Roy Schestowitz

• Growing lineups mix with affordability challenges as Winnipeg retailers navigate surge in gold prices https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/gold-prices-surge-sell-invest-customers-9.7050574    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:27:01

• atirical Xi Jinping Photos https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/china-files-complaint-over-philippine-coast-guards-presentation-that-shows-satirical-xi-jinping-1771732    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:29:52

• second in EU [sic] https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-ranked-second-in-eu-pesticide-alerts-in-2025-315562    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:31:21

• Prison occupancy in Turkey exceeds 130% https://bianet.org/haber/prison-occupancy-in-turkey-exceeds-130-315616    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:31:56

• Human rights advocate Ali Aydın killed in western Turkey https://bianet.org/haber/human-rights-advocate-ali-aydin-killed-in-western-turkey-315599    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:32:54

• Turkey's state broadcaster announces anti-LGBTI+ documentary https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-s-state-broadcaster-announces-anti-lgbti-documentary-315633    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:33:35

• Iranians Use Turkey Border to Access Internet During Blackouts https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-17/iranians-use-turkey-border-to-access-internet-during-blackouts    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:34:32

• Dutch experts warn U.S. takeover of DigiD platform poses national security risks https://nltimes.nl/2026/01/15/dutch-experts-warn-us-takeover-digid-platform-poses-national-security-risks    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:35:41

• terrorism laws used to silence dissent https://www.dw.com/en/india-security-terrorism-laws-used-to-silence-dissent/a-75534044    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:36:35

• IBM skirting the law. "... the last one in November was a surprise to most. I don’t think they even did WARN act! At my site it was a shocking out of no where surprise" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfn8q05b    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:41:31

• "it felt like on my site the managers knew it was possible there would be one in the fall but were surprised how late it was and we hadn’t yet had one (until it happened) but nobody was offered retirement package and no contractors were let go unless they had extreme attendance issues"    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:41:49

• "Yes things are starting to move that will conclude in another round of layoffs" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfv37vnh    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:45:18

• "Correct—and your managers already know exactly who they are. They’ll smile, look you straight in the eye, and lie to you, saying everything is fine. Don’t believe it. Don’t trust it. If anything feels even slightly off or odd, brace yourself—the hit is coming." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfv37vnh    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:45:24

• "the parasites on the top need to stop su-king up all the money pay the people who actually produce something and get out of the way" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfv37vnh    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:45:31

• "When Postfix is placed behind Nginx (using Nginx `mail_proxy` module), it doesn’t see the real client IP directly - it sees IP of Nginx container / pod, instead. And then it relies on the information that Nginx passes along via the `XCLIENT` command. The catch is that by convention in this mode Nginx resolves the client PTR record _for_ Postfix." gemini://alexey.shpakovsky.ru/gemlog/postfix-ptr-nginx.gmi    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:48:46

• "After using NixOS for more than a year, one aspect that I didn't expect to enjoy was software patching. In previous systems, my patches usually became stale (since I never manually pulled the latest release to re-apply my patch). With NixOS, I "just" have to integrate the patches into my config, to ensure that the patch is re-applied to every upgrade." gemini://log.pfad.fr/2026/software-patching-in-nixos/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:49:22

• "A while ago on lobste.rs, I found a link to a preprint by Piotr Przymus and Thomas Durieux which gives a detailed rundown of the xz attack in which a malicious maintainer took over and added remote code execution capabilities." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/1-25.gmi    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:49:59

• A January Question gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jdd/phlog/20260125-january-question.txt    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:50:31

• "As Microslop continues to make boneheaded decision after boneheaded decision, I still see a ton of people still clinging to Win because of some software program, many of which are related to the Ad0bee's services." gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~np89/glog/20260125-sunk_cost_fallacy.txt    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:51:43

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1547.jpg    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:52:30

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1897.jpg    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:52:40

• "First published way before I got into the habit of putting first-published dates on pages and I don’t care quite enough to go look up its original publish date at the moment. But it’s one of the oldest pages on this capsule, I tell you." gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/ascii-art/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:53:24

• "Okay so vi and ed differ on yet another point, that ",n" in ed (on OpenBSD, at least) the comma means "all the lines" while in ex-vi the comma instead stands for "only the current line"." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/01/26/more-vi.gmi    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:54:41

• "Food has been on and off. We don't have much time to cook, definitely didn't have it during this week, and it showed. I'm hoping to make a bit more space and time for proper cooking in the upcoming week." gemini://thousand.naps.day/days/2026-01-25.gmi    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:55:44

• "Walked dog up to the coffee shop and back - that's after his actual first thing in the morning walk. He was a little confused why we were going back out, I think he thought we were gonna go in the car (since that's what we would usually do at parents house, take car up to starbies and back, even though it's the same distance.)" gemini://ieve.me/squall/11.gmi    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:56:33

• Take My Hand: Chapter 23 gemini://gem.write-on.org/onestepleft/book1/chapter23.gmi    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 01:57:24

• National Security Probe https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2026-01-14/fbi-searches-washington-post-journalists-home-nyt-reports    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:06:13

• "The new ISO image of MODICIA O.S. 'Caravaggio' 6.12.63-RT-LTS has been released." https://sourceforge.net/p/modicia-o-s/news/general/thread/625f1f4975/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:07:09

• "This is Linux Mint 22.3, codename Zena." https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_zena.php    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:07:53

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:11:12

• Ganymede Neo is out with core updates and upstream NVIDIA changes https://endeavouros.com/news/ganymede-neo-is-out-with-core-updates-and-upstream-nvidia-changes/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:11:18

• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-investigates-windows-11-boot-failures-after-january-updates/   

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:28:07

• What is Bending Spoons? The little-known firm behind Vimeo’s sweeping layoffs https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/25/what-is-bending-spoons-everything-to-know-about-aols-acquirer/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:28:44

• Rescue or crime? Humanitarian aid workers on trial in Greece https://www.dw.com/en/rescue-or-crime-humanitarian-aid-workers-on-trial-in-greece/a-75505957    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:31:14

• Saudi Arabia: Record Number of Executions in 2025 https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/01/13/saudi-arabia-record-number-of-executions-in-2025    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:31:38

• Secret Prisons https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-19/on-saudi-backed-tour-yemeni-officials-accuse-uae-of-running-secret-prisons    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:32:22

• Craft beer in Canada is losing its fizz, as sales dry up and more breweries go bust https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/craft-beer-party-canada-sales-flat-breweries-close-9.7044246    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:39:26

• 'purity of the country' https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-thermea-spa-survey-9.7050152    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:40:22

• Potholes the size of a small bathtub https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/potholes-coquihalla-highway-9.7049469    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:41:59

• The research on microplastics in our bodies is terrifying. It might also be wrong. https://www.vox.com/climate/475004/microplastics-research-false-positives-guardian-science    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:43:26

• Climate Change https://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2026-01-13/how-will-climate-change-reshape-the-winter-olympics-the-list-of-possible-host-sites-is-shrinking    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:44:07

• What Remains of the American Climate Corps? https://www.truthdig.com/articles/what-remains-of-the-american-climate-corps/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:44:25

• EPA https://www.vox.com/climate/475138/epa-air-pollution-regulation-rollback-ozone-smog-trump    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:44:50

• New sanctuary preserves ice cores from melting glaciers https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/ice-repository-climate-change-9.7044884    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:46:13

• 2025 continues streak of hottest years ever recorded https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/2025-heat-temperatures-record-climate-9.7044189    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:46:22

• For 2026, LEDs are in. Fluorescent bulbs are really out https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/what-on-earth-light-bulbs-9.7046307    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:46:52

• Climate change missing from the debate about data centers in Michigan https://bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-climate-change-missing-from-the-debate-about-data-centers-in-michigan/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:47:52

• Climate Activist Predicts High Electricity Prices and Cheeto Mussolini's Attacks on Green Energy Will Hurt GOP https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/vermont/articles/2026-01-17/climate-activist-predicts-high-electricity-prices-and-trumps-attacks-on-green-energy-will-hurt-gop    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:48:11

• Heat Inequality: Study Measures the Toll of Climate Change in Rio De Janeiro Favelas https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-19/heat-inequality-study-measures-the-toll-of-climate-change-in-rio-de-janeiro-favelas    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:49:59

• Greenland https://futurism.com/future-society/trump-greenland-minerals-climate    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 02:50:56

• Second NZ health provider, Canopy Health, reveals cyberattack https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/583813/second-health-provider-canopy-health-hit-in-major-cyber-attack    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 04:03:17

• Dutch court sentences hacker who used port systems to smuggle cocaine to 7 years https://therecord.media/dutch-court-sentences-hacker-who-smuggled-cocaine-ports    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 04:04:07

• CrazyHunter ransomware escalates with advanced intrusion tactics, six Taiwan healthcare victims confirmed https://industrialcyber.co/ransomware/crazyhunter-ransomware-escalates-with-advanced-intrusion-tactics-six-taiwan-healthcare-victims-confirmed/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 04:05:30

• Another plastic surgery practice fell prey to a cyberattack with extortion attempt https://nypost.com/2026/01/11/us-news/patients-of-premier-ues-plastic-surgeon-allegedly-had-hacked-nude-images-posted-online/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 04:05:59

• University of Hawaii Cancer Center: Hackers Stole Research Files, Encrypted Data https://www.thelundreport.org/content/oregon-medicaid-insurers-data-breach-could-lead-insurance-fraud-0    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 04:06:29

• I lost my driver’s licence for a year. Everything went uphill from there https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-person-losing-licence-9.7037254    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 04:07:35

• Tennessee man to plead guilty to hacking US Supreme Court filing system https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/13/man-to-plead-guilty-to-hacking-us-supreme-court-filing-system/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 04:08:08

• Southold Laserfiche access remains suspended after cyberattack https://suffolktimes.timesreview.com/2026/01/southold-laserfiche-access-remains-suspended-after-cyberattack/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 04:08:38

• Canada wants to be 1st in North America to build EV with Chinese knowledge https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-electric-car-china-tariffs-trump-united-states-9.7049950    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 04:10:04

• emergency return to Earth https://www.dw.com/en/international-space-station-crew-to-make-emergency-return-to-earth/a-75504766    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 04:11:07

• Unjustly jailed https://www.dw.com/en/germany-unjustly-jailed-man-gets-€1-3-million-compensation/a-75503038    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 04:11:35

• 2025 was the third warmest year on record https://www.dw.com/en/2025-was-the-third-warmest-year-on-record/a-75491609    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 04:12:46

• 40% of Scandinavian users avoid commenting on Facebook posts out of fear of being attacked https://cphpost.dk/2026-01-13/news/round-up/40-of-scandinavian-users-avoid-commenting-on-facebook-posts-out-of-fear-of-being-attacked/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 04:13:35

• Linux Hit a New All-Time High for Steam Market Share in December https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/01/12/0411249/linux-hit-a-new-all-time-high-for-steam-market-share-in-december    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 04:16:02

• How to Update Your Arch Linux Mirrorlist https://www.maketecheasier.com/update-arch-linux-mirrorlist/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 04:16:46

• "Huawei n°1 in China: The giant dethrones Apple after a historic year in 2025"    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 05:07:11

• Women's, Advocacy Groups Call on Apple, Google to Drop X and Grok From App Stores https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-14/womens-advocacy-groups-call-on-apple-google-to-drop-x-and-grok-from-app-stores    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 05:08:03

• Techrights has a HUGE scoop coming regarding EUIPO, EPO, and cocainegate. Europe has become extremely corrupt.    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 05:17:55

• Massive cyberattack on Polish power system in December failed, minister says https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/massive-cyberattack-polish-power-system-december-failed-minister-says-2026-01-13/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 05:21:34

• Armenia probes alleged sale of 8 million government records on hacker forum https://therecord.media/armenia-probes-alleged-sale-government-records    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 05:22:03

• Antwerp’s AZ Monica hospital hit by cyber attack https://www.belganewsagency.eu/antwerps-az-monica-hospital-hit-by-cyber-attack    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 05:22:30

• Xbox has a shovelware problem — 40% of 2025 releases were Gamerscore spam, according to a new report https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-has-a-shovelware-problem-40-percent-of-2025-releases-were-gamerscore-spam-new-report    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 05:35:11

• Xbox has a shovelware problem — 40% of 2025 releases were Gamerscore spam, according to a new report https://www.inkl.com/news/xbox-has-a-shovelware-problem-40-of-2025-releases-were-gamerscore-spam-according-to-a-new-report    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 05:35:43

• Victorian Department of Education says hackers stole students’ data https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/victorian-department-of-education-notifies-parents-of-data-breach/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 06:01:52

• Eurail passengers taken for a ride as data breach spills passports, bank details https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/14/eurail_breach/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 06:02:20

• Data protection agency tells Coupang to stop publishing unconfirmed information about data breach https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-01-14/business/tech/Data-protection-agency-tells-Coupang-to-stop-publishing-unconfirmed-information-about-data-breach/2500586    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 06:03:02

• Personal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Agents Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach https://www.thedailybeast.com/personal-details-of-thousands-of-border-patrol-and-ice-goons-allegedly-leaked-in-huge-data-breach/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 06:03:38

• Website that leaked thousands of ICE agents’ personal information is down after DDoS attack https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-information-leak-website-down-russia-cyberattack-b2900713.html    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 06:04:13

• JPMorgan Claims Ex-Advisor In Fla. Stole Trade Secrets To Poach Clients For LPL https://www.fa-mag.com/news/jpmorgan-accuses-ex-advisor-for-using-stolen-trade-secrets-to-poach-clients-85477.html    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 06:04:44

• Jordanian Man Admits Selling Unauthorized Access to Computer Networks of 50 Companies https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/jordanian-man-admits-selling-unauthorized-access-computer-networks-50-companies    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 06:05:52

• Windows TCO: Former Conti member, now known as “Devman,” added to Interpol’s wanted list (updated) https://databreaches.net/2026/01/16/former-conti-member-now-known-as-devman-added-to-interpols-wanted-list-updatedformer-conti-member-tramp-now-known-as-devman-added-to-interpols-wanted-list/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 06:07:05

• US Cyberattack Blacks Out Venezuela, Leads to Maduro’s Capture in 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/politics/cyberattack-venezuela-military.html    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 06:08:11

• Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/judge-orders-annas-archive-to-delete-scraped-data-no-one-thinks-it-will-comply/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 07:57:11

• A faceless hacker stole my therapy notes – now my deepest secrets are online forever https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62nzxqw45eo    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 07:57:45

• Japanese nuclear regulator employee loses phone containing sensitive info in China https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/07/japan/nra-phone-china-loss/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 07:58:45

• How a hacking campaign targeted high-profile Gmail and WhatsApp users across the Middle East https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/16/how-a-hacking-campaign-targeted-high-profile-gmail-and-whatsapp-users-across-the-middle-east/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 07:59:26

• Anchorage police department takes servers offline after cyberattack on service provider https://therecord.media/anchorage-police-takes-servers-offline-after-third-party-attack    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:00:06

• 4 in 5 small businesses had cyberscams last year, almost half were slop powered https://www.dallasnews.com/business/2026/01/17/4-in-5-small-businesses-had-cyberscams-last-year-almost-half-were-ai-powered/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:00:47

• doctors declare crisis https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-health-update-9.7046694    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:02:55

• China: Population sinks for fourth year in a row https://www.dw.com/en/china-population-sinks-for-fourth-year-in-a-row/a-75558927    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:13:09

• EV subsidies https://www.dw.com/en/germany-updates-berlin-brings-back-ev-subsidies/live-75560659    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:13:52

• rift https://www.dw.com/en/germany-us-rift-is-looming-after-a-year-of-trump/a-75562705    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:14:35

• wildlife https://www.dw.com/en/human-cost-of-wildlife-conservation-in-tanzania/a-75447264    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:15:38

• lowest in more than 2 years https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/average-asking-rents-canada-9.7042571 https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-housing-market-annual-sales-9.7045276    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:19:51

• Life sentence for criticism https://www.dw.com/en/hong-kong-life-sentence-looms-for-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai/a-75516554    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:22:25

• need for Canadian online regulator https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/x-deepfakes-canada-9.7043522    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:23:41

• European cinema is stealing Hollywood's spotlight https://www.dw.com/en/how-european-cinema-is-stealing-hollywood-s-spotlight/a-75486301    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:26:04

• RTO https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-civil-servants-public-not-remote-work-continues-9.7042240    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:27:47

• electricity https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-steve-daines-electricity-nathan-neudorf-9.7042788    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:29:19

• Rescue dog https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bami-rescue-dog-north-vancouver-found-54-days-9.7043132    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:29:59

• early election https://www.dw.com/en/japan-popular-prime-minister-takaichi-calls-early-election/a-75550678    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:31:20

• A LOT of comments got deleted (censored) from this page https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfn8q05b "IBM will announce its earning on January 28, 2026 and will surely reference some "restructuring expenses". Anyone can join the Earnings call, here's the weblink"    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:33:30

• "These conditions overlap heavily, to the point of this list being somewhat redundant. It is unpleasant to live under them, but I think it's possible to at least maintain certain values/virtues. The inability to act meaningfully still creates an awful sense of decay, though." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2777    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:39:08

• Programming gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2776 "I haven't done this since I quit my job. I haven't been able to do it for fun for ages before that (except for a few artificial and sporadic oases)."    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:40:04

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-01-26.gmi    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:40:36

• Germany's farms are failing despite high food prices https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-farms-are-failing-despite-high-food-prices/a-75524216    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:42:41

• Staples Canada did not fully wipe personal information from resold laptops, says privacy watchdog https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/staples-canada-personal-information-laptops-privacy-commissioner-9.7043684    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:43:28

• 2019 Ethiopia plane crash https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/vaidya-family-ethiopia-boeing-2019-crash-9.7044715 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:45:25

• Air Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/air-canada-ordered-to-compensate-ottawa-man-15k-after-losing-appeal-9.7043050    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:45:54

• X outages affect thousands of users primarily in US https://www.dw.com/en/x-outages-affect-thousands-of-users-primarily-in-us/a-75542533    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:47:38

• Charlie Hebdo https://www.dw.com/en/charlie-hebdo-cartoon-on-swiss-fire-tragedy-sparks-outrage/a-75513790    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:52:03

• Economy narrowly avoids 3rd year of recession https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-economy-narrowly-avoids-3rd-year-of-recession/live-75513024    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:52:40

• green' steel https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/arcelormittal-dofas-decarbonization-update-extension-9.7042156    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:57:32

• Can Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa's LRTs withstand Canadian winters? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto-montreal-ottawa-lrt-winter-snow-9.7047495    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 08:58:35

• rising fear https://www.dw.com/en/seoul-tokyo-watch-us-foreign-policy-twists-with-rising-fear/a-7551626    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:01:30

• tight seating layout https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/westjet-reversing-move-to-install-tight-seating-layout-9.7048610    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:03:52

• "An obscure Linux distro that quietly respects old hardware." https://www.makeuseof.com/tried-lightweight-linux-distro-never-heard-of-its-perfect/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:19:14

• "The best parts of CachyOS, on any distro" https://www.makeuseof.com/these-linux-gaming-tweaks-matter-more-than-the-distro/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:20:01

• 5 commands to quickly fix broken packages in Linux https://www.makeuseof.com/commands-to-quickly-fix-broken-packages-in-linux/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:20:40

• "I still have a lot to learn, but my time with Ubuntu has been nothing short of pleasant" https://www.makeuseof.com/new-ubuntu-user-enjoys-these-things-over-windows/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:21:31

• "A Linux desktop designed to survive real-world use." https://www.makeuseof.com/http/vanilla-os-2-bulletproof-linux-distro-recommend-to-friends/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:21:57

• "Handing over BitLocker keys has to be the final straw." https://www.makeuseof.com/microsoft-just-gave-us-another-great-reason-to-switch-to-linux/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/23/Forbes_Covers_in_2026_What_Was_Already_Clear_for_Over_a_Decade_.shtml    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:22:31

• "A new version of Cinnamon is here." https://www.xda-developers.com/best-linux-distros-for-windows-users-fresh-update/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:25:02

• This brilliant Linux utility just got a whole lot more powerful https://www.xda-developers.com/this-brilliant-linux-utility-just-got-a-whole-lot-more-powerful/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:25:38

• Over 1,500,000 Windows users downloaded this Linux distro in under three months https://www.xda-developers.com/over-1500000-windows-users-downloaded-linux-distro-under-three-months/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:27:43

• These 7 terminal tools help me find anything fast https://www.xda-developers.com/these-linux-tools-help-me-find-anything-fast/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:28:39

• These 4 Proxmox mods made my PVE web UI so much better https://www.xda-developers.com/these-proxmox-mods-made-my-pve-web-ui-so-much-better/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:29:52

• Thin-and-light laptops usually make terrible Linux machines https://www.xda-developers.com/thin-and-light-laptops-usually-make-terrible-linux-machines/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:30:39

• 4 bad Windows habits Linux will finally help you break https://www.xda-developers.com/4-bad-computing-habits-that-windows-teaches-you-that-linux-can-help-you-break/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:31:26

• "I still loved it, though." https://www.xda-developers.com/i-used-a-modern-fork-of-a-linux-de-from-the-90s/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:32:13

• Pop!_OS is what Ubuntu should have been for gaming PCs https://www.xda-developers.com/pop-os-is-what-ubuntu-should-have-been-for-gaming-pcs/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:33:29

• "Five tools that do the same thing but with completely different workflows." https://www.howtogeek.com/popular-linux-terminal-based-file-managers-ranked/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:36:10

• I automated Linux backups with a simple bash script and cron (and it’s better than a GUI) https://www.howtogeek.com/i-automated-linux-backups-with-a-simple-script-3-lessons-i-learned-the-hard-way/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:37:04

• These 7 Docker containers make Linux the perfect home lab OS https://www.xda-developers.com/docker-containers-that-make-linux-the-perfect-os-for-home-lab/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:38:05

• "Universal Blue, by contrast, is a Linux operating system framework that's built entirely with immutability in mind, meaning that the base image is read-only, and any modifications can be easily rolled back. This framework is genuinely something that Windows should've tried to copy, or even adopt as its own." https://www.xda-developers.com/universal-blue-is-the-operating-system-architecture-that-windows-should-have-adopted/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:38:56

• Phew, tough crowd. https://www.xda-developers.com/popular-browser-getting-official-linux-version/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:44:37

• Love it or hate it, Windows 8's controversial UI just landed on Linux https://www.xda-developers.com/love-it-or-hate-it-windows-8s-controversial-ui-just-landed-on-linux/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:45:32

• 5 common Proxmox mistakes everyone makes when starting fresh (and how to avoid them) https://www.xda-developers.com/common-proxmox-mistakes-everyone-makes-when-starting-fresh/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:46:56

• NixOS finally clicked for me when I stopped treating it like Ubuntu https://www.xda-developers.com/nixos-finally-clicked-stopped-treating-like-ubuntu/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:47:55

• "It's getting easier to run your favorite Windows app without being on Windows." https://www.howtogeek.com/wine-11-is-here-with-big-improvements-for-windows-apps-on-linux/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:50:18

• "Do you have multiple Linux PCs that you work with? Do you ever find yourself annoyed by switching between keyboards and mice? You're in luck thanks to this free and open source app." https://www.howtogeek.com/deskflow-stitches-multiple-linux-pcs-into-one-desktop/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:53:15

• "Why install regular Fedora Linux when you can wear a different hat?" https://www.howtogeek.com/fedora-based-linux-distributions-that-are-better-than-the-original/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:53:56

• Tmux is the productivity tool every Linux user needs https://www.xda-developers.com/tmux-is-the-productivity-hack-every-linux-user-needs/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:54:44

• "Mint is the distro everyone recommends to Windows users. I daily-drove it for 2 weeks to see what’s great, what’s not, and who it’s for." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-used-linux-mint-for-2-weeks-as-a-windows-replacement-heres-why-people-recommend-it/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 09:56:04

• "I had been thinking about trying MikroTik for a long time, but I was always a bit too lazy to delve into RouterOS." ☛ https://rtfm.co.ua/en/mikrotik-first-look-and-getting-started/ | Source: Arseny    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:08:40

• [Old] "In this article, you'll see that a sum type is isomorphic to a corresponding Visitor." ☛ https://blog.ploeh.dk/2018/06/25/visitor-as-a-sum-type/ | Source: Mark Seeman    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:09:04

• "Most FreeIPA documentation assumes you’re running Linux and will use ipa-client-install to join hosts to the realm. FreeBSD doesn’t have this luxury." ☛ https://blog.hofstede.it/integrating-freebsd-15-with-freeipa-native-kerberos-and-ldap-authentication/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:09:23

• "Every once in a while itʼs useful to programmatically do things differently depending on what network a system is connected to." ☛ https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2026/whether-on-specific-network-linux/ | Source: Michael Kjörling    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:09:42

• "Setting up access to a headless Raspberry Pi is one of those tasks that should take a few minutes, but for some reason always seems to take much longer." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/25/ssh-over-usb-on-a-raspberry-pi/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:09:51

• "[...] Finally, we say a heartfelt "thank you" to the kind souls who sent us donations this month. We wish you all a wonderful week and happy reading." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260126 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:14:06

• "So, Apple may have popularized GUI-based computing in 1984, though everyone now talks about how derivative Mac OS was of prior work from Xerox PARC." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/macos/the-apple-mac-turned-42-this-weekend-we-are-still-using-the-wimp-gui-wysiwyg-computing-paradigm-in-2026 | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:16:48

• "Scarlett Johansson, Chaka Khan, and Questlove are among more than 700 signees to the new “Stealing Isn’t Innovation” campaign against AI exploitation in the U.S." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/anti-ai-campaign-stealing-isnt-innovation-1235503451/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:19:51

• "Yes, this is the kind of story that might have gotten a lot more attention in the past" ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/a-marketing-moment-to-remember/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:26:11

• "All three of those have ended unceremoniously at the same dead end: no API access. USTA denied my application for tennis rankings." ☛ https://daverupert.com/2026/01/hitting-my-api-limits/ | Source: Dave Rupert    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:26:20

• "The transformative technology now? Precision agriculture" ☛ https://fighttorepair.substack.com/p/precision-agriculture-has-its-cassandra | Source: Reflow    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:27:17

• "A landmark copyright battle involving digital copies of the iconic Anne Frank diary is helping to answer key questions about geo-blocking and a copyright enforcement tool." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/adviser-of-eus-highest-court-backs-vpn-neutrality-in-anne-frank-copyright-battle/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:27:42

• paywall; the 30 Eur / Month does not count the lost productivity from bad UIs, broken or missing functionality, and malware https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&u=https://www.hs.fi/visio/art-2000011766288.html    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:28:26

• DRM https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/teslas-now-require-a-subscription-for:5    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:28:42

• "Carney gets standing ovation at Davos, Trump uninvites him" https://boingboing.net/2026/01/25/carney-gets-standing-ovation-at-davos-trump-uninvites-him.html    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:28:55

• iophk: too few of these article point out the hard truth that the crew was killed by the Reagan administrations bureaucracy and MBA-like attitudes. The incident was the beginning of the end of NASA and the US space program. https://www.framingham.edu/news/honoring-legacy-christa-mcauliffe-and-challenger-crew-40th-anniversary    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:29:25

• trolls https://www.zerocarbon.email/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:29:39

• Anon: I think I'll skip this one. Rust==politics, MS GitHub==entrapment https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/release-flow/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:30:10

• Anon: nah, Microsoft has always been and remains against the GPL; as I've said before, it'll be based on FreeBSD https://hackaday.com/2026/01/25/this-unlikely-microsoft-prediction-might-just-hit-the-mark/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:30:46

• "China investigates top general Zhang Youxia in rare purge of senior military leaders | The Record from Recorded Future News" https://therecord.media/china-investigates-top-general-purge-senior-military-leaders    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:31:09

• Tug of war over the British digital ID | "Dragkamp om britternas digitala ID" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/01/25/dragkamp-om-britternas-digitala-id/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:31:45

• "Walz rejected that as a false narrative." ☛ https://www.startribune.com/alex-pretti-identified-as-man-fatally-shot-by-federal-officers-in-minneapolis/601570109 | Source: Star Tribune    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:33:17

• "I’m done being told that our community members are responsible for the vitriol in our streets" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ice-shoot-kill-another-us-citizen-minneapolis-protests-1235504253/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:33:36

• "Read a Witness Statement on the Pretti Shooting" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/25/us/pretti-witness-statement-from-doctor.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:37:44

• "As I approached, I saw that the victim was lying on his side and was surrounded by several ICE agents." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alex-pretti-minneapolis-shooting-doctor-bullet-holes-b2907313.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:38:08

• "When we met the line of state police who had the street blocked off, I cut through a parking lot to try to go around the block and get closer." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/intolerable-things | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:38:30

• "Letter to Minnesota’s Governor" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/24/us/pam-bondi-walz-doc.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:38:51

• "This is the pattern. Kill first. Lie second. Let the Community Notes and the spokespeople and the Fox News chyrons do the work of making the murder disappear." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/ten-shots | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:39:08

• "How is anyone supposed to tell whether they’re being dragged out of their home in their underwear by ICE or by mere amateur thugs?" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/867202/ice-mask-ban-no-secret-police-california | Source: The Verge    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:39:29

• "It’s easy to dismiss the backlash as ideological, performative, or just another episode of internet outrage." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/hotels-should-deploy-the-3rd-amendment-and-refuse-to-house-ice-agents/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:39:54

• "The war on the right to record, which extends beyond professional journalists" ☛ https://thedissenter.org/alex-pretti-killed-for-wielding-a-camera/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:40:28

• "Iran's nationwide Internet blackout remained largely in place as the reported death toll from recent protests continued to rise, with one account saying the number of fatalities may exceed 30,000." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-internet-blackout-protest-death-toll-30000/33658995.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:41:02

• "On the twenty-ninth day of the protests, Iran’s government continues to disrupt and restrict [Internet] access in order to maintain repression and control the flow of information." ☛ https://www.en-hrana.org/day-twenty-nine-of-the-protests-threats-of-property-confiscation-and-the-continuation-of-blocking-and-intimidation-policies/ | Source: Human rights Activists News Agency    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:41:52

• "Top administration officials had earlier, and without evidence, accused each of the shooting victims in Minneapolis of “domestic terrorism.”" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/us/politics/trump-blames-democrats-minneapolis-killings.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:42:16

• "I actually grabbed a hold of the young man, held him back as a car drove right by me" ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51436802/too-many-cars-dont-stop-on-flashing-reds-says-school-bus-driver | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:43:20

• "Go now to FlightAware’s MiseryMap. Cick on the blue Play button and watch The Great Storm of January 25-26 move across the land and cause massive delays at airports in its path." ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2026/01/25/flying-fckery/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 10:43:30

• Those slop videos are fake but funny https://www.instagram.com/p/DT7bMGAjIfB/?img_index=8    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:09:03

• Moxie is a GAFAM sellout; while it would be unfair to dispute his cryptography capabilities, he let his name be used by GAFAM to pretend WhatsApp is secure (EFF sold out similarly to endorse surveillance-ware) and he should have known that even if implemented properly, the real implementation would get compromised    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:16:31

• "Since the 3Q monitoring began in 2000, this year serves as the reference point (index value = 100). Since then, the results show a steady and clear decline throughout the period." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-01-birds-norway-agricultural-landscape-deeper.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:17:04

• "Preamble: I had a roughly 8 year break from blogging and focussed on kids plus related duties." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/01/when-adtech-misrepresent-their-own-a-b-tests/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:19:52

• "The major causes are groundwater withdrawal, reduced river sediment supply, and urban expansion." ☛ https://news.vt.edu/content/news_vt_edu/en/articles/2026/01/science-sinking-river-deltas.html |    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:20:59

• "The initial multilinear regression (MLR) model, which included interaction terms between the different anthropogenic factors" ☛ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09928-6 | Source: Nature    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:21:12

• "blames US, Israeli ‘agents’" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2026/0124/iran-protests-violent-crackdown-regime-narrative | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:28:58

• "The risks of children’s smartphone use, including sexual exploitation and bullying, are mounting in Britain where some say the government has a responsibility to do more." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/25/britain-smartphones-school-ban-children/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:29:19

• "I am not Thomas Paine. I am a former technology executive who writes a newsletter. I claim no special authority, no military experience, no credentials beyond citizenship itself." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-crisis-no-1 | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:29:44

• "Here there are none. CBP goons assaulted Alex Pretti, beat him, and then — when they discovered his lawfully registered weapon — murdered him." ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/25/by-lying-about-alex-prettis-murder-kristi-noem-makes-herself-a-co-conspirator-in-it/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:30:17

• "The administration grew ICE’s ranks by 120% over the past year. The majority of its agents entered service in this hyper-nationalistic, lawless milieu." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/why-wouldnt-they-shoot-somebody | Source: The Next Move    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:30:56

• "A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from “destroying or altering evidence” related to the shooting." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-01-25/protesters-demand-immigration-agents-leave-minneapolis-after-fatal-shooting | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:31:32

• "These unfounded and inflammatory judgments pre-empt the outcome of an investigation, which the Department of Homeland Security has promised." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/opinion/alex-pretti-minneapolis-shooting-border-patrol.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:31:51

• "We each contain a universe within us. How can we allow a universe to be snuffed out so blithely?" ☛ https://bjhess.com/posts/make-this-make-sense | Source: Barry Hess    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:32:16

• "As the Trump administration and its ICE thugs continue their violent frenzy in cities, establishment Democratic politicians still refuse to meet the moment." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/01/ice-trump-democrats-jeffries-searchlight/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:32:37

• "Germany holds the world's second-largest national gold reserves" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/01/24/germany-urged-to-pull-e164b-in-gold-from-u-s-vaults.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:33:23

• "What I do believe in is the courage and decency of millions of ordinary Americans, which have been so dramatically on display in Minneapolis." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/monsters | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:33:42

• "Europeans and much of the rest of the world have lived under dictatorships. Until now — until Trump — Americans had not." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-enough | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:34:17

• "The U.S. Marine Corps awarded Anduril a $23.9 million contract to deliver these systems." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/military/strike-drones-lethal-firepower-us-marine | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:34:35

• "Washington justified that killing with the kind of bald-faced lie" ☛ https://www.vox.com/policy/476397/minneapolis-alex-pretti-ice-cbp-killing-shooting-video | Source: Vox    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:34:56

• "Pretti’s death is at least the third shooting by immigration agents in the Minneapolis area this year, and the second where the person who was shot died." ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/476398/minneapolis-fatal-shooting-border-patrol-ice-alex-pretti | Source: Vox    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:35:23

• "On Saturday morning in Minneapolis, federal agents murdered 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse at a local Veterans Authority hospital." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alex-pretti-nurse-neighbor-friend/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:35:54

• "The shooting, which took place on the immediate heels of a citywide strike" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ice-minneapolis-alex-pretti/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:36:51

• "As with Good, Trump and his people fell back on their by-now familiar strategy, dating back to Germany in the 1930s, of repeating a lie until people accept it as truth." ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/world/americas/north-america/us/2026/01/the-ice-killers-are-donald-trumps-secret-police | Source: New Statesman    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:37:12

• "Many modern Windows computers rely on full-disk encryption, called BitLocker, which is enabled by default." ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/microsoft-gave-fbi-a-set-of-bitlocker-encryption-keys-to-unlock-suspects-laptops-reports/ | Source: TechCrunch http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/23/Forbes_Covers_in_2026_What_Was_Already_Clear_for_Over_a_Decade_.shtml    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:38:39

• "Everything apps aren't really a concept we have in the West, so you might need a little introduction to the idea before we start." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/google-could-become-an-everything-app/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:39:01

• "We have a collection of VPN servers, some OpenVPN based and some L2TP based." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/FreeBSDScrapingMpd5ForL2TP | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:39:31

• "This update prompted political leaders worldwide to take a stance on the platform and led to a surge of backlash from users." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/threads-is-more-popular-than-x-now/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:40:06

• "Officially over a month without any social network! Thrilled with this! I have not missed and for the first time, I did one thing that I think was fundamental to avoid going back." ☛ https://blog.pcora.eu/2026/01/25/feeling-bored.html | Source: Pedro    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:40:28

• "This is where we're heading with the project of language models as computing utilities." ☛ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/rorschach/ | Source: The Cyber Show    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:41:04

• "For the amalgamation, I got a 20% performance gain for ‘free’ thanks to the file caching. The link checker is going to be faster now that it is multithreaded." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/01/25/optimizing-python-scripts-with-ai/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:41:36

• "The good news, as he points out, is that right now there are some really strong tells." ☛ https://werd.io/hiring-in-an-era-of-fake-candidates-real-scams-and-ai-slop/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:41:48

• "Although there have been many requests through the years" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/microsoft-gave-customers-bitlocker-encryption-keys-to-the-fbi-redmond-confirms-that-it-provides-recovery-keys-to-government-agencies-with-valid-legal-orders | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:43:55

• "What if your car worked like so many apps? You’re driving somewhere important…maybe running a little bit late." ☛ https://blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-software/ |    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:44:11

• "If Donald Trump is the main character of the Epstein files, Tim Crook is the main character of the Trump files." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/trump-invited-his-friends-over-and-youll-never-guess-who-happily-showed-up-with-movie-snacks-i-can-only-assume/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:44:34

• [Old] "I'm not even exaggerating. Git support for Visual Studio was announced in 2013. It has, indeed, been around for a long time, and I've been blissfully ignoring it throughout." ☛ https://blog.ploeh.dk/2025/12/29/git-integration-is-ten-years-away/ | Source: Mark Seeman    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:45:09

• "Now I find this very cool, but some trees have different fates." ☛ https://brandonrozek.com/blog/tales-of-christmas-trees/ | Source: Brandon Rozek    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:46:19

• "Just before eating this, I measured 11 inches of snow. We have at least 3 more inches forecast." ☛ https://cagrimmett.com/2026/01/25/christmas-lima-bean-fennel-and-sausage-stew/ | Source: Chuck Grimmett    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:46:40

• "I’m increasingly of the opinion in my personal life that time isn’t something “to be filled”, but rather a precious commodity one should treasure." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/spacer-tasks/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:47:01

• "Kestrels are not very expensive to bring into orchards, but they work pretty well" ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2026/01/24/on-michigan-cherry-farms-small-falcons-are-improving-food-safety/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:47:14

• "It seems like very common knowledge in the culture there." ☛ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people | Source: BBC    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:48:55

• "Magic mushrooms, an informal group of fungi that contain the naturally occurring psychedelic substance psilocybin, are known for inducing powerful hallucinations." ☛ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/mushroom-see-tiny-people | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:49:08

• "Here's why I need to do inventory more often." ☛ https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/01/hands-on-with-two-apple-network-server.html | Source: Old VCR    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:50:12

• "Box64 is still alive and well, as one of the key piece of software that can enable the translation of X86 and X86_64 code to other hardware architectures in real time." ☛ https://boilingsteam.com/box64-expands-into-risc-v-and-loong-arch-territory/index.html | Source: Boiling Steam    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:50:22

• "That was a welcome start. It was also more than anything else displayed. I subsequently plugged it into my other machines, and it worked again!?" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/i-think-freebsd-fixed-our-scanner/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:50:34

• "That’s because nobody else is reading either. A recent Gallup poll shows that Americans are reading less than ever before, with recreational reading down 40% over the last two decades." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/lets-reclaim-our-intellectual-inheritance/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:52:01

• "The answer to all of these questions is the same: because coordination is expensive." ☛ https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/01/24/because-coordination-is-expensive/ | Source: Lorin Hochstein    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:52:19

• "My hobbies include doing things on computers, and reading books, which is basically what this talk is about." ☛ https://www.hughrundle.net/i-accidentally-became-a-foss-maintainer-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-new-perspective-on-librarianship/ | Source: Hugh Rundle    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:52:36

• [Old] "In this graph specifically, it’s hard to find any consistent relationship between temperature and failure rate in the provided data." ☛ https://priceonomics.com/the-space-shuttle-challenger-explosion-and-the-o/ | Source: Priceonomics    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:53:29

• [Old] "The underlying causes of the disaster are complex and organisational. These are discussed below. [...]" ☛ https://www.icheme.org/media/2081/lpb251_pg26.pdf |    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:53:42

• "Adam Higginbotham’s 2024 book Challenger is a much-recommended account of the mistakes and magical thinking that led to tragedy." ☛ https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/01/25/challenger-40-years-on-the-space-shuttle-disaster-watched-live-by-millions-of-children/ | Source: Irish Times    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:54:17

• "the following hypergraph (credit to Zheng and Wim) represents the query below it." ☛ https://remy.wang/blog/join-tree.html | Source: Remy Wang    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:54:34

• "As someone who values privacy and the open web, I’ve been fascinated by the growing movement away from centralised platforms toward more personal, user-controlled online experiences." ☛ https://christiano.dev/post/indieweb_smallweb/ |    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:55:03

• "Hello there, I have now made a note system for my blog." ☛ https://akselmo.dev/notes/hello-from-notes/ | Source: Akseli Lahtinen    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:55:24

• "But reading about this day reminded me of my relationship with pen and paper." ☛ https://www.amitgawande.com/blog/2026/on-handwriting/ | Source: Amit Gawande    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:56:33

• "Their focus wasn’t on developing their own arguments and proving or disproving them, it was being on the winning team and on the side of authority" ☛ https://blog.avas.space/heuristic/ | Source: Ava    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:57:04

• "The more I think about it, the building feels like an extension of the Memphis Design movement of the 80’s fueled by Ettore Sottsass and the Memphis Group." ☛ https://chrisglass.com/2026/01/25/honda-dealership-far-out/ | Source: Chris Glass    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:57:43

• "The front of the American grocery store contains a strange, liminal space: the transitional area between parking lot and checkstand" ☛ https://computer.rip/2026-01-25-the-essence-of-frigidity.html | Source: J B Crawford    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:57:59

• "It's still the tail end of January so I am going to use this time as an excuse to sneak in a '2025 reflection' type post." ☛ https://www.elliotcsmith.com/things-i-changed-my-mind-about-in-2025/ | Source: Elliot C Smith    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:58:21

• "You can’t simultaneously believe that “2 + 2 = 4” is objectively true and that “truth is subjective” without intellectual dishonesty. I had been dishonest my whole life until that slap in the face." ☛ https://joshblais.com/blog/the-rabbit-hole/ | Source: Joshua Blais    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:58:46

• "I specifically made it kind of vague, and these are the answers I got." ☛ https://unsung.aresluna.org/favourite-well-made-apps-and-sites/ |    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:58:59

• "Most are indie projects. That says a lot to me about the kinds of software with which people develop a connection." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/unsung/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:59:14

• "In this post, I wanted to collect some thoughts on why speed matters1 and the second-order consequences of consistent effective automation." ☛ https://blog.sshh.io/p/move-faster | Source: Shrivu Shankar    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:59:27

• "Williams was just 25 years old when he became the first human casualty of the robotic advance into factory production environments." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/robot-kits/american-factory-worker-robert-williams-became-the-first-human-to-be-killed-by-a-robot-on-this-day-in-1979-man-crushed-by-a-robots-mechanical-arm-at-the-ford-plant-in-flat-rock | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 11:59:40

• "I'm still getting accustomed to this new way of publishing. It's nice to just write and not think about CSS and inline tags. I was a quiet reader of gemlogs for about a month before I started my own capsule. This feels fresh but retro. The unagitated vibe is almost calming. I have to get deeper into the philosophy of all things gemini." gemini://thoughts.kobel.fyi/2026-01-26-gemini-gems-of-the-week.gmi    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:10:47

• 🔤SpellBinding: AEILTVX Wordo: ZESTY gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2026-01-26.gmi    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:11:22

• Are You Happy https://yewtu.be/watch/?v=XcSZTBuQyK4    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:43:07

• kids could you lighten up a little https://yewtu.be/watch?v=wp-N_9fJL6g    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:47:38

• "Where this stops being just a print driver issue is that people editing photographs often want to see roughly how they'll look when printed out without actually making a print" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/PrintingColourNotSimple | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:50:16

• "A couple of years ago, I developed a small Kotlin GUI to help me rename my files in batch." ☛ https://blog.frankel.ch/jar-to-macos-app/ | Source: Nicolas Fränkel    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:50:38

• "This document describes the addition of support for variable fonts in R, when rendering glyphs, plus changes to the CRAN package xdvir to take advantage of that new support" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/01/2026-01-variable-fonts-in-r-graphics/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:51:46

• "who looked busier." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/01/fight-data-science-in-r-proven-boxing-metrics-models/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:52:03

• "Uniquely Constant with Raku" ☛ https://raku-musings.com/uniquely-constant.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:52:50

• "In a corporate setting, if you can improve an incident that affects one person, once per work day, and save one minute per event" ☛ https://griffin.com/blog/is-it-worth-it |    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:54:22

• "In this article I'll describe both regimes." ☛ https://blog.ploeh.dk/2026/01/12/two-regimes-of-git/ | Source: Mark Seeman    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:54:31

• "Standard C undergoes regular improvements, now at C23. But there are baffling things that have not been fixed at all." ☛ https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/Cobvious.html |    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:54:40

• "This article explores how compilers, assemblers, and linkers work together to solve the long branch problem." ☛ https://maskray.me/blog/2026-01-25-long-branches-in-compilers-assemblers-and-linkers | Source: MaskRay    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:54:49

• "This makes dependencies bidirectional." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/25/pkgfed-activitypub-for-package-releases.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:54:59

• "To build an allowlist, we start by ignoring everything with _/**/*_ and then selectively adding file extensions. For a Rust project, a naive .gitignore might look like this: [...]" ☛ https://blog.izissise.net/posts/gitignoreallowlist/ | Source: Hugues    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:55:08

• "I definitely used to think of myself as a TDD sceptic." ☛ https://martinalderson.com/posts/turns-out-i-was-wrong-about-tdd/ | Source: Martin Alderson    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:55:16

• "Two testing-related things I found recently." ☛ https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202601/testing_exceptions_and_caches | Source: Ned Batchelder    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:55:23

• "Today, I’m going to try again, and hopefully this time will be the last time." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/01/25/migrating-a-mysql-8-0-jail-to-a-new-mysql-8-4-jail-2nd-attempt/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:56:14

• "Poncho Wonky is a fork of Patchwork which is a Secure Scuttlebutt client." ☛ https://andregarzia.com/2026/01/three-months-of-poncho-wonky.html | Source: Andre Alves Garzia    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:56:40

• "These unassuming little boxes are built around the Tontek TT6061A, listed as a ‘touch dimmer’, which uses a triac to control the output current." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/25/inside-a-sketchy-mains-voltage-touch-control-dimmer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:57:51

• "Ever the fan of an underdog, I recently acquired a new mini-PC with a Loongson 3A6000 CPU. This CPU uses the LoongArch64 instruction set architecture (ISA). loongarch64 is a 64-bit RISC ISA inspired by MIPS and RISC-V introduced by Loongson Technology in 2021." ☛ https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2026/loongarch-mini-pc-m700s/ | Source: Wesley Moore    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:58:02

• "However, a number of other methods have been tried on the forum threads." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/01/25/bike-spokes-made-of-rope/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 12:59:47

• "A programming, electronics, and retro enthusiast has showcased an open-source Intel 486 motherboard that they claim was “made from scratch” in under six months." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/the-m8sbc-486-is-an-open-source-intel-486-mobo-built-from-scratch-in-under-6-months-the-original-idea-was-to-achieve-linux-and-doom-compatibility-but-it-achieves-far-more-than-that | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:00:22

• "Here's hoping all the affected vendors will move quickly to address the many vulnerabilities discovered during the event." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/25/pwn2own_automotive_2026_identifies_76_0days/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:02:52

• "My focus this time around was on having a working port that mostly just replicates what the widget did before." ☛ https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/bouncy-ball-will-always-bounce-back/ |    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:03:41

• "The fix is a small shim library that brings back the missing functions. After implementing it, I played through the entire game without issues." ☛ https://blog.hofstede.it/reviving-life-is-strange-before-the-storm-on-modern-linux-with-a-glibc-shim/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:04:19

• Technology Trends Driven by DRM Giants, Planned Obsolescence, Not the Needs of the Buyers ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/25/Technology_Trends_Driven_by_DRM_Giants_Planned_Obsolescence_Not.shtml    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:19:36

• Migrating a MySQL 8.0 jail to a new MySQL 8.4 jail – 2nd attempt ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2026/01/25/migrating-a-mysql-8-0-jail-to-a-new-mysql-8-4-jail-2nd-attempt/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:19:55

• Death toll from landslide in Indonesia’s West Java rises to 17 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/death-toll-from-landslide-in-indonesias-west-java-rises-to-17    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:22:34

• The Fashion Company Apple Mac turned 42 this weekend — we are still using the WIMP GUI WYSIWYG computing paradigm in 2026 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/macos/the-apple-mac-turned-42-this-weekend-we-are-still-using-the-wimp-gui-wysiwyg-computing-paradigm-in-2026    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:26:02

• Open-source defective chip maker Intel 486 mobo built from scratch in under 6 months for i486 chips — M8SBC-486's goal was to achieve GNU/Linux and Doom compatibility, but it achieves far more than that ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/the-m8sbc-486-is-an-open-source-intel-486-mobo-built-from-scratch-in-under-6-months-the-original-idea-was-to-achieve-linux-and-doom-compatibility-but-it-achieves-far-more-than-that    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:26:50

• I think FreeBSD fixed our scanner? ☞ https://rubenerd.com/i-think-freebsd-fixed-our-scanner/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:29:11

• Box64 Expands into Risc-V and LoongArch territory ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/box64-expands-into-risc-v-and-loong-arch-territory/index.html    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:29:28

• Coming up with a list of spacer tasks ☞ https://rubenerd.com/spacer-tasks/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:30:01

• Optimizing Python scripts with Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/01/25/optimizing-python-scripts-with-ai/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:30:51

• compromising encryption keys ☞ https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-25-compromising-encryption-keys.en.html    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:32:54

• EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.1.3 released ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202601/easyos-excalibur-series-version-713-released.html    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:35:34

• Stress test Deepin 25.01 via build CachyOS Kernel 6.18.7 (VENV) ☞ https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2026/01/stress-test-deepin-2501-via-build.html    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:36:36

• IBM RAs: "There were manager and department meetings last week. [...] Yes. IBM is still operating." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfv37vnh    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:51:16

• Cold snap grips South Korea as power outages leave hundreds without heating ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/cold-snap-grips-south-korea-as-power-outages-leave-hundreds-without-heating    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:56:18

• When the chips are down: US threat of 100% semiconductor tariffs rattles South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/when-chips-are-down-us-threat-of-100-per-cent-semiconductor-tariffs-rattles-s-korea    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:56:45

• For many young South Koreans, one job doesn’t cut it ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/for-many-young-south-koreans-one-job-doesnt-cut-it    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 13:57:25

• Taiwan monitoring ‘abnormal’ China military leadership changes after top general put under investigation ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-monitoring-abnormal-china-military-leadership-changes-after-top-general-put-under    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:00:24

• Top China general Zhang Youxia accused of leaking nuclear secrets to US: WSJ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/top-china-general-zhang-youxia-accused-of-leaking-nuclear-secrets-to-us-wsj    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:00:36

• Southeast Asia facing China: views in The Strategist ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/southeast-asia-facing-china-views-in-the-strategist/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:01:00

• El Jalapeño: 1 in 5 tacos sold in Mexico now made in China ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/el-jalapeno/el-jalapeno-chinese-made-tacos-1-in-5-tacos-sold-in-mexico/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:01:21

• A Glowing Bar of Iron Is Haunting The Ring Nebula – And No One Knows Why ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-glowing-bar-of-iron-is-haunting-the-ring-nebula-and-no-one-knows-why    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:06:11

• Viruses Play a Critical Role in The Ocean's Food Web, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/viruses-play-a-critical-role-in-the-oceans-food-web-study-finds    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:06:22

• Starfish Control Hundreds of Feet Without a Brain. Here's How. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/starfish-control-hundreds-of-feet-without-a-brain-heres-how    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:06:40

• Scientists Identify Brain Waves That Define The Limits of 'You' ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-brain-waves-that-define-the-limits-of-you    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:06:51

• 'Lost City' Deep Beneath The Ocean Is Unlike Anything Seen Before on Earth ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/lost-city-deep-beneath-the-ocean-is-unlike-anything-seen-before-on-earth    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:07:02

• Hot, Black Ice Might Be Responsible For Neptune's Wild Magnetism ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/hot-black-ice-might-be-responsible-for-neptunes-wild-magnetism    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:07:14

• South Sudan crisis heightens 'risk of mass violence' against civilians, UN experts say ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260126-sudan-civilian-mass-violence-risk-un-experts-report    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:07:27

• Amid Two-Week Internet Blackout, Some Iranians Are Getting Back Online ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/world/middleeast/iran-internet.html    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:07:44

• Iran's Internet Blackout Persists As Report Says Protest Death Toll May Exceed 30,000 ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-internet-blackout-protest-death-toll-30000/33658995.html    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:08:16

• Asset Manager Warns That Proprietary Chaffbot Company Is Likely Headed for Financial Disaster ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/asset-manager-openai-financial-disaster    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:10:49

• Salesfarce tries to keep a lid on ‘agentic sprawl’ through MuleSoft Agent Fabric ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/25/salesforce-tries-keep-lid-agentic-sprawl-mulesoft-agent-fabric/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:10:59

• Job Seekers Sue Company Scanning Their Résumés Using Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-labor-scanning-eightfold    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:12:39

• OnlyFans Rival Seemingly Succumbs to Hey Hi (AI) Psychosis, Which We Dare You to Try Explain to Your Parents ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/onlyfans-rival-ai-psychosis    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:12:48

• South Korea withdraws budget minister nominee after range of allegations ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-withdraws-budget-minister-nominee-after-range-of-allegations    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:13:06

• From Greenland to Kapčiamiestis: the perspective from NATO’s military headquarters ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2814286/from-greenland-to-kapciamiestis-the-perspective-from-nato-s-military-headquarters    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:13:28

• Second former Malaysia general charged with corruption in ongoing crackdown ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/second-former-malaysia-general-charged-for-corruption-in-defense-contracts/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:17:49

• ChatGPT found to be sourcing data from AI-generated content — popular LLM uses content from Grokipedia as source for more obscure queries ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-found-to-be-sourcing-data-from-ai-generated-content-popular-llm-uses-content-from-grokipedia-as-source-for-more-obscure-queries    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:18:16

• Scanning Webserver with /(pwd)/ as a Starting Path, (Sun, Jan 25th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32654    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:18:58

• Aftermath challenges daily life in Syria ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/aftermath-challenges-daily-life-in-syria    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:19:35

• Bangladesh criticises India over fugitive leader Hasina’s speech ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/bangladesh-criticises-india-over-fugitive-leader-hasinas-speech    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 14:20:24

• Bouncy Ball will always bounce back ☞ https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/bouncy-ball-will-always-bounce-back/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 15:31:49

• Add Custom Toggles to GNOME’s Quick Settings with this Extension ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/custom-command-toggle-gnome-extension    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 15:32:24

• GIMP 3.0.8 Released with Faster Font Loading, New Hey Hi (AI) & Security Fixes ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/01/gimp-3-0-8-released-with-faster-font-loading-new-apis-security-fixes/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 15:32:45

• 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 25th, 2026 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-january-25th-2026    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 15:32:58

• Not the GNU/Linux You Remember: 16 Every Day Tasks That No Longer Need the Terminal ☞ https://itsfoss.com/no-longer-need-terminal/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 15:33:19

• Funding, Hey Hi (AI) and Politics Take Center Stage at FOSDEM 2026 ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/fosdem-2026-open-source-funding-ai-talks    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 15:33:56

• Live Raizo 17.26.01.25 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/liveraizo    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 15:34:11

• Add Custom Toggle Buttons to Top-right System Menu (Quick Settings) ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/01/custom-toggle-buttons-quick-settings/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 15:35:43

• Linuxiac is Basically a Fake News Site, But It's Being Fed by Surveillance Giant Google News ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/25/Linuxiac_is_Basically_a_Fake_News_Site_But_It_s_Being_Fed_by_Go.shtml    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 15:35:59

• 6 Best Free and Open Source XMPP Servers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-xmpp-servers/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 15:37:23

• Site Updates: Our Plans ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/site-updates-plans/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 15:38:24

• 6 Best Free and Open Source AppImage Desktop Integration Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-appimage-desktop-integration-tools/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 15:38:57

• Athas – cross-platform code editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/athas-cross-platform-code-editor/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 15:39:23

• 8 Best Free and Open Source OCR Systems ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-ocr-systems/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 15:39:42

• Goofys – Amazon S3 backend filey-system interface ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/goofys-amazon-s3-backend-filey-system-interface/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 15:40:08

• "Richard Stallman is alive and well, just had dinner with him earlier this month. You can set up a FOSS toolchain to do similar work, it’s just something I haven’t spent the time on. I probably should." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44683381    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 16:46:04

• When we say "Fuck AI" are we inadvertently helping the "AI" companies by referring to their products as "AI"? https://lemmy.world/post/42196003    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 16:48:48

• "Exhibit A people are beginning to describe empty, hollow mass produced corporate slop as AI, it has become an adjective to describe worthless trash and I love it."    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 16:49:21

• "Standard disclaimer: I do not want to grow up to be like Stallman. That said, every time I have thought that Stallman was too pedantic about terminology and the risks involved, I have been wrong, so far."    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 16:49:53

• 6 Top Free and Open Source C Web Frameworks ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-c-web-frameworks/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:32:45

• AfagOS – GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/afagos-linux-distribution/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:34:38

• 5 Best Free and Open Source CSS Linter Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-css-linter-tools/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:35:01

• DAMASK – Düsseldorf Advanced Material Simulation Kit ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/damask-dusseldorf-advanced-material-simulation-kit/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:35:14

• Vipster – powerful editor for molecular structures ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/vipster-powerful-editor-molecular-structures/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:35:34

• Frolic – modified F-Chat client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/frolic-modified-f-chat-client/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:36:09

• VideoCut – lossless video cutter ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/videocut-lossless-video-cutter/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:36:26

• whatstyle – find a code format style ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/whatstyle-find-code-format-style/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:36:41

• What’s the right GNU/Linux desktop UI for you? ☞ https://thenewstack.io/whats-the-right-linux-desktop-ui-for-you/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:37:41

• Flatpak security in real life: how to audit permissions and reduce data exposure ☞ https://linuxbsdos.com/2026/01/24/flatpak-security-in-real-life-how-to-audit-permissions-and-reduce-data-exposure/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:40:49

• North Korea’s Kim views sculptures for memorial of soldiers who died in Ukraine ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-kim-views-sculptures-for-memorial-of-soldiers-who-died-in-ukraine    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:41:12

• Peace Talks Set To Resume Amid Ground Fighting And Severe Power Outages In Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-peace-talks-war/33659023.html    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:41:25

• US security agreement for Ukraine is '100% ready' to be signed, Zelensky says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260125-live-ukraine-zelensky-russian-strikes    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:41:37

• “An electrical ceasefire is needed”: warnings as Russia targets Ukraine’s power grid ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/an-electrical-ceasefire-is-needed-warnings-as-russia-targets-ukraine-s-power-grid    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:41:50

• ‘Singing for Stolen Children’  Escaping Russian Abduction. A Ukrainian teeenager’s account. ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/singing-for-stolen-children-escaping-russian-abduction-a-ukrainian-teeenager-s-account    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:42:05

• Mass blackouts hit Kyiv: Resident describes living in freezing temperatures and without electricity ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260125-mass-blackouts-hit-kyiv-resident-describes-living-in-freezing-temperatures-and-without-electricity-1    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:42:14

• Rorschach Computing ☞ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/rorschach/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:42:27

• Winter Storm Drives U.S. Flight Cancellations to Pandemic-Level Numbers ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/weather/winter-storm-flight-delays-cancellations.html    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:43:09

• Infineon AIROC ACW741x Wi-Fi 7 ultra-low power tri-radio IoT SoC family support MLO, Wi-Fi sensing, BLE 6.0, and Thread ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/26/infineon-airoc-acw741x-wi-fi-7-ultra-low-power-tri-radio-iot-soc-family-support-mlo-wi-fi-sensing-ble-6-0-and-thread/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:43:44

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:47:29

• Tonearm for TIDAL https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/tonearm-tidal-client-for-linux-beta    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:47:36

• The hired guns' letters are patently false on many levels. They're basically misinformation for intimidation purposes. The SRA will be duly informed.    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:48:51

• "A distro aimed at helping people, reducing e-waste – and helping a charity, too" https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/25/emmabuntus_6_charitable_linux/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:49:28

• "Which Linux distributions will rise above the competition in 2026 to dethrone the old guard? Here are my picks." https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-2026-best-distros/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:49:54

• I tried playing my 90s Windows CD-ROM games on Linux, and it was surprisingly easy https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-play-old-windows-cd-rom-games-on-linux/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:50:22

• "It's not that Linux became “GUI only”, but that the Linux desktop has become far more complete. The modern desktop we know today ships graphical tools that cover almost every common task in ways that are genuinely approachable." https://itsfoss.com/no-longer-need-terminal/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:50:53

• Pebblebed Ventures’ AI tool analyzes 20 years of Linux bugs https://thenewstack.io/hacker-jenny-qus-ai-tool-analyzes-20-years-of-linux-bugs/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:51:23

• Photoshop 2021 And 2025 Now Run On Linux Thanks To New Wine Patches https://www.ubergizmo.com/2026/01/photoshop-on-linux/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:52:03

• CachyOS is the latest Linux distro to put Wayland first in its new update https://www.xda-developers.com/cachyos-is-the-latest-linux-distro-to-put-wayland-first-in-its-new-update/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:53:18

• Linux handheld https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/25/mecha-comet-is-an-open-source-hardware-modular-linux-handheld-computer/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:53:45

• Xbox gaming makes the jump to Windows on Arm, but can it stem the tide of gamers turning to Linux? https://www.tomsguide.com/gaming/pc-gaming/xbox-gaming-makes-the-jump-to-windows-on-arm-but-can-it-stem-the-tide-of-gamers-turning-to-linux    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:54:57

• Nexus Mods Vortex Gets Linux Support in 2026 Thanks to SteamOS https://www.eteknix.com/nexus-mods-vortex-gets-linux-support-in-2026-thanks-to-steamos/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:55:32

• First Steam Machine Accessories Arrive : From Glow Skins to Native ‘GeForce NOW’ App on Ubuntu https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/valve-steam-machine-addons-2026/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:56:03

• I Replaced Windows 11 With Linux Mint. Here Are 7 Things It Does Much Better https://uk.pcmag.com/linux/162761/i-replaced-windows-11-with-linux-mint-here-are-7-things-it-does-much-better    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 17:56:52

• KDE Plasma 6.6 beta ships a login manager that won't log in without systemd https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/26/plasma_6_6_systemd_login/    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 18:19:30

• This 'dick move' was done by AlmaLinux (RHEL) worker: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-login-manager/-/merge_requests/42    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 18:22:26

• Dollar falls https://mynorthwest.com/money/us-stocks-gold-silver-price/4193637    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 18:48:56

• First long break in the year 2026 gopher://hoi.st:70/0/posts/2026-01-01-26-first-break.txt    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 20:29:33

• [japan] [photos] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2026-01-25.gmi    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 20:30:24

• [cat] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2026-01-26.gmi    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 20:31:10

• "Maker Peter Schmid has designed a "pocket power pack" which lets you take your model railroad projects wherever you travel — by combining a battery pack, throttle, command station, and booster in one compact box." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202601/20260126-powerpack.gmi    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 20:31:54

• "My old Nokia phone had a very small battery and lasted for days or, at times, several weeks. I was able to be contacted by the people that were in mutual friendship. I was able to be contacted by other people, too. Transmitting bytes was relatively expensive, then it got cheap." gemini://thousand.naps.day/q/batteries.gmi    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 20:32:54

• "Many small flies in the house. They infested one of the plants, then several of them, and now they're everywhere. The internet recommended strewing perlite in the pots, and I don't know how putting small stones on the surface of the soil can kill flies, but it looks like it does." gemini://thousand.naps.day/days/2026-01-20.gmi    

posted Monday, January 26, 2026 at 20:33:23