Roy Schestowitz

• 🔤SpellBinding — UDEHNQC Wordo: REDON gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2026-01-15.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:23:33

• In which my Gemserver stopped working... again gemini://ieve.me/chalice/1.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:24:25

• 🖼️ xkcd — 16-Part Epoxy #3194 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3194.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:25:00

• Rationality gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/rationality/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:25:51

• "This story should start during the summer of 2025 when it became clear that my living area was getting connected to the fibre network. However, I should start a little earlier." gemini://iam.jeroened.be/gemlog/summer-of-upgrades-part4-network.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:27:01

• In which ieve runs 5 thousand meters gemini://ieve.me/squall/10.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:28:23

• "Several things worked in our favor. I usually store devices, cables and other equipment in labeled zipper bags. Those items were protected from the deluge. We were home and awake, and we were able to catch the spill in less than an hour. Some of my family volunteered to come over and bring fans, towels and dehumidifiers. We even own a shop vac, so we could clean up much of the water ourselves." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202601/20260115-house-flood.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:29:21

• "Several things worked in our favor. I usually store devices, cables and other equipment in labeled zipper bags. Those items were protected from the deluge. We were home and awake, and we were able to catch the spill in less than an hour. Some of my family volunteered to come over and bring fans, towels and dehumidifiers. We even own a shop vac" gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202601/20260115-house-flood.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:29:31

• "However, it seems this had the effect of killing everything once considered nerdy from the inside. Now, those of us who resist the normie-ification and who still hang around outside the fringes have again found ourselves with difficulties in tribefinding." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2769    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:30:39

• "It's not every day you get to see rain and sparks dancing high above together. Today was one of those, except the sky was paint and the rain was kvass." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2770    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:31:31

• "During the lunch break, I setup the Lorenz Attractor circuit, one of the example circuits in the THAT manual. I find that the easiest way to setup these example circuits is not to duplicate the patch panel diagram" gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260115-0.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:32:11

• "In the uproar over the recent Canada-Alberta Memorandum of Understanding, which rolls back almost all of Canada's emissions regulations and clears the way for a new bitumen pipeline, one of the more overlooked aspects was the language around AI data centres." gemini://gemini.patatas.ca/posts/sand-castles.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:33:54

• "Please update your bookmarks! The old server will be shut down in February 2026." gemini://spell.mywire.org:1966/yesterday.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:34:48

• "I'm back to reading books. This is the year I will make time to read books. Between 2004 and 2019, I've read consistently 12 books a year, most recommended by friends and internet people I trusted." gemini://thousand.naps.day/days/2026-01-16.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:35:46

• José Agustín gemini://bitacora.anacronico.rocks/resenas/rockdelacarcel.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:36:11

• De amor y desamor…con el alcohol gemini://bitacora.anacronico.rocks/diariodebicicleta/consumodealcohol.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:36:52

• "Pre-heating the milk to boiling or near boiling, allowing it to cool, adding the cultures, incubating 24 hours, chilling for 12, and not stirring until after chilling results in the firmest and most consistent outcome." gemini://thatit.be/2026-01-01-09-10-40.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:37:42

• "Wavelet Lab, best known for its compact uSDR software-defined radio module, is preparing to launch two new open source SDRs built around Lime Microsystems' LMS7002M field-programmable radio-frequency chip: the xSDR and sSDR." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202601/20260115-wavelet.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:39:00

• January 15: Teaching my four-year-old to read gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2026-01-15-read.txt    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:39:44

• "The Raspberry PI AI HAT+ 2 is built around the Hailo-10H coprocessor, delivering a claimed 40 tera-operations per second (TOPS) of compute at a reduced INT4 precision." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202601/20260115-aihat2.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:40:42

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1537.jpg    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:41:29

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1887.jpg    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:41:38

• Pragmatic Retrocomputing Dogfooding gopher://jonsharp.net:70/0/gl2/01-14-2026-Pragmatic-retrocomputing-dogfooding.md    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:42:44

• T H R E E - D E E (cont., 2ofx) gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:44:27

• "So I found some tips about the conversion on the surface webz and decided to test it out." gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2026/20260115_3d3    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:45:12

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-01-16.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 02:46:24

• MSN today: "Xbox Isn't Just Increasing Game Pass' Price, But Also Removing A Perk"    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 04:49:06

• Older: https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/407533/microsoft-exits-movie-business.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 04:49:51

• "Tech Bloggers Switching From Windows to Linux" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/01/12/1844243    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 05:33:24

• "Windows 11 QEMU/KVM Installation Guide in Linux Including TPM and Secure Boot" https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/kvm2026:7 http://techrights.org/wiki/UEFI/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 05:33:46

• "Finished reading: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 📚 …" https://doug.pub/2026/01/14/finished-reading-mobydick-by-herman.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 05:34:01

• iophk: this disinformation spam is turning up everywhere https://insidetowers.com/microsoft-steps-up-to-handle-data-center-power-and-water-usage-costs/ http://techrights.org/o/2021/09/24/spamnil-zdnet-lf-greenwashing-microsoft/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/09/02/linux-foundation-greenwashing-and-openwashing-for-microsoft/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 05:34:31

• "Trump Threatens to Use Insurrection Act Against Demonstrators in Minnesota | Truthout" https://truthout.org/articles/trump-threatens-to-use-insurrection-act-against-demonstrators-in-minnesota/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 05:34:45

• "Donald Trump’s Nuclear Delusions" https://www.thenation.com/article/world/donald-trump-nuclear-testing/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 05:34:58

• "Could Trump make good on threat to use the Insurrection Act again?" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-01-15/trump-threatens-insurrection-act-to-end-protests-in-minneapolis    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 05:35:09

• "Trump Suggests Canceling Midterms, Threatens Insurrection Act" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-suggests-canceling-midterms-1235500336/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 05:35:21

• Sweden has now banned blasphemy | "Nu har Sverige fått ett hädelseförbud" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/01/15/nu-har-sverige-fatt-ett-hadelseforbud/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 05:35:47

• Valve reveal all the Steam events scheduled for 2026 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/valve-reveal-all-the-steam-events-scheduled-for-2026/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/valve-reveal-all-the-steam-events-scheduled-for-2026/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 05:39:49

• OBS Studio 32.1 Beta is out with a new Audio Mixer, WebRTC Simulcast support and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/obs-studio-32-1-beta-is-out-with-a-new-audio-mixer-webrtc-simulcast-support-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 05:40:12

• Valve's documentation highlights the different ways standalone games run on Steam Frame | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/valves-documentation-highlights-the-different-ways-standalone-games-run-on-steam-frame/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 05:58:33

• Less Miserables is an upcoming point-and-click parody of Les Miserables | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/less-miserables-is-an-upcoming-point-and-click-parody-of-les-miserables/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 06:10:30

• Multiple years later Terraria 1.4.5 has a release date for January 27th | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/multiple-years-later-terraria-1-4-5-has-a-release-date-for-january-27th/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 06:10:52

• Steam Machine verification will have "fewer constraints" than Steam Deck - but text sizing worries me | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/steam-machine-verification-will-have-fewer-constraints-than-steam-deck-but-text-sizing-worries-me/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 06:11:34

• "Collabora has shared a new project demonstrating how the OpenWrt One can be repurposed from a traditional networking appliance into a compact, general-purpose Linux system." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/collabora-shows-how-to-run-debian-on-the-openwrt-one-using-nvme-storage/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 06:13:53

• "The PRO DP10 A14MG series supports 14th-generation Intel desktop processors, ranging from the Intel Core i7-14700 to Core i5-14400, Core i3-14100, and Pentium Gold G7400 models." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/msi-pro-dp10-a14mg-features-14th-gen-intel-cpus-in-a-compact-chassis/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

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

• "Renesas notes that ForgeFPGA is positioned as an alternative to traditional low-end FPGAs, emphasizing simplified development, low power consumption, and compact packaging." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/renesas-expands-forgefpga-line-with-new-2k-lut-ultra-low-power-devices/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 06:14:45

• "The ThinkNode M3 is built around the Nordic nRF52840 microcontroller, which handles Bluetooth Low Energy communication and overall system control." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/thinknode-m3-uses-lr1110-and-nrf52840-for-meshtastic-tracking/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 06:14:57

• AWS or GAFAM is American espionage; a shame that Canonical paints that as anything but; "This enables customers to meet stringent operational autonomy and data residency requirements within the European Union (EU)" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-aws-european-sovereign-cloud | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 06:19:20

• IBB and Ford, two companies that worked for Hitler ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/revolutionizing-learning-how-fords-kubernetes-community-sparks-technological-innovation | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 06:20:02

• "Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 redefines your daily workflow instead of just adding features. We’ve taken the capabilities you rely on and made them easier to use so you can stop hunting and start solving." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-efficiency-upgrades-red-hat-advanced-cluster-management-kubernetes-215 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 06:20:22

• IBM promotes slop ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/feature-store-front-end-all-your-ai-data-pipelines | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 06:20:52

• "A new order from the Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris requires several popular VPNs to block access to live sports streaming sites." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/french-court-orders-popular-vpns-to-block-more-pirate-sites-despite-opposition/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 06:21:57

• "St. Clair is one of the many people over the past couple weeks who have found themselves undressed without permission by X’s AI chatbot, Grok." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/863097/ashley-st-clair-elon-musk-grok-undressing-lawsuit | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 06:22:23

• "With that going nowhere, Ellison has clearly turned to right wing propaganda to help portray the Netflix acquisition as somehow “woke” and dangerous: [...]" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/15/trump-ellison-wage-war-on-woke-netflix-in-effort-to-scuttle-warner-brothers-deal-dominate-u-s-media/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 06:23:10

• "It’s worth noting that music streaming prices aren’t soaring at the same rate as those of video streamers like Netflix, Disney+, and HBO Max." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3033859/spotify-just-hiked-prices-again-there-are-cheaper-options.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:35:24

• "6 years, 5 months and 22 days after Fox aired "Bart's Friend Falls in Love," Bill Clinton signed a new bill into law: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA)." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/14/sole-and-despotic/#world-turned-upside-down | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:35:33

• "The decision at issue is Case v. Montana where a unanimous Court agreed that the Fourth Amendment did not actually apply." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/15/justice-gorsuch-reminds-the-fourth-amendment-isnt-dead-yet/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:46:39

• "A woman in Minnesota is dead and there is video of her killing at the hands of an ICE agent." ☛ https://www.vox.com/podcasts/475341/ice-shooting-minneapolis-minnesota-renee-good-prosecuted-charged | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:47:06

• "And in at least a dozen cases, I uncovered evidence suggesting that the shooting victims were unarmed." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/why-ice-can-kill-with-impunity/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:48:08

• "Aren't masks amazing? When it comes to disease, their use is an imminent threat to an officer's health and safety, but when it comes to accountability, their absence is an imminent threat" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/01/schrdingers-mask/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:48:42

• "Generally, DHS has permitted — encouraged, seemingly — DHS officers to use their own personal phones and to use Signal." ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/15/doj-continues-to-let-dhs-pick-and-choose-screen-shots-pertaining-to-their-assaults/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:49:20

• "That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/minneapolis-ice-protest-doj-renee-good/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:50:02

• "It apparently looks a lot like Google Maps, but designed to show the richness of an area for “targets”, populated in part by density of immigrants. And then you can dig in: [...]" ☛ https://werd.io/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:50:29

• "Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/report-ice-using-palantir-tool-feeds-medicaid-data | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:50:52

• "Ignores Own Rules" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/gofundme-ice-jonathan-ross-renee-good-fundraiser/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:51:24

• "According to CPJ research, Mexico consistently ranks among the 10 countries with the highest number of journalist murders, with such crimes frequently not leading to convictions." ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/01/mexican-reporters-death-continues-pattern-of-impunity-after-6-journalists-killed-last-year/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:52:20

• "The end result is that pop is not popular anymore. It may never be again. The center was a moment in time, but the edges are now everywhere." ☛ https://seths.blog/2026/01/mad-magazine-autostereogram-cutecore/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:53:12

• "Here are some highlights of what the Pilot Institute survey (which you can read in full here) found: [...]" ☛ https://www.thedronegirl.com/2026/01/14/fcc-ban-on-foreign-drones/ | Source: The Drone Girl    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:53:37

• "The planned layoffs mark another major shift for one of the largest and most influential foundations" ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/gates-foundation-unveils-9-billion-budget-and-plans-to-cut-staff-10761356#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/16/Pedophilia_Enabling_Microsoft_Co_founder_Cuts_Staff.shtml    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:54:06

• "none of them are really surprising but reaching that conclusion took a good deal of research." ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2026/01/good-questions.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:54:51

• "By the seventeenth century they were used for grinding grain into flour, processing wool and fabrics, sharpening tools, forging and metalcraft, manufacturing paper, sawing timber, and sundry other purposes." ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/15/the-dutch-golden-age-mills/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:55:17

• "At no point did he mention personal computers, and he certainly didn't express any desire to move all customer data to his cloud." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/this-post-was-almost-angry-now-its-just-confused/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:58:01

• "There’s a lot happening right now in U.S. energy and policy and it’s easy to lose track of the larger picture." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/utility-scale/talking-about-energy-dominance-solar-would-like-to-have-a-word/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:58:18

• "unprecedented attacks by Russia and extreme cold across the country." ☛ https://kyivindependent.com/kyiv-energy-crisis-extremely-serious-as-sbu-presents-evidence-of-crime-against-humanity/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 07:58:36

• "Bill and Hillary Clinton wrote a lengthy letter to Representative James R. Comer of Kentucky, the Republican chairman of the Oversight Committee, refusing to testify in Congress." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/13/us/clinton-letter.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:12:09

• "Now, plenty of outlets cite anonymous sources. But those sources must be used judiciously. Here’s what the Associated Press has to say about the practice: [...]" ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/free-press-state-media | Source: The Next Move    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:12:42

• iophk: "it seems the US has turned its military over to palantir whose owners aspire to re-implement the social structures of former rhodesia and south africa"    

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

• "Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta said last week it had removed 331,000 underage accounts from Instagram" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/social-media-sites-block-4-7-million-underage-accounts-in-australia-1297088655 | Source: RTL    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:24:34

• "The eSafety Commissioner said platforms had so far removed about 4.7 million accounts held by under-16s to comply with a law that went live on Dec. ​10." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/australia-social-media-youth-accounts-deactivated-9.7047750 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:24:48

• "The U.S. Navy is moving swiftly to integrate and deploy unmanned surface vessels" ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/01/15/us-navy-to-deploy-unmanned-systems-with-surface-forces-this-year/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:26:53

• "self-defense." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/minneapolis-ice-renee-good/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:27:08

• "What is happening in Minneapolis is a fascist shit show" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/minneapolis-resistance-trump-ice/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:27:24

• "How To Mobilize America Against Fascism" ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/mobilizing-america | Source: Robert Reich https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Threats_Against_Techrights_Always_Come_From_Outside_Britain.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/11/Like_the_Serial_Strangler_From_Microsoft_Donald_Trump_is_Out_of.shtml    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:27:58

• "For a gradual destruction of democracy would have been hard to resist. After all, who wants to rock the boat when there’s money to be made, jobs to keep" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-minneapolis-crucible | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:28:22

• "Email is not safe. It never was and it never will be. This doesn't mean we have to give up." ☛ https://aethrvmn.gr/theses/technological/self-sufficiency/email/ | Source: Aethrvmn    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:37:27

• "That sounds draconian, but most common uses are subject to exemptions, as a result of which the Local Network section in Privacy & Security settings remains empty." ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/14/how-local-network-privacy-could-affect-you/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:38:13

• "The anti-analysis features also suggest Intellexa, the commercial spyware company that owns Predator, has far more visibility and control over deployments than previously thought." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/mobile-security/predator-spyware-sample-vendor-controlled-c2 | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:38:33

• "AI agents can make a difference, Box says. Box Extract, which was announced in September" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/15/box-unlocks-agentic-data-extraction-help-companies-dig-insights-faster/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:40:59

• "implications for privacy." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/technology/personaltech/gmail-gemini-ai-email-inbox.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:41:30

• "At some point, you may have been faced with the decision yourself: should I continue to use this service if I have to verify my age?" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/so-youve-hit-age-gate-what-now | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:41:53

• Running Techrights is Fun, Rewarding, and Gratifying ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/15/Running_Techrights_is_Fun_Rewarding_and_Gratifying.shtml    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:42:25

• Social Control Media "taking meaningful action to remove underage users, Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/social-media-sites-block-4-7-million-underage-accounts-in-australia/articleshow/126556197.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:45:08

• "Eventually I realized the simplest things you can do to have a nice Mastodon experience is to pick some reasonably popular instance" ☛ https://batsov.com/articles/2026/01/15/tips-on-using-mastodon/ | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:45:34

• "Today the W3C standards organization announced a new working group to advance the ActivityPub and Activity Streams standards." ☛ https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/01/15/new-social-web-working-group-at-w3c/ |    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:46:00

• "But the fixation on tariffs and inflation obscures a different shift revolutionizing pricing: algorithms." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/everything-costs-more-because-the-algorithm-says-so/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:47:04

• "As headlines teem with stories of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers beating protestors" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/ice-ai-recruitment | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:47:11

• "If you encounter music or audio that appears to be made entirely or with heavy reliance on generative AI" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/01/14/bandcamp-takes-a-stand-and-bans-ai-generated-music/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:47:41

• "Some subjects have been very hard to convince that Eliza (with its present script) is not human" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-the-computer-scientist-behind-the-worlds-first-chatbot-dedicated-his-life-to-publicizing-the-threat-posed-by-ai-180987971/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:48:26

• "The study shows that modifications to LLMs in a specific area can lead to unexpected misalignment across unrelated tasks." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/15/llm_fine_tuning_misalignment/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:48:48

• "The company said it had stopped Grok from undressing people on the X platform. Grok’s stand-alone app still does it." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/15/grok-ai-image-generator-sexualized/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:49:10

• "We can still generate photorealistic nudity on Grok.com" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musks-grok-undressing-problem-isnt-fixed/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:49:36

• "In this note I’ll show why the rate limit algorithms GCRA, leaky bucket, and token bucket behave the same." ☛ https://dotat.at/@/2026-01-15-gcra.html | Source: Tony Finch    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:49:55

• "You still can't upgrade the RAM on the Pi, but at least this way if you do have a need for an AI coprocessor, you don't have to eat up the Pi's memory to run things on it." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/raspberry-pi-ai-hat-2/ | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:50:11

• "the AI HAT+ provides best-in-class acceleration for vision-based neural network model" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-the-raspberry-pi-ai-hat-plus-2-generative-ai-on-raspberry-pi-5/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:50:53

• "AI agents prefer clean, structured content over HTML. Markdown is ideal - it’s readable, semantic, and free of navigation chrome." ☛ https://code.dblock.org/2026/01/15/serving-markdown-for-ai-agents.html | Source: Daniel Doubrovkine    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:51:25

• "I don’t think you need LLMs to learn programming." ☛ https://agentultra.com/blog/how-i-learned-everything-i-know/index.html | Source: J Kenneth King    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:51:40

• "Now, you might think: hold on, OpenAI’s job is to burn money. They claimed $10 billion annualised revenue as of June last year." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/15/bondholders-sue-oracle-over-openai-debt-deals/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:52:48

• "Where’s OpenAI going to get $60 billion a year to pay Oracle from? Well, Scam Altman’s confident he’ll work something out. Everyone in the world will buy enough ChatGPT to pay the bill! You just watch."    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:53:13

• "Putting Oracle this close to the OpenAI money bonfire is not working out so well for Oracle. They just got sued by bondholders today."    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:53:29

• " Microsoft swears it’s “seeing strong adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot.” But it also needs to pay people to not just despise this exciting new technology." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/14/microsoft-now-paying-customers-to-train-in-copilot-ai/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:54:00

• "Solar farms are expanding rapidly across the UK, but keeping track of where they are, and when they appeared, isn't straightforward." ☛ https://toao.com/blog/earth-observation-budget-solar-farms-tiny-model |    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:54:25

• [Old] "In a language model, temperature is used to define how creative text generations are." ☛ https://cavendishlabs.org/blog/negative-temperature/ |    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:54:52

• "Reconsider the positions you did not open. Or the writers you let go." ☛ https://passo.uno/letter-those-who-fired-tech-writers-ai/ |    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:55:11

• "Thankfully Apple is finally picking a lane. They're officially outsourcing Siri's AI to a major competitor, which suggests they're behind on AI and aren't interested in catching up themselves" ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/apple-hands-siri-to-google/ | Source: Greg Morris    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:56:39

• "Previous to Apple offering features like iCloud Keychain and Password Autofill, I relied on 1Password to store a lot of this information, but in recent years I’ve transitioned in large part to Passwords" ☛ https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/01/wish-list-ssh-keys-in-passwords/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:56:55

• "Beyond routine measures like notifying the government of major updates and storing security audit logs" ☛ https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/12/apple-opposes-india-plan-access-ios-source-code/ | Source: MacRumors    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:57:07

• "Beyond routine measures like notifying the government of major updates and storing security audit logs" ☛ https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/12/apple-opposes-india-plan-access-ios-source-code/ | Source: MacRumors    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:57:31

• "India May Want iOS’s Source Code" ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/01/14/india-may-want-ioss-source-code/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:57:45

• "There are tons of cool blog posts out there about mbsync, mu, and mu4e configuration—this one’s mine." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/01/customizing-the-emacs-email-experience-with-mu4e/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:58:00

• "Mandiant is publicly releasing a comprehensive dataset of Net-NTLMv1 rainbow tables to underscore the urgency of migrating away from this outdated protocol." ☛ https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/net-ntlmv1-deprecation-rainbow-tables/ | Source: Google    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:58:19

• Even more AMD ray tracing performance improvements heading to Mesa on Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/even-more-amd-ray-tracing-performance-improvements-heading-to-mesa-on-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:59:07

• D7VK version 1.2 brings more Direct3D 6 improvements and a little Direct3D 5 too | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/d7vk-version-1-2-brings-more-direct3d-6-improvements-and-a-little-direct3d-5-too/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 08:59:27

• "The decision affects regulations on fine particulate matter (PM₂.₅) and ground-level ozone" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/health/2026-01-15/the-epa-will-no-longer-calculate-the-lives-saved-thanks-to-air-pollution-restrictions.html | Source: El País    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:10:33

• "Happiness is self-explanatory – and fleeting. Even in the worst of times, there are moments of happiness – a delicious meal with friends, a beautiful sunrise" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/15/how-the-light-gets-in/#theories-of-change | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:10:48

• "At the start of the new year, I decided to install openSUSE and it’s been great." ☛ https://claytonerrington.com/blog/resetting-tpm-for-an-encrypted-boot-drive/ | Source: Clayton Errington    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:18:04

• "With my topology now clear I moved on to testing, slowing spanning outwards from the mac mini that was my listening end of iperf." ☛ https://canion.blog/2026/01/14/home-ethernet.html | Source: Canion dot Blog    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:18:14

• "In large companies, speaking up about what you see as a “bad project” is a good thing." ☛ https://lalitm.com/post/why-senior-engineers-let-bad-projects-fail/ |    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:23:49

• "That’s what some jobs are like after a while. Why you’ve stayed there might be due to lack of options, loyalty, or comfort (the evil you know, and so on!)." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/bore-out/ | Source: Ava    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:24:02

• "In past posts, we’ve shared the mantra “You’re not writing enough” (Bryan Cantrill quoting Pat Helland quoting Jim Gray). Simon, who blogged every day for an entire year, sets a high bar for what’s possible here." ☛ https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/simon-willison-on-technical-blogging | Source: Cynthia Dunlop    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:24:15

• "With every page I turned, there was something new to make me think. Indeed, if the book Walden was itself a pond, it would both reflect the world back and, in so doing, make me see the world in a new light." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/01/15/walden | Source: James G    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:28:09

• "This is the conversation me and Zach have been having between August 2025 and now on the topic of literature and books, by iterating with posing questions and answering them by email." ☛ https://sarajaksa.eu/2026/conversation-about-literature-with-zachary-kai-and-sara-jaksa/ | Source: Sara Jakša    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:28:23

• "I teach middle schoolers now, who are starting to hit some of the big questions around life and meaning - or at least starting to understand that adults don't get it and are probably wrong a lot of the time" ☛ https://smallcypress.bearblog.dev/the-meaning-of-life-indieweb-carnival-january-2026/ | Source: Small Cypress    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:28:41

• "Everything that has to do with being self-sufficient in the modern world implies [Internet] access" ☛ https://aethrvmn.gr/theses/technological/self-sufficiency/domain/ | Source: Aethrvmn    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:29:05

• "With greater frequency, this is how system compromises happen. Attackers have adapted as infrastructure became more observable. Maintaining visible, normal behavior has become the dominant strategy." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/the-new-threats-attackers-dont-just-break-in-they-blend-in/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:29:17

• "I’m starting to worry that my attempt to systemise my life is slowly becoming my life. I want to write about living, not about the meta aspects of how I organise my life." ☛ https://www.amitgawande.com/blog/2026/writing-about-the-same-thing/ | Source: Amit Gawande    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:32:52

• "But not all of these methods inherently create a conversation or dialogue." ☛ https://brandonrozek.com/blog/blogging-as-dialogue-invitation/ | Source: Brandon Rozek    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:33:04

• "Here are three ways to get unstuck, depending on the kind of “stuckness” you’re experiencing: [...]" ☛ https://nesslabs.com/somatic-regulation | Source: Ness Labs    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:33:15

• "As mentioned in my Fediverse post, Netplan tells you nothing. One direct consequence of this is that in any context where you're writing down your own network interface names" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/NetworkInterfaceNameLenthLimit | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:35:40

• A deep dive into OpenShift Container Platform 4.20 performance ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/15/deep-dive-openshift-container-platform-420-performance    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:38:52

• Introducing the Dynamic Plug-ins Factory for Developer Hub ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/15/introducing-dynamic-plug-ins-factory-developer-hub    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:39:38

• Red Hat (IBM) is Driving Away Remaining Fedora Users ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/15/Red_Hat_IBM_is_Driving_Away_Remaining_Fedora_Users.shtml    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:39:51

• Red Hat boosts slop garbage in a site about slop garbage https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/ai-in-2026-experimental-ai-concludes-autonomous-systems-rise/ then links to it: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/friday-five-january-16-2026    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:42:48

• Clown https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/kruk-achieves-it-consistency-across-europe-and-66-faster-processing-red-hat-technologies    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:43:35

• IBM Red Hat riding the slop bubble https://futurumgroup.com/insights/can-red-hat-and-nvidia-remove-the-friction-slowing-ai-deployments/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/28/Circular_Financing_in_NVidia_NVidia_Pays_Its_Clients_to_Buy_Fro.shtml    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:44:18

• More boosting of slop by Red Hat, hype instead of substance https://www.redhat.com/en/compiler-podcast/ai-product-security    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:44:59

• Red Hat CEO dressing up in ALL BLUE says a lot, doesn't it? https://www.redhat.com/en/summit    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 09:45:41

• "I am an HTML extremist. There’s this argument I often hear: “But HTML is cumbersome to write!” Wrong, as many other myths about HTML." ☛ https://aartaka.me/pidgin.html | Source: Artyom Bologov    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 10:04:40

• "In the USA, all you have to do is..." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/how-to-bounce-postal-mail/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 10:04:55

• "When querying Spamhaus DNS blocklists, either their public mirrors or through a DQS account, the DNS blocklists can potentially return error codes in 127.255.255.0/24 (also)." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/EximSafeSpamhausQueries | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 10:05:03

• "However, they’re not a panacea, and an audit status should not be viewed as a simple binary “YES / NO” matter." ☛ https://soatok.blog/2026/01/15/software-assurance-that-warm-and-fuzzy-feeling/ | Source: Dhole Moments    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 10:15:34

• "People who built, maintain, or research package managers. Tool creators, registry operators, resolver authors, and the academics studying how it all works." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/14/package-manager-people.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 10:15:52

• "When Wikipedia launched 25 years ago today, I heard about it almost immediately, because the Internet was small back then, and I thought “Well… good luck to those guys.”" ☛ https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/15/wikipedia-at-25/ | Source: Anil Dash    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 10:16:37

• [Old] "The source code was maintained and developed in a CVS repository on Sourceforge.net. Gabriel Wicke, a developer and later Principal Software Engineer at the WMF" ☛ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-01-31/Technology_report |    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 10:17:08

• "Keynote with Cindy Cohn" ☛ https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/speaker/cindy-cohn | Source: SoCal Linux Expo    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 10:40:35

• "For those who might need a reminder of how the hacking workshop works" ☛ https://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/01/hacking-workshop-for-february-2026.html | Source: Robert Haas    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 10:41:08

• "I really think these companies ought to check with the big man in Washington D.C. before making such moves. Surely, the stock prices will plummet once he finds out and starts taking CEOs out behind the woodshed." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1keyemb8z    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 12:20:59

• Anon: I designed, printed, and delivered to an acquaintance some End of 10 posters and handouts. He was quite pleased and has an immediate use for them. :)    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 12:56:27

• "Booklore is a self-hosted web app that is designed to help you organize, manage, and read your eBook library." ☛ https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-booklore/ | Source: Pi My Life Up    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 12:57:51

• "His specialty? Code optimization. But Bank’s contributions to the open-source community go far beyond making software run faster." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/01/15/meet-larry-bank-the-performance-whisperer-making-code-faster-and-open-source-better/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 12:58:04

• "XScreenSaver 6.14 is out now, including iOS (soon) and Android." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/01/xscreensaver-6-14/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 12:58:17

• "At the end of the day, it's easy to see why so many Windows users are checking out Linux distros like Zorin. When the choice is between spending a bunch of money to replace perfectly functional hardware, or simply moving to a new OS, many will opt for the latter." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/01/14/2313236    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 13:18:58

• "Over Half a Million Windows Users are Switching to Linux" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/01/14/2313236 "Now that Linux has finally caught up to the big boys in terms of drivers, games, and apps, there is little reason not to make the switch."    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 13:19:18

• "Meta’s Layoffs Leave Supernatural Fitness Users in Mourning" Zuckerberg called those "dumb f--ks... they trust me"    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 13:22:06

• "This software is capable of doing this thanks to a very specifically designed Ai model called BirdNET" ☛ https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-birdnet/ | Source: Pi My Life Up    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 13:37:09

• "You can now save your language, keyboard layout, and formats from the Welcome Screen to the USB stick. These settings will be applied automatically when restarting Tails." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_4/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 13:37:31

• "Bryan Poerwo has announced the release of EndeavourOS 2026.01.12, a minor "Neo" update of the project's Arch-based" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12703 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 13:37:54

• "With these two commits, Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) set the stage for, and next up, bumped the maximum number of processors supported on OpenBSD/amd64 from 64 to 255." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260115135856 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 13:38:16

• "Most systems support stereo audio via their default speaker output or 3.5mm analog connector. These devices are exposed as stereo devices to applications, and applications typically render stereo content to these devices." ☛ https://arunraghavan.net/2026/01/accessibility-update-enabling-mono-audio/ | Source: Arun Raghavan    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 14:15:20

• "Some of my dumb experiments result in interesting findings and unexpected successes." ☛ https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2026/01/14/raid0/ | Source: Herman Õunapuu    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 14:15:29

• "Garage is an open source S3 compatible object store. What follows is a description of how I set up my simple single-node garage instance for my homelab." ☛ https://jan.wildeboer.net/2026/01/1-Local-S3-With-Garage/ | Source: Jan Wildeboer    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 14:15:41

• "This will be at least a three part series. Maybe more. We will see." ☛ https://jan.wildeboer.net/2026/01/2-S3-Garage-Behind-Nginx/ | Source: Jan Wildeboer    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 14:15:54

• "TCP and UDP are more or less officially specified in various RFCs and are implicitly specified by what happens on the wire." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/TCPAndUDPPartiallyImplicit | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 14:16:10

• "Following a recent series of commits by Helg Bredow (helg@) and Stefan Fritsch (sf@), OpenBSD/arm64 now works as a guest operating system under the Apple Hypervisor." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260115203619 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:30:30

• Almost like the goal is to discourage education and lower it by lessening rewards for those who can do it right and well ☞ https://bridgemi.com/talent-education/report-michigan-churns-through-teachers-at-unsustainable-rate/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:34:55

• Anon: They refuse to pay teachers proper salaries, among other intentional problems. The only long-term strategy which the US has sustained has been the concerted effort to divest from both basic and higher education. That has gone on since the start of the Reagan administration. The harvest is being reaped now: three generations of general illiteracy compounding the effects of social control media.    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:40:44

• America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:41:56

• U.S. Cuts Health Aid and Ties It to Funding Pledges by African Governments ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/health/health-agreements-us-africa.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:42:31

• A Healthy Brain ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/world/brain-health-challenge-trump-iran.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:42:50

• Nick Reiner Was in a Mental Health Conservatorship in 2020 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/nick-reiner-conservatorship-schizophrenia.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:43:11

• Anon: Not sliding, rolling -- for three generations ... so far with no turn around in sight. The D and R halves of the uniparty have been united in their efforts to divest from basic and higher education over the decades.    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:44:42

• Tips for healthy bowel movements from a gastroenterologist ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/tips-for-healthy-bowel-movements-by-a-gastroenterologist-avLcR4c0CIJY    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:44:58

• RFK Jr Startled by Convicted Felon’s Ability to Remain Alive Despite Dumpster-Tier Diet ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/rfk-trump-diet-health    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:45:22

• Veterinary medicines to get digitalised system in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/15.01.2026-veterinary-medicines-to-get-digitalised-system-in-latvia.a630057/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:45:31

• South Korea family accused of staging dozens of crashes with children in car ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-family-accused-of-staging-dozens-of-crashes-with-children-in-car    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:46:16

• South Korea opens state scholarships exclusively for refugees ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-opens-state-scholarships-exclusively-for-refugees    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:46:35

• Dubai chewy cookie frenzy sends pistachio prices in South Korea soaring ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/dubai-chewy-cookie-frenzy-sends-pistachio-prices-in-south-korea-soaring-threefold    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:46:54

• South Korea’s ex-president Yoon faces first court ruling over martial law ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-ex-president-yoon-faces-first-court-ruling-over-martial-law    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:47:21

• Can Others Explain My Work Without Me? ☞ https://www.olafalders.com/2026/01/15/can-others-explain-my-work-without-me/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:48:42

• Saving time, risking lives: Government uses Hey Hi (AI) tools to inform asylum decisions ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/saving-time-risking-lives-government-uses-ai-tools-to-inform-asylum-decisions/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:50:16

• Automating the hostile environment: Hey Hi (AI) in the asylum decision making process ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/automating-the-hostile-environment-ai-in-the-asylum-decision-making-process/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:50:45

• Techno-Permacrisis ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/techno-permacrisis/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:51:36

• Raspberry Pi Hey Hi (AI) HAT+ 2 Lets You Run LLMs Locally ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/raspberry-pi-ai-hat-2-runs-llms    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 15:52:34

• canonical and ubuntu take GAFAM (US) money to say GAFAM (US) means Europe is in control. Mark Shuttleworth (MS) is a dishonest businessman. https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-aws-european-sovereign-cloud https://canonical.com//blog/ubuntu-aws-european-sovereign-cloud    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:09:42

• FSF Events: Meet up with FSF staff and Librephone developer at FOSDEM 2026 ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/fosdem-2026    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:16:50

• FSF Events: Free/libre software and our freedom: Our shield against many digital injustices. ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/fsf-talk-2026-01-23    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:16:59

• isVerified Emerges From Stealth With Voice Deepfake Detection Apps ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/isverified-emerges-from-stealth-with-voice-deepfake-detection-apps/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:18:02

• A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9 (Project Zero) ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1054547/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:18:30

• Mozilla GFX: Experimental High Dynamic Range video playback on backdoored Windows in Firefox Nightly 148 ☞ https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/experimental-high-dynamic-range-video-playback-on-windows-in-firefox-nightly-148/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:18:53

• Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” Reached End of Life, Upgrade to Ubuntu 25.10 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin-reached-end-of-life-upgrade-to-ubuntu-25-10    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:20:12

• Tails 7.4 Anonymous GNU/Linux OS Released with Persistent Language and Formats ☞ https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-4-anonymous-linux-os-released-with-persistent-language-and-formats    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:20:21

• You Can Now Run Debian GNU/Linux on the OpenWrt One Open-Source Router ☞ https://9to5linux.com/you-can-now-run-debian-gnu-linux-on-the-openwrt-one-open-source-router    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:20:32

• EndeavourOS Ganymede Neo Is Out with GNU/Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS and KDE Plasma 6.5.4 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/endeavouros-ganymede-neo-rolls-out-with-linux-kernel-6-18-lts-and-kde-plasma-6-5-4    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:21:43

• GNOME 49.3 Desktop Released with More Improvements and Bug Fixes ☞ https://9to5linux.com/gnome-49-3-desktop-released-with-more-improvements-and-bug-fixes    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:22:07

• GNOME 50 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing as a Wayland-Only Release ☞ https://9to5linux.com/gnome-50-alpha-is-now-available-for-public-testing-as-a-wayland-only-release    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:22:30

• Ignacio Casal Quinteiro: Mecalin ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/nacho/2026/01/15/mecalin/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:23:18

• Opera GX Gaming Browser is Coming to GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/opera-gx-linux-version-being-worked-on    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:24:02

• Death of Renee Good: How Hey Hi (AI) was used to falsely identify the ICE agent who shot her ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20260115-death-of-renee-good-how-ai-falsely-identified-the-ice-agent-who-shot-her    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:26:35

• Software Assurance & That Warm and Fuzzy Feeling ☞ https://soatok.blog/2026/01/15/software-assurance-that-warm-and-fuzzy-feeling/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:27:05

• Amnesty calls for global diplomatic action amid unprecedented mass killings to crush dissent ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/amnesty-calls-for-global-diplomatic-action-amid-unprecedented-mass-killings-to-crush-dissent    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:27:25

• Rights group urges Uganda to lift internet restrictions amid ongoing elections ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/rights-group-urges-uganda-to-lift-internet-restrictions-amid-ongoing-elections/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:27:41

• How Activists in Iran Are Using Starlink to Stay Online ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/technology/iran-online-starlink.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:27:53

• DOJ Continues to Let DHS Pick and Choose Screen Shots Pertaining to Their Assaults ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/15/doj-continues-to-let-dhs-pick-and-choose-screen-shots-pertaining-to-their-assaults/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:28:27

• Music Fans Explode With Joy as Bandcamp Bans Hey Hi (AI) Music ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bandcamp-bans-ai-music    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:30:58

• A Man Bought Meta’s Hey Hi (AI) Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert in Search of Aliens ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-ai-glasses-desert-aliens    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:31:28

• Feedback period still open: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16213-European-Open-Digital-Ecosystems_en    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:31:45

• A note for MXroute users ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1054410/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:32:32

• Hungary’s elderly poverty rate nearly tripled since 2018, rights group says ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/hungarys-elderly-poverty-rate-nearly-tripled-since-2018-rights-group-says/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:32:57

• Astronauts Return to Earth With Lasting Brain Changes ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/astronauts-return-to-earth-with-lasting-brain-changes    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:34:14

• Scientists Discover 7 Rare Mummified Cheetahs in Arabian Desert ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-7-rare-mummified-cheetahs-in-arabian-desert    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:34:30

• NASA Brings Astronauts Home Early After Unprecedented Medical Issue in Space ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-brings-astronauts-home-early-after-unprecedented-medical-issue-in-space    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:34:44

• NASA Plans to Put a Nuclear Reactor on The Moon. Here's Why. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-plans-to-put-a-nuclear-reactor-on-the-moon-by-2030-heres-why    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:35:06

• A Single Night's Sleep Could Predict Your Risk For More Than 100 Diseases ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-single-nights-sleep-could-predict-your-risk-for-more-than-100-diseases    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:35:33

• We Were Wrong About Restrictive Diets, Decades of Research Says ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/we-were-wrong-about-restrictive-diets-decades-of-research-says    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:35:45

• Survey reveals Britons value human journalism and worry about use of Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/survey-ai-journalism-humans-uk/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:38:27

• After Being Pillaged By Hey Hi (AI) Companies, Wikipedia Signs Deal to Get Paid By Them ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/wikipedia-ai-deal    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:39:23

• $3.6 million in assets seized in probe involving former Malaysian army chief ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/3-6-million-in-assets-seized-in-probe-involving-former-malaysian-army-chief    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:42:01

• Philippines to ban MElon’s Grok Hey Hi (AI) on Jan 15 over sexualised deepfakes ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-to-ban-musks-grok-ai-on-jan-15-over-sexualised-deepfakes    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:42:19

• China says Carney’s Beijing visit key to rebooting ties ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-canada-move-to-reset-ties-as-carney-visits    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:42:36

• China’s top diplomat calls Canada PM Mark Carney visit ‘turning point’ in ties ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/15/chinas-top-diplomat-calls-canada-pm-mark-carney-visit-turning-point-in-ties/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:43:04

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Administration Lawsuit Seeking California Voter Data Is Dismissed ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/california-voter-roll-lawsuit-trump.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:43:28

• Shareholders sue Oracle over misleading statements related to $300 billion Proprietary Chaffbot Company data center build-out ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/shareholders-sue-oracle-over-misleading-statements-related-to-usd300-billion-openai-data-center-build-out-disgruntled-plaintiffs-say-the-company-lied-about-how-much-money-it-needed-to-borrow    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:44:15

• US Supreme Court grants standing to congressman challenging Illinois election law ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/us-supreme-court-grants-standing-to-congressman-challenging-illinois-election-law/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:44:51

• Former Senator Kyrsten Sinema Accused of Affair With Member of Security Team ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/politics/kyrsten-sinema-affair-lawsuit.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:46:06

• Many Fiery Remarks, Little Clarity on What’s Next at Security Council Meeting on Iran ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/world/middleeast/iran-protests-security-council.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:46:22

• What Are Convicted Felon’s Options in Iran? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000010640541/what-are-trumps-options-in-iran.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:46:32

• Dihydroxyacetone Man introduces 25% tariff on export of chips, including Nvidia H200, AMD MI325X — figure could increase in the future ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/trump-introduces-25-percent-tariff-on-export-of-chips-including-nvidia-h200-amd-mi325x-figure-could-increase-in-the-future    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:46:47

• Beijing blocks Chinese entities from using U.S. and Israeli cybersecurity software — VMWare and Fortinet among the affected vendors ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/beijing-blocks-chinese-entities-from-using-u-s-and-israeli-cybersecurity-software-vmware-and-fortinet-among-the-affected-vendors    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:47:12

• Live Blog: UN Security Council Held Emergency Meeting On Iran ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protests-live-blog-trump-khamenei/33640284.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:47:47

• Security and ethnic dimensions of Iran crisis spark warnings across the region ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/security-and-ethnic-dimensions-of-iran-crisis-spark-warnings-across-the-region    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:48:25

• Owning a gun in South Africa offers some safety, but risks run high for users and society – expert ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/security/civil-security/owning-a-gun-in-south-africa-offers-some-safety-but-risks-run-high-for-users-and-society-expert/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:48:51

• There’s Something So Embarrassing About Homeland Security’s New Drone Video That We’re Gonna Have to Sit Down for a Minute ☞ https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/homeland-security-drone-china "Safeguarding American aerospace... with Chinese tech."    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:49:38

• Traveler Information Stolen in Eurail Data Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/traveler-information-stolen-in-eurail-data-breach/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:50:10

• Central Maine Healthcare Data Breach Impacts 145,000 Individuals ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/central-maine-healthcare-data-breach-impacts-145000-individuals/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:50:28

• Depthfirst Raises $40 Million for Vulnerability Management ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/depthfirst-raises-40-million-for-vulnerability-management/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:50:46

• "Confidential VMs" was always a scam, more like a giant back door☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-stackwarp-attack-threatens-confidential-vms-on-amd-processors/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:51:34

• Raspberry Pi Hey Hi (AI) HAT+ 2 Review: The brains and the brawn ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-ai-hat-plus-2-review    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:53:41

• You Can Now Use ONLYOFFICE on Raspberry Pi-Like ARM Devices ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/onlyoffice-desktop-editors-arm-support/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:54:13

• Tails 7.4 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tails    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:54:34

• GAFAM destroys the planet for pyramid schemes like slop ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/amazon-buys-first-american-mined-copper-in-a-decade-arizona-mine-to-fuel-aws-ai-data-centers-in-seismic-two-year-deal    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:56:06

• Elder Scrolls Online lead says Xbox's layoffs aren't the reason the MMO is switching over to smaller updates: "Seasons is not in any way a response to that" https://www.inkl.com/news/elder-scrolls-online-lead-says-xbox-s-layoffs-aren-t-the-reason-the-mmo-is-switching-over-to-smaller-updates-seasons-is-not-in-any-way-a-response-to-that    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:57:45

• also in https://www.gamesradar.com/games/the-elder-scrolls/elder-scrolls-online-lead-says-xboxs-layoffs-arent-the-reason-the-mmo-is-switching-over-to-smaller-updates-seasons-is-not-in-any-way-a-response-to-that/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 16:58:26

• "Cringely strikes again with perfect insights and "the truth" about IBM ... as opposed to the Wall Street version. This needs much wider distribution. Perhaps to Pro Publica. Glad to be rid of this group of mo--ns." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf3f4pa0    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:04:03

• New ‘Reprompt’ Attack Silently Siphons Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Copilot Data ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-reprompt-attack-silently-siphons-microsoft-copilot-data/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:05:30

• The false metric of "engagement" ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/most-popular-news-apps-in-the-uk-times-and-daily-mail-lead-on-engagement/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:08:18

• Raspberry Pi Hey Hi (AI) HAT+ 2 targets generative Hey Hi (AI) (LLM/VLM) with Hailo-10H accelerator ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/15/raspberry-pi-ai-hat-2-targets-generative-ai-llm-vlm-with-hailo-10h-accelerator/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:08:51

• Geniatech introduces SMARC and OSM system-on-modules powered by NXP i.MX 95 SoC ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/15/geniatech-smarc-and-osm-system-on-modules-nxp-i-mx-95-soc/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:10:06

• New Vulnerability in n8n ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/new-vulnerability-in-n8n.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:10:45

• ICS Patch Tuesday: Vulnerabilities Fixed by Siemens, Schneider, Aveva, Phoenix Contact ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ics-patch-tuesday-vulnerabilities-fixed-by-siemens-schneider-aveva-phoenix-contact/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:11:19

• Inside an ICE Confrontation in Minneapolis ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010643550/how-we-photographed-an-ice-confrontation-in-minneapolis.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:12:01

• Mainland Chinese student involved in HK$2.8 million scam spree was recruited after being defrauded, police say ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/16/mainland-chinese-student-involved-in-hk2-8-million-scam-spree-was-recruited-after-being-defrauded-police-say/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:12:39

• A Landmark 'High Seas Treaty' Has Arrived. Here's Why It's a Big Deal. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-landmark-high-seas-treaty-has-arrived-heres-why-its-a-big-deal    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:12:57

• A bribe to promote the agenda of some cargo cult made around Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/anthropic-funding-to-python/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:14:01

• Syria: The man behind the mission to heal decade-old wounds in the Sunni majority ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/syria-the-man-behind-the-mission-to-heal-decade-old-wounds-in-the-sunni-majority    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:16:01

• WordPress Playground Brings Speed, Stability, and Momentum ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2026/01/wordpress-playground-speed-stability-momentum/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:16:35

• GlobalFoundries acquires ARC and RISC-V IP from Synopsys — company gains critical CPU IP as it grows beyond being a mere chipmaker ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/globalfoundries-acquires-arc-and-risc-v-ip-from-synopsys-company-gains-critical-cpu-ip-as-it-grows-beyond-being-a-mere-chipmaker    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:16:50

• ESP32-S3 multi-radio Smart Home gateway features Ethernet, Zigbee, Thread, Z-Wave, Wi-Fi, BLE, and optional 4G LTE connectivity ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/16/esp32-s3-multi-radio-smart-home-gateway-features-ethernet-zigbee-thread-z-wave-wi-fi-ble-and-optional-4g-lte-connectivity/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:17:25

• censorship: 4 movies ‘disappear’ from Hong Kong Film Awards’ contenders list ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/15/4-movies-disappear-from-hong-kong-film-awards-contenders-list/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:18:59

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSpdlog 0.0.25 on CRAN: Microfix ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/01/15#rcppspdlog_0.0.25    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:19:31

• A Dog’s Breakfast: The Doctrinal Mess Surrounding “Configured To” Claim Language ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/01/breakfast-surrounding-configured.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:20:33

• Corrupt insider of the litigation industry to UPC critic: "Daniel, sorry but I'm not convinced that the courts in Europe have easy work and the courts elsewhere in the world have hard work because the EPO insists on removal of all inconsistencies between description and claims. What is my explanation then, that alone of all the world's Patent Offices, the EPO requires such removal? I suggest to you that it is because the presence of"    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:21:06

• IP Kat taken over by the monopolists http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/g-125-description-amendments-amicus.html?showComment=1768488457162#c5594698327705545020    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:21:31

• Software Patents: NovaCloud networking patent monopoly prior art found ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/1/15/novacloud-networking-patent-prior-art-found    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:22:21

• Software Patents: US judge orders Onesta to withdraw Munich lawsuits against BMW ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/us-judge-orders-onesta-to-withdraw-munich-lawsuits-against-bmw/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:22:49

• Trying to profit by creating patent disputes ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/us-israeli-firm-pearl-cohen-arrives-in-germany/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:23:51

• PureOS Crimson Development Report: December 2025 ☞ https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-development-report-december-2025/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:24:36

• Totally irrelevant spam for a Ponzi scheme https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/16/the-end-of-the-ai-toy-era-youware-launches-youbase-to-deliver-production-ready-business-tools/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:25:12

• Kdenlive 25.12.1 released ☞ https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/25.12.1/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:25:35

• Advancing WebRTC: Firefox WebRTC 2025 ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/webrtc/firefox-webrtc-2025/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:26:18

• Vibe Coding Tested: Hey Hi (AI) Agents Nail SQLi but Fail Miserably on Security Controls ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/vibe-coding-tested-ai-agents-nail-sqli-but-fail-miserably-on-security-controls/ " generates a curate’s egg program: good in parts, but the bad parts affect the whole program."    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:27:09

• Hearing on the Human Rights Policy of the German Government ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/hearing-on-the-human-rights-policy-of-the-german-government/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:27:52

• OpenSSF’s 2026 Themes: A Community Roadmap for Securing the Future of Open Source ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/01/15/openssfs-2026-themes-a-community-roadmap-for-securing-the-future-of-open-source/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:28:50

• From Instagram fame to political fall: Indonesia’s ‘Internet governor’ in the spotlight ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/from-instagram-fame-to-political-fall-indonesias-internet-governor-in-the-spotlight    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:29:30

• Forgejo 14.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1054461/ "making Forgejo's web UI work without JavaScript"    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:29:59

• libvirt 12.0 Released    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:30:35

• Douglas Murray: Convicted Felon has a chance to end Khamenei’s reign of terror in Iran ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/01/15/opinion/trump-has-a-chance-to-end-khameneis-reign-of-terror-in-iran/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:33:07

• From spoofing to tunnelling: New Red Team networking techniques for initial access and evasion ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/01/16/from-spoofing-to-tunnelling-new-red-team-networking-techniques-for-initial-access-and-evasion/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:33:24

• Local division Düsseldorf dismisses Ona Patents infringement claim against Surveillance Giant Google ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/local-division-dusseldorf-dismisses-ona-patents-infringement-claim-against-google/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:34:06

• Google Now Stuffing Ads Into Its Hey Hi (AI) Products ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-ads    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:34:37

• Prince Harry legal team accused of dishonesty, fraud and misconduct ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/prince-harry-legal-team-accused-of-dishonesty-fraud-and-misconduct/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:35:12

• They do cheat, lie, and corrupt the system a lot, they think it's 'fair play' https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Brett_Wilson_LLP_Reported_to_the_Solicitors_Regulation_Authorit.shtml http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/22/Brett_Wilson_LLP_Has_Just_Again_Implicitly_Admitted_Breaching_C.shtml    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:36:11

• Hong Kong privacy watchdog contacts MElon’s xAI over sexualised Hey Hi (AI) images of women and minors ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/15/hong-kong-privacy-watchdog-contacts-elon-musks-xai-over-sexualised-ai-images-of-people-and-minors/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:36:36

• Cuba Receives Remains of 32 Citizens Killed in U.S. Strikes in Venezuela ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/world/americas/cuba-remains-venezuela-strikes-maduro.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:38:18

• Taiwan Strikes Trade Deal with Convicted Felon, Vows More U.S. Chip Factories ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/business/taiwan-trade-deal.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:38:38

• ‘I saw even the mountains shake’: Fear lingers in Cambodian town after Thai strikes on alleged scam sites ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/fear-suspicion-and-destroyed-scam-compounds-at-cambodian-border-town-weeks-after-thai-air-strikes    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:39:01

• Gazans sceptical of phase 2 of truce as strikes continue ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/gazans-sceptical-of-phase-2-of-truce-as-strikes-continue    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:39:20

• 'US can't politically engineer a new status quo inside Iran, it must be self-sustaining' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/us-can-t-politically-engineer-a-new-status-quo-inside-iran-it-must-be-self-sustaining    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:39:46

• Will the US use cyberwarfare to ‘help’ Iranian protesters? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260115-will-the-us-use-cyberwarfare-help-iranian-protesters    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:39:57

• Why the change of heart? Convicted Felon dials down threats of strikes against Iran ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20260115-why-the-change-of-heart-trump-dials-down-threats-of-strikes-against-iran    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:40:12

• Workers at İzmir factory mark over 400 days on strike over union rights ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/workers-at-izmir-factory-mark-over-400-days-on-strike-over-union-rights-315653    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:40:34

• EndeavourOS 2026.01.12 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/endeavour    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:41:07

• Garuda 260115 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/garuda    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:41:15

• Security Onion 2.4.201 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/securityonion    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:41:37

• Celebrating the Second Year of Linux Man-Pages Maintenance Sponsorship https://www.linux.com/news/celebrating-the-second-year-of-linux-man-pages-maintenance-sponsorship/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:42:40

• Grub boot-loader 2.14 Released with Argon2 & TPM 2.0 Key Protector ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/01/grub-boot-loader-2-14-released-with-argon2-tpm-2-0-key-protector/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:44:08

• Reminder That Red Bait Enterprise GNU/Linux (RHEL) Is Not Free, And It's Because of I.C.B.M. ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/14/Reminder_That_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_RHEL_Is_Not_Free_And_It_.shtml    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:44:24

• Linuxiac May Have Reverted Back to LLM Slop (Updated Same Day) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/15/Linuxiac_May_Have_Reverted_Back_to_LLM_Slop.shtml    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:44:32

• Opera GX is finally making its to way to GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/opera-gx-is-finally-making-its-to-way-to-linux/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:45:11

• Kdenlive 25.12.1 released with bug fixes and improvements ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/kdenlive-25121-released-with-bug-fixes-and-improvements/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:45:33

• DotState – dotfile manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dotstate-dotfile-manager/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:46:41

• yayfzf – AUR package finder ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/yayfzf-aur-package-finder/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:46:59

• unmake – makefile linter ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/unmake-makefile-linter/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:47:16

• StormOS – Arch-based distro for intermediate to advanced users ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/stormos-arch-based-distribution/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:47:37

• Moonbit – modern system cleaner ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/moonbit-modern-system-cleaner/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:47:52

• mnamer – media renamer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mnamer-media-renamer/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:48:08

• BOSGAME M6 HX370 Hey Hi (AI) PC running GNU/Linux – Fan Noise ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bosgame-m6-hx370-ai-pc-running-linux-fan-noise/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:48:25

• 6 Small Free and Open Source Console Menu Utilities ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/menuutilities/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:48:43

• Brazilian cinema strikes gold, confronting harrowed past while captivating audiences worldwide ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260115-brazilian-cinema-strikes-gold-confronting-harrowed-past-while-captivating-audiences-worldwide-1    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:49:25

• 646: Unix v4 ☞ https://www.bsdnow.tv/646    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:51:23

• Prince Harry versus tabloids: The final showdown ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/podcast-future-of-media-explained/prince-harry-versus-tabloids-the-final-showdown/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:52:11

• Daniel Kahn Gillmor: Hey Hi (AI) as a Compression Problem ☞ https://dkg.fifthhorseman.net/blog/2025-ai-and-compression.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:52:45

• Plagiarism: Extracting books from production language models https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:53:27

• FOSS Weekly #26.03: Torvalds Using AI, Dash to Dock, GNU/Linux Kernel Bugs, Pacman's Rust Replacement and More ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-03/ Lazy churnalism https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/13/Not_Journalism_Almost_80_of_the_Articles_We_Saw_About_Torvalds_.shtml    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:54:35

• Number of Businesses in New York City Plunged Last Spring, Report Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/nyregion/business-closures-nyc-economy.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:55:12

• EU Calls For Sanctions On Russian State TV Host, Famed Ballet Dancer ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/eu-russia-sanctions-zarubin-polunin-ukraine/33649632.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:55:51

• Report highlights how Russia lures young Africans to fight in Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/report-highlights-how-russia-lures-young-africans-to-fight-in-ukraine    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:56:05

• Former Ukraine prime minister charged with bribery ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/former-ukraine-prime-minister-charged-with-bribery/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:56:21

• Russia Knocks Out the Heat in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/world/europe/ukraine-kyiv-winter-heating-power-outages.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:56:29

• Ukraine opens criminal case against Vilnius-based Russian opposition figure Leonid Volkov ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2807356/ukraine-opens-criminal-case-against-vilnius-based-russian-opposition-figure-leonid-volkov    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:56:40

• We should not be playing war games with Iran, Russia and China ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/sea/sea-sea/we-should-not-be-playing-war-games-with-iran-russia-and-china/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:57:07

• What will Europe actually do to defend Greenland? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20260115-what-will-europe-actually-do-to-defend-greenland    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:57:32

• Russia-India ‘win-win’ labour deal sparks concerns over migrant workers’ rights and safety ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/russia-india-win-win-labour-deal-sparks-concerns-over-migrant-workers-rights-and-safety    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:57:52

• U.S. Forces Seize Sixth Oil Tanker Linked to Venezuela ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/politics/oil-tanker-seized-venezuela.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:58:02

• Running Debian on the OpenWrt One (Collabora Blog) ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1054519/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 17:58:22

• TTAB Finds TURNKEY STORAGE Merely Descriptive of Self-Storage Facilities, Noting that "Trademarking" is not a Verb ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2026/01/ttab-finds-turnkey-storage-merely.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:00:25

• Python Receives $1.5 Million from Anthropic, Plans New Hey Hi (AI) Tools ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/python-receives-15-million-from-anthropic    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:00:39

• Is Germany Looking to Put a Backdoor into Arch Linux? ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/is-germany-looking-to-put-a-backdoor    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:00:49

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

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:01:30

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

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:01:42

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

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:01:58

• How To Install NetBox on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-netbox-linux-mint-22/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:02:19

• How to Install Audacious on Ubuntu (26.04, 24.04, 22.04) ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-audacious-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:02:46

• How to Install Nomacs on Ubuntu (26.04, 24.04, 22.04) ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-nomacs-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:02:54

• How to Install Mainline Linux Kernel on Fedora ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-mainline-linux-kernel-on-fedora-linux/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:03:06

• How to install GitLab on Ubuntu 24.04 ☞ https://linuxhostsupport.com/blog/how-to-install-gitlab-on-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:03:32

• The UK's most common vitamin deficiencies - and how to fix them ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/the-uks-most-common-vitamin-deficiencies-and-how-to-fix-them-axATG5L6MewZ    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:03:56

• How to Set Up OpenVPN Access Server on Ubuntu 24.04 (VM) & Connect Using OpenVPN Connect ☞ https://linuxhint.com/set-up-openvpn-access-server-ubuntu-24-04-vm/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:04:23

• Google now prioritising Youtube and X over publishers on Discover ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-prioritising-youtube-and-x-over-publishers-on-discover/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:07:25

• Microsoft operative Nick Vidal still speaks for OSI and promotes slop instead of the OSI's original mission ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/carrying-open-collaboration-into-the-year-ahead    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:08:16

• admiral 1.4 release ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/01/admiral-1-4-release/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:09:35

• VoidLink GNU/Linux Malware Framework Targets Cloud Environments ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/voidlink-linux-malware-framework-targets-cloud-environments/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:10:04

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1054408/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:12:25

• X-CMD – command-line toolkit ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/x-cmd-command-line-toolkit/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:13:18

• Ianny – prevent repetitive strain injuries ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ianny-prevent-repetitive-strain-injuries/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:13:30

• rsenv – hierarchical environment management ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rsenv-hierarchical-environment-management/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:13:38

• bestfetch – system fetch ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bestfetch-system-fetch/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:13:45

• zeP – package and version manager for Zig ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/zep-package-version-manager-zig/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:13:54

• "Users are urged to upgrade thier installations to the Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” release as soon as possible." https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin-reached-end-of-life-upgrade-to-ubuntu-25-10    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:15:27

• "One year on Linux, two distros, a few tears, four desktop environments, and zero regrets about leaving Windows." https://www.theverge.com/features/861968/year-using-linux    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:15:49

• Looks like low-grade plagiarism, maybe base on Phoronix https://www.filmogaz.com/101856    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:17:17

• Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/15/wine_11_arrives_faster_and/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:20:38

• Gaming on Linux just got a bump with new Wine 11 improvements that'll make for a better Proton on SteamOS, too https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-on-linux-just-got-a-bump-with-new-wine-11-improvements-thatll-make-for-a-better-proton-on-steamos-too/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:23:47

• "Developer Natalie Vock working for Valve has sent in even more impressive performance improvements for AMD GPUs on Linux with Mesa. This is additional work on top of what was merged recently, and that was already impressive." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/even-more-amd-ray-tracing-performance-improvements-heading-to-mesa-on-linux/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:24:50

• "Linux Mint 22.3 provides near-full access to the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ‘noble’ repos, but as the doesn’t let users install snaps (support can be enabled manually) it ships with traditional Deb versions of Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/linux-mint-22-3-released    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:25:37

• "If you're looking to finally test the waters of Linux, here's a distribution that has everything you need to get started, with everything you need and little complication." https://www.zdnet.com/article/q4os-debian-linux-distro/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:25:55

• The head of GOG wants to focus on Linux and slams Windows https://news.instant-gaming.com/en/articles/17200-the-head-of-gog-wants-to-focus-on-linux-and-slams-windows    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:26:33

• Marcus Nestor says "GNU/Linux" https://9to5linux.com/you-can-now-run-debian-gnu-linux-on-the-openwrt-one-open-source-router    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:27:27

• "This release ships with Linux kernel 6.12.63 LTS from the Debian 13 “Trixie” repositories, Tor Browser 15.0.4, and Mozilla Thunderbird 140.6.0." https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-4-anonymous-linux-os-released-with-persistent-language-and-formats    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:27:58

• Stop swapping keyboards: This free app stitches your Linux and Windows PCs together https://www.howtogeek.com/deskflow-stitches-multiple-linux-pcs-into-one-desktop/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:28:31

• ‘It’s such poor quality software’: GOG owner criticises Windows, says it will support Linux better in the future https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/its-such-poor-quality-software-gog-owner-criticises-windows-says-it-will-support-linux-better-in-the-future/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:29:14

• "Windows is bad software" – GOG to increase its reliance on Linux https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-is-bad-software-GOG-to-increase-its-reliance-on-Linux.1204843.0.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:29:59

• Owner of big gaming platform can't believe how bad Windows 11 is – and hints are dropped about big things for Linux gamers this year https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/owner-of-big-gaming-platform-cant-believe-how-bad-windows-11-is-and-hints-are-dropped-about-big-things-for-linux-gamers-this-year    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:32:47

• Now independent, GOG is thinking about publishing games and embracing Linux https://www.techspot.com/news/110929-now-independent-gog-thinking-about-publishing-games-embracing.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:33:32

• I've used nearly every browser available and these are my top 4 (spoiler: Chrome is out) https://www.zdnet.com/article/my-top-4-browsers-chrome-not-included/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:37:39

• "Not much has changed from the Beta that I previously reported on but here's a refresher." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/linux-mint-22-3-zena-is-out-now-and-supported-until-2029/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:39:29

• Linux Demonstrates That Bugs Can Hide For 20 years! https://www.i-programmer.info/news/136-open-source/18592-linux-demonstrates-that-bugs-can-hide-for-20-years.html    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:39:57

• A popular browser is getting an official Linux version, and people aren't happy https://www.xda-developers.com/popular-browser-getting-official-linux-version/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 18:42:06

• Links 16/01/2026: UK Royal Family's "Legal Team Accused of Dishonesty, Fraud and Misconduct", OSI Still Controlled by Microsoft (the OSI's Spokesperson is on Microsoft's Payroll, Not Interim Executive Director, Deborah Bryant) https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/16/Links_16_01_2026_UK_Royal_Family_s_Legal_Team_Accused_of_Dishon.shtml    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 19:03:40

• 🔤SpellBinding — FIOPSXT Wordo: FERAL gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2026-01-16.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 19:49:36

• My ideal computer gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/computer/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 19:50:09

• "When this aired, Eddy Cue was Apple’s Senior Vice President (SVP) of Internet Software and Services." gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/know-your-meme/take-it-to-craigs-house/    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 19:50:58

• "since the last time i stepped into the pub, i have been working on some projects, between software, music, and homesteading stuff. each of these has been going well, i am happy to report. all of this while working on my 'digital garden' (aka my wiki) and porting my main website over to gemini." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2771    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 19:51:37

• Math + CS = HPC — Half way there gemini://emil-vatai.duckdns.org/blog/2026-01-11-half-way-there.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 19:52:35

• "Seeed Studio has launched another new entry in its growing XIAO family of tiny development boards — and it's the first to boast dual-band 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi 6 connectivity, alongside Bluetooth 5 Low Energy (BLE) and IEEE 802.15.4 with Zigbee and Thread support, thanks to an Espressif ESP32-C5 at its heart." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202601/20260116-xiao.gmi    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 19:53:38

• On IBM: "Been gone just over 2 years. Could not be happier. It is truly a toxic place to work. If you are unhappy, leave. You'll be glad you did." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kewqfc9k    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 20:18:02

• Big Tech to Offshore More Jobs to India in 2026 — US Layoffs Push Workers to Brink https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/big-tech-offshore-more-jobs-india-2026-us-layoffs-push-workers-brink-1771284    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 20:37:10

• Guess who gets more severance in the era of endless layoffs https://qz.com/severance-inequality-men-women-layoffs-ai    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 20:38:18

• "A new analysis of severance packages finds that women continue to receive smaller payouts than men after layoffs, underscoring another dimension of workplace inequality as job cuts ripple through the economy."    

posted Friday, January 16, 2026 at 20:38:50

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