Roy Schestowitz

• Life after IBM. "if this is your new job, I would give it your name. how otherwise you can pass it on? or a fake name. create your BRAND name." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kewqfc9k    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 05:18:21

• iophk: "Is Microsoft even needed any more now that Palantir has spread its tentacles into each and every country's internal communications and documentation? If not, they just might not get their regularly scheduled bailout this time around ..."    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 05:33:25

• Palantir and Microsoft work together: https://techrights.org/n/2023/11/23/Privatisation_Catastrophe_Starting_with_NHS_England_Microsoft_a.shtml    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 05:33:49

• iophk: I'm not sure the relation is bilateral. Microsoft is entirely expendable in that context I think, and they both know it.    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 05:39:46

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-01-17.gmi    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 05:58:24

• (Anon) Apropos Palantir, DOGE [sic], etc: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/842526-once-men-turned-their-thinking-over-to-machines-in-the From 1965, more than a few years ahead of GNU and the GNU Manifesto    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 05:58:56

• "The Rubenerd LLM Licencing PAC" https://rubenerd.com/llm-licencing/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 06:14:35

• "Bruce Schneier is back in form today with his copyright post in his blog." -Anon    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 06:14:46

• "‘Microsoft was my endgame’: Techie claims he was laid off while vacationing with wife, 2-year-old"    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 06:15:50

• "Meta slashes staff after staggering $73B wipeout"    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 06:17:08

• Anthropic became somewhat of a Microsoft shop/proxy    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 06:17:40

• Ubisoft Sees Waves Of Layoffs In 'The Division' Studio, Halifax, Abu Dhai and More Already In 2026 https://www.mmorpg.com/news/ubisoft-sees-waves-of-layoffs-in-the-division-studio-halifax-abu-dhai-and-more-already-in-2026-2000137046    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 06:18:12

• good news, the server is fast again    

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

• Third-person mech-action shooter roguelike RIG Riot gets a demo | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/third-person-mech-action-shooter-roguelike-rig-riot-gets-a-demo/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 07:59:31

• Tabulo is chess meets Balatro and it's out now | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/tabulo-is-chess-meets-balatro-and-its-out-now/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:00:01

• No Rest for the Wicked co-op update lands on January 22 and it hit a big sales milestone | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/no-rest-for-the-wicked-co-op-update-lands-on-january-22-and-it-hit-a-big-sales-milestone/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:00:38

• EndeavourOS Linux gets an upgraded release with Ganymede Neo | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/endeavouros-linux-gets-an-upgraded-release-with-ganymede-neo/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:02:12

• You and which child? | "Dig og hvilket barn ? | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/dig-og-hvilket-barn    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:05:14

• "Using PGP With Proton" https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/PGP:4    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:05:26

• "British parents fighting TikTok in US courts over 'blackout challenge' deaths of their children say social media giants must be held accountable | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15469619/british-parents-fighting-tiktok-courts-blackout-challenge-children-deaths-accountable.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:05:37

• iophk: Astro is not for web sites, it is for web apps. There is a big difference. https://thenewstack.io/cloudflare-acquires-team-behind-open-source-framework-astro/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:06:00

• "Reposting: Remembrance of Kevin Warsh Past" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/reposting-remembrance-of-kevin-warsh    

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

• "This Is Not a Nobel Prize - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-nobel-prize https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/25/How_to_Win_Nobel_Prize_for_Peace.shtml    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:06:31

• "The Rubenerd LLM Licencing PAC" https://rubenerd.com/llm-licencing/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:06:42

• iophk: it's a trap; they need to recall that he pulled the same stunt in ukraine https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/technology/iran-online-starlink.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:06:56

• "Trump Is Proving Democratic Presidents Weren’t Powerless" https://jacobin.com/2026/01/trump-obama-biden-executive-power/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:07:08

• "Mar-a-Lago and the Siege of Minnesota - Truthdig" https://www.truthdig.com/articles/mar-a-lago-and-the-siege-of-minnesota/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:07:20

• TACO https://www.vox.com/politics/475486/trump-iran-intervention-syria-libya-iraq    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:07:33

• techdirt speaking in defense of slop is VERY BAD NEWS!! https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/16/game-publisher-bans-working-with-devs-that-use-any-ai-rather-than-banning-bad-uses-of-ai/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:07:53

• "The President Who Cries Emergency" https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/01/trump-threat-inflation-misleading-public/685639/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:08:04

• "The Sacrifice of the Danes" https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/01/denmark-afghanistan-nato-america-greenland/685625/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:08:18

• ""Despite all the foreign policy grandstanding, Hungary is less sovereign today than it was a decade and a half ago"" https://neweasterneurope.eu/2026/01/16/despite-all-the-foreign-policy-grandstanding-hungary-is-less-sovereign-today-than-it-was-a-decade-and-a-half-ago/ MinceR    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:08:34

• "How Important Is Iran For Russia's War Effort?" https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protests-russia-war-ukraine/33648840.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:08:46

• Masters of Albion from Peter Molyneux / 22cans arrives in April | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/masters-of-albion-from-peter-molyneux-22cans-arrives-in-april/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/masters-of-albion-from-peter-molyneux-22cans-arrives-in-april/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:09:12

• Grab some awesome modern platformers in the Playful Platformers 2026 Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/grab-some-awesome-modern-platformers-in-the-playful-platformers-2026-humble-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:09:32

• Amazon confirm New World: Aeternum will go permanently offline next year and is being delisted | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/amazon-confirm-new-world-aeternum-will-go-permanently-offline-next-year-and-is-being-delisted/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:13:55

• OpenXcom Extended takes over from OpenXcom for the classic X-COM / UFO: Enemy Unknown | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/openxcom-extended-takes-over-from-openxcom-for-the-classic-x-com-ufo-enemy-unknown/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:15:30

• IO Interactive have fixed the crazy PC specifications for 007 First Light | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/io-interactive-have-fixed-the-crazy-pc-specifications-for-007-first-light/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/io-interactive-have-fixed-the-crazy-pc-specifications-for-007-first-light/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:15:38

• "Today’s AI arms race involves a far more expansive, profit-driven form of information appropriation." ☛ https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/ai-copyright-research-law-21282101.php | Source: San Fancisco    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:45:56

• "More than a decade after Aaron Swartz’s death, the United States is still living inside the contradiction that destroyed him." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-and-the-corporate-capture-of-knowledge.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:46:07

• "Anna’s Archive is having a rough month. Following mysterious .org and .se domain suspensions, the shadow library is now facing a permanent injunction from a federal court." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-court-order-against-annas-archive-spells-more-trouble-for-the-site/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:46:17

• "Wikipedia has signed training deals with a host of major AI companies, helping it recoup some of the exorbitant costs it accrued from being relentlessly pillaged by data scrapers." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/wikipedia-ai-deal | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 08:46:29

• Right of Publicity ☛ https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/press/elon-musks-x-to-block-ai-chatbot-grok-from-making-explicit-images-of-real-people/ | Source: Stanford University    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 09:02:59

• "Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard attended President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Thursday morning press conference and responded to questions on a range of topics including investment in Mexico and the USMCA review." ☛ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/politics/usmca-negotiations-mexico-thursday-mananera-recap/ | Source: Mexico News Daily    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 09:03:36

• [Old] "Some of the most remarkable changes that the LFPPI introduced in 2020 are the following: [...]" ☛ https://intellectual-property-helpdesk.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/general-overview-mexican-intellectual-property-landscape-2025-2025-07-31_en |    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 09:03:43

• [Old] "Patents protect new and useful inventions (e.g., medicines, chemical processes, business technologies, and computer software)." ☛ https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF11314 | Source: US Congress    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 09:03:49

• "The State government made this proposed legislation after a string of high-profile incidents involving 3D printed guns" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/new-york-state-takes-steps-to-ban-3d-printed-guns-proposal-will-require-3d-printers-to-prevent-weapon-printing | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 09:04:28

• "To run properly, QuakeWorld Client must be started with parameters on the command-line pointing to a QuakeWorld Server (e.g.: -connect 192.168.01.)." ☛ https://fabiensanglard.net/quakeworld/index.html | Source: Fabian Sanglard    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 09:04:36

• "To compensate customers who were impacted by Wednesday’s hours-long widespread wireless outage, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is providing a $20 account credit that can be redeemed by logging into the myVerizon app to accept." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/verizon-to-offer-20-credit-to-outage-impacted-customers/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 09:04:59

• "The Trump FCC says it is eliminating rules requiring that Verizon unlock handsets 60 days after they are activated on its network." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/16/trump-fcc-helps-verizon-make-it-harder-for-you-to-switch-wireless-carriers/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 09:05:09

• "I’m not a daily screen reader user and I used the Braille viewers built into each screen reader, so they may not reflect actual hardware exposure to users." ☛ https://adrianroselli.com/2026/01/live-region-support.html | Source: Adrian Roselli    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:11:40

• "Some newsrooms have built their own forms" ☛ https://werd.io/remarks-on-the-federal-governments-ongoing-presence-in-minnesota/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:11:55

• "Anil Dash is not surprised by the dark turn the industry has taken." ☛ https://sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickled-each-others-brains | Source: Gazetteer, San Francisco, California    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:12:12

• "Anyone in the tech industry has been subjected to decades’ worth of libertarian myth-making about software eating the world and meritocracy and how software development exists on some entirely different level of reality." ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/posts/tech-workers-need-a-union-part-eleventy-billion | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:12:46

• "A minimum wage law increased pay for food delivery couriers but people tipped less. Is that a win or a loss for workers?" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/16/tipping-food-delivery-etiquette/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:13:06

• "Rummler collapsed, his hands covering his bloodied face. An officer then dragged him across the ground by his hoodie as other protesters screamed for help." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-agent-shoots-protester-face-point-blank-range-leaving-21-year-old-permanently-blind-1771544 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:13:47

• "Tackling teachers and spraying chemical agents on school property, ICE’s rampage through Minnesota is only getting more violent. Jacobin spoke with a Minneapolis parent about what she’s seen so far." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/01/ice-minneapolis-violence-schools-neighbors/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:14:17

• "An employee of El Paso County’s Office of the Medical Examiner told Lunas Campos’ daughter this week that, subject to results of a toxicology report" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/homicide-ice-detention | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:14:47

• "In a Fox News segment shared by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on X, Miller falsely said that it was a “felony” to obstruct" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/fed-agent-shoots-second-person-days-after-miller-claims-agents-have-immunity/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:15:08

• "But Good’s murder was not the first incident in which ICE and other deportation agents have aimed firearms at or threatened lethal force against US citizens and other unarmed people." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/01/ice-guns-shootings-protesters-deportation/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:15:30

• "After the bloodiest domestic crackdown in the history of the Islamic Republic, protests have died down since their peak last Thursday evening, the beginning of the Iranian weekend." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/01/iran-protests-repression-economy-trump/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:16:01

• "Warzel is then joined by The Atlantic’s Sophie Gilbert, the author of Girl on Girl, for a conversation about how misogyny has been a constant throughline in the history of [Internet] innovation" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/01/the-internet-was-built-to-objectify-women/685652/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:16:25

• "Under more ordinary circumstances, federal investigators investigating a leak of government secrets might seek a subpoena for reporters’ records." ☛ https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/15/media/fbi-hannah-natanson-washington-post-doj-search | Source: CNN    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:17:30

• "It's not a crime in the United States for journalists to obtain or publish leaked documents" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/01/15/fbis-raid-on-washington-post-reporter-was-the-first-of-its-kind-with-more-to-come.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:17:45

• "They are the first entries in Press Gazette’s new page for rolling updates on journalism industry redundancies and layoffs in 2026." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalism-job-cuts-in-2026-updates/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:18:15

• "to spread undivided the Science that operates unspent." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/From-the-Editors/2026/0116/A-newspaper-based-on-unshakable-ideals | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:19:21

• "Hannah Natanson’s reporting focused on exposing what is happening inside our federal government — a topic of immense public interest." ☛ https://www.freepress.net/download/press-freedom-and-civil-liberties-groups-condemn-government-invasion-washington-post | Source: Free Press    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:19:42

• "Yet, that’s what happened on Wednesday morning to Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/eff-condemns-fbi-search-washington-post-reporters-home | Source: EFF    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:20:04

• "posted her secure phone number to an online forum for government workers and amassed more than 1,000 sources, with federal workers frequently reaching out to her to share frustrations and accounts from their offices" ☛ https://thedissenter.org/trumps-war-on-journalism-officials-proudly-defend-raiding-a-journalists-home/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:20:30

• "Workers should never be subjected to vulgar language or behavior by anyone — including the President of the United States" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/01/15/ford-worker-who-called-trump-pedophile-protector-raises-440k-after-suspension.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:21:22

• "Writing in the New York Times, she puts the number at around 200 documented instances: [...]" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/16/trumps-free-speech-presidency-racked-up-200-censorship-attempts-in-its-first-year/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:22:10

• "Rights groups report thousands killed and more than 19,000 detained, with an ongoing Internet blackout limiting the flow of information out of the country." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-internet-blackout-protests-trump-deaths/33650664.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:22:23

• "There are several reasons why." ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/475361/minneapolis-right-wing-influencers-journalist-ice-reality-immigration-social-media-internet | Source: Vox    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:24:01

• "ideologically neutral" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/the-quiet-way-ai-normalizes-foreign-influence/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:24:15

• Strings attached to pyramid scheme. "The investment will support the foundation overall, with a particular focus on Python ecosystem security." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/experts-hail-anthropics-1-5m-python-security-commitment/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:24:57

• "Astro is used by major brands like IKEA, Unilever, Visa and OpenAI to build fast, content-driven websites." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/cloudflare-acquires-team-behind-open-source-framework-astro/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:25:14

• "Once a company hits a plateau in its market share, the pressure begins to mount." ☛ https://seths.blog/2026/01/the-squeeze/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:25:32

• "The office is already operational and will finalize a $115 million investment in counter-drone technologies this week, specifically targeting security for America250 celebrations and 2026 FIFA World Cup venues." ☛ https://www.thedronegirl.com/2026/01/16/dhs-counter-drone-office/ | Source: The Drone Girl    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:25:44

• "The new system replaces a form which travellers had to print and hand in at airports. From now on, information can be submitted electronically on the Toldstyrelsen website." ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20260116/denmark-introduces-new-system-for-travelling-to-country-with-cash | Source: The Local DK    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:26:26

• "According to his own description, once the birds mastered lifting and flipping objects to receive food" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/meet-man-training-army-crows-snatch-maga-hats-he-says-anyone-can-do-it-1771269 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:28:27

• "The city added multiple two-way protected bike lanes in the past seven years, the first being on William Street." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/ann-arbor/ann-arbor-completes-miller-avenue-improvements-project-adds-two-way-bikeways/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:29:01

• "Microsoft's CEO admitted GPUs are sitting in warehouses unplugged." ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2026/01/14/everwhat/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:29:39

• "$4.5 trillion valuation depends on infrastructure that does not exist."    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:29:53

• "From reading Huntley and Yegge’s posts, it seems like what happened was this: [...]" ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/gas-and-ralph/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:30:45

• "If you’re a typical American, you get home from work and start flipping switches and turning knobs — doing laundry, cooking dinner, watching TV." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/electric-vehicle/ev-charging/this-tech-could-keep-evs-from-stressing-the-grid-and-save-everyone-money/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:31:19

• "Stablecoins, cryptocurrencies typically pegged to the US dollar, allow funds to be moved outside traditional banking systems." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/visa-moves-to-plug-stablecoins-into-the-global-payments-system/276285/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:31:56

• "This additional capacity is expected to contribute to improved energy security, reduce reliance on fossil-fuel-based generation and support increased private-sector participation in electricity supply." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/big-solar-and-energy-storage-projects-going-live-across-south-africa/276314/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:32:09

• "The power plants drew the ire of local communities and legal organizations." ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/epa-rules-that-xais-natural-gas-generators-were-illegally-used/ | Source: TechCrunch    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:32:50

• "I’m surprised that 1) we still have an EPA and 2) that it ruled against xAI in this case." ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/01/xai-epa-memphis-southaven/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:33:20

• "But what actually arrived on December 19, the Friday before Christmas" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/01/the-epstein-files-never-went-away/685664/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:34:33

• "But there’s another staffing choice that became public in recent weeks." ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/16/epstein-is-dead-pam-bondi-is-neglecting-live-sex-trafficking-defendants-to-criminalize-democrats/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:34:50

• "While Trump was at the Ford Rouge plant, a worker yelled something at him that included the phrase “pedophile protector,” according to a video obtained by TMZ." ☛ https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2026/01/14/over-280000-raised-for-ford-worker-suspended-for-calling-trump-pedophile-protector/ | Source: Click On Detroit    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:35:21

• "Democratic election officials have criticized the data requests, calling them an unwarranted attempt by the Trump administration to exercise federal power over elections." ☛ https://alabamareflector.com/2026/01/16/repub/federal-courts-deny-trump-request-for-private-voter-data-in-2-states/ | Source: Alabama Reflector    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:36:58

• "The federal government tried to abuse their power to force me to break my oath of office and hand over your private data" ☛ https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/01/14/federal-judge-hears-arguments-over-trump-demands-for-oregon-voter-data/ |    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:37:12

• "I think we’re at a crisis point in this country, and our democracy is being tested, and we have issues that we have to work on" ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/student-government/u-s-rep-debbie-dingell-talks-federal-policy-higher-education-during-town-hall/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:37:33

• "That company, KoBold Metals, uses artificial intelligence to locate and extract rare earth minerals" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/billionaires-dreams-of-a-cryptostate-undergird-trumps-push-for-greenland/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:38:27

• "According to a May 2025 regulatory filing by Kobold’s former Greenland exploration partner 80 Mile Plc" ☛ https://www.forbes.com/sites/martinadilicosa/2026/01/09/these-billionaires-bet-big-on-greenland-after-trump-took-interest/ | Source: Forbes    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:38:50

• "to accelerate green energy innovation and build the industries of the future." ☛ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/from-jeff-bezos-to-bill-gates-billionaires-bet-on-greenland-as-trump-hints-at-taking-it-the-hard-way/articleshow/126470878.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:39:12

• "Silicon Valley oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen have much to gain from Donald Trump’s seizure of Greenland" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/01/trump-silicon-valley-greenland-crypto/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:39:36

• "KoBold Metals, the mining company backed by U.S. billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates" ☛ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/kobold-metals-backed-by-bezos-gates-secures-deal-disputed-congo-lithium-deposit-2025-07-18/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:39:53

• "Let’s be clear. The problem is not the protesters. It’s the armed thugs who are shooting and murdering them." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/americas-gestapo | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:40:27

• "Since 10 December 2025, anyone under 16 in Australia has not been able to create or maintain accounts on social media apps like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/stop-ignoring-social-media-ban/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:40:47

• "Companies are literally designing everything for addiction these days. Trying to get you hooked on whatever they can profit off of as early in your development as possible." ☛ https://blog.absurdpirate.com/is-gen-alpha-screwed/ |    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:41:25

• "Reading this as a father of a 1-year-old and a 3-year-old brings up a lot of reflections." ☛ https://afranca.com.br/is-gen-alpha-screwed/ | Source: Andre Franca    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:42:38

• "Let’s take Nato into European hands, or try to buy time in the hope that something will change in the United States" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20204533 | Source: YLE    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:42:52

• "We need to better protect children from social media." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/01/16/starmer-poised-to-ban-under-16s-from-social-media/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:43:01

• "How resource constrained? How about an HP-16C (Wikipedia), a programmable programmer’s calculator from over 30 years earlier?" ☛ https://dram.page/p/ascon-hp16c/ |    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:44:10

• "But there are problems with today’s smart glasses that remain unchanged from those that affected Google Glass." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/blog/media-reaction-smart-glasses/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:45:19

• Social Control Media: This framework has ideological, if not factual, consistency. ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/01/the-iranians-who-feel-betrayed-by-the-left/685644/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:46:22

• "Epic Games is making a big change to the rules for Fortnite creators just days after allowing them to publish experiences with in-game transactions." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/863597/fortnite-creators-steal-the-brainrot-prize-wheel-spins-block | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:46:40

• Outsourcing UK to GAFAM USA: "BBC Close To Agreeing Landmark Deal To Produce Shows For YouTube" ☛ https://deadline.com/2026/01/bbc-youtube-landmark-deal-1236684960/ | Source: Deadline    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:47:10

• "ripping artwork off the walls and eating it in a reported protest" ☛ https://www.uafsunstar.com/news/student-eats-ai-art-in-uaf-gallery-protest-arrested |    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:47:39

• "The use of generative AI for creative purposes has spawned a major countermovement." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/protestor-tears-ai-art-chews-teeth | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:48:29

• "A coalition of 28 digital rights organizations, led by UltraViolet, delivered nearly-identical letters to Apple's Tim Cook and Google's Sundar Pichai on Wednesday." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/15/apple_google_pulled_into_grok/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:49:02

• "And you know. It turns out I can deny it — if they can’t give numbers to back up their claims." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/13/if-ai-coding-is-so-good-where-are-the-performance-numbers/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:49:24

• "using the resources you have" ☛ https://cassidoo.co/post/good-brain/ | Source: Cassidy Williams    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:49:38

• "Olive oil, wasabi, saffron, vanilla, Wagyu, honey, champagne, and truffle,...reality TV, all hold examples of what happens when demand exceeds supply— companies fill the gap with slop" ☛ https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/slop-is-everywhere-for-those-with-eyes-to-see/ | Source: Jason Velazquez    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:50:07

• "There’s always going to be value in reading something longer that was researched and written by humans." ☛ https://www.manton.org/2026/01/16/ai-and-wikipedia.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:50:54

• "However, companies scraping high volumes of freely available Wikipedia knowledge for AI training has driven up server demand and, subsequently, costs at the non-profit" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/wikipedia-moves-to-monetise-ai-giants-reliance-on-its-content/276322/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 13:51:11

• "This is concerning in and of itself." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ais-child-porn-problem-getting-much-worse/685641/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:22:10

• "Misogyny, Manne argues, is often less about hating women outright than about policing and punishing their behavior." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/01/misogyny-renee-nicole-good-grok/685646/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:22:27

• "And the strategy is working." ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/eight-ways-ai-will-shape-geopolitics-in-2026/ | Source: Atlantic Council    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:22:44

• "There’s a good chance you have never heard of BLUVOYIX or Bluspark Global, and that’s ok!" ☛ https://eaton-works.com/2026/01/14/bluspark-bluvoyix-hack/ | Source: Eaton Works    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:23:35

• "Or, to put it another way, Gemini is worth to Apple roughly what a few months of default search placement in Safari are to Google, assuming these figures are in the right ballpark." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/apple-gemini-features/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:23:46

• "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://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260115203619 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:23:59

• "It’s been said before, but the “icons” of Apple’s Creator Studio apps are not doing their job as icons" ☛ https://lmika.org/2026/01/17/on-apples-icons-for-their.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:24:15

• "The threat actor uses a combination of tools in their post-compromise hands-on-keyboard operations, including Earthworm, Sharphound, DWAgent, and Certipy." ☛ https://blog.talosintelligence.com/uat-8837/ | Source: Threat Source    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:24:33

• "Works every time for me, and I am now certifiably weak. (But not too weak to type this.)" ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2026/01/16/how-to-be-old-lesson-1/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:25:05

• "US Chemical Safety Law" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/house-gop-bill-would-roll-back-key-protections-in-us-chemical-safety-law/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:25:19

• "The media love a crisis but ignore systemic problems." ☛ https://overpopulation-project.com/overpopulation-is-a-major-factor-in-global-mortality/ | Source: Overpopulation    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:25:31

• "Sometimes, people tell me that there is no more progress in CPU performance." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/01/14/how-stagnant-is-cpu-technology/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:25:51

• "I recently joined my local makerspace, and one of the exciting things there is this shelf of electronic components, available for all members to use: [...]" ☛ https://www.blog.montgomerie.net/posts/2026-01-13-rescuing-the-makerspaces-vintage-microcontrollers/ | Source: Jamie Montgomerie    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:26:11

• "When you understand how it works, that ambiguity is translated into frustration." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/the-dyson-hair-dryer/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:26:28

• "It all comes down to Lenovo’s new “Space Frame” interior design, which overhauls the X1's internals to create more room for improved thermal performance" ☛ https://au.pcmag.com/laptops/115174/i-tried-the-slick-new-thinkpad-x1-carbon-gen-14-its-lenovos-most-repairable-ultraportable-yet | Source: PC Mag    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:27:08

• "If you haven’t seen any of the CES keynotes or announcements this year, or indeed any of the commentary" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/a-repairable-thinkpad/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:27:19

• "The math of data structures helps us understand how different storage systems come with different trade-offs between time, memory, and other resources." ☛ https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-theres-no-single-best-way-to-store-information-20260116/ | Source: Quanta Magazine    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:27:31

• "Featuring a multicamera view, it can operate in a variety of confined spaces and also climb stairs." ☛ https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-military/2026/01/16/us-navy-marines-to-get-l3harris-robots-for-bomb-disposal-missions/ | Source: USMC    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:27:45

• "The U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy have sealed a deal with L3Harris Technologies for 34 large T7 robots to support the services in explosive ordnance disposal missions." ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/news/your-military/2026/01/16/us-navy-marines-to-get-l3harris-robots-for-bomb-disposal-missions/ | Source: C4ISRNET    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:27:57

• "I start my degree in art history at the Open University in under two weeks." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/01/15/getting-ready-for-studying | Source: James G    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:29:30

• "Turns out that a big factor in my motivation to actually do things relied on me having a paying job to keep me busy." ☛ https://mtwb.blog/posts/2026/motivation/lacking-job-lacking-motivation/ | Source: Matthew Weber    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:29:43

• "Other essential tools languish in neglect, artifacts of the old, good web – the elegant weapons that dominated a more civilized age. First among these?" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/16/interrupt-driven/#ping | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:30:07

• "This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Yancey Strickler, whose blog can be found at ystrickler.com." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/interview/yancey-strickler | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:31:35

• "Dependencies aren't created deliberately. They happen." ☛ https://makoism.com/when-it-falls-over/ | Source: Makoism    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:32:00

• "beneficial role that education technology and connectivity play in K-12 learning." ☛ https://www.ala.org/news/2026/01/ala-leading-education-organizations-highlight-value-technology-learning-senate | Source: American Library Association    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:33:06

• "It's not every day that one of my open problems is solved, especially one that I asked about over three decades ago." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/01/rational-functions-solved.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:34:45

• "I recently finished reading “Science Under Siege” by Michael Mann and Peter Hotez." ☛ https://smist08.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/review-of-science-under-siege/ | Source: Stephen Smith    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:35:11

• "The goal of the project, called SETI@home, was to trawl through data collected by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico for signs of unusual radio signals from the cosmos." ☛ https://futurism.com/space/network-home-computers-100-alien-signals | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:36:09

• "on this date." ☛ https://austinkleon.com/2026/01/16/the-wheel-of-the-blog/ | Source: Austin Kleon    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:37:44

• "The topic of this month’s IndieWeb Carnival is the meaning of life." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/01/16/nature | Source: James G    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:38:04

• "Here's what we're doing to change it." ☛ https://www.ystrickler.com/the-2026-a-corp-annual-letter/ |    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:38:22

• "At some point someone decided it would be a good idea to put such things as passwords and API keys into environment variables." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/01/17/env-leak.gmi    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:43:50

• 🔤SpellBinding — CEHIVSO Wordo: GRAZE gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2026-01-17.gmi    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:44:31

• 🖼️ xkcd — International Station #3195 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3195.gmi    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:44:54

• Idiots, idiots everywhere! gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~np89/glog/20260117-idiots_idiots_everywhere.txt "for complaining that Win software didn't work perfectly on Linux Mint."    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:46:07

• Slow computing gopher://jonsharp.net:70/0/gl2/01-16-2026-Slow-computing.md    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:48:01

• "I’m pleasantly surprised at how ubiquitous Markdown has become, though strangely it’s still not built into WordPress." ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/01/15/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:53:26

• "As part of my 2026 learning goals around Java on RISC-V (see this post about x86 versus ARM versus RISC-V)" ☛ https://webtechie.be/post/2026-01-16-first-test-visionfive-java/ | Source: Frank Delporte    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:54:25

• "In this article, we’ll take an honest look at Bash scripting in 2026: what skills are still essential, what practices are outdated" ☛ https://coderlegion.com/9807/bash-scripting-in-2026-what-still-matters-and-what-doesnt |    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:54:56

• "This is the first article in a series about the markup language RakuDoc." ☛ https://coderlegion.com/9768/rakudoc-more-than-just-a-documentation-markup |    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 14:55:29

• [Old] "Given a k-ary tree, determine whether it is symmetric." ☛ https://bruceediger.com/posts/dfuds/ |    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:03:29

• "In the previous post, we added channels to Co, the small language we are implementing in this series of posts." ☛ https://abhinavsarkar.net/posts/implementing-co-5/?mtm_campaign=feed | Source: Abhinav Sarkar    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:03:39

• "Why is that? I had never really needed to know. Such facts were enough for all of the programs and work I’ve done. And so I decided I wanted to find out." ☛ https://agentultra.com/blog/taking-things-apart/index.html | Source: J Kenneth King    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:03:54

• "Instead, we will send a script to each node so that it can fork its own cores to run the simulation." ☛ https://www.kenkoonwong.com/blog/parallel-computing/ | Source: Ken Koon Wong    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:04:23

• "If the feature works, then great; I can refine it further to make sure it is as good as it can be and then release it to everybody." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/rapid-iteration-in-the-modern-coding-world/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:04:35

• "It has come to my attention that the corpus of my public work has been scraped and used to train Large Language Models (LLMs)" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/llm-licencing/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:05:59

• "The materialist response isn't to reject the new technology. It's to evolve our licenses to encompass it." ☛ https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/01/histomat-foss-llm/ |    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:06:08

• "The ROS-Industrial Developers’ Meeting provided updates on open-source robotics tools, with a focus on advancements in Tesseract, Helping developers still using MoveIt2" ☛ https://rosindustrial.org/news/2026/1/16/first-ros-i-developers-meeting-looks-at-upcoming-releases-and-collaboration | Source: ROS Industrial    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:08:17

• "I say dense. Because massive success would make it sound large. And it wasn’t a large event. 150 attendees, with speakers and volunteers we were around 200 in total." ☛ https://underjord.io/goatmire-2-announced.html | Source: Lars Wikman    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:08:26

• "In principle, a static site generator is a good idea: They automatically populate your homepage, index pages and RSS feeds, making it impossible to forget anything." ☛ https://maurycyz.com/misc/new_ssg/ | Source: Maury    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:10:53

• "It was originally about Mozilla becoming an advertising company but it could as easily have been about Mozilla becoming an AI company or about Mozilla going all in on cryptocurrency" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/01/kitten-meat-deli-slices/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:11:22

• "Fast-forward to 2025. After tons of practice, I felt much more capable. Code did feel more like putty." ☛ https://evanhahn.com/i-set-all-376-vim-options-and-im-still-a-fool/ | Source: Evan Hahn    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:12:46

• "It needs some cooling, but I’m too cheap to buy a properly designed heat sink for it." ☛ https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2026/01/16/worst-media-server/ | Source: Herman Õunapuu    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:13:04

• "The latest Mint – 22.3 – was officially released on Tuesday. Downloads were available a few days before the announcement, but we thought it was better to wait until it was official. All three editions of Linux Mint – Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce – have been updated. The project used to publish separate announcements, "What's new", and release notes documents for each edition; for Mint 21.2 we resorted to a table to include all 12 links. No more. Now, there's one unified New Features page and a single all-embracing set of Release Notes." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/linux_mint_223_zena_officially_release/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:13:46

• "The latest Mint – 22.3 – was officially released on Tuesday. Downloads were available a few days before the announcement, but we thought it was better to wait until it was official."    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:14:11

• "All three editions of Linux Mint – Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce – have been updated. The project used to publish separate announcements, "What's new", and release notes documents for each edition; for Mint 21.2 we resorted to a table to include all 12 links.    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:14:17

• "As covered in the ip link manual page, network interfaces can have either or both of aliases and 'altname' properties." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/NetworkInterfaceNameLengthLimit | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:14:55

• "Security-minded people are right to be suspicious about what is going on here." ☛ https://danielpocock.com/en/ray-dassen-debian-gnome-red-hat-unexplained-deaths/ | Source: Daniel Pocock    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:15:17

• "I’ve always enjoyed the idea of having a portable, lightweight, 11 inch laptop for my personal use for around the house and small trips." ☛ https://btxx.org/posts/asus-openbsd/ | Source: Brad Taunt    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:15:58

• "Seasoned networkers will know to tell you that legacy IPv4 and modern IPv6 are, in fact, not directly compatible, and shipping traffic between IPv4 and IPv6 networks" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260116085115 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:16:06

• "You’ll need a text editor (any will do) and a browser (you already have one)." ☛ https://maurycyz.com/tutorials/website/ | Source: Maury    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:19:41

• "Given how awkward this is (and that not everything accepts or sees altnames)" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdNetworkdVirtualAltnames | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:19:56

• "That's okay, but I would argue that in most cases you want your popovers aligned closely with the button that controls them." ☛ https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2026/better-defaults-for-popovers | Source: Manuel Matuzović    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:20:08

• "And we dig into Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, after it started generating sexualised images of women and children" ☛ https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-450/ | Source: Graham Cluley    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:20:44

• "The status reaches “Completed”." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/empowering-federated-learning-multicluster-management | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:21:18

• The "Alicante Mafia" - Part III - Europe's Second-Largest Organisation on Strike, Protests, Other Industrial Actions to Come Impacting Over 95% of the Workforce (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/17/The_Alicante_Mafia_Part_III_Europe_s_Second_Largest_Organisatio.shtml    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:21:59

• "This tutorial will explain detailed procedures to install Debian 13 GNU/Linux "Trixie" with GNOME graphical user interface into a PC or a laptop." ☛ https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2026/01/how-to-install-debian-13-gnulinux-trixie-with-dualboot-method-uefi-and-external-disk-storage.html | Source: Ubuntubuzz    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:23:10

• "The below featured highlights listed on the community’s blog feed aggregator are from Jan. 9 to Jan. 15" ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/01/16/planet-roundup/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:24:37

• "The Watchdog HAT supports a wide range of rechargeable battery chemistries, including Lithium-Ion, Lithium-Polymer, Lithium-Phosphate (Li3PO4), Lithium-Iron-Phosphate (LiFePO4)" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/sequent-microsystems-multichemistry-watchdog-hat-adds-ups-support-for-raspberry-pi/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:25:39

• "The AI HAT+ 2 is based on the Hailo-10H neural network accelerator, delivering up to 40 TOPS of INT4 inferencing performance." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/raspberry-pi-ai-hat-2-enables-generative-ai-on-raspberry-pi-5/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:26:01

• "The CM0 NANO is based on the Raspberry Pi CM0, which integrates a 1 GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A53 processor." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/edatec-cm0-nano-combines-raspberry-pi-cm0-with-full-i-o-in-a-small-sbc/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:26:31

• This Week in Plasma: dark mode switch and global push-to-talk ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/17/this-week-in-plasma-dark-mode-switch-and-global-push-to-talk/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:27:08

• Kentaro Hayashi: Budgie Desktop 10.10 is out, but not for me yet :( ☞ https://kenhys.hatenablog.jp/entry/2026/01/16/213649    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:27:31

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

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:30:28

• The Journey of auditing UYUNI ☞ https://security.opensuse.org/2026/01/16/the-journey-of-auditing-uyuni.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:31:35

• Picture: Nu det NUUK! Viral kasket revet ned fra hylderne https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/groenland/nu-det-nuuk-viral-kasket-revet-ned-fra-hylderne    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:38:33

• Blocked by gratuitous javascript: https://officialnudetnuuk.com/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:38:39

• What Is ‘Metabolic Health,’ and Why Does It Matter? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/well/metabolic-health.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:51:30

• NHS to launch new online hospital service ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/nhs-to-launch-new-online-hospital-service-a4hL10S21NqK    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:51:44

• Doctor Says Convicted Felon Appears to Be Showing Signs of a Stroke ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/doctor-trump-stroke-aging    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:52:01

• Ex-South Korean Leader Gets Prison Term in First Ruling Over Martial Law ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/world/asia/south-korea-yoon-prison-martial-law.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:52:16

• South Korea’s ex-president Yoon given 5-year jail term in first ruling over martial law ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-court-sentences-ex-president-yoon-to-5-years-in-prison-for-obstruction    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:52:31

• South Korea to streamline procedures for entry of North Korean food products ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-to-streamline-procedures-for-entry-of-north-korean-food-products    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:53:43

• Explainer: What to know about trials faced by South Korea’s former president Yoon ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/explainer-what-to-know-about-trials-faced-by-south-koreas-former-president-yoon    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:53:58

• S. Korea’s ‘Thor’ Speaker pushing for constitutional reforms to avoid another martial law debacle ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-koreas-thor-speaker-to-visit-singapore-hopes-to-further-solidify-partnership    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:54:24

• Malaysia freezes army and police procurement decisions linked to corruption, PM says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-freezes-army-and-police-procurement-decisions-linked-to-corruption-pm-says    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:55:44

• Malaysian actress Nadia Kesuma reported missing after arriving in Jeddah ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-actress-nadia-kesuma-reported-missing-after-arriving-in-jeddah    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 15:56:06

• Microsoft did NOT deny this! https://www.eteknix.com/microsoft-could-lay-off-thousands-of-employees-in-january-xbox-division-also-affected/ it might be delayed a bit    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 16:42:48

• on crony capitalism   

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 17:27:04

• on crony capitalism https://sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickled-each-others-brains    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 17:27:13

• the "bros" are f--king over our movement http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/17/Why_Rust_Is_Bad.shtml    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 17:36:40

• iophk: "They did a lot of damage over the decades before Rust, too. Some of it's on purpose. Some of it, however, is just a side effect of people being regular people aka raging assholes."    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 17:38:42

• Swiss JuristGate: Luzern Lion Monument, Albanian Female Whistleblowers: Swiss jurists were cowards ☞ https://juristgate.com/en/luzern-lion-monument-albanian-female-whistleblowers-swiss-jurists-cowards/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 17:51:38

• Actors Trademarking Themselves ☞ https://heathermeeker.com/2026/01/16/actors-trademarking-themselves/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 17:52:29

• Why open standards are extremely beneficial to end users ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/01/16/why-open-standards-are-beneficial-to-end-users/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 17:52:47

• GNOME 50 Alpha: "Entirely Removes X11" ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/gnome-50-alpha-entirely-removes-x11    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 17:54:21

• How To Install Nginx with Let’s Encrypt SSL on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-nginx-with-lets-encrypt-ssl-fedora-43/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 17:56:38

• How to Install Git on CentOS Stream (10, 9) ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-git-on-centos-stream/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 17:56:58

• How to Install PostgreSQL 17 on Ubuntu (26.04, 24.04, 22.04) ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-postgresql-17-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 17:57:08

• How to Install MariaDB on Arch GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-mariadb-on-arch-linux/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 17:57:19

• Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the Hey Hi (AI) Industry to Its Core ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-industry-recall-copyright-books    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:03:05

• Matthew McConaughey Is Using a Clever Legal Trick to Bludgeon Hey Hi (AI) Companies ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/matthew-mcconaughey-ai-copyright    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:03:23

• ‘It’s not an apocalypse yet’: How Kyiv survives winter without heating and electricity ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2808218/it-s-not-an-apocalypse-yet-how-kyiv-survives-winter-without-heating-and-electricity    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:03:41

• TTABlog Test: Is BLACK SWAN for Vodka Confusable with BLACK SWAN for Wine? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2026/01/ttablog-test-is-black-swan-for-vodka.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:04:09

• Teenage Son Of Kremlin-Backed Chechen Leader Hospitalized After Car Accident, Sources Say ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/chechnya-kadyrov-russia-car-accident/33651448.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:04:24

• Russia: successive snowstorms engulf far eastern region of Kamchatka ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260116-russia-successive-snowstorms-engul-far-eastern-region-of-kamchatka    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:04:35

• In Other News: FortiSIEM Flaw Exploited, Sean Plankey Renominated, Russia’s Polish Grid Attack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-fortisiem-flaw-exploited-sean-plankey-renominated-russias-polish-grid-attack/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:04:55

• Disgraced Saeima deputy sentenced again to 8 years for spying for Russia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/16.01.2026-disgraced-saeima-deputy-sentenced-again-to-8-years-for-spying-for-russia.a630272/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:05:16

• Russian Strikes Force Kyiv Schools to Close Amid Rolling Blackouts ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/world/europe/ukraine-blackouts-kyiv-school-closure.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:05:32

• Antiwar Russians in Europe Learn That They Must Watch Their Words ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/world/europe/leonid-volkov-lithuania.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:05:46

• Their power grid under attack, Ukrainians struggle with a long, cold winter ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0116/ukraine-energy-power-outage-russia-war-electricity-missile-attacks    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:05:57

• Ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Tymoshenko Avoids Detention On Bribery Charges ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-tymoshenko-detention-bail-bribery-charges/33650701.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:06:09

• Lithuania charges six suspects with ‘terrorism’ for targeting Ukraine military aid ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2808132/lithuania-charges-six-suspects-with-terrorism-for-targeting-ukraine-military-aid    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:06:21

• Hydrogen-powered UAV enters Ukrainian combat operations ☞ https://www.h2-view.com/story/hydrogen-powered-uav-enters-ukrainian-combat-operations/2136658.article/?utm_source=gw&utm_medium=rss_feed&utm_campaign=rss    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:06:36

• Ukrainians brave winter cold as Russia targets energy infrastructure ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/ukrainians-brave-winter-cold-as-russia-targets-energy-infrastructure    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:06:56

• As Rīga gets new electric buses, old ones will be donated to Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/16.01.2026-as-riga-gets-new-electric-buses-old-ones-will-be-donated-to-ukraine.a630255/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:07:08

• The Sahel’s journey from France to Wagner ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/security/national-security/the-sahels-journey-from-france-to-wagner/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:07:27

• Gedit Technology blog: gedit 49.0 released ☞ https://gedit-text-editor.org/blog/2026-01-16-gedit-49-0.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:08:46

• Spidermonkey Development Blog: Flipping Responsibility for Jobs in SpiderMonkey ☞ https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2026/01/15/job-responsibility.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:10:13

• This Week in GNOME: #232 Upcoming Deadlines ☞ https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/01/twig-232/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:11:39

• Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2026-01-16 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2026/01/16/gnome-foundation-update-2026-01-16/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:12:23

• The Tinderbox Ignites: Supreme Court to Decide Whether Generic Equivalence Statements Constitute Inducement ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/01/equivalence-statements-constitute.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:13:23

• UPC is illegal. This is a kangaroo court tied to a corrupt patent office run by cocaine addicts. ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/aorticlab-fends-off-infringement-suit-by-us-competitor-emboline/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:14:03

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Threat to Invoke the Insurrection Act, Explained ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/trumps-threat-to-invoke-the-insurrection-act-explained    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:14:26

• Are you being left in the dark by your bank? ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/are-you-being-left-in-the-dark-by-your-bank-a9DY54j5J0Rd    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:14:58

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSpdlog 0.0.26 on CRAN: Another Microfix ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/01/16#rcppspdlog_0.0.26    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:15:59

• I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool ☞ https://evanhahn.com/i-set-all-376-vim-options-and-im-still-a-fool/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:16:31

• Jonathan Dowland: Ye Gods ☞ https://jmtd.net/log/ye_gods/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:17:05

• KDE Ni! OS – Plasma Login Manager now available ☞ https://cukic.co/2026/01/16/kde-ni-os-plasma-login-manager-available    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:17:52

• Civilians flee Kurdish-held region in northern Syria ahead of army deadline ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/civilians-flee-kurdish-held-region-in-northern-syria-ahead-of-army-deadline    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:18:09

• 11 Interesting ESP32 Microcontroller Projects Beginners Can Try ☞ https://itsfoss.com/esp32-microcontroller-projects/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:18:28

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

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:19:38

• Fedora Community Blog: Community Update – Week 03 2026 ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/community-update-week-03-2026/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:20:14

• LLM Compressor 0.9.0: Attention quantization, MXFP4 support, and more ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/16/llm-compressor-090-attention-quantization-mxfp4-support-and-more    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:20:33

• Your Questions Answered: Where We Are on Hey Hi (AI) Regulation, and Where We Go From Here ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/your-questions-answered-where-we-are-on-ai-regulation-and-where-we-go-from-here    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:21:12

• Flock CEO Goes Ballistic on Critics as More Americans Question Mass Driver Surveillance ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/flock-ceo-goes-ballistic    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:21:51

• Anon: The broligarchs pushing for the takeover of Greenland don't take any negative heat for it and will keep using their catspaw. It's worrisome situation, especially if it takes troops away from Bornholm etc The tariffs are slowly but surely making the US economically irrelevant to the rest of the world    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:24:09

• Canada, China reach initial trade deal on electric vehicles, canola ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/canada-china-set-for-historic-gains-from-new-partnership-carney-says    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:24:42

• China protests over Philippine coast guard’s Pooh-tin images ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/china-protests-over-philippine-coast-guards-xi-images    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:25:11

• Fraudsters flee Cambodia’s ‘scam city’ after extradition of accused boss Chen Zhi to China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/fraudsters-flee-cambodias-scam-city-after-accused-boss-taken-down    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:25:27

• Carney moves to ease Canada-China trade frictions under US shadow ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/carney-moves-to-ease-canada-china-trade-frictions-under-us-shadow    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:25:44

• China acting like North Korea now ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/16/china-protests-over-philippine-coast-guards-president-xi-images/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:26:26

• No Link Between Acetaminophen in Pregnancy and Autism, a New Study Finds ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/health/tylenol-autism-acetaminophen-study.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:26:52

• Nia DaCosta Injects New Blood Into “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-current-cinema/nia-dacosta-injects-new-blood-into-28-years-later-the-bone-temple    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:27:13

• Returning Soon? A Home Front in the U.S. Fight Against Foreign Tech Regulations ☞ https://project-disco.org/competition/returning-soon-a-home-front-in-the-u-s-fight-against-foreign-tech-regulations/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:27:45

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Administration Says It’s Not Canceling Tuskegee-Style Medical Study That Will Withhold Hepatitis Vaccine From Newborns ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/trump-rfk-africa-vaccines    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:28:54

• A Hidden Brain Signal Can Predict Alzheimer's Years Before Diagnosis ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-hidden-brain-signal-can-predict-alzheimers-years-before-diagnosis    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:29:10

• World-First Ice Vault Is Preserving Earth's Climate History ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/world-first-ice-vault-is-preserving-earths-climate-history    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:29:39

• Scientists Found a Sugar That's Sweet, Low-Calorie, And Doesn't Spike Insulin ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-found-a-sugar-thats-sweet-low-calorie-and-doesnt-spike-insulin    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:29:51

• Superagers Have at Least Two Key Genetic Advantages, Study Reveals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/superagers-have-at-least-two-key-genetic-advantages-study-reveals    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:30:05

• Earth's Flipping Magnetic Field Heard as a Sound Is an Unnerving Horror ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-flipping-magnetic-field-heard-as-a-sound-is-an-unnerving-horror    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:30:20

• 2-Million-Year-Old Fossil May Be The Oldest Example of an Early Human ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-2-million-year-old-fossil-may-be-the-oldest-example-of-an-early-human    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:31:33

• Scientists Figured Out a Standard Measure For Cannabis Use ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-figured-out-a-standard-measure-for-cannabis-use    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:32:10

• Takeaway Coffees May Contain Thousands of Microplastic Fragments, Study Warns ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/takeaway-coffees-may-contain-thousands-of-microplastic-fragments-study-warns    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:32:20

• Live: Iran death toll tops 3,000, yet another rights group says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260117-live-iran-protests-death-toll-tops-3-000-rights-group-ayatollah-khamenei-trump-crackdown    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:32:41

• Bobi Wine, Ugandan Opposition Leader, Was Abducted, His Party Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/world/africa/uganda-bobi-wine-abduction.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:32:52

• Battles Over Truth Rage Online Amid Iran’s Internet Blackout ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/business/iran-internet-blackout-protests-disinformation.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:33:06

• Death toll in Iran protests over 3,000, rights group says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/death-toll-in-iran-protests-over-3000-rights-group-says    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:33:27

• HRW 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 Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:33:56

• Iran: An uprising and a massacre, The Greenland narrative, Preventing WWIII ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-world-this-week/20260116-iran-an-uprising-and-a-massacre-the-greenland-narrative-preventing-wwiii    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:34:25

• Dihydroxyacetone Man and States Aim to Stop Hey Hi (AI) From Inflating Energy Bills ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/business/trump-ai-electricity-costs.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:36:49

• Nvidia China market share to drastically decrease from 66% to 8% ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-china-market-share-to-drastically-decrease-from-66-percent-to-8-percent-analysts-claim-export-curbs-and-homegrown-success-to-blame http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/28/Circular_Financing_in_NVidia_NVidia_Pays_Its_Clients_to_Buy_Fro.shtml    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:37:30

• Executions Spiked in 2025, but the Death Penalty Is Still Losing Ground ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/capital-punishment/executions-spiked-in-2025-but-the-death-penalty-is-still-losing-ground    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:38:02

• AI Data Centers Pushing Electric Grid Into Meltdown ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-data-centers-electric-grid-meltdown    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:39:02

• Calvin Harris Wins $13.5 Million Payout In Legal Battle Against Ex-Manager—Though Another $12 Million Remains Under Dispute ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/01/15/calvin-harris-ex-manager-lawsuit-win/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:39:53

• Federal court dismisses Convicted Felon DOJ lawsuit seeking California voter data ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/federal-court-dismisses-trump-doj-lawsuit-seeking-california-voter-data/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:40:33

• Does Convicted Felon need to ‘own’ Greenland to build his Golden Dome missile shield? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260117-does-trump-need-own-greenland-to-build-his-golden-dome-missile-shield    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:44:02

• “Epstein Is Dead:” Pam Bondi Is Neglecting Live Sex Trafficking Prosecutions to Criminalize Democrats ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/16/epstein-is-dead-pam-bondi-is-neglecting-live-sex-trafficking-defendants-to-criminalize-democrats/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:44:46

• Live Blog: Internet Blackout Continues As Security Forces Bolster Presence Across Iran ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protests-live-blog-trump-khamenei/33640284.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:45:15

• Carlsberg… probably not the best cybersecurity in the world ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/carlsberg-probably-not-the-best-cybersecurity-in-the-world/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:45:58

• Greenland’s security and defence cooperation with NATO allies 'achievable within existing framework' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260116-greenland-s-security-and-defence-cooperation-with-nato-allies-achievable-within-existing-framework-1    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:46:24

• 'Victims of a slaughter: Iranian people have been rising up for decades against the Islamic regime' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/victims-of-a-slaughter-iranian-people-rising-up-for-decades-now-against-the-islamic-regime    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:46:52

• Feature: Somalia at risk of becoming a Jihadist state ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/security/national-security/feature-somalia-at-risk-of-becoming-a-jihadist-state/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:47:27

• It is only "evil slave labour" when NK and China do it... ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-prisoners-make-12000-license-plates-a-day-and-1-31-per-hour/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:48:30

• Cisco Patches Vulnerability Exploited by Chinese Hackers ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-patches-vulnerability-exploited-by-chinese-hackers/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:49:30

• Cybersecurity Firms React to China’s Reported Software Ban ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cybersecurity-firms-react-to-chinas-reported-software-ban/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:49:54

• 750,000 Impacted by Data Breach at Canadian Investment Watchdog ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/750000-impacted-by-data-breach-at-canadian-investment-watchdog/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:50:12

• Cronkit – make cron jobs human-readable ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cronkit-cron-jobs-human-readable/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:51:29

• Dupster – duplicate file finder ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dupster-duplicate-file-finder/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:51:38

• Remi Collet: ⚙️ PHP version 8.3.30, 8.4.17, and 8.5.2 ☞ https://blog.remirepo.net/post/2026/01/16/PHP-version-8.3.30-8.4.17-8.5.2    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:53:23

• Linux Candy: Fractal Art – desktop wallpaper generator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-candy-fractal-art-desktop-wallpaper-generator/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:54:32

• parqeye – visualize parquet files ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/parqeye-visualize-parquet-files/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:54:42

• rip – fuzzy find and kill processes ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rip-fuzzy-find-kill-processes/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:54:55

• "I guess Norway will lose Svalbard very soon"    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:55:36

• Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/3 ☞ https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2026/01/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2026-3/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:56:37

• Security updates for Friday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1054683/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:57:03

• runa – terminal file browser ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/runa-terminal-file-browser/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:57:54

• claws – TUI for proprietary trap AWS resource management ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/claws-tui-aws-resource-management/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:58:06

• crepe – grep-like search tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/crepe-grep-like-search-tool/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:58:19

• 16 Best Free and Open Source Orthodox GNU/Linux File Managers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/orthodoxfilemanagers/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:58:52

• More People Nowadays Say "GNU/Linux" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/16/More_People_Nowadays_Say_GNU_Linux.shtml    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:59:11

• LLM Slop on the Web is Waning, But Linuxiac Has Become a Slopfarm ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/16/LLM_Slop_on_the_Web_is_Waning_But_Linuxiac_Has_Become_a_Slopfar.shtml    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 18:59:21

• New GNU/Linux Malware Targets Cloud-Based GNU/Linux Installations ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/New-Linux-Malware-Targets-Cloud-Based-Linux-Installations    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:00:15

• Linux Mint 22.3 Now Available with New Tools ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-Mint-22.3-Now-Available-with-New-Tools    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:00:28

• NVIDIA 590 being Made Available for Ubuntu 22.04|24.04|25.10 ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/01/nvidia-590-being-made-available-for-ubuntu-22-0424-0425-10/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:02:17

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

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:02:30

• GIMP works without WINE and without an oppressive licence https://www.phoronix.com/news/Adobe-Photoshop-2025-Wine-Patch    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:03:37

• Matěj Cepl: Rant about the current state of OpenSSL ☞ https://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/rant-about-the-current-state-of-openssl.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:05:26

• ATZ GNU/Linux 12.13.1 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/atz    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:06:04

• Record Traffic in Geminispace or Over Gemini Protocol ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/17/Record_Traffic_in_Geminispace_or_Over_Gemini_Protocol.shtml    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:07:37

• Android Power Users Can Now Run Full Desktop GNU/Linux Environments Without Root Access ☞ https://itsfoss.com/local-desktop/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:08:25

• This domain is still propping up scams https://linuxbsdos.com/2026/01/15/harden-ethereum-kernel-for-mass-adoption/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:09:56

• Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.4 Improves Handling for Files Larger Than 4GB ☞ https://9to5linux.com/raspberry-pi-imager-2-0-4-improves-handling-for-files-larger-than-4gb    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:10:52

• PipeWire 1.4.10 Backports Filter-Graph Channel Support and Fixes More Bugs ☞ https://9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-4-10-backports-filter-graph-channel-support-and-fixes-more-bugs    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:11:02

• Fedora Games Lab Spin to Switch from Xfce to KDE Plasma with Fedora GNU/Linux 44 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/fedora-games-lab-spin-to-switch-from-xfce-to-kde-plasma-with-fedora-linux-44    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:11:13

• GNOME 50 Alpha Finally Released for Testing Purpose ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/01/gnome-50-alpha-finally-released-for-testing-purpose/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:12:24

• Voyager 26.04-alpha4 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/voyager    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:12:38

• Canonical as salespeople of .NET ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/dotnet-10-0-1-update-ubuntu-24-04-lts https://techrights.org/o/2023/05/30/mark-shuttleworth-microsoft/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:13:37

• Tomasz Torcz: Fashion Company Apple knows better (how big it is) ☞ https://enotty.pipebreaker.pl/posts/2026/01/apple-knows-better-how-big-it-is/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:14:19

• IBM Was Never the Good Guy ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/16/IBM_Was_Never_the_Good_Guy.shtml    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:14:31

• Google News Poisons Its Own Index With More Slopfarms (Including "filmogaz") (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/16/Google_News_Poisons_Its_Own_Index_With_More_Slopfarms_Including.shtml    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:14:45

• Five US publishers sue Surveillance Giant Google over ‘deceptive and manipulative’ adtech practices ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/five-us-publishers-sue-google-over-deceptive-and-manipulative-adtech-practices/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:15:12

• WhisperPair Attack Leaves Millions of Audio Accessories Open to Hijacking ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/whisperpair-attack-leaves-millions-of-bluetooth-accessories-open-to-hijacking/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:15:33

• Canada Strikes Tariffs Deal With China, as Carney Looks to Diversify From U.S. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/world/canada/canada-slash-tariffs-chinese-evs.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:15:58

• US strikes deal with Taiwan to cut tariffs, boost chip investment ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-says-reached-deal-with-taiwan-to-lower-tariffs-boost-investments    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:16:17

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Venezuela strike: The good, bad and the ugly ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/trumps-venezuela-strike-the-good-bad-the-ugly    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:16:33

• US strikes deal with Taiwan to cut tariffs, boost chip investment ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/17/us-strikes-deal-with-taiwan-to-cut-tariffs-boost-chip-investment/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:17:26

• Qt Quick for Android - Qt 6.9 and 6.10 ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-quick-for-android-qt-6.9-and-6.10    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:18:09

• Meet the New dotConnect for PostgreSQL Release ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/meet-the-new-dotconnect-for-postgresql-release-3206/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:18:48

• credcheck v4.4 has been released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/credcheck-v44-has-been-released-3212/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:19:16

• Dihydroxyacetone Man's world: India and EU draw closer ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/access-asia/20260116-trump-s-world-india-and-eu-draw-closer    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:20:07

• msft crap, -1 https://dan.langille.org/2026/01/16/nagios03-2/\    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:21:30

• You Might Not Know This, but Your NAS Might Be a Good Docker Server ☞ https://thenewstack.io/you-might-not-know-this-but-your-nas-might-be-a-good-docker-server/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:22:08

• Nagios03 ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2026/01/16/nagios03-2/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:23:13

• Jetway P150CDN1 – A 15-inch Alder Lake-N fanless industrial panel PC with 8 USB ports for kiosk and HMI ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/16/jetway-p150cdn1-a-15-inch-alder-lake-n-fanless-industrial-panel-pc-with-8-usb-ports-for-kiosk-and-hmi/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:23:42

• Connecting to the world through a Monitor lens ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/From-the-Editors/2026/0116/Connecting-to-the-world-through-a-Monitor-lens    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:24:12

• Dying, drowning in debt https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/16/openai-start-testing-chatgpt-ads-across-free-go-tiers/ ttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/technology/chatgpt-ads-openai.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:24:57

• How to Install Remi RPM on CentOS Stream (10, 9) ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-remi-rpm-on-centos-stream/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:25:50

• US-Europe standoff on Greenland 'a big win for Putin': Danish parliament defence chair ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/talking-europe/20260116-us-europe-standoff-on-greenland-a-big-win-for-putin-danish-parliament-defence-chair    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:26:31

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

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:27:10

• Detentions, deportations, death: Canada’s border service acts in tandem with ICE ☞ https://breachmedia.ca/ice-canadas-border-service-detentions-deportations-death/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:27:37

• Scandals, divorce, graft probe: What led to the downfall of this Insta-famous Indonesian governor? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/from-instagram-fame-to-political-fall-indonesias-internet-governor-in-the-spotlight    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:28:02

• ‘Good-looking’ babies smuggled via Jakarta into Singapore, where adoptive parents paid over $20,000 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/good-looking-babies-smuggled-via-jakarta-into-singapore-where-adoptive-parents-paid-over-20k    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:28:31

• NanoPC-T6 Plus Rockchip RK3588 SBC switches from LPDDR4x to LPDDR5 (up to 32GB) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/16/nanopc-t6-plus-rockchip-rk3588-sbc-switches-from-lpddr4x-to-lpddr5-up-to-32gb/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:29:22

• XIAO ESP32-C5 – A tiny USB-C IoT board with dual-band WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.0 LE, Zigbee, and Thread connectivity ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/16/xiao-esp32-c5-a-tiny-usb-c-iot-board-with-dual-band-wifi-6-bluetooth-5-0-le-zigbee-and-thread-connectivity/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:31:25

• Tablet-like, ESP32-P4-based 7, 8, and 10.1-inch HMI displays integrate Wi-Fi 6 connectivity, 5MP camera ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/17/tablet-like-esp32-p4-based-7-8-and-10-1-inch-hmi-displays-integrate-wi-fi-6-connectivity-5mp-camera/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:31:40

• Explainer: Hong Kong’s national security crackdown – month 66 ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/17/explainer-hong-kongs-national-security-crackdown-month-66/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:32:17

• China, Canada reach ‘landmark’ deal on tariffs, visas ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/16/china-canada-reach-landmark-deal-on-tariffs-visas/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:33:17

• Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/podcasts/jonathan-haidt-strikes-again-what-you-vibecoded-an-update-on-the-forkiverse.html “If we can’t win on social control media, then we definitely can’t win on A.I.,” says Haidt    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:34:36

• A Conservative Critiques Convicted Felon’s First Year ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-yuval-levin.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:35:04

• A Stark Warning About the 2026 Election, with Robert Kagan ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/a-stark-warning-about-the-2026-election-with-robert-kagan    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:35:21

• Origami Linux’s COSMIC Desktop on Fedora Atomic Almost Wins Me Over ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/01/origami-linux-cosmic-desktop/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:36:06

• "Newer kernel, newer Cinnamon, new tools, and even new icons" https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/linux_mint_223_zena_officially_release/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:40:20

• But the back doors cannot be removed https://itsfoss.com/local-desktop/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:44:11

• 3 cool and handy Linux apps to try this weekend (January 16 - 18) https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-to-try-this-weekend-january-16/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:44:33

• "This Linux distribution can compete with any lightweight OS on the market." https://www.zdnet.com/article/tromjaro-is-what-happens-when-a-group-of-developers-with-a-big-conscience-create-an-os/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:45:56

• 4 Fedora-based Linux distributions that are better than Fedora https://www.howtogeek.com/fedora-based-linux-distributions-that-are-better-than-the-original/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:46:29

• This new premium Linux laptop has up to 128GB RAM and 16TB storage https://www.howtogeek.com/this-new-premium-linux-laptop-has-up-to-128gb-ram-and-16tb-storage/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:46:54

• "What is EndeavourOS? A Linux distribution based on Arch-Linux. It's as close as possible to a vanilla Arch install, but makes things a lot simpler to get going. A distribution aimed at more intermediate Linux users." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/endeavouros-linux-gets-an-upgraded-release-with-ganymede-neo/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:47:17

• Fedora Games Lab Spin to Switch from Xfce to KDE Plasma with Fedora Linux 44 https://9to5linux.com/fedora-games-lab-spin-to-switch-from-xfce-to-kde-plasma-with-fedora-linux-44    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:47:37

• "Ganymede is fast, beautiful, stable, and relatively simple to use." https://www.zdnet.com/article/endeavoros-offers-a-new-release-with-a-beautiful-look-and-a-game-changing-feature/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:48:22

• We May Be Able To Install Adobe Software On Steam Deck Soon https://steamdeckhq.com/news/adobe-software-linux-fix-soon/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:49:28

• Why 2026 might bring more Linux desktops to the enterprise https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterprisedesktop/feature/Why-2026-might-bring-more-Linux-desktops-to-the-enterprise    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:50:02

• "In my opinion, there is no real "wrong answer" when picking out your very first Linux distro. Yes, some options are more difficult to set up, more niche, and may confuse a newcomer more than other distros, but if someone really has their mind set on a specific one" https://www.xda-developers.com/the-best-arch-linux-disto-for-beginners-just-got-even-easier-to-set-up/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:50:39

• "The Opera GX team has announced that it is "working on" a native Linux version of the web browser. Opera GX was launched back in June 2019 as a web browser for gamers. At first, it was only available for Windows users, but a macOS version followed in December that year." https://www.neowin.net/news/opera-gx-is-finally-making-its-to-way-to-linux/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:51:00

• Indomitus Group Launches indiPDF, a Professional PDF Editor for Linux https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/01/15/3219964/0/en/Indomitus-Group-Launches-indiPDF-a-Professional-PDF-Editor-for-Linux.html    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:51:22

• I boosted my old laptop’s battery life by switching to this power-efficient Linux distro https://www.makeuseof.com/boosted-old-laptop-battery-switching-to-power-efficient-linux-distro/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:52:55

• "Starting with this release, the NVIDIA proprietary drivers have been switched to nvidia-open due to the upstream changes to NVIDIA drivers." https://9to5linux.com/endeavouros-ganymede-neo-rolls-out-with-linux-kernel-6-18-lts-and-kde-plasma-6-5-4    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:53:49

• This old-school Linux distro is a nightmare to use today https://www.xda-developers.com/i-used-a-modern-fork-of-a-linux-de-from-the-90s/    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 19:54:05

• "it sounds like you’re the racist sc*m here." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ked3sgr0    

posted Saturday, January 17, 2026 at 20:14:31

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