Roy Schestowitz

• "I'm sleeping deeply for the first time in more than a decade. Have had several opportunities come my way but honestly I'm not ready to jump into anything yet. I almost feel like I'm trying to heal up from an abusive relationship and need some time to get my head back on straight before jumping into the next chapter of my life." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kewqfc9k    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 02:46:47

• "Two weeks in to 2026 and things have been quiet, if not busy. My first week back at work was awful with so many things coming up at once, but I think the dust has mostly settled now." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/nm03/2026/JAN2026/entry-1    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 03:07:00

• "This weekend we were supposed to be looking after a friend's dog. The dog is a corgi, a barker (maybe that goes without saying), easily startled, and, once it starts barking, takes forever to stop." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/1-17.gmi    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 03:07:44

• "I keep saying I would like to come back here and write updates more often, but then I never do it. Yet I know this is something I would like to do, so I will make the time and put more effort into it." gemini://melyanna.net/2026-01-17--in-and-out-jan-2026    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 03:08:28

• "When executing long-running jobs in the terminal, it's useful to get notified when they complete so you can do other things while waiting. Here are a few ways to achieve this." gemini://gmi.karl.berlin/terminal-notifications.gmi    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 03:09:21

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-01-18.gmi    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 03:11:07

• "Hey y'all, in 2026, lets not start a conversation with someone we've never met with "where are you from?" and then try guessing where they're from when the person doesn't want to answer." gemini://gem.saayaa.space/gemlog/2026-01-17-lets-not.gmi    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 03:12:12

• Environmental Sanity gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/01/18/env-sanity.gmi    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 03:12:48

• "What a night... Junior was seemingly hit with some incarnation of a nasty gastrointestinal bug and spend the bigger part of the night vomiting." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ralfwause/phlog/170126.txt    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 03:13:47

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1539.jpg    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 03:14:20

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1889.jpg    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 03:14:26

• "There's been two songs I can remember in the past twenty years or so that have gotten so violently enmeshed in my emotions that I can hardly bear to listen to them. I don't think they're anything more than pretty good songs on their own, but the associations have felt extreme." gemini://koneida.com/unfiltered.gmi    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 03:15:29

• "You're quoting the Gospel of Stallman while the temple is burning. Stallman talked about the cost of distribution; I'm talking about the cost of creation." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46663625    

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

• "Richard Stallman didn’t follow the majority to invent free software (GNU), insisting that users deserve freedom over their own computers." https://stacker.news/items/1413595    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 04:05:20

• wild pigeon https://theconversation.com/what-ive-learned-from-studying-the-wild-pigeon-269116    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 04:31:38

• Greenland to be plundered by nazis in USA? https://theconversation.com/greenland-is-rich-in-natural-resources-a-geologist-explains-why-273022    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 04:32:28

• Chemistry https://theconversation.com/chemistry-is-stuck-in-the-dark-ages-chemputation-can-bring-it-into-the-digital-world-272610"    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 04:32:51

• Deforestation https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-10/brazil-soy-industrys-exit-from-moratorium-on-using-amazon-land-could-spur-deforestation    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 04:33:28

• How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets https://theconversation.com/how-astronomers-plan-to-detect-the-signatures-of-alien-life-in-the-atmospheres-of-distant-planets-272821    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 04:36:28

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

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 04:37:16

• Marlin Racing https://blogs.perl.org/users/toby_inkster/2026/01/marlin-racing.html    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 04:37:35

• Taking the Win - Perl in the TIOBE Index https://blogs.perl.org/users/dean/2026/01/taking-the-win---perl-in-the-tiobe-index.html "There has been much to say about Perl improving in TIOBE during 2025 and ending in the top 10 which is roughly where things were around 2016."    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 04:38:37

• "Trump raises taxes on Americans again" https://birchtree.me/blog/trump-raises-taxes-on-americans-again/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 09:54:43

• "The Stupidest Trump Move So Far - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-stupidest-trump-move-so-far    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 09:55:20

• "Trump's Ego Hit Hard by Nicolas Maduro Copying His Dance Moves, Mocking Him, Biographer Claims" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trumps-ego-hit-hard-nicolas-maduro-copying-his-dance-moves-mocking-him-biographer-claims-1771714    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 09:55:42

• "Can Congress rein in Trump on Greenland?" https://www.vox.com/podcasts/475490/trump-greenland-congress-war-powers    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 09:55:55

• "This Is Not Solidarity. It Is Predation." https://www.thenation.com/article/world/iran-protests-violence-repression-israel/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 09:56:16

• "Trump’s Billion-Dollar Board of Peace" https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/01/trump-billion-dollar-board-of-peace/685671/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 09:58:58

• "The US and NATO can avoid catastrophe over Greenland and emerge stronger. Here’s how." https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/the-us-and-nato-can-avoid-catastrophe-over-greenland-and-emerge-stronger-heres-how/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 09:59:19

• "UK must show backbone and publicly reject Trump's 'brutish manipulation tactic' on Greenland, say Greens - Green Party" https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/01/17/trump-tariffs-greenland/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 09:59:41

• "Voiding International Agreements Can Have Awkward Consequences" https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/17/voiding-international-agreements-can-have-awkward-consequences/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:00:09

• ""In terms of the libertarian bent, those intentional political actors like Peter Thiel were very intentional about it. They created their own media ecosystem. They created Substack — they, meaning Andreessen Horowitz is a big investor — and paid to have content on there that would drive users to their own media. They took over culture." https://sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickled-each-others-brains    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:00:32

• "Congress, Not the President, Sets Taxes—Including Tariffs" https://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/congress-not-the-president-sets-taxes-including-tariffs/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:00:52

• "Trump's Tariffs Are Illegal | Brennan Center for Justice" https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trumps-tariffs-are-illegal    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:01:05

• "The American people deserve an explanation on how the president of the United States on April 2 last year announced the largest tariff package in modern history with no action by Congress." https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2026/bamboozled-what-made-anyone-think-trump-tariffs-were-legal    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:01:46

• "It is not the province of the president to set tariffs. This is entirely within Congress's power. It is true that the Congress has delegated the power to the president to use tariffs for certain limited purposes, but very selectively, and hedged with strict conditions." https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2026/bamboozled-what-made-anyone-think-trump-tariffs-were-legal    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:02:00

• "Attorneys for entertainment law firm Yorn Levine representing McConaughey have secured eight trademarks from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office over the last several months for their client, which they said is aimed at protecting his voice and likeness from unauthorized AI misuse." ☛ https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/matthew-mcconaughey-trademarks-alright-alright-alright-ai-misuse-1236631214/ | Source: Variety    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:18:52

• "The Oscar winner intends to combat misuse of the famous line from Dazed and Confused by creating ‘a clear perimeter around ownership’" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/15/matthew-mcconaughey-trademarks-all-right-all-right-all-right-catchphrase-in-bid-to-beat-ai-fakes | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:19:05

• "Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey has trademarked his image and voice to protect them from unauthorised use by artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. " ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp87z6vexl3o | Source: BBC    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:19:19

• "AI deepfakes are one of the great societal growing pains of our time. They distort reality, hijack individual currency for entertainment and public humiliation, and could cost people who make a living off their face or voice serious money." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/01/16/matthew-mcconaughey-combats-ai-by-trademarking-his-image-and-voice.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:19:41

• "His lawyer, Kevin Yorn, admits that they don’t know how the court would decide if an offender challenges the trademarks." ☛ https://www.engadget.com/ai/matthew-mcconaughey-fights-unauthorized-ai-likenesses-by-trademarking-himself-130000567.html | Source: Engadget    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:20:09

• "The truth is none of this litigation would have occurred if Prince were still alive" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/apollonia-prince-purple-rain-estate-trademark-war-1235500926/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:21:06

• "Now the problem is that, while it's easy enough to find a leaked patent and diagrams, all that really tells us is that someone at Insta360 also had the idea" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/action-cameras/massive-patent-leak-suggests-insta360-is-planning-to-take-out-djis-dominant-osmo-pocket-3-vlogging-camera | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:21:47

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/3030240/m5-pro-max-macbook-pro-performance-speed-graphics-configurations.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:22:06

• "Representative Jay Obernolte (R-CA), who has a pilot’s license, brought up the topic during the House Communications and Technology Subcommittee FCC oversight hearing." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/congressman-says-carriers-could-help-pay-for-airplane-retrofits/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:22:31

• Just because Linus Torvalds vibe codes doesn't mean it's a good idea https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/linus_torvalds_vibe_coding/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/13/Not_Journalism_Almost_80_of_the_Articles_We_Saw_About_Torvalds_.shtml    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:23:52

• "broken through with voters" ☛ https://newrepublic.com/article/205293/joe-rogan-harsh-new-takedown-trump-ice-raids-hands-dems-weapon | Source: New Republic    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:25:18

• "New polling released this week by The Economist and YouGov confirmed support for ICE is rapidly eroding" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ice-deportation-solutions-1235500814/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:26:03

• "Then a decade later a very rich demagogue named Ross Perot got into politics in the 1990s." ☛ https://soylentnews.org/~mcgrew/journal/20092 | Source: Soylent News    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:26:23

• "The nationwide [Internet] shutdown, which began on Thursday night, January 8, passed the 200-hour mark on the twenty-first day and continues." ☛ https://www.en-hrana.org/day-twenty-one-of-the-protests-islamic-republics-leader-acknowledges-thousands-killed-as-internet-shutdown-continues/ | Source: Human rights Activists News Agency    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:33:49

• "With all this happening, we’ve posted a new know-your rights FAQ for U.S. citizens" ☛ https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/01/16/know-your-rights-as-a-u-s-citizen/ | Source: Papers Please    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:34:03

• "Crackdowns against anti-government protesters have led to at least 2,600 deaths, although some estimates put the death toll at upward of 20,000. According to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, more than 18,000 protesters have been arrested." ☛ https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/475567/iran-protests-starlink-satellites-space-human-rights | Source: Vox    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:36:04

• "TSK remains the leading source of information for its readers at 75%, in the face of growing competition from The Brief (28%) and Journalology (28%)." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/16/2025-readership-survey/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:37:01

• "In previously unreported remarks, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News that Mr. Trump would “sue” the news outlet if it did not air an interview unedited." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/business/media/cbs-news-trump-interview.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:37:13

• "Precise information is difficult to come by, but estimates suggest between 95 and 99% of the country's communication network — from mobile phone and [Internet] signals to landline telephones — has been blocked since Friday." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/iran-protests-internet-communication-blackout-social-media/a-75487555 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:38:07

• "into a communication black hole under the looming dominance of the Khatam al-Anbia base" ☛ https://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-regime-plans-to-permanently-cut-people-off-from-internet-watchdog/ | Source: The Times Of Israel    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:40:50

• "We have entered a new era where connectivity is no longer a right, but a government-granted privilege." ☛ https://filter.watch/english/2026/01/15/iran-enters-a-new-age-of-digital-isolation-2/ |    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:41:15

• "State media and government spokespersons have already signaled that this is a permanent shift, warning that unrestricted access will not return after 2026." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/17/iran-plans-permanent-break-from-global-internet-say-activists | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:41:33

• "The Taliban have banned music, persecuted artists and burned or smashed instruments, both in the 1990s and since reclaiming power in 2021." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/world/asia/afghan-music-taliban-pakistan-deportations.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:41:47

• "It can be assumed that Iranian intelligence services will increase their persecution abroad, partly due to current events" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/how-dangerous-are-iranian-secret-services-in-germany/a-75538204 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:42:15

• "In two recent polls, a majority of U.S. adults said they use social media to get health information." ☛ https://www.minnpost.com/fact-briefs/2026/01/do-the-majority-of-americans-use-social-media-to-get-health-information/ | Source: MinnPost    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:45:45

• "Without a clear way to make sure those two don’t overlap, we knew what would happen: people would pay twice." ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/01/zimra-digital-services-tax-problems/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:47:38

• "My research as a political scientist suggests an overlooked factor explains why some people engage with their communities while others tune out: local patriotism" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-01-sour-politics-people-hometowns.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:48:02

• "The sanctions on Khan hampered the work of the court, and he found that not only were his UK bank accounts frozen" ☛ https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/every-data-centre-is-a-u-s-military-base/ | Source: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:48:16

• "Every Data Centre Is a U.S. Military Base" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/data-centres-us-military/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:48:52

• "The effect this had on Ireland is…mixed. The Irish state is thoroughly captured by the corporations that pretend to call Ireland home." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/erin-lets-go/#circumvention-haven | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:49:06

• "The previously ‌unreported system ‌follows a year-long pilot in Europe." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/tiktok-to-tighten-age-checks-in-europe-as-regulators-ramp-up-pressure/articleshow/126561744.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:50:53

• "It makes me think that maybe DHS was a bad idea." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/dhs-homeland-security-ice-minnesota/685657/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:51:42

• "Mayor Zohran Mamdani was facing an early test on a delicate matter." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/nyregion/mamdani-hamas-protest.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:52:07

• "First of all it is good to have such a database in Europe to become more and more independent of things hosted in the US." ☛ https://blog.alteholz.eu/2026/01/european-vulnerabilities-database-a-blessing-or-a-curse/ | Source: Thorsten Alteholz    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:52:19

• "You might be happy having zero kids and lots of free time and money, but I got to show my teenage granddaughter Predator for the very first time last night and that's worth a whole Ferrari, easy. Note: she gasped audibly when Jesse Ventura died." https://x.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/2012584442829918488    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:57:15

• "What should someone do in a situation like this?" ☛ https://nbtv.substack.com/p/they-asked-for-my-cell-number-i-dont |    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 10:59:20

• Windows TCO ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20204930 | Source: YLE    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 11:00:02

• "But not all of this slop was purely for the purposes of misinformation, or misguided efforts to expose Ross." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/renee-good-ice-ai-slop-1235500180/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

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

• "This doesn’t mean Workday intended HiredScore to discriminate. But machine learning systems are notorious for being trained on data that’s horribly biased, then implementing the bias." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/16/workday-sued-for-ai-powered-hiring-discrimination/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 11:02:57

• "The question I had before — how are the bots evading the honeytrap on the form? — remains unanswered but for now is not relevant. I have plenty of others." ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/under-the-hammer | Source: Jeremy Cherfas    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 11:27:18

• "In the coming weeks, we're also planning to start testing ads in the US for the free and Go tiers, so more people can benefit from our tools with fewer usage limits or without having to pay" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/17/openai_chatgpt_ads/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 11:27:28

• "Large language models have become extremely good at mimicking human writing. Even they have a hard time identifying AI-written text" ☛ https://www.the-scientist.com/why-is-it-so-hard-to-tell-if-a-piece-of-text-was-written-by-ai-73948 | Source: LabX Media Group    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:07:25

• Banana Pi’s BPI-CM6 compute module runs on SpacemiT K1 RISC-V processor ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/banana-pis-bpi-cm6-compute-module-runs-on-spacemit-k1-risc-v-processor/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:09:13

• "Yep. They just don’t care. If it means cases get tossed because sworn statements have been AI auto-penned, so be it." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/16/report-says-ai-that-hallucinated-a-cop-into-a-frog-is-making-utah-streets-safer/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:09:41

• "But even if we’ve moved past the heyday of whole-language reading" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/english-teaching-methods/685632/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:09:59

• "The internet and its social web have been an attention-grabbing machine since they came into being. We have had our focus and brain power leached away online for decades. So why the recent revulsion?" ☛ https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/01/16/Computers-Closing-In/ | Source: The Tyee    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:10:18

• "The system also focuses on being able to ride through power outages. The server side, called piotserver, uses a REST API to give the user access to the automation systems through a web interface" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/16/diy-full-stack-farm-automation/ | Source: Hackaday    

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

• "It was amusing to read the theories people came up with: from driving a tractor up and down massive tracts of land to being holed up in a Kaczynskiesque cabin in the woods." ☛ https://dylan.gr/1768295794 |    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:11:30

• "To be clear, I’m not saying there isn’t plenty to be outraged about in the world. I am also not for a moment suggesting you turn your back on important issues. I’m saying that overreacting is not where our power lies. Rather it exists potentially in underreacting." ☛ https://time.com/7177835/the-art-of-protecting-your-peace-essay/ | Source: Time    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:13:08

• "But as of late, a number of media reports have described people experiencing psychotic symptoms in which ChatGPT features prominently." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/should-we-be-taking-reports-of-ai-psychosis-seriously-an-expert-explains | Source: Science Alert    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:13:57

• "The kids are five and seven, so they aren’t quite ready for the heavy-hitters — Scrabble, Cribbage, Settlers of Catan — but all-ages classics like Uno and Guess Who are suddenly right up their alley." ☛ https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/01/16/Screens-Gone-Family-Games/ | Source: The Tyee    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:14:08

• "As for the model that [MattKC] purchased, it was this earliest model, featuring a 700 MHz PowerPC G4 CPU in addition to 640 MB SDRAM." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/17/the-emac-using-apples-forgotten-educational-mac-in-2025/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:19:45

• Google seeks stay as it appeals US search monopoly verdict https://www.firstpost.com/tech/google-seeks-stay-as-it-appeals-us-search-monopoly-verdict-13969889.html/amp    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:21:33

• "Software is a domain of mostly invisible knowledge work. It’s hard to see progress, quality or risks in the way that you can with building bridges or running a factory." ☛ https://medium.com/feenk/rewilding-software-engineering-ca3ad1e612d8 | Source: Medium    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:39:21

• "I think the entire DevOps movement was a mighty, twenty year battle to achieve one thing: a single feedback loop connecting devs with prod. On those grounds, it failed." ☛ https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/you-had-one-job-why-twenty-years-of-devops-has-failed-to-do-it |    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:39:36

• "As a telco person, it resonated with me so much (and had so many touch points with my daily life) that I was even accused of tipping Adams off about some of the absurdities I witnessed in the field." ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2026/01/17/1210 | Source: Rui Carmo    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:39:47

• "But as with every joke, there’s more than a kernel of truth to it. We often get so busy with stuff that we’ve got to do, that we don’t leave enough time to slack, to get bored, or to simply do nothing." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/17/get-bored/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:40:02

• "Pnet’s analysis of the IT sector focused on eight roles including business analyst, data analyst and IT project administrator. The full list is detailed in the table below: [...]" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/south-africa-is-running-out-of-developers/276334/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:41:22

• "You should never[1] name a new species of an existing dinosaur genus. Here’s why. Suppose you have two genera, A and B, which are sister taxa in your phylogeny: [...]" ☛ https://svpow.com/2026/01/16/never-name-a-new-species-of-an-existing-dinosaur-genus/ | Source: Matt Wedel    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:43:53

• "What is the meaning of my life?” I haven’t really been able to figure out why we don’t talk about this more often." ☛ https://kedara.eu/meaning-of-life/ | Source: Ruben Verweij    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:44:25

• "But now, particularly with digital output, we’re doing it backwards. Making lots of stuff and then sorting it later. There’s very little cost to making more, and it’s getting more and more time-consuming to find what we’re looking for." ☛ https://seths.blog/2026/01/the-sorting-feels-obvious/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:44:41

• "To my utter amazement, the security guard opened the front door" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/street-photography/im-sick-and-tired-of-being-told-to-stop-taking-photos-on-the-street-so-i-was-flabbergasted-when-a-security-guard-did-this | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:44:57

• Firefox down to 1.6% https://analytics.usa.gov    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:50:01

• "Lockfiles record which packages were installed, at what versions, from where, with what checksums." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/17/lockfile-format-design-and-tradeoffs.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:50:43

• "In this situation, the library you’re calling is a binary dependency of your program." ☛ https://vlad.website/how-binary-dependencies-work/ | Source: Vlad-Stefan Harbuz    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:50:56

• "But yes, today I merged my 20,000th commit into the curl repository – out of a total of 37,604 commits (53%). Not that anyone is counting." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/17/my-first-20000-curl-commits/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:51:13

• "command line tool needs an account with admin privileges" ☛ https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/enabling-a-standard-user-account-to-access-the-unified-system-log-on-macos-using-the-log-command-line-tool/ | Source: Rich Trouton    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:51:54

• "When executing long-running jobs in the terminal, it's useful to get notified when they complete so you can do other things while waiting" ☛ https://www.karl.berlin/terminal-notifications.html | Source: Karl Bartel    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:52:24

• "Since Java 22, there is a new approach called the Foreign Function & Memory API in java.lang.foreign. Let me go through step by step." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/01/17/a-new-way-to-call-c-from-java-how-fast-is-it/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 12:53:05

• "RSS remains the best, most noise-free way to keep track of most things I care about, and at one point I peaked at 300+ feeds." ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/01/17/2130 | Source: Rui Carmo    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 13:46:50

• "The first release shipping with this change will be curl 8.19.0." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/17/more-http-3-focus-one-backend-less/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 13:47:07

• "Wireshark is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education." ☛ https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.6.3.html | Source: Wireshark    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 13:51:03

• "It turns out that I didn’t hate 3D printing, I just hated my Ender" ☛ https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/3dprinting2025/3dprinting2025.html | Source: John Calhoun    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 13:51:58

• "Aside from the parts that are obviously on Google servers, this is all integrated in [Jesse]’s Home Assistant server. That server stores the generated image until the ESP32 fetches it." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/17/the-cutest-weather-forecast-on-e-ink-and-esp32/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 13:52:11

• "As noted in the Shelly documentation for the device, it’s a very compact form factor device, with screw terminals, two relays, and three fairly large electrolytic capacitors sharing very little space with the rest of the components." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/17/the-shelly-2-5-smart-relay-design-flaw-killing-capacitors/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 13:52:28

• "An enterprising engineer has turned an old parking meter into a jukebox using a Pi Zero 2 and some open source code." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/parking_meter_jukebox/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 13:53:37

• "At some point BodgeOS has become an actually usable system. Now I have WiFi and networking working I've been using it as my main development system for a bit." ☛ https://blog.brixit.nl/bodgeos-pt-6/ | Source: Martijn Braam    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 13:54:10

• "Now, let's go ahead and get the grumbling out of the way. No, the ANS is not running Linux or NetBSD." ☛ https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/05/harpoom-of-course-apple-network-server.html | Source: Old VCR    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 13:55:49

• "Part of something I want to learn this year is getting a little more into parallel computing." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/01/setting-up-a-cluster-of-tiny-pcs-for-parallel-computing-a-note-to-myself/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 13:56:31

• "Here’s a list of good long-format podcasts: [...]" ☛ https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-good-long-form-podcasts/ | Source: GreyCoder    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 13:57:46

• "After 23 years being a loyal Gandi.net customer, I decided to move away after the insane price increase Gandi applied in the past years." ☛ https://www.ncartron.org/ive-migrated-my-domain-to-mythic-beasts.html | Source: Nico Cartron    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 13:58:26

• Proton Experimental brings updates for MonoGame, Rockstar Launcher and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/proton-experimental-brings-updates-for-monogame-rockstar-launcher-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/proton-experimental-brings-updates-for-monogame-rockstar-launcher-and-more/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 13:59:15

• "The platform is shown with Jetson Thor T5000 or T4000 modules, offering up to 2070 TFLOPS of compute performance." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/axiomtek-previews-jetson-thor-t5000-t4000-developer-kit-for-robotics-systems/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 13:59:57

• Valve tweak Steam AI disclosure form for developers to clarify it's for content consumed by players | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/valve-tweak-steam-ai-disclosure-form-for-developers-to-clarify-its-for-content-consumed-by-players/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/valve-tweak-steam-ai-disclosure-form-for-developers-to-clarify-its-for-content-consumed-by-players/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:01:00

• Encouraging people to use slop is very naughty and undesirable ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/ubuntu-ai-document-editing-onlyoffice-ollama/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:01:34

• Valve tweak Steam slop disclosure form for developers to clarify it's for content consumed by players | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/valve-tweak-steam-ai-disclosure-form-for-developers-to-clarify-its-for-content-consumed-by-players/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:01:55

• GNU/Linux up in Bahrain https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/bahrain/#monthly-200902-202601 compare to https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/12/Windows_12_in_Bahrain_Microsoft_Market_Share_Down_to_12_an_All_.shtml    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:20:16

• Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits for second week of jan 2026 ☞ https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2026/01/17/misc-fedora-bits-for-second-week-of-jan-2026/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:20:35

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

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:21:36

• GNU/Linux still up (6%) http://techrights.org/n/2024/05/28/In_Benin_Microsoft_s_Windows_Fell_Below_10_GNU_Linux_Surged_to_.shtml http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/09/GNU_Linux_Rose_to_6_in_Benin_Says_statCounter.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/13/Windows_Falls_to_Single_Digit_Market_Share_in_Benin.shtml    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:23:07

• UN Committee finds Australia breached torture convention for detention of Iran asylum seeker ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/un-committee-finds-australia-breached-torture-convention-for-detention-of-iran-asylum-seeker/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:35:51

• My first 20,000 curl commits ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/17/my-first-20000-curl-commits/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:36:36

• Transitous Hack Weekend January 2025 ☞ https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/01/17/transitous-hack-weekend-january-2026.html    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:37:51

• Simon Josefsson: Backup of S3 Objects Using rsnapshot ☞ https://blog.josefsson.org/2026/01/18/backup-of-s3-objects-using-rsnapshot/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:38:46

• Pedophile Epstein: I will protect you as long as you do what I tell you. Pedophile protector: I will only protect your country as long as you do what the US tells you to do. Break this racket. Dump GAFAM et al.    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:40:05

• And many EU nations now suck up to the person who wishes to invade the EU, as the protection racket (e.g. against Russia) is at stake.    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:40:52

• Joel Primack, Physicist Who Helped Explain the Cosmos, Dies at 80 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/science/joel-primack-dead.html    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:50:26

• Artemis II Moon Mission: NASA Completes Giant Rocket’s Slow Ride to Launchpad ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/science/nasa-artemis-ii-rocket-moon.html    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:50:45

• Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human Body Because of a Severe Error ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/microplastics-studies-human-body-error    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:51:07

• Latest high-tech Japanese toilets can check health via stool analysis ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/latest-high-tech-japanese-toilets-can-check-health-via-stool-analysis    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:51:30

• Scientists Preparing to Simulate Human Brain on Supercomputer ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/simulate-human-brain-supercomputer    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:51:59

• 3 Policy Moves Likely to Change Health Care for Older People ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/health/nursing-homes-health-aides-medicare.html    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:52:37

• Poor nutrition during pregnancy causing ‘brain stunting’ in Filipino children: Health Secretary ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/poor-nutrition-during-pregnancy-causing-filipino-kids-brain-stunting-health-department    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:52:47

• South Korea reports first African swine fever case in 2 months ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-reports-first-african-swine-fever-case-in-2-months    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:52:59

• South Korea says US chip tariff to have limited immediate impact ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-says-us-chip-tariff-to-have-limited-immediate-impact    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:54:39

• Foreign maids under South Korea’s pilot project overworked, underpaid: Poll ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/foreign-maids-under-south-koreas-pilot-project-overworked-underpaid-poll    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:54:55

• Dubai chewy cookie craze in South Korea raises health concerns, experts warn ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/dubai-chewy-cookie-craze-raises-health-concerns-experts-warn    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 14:55:25

• Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to five years in prison on obstruction charges ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/former-south-korean-president-yoon-suk-yeol-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison-on-obstruction-charges/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:03:12

• Malaysia police launch manhunt for duo who allegedly shot man at Penang car wash ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-police-launch-manhunt-for-duo-who-allegedly-shot-man-at-penang-car-wash    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:03:28

• Missing Malaysian actress Nadia Kesuma dies in Saudi Arabia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/missing-malaysian-actress-nadia-kesuma-dies-in-saudi-arabia and a WP journalist just disappeared after "leaving" the consulate    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:04:34

• Mr. Carney Goes to Beijing ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/world/canada/carney-china-trade-tariffs.html    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:07:26

• Taiwan says Chinese drone made ‘provocative’ flight over South China Sea island ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-says-chinese-drone-made-provocative-flight-over-south-china-sea-island    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:07:51

• Canada announces trade deal with China on EVs, canola ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260117-canada-announces-trade-deal-with-china-on-evs-canola-1    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:10:05

• Dihydroxyacetone Man's erratic trade policies are pushing US partners towards China ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260117-trump-erratic-trade-policies-pushing-us-partners-towards-china    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:10:18

• 1984 yet? Hot New App Makes Single People Check in Constantly in Case They Die Alone ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/singles-dead-china-app    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:11:05

• This Week in Science: a Mammoth Mistake, Redhead Superpowers, And More! ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-week-in-science-a-mammoth-mistake-redhead-superpowers-and-more    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:12:17

• Mysterious Underwater 'Atlantis' Is Like a Lost City in The Ocean ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-underwater-atlantis-is-like-a-lost-city-in-the-ocean    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:12:34

• Ah, that explains SO much ;-) ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/study-confirms-why-some-people-get-drunk-without-touching-alcohol    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:13:09

• This Popular Celebrity Workout Actually Has Science to Back It ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-popular-celebrity-workout-actually-has-science-to-back-it    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:13:28

• Live Blog: Convicted Felon: Khamenei Responsible For 'Violence At Levels Never Seen Before' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protests-live-blog-trump-khamenei/33640284.html    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:13:46

• EXCLUSIVE: Hong Kong’s dwindling LGBTQ funding scheme mainly goes to groups with no ties to community ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/18/exclusive-hong-kongs-dwindling-lgbtq-funding-scheme-mainly-goes-to-groups-with-no-ties-to-community/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:15:03

• If You Use Hey Hi (AI) Chatbots to Follow the News, You’re Basically Injecting Severe Poison Directly Into Your Brain ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatbot-ai-news-journalism    

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

• Scientists Now Studying Hey Hi (AI) as a Novel Biological Organism ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-novel-biological-organism    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:15:57

• New Study Finds Hey Hi (AI) in Schools Is Undermining Kids’ Social and Intellectual Development ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-schools-kids-study    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:16:15

• Mother of MElon’s Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mother-elon-musk-sues-x-grok    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:16:41

• China bids to host secretariat of new high seas treaty days after Convicted Felon withdraws US from 66 global orgs ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/17/china-bids-to-host-secretariat-of-new-high-seas-treaty-days-after-trump-withdraws-us-from-66-global-orgs/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:17:25

• Automation Impediment ☞ https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-17-automation-impediment.en.html    

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

• Ravi Dwivedi: My experiences in Brunei ☞ https://ravidwivedi.in/posts/brunei/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:19:47

• Set Swap Memory of Raspberry PI ☞ https://peppe8o.com/raspberry-pi-swap-memory/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:20:43

• Google’s Hey Hi (AI) Insists That Next Year Is Not 2027 ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-year    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:21:27

• Wikipedia is now 25 years old — world’s 7th most popular website now has over 7 million English articles and 7 billion monthly visitors ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/wikipedia-is-now-25-years-old-worlds-7th-most-popular-website-now-has-over-7-million-english-articles-and-7-billion-monthly-visitors    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:21:51

• Jonathan Dowland: Honest Jon's lightly-used Starships ☞ https://jmtd.net/log/no_mans_sky/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:23:18

• Volleyball Analytics with R: The Complete Guide to Match Data, Sideout Efficiency, Serve Pressure, Heatmaps, and Predictive Models ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/01/volleyball-analytics-with-r-the-complete-guide-to-match-data-sideout-efficiency-serve-pressure-heatmaps-and-predictive-models/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:24:21

• yt-x – browse YouTube from the terminal ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/yt-x-browse-youtube-terminal/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:25:02

• Heavy rains in eastern Australia spark flash floods, 20 rescued ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/heavy-rains-in-eastern-australia-spark-flash-floods-20-rescued    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:25:33

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

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:25:50

• 14 Best Command-Line File Managers for GNU/Linux in 2026 ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/linux-terminal-file-managers/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:26:16

• How to Install FFmpeg on Debian (13, 12, 11) ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-ffmpeg-on-debian-linux/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:26:51

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

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:27:24

• How To Install Fail2Ban on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-fail2ban-fedora-43/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:27:54

• Microsoft Lunduke Keeps Distracting From the Real Problems With Rust (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/17/Microsoft_Lunduke_Keeps_Distracting_From_the_Real_Problems_With.shtml    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:28:17

• Modern GNU/Linux Using Only 200MB of RAM? ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/modern-linux-using-only-200mb-of    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:28:28

• How a Play Skewering Modern Russia Evaded a Crackdown to Become a Hit ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/theater/russia-theater-kholops.html    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:29:12

• Is the Russian Military Adapting Effectively to the Drone Age? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/world/europe/russia-debate-drones-battle-tactics.html    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:29:27

• Recent Layoffs at Red Bait (2026 the Year of Ultimate Bluewashing) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/16/Recent_Layoffs_at_Red_Hat_2026_the_Year_of_Ultimate_Bluewashing.shtml    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:29:46

• ‘Playing straight into Russia’s hands’: Expert warns Convicted Felon’s Greenland push strains NATO ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/playing-straight-into-russia-s-hands-expert-warns-trump-s-greenland-push-strains-nato    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:30:12

• Kyiv schools closed until February after Russia energy strikes ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260117-kyiv-schools-closed-until-february-after-russia-energy-strikes-1    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:30:27

• 'Greenland fiasco: Vladimir Putin happiest person in the world' - Lt. General (ret.) Ben Hodges ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260117-greenland-fiasco-vladimir-putin-happiest-person-in-the-world-lt-general-ret-ben-hodges-3    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:30:50

• HyprSnipper – snipping tool for Hyprland ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hyprsnipper-snipping-tool-hyprland/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:34:29

• 4 Useful Free and Open Source Kotlin Linters ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/useful-free-open-source-kotlin-linters/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:34:42

• Bubble Tea – build terminal apps ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bubble-tea-build-terminal-apps/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:34:52

• Brrtfetch – animated system information fetcher ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/brrtfetch-animated-system-information-fetcher/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:39:35

• fpm – Fortran Package Manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fpm-fortran-package-manager/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:39:46

• diffnav – Git diff pager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/diffnav-git-diff-pager/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:39:57

• FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending January 16, 2025 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/01/foss-forces-top-five-articles-for-the-week-ending-january-16-2025/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:40:23

• An Indigenous Community’s Spiritual Haunting ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/an-indigenous-communitys-spiritual-haunting    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:40:44

• Mexico isn’t immune to the seduction of the smartphone ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/mexico-living/mexico-phone-addiction-isnt-immune-to-the-seduction-of-the-smartphone/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:41:09

• Karing – proxy utility ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/karing-proxy-utility/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:43:20

• 11 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Simple Backup Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/simplebackup/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:43:32

• Yōzefu – explore data of a Kafka cluster ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/yozefu-explore-data-kafka-cluster/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:43:52

• aretext – minimalist text editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/aretext-minimalist-text-editor/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:44:16

• passcualito – command-line password manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/passcualito-command-line-password-manager/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:44:36

• Linux as Windows with another brand ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-closes-the-professional-gap-as-adobe-creative-cloud-installer-finally-runs-on-wine/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:45:59

• Linuxiac Has Become a Slopfarm, Calling Them Out Isn't Fixing That ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/17/Linuxiac_Has_Become_a_Slopfarm_Calling_Them_Out_Isn_t_Fixing_Th.shtml    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:46:16

• Slop About Slop and Slop About "Linux" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/17/Slop_About_Slop_and_Slop_About_Linux.shtml    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:46:27

• Synex 13-r1 "Server" is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/synex    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:47:23

• openKylin 2.0-SP2-20260115 also ☞ https://distrowatch.com/openkylin    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:47:49

• Sites With "Linux" in Their Name That Are in Effect Slopfarms and Issue Fake Articles ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Sites_With_Linux_in_Their_Name_That_Are_in_Effect_Slopfarms_and.shtml    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:48:04

• Shotcut 26.1 Beta added Hardware Decoding for Preview Scaling & Export ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/01/shotcut-26-1-beta-added-hardware-decoding-for-preview-scaling-export/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:49:33

• ‘Funny is funny’: Indonesian comedians keep calm and carry on despite police report against DRM spreader Netflix show ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/funny-is-funny-indonesian-comedians-keep-calm-and-carry-on-after-police-report-against-netflix-show    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:50:00

• Greenland: Convicted Felon announces 10% tariff on Europe – including France, UK, Denmark – starting Feb. 1 ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260117-greenland-trump-announces-10-tariff-on-europe-%E2%80%93-including-france-uk-denmark-%E2%80%93-starting-feb-1    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:50:28

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Says He Convinced Himself Not To Strike Iran ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-iran-decided-against-attack-protests/33652391.html    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:50:45

• Indonesian authorities find wreckage of missing surveillance plane with 11 on board ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/indonesian-authorities-find-wreckage-of-missing-surveillance-plane-with-11-on-board    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:51:20

• Four stable kernels for the weekend ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1054815/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:55:28

• Software Patents and USMCA (or NAFTA) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Software_Patents_and_USMCA_or_NAFTA.shtml    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:55:46

• Javan hawk-eagle under pressure as forests in Indonesia disappear ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/javan-hawk-eagle-under-pressure-as-forests-in-indonesia-disappear    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:56:08

• Sriram Ramkrishna: GNOME OS Hackfest During FOSDEM week ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/sri/2026/01/17/gnome-os-hackfest-during-fosdem-week/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:57:08

• French President Emmanuel Macron discusses Greenland and Iran during emergency defense council meeting ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/french-president-emmanuel-macron-discusses-greenland-and-iran-during-emergency-defense-council-meeting    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:57:30

• Inside the Doctors Without Borders Clinics That Israel Is Closing in Gaza ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/world/middleeast/gaza-doctors-without-borders-c.html    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:57:48

• Playing Video Games Has an Unexpected Effect on Kids' IQ, Study Says ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/playing-video-games-has-an-unexpected-effect-on-kids-iq-study-says    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 15:58:10

• Rights group says thousands of protesters killed in Iran ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260117-rights-group-says-thousands-of-protesters-killed-in-iran-1    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:05:37

• Dihydroxyacetone Man taps former UK PM Tony Blair for Gaza 'board of peace' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/trump-taps-former-uk-pm-tony-blair-for-gaza-board-of-peace    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:06:15

• Iran protest movement subsides amid intense crackdown ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260117-iran-protest-movement-subsides-amid-intense-crackdown-1    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:06:31

• UN officials and human rights organizations warn of lethal force as Iran protest crackdown continues ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/un-officials-and-human-rights-organizations-warn-of-lethal-force-as-iran-protest-crackdown-continues/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:06:58

• Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni wins seventh term as rival Bobi Wine rejects 'fake results' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260117-uganda-president-yoweri-museveni-wins-seventh-term-rival-bobi-wine-rejects-fake-results    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:07:13

• Tennessee Man Pleads Guilty to Repeatedly Hacking Supreme Court’s Filing System ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/tennessee-man-pleads-guilty-to-repeatedly-hacking-supreme-courts-filing-system/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:07:31

• Wireshark 4.6.3 Released, (Sat, Jan 17th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32636    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:07:59

• IBM PIP lawsuit. "they will be obligated too during discovery for this case and then that will open Pandora’s box for them with dozens of additional suits when that information is registered into public accessible databases. They will fight this very hard or settle to ensure that doesn’t occur" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf6wnm5q    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:09:52

• "The Works Councils (Unions) in Germany and Holland have not agreed to using this latest IBM performance system. They are completely unaffected by this 15/75/15 %. ranking system. How lucky these employees are to be protected from IBM's disgraceful behaviour towards its workforce. It would be great to have sight of the Works Councils grounds and assessment of IBM's performance management system." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf1vfvgb    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:10:43

• The tech industry has been saturated with dangerous nutcases. Yes, some of them can code, but they are still very much nutcases.    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:17:33

• The new Linux Mint, Wine version 11, Raspberry Pi's HAT upgrade, and more: Linux news roundup https://www.howtogeek.com/the-new-linux-mint-raspberry-pis-hat-upgrade-and-more-linux-news-roundup/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:19:08

• You don’t need a gaming distro — these Linux tweaks matter more https://www.makeuseof.com/these-linux-gaming-tweaks-matter-more-than-the-distro/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:19:31

• I replaced my Windows workflow with Linux Mint and it was easier than I imagined https://www.howtogeek.com/i-used-linux-mint-for-2-weeks-as-a-windows-replacement-heres-why-people-recommend-it/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:19:51

• Adobe Photoshop can now install on Linux after a Redditor discovers a Wine fix https://videocardz.com/newz/adobe-photoshop-can-now-install-on-linux-after-a-redditor-discovers-a-fix    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:21:04

• "Linux malware" = something you can install on it https://pcper.com/2026/01/podcast-852/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:22:38

• Linux Mint 22.3 has been released https://news.filehippo.com/2026/01/january-17-tech-news-roundup-linux-mint-22-3-released-chatgpt-translate-announced-samsung-internet-browser-for-windows-released-firefox-147-update-released/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:23:41

• I've tried out every Linux package manager out there, and this is the best one https://www.makeuseof.com/tried-every-linux-package-manager-this-is-the-best-one/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:24:11

• Proprietary https://www.thestack.technology/voidlink-malware-checkpoint/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:25:53

• I tried a lightweight Linux distro you’ve never heard of — and it’s perfect https://www.makeuseof.com/tried-lightweight-linux-distro-never-heard-of-its-perfect/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:26:19

• My favorite Linux desktop environment is getting microphone controls Windows wishes it had https://www.xda-developers.com/my-favorite-linux-desktop-environment-is-finally-getting-better-microphone-controls/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 16:26:42

• Germany: Alcohol prices well below EU average https://www.dw.com/en/germany-alcohol-prices-well-below-eu-average/a-75401091    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:32:22

• violated international law https://www.dw.com/en/us-intervention-in-venezuela-violated-international-law-say-legal-experts/a-75412120    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:32:47

• devotion to cash https://www.dw.com/en/unpacking-czechia-s-devotion-to-cash-and-its-currency/a-75403939    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:33:12

• Kangaroo Courts of EPO http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/g-125-description-amendments-amicus.html    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:33:39

• 🔤SpellBinding — FHLYTUR Wordo: STEEP gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2026-01-18.gmi    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:34:20

• Symposium of Destruction gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/01/18/sod.gmi    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:38:08

• "In October 2024 I wrote a small (~600 lines) program in Zig that formatted YAML files in some $dayjob-specific way. Instead of parsing the whole document, the program linked to libyaml tokenizer and operated on tokens, which ended up factor 10 faster than pyyaml.load/pyyaml.dump implementation. Success, right?" gemini://tilde.pink/~kaction/log/2026-01-18.1.gmi    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:38:55

• Originality http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/do-trends-kill-originality-cjeu-issues.html    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:41:22

• distinctiveness http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/cheese-holes-and-weak-distinctiveness.html    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:41:37

• chatbots http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/fakery-free-riding-and-fight-for-serp.html    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:42:01

• He still refuses to stop this https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-09/factbox-elon-musks-grok-faces-global-scrutiny-for-sexualised-ai-photos    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:43:11

• Reference to Cheeto Mussolini's Impeachments Is Removed From the Display of His Smithsonian Photo Portrait https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2026-01-11/reference-to-trumps-impeachments-is-removed-from-the-display-of-his-smithsonian-photo-portrait"    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:43:56

• New efficiency upgrades in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/12/new-efficiency-upgrades-rhacm-2-15    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:46:13

• Turkey to restrict social media access for children under 15 https://bianet.org/haber/minister-turkey-to-restrict-social-media-access-for-children-under-15-315303    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:46:49

• Germany's local governments face financial collapse https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-local-governments-face-financial-collapse/a-75425178    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:51:20

• Why Germany struggles to fight financial crime https://www.dw.com/en/why-germany-struggles-to-fight-financial-crime/a-75423810    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:53:35

• Baa-rgain hunters: 50 sheep barge into German supermarket https://www.dw.com/en/baa-rgain-hunters-50-sheep-barge-into-german-supermarket/a-75438987    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:56:26

• StackOverflow Is Absolutely Cooked https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=gmRk9Undc6U    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:57:47

• The Future Of The Linux Distro Is No Distro https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=k6qCtIHFu_c    

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

• GNOME Disables Middle Click Paste, Chaos Ensues https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=JYICMf_VLtY    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:58:37

• Manjaro 26.0 "Anh-Linh" PLASMA Edition overview | Manjaro Empowering Devices and Users https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=cxsUCsKJi00    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 17:58:55

• CachyOS Linux Full Review: What Makes It Different? https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=B9LOP-Nr5Gw    

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

• Online trash for Office? https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trisha-paytas-set-swap-youtube-politics-2026-congressional-run-california-1769193    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 18:00:52

• inflammation https://www.vox.com/health/474384/what-is-inflammation-causes-how-to-reduce-diet    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 18:01:57

• VailuxOS-1.6 Stable mit KDE Plasma 6 Hotfix https://forum.vailux.de/downloads/file/27-vailuxos-1-6-stable-mit-kde-plasma-6-hotfix/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 18:03:21

• "In Lumet's film, technology is not the enemy. In fact there is no technology to speak of, except perhaps a wind-up field telephone. This is not a Mad Max film. Nor do modern issues of tracking, surveillance, profiling, propaganda or technologically enabled imprisonment, coercion, torture or anything else take the stage. They are entirely absent." https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/hill/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 18:16:19

• "Technically, the usurper may be manifest as software or hardware, as a new 'preferred' vendor, or as new policy quietly inserted in a workplace or by a government. These days he appears as an entire technologically micro-managed corporate culture, from which common sense and humanity have been driven out." https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/hill/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 18:19:23

• "(note:2023) Notice the unsettling allegory with "AI" in the present hype cycle .. As with the rise of all tyrants, for those who see the approaching danger it is difficult to warn others. The majority are quite hypnotised, reluctant to believe bad things. They are unsure whether it is prudent to challenge the rising tyrant, or hedge their bets for 'staying on his good side'"    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 18:19:59

• "The twenty first century is fundamentally, a lack of integrity"    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 18:20:30

• "The plan now is to fire that CTO/Sysadmin or CISO and have us directly negotiate with the system itself - a system presumably programmed and updated from Redmond. Cue dialogue between Doolittle and Dark Star bomb." https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/hill/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 18:21:01

• "Corporate control is now the art of personally avoiding it. I believe this rampant abdication of human power and responsibility is an important aspect of (2026:) current "AI" automation ambitions, and the Digital Self Defence needed to counter it."    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 18:21:30

• Uganda's debt crisis https://www.dw.com/en/uganda-s-debt-crisis-deepens-ahead-of-elections/a-75399953    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 18:22:41

• Germany: Trust in the United States is eroding https://www.dw.com/en/germany-trust-in-the-united-states-is-eroding/a-75449308 http://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 Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 18:24:00

• Until a Famous Person Is Held There https://www.projectcensored.org/neglect-federal-detention-famous-person/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 18:30:03

• Energy wasted https://www.projectcensored.org/communities-against-ai-data-center    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 18:30:54

• Iran considers restoring internet after week-long shutdown https://www.firstpost.com/tech/iran-considers-restoring-internet-after-week-long-shutdown-13969907.html/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 18:33:02

• peace with doctors https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-doctors-agreement-whats-next-9.7036435    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 19:17:14

• Toronto charity cutting ties with local food bank after reporting financial concerns to police https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/daily-bread-food-bank-feed-scarborough-9.7039918    

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

• As Canada Tries to Reduce Its Dependence on the US, Its Leader Will Visit China to Rebuild Ties https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2026-01-12/as-canada-tries-to-reduce-its-dependence-on-the-us-its-leader-will-visit-china-to-rebuild-ties    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 19:26:13

• black bear cub found with severe burns in December https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/black-bear-cub-recovering-after-fire-9.7041473    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 19:26:40

• Australian Parliament to Return to Pass Hate Speech Laws After Bondi Attack https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-11/australian-arts-festival-decision-to-bar-palestinian-author-after-bondi-attack-spurs-boycott    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 19:27:25

• 2,200 billion dollars borrowed in SIX MONTHS! https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20260111a.htm Statement From Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 19:28:23

• How clean energy could save us trillions https://www.dw.com/en/how-clean-energy-could-save-us-trillions/a-75237447    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 19:29:02

• To CBC, invasion, bombing and kidnappings are "incursion" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bakx-wti-venezuela-tsx-9.7033902    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 19:29:47

• US, China Can Balance Roles in Venezuela, US Energy Chief Says https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-01-08/us-china-can-balance-roles-in-venezuela-us-energy-chief-says    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 19:31:27

• Claims of Control Over Venezuela’s Oil ttps://scheerpost.com/2026/01/09/energy-greed-of-the-north-rodriguez-rebukes-u-s-claims-of-control-over-venezuelas-oil/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 19:32:07

• "The last paragraph of your comment is pure nonsense. The board of directors does not get involved in the day to day running of the company. The board set policies and directions. So, if you are trying to absolve the Indian id1t at the top and his cabal, you are failing miserably." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kf1vfvgb    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 20:00:23

• what ADHD drugs really do and don't do https://www.dw.com/en/us-research-shows-what-adhd-drugs-really-do-and-don-t-do/a-75460960    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 20:03:19

• cast light on infrastructure in Germany https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-blackouts-cast-light-on-infrastructure-in-germany/a-75455870    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 20:04:45

• ‘Who’s Who at X, the Deepfake Porn Site Formerly Known as Twitter’ https://www.ft.com/content/ad94db4c-95a0-4c65-bd8d-3b43e1251091    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 20:05:43

• With key https://www.ft.com/content/ad94db4c-95a0-4c65-bd8d-3b43e1251091?accessToken=zwAGR7kzep9gkdOtlNtMlaBMZdO9jTtD4SUQkQ.MEYCIQCdZajuC9uga-d9b5Z1t0HI2BIcnkVoq98loextLRpCTgIhAPL3rW72aTHBNL_lS7s1ONpM2vBgNlBNHDBeGbHkPkZj&sharetype=gift&token=a7473827-0799-4064-9008-bf22b3c99711    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 20:06:05

• “ban twitter” https://off-guardian.org/2026/01/10/no-keir-starmer-isnt-going-to-ban-twitter/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 20:06:29

• Nestle Infant Formula Recall Widens to Africa, the Americas and Asia https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-01-07/nestle-infant-formula-recall-widens-to-china-brazil    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 20:07:28

• African cyber criminals https://defenceweb.co.za/cyber-defence/interpol-op-sentinel-hits-african-cyber-criminals/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 20:12:20

• Former Manitoba NDP MLA files defamation claim against premier, 2 other MLAs, over Nygard association https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/wasyliw-kinew-lawsuit-kinew-cross-bushie-9.7034368 it can harm the SLAPPers http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/18/The_Law_Firm_SLAPPing_Us_For_the_Microsofters_Lost_72_of_Its_Ta.shtml    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 20:15:32

• home sales hit lowest level in more than two decades in 2025 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-home-sales-9.7034552    

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

• Android still bigger than Windows by a large gap https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share//all/#monthly-202601-202601-map    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 20:32:49

• "Fast-forward 16 years, to last week, and the trusty G25’s pedals stopped working. Right in the middle of a race. Balls." gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/users/korruptor/blog/2026-01-18-PXN-VD6-Bundle.gmi    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 20:35:59

• "We've just pushed up a new version of mfgames-writing-js[1]. Naturally, this started with the usual process of doing a little housekeeping, and bringing packages up to date." gemini://mfgames.com/blog/2026/01/17/a-slew-of-breaking-fixes/    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 20:36:52

• "Indeed, I've been mostly away for the last few months. Not that I've been completely disconnected, I do watch stuff on youtube, though not as much as I used to, and not the kind of content that the so-called algorithm tries to force-feed you with. In other words, I've been judicious in my use of internet content." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2773    

posted Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 20:38:07

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