Roy Schestowitz

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1544.jpg    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:18:19

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1894.jpg    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:18:26

• deepfake: gemini://nicfab.eu/it/gemlogit/2026/2026-01-22-danish-copyright-deepfakes_it.gmi    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:19:02

• The Danish Approach to Deepfakes: Can Copyright Protect Digital Identity gemini://nicfab.eu/en/gemlogen/2026/2026-01-22-danish-copyright-deepfakes_en.gmi    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:19:41

• Healing liberation & cultivation gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/garden/healingLiberationCultivation    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:21:16

• Welcome to the MODcast (again) gemini://gemini.lottalinuxlinks.com/posts/2025-01-24-welcome-to-the-modcast-again.gmi    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:22:53

• qutebrowser is pretty dang awesome gemini://gemini.lottalinuxlinks.com/posts/2025-01-24-qutebrowser-is-pretty-dang-awesome.gmi    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:23:39

• Microsoft collapses again https://mynorthwest.com/local/microsoft-restore-outage/4191956    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:25:03

• Slop, not "AI" https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/we-all-have-strong-opinions-within-the-studio-even-microsofts-own-game-developers-are-hesitant-to-use-ai    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:26:05

• Sweeping Amazon layoffs slated for next week, Reuters reports https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/sweeping-amazon-layoffs-slated-for-next-week-reuters-reports/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:26:46

• Intel shares plunge on earnings expectations https://gulfnews.com/technology/intel-shares-plunge-on-earnings-expectations-1.500417884    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:27:19

• Vimeo also https://betakit.com/shopify-makes-more-job-cuts-this-time-targeting-partnerships-division/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:28:56

• Ancient telnet bug happily hands out root to attackers https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/root_telnet_bug/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:30:25

• Offshore wind can be a security hazard. Australia needs a risk assessment ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/offshore-wind-can-be-a-security-hazard-australia-needs-a-risk-assessment/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:32:45

• Oracle’s First 2026 CPU Delivers 337 New Security Patches ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/oracles-first-2026-cpu-delivers-337-new-security-patches/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:33:29

• MITRE Launches New Security Framework for Embedded Systems ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/mitre-launches-new-security-framework-for-embedded-systems/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:34:00

• LastPass Users Targeted With Backup-Themed Phishing Emails ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/lastpass-users-targeted-with-backup-themed-phishing-emails/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:34:38

• Lawmakers press acting CISA director on workforce reductions ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/01/lawmakers-press-acting-cisa-director-on-workforce-reductions/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:35:08

• Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fornazeris-birds    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:35:21

• Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/cybernetic-attention    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:35:35

• Skrooge 26.1.20 released ☞ https://skrooge.org/news/2026-01-20-skrooge_26.1.20_released/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:36:08

• Tellico 4.1.5 Released ☞ https://tellico-project.org/tellico-4-1-5-released/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:36:27

• ‘The Perception of Danger Everywhere’: Navigating Campus Life Amid ICE Enforcement ☞ https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-perception-of-danger-everywhere-navigating-campus-life-amid-ice-enforcement    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:37:11

• Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/amazon-ring-cameras-ice    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:37:24

• Microsoft 365 outage: teams, outlook, and xbox live down, what we know ☞ https://hackwarenews.com/microsoft-365-outage-teams-outlook-and-xbox-live-down-what-we-know/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:38:01

• Senior Scaries: What if I don’t want to change the world? ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/01/20/senior-scaries-what-if-i-dont-want-to-change-the-world/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:38:38

• Microsoft TCO ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/north-korean-hackers-target-macos-developers-via-malicious-vs-code-projects/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:39:33

• Geehy G32R430 Arm Cortex-M52 Encoder MCU features Arctangent accelerator, dual 16-bit ADC for industrial motion control systems ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/22/geehy-g32r430-arm-cortex-m52-encoder-mcu-features-arctangent-accelerator-dual-16-bit-adc-for-industrial-motion-control-systems/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:39:59

• Anthropic MCP Server Flaws Lead to Code Execution, Data Exposure ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/anthropic-mcp-server-flaws-lead-to-code-execution-data-exposure/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:40:31

• Pandas 3.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1055327/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:41:17

• Be Part of WordCamp Asia 2026 ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2026/01/wordcamp-asia-2026/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:41:33

• LilyGO T-Display S3 Pro LR1121 devkit adds Sub-GHz and 2.4GHz LoRa, audio support ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/21/lilygo-t-display-s3-pro-lr1121-devkit-adds-sub-ghz-and-2-4ghz-lora-with-audio-support-to-esp32-s3-dev-board/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:41:56

• Sheinbaum endorses Carney’s WEF speech lamenting ‘rupture’ of world order: Wednesday’s mañanera recapped ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/politics/sheinbaum-carney-wef-speech-lamenting-rupture-wednesdays-mananera-recapped/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:47:30

• At Davos, a Clash Between Convicted Felon’s World and the Old World ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/us/politics/davos-trump-speech-greenland-deal.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:47:42

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Moves on Greenland ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/world/trumps-greenland-davos-isis-syria.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:47:51

• An Unhinged President on the Magic Mountain ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/opinion/trump-davos-speech-nato.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:48:03

• Did the U.S. Ever Own Greenland? Fact-Checking Convicted Felon’s Davos Speech. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/us/politics/fact-check-trump-davos-speech.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:48:16

• Here’s a Look at Everything (and Everyone) Convicted Felon Targeted at Davos ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/us/politics/trump-davos-speech-takeaways.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:48:28

• Dihydroxyacetone Man tells Davos he won’t use force to take Greenland ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/trump-tells-davos-he-won-t-use-force-to-take-greenland    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:48:41

• Greenland: Convicted Felon falsely claims the US 'gave back' territory to Denmark ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/greenland-trump-falsely-claims-the-us-gave-back-territory-to-denmark    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:48:51

• Dihydroxyacetone Man chides Carney after Canadian PM delivers rousing speech on global order 'rupture' at Davos ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/trump-chides-carney-after-canadian-pm-delivers-rousing-speech-on-global-order-rupture-at-davos    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:49:06

• Australia’s opposition coalition collapses over hate speech law ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australias-opposition-coalition-collapses-over-hate-speech-law    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:49:21

• Remarks by Executive Vice-President Virkkunen on the Digital Networks Act ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_26_153    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:49:43

• Who Decides When Construction Is Needed? Comcast Seeks Supreme Court Review of O2 Micro’s Limits ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/01/decides-construction-comcast.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:53:14

• "If a post considers that the colleagues of a patent monopoly practitioner are of the view that there should be no adaptation of the description, and the person writing that post has indicated that this is the current practice of the EPO, is this not pitting representatives against the EPO?" http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/g-125-description-amendments-amicus.html?showComment=1769004662553#c7279433776207566917    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:53:36

• UPC is illegal, JUVE knows it, but JUVE participated in trying to legitimise this corruption along with the cocaine addicts at the EPO ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/legal-commentary/how-the-upc-has-evolved-into-an-established-court/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:54:56

• This is an illegal kangaroo court; in practice, Europe has no patent justice anymore, it is just giant corruption connected to white-collar crimes ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/illumina-and-powell-gilbert-in-love-with-lisbon/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:55:57

• Gutted Mosques, Eerie Calm In Tehran After Uprising ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protest-uprising-aftermath-burned-mosques-banks/33655659.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:56:29

• Arduino UNO Q 4GB board with 4GB RAM, 32GB storage is now available for $59 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/21/arduino-uno-q-4gb-board-with-4gb-ram-32gb-storage-available-59/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:57:00

• Automatic Script Execution In Visual Studio Code, (Wed, Jan 21st) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32644    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:57:50

• Preserving Open Source Sustainability While Advancing Cybersecurity Compliance ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/01/21/preserving-open-source-sustainability-while-advancing-cybersecurity-compliance/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:58:15

• ESPHome 2026.1.0 optimizes memory usage on ESP32/ESP8266, adds Zigbee support on nRF52, WiFi roaming, and more ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/21/esphome-2026-1-0-optimizes-memory-usage-on-esp32-esp8266-adds-zigbee-support-on-nrf52-wifi-roaming/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:58:43

• UK government must stand up for Rojava region, say Greens ☞ https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/01/21/uk-government-must-stand-up-for-rojava-region-say-greens/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 02:59:34

• Slice – create custom font design spaces ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/slice-create-custom-font-design-spaces/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:00:21

• Slimbook Launches New Slimbook ONE Mini GNU/Linux PC, Slimbook Executive Laptop ☞ https://9to5linux.com/slimbook-launches-new-slimbook-one-mini-linux-pc-slimbook-executive-laptop    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:00:31

• Pathways to open-source (and from it): one flawed journey exposed ☞ https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/pathways-to-open-source-and-from-it/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:00:41

• Sam Thursfield: Status update, 21st January 2026 ☞ https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2026/01/21/status-update-21st-january-2026/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:01:07

• UnifyDrive expands its private NAS lineup with UC450 Pro and UC250 ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/unifydrive-expands-its-private-nas-lineup-with-uc450-pro-and-uc250/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:01:53

• Qualcomm QCS6490-based 3.5″SBC supports Yocto, Ubuntu, and backdoored Windows on Arm ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/qualcomm-qcs6490-based-3-5sbc-supports-yocto-ubuntu-and-windows-on-arm/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:02:02

• I Ran the Famed Affinity Designer on Linux. Here's How It Went ☞ https://itsfoss.com/affinity-on-linux/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:02:34

• That only means someone wrote some VERY AWFUL code before https://www.phoronix.com/news/5x-Wakeup-Latency-Reduce-Xeon    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:03:19

• Photoshop on Linux? ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Photoshop-on-Linux    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:04:00

• Google News Still a Feeder of Slop About "Linux", Which Became Rarer in 2026 ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/22/Google_News_Still_a_Feeder_of_Slop_About_Linux_Which_Became_Rar.shtml    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:05:19

• Slackware on encrypted ZFS root ☞ https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/slackware-on-encrypted-zfs-root/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:08:44

• sqlfmt – SQL formatter ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sqlfmt-sql-formatter/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:09:31

• 20 Best Free and Open Source Tiling Wayland Compositors ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-tiling-wayland-compositors/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:12:10

• Teabag – manage AppImage files ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/teabag-manage-appimage-files/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:12:20

• postcss-bem-linter – BEM linter for PostCSS ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/postcss-bem-linter-bem-linter-postcss/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:12:30

• How To Install Eclipse Mosquitto on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-eclipse-mosquitto-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:13:07

• Xorg Plans Political Moves: Removing 2 Years of Commits from XLibre Dev ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/xorg-plans-political-moves-removing    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:13:21

• gohome – Git standup and activity reporting CLI ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/gohome-git-standup-activity-reporting-cli/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:14:25

• cryptofetch – cryptocurrency tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cryptofetch-cryptocurrency-tool/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:14:34

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-01-23.gmi    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:15:28

• Random vi Things gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/01/23/random-vi-things.gmi    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:16:22

• repeater – CLI flashcard program ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/repeater-cli-flashcard-program/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:17:15

• Zensical – modern static site generator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/zensical-modern-static-site-generator/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:17:25

• jiq – interactive JSON query tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/jiq-interactive-json-query-tool/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:17:35

• State of the Project – Calendar Year 2025 ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/01/21/state-of-the-project-2025/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:18:14

• EASY BEE-ZY KNOCK OUT Not Confusable with OSO EASY and OSO EASY PEASY for Live Plants, Says TTAB ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2026/01/easy-bee-zy-knock-out-not-confusable.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:18:45

• Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-accused-of-trying-to-cut-a-deal-with-annas-archive-for-high-speed-access-to-the-massive-pirated-book-haul-allegedly-chased-stolen-data-to-fuel-its-llms    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:19:22

• China is now Central Asia’s top trading partner. Will there be a tug of war with Russia? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-is-now-central-asias-top-trading-partner-will-there-be-a-tug-of-war-with-russia    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:19:40

• Over 1,700 Belarusians, Russians denied Lithuanian residency over ‘national security’ ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2813071/over-1-700-belarusians-russians-denied-lithuanian-residency-over-national-security    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:19:52

• Black Basta’s alleged ringleader identified as authorities raid homes of other members ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/black-basta-leader-europol-most-wanted-list/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:20:36

• Slimbook One is a Linux mini PC with up to AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 https://liliputing.com/slimbook-one-is-a-linux-mini-pc-with-up-to-amd-ryzen-ai-9-hx-370/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:24:33

• "Copilot is garbage!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfcadkph    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:44:27

• "Feb 28th. The same day the Cobra benefits end" (Microsoft layoffs) https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfe36tba    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 03:45:00

• Will national representatives continue voting for confirmed cocaine addicts and criminals to run the EPO? What is Europe becoming?    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 04:13:05

• GNU/Linux has risen again https://analytics.usa.gov    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 05:02:37

• techrights.org routinely write about IBM layoffs    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 05:06:23

• "Hello All, I’m the OP. I was trying to find a reliable and accurate site to monitor and track for the upcoming layoffs, but since none of them captured the November layoffs, I’m unsure which sources are actually trustworthy or worth following." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfe4v5hs    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 05:08:55

• IBM layoffs by "low performance" pretext: "Alignment to be finalised by Monday 27th at which time manager communication starts." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfcgmcs8    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 05:10:00

• "I’ve noticed a significant number of new-hire announcements (easily over 50) on LinkedIn, yet one demographic is noticeably absent." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ked3sgr0    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 05:11:11

• "It is if you're approaching retirement time AND the company you work for is acquired by IBM AND you realize from the get-go that IBM is synonymous with horse sh-t AND you do just enough to get by because you really don't give a fu-k AND every time an RA happens you hope you're on the short list." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfk6qra3    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 05:16:31

• "Alternatively, it's probably worth it if you're a stupid schmuck with no integrity who enjoys lying about IBM capabilities and who doesn't mind knowing that eventually IBM will sc--w you up the a-s. ... IBM is nothing but an Indian managed and run sweatshop. There are lots of better places to start your career than at IBM. Even in these rough times." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfk6qra3    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 05:16:44

• This is slop with LIES contained in it https://foxtechnologies.co.uk/microsoft-layoffs-2026-impact-on-business-sector-analysis/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 05:21:00

• Raspberry Pi flashes new branded USB drives that promise speedy performance https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/raspberry_pi_usb_drive/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 05:24:35

• shitposing crap to a site controlled by crooks https://old.reddit.com/r/lies/comments/1qkfv6y/aita_richard_stallman_became_catholic_and_i/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 05:52:04

• Fair Source Software Is Incredibly Unfair https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=V_L0MNy8Mpg    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 06:50:00

• Another Linux Desktop Goes Wayland And Qt6 https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=VzsTbo-x1AQ    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 06:50:35

• Everyone Is Trying Linux But Keep This In Mind... https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=tI0PS2nS5y8    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 06:51:00

• Ultramarine Linux 43 Quick Overview https://www.yewtu.be/shorts/xAWfYPA2F4U    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 07:45:00

• Parrot OS 7 FIRST LOOK! https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=xueHdPoogbE    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 07:45:14

• A Quick First Look At The Niri Window Manager https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=uiXiD5foFCI    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 07:45:33

• How to Use Window Tiling in COSMIC Desktop https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=IqqhbWnxYlY    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 07:46:16

• KDE Plasma Is On A Generational High https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=XggOrE8Lrrc    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 07:47:15

• copyright http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/ninth-circuit-dispensing-with-intrinsic.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 07:48:30

• It's not "AI" https://theconversation.com/what-can-technology-do-to-stop-ai-generated-sexualised-images-273327    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 07:52:35

• Why the mad artistic genius trope doesn’t stand up to scientific scrutiny https://theconversation.com/why-the-mad-artistic-genius-trope-doesnt-stand-up-to-scientific-scrutiny-272841    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 07:52:59

• Growing up alongside deadly fires inspired me to study them https://theconversation.com/growing-up-alongside-deadly-fires-inspired-me-to-study-them-and-fight-flames-with-swarms-of-drones-273270    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 07:54:24

• Five Face Trial in Peru in Rare Prosecution Over the Killing of an Amazon Defender https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-19/five-face-trial-in-peru-in-rare-prosecution-over-the-killing-of-an-amazon-defender    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 07:59:29

• Copyrights and trademarks, not 'IP' http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/book-review-fashion-and-intellectual.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 08:01:12

• Understanding TPRF's Finance, 2026 Edition https://blogs.perl.org/users/makoto_nozaki/2026/01/understanding-tprfs-finance-2025-edition.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 08:03:42

• This week in PSC (211) https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2026/01/this-week-in-psc-211-2026-01-12.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 08:03:58

• "The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall." https://www.projectcensored.org/ai-war-machine-superorganism/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 08:07:34

• Anon: "Starts out with an E O Wilson quote ... even not having read his work at the time I too came to the conclusion that it is the ant /nest/ which is the organism not the individual crawling ants. Anyway the case made in the article is interesting"    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 08:08:24

• Mind the Gap: When a trade mark vanishes temporarily, does the clock of acquiescence stop ticking? http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/mind-gap-when-trade-mark-vanishes.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 08:09:34

• They mean slop or CG http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/guest-post-labelling-ai-generated.html worthless crap in very large volumes, wasting energy    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 08:13:41

• NOT "AI-powered", just rebranded with buzzwords and mindless hype https://theconversation.com/will-google-be-third-time-lucky-with-new-ai-powered-smart-glasses-273036    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 08:14:45

• Slop violates copyrights, it should not be covered by copyrights http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/guest-post-ip-protection-of-ai-output.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 08:16:51

• CJEU should look into the illegal UPC, but with bribery, corruption and even cocaine abuse in the mix, they're more into coverup now http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/veterinary-versus-human-use-cjeu-asked.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 08:17:52

• A new way to define T cells and what it means for cell therapy [patents] http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-new-way-to-define-t-cells-and-what-it.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 08:18:59

• Malaysia Will Take Legal Action Against Musk's X and XAI Over Misuse of Grok Chatbot https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2026-01-13/malaysia-will-take-legal-action-against-musks-x-and-xai-over-misuse-of-grok-chatbot    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 08:22:57

• Proposed Arizona Mine’s Water Sampling Reveals Dangerous Metal Levels https://www.projectcensored.org/arizona-mines-water-sampling-metal-levels/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 08:23:46

• Anti-Minority Hate Speech in India Rose by 13% in 2025, US Research Group Says https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-13/anti-minority-hate-speech-in-india-rose-by-13-in-2025-us-research-group-says    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 08:24:21

• Germany, India face obstacles to closer strategic ties https://www.dw.com/en/why-germany-india-face-obstacles-to-closer-strategic-ties/a-74279379    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 08:31:45

• EU laws open up for opinion registration | "EU-lagar öppnar för åsiktsregistrering" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/01/22/eu-lagar-oppnar-for-asiktsregistrering/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:28:20

• "Washington wants your 3D printer to spy on you - here's the bill, HB2321" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/washington-wants-your-3d-printer-to-spy:1    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:28:40

• "Palantir kills people? But what if the real villain is closer to home?" https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/palantir:db    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:28:57

• "A Random Developer Just Solved Adobe On Linux" https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/a-random-developer-just-solved-adobe-on:6    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:29:12

• "Watch PM Carney's address and Q&A at the 2026 World Economic Forum" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=hZCGD3ZTlZw    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:30:12

• Remove mentions of the bounty and hackerone. https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20312 "There will be more mentions, blog posts, timings etc in the coming weeks."    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:30:55

• "What Would a Free Iran Mean for the World?" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/what-would-a-free-iran-mean-for-the    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:31:11

• "Trump's Vulnerability and the Bunker-Ballroom" https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/21/trumps-vulnerability-and-the-bunker-ballroom/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:31:28

• "Courageous Carney vs. Demented Donald - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/courageous-carney-vs-demented-donald    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:31:47

• "Palantir helps Ukraine train interceptor drone brains" https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/ukraine_interceptor_drone_palantir/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:32:03

• "‘I will not be intimidated’: Jack Smith defends Trump investigations before House panel • Michigan Advance" https://michiganadvance.com/2026/01/22/repub/i-will-not-be-intimidated-jack-smith-defends-trump-investigations-before-house-panel/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:32:20

• "It’s Time to Talk About Donald Trump’s Logorrhea" https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/its-time-to-talk-about-donald-trumps-logorrhea    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:32:35

• the Reagan administration initiated the beginning of the end of the US space program https://www.usnews.com/news/news/articles/2026-01-22/nasa-and-families-of-fallen-astronauts-mark-40th-anniversary-of-space-shuttle-challenger-accident    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:32:54

• "US officially exits World Health Organization" https://www.dw.com/en/us-officially-exits-world-health-organization/a-75614294    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:33:08

• "Ukraine’s fields, the EU border" https://neweasterneurope.eu/2026/01/22/ukraines-fields-the-eu-border/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:33:23

• Bees are dying at an alarming rate | "Biene dør i et alarmerende tempo | steigan.no" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://steigan.no/2026/01/biene-dor-i-et-alarmerende-tempo/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:33:55

• "Why is Greenland Danish? Would it be defended by NATO?: The key questions about the Arctic island Trump wants to annex" https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-01-22/why-is-greenland-danish-would-it-be-defended-by-nato-the-key-questions-about-the-arctic-island-trump-wants-to-annex.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:34:10

• "How Trump backed down over Greenland" https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2026/01/trump-in-davos-all-the-us-is-asking-for-is-a-place-called-greenland    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:34:22

• "Zambia : Zambia strengthens ties with China through investment partnership" https://www.lusakatimes.com/2026/01/22/zambia-strengthens-ties-with-china-through-investment-partnership/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:34:36

• "Advanced observability capabilities in Red Hat OpenShift have evolved significantly" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-observability-features-red-hat-openshift-420-and-red-hat-advanced-cluster-management-215 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:37:30

• "The primary goal of an embargo is customer protection." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/Understanding-security-embargoes-at-Red-Hat | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:37:43

• Red Hat wearing ALL BLUE https://www.redhat.com/en/summit    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:39:02

• Accelerate readiness. Reduce risk. Build skills that scale. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/accelerate-readiness-reduce-risk-build-skills-scale-0    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:39:35

• Navantia Builds the Future of Naval Systems with Red Hat https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/navantia-builds-future-naval-systems-red-hat    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:40:31

• Buzzwords overload https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-ai-quickstarts    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:41:22

• "Philantrophy" is a lie and an illusion. The articles about those people read like ads. Because that's what they are.    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 09:46:11

• "Comic-con deciding to allow GenAi imagery in the art show—giving valuable space to GenAi users to show slop right NEXT to actual artists who worked their asses off to be there—is a disgrace!" ☛ https://www.404media.co/comic-con-bans-ai-art-after-artist-pushback/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:21:02

• "A major IPTV crackdown in Sweden has not only taken down a multi-million dollar reseller; it has also exposed the identities of nearly 5,000 subscribers." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/iptv-piracy-crackdown-in-sweden-exposes-4886-subscribers/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:21:12

• "As we approach the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Copyrights, the last major overhaul of US copyright law, we’re not the only ones wondering if it’s time for the next one." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/rent-only-copyright-culture-makes-us-all-worse | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:21:40

• "Concealing generative AI’s role in providing content to a scholarly publication is an example of this ethical breach, but with a technological twist." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/01/22/guest-post-the-ghost-in-the-machine-why-generative-ai-is-a-crisis-of-authorship-not-just-a-tool/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:22:00

• Software Patents ☛ https://theviewfromguppylake.blogspot.com/2012/10/software-patents-hacker-ethic-and.html | Source: Nathaniel Borenstein    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:41:11

• "there are always features that some other company has patented." ☛ https://guppylake.com/mimecast-blogs/PatentsBusinessEthics.txt |    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:41:28

• "Netflix and Paramount have been duelling over the deal for months. While Netflix is vying for the company's studio business and streaming catalogue," ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/netflix-warner-bros-mega-deal-merger-paramount-9.7054812 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:42:21

• "Not one but 57 Republicans broke ranks midweek, siding with Democrats to stop a measure aimed at cutting funds for a government rule critics describe as a 'kill switch." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/list-57-house-republicans-who-voted-democrats-that-let-government-disable-your-car-1773164 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:44:08

• [Old] "With cheating becoming more and more prevalent in online multiplayer games" ☛ https://andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/anticheat-secure-boot-tpm/ |    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:44:25

• "I spend a lot of time thinking about the open web. We talk about it a lot. But I'm not sure it exists, at least not in the way it's often described." ☛ https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/the-conditionally-open-web | Source: Cory Dransfeldt    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:46:39

• "Given that comments can be controversial on the indie web, it’s worth pointing out the use cases for comment sections as a feature." ☛ https://osteophage.dreamwidth.org/12999.html | Source: Coyote    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:46:49

• "Momeni, also deputy commander-in-chief, commanded forces that "suppressed street protests," which saw thousands of casualties, according to the EU document." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-eu-sanctions-protests-deaths/33656694.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:47:14

• "they just got greedy, because every time they torture me, I tell them some new invention. They started just hanging me and beating me" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/01/21/princeton-researcher-on-903-days-of-torture-and-incompetent-interrogators-in-baghdad.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:47:45

• "An academic trip to Iraq unexpectedly turned into an immersive field study on the ways authoritarian regimes use brutality." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/01/kidnapped-baghdad/685470/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:48:03

• "As a European, as an Italian, as someone who carries the values of the resistance against Nazi fascism, I see traces of a recent past we thought we had forgotten." ☛ https://mzll.it/2026/01/if-this-is-a-man/ | Source: Luigi Mozzillo    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:48:15

• "I have my canned response that aria-label auto-translation is inconsistent." ☛ https://adrianroselli.com/2026/01/barriers-from-links-with-aria.html | Source: Adrian Roselli    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:48:29

• "First things first, if you haven’t heard of or used alt text before, it is a brief written description of an image that explains context and purpose." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/01/using-ellmer-for-dynamic-alt-text-generation-in-shiny-apps/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:48:58

• "But yeah, we're not alright here. It sucks." ☛ https://timbornholdt.com/blog/terror | Source: Tim Bornholdt    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:50:04

• "ICE is actively employing recruiters who use right-wing social media and influencer operations to get at potential recruits." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/ice-recruiters-are-using-neo-nazi-memes-and-seeking-out-extremists-at-gun-shows/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:50:17

• "confirmed that members of an Army military police brigade who are stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina have been given prepare-to-deploy orders" ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/01/22/army-orders-soldiers-to-stand-by-for-possible-minneapolis-deployment/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:50:40

• "ICE carries around things they call warrants, but hardly resemble the real thing. An administrative warrant is self-issuing." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/22/since-last-may-ice-officers-have-been-told-they-dont-need-warrants-to-enter-homes/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:51:10

• "One such tactic is “using pepper spray or similar nonlethal munitions and crowd dispersal tools against persons who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity.”" ☛ https://www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/01/courts-are-mulling-whether-ice-violated-observers-civil-rights-lawsuits/ | Source: MinnPost    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:52:10

• "One of the main, shared achievements of the Alliance of Sahel States has been proving themselves to be a zone hostile to journalism that may be critical of authorities’ handling of security challenges" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/01/mali-bans-jeune-afrique-over-coverage-of-jihadist-fuel-and-security-crises/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:54:24

• "Șercan’s January 14 exposé on the Press One news site alleged that Romania’s minister of justice, Radu Marinescu, plagiarized his PhD thesis." ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/01/romanian-journalist-emilia-sercan-threatened-after-plagiarism-expose/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:54:49

• "We have also seen increasingly aggressive government suppression of political speech throughout the country, including on our own campus, as well as the administration’s violent efforts to quell Constitutionally protected protests in Minnesota." ☛ https://journalism.columbia.edu/news/faculty-statement-washington-post |    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:58:40

• "Press freedom organizations condemned Luna’s subpoena, characterizing it as an attempt to intimidate journalists reporting on sensitive stories." ☛ https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/seth-harp-didnt-dox-delta-force-colonel-maga-subpoena.php | Source: CJR    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:59:29

• "The former constitutional law professor had promised the most transparent administration in history. Instead, his administration normalized the archaic Espionage Act as the go-to weapons for prosecuting journalists’ sources" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/15/fbi-raid-washington-post-journalist | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 10:59:47

• "Seth Harp’s reporting on nonclassified information about the US’s attack on Venezuela has led to attacks from Congress on his — and everyone’s — basic First Amendment rights." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/01/harp-venezuela-free-speech-journalism/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:00:16

• "All the meanwhile, Post billionaire owner Jeff Bezos remains silent." ☛ https://freedom.press/issues/raid-of-reporters-home-ignores-federal-law-constitutional-freedoms/ | Source: FPF    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:00:33

• "One tactic used is the threat of launching libel or data protection claims against journalists to curtail public interest reporting, commonly referred to as Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs)." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/prs-need-to-stop-being-complicit-in-suppression-of-information-via-slapps/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:00:49

• "The Michigan Times returned to University of Michigan-Flint on Jan. 14, bringing independent student journalism back to campus after the newspaper stopped publishing at the end of the 2023-2024 academic year." ☛ https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2026/01/student-newspaper-returns-to-university-of-michigan-flint-after-18-month-hiatus.html | Source: Michigan News    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:04:18

• "This law is basically just a heckler’s veto. No consensus is needed to subject a title to removal across the state." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/22/utah-continues-to-ban-more-books-even-as-it-racks-up-more-lawsuits/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:05:17

• "At the heart of Paul’s argument is a simple demand: YouTube should have stepped in, judged the accusation against him to be false, and removed it." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/22/section-230-didnt-fail-rand-paul-he-just-doesnt-like-the-remedy-that-worked/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:05:33

• "The Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) has blocked access to the websites and social media accounts of two pro-Kurdish news outlets, Mezopotamya Agency (MA) and JinNews." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-blocks-access-to-pro-kurdish-news-agencies-amid-syria-offensive-315891 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:05:44

• "As CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale soon confirmed, the image had been altered to make it look as though Levy Armstrong was crying during her arrest." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/white-house-ai-protester | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:20:26

• "But here is what the free speech maximalists have done: they have transformed a right into a virtue." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-lie-they-call-freedom | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:21:58

• "Any attempt to change society by shopping very carefully is destined to fail, but it's worse than that." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/22/optimized-for-unoptimizability/#dystopia-of-rules | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:22:09

• "In the media, success is often reduced to the size of a company or the bank account of its founder." ☛ https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html | Source: Lionel Dricot    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:23:27

• "Here's some memory card news you don't see every day: ProGrade Digital has announced that it has entered into a Space Act agreement with NASA to support Artemis moon missions." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/memory-cards/prograde-digital-secures-out-of-this-world-contract-with-nasa | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:23:40

• "Legislators from the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee this week advanced the AI Overwatch Act, originally introduced in December" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/congress-wants-veto-power-over-trump-administration-for-ai-chip-exports-new-proposed-ai-overwatch-act-would-shift-ultimate-control-of-high-performance-chip-exports | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:23:53

• "In the wild, rays fall into two broad camps: pelagic, like manta rays, soaring far above the ocean floor; and benthic, like stingrays, hugging the seabed." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-01-stingrays-smarter-ocean-robots-physics.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:24:50

• "bubble netting" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humpback-whales-are-probably-learning-how-to-catch-prey-with-bubble-nets-by-watching-each-other-180988039/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:25:00

• "By far the largest production area for wind power is North Ostrobothnia, which includes Oulu. The region boasts more than a third of the country’s wind power capacity." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20205942 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:25:24

• "But anyway, we are doing it again! After a long gap in charity giving while I got stressed about the spiraling cost of the solar farm, I can finally do stuff like this again." ☛ https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2026/01/22/positech-is-funding-a-solar-powered-borehole-in-cameroon/ | Source: Positech Games    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:25:34

• "[Cryptocurrency] miner turned AI infrastructure provider Applied Digital announced it has broken ground on a 430 MW data center somewhere in the southern US, but it isn’t yet ready to reveal the location of its new facility." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/23/applied_digital_secret_datacenter/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:25:48

• "Launched during a year of radical transformation for Mercury, the Voyager departed from traditional utility to embrace a bold, futuristic aesthetic." ☛ https://www.vintag.es/2026/01/1957-mercury-voyager-2-door-station-wagon.html | Source: Vintage Everyday    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:26:11

• "The projects were aimed at helping 30,000 low-income families in rural areas across the U.S. territory as part of a now-fading transition toward renewable energy." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/trump-administration-scraps-multimillion-dollar-solar-projects-in-puerto-rico-as-grid-crumbles/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:26:31

• "A loophole under current law allows stablecoins — [cryptocurrenbcy] tokens pegged to the US dollar — to essentially pay interest on their investors’ holdings, similar to a bank account except without the same regulatory guardrails." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/01/stablecoins-crypto-banks-interest-profits/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:26:59

• "data centers." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/kushner-reveals-dystopic-plan-to-build-data-centers-on-ruins-of-gaza-genocide/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:27:18

• "As we go into the new week, that heat will build again over South Australia, NSW and particularly north-western parts of Victoria. Looking at the top of 43C for Adelaide on Monday" ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/parts-of-australia-to-approach-possible-record-breaking-heat-bom-says/38rcb5tvq | Source: SBS    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:28:26

• "That’s the message of a new analysis from the Union of Concerned Scientists released Wednesday, which models a variety of scenarios for how to fuel the coming AI boom" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-ai-boom-will-increase-us-carbon-emissions-but-it-doesnt-have-to/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:28:36

• "So far, however, only a small fraction of the files have been released, despite the deadline to release them all passing last month" ☛ https://zambianobserver.com/epstein-victim-hits-trump-doj-with-blistering-statement-this-failure-is-deeply-personal/ | Source: The Zambian Observer    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:29:17

• "White-Collar Whitewash: The story of “Bitcoin Jesus” highlights the extent that white-collar criminal enforcement has eroded under Trump." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/bitcoin-jesus-roger-ver-tax-evasion-friends-of-trump | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:30:10

• Overpopulation ☛ https://overpopulation-project.com/making-sense-of-trumps-immigration-crackdown/ | Source: Overpopulation    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:30:31

• "Now, lawmakers are calling for the Amendment to be applied within Section 4, with many Democrats expressing the opinion that Trump is unfit for office." ☛ https://time.com/7353887/trump-removal-from-office-25th-amendment-calls/ | Source: Time    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:31:22

• "Trump would be the oldest president in US history at age 82 by the time his term ends in January 2029" ☛ https://www.ibanet.org/President-Trump-and-the-25th-Amendment |    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:31:53

• "The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution lays out the rules of succession for the presidential office and those for presidential disability or removal." ☛ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/20/what-is-25th-amendment/88266702007/ | Source: Gannett    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:32:11

• "Superorganism" ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/ai-war-machine-superorganism/?doing_wp_cron=1769154651.8933770656585693359375 | Source: Project Censored    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:32:30

• "Unless members of parliament vote to remove the amendment from the bill when it returns to the House of Commons, it will become law." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/house_of_lords_votes_to_ban_under_16_socmed/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:40:58

• "Investors including the software giant Oracle; MGX, an Emirati investment firm; and Silver Lake, another investment firm, will own more than 80 percent of the new venture." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/tiktok-deal-oracle-bytedance-china-us.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:41:12

• "A press release announcing the deal’s closure didn’t say how much those stakes cost or give details about potentially launching a new app in the US." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/866437/tiktok-usds-bytedance-sale-oracle-mgx | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:41:28

• "The video-sharing app is a global digital entertainment powerhouse but its mass appeal and links to China have raised concerns over privacy and national security." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/tiktok-establishes-joint-venture-to-end-us-ban-threat-1288713319 | Source: RTL    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:43:01

• "Full text of Mark Carney speech, World Economic Forum, January 20, 2026 [...]" ☛ https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-rupture | Source: Carole Cadwalladr    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:43:32

• "The reset on the TikTok ban came through what amounts to a settlement between the government and TikTok that was made official yesterday by the federal court." ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/01/canadian-tiktok-ban-called-off-as-the-government-hits-the-digital-reset-button-once-again/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:43:54

• "Vance's insistence that Americans should not peacefully protest in the streets, but rather take their voices to the ballot box, is laughable." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/01/22/jd-vance-still-lying-about-minneapolis.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:44:33

• "No social media or smartphones for under-13s" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20205877 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:44:56

• "Europe will now have to swiftly translate the lessons from the past few weeks into building greater resilience and sovereignty, if not strategic autonomy." ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/trump-may-move-on-from-greenland-europe-wont/ | Source: Atlantic Council    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:45:32

• "An act relating to prevemting the unlawful manufcaturing of firearms by requiring three-dimensional printers to be equipped with certain blocking technologies" ☛ https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=2321&Year=2025 |    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:46:55

• Too many types for such official site: "preventing the unlawful manufacturing" is what it should say    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:47:50

• Do they write legislation on the toilet bowl with a spyphone now?    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:48:18

• (Typos)    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:48:33

• "A separate Recording Devices Bill from December 2025 proposes expanded biometric recognition, potentially enabling both live and retrospective facial recognition across Ireland's police force." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/01/21/ireland-wants-to-give-police-spyware-and-facial-recognition-powers.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:48:47

• "The German Interventionist Left has outed an informant who allegedly spied on left-wing structures in Bremen for more than eight years." ☛ https://digit.site36.net/2026/01/22/spy-in-bremen-conducted-sexual-relationships-with-target-persons-and-suffered-depression-due-to-double-life/ | Source: Site36    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:49:05

• "This is an excellent idea, the deletions are scheduled to start taking effect on August 1, and other states will be copying DROP soon. But what if they didn’t have to?" ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/the-best-drop-site-is-no-drop-site/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:51:36

• "Although Gemini has already been able to connect to other native Google apps, Personal Intelligence allows the tool to reason across those sources and retrieve specific details from them." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/personal-intelligence-ai-mode-google-search/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:51:48

• "The figures come from the latest GDPR Fines and Data Breach Survey published by DLA Piper" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/europes_gdpr_cops_dished_out/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:52:30

• "New court filings related to the lawsuit reveal that DOGE [sic] operatives entered an agreement with an advocacy group to share private Social Security data" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/doge-stole-private-social-security-data-congress-must-investigate-now | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 11:52:40

• "In the letter Senator Wyden says he believes Flock is uninterested in fixing the room for abuse baked into its platform, and says local officials can best protect their constituents from such abuses by removing the cameras entirely." ☛ https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:00:09

• "Among them is Amazon subsidiary Ring, the company behind those AI doorbell cameras that have exploded in popularity over the last few years." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/amazon-ring-cameras-ice | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:00:21

• Windows TCO: "NERC CIP-015-1 is a requirement intended to help balancing authorities, distribution providers, generators, transmission owners and operators, etc." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/power-grid/grid-modernization/evolving-cyber-attacks-are-threatening-the-grid-but-a-new-era-of-security-monitoring-has-arrived/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:01:17

• Windows TCO: "According to a recent Vodafone Business study, more than one in ten business leaders in the UK believe their organisation would be unlikely to survive a major cyberattack." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/uk-businesses-cyberattack/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:01:46

• Windows TCO: "In light of the latest data breach to impact ESA, the December 2025 incident doesn't look too bad." ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/european-space-agencys-cybersecurity-in-freefall-as-yet-another-breach-exposes-spacecraft-and-mission-data | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:01:56

• Social Control Media: "As we enter 2026, the lines between creativity and technology are blurring, sparking a new era of innovation. This inflection point requires ambitious bets." ☛ https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/the-future-of-youtube-2026/ |    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:03:25

• "So I wrote to their support, this time I wrote the text with the help of an LLM from another non-disabled organization." ☛ https://hugodaniel.com/posts/claude-code-banned-me/ |    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:07:32

• "We are just a small single open source project with a small number of active maintainers" ☛ https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/overrun-with-ai-slop-curl-scraps-bug-bounties-to-ensure-intact-mental-health/ | Source: Ars Technica    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:07:38

• "Readers may recall that Stenberg started complaining about AI-generated bug reports in early 2024, and by mid-2025 contemplated killing the project’s bug bounty program." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/21/curl_ends_bug_bounty/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:07:45

• "We believe, hope really, that we still will get actual security vulnerabilities reported to us even if we do not pay for them. The future will tell." ☛ https://lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel/2026-January/000143.html |    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:07:56

• "Imagine you work at a drive-through restaurant." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/why-ai-keeps-falling-for-prompt-injection-attacks.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:08:29

• "Whether this demonstration represents progress or perhaps a disaster waiting to happen, time will tell." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/transportation/866165/tesla-robotaxi-unsupervised-austin-texas-safety-monitor | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:08:47

• "This sudden shift away from years of messaging about being a compatriot with sex workers" ☛ https://www.404media.co/manyvids-porn-platform-ai-psychosis-bella-french-bio/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:14:03

• "Agentic browsers suffer from a key security weakness — inadequate isolation — according to research published last week by Trail of Bits, a cybersecurity research consultancy." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/ai-agents-undermine-progress-browser-security | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:14:12

• "In just nine days, Grok posted more than 4.4 million images. A review by The Times conservatively estimated that at least 41 percent of posts, or 1.8 million, most likely contained sexualized imagery of women" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/grok-x-ai-elon-musk-deepfakes.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:14:27

• "The AI tool Grok is estimated to have generated approximately three million sexualized images, including 23,000 that appear to depict children, after the launch of a new image editing feature powered by the tool on X" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/musks-grok-created-three-million-sexualized-images-research-says-248654000 | Source: RTL    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:14:45

• "But by and large, developers aren’t convinced Cursor has made a breakthrough." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/cursor_ai_wrote_a_browser/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:15:10

• "The rush to build AI infrastructure is putting a strain on many different resources." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-ceo-says-ai-needs-to-have-a-wider-impact-or-else-it-risks-quickly-losing-social-permission-also-says-that-the-technology-should-benefit-more-people-to-avoid-a-bubble | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:15:46

• "This work follows a survey COAR conducted of its members in spring 2025 to better understand the scope and scale of the problem" ☛ https://www.cni.org/news/dealing-with-ai-bots-coar-website | Source: Coalition for Networked Information    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:16:16

• "Essentially, AI is replacing tasks many people have grown reluctant to do themselves – thinking, writing, creating, analysing. But when we don’t use these skills, they can decline." ☛ https://theconversation.com/is-ai-hurting-your-ability-to-think-how-to-reclaim-your-brain-272834 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:16:32

• "But the price surge is rippling through consumer markets." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/ai-is-eating-the-worlds-memory-and-were-all-going-to-pay-the-price/276585/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:16:48

• "their companies aren’t yet seeing a financial return from investments in AI." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ceos-ai-returns | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:17:09

• "My first step was to look at the history of .vscode/tasks.json. I hoped that this would highlight exciting changes and shortcut having to scroll through the entire file." ☛ https://runjak.codes/posts/2026-01-21-adversarial-coding-test/ |    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:18:13

• [Old] "At the time of writing this blog post, there has been no public statement from Adobe or Pantone." ☛ https://andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/leaving-adobe-cc/ |    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:18:28

• "Look how the design pattern for primary/secondary user interface controls has inverted over time: [...]" ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/cta-hierarchy/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:18:41

• "Here’s my submission for Hemispheric View’s #155 request for fun and interesting computer peripherals (#old). In the abstract, this one’s neither fun nor interesting, yet it’s one I remember fondly." ☛ https://lmika.org/2026/01/23/hv-old-submission.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:19:27

• "The problem is I had already explicitly opted out of Lumo emails." ☛ https://dbushell.com/2026/01/22/proton-spam/ | Source: David Bushell    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:19:47

• "But App Store apps are different again." ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/22/can-you-still-run-old-app-store-apps/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:20:02

• "CapFrameX, a popular benchmarking tool, has recently been considered by NASA Langley as a tool to check the performance of its cockpit simulator video systems." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nasa-taps-popular-pc-hardware-performance-tool-for-cockpit-simulations-government-software-approval-process-for-capframex-started-by-the-space-agency | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:21:04

• "Global health experts worry that a lack of international coordination will lead to death and disaster." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/united-states-withdraws-world-health-organization.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:21:44

• "Intel reconfirmed its commitment to the consumer market during its Q4 2025 earnings, despite a heavy focus on wafer supply shortages and increased demand from the data center and AI markets." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/we-cant-completely-vacate-the-client-market-says-intel-amid-wafer-supply-shortages-nova-lake-still-on-track-for-late-2026-release-14a-in-2028 | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:22:53

• "In other words, Intel is prioritizing higher-margin Core-series parts to make way for Xeons, and cheap PCs packing low-end Intel processors may become harder to find." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/23/intel_earnings_q4_2025/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:23:05

• "As someone who has been into photography since the 1980s, and who has used these compact cameras when they were the latest and greatest in digital photography" ☛ https://morrick.me/archives/10236 | Source: Riccardo Mori    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:23:14

• Spyware, but with a blessing from Pedo Cheeto https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-teams/microsoft-teams-is-about-to-become-your-boss-lapdog-update    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:26:42

• "it’s not even an inability to critically think. It’s an inability to read sentences." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/gen-z-literacy-reading | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:27:24

• "When I joined Google ~14 years ago, I thought the job was about writing great code." ☛ https://addyosmani.com/blog/21-lessons/ | Source: Addy Osmani    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:27:43

• "While I doubt that me writing this down is going to cause any actual change, here’s what I feel needs to change in Toastmasters." ☛ https://gregoryhammond.ca/blog/why-i-left-toastmasters/ | Source: Gregory Hammond    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:27:53

• "He missed a critical point. While departments play an official role in hosting academic programs, they importantly serve as the main community for the faculty within the department." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/01/community.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:28:12

• "What I am realizing this quarter is that teaching only the introductory programming classes for more than a decade fundamentally changed me as an instructor." ☛ https://ambersettle.wordpress.com/2026/01/22/experience-matters/ | Source: Amber Settle    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:28:24

• "VLEO satellites hold considerable promise, but successfully operating in this unique environment requires certain design considerations." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/22/skimming-satellites-on-the-edge-of-the-atmosphere/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:29:18

• "So it has gone with email. I can well remember when having email was a status symbol -- it showed that you were up to date, technically sophisticated, even hip." ☛ https://guppylake.com/mimecast-blogs/OnceAndFutureStatusSymbol.html |    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:29:46

• "This comment only scratches the surface of the importance of Internet technology in empowering the handicapped to play a more full role in our society and our economy." ☛ https://guppylake.com/mimecast-blogs/JohnFerguson.txt |    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:29:58

• "Blog rolls are important. I have one." ☛ https://mtwb.blog/posts/2026/blogging/the-indieweb-has-a-discovery-problem/ | Source: Matthew Weber    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:30:08

• "I insist on double opt-in introductions if I’m making a connection. That means I check in with the connectee first: do they actually want this connection? It’s a little slower, but it means connections are always consensual." ☛ https://werd.io/the-forwardable-email/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:38:02

• "I hit forward. I add my social proof. I hit send. And I move on to the next one." ☛ https://pointc.co/the-forwardable-email/?ref=the-idea-bucket-newsletter |    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:38:15

• "When you’ve been writing a blog for yourself for so long, adjusting to the idea that people read it takes some getting used to." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/if-i-dont-you-still-can/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:38:32

• "I have a handful of cameras that are older than I am but I bought them recently; here I'm talking about things I've held onto for years… " ☛ https://thomasrigby.com/posts/what-is-the-oldest-thing-you-own/ | Source: Thomas Rigby    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:38:43

• "(e.g., writing repetitive blocks of similar code)" ☛ https://go.dev/blog/survey2025 |    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:40:49

• [Old] "As a software engineer, there are a lot of parallels in the industry, but by the nature of the work, the deliverables of shipped code are one way to measure the bus factor." ☛ https://mclare.blog/posts/the-bus-factor/ |    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:42:08

• "Lessons From 14 Years at Google" ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/01/22/lessons-from-14-years-at-google/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:42:22

• "The talk will largely pull experience from my RoPE post as reference material, since that post covers a lot of the core ideas and details." ☛ https://clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2026/01-22-the-real-tenstorrent-tensix-programming-model.gmi | Source: Martin Chang    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:42:45

• "Writing about testing package managers like Jepsen tests databases got me thinking about what sits underneath all the ecosystem-specific details. We can describe HTTP without talking about Apache or nginx." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/22/a-protocol-for-package-management.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:43:28

• "Everyone likes interfaces in Go and traits in Rust. Polymorphism without class-based hierarchies or inheritance seems to be the sweet spot. What if we try to implement this in C?" ☛ https://antonz.org/interfaces-in-c/ | Source: Anton Zhiyanov    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:43:50

• "In this series of posts, I’m rescuing vintage microcontrollers from their decades-long purgatory in a drawer in my local makerspace. To this end, I’m attempting to use them to drive a LED sign made of WS2812 strips" ☛ https://www.blog.montgomerie.net/posts/2026-01-22-rescuing-vintage-microcontrollers-part-2-can-it-work/ | Source: Jamie Montgomerie    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:46:56

• "Unlike native CAD formats, STLs are meshes of triangles, so you get very large numbers of items, which can be unwieldy." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/22/stl-editing-with-freecad/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:47:07

• "If you’re unfamiliar with silica gel, it’s that stuff that comes in the “DO NOT EAT” packet when you buy a new pair of shoes." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/22/silica-gel-makes-for-better-3d-prints/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:47:20

• "Today’s entry: a USB flash drive that promises high speeds, good looks, and strong durability." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/raspberry_pi_usb_drive/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:47:37

• "This cache does, however, make benchmarking challenging." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-flash-drive-available-now-from-30-a-high-quality-essential-accessory/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:47:55

• "It's been a while since we've covered cyberdecks, and so, when this Alien-inspired cyberdeck crossed our path, we had to take a look." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/alien-fan-builds-a-better-raspberry-pi-cyberdeck-the-mu-th-ur-of-all-homages-to-a-classic-movie-series | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:49:10

• "For the web, this is a long-solved problem. Many sites can and do have the same IP address. Web browsers send the domain they used to reach the server in the HTTP request as the Host header." ☛ https://blog.exe.dev/ssh-host-header |    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:51:29

• "Here's the clever bit: when you run the above command exe.dev signs you into your VM of that name..." ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/22/ssh-has-no-host-header/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:51:41

• "I almost lost a bunch of data this week. Here's how my backups saved me (just), and what I've changed." ☛ https://johnnydecimal.com/20-29-communication/22-blog/22.00.0180-backup-restore-points/ | Source: Johnny Decimal    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:51:55

• "A collection of 50+ optical illusions coded with CSS and HTML (but mostly CSS)." ☛ https://alvaromontoro.com/blog/68091/css-optical-illusions | Source: Alvaro Montoro    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:52:13

• "As years have stretched on, browser user-agent styles have grown somewhat estranged from how many developers use the web platform." ☛ https://vale.rocks/posts/css-reset | Source: Declan Chidlow    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:52:33

• "That 20ms is a smoking gun - it lines up perfectly with the mysterious pattern we saw earlier!" ☛ https://eieio.games/blog/ssh-sends-100-packets-per-keystroke/ | Source: Nolen Royalty    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:52:44

• How To Install SpiderFoot on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-spiderfoot-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:53:41

• How To Install OpenVPN Server on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-openvpn-debian-13/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:54:48

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

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:55:09

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

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:55:16

• How To Install Zammad on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-zammad-almalinux-10/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:55:36

• Malicious proprietary spyware, better now, Free software alternatives exist and work well/better ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-microsoft-teams-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:56:19

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

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:56:33

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

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 13:56:52

• "I have already dissed Markdown before. But that text didn’t age well, for reasons unrelated to Markdown." ☛ https://aartaka.me/markdown.html | Source: Artyom Bologov    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:03:42

• "In November, our first-ever Kenya Partner Showcase brought together all our partners from across the country for two days of collaboration, learning, and shared strategy." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/fostering-kenyas-computing-education-ecosystem/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:04:08

• "Mozilla has shipped with Firefox 128.0 its experimental Privacy Preserving Attribution API." ☛ https://andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/mozilla-ppa/ |    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:12:34

• "This is part of why the feed is the past 100 posts and not just the past couple of days or something like that." ☛ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/01/22/feedback/ | Source: Rachel    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:12:56

• "At the origin of this upheaval: the frenetic development of AI-dedicated infrastructure." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/the-end-of-an-era-for-smartphones | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:30:19

• "I ended up buying a phone case for my mime at a mall, and realized once again that the speed that technology moves at for most people is rather slow..." ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/old-phone-case/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:31:15

• "It shouldn’t have been this way. After all, I found out about these phones by going into this specific T-Mobile store about eight years ago" ☛ https://tedium.co/2026/01/22/oneplus-decline-shutdown-rumors-commentary/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:31:24

• "Here's a simple yet juicy topic. Muscle memory is both a blessing and a curse. How so, you ask?" ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/macos-linux-keyboard-remap.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:32:57

• "Specifically, in normal use "ZFS metadata" is different from "filesystem metadata", like directories." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSMetadataMeaning | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:33:07

• "Mozilla has always believed that technology should empower people." ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla-new-products/how-mozilla-builds-now/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:36:43

• "The Raspberry Pi Flash Drive uses non-volatile NAND flash storage and connects over a USB 3.0 Gen 1 interface, while remaining backward compatible with USB 2.0 hosts" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/usb-3-0-flash-drive-supports-os-boot-and-file-transfer-on-raspberry-pi/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:36:58

• Software Patent: Tu Quoque Denied: Google’s Own Patents Irrelevant to §101 Defense ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/01/googles-irrelevant-%c2%a7101.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:39:17

• Software Patents by Any Other Name ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/22/Software_Patents_by_Any_Other_Name.shtml    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:39:31

• Key Patent Innovations entity, Valtrus Innovations, litigation analysis available ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/1/22/key-patent-innovations-entity-valtrus-innovations-litigation-analysis-available    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:40:02

• Second Atlas Global Wi-Fi patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/1/21/second-atlas-global-wi-fi-patent-challenged    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:40:20

• More NovaCloud networking patents prior art found ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/1/22/more-novacloud-networking-patents-prior-art-found    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:41:01

• UPC is illegal and JUVE can't help cheering for this illegality, in effect helping cokeheads and criminals who run the EPO ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/court-of-appeal-hears-first-appeal-over-long-arm-jurisdiction-in-dyson-vs-dreame/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:42:07

• Lausanne minorities: Issues of representation, diversity, and pluralism in the media ☞ https://bianet.org/yazi/lausanne-minorities-issues-of-representation-diversity-and-pluralism-in-the-media-315904    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:42:35

• Steinar H. Gunderson: Rewriting Git merge history, part 2 ☞ http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2026-01-22-08-45_rewriting_git_merge_history_part_2.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:43:20

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 635 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/01/21/this-week-in-rust-635/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:43:55

• Simon Ser: Status update, January 2026 ☞ https://emersion.fr/blog/2026/status-update-83/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:45:08

• Government-Mandated Software a Looming Threat to Freedom ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/government-mandated-software "An increasing number of governments around the world are requiring that smartphones come with specific software pre-installed"    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:46:18

• 3 people shot dead in eastern Australia, town in lockdown ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/three-people-shot-dead-in-eastern-australia-town-in-lockdown    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:48:00

• James Bottomley: Adding Two Factor Authentication to Android (LineageOS) ☞ https://blog.hansenpartnership.com/adding-two-factor-authentication-to-android-lineageos/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:48:20

• Arch the Easy Way, With Manjaro 26.0 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/01/arch-the-easy-way-with-manjaro-26-0/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:49:34

• Pluralistic: The petty (but undeniable) delights of cultivating unoptimizability as a habit (22 Jan 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/22/optimized-for-unoptimizability/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:50:04

• [Podcast] NITK Students at IETF: Fresh minds for standards development ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/01/22/podcast-nitk-students-at-ietf-fresh-minds-for-standards-development/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:50:24

• That was a long wait, but Fentanylware (CheeTok) US is finally a done deal ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/22/long-wait-tiktok-us-finally-done-deal/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:50:43

• Christian kids app TruPlay claims Google, Fentanylware (CheeTok) blocked ads — urges Congress to act: ‘It’s devastating’ ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/01/22/tech/christian-kids-app-truplay-claims-google-tiktok-blocked-ads-call-on-congress-to-act-its-devastating/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:51:09

• Here’s Who Just Bought Fentanylware (CheeTok) ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/business/media/tiktok-investors-oracle-mgx-silver-lake-bytedance.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:51:24

• TikTok Strikes Deal to Create New U.S. Entity and Loosen App’s Ties to China ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/tiktok-deal-oracle-bytedance-china-us.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:51:42

• US and China Reportedly Sign Fentanylware (CheeTok) Divestment Agreement — Long-Awaited Deal Could Close This Week, Sources Say ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/01/22/tiktok-usa-divestment-deal-signed/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:52:03

• South Korea PM tells US lawmakers Seoul is not discriminating against Coupang ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/update-1-south-korea-pm-tells-us-lawmakers-seoul-is-not-discriminating-against-coupang following a data breach.    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:53:32

• South Korea repatriates 73 scam suspects from Cambodia in $33 million online fraud probe ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korea-repatriates-73-scam-suspects-from-cambodia-in-33-million-online-fraud-probe    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 14:54:19

• South Korea sets Hey Hi (AI) safety rules – first in world, enforcing its Hey Hi (AI) Act ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-sets-ai-safety-rules-first-in-world    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:22:26

• 73 South Koreans linked to scam networks in Cambodia to be repatriated ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/73-south-koreans-linked-to-scam-networks-in-cambodia-to-be-repatriated-seoul    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:22:51

• Bigger than K-pop: E-sports is serious business in South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/bigger-than-k-pop-e-sports-is-serious-business-in-south-korea    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:23:25

• Former South Korea PM sentenced to 23 years over 2024 invocation of martial law ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/former-south-korea-pm-sentenced-to-23-years-over-2024-invocation-of-martial-law/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:23:41

• Bookshelf: why the US failed to contain North Korea’s nuclear threat ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/bookshelf-why-the-us-failed-to-contain-north-koreas-nuclear-threat/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:23:53

• Malaysian ex-army chief, wife charged with corruption ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/ex-army-chief-charged-with-money-laundering-involving-664k    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:24:12

• A third of Malaysia’s water pipes past their prime ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/a-third-of-malaysias-water-pipes-past-their-prime    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:24:31

• Malaysia weighs social control media rule change after Grok Hey Hi (AI) uproar ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-weighs-social-media-rule-change-after-grok-ai-uproar    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:24:48

• 2 immigration officers in Malaysia nabbed for masterminding online passport renewal syndicate ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/2-immigration-officers-in-malaysia-nabbed-for-masterminding-online-passport-renewal-syndicate    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:25:27

• Malaysia’s former armed forces chief claims trial to $1.5m corruption charges ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-former-armed-forces-chief-claims-trial-to-1-5m-corruption-charges    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:25:46

• Cold wave tightens grip in South Korea as temperatures hit minus 24 deg C ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/cold-wave-tightens-grip-in-south-korea-as-temperatures-hit-minus-24-deg-c    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:29:16

• Even in bitter cold, these South Korean runners keep going, thanks to one clear innovation ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/even-in-bitter-cold-these-south-korean-runners-keep-going-thanks-to-one-clear-innovation    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:30:31

• "Fighting in the winter of 1950 in bitter cold and brutal terrain, men endured severe frostbite, sleepless nights, and total mental and physical exhaustion" https://www.marfork.marines.mil/Media-Room/Stories/Article/Article/1665198/the-battle-of-the-chosin-reservoir/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:31:05

• How Tootsie Rolls Accidentally Saved Marines During War https://err.usmc-mccs.org/news/how-tootsie-rolls-accidentally-saved-marines-during-war    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:31:49

• How profits and resources drive foreign policy in the Convicted Felon era ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2026/0122/trump-china-greenland-venezuela-oil    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:33:55

• China seeks deeper maritime ties with Malta in Central Mediterranean ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-seeks-deeper-maritime-ties-with-malta-in-central-mediterranean    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:34:07

• Philippines to insist that South China Sea code be based on international law ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-will-insist-south-china-sea-code-is-based-on-international-law-foreign-minister-says    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:34:21

• China defends wind power strategy, says Convicted Felon is wrong ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-defends-wind-power-strategy-says-trump-is-wrong    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:34:46

• More spying, social control ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/why-is-china-renewing-a-push-for-its-digital-currency    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:35:14

• Coding love for Porkbun ☞ https://major.io/p/love-for-porkbun/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:36:42

• Announcing Chiron Codex, a community of software centaurs ☞ https://www.sicpers.info/2026/01/announcing-chiron-codex-a-community-of-software-centaurs/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:37:54

• Gutted Mosques, Eerie Calm In Tehran After Unrest ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protest-uprising-aftermath-burned-mosques-banks/33655659.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:38:09

• The new Fairbuds XL: Everybody loves backwards-compatibility ☞ https://www.fairphone.com/en/2026/01/22/the-new-fairbuds-xl-everybody-loves-backwards-compatibility/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:38:41

• The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Rust 1.93.0 ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/01/22/Rust-1.93.0/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:39:21

• "Walking down an alley I haven't visited in a while, I turn a corner and.. hey, it's still here. Wow. Has it been 5 years? Jeez..." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2774    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:40:32

• "what are your thoughts on iran ? do you support their regime or people?" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/allah/37084    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:41:50

• 🔤SpellBinding: CDEGKOU Wordo: PIGGY gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/allah/37084    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:42:23

• Correct URL: gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2026-01-23.gmi    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:42:53

• "I read Witch Watch recently, while reading chapter 133, I notice it has a familiar pattern to another anime I've watch." gemini://tilde.club/~silica/gemlog-en/2026-01-23_witchwatch_cardcaptor.gmi    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:43:49

• Modifier keys in GNU/Linux virtual machines under macOS ☞ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/macos-linux-keyboard-remap.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:48:06

• TerraMaster D1 SSD Pro – A Thunderbolt 5 fanless SSD enclosure with 80Gbps bandwidth, 7GB/s practical performance ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/22/terramaster-d1-ssd-pro-a-thunderbolt-5-fanless-ssd-enclosure-with-80gbps-bandwidth-7gb-s-practical-performance/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:49:02

• "Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Yocto Linux" ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/22/advantech-mio-5355-3-5-inch-sbc-features-qualcomm-qcs6490-or-qcs5430-soc-for-industrial-edge-ai/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:49:27

• How to Easily Switch from backdoored Windows 11 to GNU/Linux for Gaming Performance Gains ☞ https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/latest-valve-proton-games-support/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:50:19

• Firefox Nightly: Introducing Mozilla’s Firefox Nightly .rpm package for RPM-based linux distributions! ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/01/19/introducing-mozillas-firefox-nightly-rpm-package-for-rpm-based-linux-distributions/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:50:51

• The Upcoming NexPhone can Run Both Android and Windows, and Costs Less than Flagship Phones ☞ https://phandroid.com/2026/01/21/the-upcoming-nexphone-can-run-both-android-and-windows-and-costs-less-than-flagship-phones/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 15:54:47

• "IBM doesn't need to make it to the top 10. IBM will simply acquire these best companies to work for, raid on their assets and IP, and soon their employees would be posting here after wondering what just happened to them." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfk6qra3    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:07:14

• "Ask Arvind" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfe4v5hs    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:08:08

• IBM layoffs tactics (SILENT layoffs): "is that after you get your layoff notice or before you receive it ? Timing is everything..." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfcgmcs8    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:09:31

• Rights group presses Kazakhstan authorities to release activists ahead of trial ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/rights-group-presses-kazakhstan-authorities-to-release-activists-ahead-of-trial/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:14:17

• Peptide Treatment Protects Brains After Stroke, Mouse Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/peptide-treatment-protects-brains-after-stroke-mouse-study-finds    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:16:24

• Eight in ten of world’s biggest news websites now block Hey Hi (AI) training bots ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/eight-in-ten-of-worlds-biggest-news-websites-now-block-ai-training-bots/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:17:25

• Suni Williams Retires After Record Space Career And Final Ill-Fated Mission ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/suni-williams-retires-after-record-space-career-and-final-ill-fated-mission    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:18:35

• The Real Hey Hi (AI) Risk Isn't Mass Unemployment, Economist Warns ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-real-ai-risk-isnt-mass-unemployment-economist-warns    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:18:52

• Not All Sitting Is Equal. One Type Was Just Linked to Better Brain Health. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/not-all-sitting-is-equal-one-type-was-just-linked-to-better-brain-health    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:21:57

• Scientists Tried to Spread The Flu, Only to Discover Something Unexpected ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-tried-to-spread-the-flu-only-to-discover-something-unexpected    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:22:20

• Giant Kangaroo Fossils Reveal a Surprise About How They Moved ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/giant-kangaroo-fossils-reveal-a-surprise-about-how-they-moved    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:22:48

• Ancient DNA Reveals Twisted Roots of Syphilis Go Back 5,500 Years ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-dna-reveals-twisted-roots-of-syphilis-go-back-5500-years    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:24:44

• Strange Metal From Beyond Our Planet Spotted in Ancient Treasure Stash ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/strange-metal-from-beyond-our-planet-spotted-in-ancient-treasure-stash    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:25:59

• Earthquake Sensors Detect Sonic Booms From Incoming Space Junk ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/earthquake-sensors-detect-sonic-booms-from-incoming-space-junk    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:26:21

• The US Is Bracing For a Major Winter Storm. Here's Where It Hits First. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-us-is-bracing-for-a-major-winter-storm-heres-where-it-hits-first    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:26:57

• Human Penis Size Evolved For 2 Purposes, New Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/human-penis-size-evolved-for-2-purposes-new-study-finds    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:27:14

• Valuable Latvian vase rescued from U.S. thrift store ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/22.01.2026-valuable-latvian-vase-rescued-from-us-thrift-store.a631169/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:27:29

• Take the Qt Developer Survey 2026 ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/contribute-to-the-community-take-qt-developer-survey-2026    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:32:20

• Alone and lonely ☞ https://alirezahayati.com/2026/01/alone-and-lonely/ "Words can’t explain our suffering here. Nothing can express the pain we are in. You have no idea what has happened to us. This to remember those days. No internet, no SMS, and no phone calls"    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:37:18

• Live Blog: Iran Internet Blackout Passes Two-Week Mark, Says Watchdog ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protests-live-blog-trump-khamenei/33640284.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:43:28

• Deadly protests crackdown in Iran: Some funerals of protesters turn into demonstrations ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/deadly-protests-crackdown-in-iran-some-funerals-of-protesters-turn-into-demonstrations    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:43:42

• iophk: "EFF could also put in a word to promote the EC feedback period regarding digital sovereignty and Free and Open Source Software + Open Standards. The EFF used to actually promote digital freedom and civil rights in the digital realm. It would not take much effort on their part to resume those activities."    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:45:40

• Mozilla Localization (L10N): L10n Report: January Edition 2026 ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2026/01/22/l10n-report-january-edition-2026/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:55:29

• Why iPhone and Android Weather Apps Are Freaking Out About Winter Storm Forecasts ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/weather/weather-apps-forecast-apple-android.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:56:02

• Nurses in New York City Say They Deserve $200,000 a Year. Here’s Why. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/nyregion/nyc-nurses-strike-pay-raises.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:58:14

• Iran warns 'finger on trigger' as The Insurrectionist says talks still possible ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260123-iran-trump-tehran-talks    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:58:51

• Shahzia Sikander’s ‘Collective Behavior’ spans artistic mediums at the Cantor ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/01/21/shahzia-sikanders-collective-behavior-spans-artistic-mediums-at-the-cantor/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 16:59:57

• Luis Villa: two questions on software “sovereignty” ☞ https://lu.is/2026/01/two-questions-on-software-sovereignty/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 17:00:27

• Nope, Microsoft did NOT deny it! https://hrexecutive.com/what-microsofts-layoff-denial-reveals-about-viral-rumors/ see https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/09/No_Microsoft_Did_Not_Deny_the_Q1_Mass_Layoffs_Microsoft_Can_Del.shtml    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:04:10

• 14 Years Later than Planned, NexPhone is Up for Preorder ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/nexphone-2026-convergence-android-debian    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:05:11

• Firefox’s Tab Notes Feature Feels Genuinely Useful (For Me, At Least) ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/firefox-new-tab-notes-feature    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:05:41

• Slopfarms Still Fed by Google, Boosting Fake 'Articles' That Pretend to Cover "Linux" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/23/Slopfarms_Still_Fed_by_Google_Boosting_Fake_Articles_That_Prete.shtml    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:05:57

• "Detritus writes with an interesting take on the universality and overuse of English language on the internet and in parts of the world where it's not the primary language. The paradox aside, that the piece itself is written in English, I think there are some fundamentally valid intuitions in it, as well as some exaggeration." gemini://oberdada.pollux.casa/gemlog/2026-01-23_lingua_franca.gmi    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:06:47

• Nuestro re-encuentro gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/eñe/37099    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:07:29

• penguins’ eggs – create live ISO images and custom GNU/Linux respins ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/penguins-eggs-create-live-iso-images-custom-linux-respins/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:07:56

• scss-lint – keep SCSS files clean and readable ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/scss-lint-keep-scss-files-clean-readable/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:08:16

• New Steam Client Update Adds Support for the Razer Raiju V3 Pro Controller ☞ https://9to5linux.com/new-steam-client-update-adds-support-for-the-razer-raiju-v3-pro-controller    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:08:35

• EcoOS 4 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ecoos    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:08:51

• Talos 1.12.2 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/talos    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:09:02

• Zack Polanski tells defence surveillance corporation Palantir to ‘pack its bags and get the hell out of the NHS’ ☞ https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/01/22/zack-polanski-tells-defence-surveillance-corporation-palantir-to-pack-its-bags-and-get-the-hell-out-of-the-nhs/ https://techrights.org/n/2023/11/23/Privatisation_Catastrophe_Starting_with_NHS_England_Microsoft_a.shtml    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:09:36

• SmartOS 20260122 is ready ☞ https://distrowatch.com/smartos    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:09:54

• Fastfetch updated with COSMIC Desktop & Bedrock GNU/Linux Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/01/fastfetch-cosmic-desktop-support/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:10:33

• Do Not Link to Linuxiac Anymore, Linuxiac Became a Slopfarm ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/22/Do_Not_Link_to_Linuxiac_Anymore_Linuxiac_Became_a_Slopfarm.shtml    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:10:44

• Salvadorans' Usage of GNU/Linux Measured at Record Levels ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/22/Salvadorans_Usage_of_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_Record_Levels.shtml    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:11:01

• "capable of running Android and GNU/Linux (Debian) too" https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-phone-is-back-from-the-dead-kind-of/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:11:23

• tuicr – TUI for code review ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tuicr-tui-code-review/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:12:23

• Stylelint – CSS linter ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/stylelint-css-linter/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:12:32

• Gorae – TUI librarian for PDFs and EPUBs ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/gorae-tui-librarian-pdfs-epubs/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:12:41

• pdfcpu – PDF processing library ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pdfcpu-pdf-processing-library/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:12:49

• Adam Young: Viewing the Flattened Device Tree from Qemu ☞ https://adam.younglogic.com/2026/01/viewing-the-flattened-device-tree-from-qemu/    

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

• Monitoring OpenStack and OpenShift together ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/22/monitoring-openstack-and-openshift-together    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:13:38

• Vertex of HEY HI SPAM https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/friday-five-january-23-2026-red-hat    

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

• RSCs are now supported in MyAPNIC ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/01/23/rscs-are-now-supported-in-myapnic/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:14:23

• Rust 1.93.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1055487/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:14:43

• Five journalists among 22 detained in Mardin during Rojava protests ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/five-journalists-among-22-detained-in-mardin-during-rojava-protests-315901    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:15:07

• Finitodo – graphical task/todo list manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/finitodo-graphical-task-todo-list-manager/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:16:14

• Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer running Linux: BIOS ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/orange-pi-6-plus-single-board-computer-running-linux-bios/    

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

• 5 Best Free and Open Source Tox Clients ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-tox-clients/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:16:33

• ImPPG – image post-processor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/imppg-image-post-processor/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:16:43

• 10 Best Free and Open Source Qt File Managers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-qt-file-managers/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:16:53

• 30 years of ReactOS ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1055485/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:17:15

• Strengthening Open Source Security Through Community: Introducing OSSAfrica ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/01/22/strengthening-open-source-security-through-community-introducing-ossafrica/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:17:41

• Bento – stream processor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bento-stream-processor/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:18:38

• Passy – offline password manager with cross-platform synchronization ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/passy-offline-password-manager-cross-platform-synchronization/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:18:51

• LazyWorktree – Git worktree management for the terminal ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lazyworktree-git-worktree-management-terminal/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:19:16

• Old Attack, New Speed: Researchers Optimize Page Cache Exploits ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/old-attack-new-speed-researchers-optimize-page-cache-exploits/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:19:38

• YouTube CEO Puts ‘Managing Hey Hi (AI) Slop’ on the Priority List for 2026 — But ‘Managed’ or Not, It’s Not Gonna Chart On Billboard ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/01/22/youtube-ceo-ai-slop-2026-comments/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:20:26

• GNU Guix: Meet Guix at FOSDEM ☞ https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2026/meet-guix-at-fosdem-2026//    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:21:31

• Five Years Ago, After We Broke the Story About Richard Stallman Rejoining the FSF's Board, All Hell Broke Loose (for Me and My Family) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/22/Five_Years_Ago_After_We_Broke_the_Story_About_Richard_Stallman_.shtml    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:21:57

• Windows Phone makes a spiritual comeback thanks to NexPhone, which can triple-boot Windows, Android, and GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/phones/windows-phone-makes-a-spiritual-comeback-thanks-to-nexphone-which-can-triple-boot-windows-android-and-linux-three-in-one-device-is-powered-by-qualcomm-chipset-and-even-has-external-monitor-support    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:22:30

• Zelenskyy Urges Convicted Felon For More Air Defense Amid 'Groundhog Day' Of Words Without Actions ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/witkoff-ukraine-peace-talks-one-issue-davos/33656523.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:22:49

• Board Of Peace = Board Of Putin. War is PEACE(TM).    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:23:28

• And invasions are "defence"    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:23:44

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Launches Board Of Putin ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-board-of-peace-putin-un/33656659.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:24:02

• Witkoff and Kushner Will Meet With Putin for Ukraine Talks ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/world/europe/putin-meeting-witkoff-kushner-moscow-us-russia.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:24:13

• Putin Says Russia Could Donate to ‘Board of Peace’ if U.S. Unfroze Assets ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/world/europe/putin-board-of-peace-frozen-assets.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:24:23

• Zelensky says that "nothing has changed" since last Davos summit ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260122-zelensky-says-that-nothing-has-changed-since-last-davos-summit    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:24:41

• In fiery Davos speech, Zelensky blasts EU's lack of "political will" ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/in-fiery-davos-speech-zelensky-blasts-eu-s-lack-of-political-will    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:25:03

• BSD Now 647: Why BSDs? ☞ https://www.bsdnow.tv/647    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:25:49

• Resistance in occupied Ukraine 'under constant surveillance' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/ukraine-s-resistance-under-constant-surveillance    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:26:05

• Zelensky says US 'security guarantees' for Ukraine ready after meeting with Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260122-zelensky-says-us-security-guarantees-ready-after-meeting-with-trump    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:26:16

• UN rights chief condemns latest Russian attacks on Ukraine energy infrastructure ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/un-rights-chief-condemned-latest-russian-attacks-on-ukraine-energy-infrastructure/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:26:31

• Taiwan offers talks with Ukraine on weapons sanctions-busting ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/taiwan-offers-talks-with-ukraine-on-weapons-sanctions-busting    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:26:43

• Zelensky Laces Into Europe, Saying It Must Step Up or Be Left Behind ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/world/europe/davos-zelensky.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:26:58

• Davos Stops Pretending ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/world/davos-trump-greenland-ukraine.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:27:10

• Taiwan offers talks with Ukraine after Zelensky names island as source of Russian arms ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-offers-talks-with-ukraine-on-weapons-sanctions-busting    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:27:36

• Leader of ransomware crew pleads guilty to four-year crime spree ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/ianis-antropenko-russian-ransomware-leader-guilty/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:28:14

• 'Europe can, too, weaponise the economy and the single market', expert says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe-can-too-weaponize-the-economy-and-the-single-market-expert-says    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:28:28

• Talks with US aim to prevent China, Russia from ‘access’ to Greenland, NATO chief says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/22/talks-with-us-aim-to-prevent-china-russia-from-access-to-greenland-nato-chief-says/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:28:49

• Live Updates: Zelensky Criticizes European Allies’ Response to Convicted Felon and Russia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/22/us/trump-davos-news    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:29:03

• After Convicted Felon’s Ultimatum, Greenland Talks Include Sovereign U.S. Bases, No Drilling for Russia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/world/europe/trump-greenland-deal-framework.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:29:16

• Resuming Belarusian fertiliser transit is down to national security – ruling party leader ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2814333/resuming-belarusian-fertiliser-transit-is-down-to-national-security-ruling-party-leader    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:29:26

• What trees mean to Russia, through a history of war and peace ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2026/0122/russian-history-the-oak-and-the-larch    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:29:37

• Kimwolf Botnet Lurking in Corporate, Govt. Networks ☞ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/01/kimwolf-botnet-lurking-in-corporate-govt-networks/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:30:31

• Spy in Bremen conducted sexual relationships with target persons and suffered depression due to “double life” ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2026/01/22/spy-in-bremen-conducted-sexual-relationships-with-target-persons-and-suffered-depression-due-to-double-life/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:30:58

• Meet the LibreOffice community at FOSDEM 2026! ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/01/22/meet-the-libreoffice-community-at-fosdem-2026/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:31:20

• No, the Problem at IBM/Red Hat Isn't Diversity ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/22/No_the_Problem_at_IBM_Red_Hat_Isn_t_Diversity.shtml    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:31:38

• KDE Drops Code for FreeBSD Support ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/kde-drops-code-for-freebsd-support    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:31:48

• How to Deal With That Drawer Full of Old Gadgets ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/personaltech/how-to-deal-with-that-drawer-full-of-old-gadgets.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:32:33

• pg_utl_smtp v1.0 released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pg_utl_smtp-v10-released-3217/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:33:18

• Atlassian, GitLab, Zoom Release Security Patches ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/atlassian-gitlab-zoom-release-security-patches/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:34:14

• TTABlog Test: Is YOGUT for Freeze-Dried Yogurt-Based Snacks Confusable with YOURGUT for Yogurt? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2026/01/ttablog-test-is-yogut-for-freeze-dried.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:34:46

• Activists Say Ring Cameras Are Being Used by ICE ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/amazon-ring-cameras-ice    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:35:11

• House approves final spending bills as Democrats denounce ICE funding ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2026/01/house-moves-to-finish-government-funding-as-democrats-decry-homeland-security-bill/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:36:08

• New Wave of Attacks Targeting FortiGate Firewalls ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-wave-of-attacks-targeting-fortigate-firewalls/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:36:33

• Raspberry Pi OS adds easier USB gadget mode support ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/22/raspberry-pi-os-adds-easier-usb-gadget-mode-support/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:37:06

• Hackers Targeting Cisco Unified CM Zero-Day ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-targeting-cisco-unified-cm-zero-day/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:37:38

• Watchdog group sues for TSA data sharing agreement with ICE ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/american-oversight-sues-tsa-ice-over-data-sharing-partnership-fight-records/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:38:22

• 'Vanity project': Does Convicted Felon seek to 'cement legacy' with Greenland deal and Board of Peace? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260122-vanity-project-does-trump-seek-to-cement-legacy-with-greenland-deal-and-board-of-peace-1    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:39:21

• HKFP Live: National security trial of Tiananmen vigil group begins ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/22/hkfp-live-national-security-trial-of-tiananmen-vigil-group-begins/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:39:41

• US official says pro-Palestine activist to be deported to Algeria ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/us-official-says-pro-palestine-activist-mahmoud-khalil-to-be-deported-to-algeria/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:40:01

• Hong Kong authorities criticized for prosecuting Tiananmen crackdown commemorators ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/hong-kong-authorities-criticized-for-prosecuting-tiananmen-crackdown-commemorators/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:40:34

• UN raises alarm over renewed clashes and prison breaks in northeast Syria ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/un-raises-alarm-over-renewed-clashes-and-prison-breaks-in-northeast-syria/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:40:58

• HRW calls for civilian protection after M23 group withdrew from Uvira ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/hrw-calls-for-civilian-protection-after-m23-group-withdrew-from-uvira/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:41:07

• Preparing for the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/preparing-for-the-eu-cyber-resilience-act-cra/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:41:32

• At Davos, a loss of trust was evident. Can NATO survive Greenland dispute? ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2026/0122/trump-europe-greenland-nato-davos-security    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:42:00

• Australia mourns in candlelight for Bondi Beach shooting victims ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-holds-day-of-mourning-for-bondi-beach-shooting-victims    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:42:12

• A Massacre in Mashhad ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/as-told-to/a-massacre-in-mashhad    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:42:36

• Medical Recommendations with Avian Intelligence ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1115/medical-recommendations-with-avian-intelligence    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:43:04

• Mark Carney Says Firmly That ‘Canada Doesn’t Live Because of the United States’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/world/canada/carney-trump-canada-speech.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:43:53

• Global power in freely given gratitude ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0122/Global-power-in-freely-given-gratitude    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:44:10

• Sheinbaum sends Economy Minister to D.C. to shore up USMCA ties as Canada clashes with the US ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/sheinbaum-sends-economy-minister-to-d-c-to-shore-up-usmca-ties-as-canada-clashes-with-the-us/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:44:30

• Headlamp in 2025: Project Highlights ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01/22/headlamp-in-2025-project-highlights/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:45:04

• Open Source Initiative (OSI) works for Microsoft, represents Microsoft, speaks for Microsoft. This blog post was authored by a Microsoft operative, Nick Vidal. OSI is practically dead. ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/top-50-open-source-conferences-in-2026    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:46:45

• OpenMediaVault 8.0.7 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/openmediavault    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:46:59

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1055484/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:47:21

• RMS talk about to commence. https://stallman.org/talks.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:47:46

• No live stream, but info in https://ltc.gtorg.gatech.edu/2026/01/04/rms/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:48:44

• Urgent: Oppose military action against Greenland https://stallman.org/archives/2025-nov-feb.html#23_January_2026_(Urgent:_Oppose_military_action_against_Greenland)    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 18:49:59

• There are ‘no lawful means’ to end CCP leadership, prosecution says as nat. sec trial of Tiananmen vigil activists starts ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/22/there-are-no-lawful-means-to-end-ccp-leadership-prosecution-says-as-nat-sec-trial-of-tiananmen-vigil-activists-starts/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:08:09

• Immigration Agents Detain 5-Year-Old Boy in Minnesota, Prompting Outrage ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/liam-detention-ice-minneapolis.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:08:30

• ‘Extremely disappointed’: Lamma ferry disaster verdict leaves families outraged ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/23/extremely-disappointed-lamma-ferry-disaster-verdict-leaves-families-outraged/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:08:52

• American Oversight Sues Convicted Felon Administration Over Secretive TSA–ICE Data Sharing that Could Risk Air Travel Safety ☞ https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-sues-trump-administration-over-secretive-tsa-ice-data-sharing-that-could-risk-air-travel-safety/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:09:12

• Japan punk rock lawyer leads climate justice fight against central government ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-punk-rock-lawyer-leads-climate-justice-fight    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:09:51

• Arizona AG wildly suggests residents can shoot masked ICE agents under state’s self-defense laws: ‘Recipe for disaster’ ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/01/22/us-news/arizona-ag-wildly-suggests-residents-can-shoot-masked-ice-agents-under-states-self-defense-laws/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:10:19

• Three Dead After Shooting in Rural Australian Town ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/world/australia/australia-lake-cargelligo-shooting.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:10:28

• San Diego Comic Con Quietly Bans Hey Hi (AI) Art ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/comic-con-ai-art    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:10:50

• Grinning Wolf Tells Little Red Riding Hood That Her Safety Is His Top Priority ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-startup-red-riding-hood    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:11:10

• "Intel’s revival" = 100% hype and marketing, backed by Pedo Cheeto    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:17:24

• "Stallman is Back"... what is this, 2021???? https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-04/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:19:10

• When will "It's FOSS" 'come back' from Microsoft's closet?    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:20:13

• Proprietary and Microsoft acting like it 'owns' what it is in fact attacking https://github.blog/changelog/2026-01-22-1-vcpu-linux-runner-now-generally-available-in-github-actions/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:21:39

• This isn't a Linux issue, it's poor stewardship of a repo https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/malicious-pypi-package-impersonates.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:23:14

• LF got paid by Microsoft months ago to misuse the "Linux" brand to promote plagiarism and Ponzi scheme associates with it https://finance.yahoo.com/news/linux-foundation-reveals-2026-global-140000341.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:24:30

• NexPhone Might Be First Smartphone Capable of Booting Into Android, Linux, and Windows 11 https://www.techeblog.com/nexphone-smartphone-dual-boot-android-linux-windows-specs-price/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:25:05

• This new Debian edition doesn't use Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/this-new-debian-edition-doesnt-use-linux/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:25:34

• This midrange phone can triple-boot Android, Linux, and Windows https://www.phonearena.com/news/this-midrange-phone-can-triple-boot-android-linux-and-windows_id177560    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:25:58

• Costly slop https://cybernews.com/security/security-blunder-reveals-birth-of-linux-malware-voidlink/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:26:32

• "The developers got everything right with this custom desktop: Arch-based StratOS with Hyprland is about as cool as they come." https://www.zdnet.com/article/stratos-hyprland-linux-distro-modern-stylish/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:27:17

• CIQ extends active defense to the operating system with proactive hardening for Rocky Linux from CIQ -- Hardened https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/ciq-extends-active-defense-operating-130500516.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:27:57

• One for the sickos: Linux shell 'revives' Windows 8's infamous tile-based Metro look https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/one-for-the-sickos-linux-shell-revives-windows-8s-infamous-tile-based-metro-look/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:28:23

• They use slop images these days. Bad optics. https://www.securityweek.com/old-attack-new-speed-researchers-optimize-page-cache-exploits/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:28:56

• Poly Effects Hugo: a Linux-based pedal powerhouse with Bitwig Studio and VSTs? https://synthanatomy.com/2026/01/poly-effects-hugo-a-linux-based-pedal-powerhouse.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:30:23

• This Android phone with Linux jumps to Windows when you need it https://www.digitaltrends.com/phones/this-android-phone-with-linux-jumps-to-windows-when-you-need-it/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:30:54

• Microsoft Canonical https://cybernews.com/security/hackers-target-linux-snap-packages-with-malware/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:33:52

• OpenWrt One gains support for running Debian https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/01/22/openwrt-one-running-debian/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:34:35

• NexPhone: A Smartphone That Runs Android, Linux And Windows 11 https://www.ubergizmo.com/2026/01/nexphone/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:36:58

• This smartphone can run Android, Linux, and even Windows 11 https://www.techspot.com/news/111016-smartphone-can-run-android-linux-even-windows-11.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:37:30

• Windows, ah! https://uk.pcmag.com/mobile-phones/162706/the-return-of-windows-phone-this-new-device-runs-android-linux-windows-11    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:38:06

• "If you're just now coming over to Linux, you might have noticed there are a lot of distributions to choose from. One of your first choices will be what base you want to use. Here's a bit of help." https://www.zdnet.com/article/debian-vs-arch-vs-fedora-based-linux-distros/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:40:22

• RMS talk underway    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:40:43

• Windows 8 lives again on Linux, and I'm just as confused by it as you https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-8-linux-ui-project/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:41:00

• "FreeBSD is a Unix-like operating system that has roots in Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), which itself originated from research conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1970s." https://itsfoss.com/news/plasma-login-manager-drops-freebsd/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:41:54

• GNOME 1.0 vs. GNOME 50: The 26-year evolution of the world's most controversial desktop https://www.howtogeek.com/how-gnome-has-evolved-over-27-years/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:42:30

• "While compatibility isn't perfect, it's sufficient for getting a feel of the program (if that's your desire) and even potentially for using it to do real work." https://itsfoss.com/affinity-on-linux/    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:43:10

• Linux creatives rejoice - this dev's hard work now lets Photoshop finally run on Linux, so let your imaginations run wild https://www.techradar.com/pro/linux-creatives-rejoice-this-devs-hard-work-now-lets-photoshop-finally-run-on-linux-so-let-your-imaginations-run-wild    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:44:47

• On IBM layoffs: "Wow next wave is already starting?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfn8q05b    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:52:57

• "The surplus people are marked for elimination and that would continue as long as the employers can artificially prop the stock price up without creating any real value." "Yup should hit the states by spring"    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:53:18

• "It’s before. They use this as an artificial pretext and justification to fire you. It sets it up." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfcgmcs8    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 19:54:10

• Reasons not to be used by Facebook https://www.stallman.org/facebook.html    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 20:24:48

• To IBM: "RA me please! I hate this place!!!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfn8q05b    

posted Friday, January 23, 2026 at 21:12:44