_Project_or_the_.shtml    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:38:34

• ArchBANG 100126 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/archbang    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:38:48

• It was HOT in Sydney yesterday ☞ https://rubenerd.com/it-was-hot-in-sydney-yesterday/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:39:01

• Messing with uuid() in SQLite3 ☞ https://rubenerd.com/messing-with-uuid-in-sqlite3/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 13:39:28

• "ESP With EEG" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/10/esp-with-eeg-no-not-that-esp/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:04:34

• Steam Machine pricing soars past PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X in new retailer listing — 1TB SKU shatters $1,000 barrier ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/steam-machine-pricing-soars-past-ps5-pro-and-xbox-series-x-in-new-retailer-listing-1tb-sku-shatters-usd1-000-barrier    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:04:58

• Mageia 10-alpha1 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/mageia    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:06:09

• ObsidianOS 2026.01.10 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/obsidianos    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:06:20

• FPGA ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/11/amd-embedded-mini-itx-board-features-ryzen-ai-embedded-p132-cpu-versal-ai-edge-gen2-ve3558-soc-fpga/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:08:07

• Debian 13.3.0 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/debian    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:08:32

• Debian Edu 13.3.0 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/debianedu    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:08:51

• Mageia 10 Alpha Released - 32-bit ISOs Still Available ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mageia-10-Alpha    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:09:18

• In Western Africa GNU/Linux Flirts With 5% Market Share ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/09/In_Western_Africa_GNU_Linux_Flirts_With_5_Market_Share.shtml    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:10:16

• GNU/Linux May be Approaching 10% "Market Share" in Montenegro ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/09/GNU_Linux_May_be_Approaching_10_Market_Share_in_Montenegro.shtml    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:10:28

• GNU/Linux and Chromebooks Rose to Almost 10% in Haiti ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/10/GNU_Linux_and_Chromebooks_Rose_to_Almost_10_in_Haiti.shtml    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:10:54

• Whatsit – native desktop client for WhatsApp ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/whatsit-native-desktop-client-whatsapp/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:11:20

• Furtherance – track your time ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/furtherance-track-time/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:11:46

• 14 Useful Free and Open Source CSS Parsers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/useful-free-open-source-css-parsers/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:12:22

• ODiff – native image comparison tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/odiff-native-image-comparison-tool/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:15:29

• Manjaro Is Arch GNU/Linux for Newbies ☞ https://thenewstack.io/manjaro-is-arch-linux-for-newbies/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:18:19

• intentrace – strace with intent ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/intentrace-strace/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:31:19

• jrnlc – plain-text terminal journal ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/jrnlc-plain-text-terminal-journal/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:31:28

• mux-media – CLI utility for muxing media ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mux-media-cli-utility-muxing-media/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:31:39

• Mageia 10 First Alpha ISO Approved and Ready for Public Testing ☞ https://linuxiac.com/mageia-linux-10-first-alpha-iso-is-ready-for-public-testing/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:32:23

• Doom conquers the kitchen through an electric cooking pot — classic shooter runs seamlessly after a full device firmware refresh ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/youtuber-makes-doom-run-on-a-smart-cooking-pot-after-a-full-firmware-refresh    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:34:36

• How to Install Apache Maven on Rocky GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-apache-maven-on-rocky-linux/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:35:31

• The UK must protect the interests of media, not of media lawyers or media law firms. But the system is in the pockets of or comes from the latter. Anyway, a lot of recent litigation is motiavted by sheer jealousy. When law firms produce 1000 times less than those they bully (their clients likewise).    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:45:22

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

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:49:57

• How To Install Budgie Desktop on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-budgie-desktop-debian-13/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:50:15

• Windows 8 Start Menu... for GNU/Linux ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/windows-8-start-menu-for-linux    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:50:27

• WOW. The PROJECTION. He endorsed ICE murdering someone inside her cars. Now he calls critics of it... what HE is. ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-leaders-and-tech-journalists    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:51:10

• Kyiv Restores Electricity, Water After Russian Attacks, But Situation 'Difficult' Elsewhere ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/kyiv-electricity-heating-supplies-powercut-outage-drone-strikes/33644699.html    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:53:58

• Ukrainian drones targeting energy infrastructure spark fire in Russian oil depot ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260110-ukrainian-drones-targeting-energy-infrastructure-spark-fire-in-russian-oil-depot    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:55:09

• FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending January 10, 2025 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/01/foss-forces-top-five-articles-for-the-week-ending-january-10-2025/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:58:10

• When does Cheeto sent his Greenland little men? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_green_men_(Russo-Ukrainian_war)    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 14:59:13

• "FINALLY"! Or just use SOMETHING ELSE! https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/admins-finally-get-the-power-to-uninstall-microsoft-copilot-on-windows-11-pro-enterprise-and-edu-versions-devices-must-meet-specific-conditions-to-allow-the-removal-of-the-ai-app    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 15:00:35

• Radius updated ☞ https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Radius    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 15:01:04

• Matthias Geiger: Building a propagation box for oyster mushrooms ☞ https://people.debian.org/~werdahias/building-a-propagation-box-for-oyster-mushrooms.html    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 15:01:22

• QtNat - Open your port with Qt ☞ http://renaudguezennec.eu/index.php/2026/01/09/qtnat-open-you-port-with-qt/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 15:19:17

• Updated Tellico Handbook ☞ https://tellico-project.org/updated-tellico-handbook/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 15:19:34

• 'Limited clashes' still ongoing in Aleppo neighborhood ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/limited-clashes-still-ongoing-in-aleppo-neighborhood    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 15:20:05

• Iran’s Revolutionary Guards declare 'red line' on security as protests escalate ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260110-iran-s-revolutionary-guards-declare-red-line-on-security-as-protests-mount    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 15:20:17

• Iranian Protesters Remain On Streets As Convicted Felon, West Step Up Pressure On Tehran ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protests-trump-pressure-tehran-unrest/33644855.html    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 15:20:48

• For The Fun Of It ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/10/for-the-fun-of-it/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 15:22:30

• Multi-material Parts The Easy Way ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/10/multi-material-parts-the-easy-way/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 15:22:52

• "A knob can make a surprisingly versatile interface, particularly if it’s the SmartKnob, which builds a knob around a BLDC motor for programmable haptic response." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/10/simplifying-the-smartknob/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 15:26:07

• A 1990s VNA Gets An LCD ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/10/a-1990s-vna-gets-an-lcd/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 15:26:33

• "Blame the Boomers. Growing up as I did in the aftermath of the 1960s, my teenage years were overshadowed by the sense that I had arrived too late on the scene, just missing out on grand and glorious bacchanal that was the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jdd/phlog/20260110-late-to-party.txt    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 15:38:42

• 11 🔤SpellBinding: ACDGINY Wordo: AWAYS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2026-01-11.gmi    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 15:39:22

• "I have used very permissive licenses in the past. I just wanted to make it easy for fellow "hackers" to use my code. If you see an MIT-licensed project, you know that you don't have to worry about anything." gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2026/2026-01/2026-01-11--thinking-about-software-licenses-again.txt    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 15:40:06

• "I had planned to write a short essay next, focusing on the Big Bang as promised, but I will not do so today. I don't feel I have the mental power for the research, and I promised myself that the next article will be more thoughtful and of better quality." gemini://liladi.site/floating-points.gmi    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 15:41:05

• "Today I woke up at 4:40. At 4:55 I was already walking out in the (moderately) cold, walking to the train station. I even had to run to catch the train, because I left the house a bit late." gemini://sdf.org/vatai/blog/2026-01-07-kangeiko-started-at-the-kodokan.gmi    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 15:42:23

• "Sorry for the spam. I'm trying things out, to see how geminispace works" gemini://emil-vatai.duckdns.org/blog/2026-01-06-posting-to-antenna.gmi    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 15:43:18

• "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great - Linux diary, chapter one: winging it." https://www.theverge.com/tech/858910/linux-diary-gaming-desktop    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:10:46

• 7 commands you should never run on Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/7-commands-you-should-never-run-on-linux/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:11:16

• 7 commands you should never run on Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/7-commands-you-should-never-run-on-linux/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:15:11

• "ArchBang Linux 1001 release comes with Linux kernel 6.18 LTS and wmenu as a drop-in replacement for the dmenu application launcher." https://9to5linux.com/arch-linux-based-archbang-linux-distro-introduces-new-application-launcher    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:18:13

• "If you've wanted to try Arch Linux, but were put off by the command line installation, then try Manjaro, which makes Arch easy and is simply a solid OS." https://thenewstack.io/manjaro-is-arch-linux-for-newbies/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:18:32

• "THIRDREALITY’s Linux Box Dev Edition is a compact smart home gateway aimed at developers, educators, and system integrators working with open-source automation platforms and standard smart home protocols." https://linuxgizmos.com/linux-box-dev-edition-brings-armbian-linux-with-home-assistant-support/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:18:50

• RebelsTool Shows How Linux Still Unlocks AMD GPU Power Controls Windows Can’t https://wccftech.com/rebelstool-shows-how-linux-still-unlocks-amd-gpu-power-controls-windows-cant/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:19:13

• Linux made my old PC fast again, and it hasn’t slowed down since https://www.howtogeek.com/6-ways-linux-keeps-my-pc-ageless/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:19:33

• 5 Windows-like Linux distros you should try out https://www.howtogeek.com/the-windows-like-linux-distros-you-should-try-out/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:19:51

• Kali Linux for Beginners in 2026: Setup, Safety, and Your First Tools https://www.nucamp.co/blog/kali-linux-for-beginners-in-2026-setup-safety-and-your-first-tools    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:20:29

• RebelsTool 1.0.9 – The new MorePowerTool for AMD’s RDNA graphics cards on Linux delivers more power, excitement, and performance. https://www.igorslab.de/en/rebelstool-1-0-6-ready-to-download-the-new-more-power-tool-under-linux-just-in-a-different-form/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:22:47

• This awesome tool for Linux newcomers is like Ninite for Team Tux https://www.xda-developers.com/this-awesome-tool-for-linux-newcomers-is-like-ninite-for-team-tux/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:23:46

• 3 safe ways to install Linux apps that aren’t in your repo (without breaking anything) https://www.howtogeek.com/x-safe-ways-to-install-linux-apps-that-arent-in-your-repo-without-breaking-anything/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:29:18

• Steam games finally run better on Linux Arm devices, and you can test them right now https://www.xda-developers.com/steam-will-finally-run-better-on-arm-devices-and-you-can-test-the-new-version-right-now/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:29:58

• Vitalik Buterin Compares Ethereum to BitTorrent and Linux https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vitalik-buterin-compares-ethereum-bittorrent-094059797.html    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:31:57

• Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum Is the Linux of the Blockchain World https://www.cointribune.com/en/ethereum-is-the-linux-of-the-blockchain-according-to-vitalik-buterin/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:32:22

• "nailed it "If the Manager called the entire team into a 15 mins meeting, it probably means the Manager is out and is trying to control the narrative."" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ke7exa4g    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:43:20

• "can’t names the names. It will just get deleted. Just ask people it’s very obvious who is being referred too. There is enough clues to easily figure it out. Which sort of supports the validity of what was stated." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcmx0g24    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:43:54

• Also on IBM: "My manager told me it’s not a set amount of time for a PIP and it’s “however long it needs to be”" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kehdr23g    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:44:40

• On IBM: "It’s bullsh-t. You really should start applying other places and GTFO asap" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kehdr23g    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 16:45:01

• Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/eu_open_source_consultation/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 17:01:00

• How my time-space synaesthesia affects how I experience and ‘feel’ the new year https://theconversation.com/how-my-time-space-synaesthesia-affects-how-i-experience-and-feel-the-new-year-272465    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 17:34:31

• Beer Law http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/book-review-beer-law.html There are nowadays patents on beers    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 17:36:03

• And there are even patents on plants, i.e. monopolies on nature http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-plant-ip-year-in-review-2025.html    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 17:36:37

• DBIx::Class::Async - Introduction https://blogs.perl.org/users/mohammad_s_anwar/2026/01/dbixclassasync---introduction.html    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 17:37:03

• Live streaming the Perl 5.43.7 development release https://blogs.perl.org/users/max_maischein/2026/01/live-streaming-the-perl-5437-development-release.html    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 17:37:16

• Kangaroo Courts of EPO http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/mechanistic-insights-supporting.html    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 17:37:56

• Digital Robbery Scams Are on the Rise https://jacobin.com/2026/01/scam-banking-ach-fraud-regulations/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 17:40:02

• Taxes that lessen purchasing https://cphpost.dk/2025-12-30/news/round-up/the-party-venstre-wants-tax-breaks-for-kids-savings-beyond-banks/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/additional-tariffs-on-kitchen-cabinets-pushed-to-2027-9.7032700    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 17:40:35

• Cheapening monopolies to make a mine field https://patentdocs.org/2025/12/30/uspto-announces-issuance-of-one-millionth-electronic-patent/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 17:42:19

• GNU/Linux all over the place https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/tuvalu/#monthly-200902-202601    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 17:49:31

• Kangaroo Courts of EPO http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/non-reproducible-products-can-be.html    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 17:50:02

• Think you are co-authoring a paper? Think again… http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/think-you-are-co-authoring-paper-think.html    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 17:50:30

• big deal https://www.dw.com/en/bulgaria-joining-eurozone-is-big-deal/a-75125642    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 17:51:24

• What challenges does the world economy face in 2026? https://www.dw.com/en/what-challenges-does-the-world-economy-face-in-2026/a-75238039    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 17:51:59

• Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK, dies aged 35 https://www.dw.com/en/tatiana-schlossberg-granddaughter-of-jfk-dies-aged-35/a-75346596 "Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of former US President John F. Kennedy, died on Tuesday at the age of 35, just weeks after announcing her terminal cancer diagnosis."    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 17:53:13

• “Quitter’s Day” https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/473883/how-to-change-your-life-resolutions-2026    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 17:58:26

• Understanding Childhood Obesity: Causes, Treatments and How to Reduce Stigma https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-12-30/understanding-childhood-obesity-causes-treatments-and-how-to-reduce-stigma    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 17:58:43

• Pakistan Sentences Journalists, YouTubers https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-02/pakistan-sentences-journalists-youtubers-and-ex-military-officers-to-life-over-inciting-violence    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 17:59:47

• The One Thing I Hate About Linux Flatpaks https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=ZYC6_CJMu34    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:00:33

• Phoenix: A New Linux X11 Server For 2026!?! https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=NKPMDddHbSQ    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:01:07

• Linus Torvalds Is Not Happy With SFC vs Vizio Lawsuit https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=XXOP9NfXj7s    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:01:35

• This Week In KDE Plasma Is About To Change Forever https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=YQoxXU7-0G4    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:02:04

• 2025 Was A Fantastic Year For Linux's Flathub https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=c-NfCQ10Hsk    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:03:03

• I get it https://www.makeuseof.com/everyones-switching-to-this-gpu-accelerated-terminal/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:05:45

• Fighting Renewed Attempts to Make ISPs Copyright Cops: 2025 in Review https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/fighting-renewed-attempts-make-isps-copyright-cops-2025-review    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:06:30

• India overtakes Japan as 4th-largest economy, report says https://www.dw.com/en/india-overtakes-japan-as-4th-largest-economy-report-says/a-75341063    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:07:51

• South Korean retail giant Coupang to compensate $1.1 billion to affected users over data breach https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/29/south-korea-retail-coupang-bon-kim-1-billion-trillion-won-data-breach-compensation-vouchers.html    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:09:20

• ‘Why should we pay these criminals?’: the hidden world of ransomware negotiations https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/29/ransomware-negotiations-extortion-cyber-attacks    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:10:16

• US, Australia say ‘MongoBleed’ bug being exploited https://therecord.media/us-australia-bug-exploitation    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:10:59

• Software company lacked ‘downstream’ liability for data breach https://masslawyersweekly.com/2025/12/29/1st-circuit-downstream-liability-data-breach-indemnification/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:12:17

• French software company fined $2 million for cyber failings leading to data breach https://therecord.media/french-software-fined-cnil http://techrights.org/n/2024/04/02/CNIL_bosses_approved_Amandine_Cryptie_Jambert_FSFE_engagement.shtml    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:13:14

• “no data, just vibes” https://www.vox.com/climate/473751/trump-data-deletion-nih-epa-ncar-climate-science-epa-rfk-hhs    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:13:43

• New 2026 Laws Are Among the First of Their Kind to Tackle Climate Change https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/utah/articles/2025-12-30/new-2026-laws-are-among-the-first-of-their-kind-to-tackle-climate-change-drunken-driving    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:14:03

• Human-Made Climate Crisis https://truthout.org/articles/2025-ranked-as-one-of-worlds-hottest-years-due-to-human-made-climate-crisis/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:14:21

• the Year in Climate Politics https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/31/out-of-the-greenhouse-into-the-madhouse-the-year-in-climate-politics/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:14:38

• Federal Ruling Blocks Hawaii's Climate Change Tourist Tax on Cruise Ships https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-12-31/federal-ruling-blocks-hawaiis-climate-change-tourist-tax-on-cruise-ships    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:14:58

• Cheeto Mussolini Administration Makes Deep Cuts at FEMA as Climate Crisis Accelerates https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-makes-deep-cuts-at-fema-as-climate-crisis-accelerates/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:15:13

• Oregon Faced a Huge Obstacle in Adding Green Energy. Here’s What Changed This Year. https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-renewable-energy-legislative-progress    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:15:39

• Hungary's Orban: invading countries is OK to take oil https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-05/hungarys-orban-says-us-intervention-in-venezuela-good-for-energy-markets    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:16:36

• Yu Menglong Censorship https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/yu-menglong-censorship-china-signals-possible-softening-over-actors-tragic-death-1767878    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:17:49

• ICEBlock App Sues Cheeto Mussolini Administration for Censorship https://www.npr.org/2025/12/08/nx-s1-5631826/iceblock-app-lawsuit-trump-bondi    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:18:33

• Disinformation https://www.projectcensored.org/history-myth-media-age-of-disinformation/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:19:08

• €30 million stolen in elaborate bank vault heist https://www.dw.com/en/germany-€30-million-stolen-in-elaborate-bank-vault-heist/a-75344406    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:19:45

• New GOP Jan. 6 Panel to Focus on “Security Failures,” Not Cheeto Mussolini’s Role in Attack https://truthout.org/articles/new-gop-jan-6-panel-to-focus-on-security-failures-not-trumps-role-in-attack/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:20:56

• Enemy of the ICE goons https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:24:07

• "Beware rumor Denmark renamed Greenland 'Epstein Island' to stop Trump from talking about it" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-greenland-epstein-island-denmark/    

posted Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 18:24:44

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