Roy Schestowitz

• US Marty Supreme gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/US-marty-supreme.gmi    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:18:52

• Temperaturas externas en la Raspi Zero 2W gemini://tecnico-ligero.mooo.com/gemlog/58--2026-02-03-Temperaturas-externas-en-la-Raspi-Zero-2W.gmi    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:19:19

• Alex Schroeder’s Diary — Long Web Society gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-02-03-long-web    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:20:05

• Hell Fire - Ooklah the Moc gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2785    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:20:56

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1556.jpg    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:21:42

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1906.jpg    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:21:50

• ""At the end of July 2025 — so almost 6 months ago — we launched the second RP2350 Hacking Challenge, searching for practical side-channel attacks on the power-hardened AES [Advanced Encryption Standard] implementation underpinning RP2350's secure boot," explains Raspberry Pi's Thomas Roth." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260203-rp2040.gmi    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:23:11

• "I mean I will probably have sex in my life again, but I am done looking for it." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/done    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:24:29

• New phase gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/day1    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:25:34

• Russian-Uzbek Billionaire Usmanov Wins Lawsuit Against German Newspaper, Documents Show https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-28/russian-uzbek-billionaire-usmanov-wins-lawsuit-against-german-newspaper-documents-show    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:34:59

• Russia’s State Duma advances bill allowing FSB to shut down internet https://cpj.org/2026/01/russias-state-duma-advances-bill-allowing-fsb-to-shut-down-internet/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:35:59

• Journalist Anna Narinskaya discusses incarcerated director Zhenya Berkovich in ‘Poetic Voices from a Russian Prison’ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/campus-life/journalist-anna-narinskaya-discusses-incarcerated-director-zhenya-berkovich-in-poetic-voices-from-a-russian-prison/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:36:47

• Trial against German carnival satirist Tilly underway in Russia https://www.dw.com/en/trial-against-german-carnival-satirist-tilly-underway-in-russia/a-75714838    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:37:03

• Russian ransomware forum seized by U.S. law enforcement https://databreaches.net/2026/01/28/russian-ransomware-forum-seized-by-u-s-law-enforcement/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:38:19

• "Misfits have gone to great lengths to try and have the topic censored. Therefore, it is vital for people to share it by email and direct messages. Don't rely on social control media platforms because they are compromised now." https://danielpocock.com/en/hacker-news-censored-google-astroturfing-lawsuit/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:40:58

• "Controlling the media and quashing dissent is a common theme in rogue open source "communities" today." https://danielpocock.com/en/collective-power-molly-de-blanc-nicolas-maduro-defendants-same-courthouse/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:42:50

• Groundhog Day Meaning https://xkcd.com/3202/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:44:51

• Proof Without Content https://xkcd.com/3201/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:45:08

• SFP#45: The final chapter of the EU Radio Equipment Directive https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/2026/episode-45.en.html    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:45:24

• Chemical Formula https://xkcd.com/3200/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:45:49

• Early Arthropod https://xkcd.com/3199/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 02:46:04

• Another EPO strike planned already: "Register your strike day on myfips where you usually register annual leave and choose as leave type “strike”. You may also use the following quick link q/StrikeTool → Create Request → Leave type: Strike, Date: 30.01.2026, Additional Data: Morning: yes, Afternoon: yes."    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 03:36:32

• "I noticed at the Albany site there are some people who know the dirt on everyone and get people to give them job security that way (by leveraging it). So they never get marked as low performers even if they truly are" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg3ctq05    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 04:15:13

• "This doesn’t seem like an isolated incident at the Albany site. There’s a visible pattern of favoritism. HB clearly has favorites, and if you pay attention to his LinkedIn activity, the pattern isn’t subtle. He consistently boosts and supports the same type of people, and they tend to fit a very specific mold. They all look the same." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg3ctq05    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 04:15:30

• "Endless reduction of employee headcount and slashing of investment spending is not a strategy for long term growth." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgj7w26n    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 04:16:23

• "Investors are concerned about an AI bubble" "Well, to be fair, many tech stocks are getting hit today…" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgj7w26n    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 04:16:46

• "but, but , but....Alvind wants growth and job growth for his beloved motherland, India. Anything less is not worthy of discussion. Unless of course, you are referring to yet more medals being pinned on Alvind's chest pinned by none other than the great Modi." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgj7w26n    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 04:17:08

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 04:17:47

• "What do you mean by “full RTO”?" "they mean complete return to office no more WFH at all" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgc0nzhn    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 04:17:54

• "There are layoffs every month. There is a whole crowd of people who's last day is next Tuesday February 10. IThey started working on the big wave list for March in November. It is just going to continue Alvind and the book cooker Crapenaw are incapable of anything else. Look at the "goodwill" on the books over 67 billion that's just make believe $$" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfv37vnh    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 04:18:32

• "Quantum is the conduit to Mobile Hybrid Blockchain." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgh1yb6n    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 04:19:02

• Hijacking identity of RMS: "Following the takedown on January 28 the forum administrator, known as Stallman, issued a statement , widely circulated across clandestine forums. Stallman expressed intentions to refrain from re-establishing RAMP, likely due to concerns over threats to personal security." https://www.cybersecurityintelligence.com/blog/fbi-dismantles-notorious-ramp-cybercrime-marketplace-9084.html    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 04:54:12

• Ted Unangst's site has been down for some weeks, too https://flak.tedunangst.com/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 05:44:40

• Pinterest sacks workers for creating tool to track layoffs https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0k670n0ydo    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 06:37:28

• Running out of revenue sources? https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/microsoft-ends-standalone-sharepoint-online-onedrive-for-business-plans-and-the-reason-is/articleshow/127890841.cms    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 06:38:05

• "After "awareness" campaigns that failed to move the needle for years" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/danish-students-face-legal-action-and-fines-over-textbook-piracy/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 07:49:47

• "The pitch is always framed as pragmatic. Modern websites are bloated. LLMs don’t need the design." ☛ https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/more-than-words/ | Source: Jono Alderson    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 07:50:30

• "This expansion is largely due to legal efforts by American companies, who applaud the "lock and suspend" orders while hoping to further increase their scope and effectiveness." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-rightsholders-applaud-indias-lock-and-suspend-piracy-blockades/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 07:50:40

• "Canon is in the Top Ten again, landing 7th spot for the number of patents granted in the US in 2025" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/digital-cameras/42-years-in-a-row-canons-industry-leading-patent-streak-keeps-going-strong | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 07:51:23

• [Old] "The study underscores the need to broaden the focus of patent-reform efforts." ☛ https://www.weforum.org/stories/2015/03/do-patents-harm-innovation/ | Source: World Economic Forum    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 07:51:33

• "So basically Musk — who likes to pretend he hates subsidies despite his entire existence being propped up by them" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/02/trump-is-helping-elon-musks-starlink-get-billions-in-taxpayer-dollars-with-no-oversight/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 07:55:05

• "The purpose of the march was decidedly dire, but by all accounts from people on the ground, it was a family atmosphere where locals turned out with children, elders, pets and signs in hand to show their opposition to ICE’s lawlessness" ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-tear-gas-kids-portland-oregon | Source: Marisa Kabas    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 07:55:40

• "ICE is out of control. Democrats have numerous ways to restrain the agency, from barring ICE from domestic spying and terminating its contracts with tech companies to creating and fully funding an independent body to investigate its many abuses." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/02/democrats-ice-killings-congress-reforms/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 07:55:52

• "Let’s just clear the air right up front: this is just the government mugging Somalis because they’re currently at the top of Trump’s shitlist." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/02/ice-cbp-brag-about-stealing-a-legally-impossible-14000-from-us-citizens-at-the-minneapolis-airport/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 07:56:04

• "illegal to exercise one's rights to assemble and free speech" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/03/trump-doj-decides-the-second-amendment-only-counts-when-they-have-the-guns.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:01:25

• "We are very proud to present 404 Media’s zine on the surveillance technology used by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement." ☛ https://www.404media.co/icezine/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:01:42

• "The arrest of journalists Mehdi Mahmoudian and Vida Rabbani for signing a peaceful public statement underscores how Iranian authorities continue to criminalize journalism and civic expression" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/02/iran-arrests-2-more-journalists-amid-widening-crackdown/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:02:07

• "widen the definition of a “grant” to cover virtually any form of remuneration or assistance from abroad if it serves vaguely defined political goals" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/02/georgia-moves-to-tighten-restrictive-media-funding-laws-add-lengthy-jail-terms/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:02:21

• "The rally comes at a critical moment for one of the nation’s most influential news organizations. Staff cuts threaten to weaken The Post and undermine its mission." ☛ https://wbng.org/2026/02/02/save-the-post-rally/ | Source: Washingon-Baltimore News Guild    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:02:34

• "the chief federal judge in Minneapolis declined to allow the case because he saw no probable cause to arrest the longtime journalist" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/lemon-arrest-shows-being-near-protesters-can-make-you-an-enemy-of-the-state/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:06:23

• "The arrest of one the country’s most recognizable journalists is the latest development in the federal government’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis" ☛ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/don-lemon-arrested-federal-authorities-attorney-says-rcna256680 | Source: NBC    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:06:42

• "They want to embarrass you. They want to intimidate you. They want to instill fear. And so that's why they did it that way" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/don-lemon-arrest-jimmy-kimmel-b2912600.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:06:59

• "I was walking up to the room and I pressed the elevator button, and then all of a sudden, I feel myself being jostled and and people trying to grab me and put me in handcuffs" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2026-02-03/don-lemon-says-a-dozen-agents-were-sent-to-arrest-him-even-though-he-offered-to-turn-himself-in | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:07:17

• "the new “Close-Up” report by Reporters without Borders raises alarm." ☛ https://digit.site36.net/2026/02/03/german-journalists-under-pressure-from-right-wing-outlets-and-israel-reporters-without-borders-explain/ | Source: Site36    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:07:38

• "The physical attack on the RAI crew in Turin is part of a deeply alarming pattern in Italy of targeted assaults that aim to intimidate journalists into silence and undermine the public’s right to information" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/02/masked-protesters-attack-italian-rai-tv-crew-during-clashes-with-police/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:08:02

• "according to four people briefed on the matter" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/trump-harvard-payment.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:08:37

• "That is a Grammy that every artist wants almost as much as Trump wants Greenland, which makes sense because Epstein’s island is gone; he needs a new one to hang out with Bill Clinton" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/02/trump-trevor-noah-grammys-comments/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:08:49

• "Noah referenced Epstein days after the Justice Department on Friday released more than 3 million pages from investigative files on the late financier." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2026-02-02/grammys-trevor-noah-trump-sue-epstein-island-joke | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:09:06

• "Misfits have gone to great lengths to try and have the topic censored. Therefore, it is vital for people to share it by email and direct messages. Don't rely on social control media platforms because they are compromised now." ☛ https://danielpocock.com/en/hacker-news-censored-google-astroturfing-lawsuit/ | Source: Daniel Pocock    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:09:24

• "Controlling the media and quashing dissent is a common theme in rogue open source "communities" today." ☛ https://danielpocock.com/en/collective-power-molly-de-blanc-nicolas-maduro-defendants-same-courthouse/ | Source: Daniel Pocock    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:09:35

• "Netflix is facing a competing bid from Paramount Skydance, run by CEO David Ellison, the son of President Donald Trump’s close ally and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/873533/netflix-warner-bros-discovery-senate-antitrust-hearing | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:09:53

• "The episode laid bare the newest, most rapidly evolving frontier in news misinformation" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/epstein-files-ai-slop-targets-zohran-mamdani-1235509995/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:10:28

• "Guardian critic Xan Brooks says it “doesn’t have a single redeeming quality” and compares it to a “medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne.”" ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/melania-the-film-the-shame | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:10:49

• "slopagandist" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/873400/nick-shirley-somali-daycares-san-diego-california-youtube | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:11:14

• [Old] "The Data Act is a law designed to enhance the EU’s data economy and foster a competitive data market by making data (in particular industrial data) more accessible and usable, encouraging data-driven innovation and increasing data availability." ☛ https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/factpages/data-act-explained | Source: European Commission    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:11:56

• "data shows U.S. software companies don’t have a future without the old continent" ☛ https://fortune.com/europe/2024/07/18/european-decline-data-companies-profits-ipo-finance-tech/ | Source: Fortune    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:12:09

• "There is light on the horizon, however. Synergy noted that this 15% share has held steady since 2022, suggesting no further inroads from US giants." ☛ https://www.itpro.com/cloud/cloud-computing/us-companies-dominate-the-european-cloud-market-regional-players-are-left-fighting-for-scraps | Source: IT Pro    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:12:27

• "Unsurprisingly, many Europeans are on the lookout for alternatives to US technology and services." ☛ https://www.techpolicy.press/washington-could-activate-a-kill-switch-to-terminate-european-access-to-us-tech-heres-how-it-could-work/ | Source: Tech Policy Press    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:12:49

• "The European Commission therefore urgently needs to identify all exports of American goods and services that could be the subject of a large-scale retaliation." ☛ https://geopolitique.eu/en/2025/03/28/how-europe-must-respond-to-trumps-economic-war-for-a-european-economic-deterrence-strategy/ |    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:13:05

• "Proton analyzed business email domains across Europe to show how many publicly listed companies are reliant on US email and email security services." ☛ https://proton.me/business/europe-tech-watch | Source: Proton A G    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:13:23

• "The effect so far has been to accelerate the EU’s quest to break its dependence on Silicon Valley and China." ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/digital-sovereignty-europes-declaration-of-independence/ | Source: Atlantic Council    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:13:43

• "supply chain optimization" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/02/palantir-rallies-revenue-jumps-70-guidance-leaves-wall-street-behind/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:14:14

• "It’s exceedingly rare that Musk’s controversial behavior ends up hurting him financially. He remains the world’s richest man, even while Tesla’s sales and profits continue to plummet." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/872450/elon-musk-jeffrey-epstein-emails-spacex-ipo-tesla | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:14:33

• "Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor implementation in Rust. We're happy to announce the latest release, Arti 2.0.0." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/arti_2_0_0_released/ | Source: Tor    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:14:50

• "A compromised dependency in the JavaScript ecosystem led to credential theft, which enabled a supply chain attack on a Rust compression library, which was vendored into a Python build tool" ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:15:19

• "I thought there was consensus that it was bad to burn through GPUs in space where it’s nearly impossible to maintain them?" ☛ https://www.manton.org/2026/02/03/spacex-data-centers.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:15:59

• "In December—three days before Christmas—Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior halted five offshore wind projects that were all more than 40 percent complete." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/trump-goes-zero-for-five-against-offshore-wind | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:16:28

• "According to Statement on Climate for the State of Kerala: 2025, temperatures remained higher than normal, though the year was significantly cooler than 2024" ☛ https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/climate-report-warming-trend-persists-in-kerala-despite-slight-relief-in-2025/article70586304.ece | Source: The Hindu    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:16:49

• "the world’s richest man made a bizarre series of desperate-sounding posts on his website X attempting to convince his millions of fans of his innocence." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-crashing-out-epstein | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:17:25

• "The Department of Justice has released what appears to be its last tranche of files related to convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/epstein-files-tech-elites-gates-thiel-musk/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:17:42

• "When all of the lies Trump and his ministry of homeland insecurity have spread about the killing of American citizens on the streets of Minneapolis have turned to dust, the truth will remain." ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2026/02/01/as-a-nation-we-face-a-decisive-moment-trust-the-journalists-who-witness-tyranny-at-street-level/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:18:10

• "Stewart admitted that he himself is in the files." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/jon-stewart-epstein-files-the-daily-show-trump-1235510201/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:18:55

• "Among the most high-profile names to appear in the Epstein files are Bill Gates and Elon Musk, underscoring how Epstein cultivated ties within Silicon Valley and beyond." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bill-gates-elon-musk-other-powerful-figures-listed-epstein-records-1776143 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:19:14

• Overpopulation ☛ https://kk.org/thetechnium/six-selfish-reasons-to-have-kids/ | Source: Kevin Kelly    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:19:46

• "The goal is to reassert democratic control over social media" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/world/europe/spain-social-media-ban-under-16.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:23:37

• "Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday that the country will ban children under age 16 from accessing social media" ☛ https://therecord.media/spain-to-ban-social-media-children | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:23:53

• "Other European countries are also considering similar measures, including the United Kingdom, Denmark, and France." ☛ https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/02/03/spain-to-ban-social-media-platforms-for-children-under-16-prime-minister-pedro-sanchez-ann | Source: EuroNews    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:24:37

• "So Trump figures now is the time — some nine and a half months before the midterm elections — to get Bondi’s Justice Department, the FBI, and even Gabbard" ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/could-trump-really-take-over-the | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:24:49

• "To Catch a Fascist" ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/can-fascists-still-be-shamed | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:25:25

• "break up with Silicon Valley" ☛ https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-declared-war-against-big-tech-digital-sovereignty/ | Source: Politico    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:25:41

• "The timing of the outage certainly didn’t help matters." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/02/tiktok-us-rough-start-oracle-comments/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:25:56

• "owning the libs" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/02/beware-government-using-image-manipulation-for-propaganda/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:26:45

• "Ukraine has not forgotten any of the thousands of Shaheds that attack our cities and villages, our people" ☛ https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-names-irans-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps-as-terrorist-organization/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:27:08

• "The tech giant said it receives around 20 requests for BitLocker keys a year and will provide them to governments in response to valid court orders." ☛ https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/ | Source: Forbes    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:27:36

• "Microsoft gives the FBI the ability to decrypt BitLocker in response to court orders: about twenty times per year." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/microsoft-is-giving-the-fbi-bitlocker-keys.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:27:55

• "This brings us back to Signal. This isn’t a Signal issue." ☛ https://nbtv.substack.com/p/why-i-dont-put-signal-on-my-computer | Source: Ludlow Institute    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:28:10

• "Starlink updated its global privacy policy on 15 January, according to the Starlink website." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/privacy-alarm-as-spacex-opens-starlink-user-data-to-ai-models/277024/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:28:34

• "Based on the documentation and assessment of the risk for the data subjects which the Municipality of Elsinore has prepared" ☛ https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/national-news/2022/danish-dpa-imposes-ban-use-google-workspace-elsinore-municipality_en | Source: European Data Protection Board    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:28:47

• [Old] "From 1 August 2024 onwards, Danish schools will no longer be allowed to enable Chromebooks and Google platforms to collect students' personal data for processing" ☛ https://theprivacydad.com/final-decision-on-chromebook-case-in-denmark/ |    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:29:02

• "Neither Palantir nor HHS has publicly announced that the company’s software was being used for these purposes." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/hhs-is-using-ai-tools-from-palantir-to-target-dei-and-gender-ideology-in-grants/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:29:16

• "evolving its cloud" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/microsoft_retires_sharepoint_onedrive_standalone/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:29:47

• "evolving its cloud" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/microsoft_retires_sharepoint_onedrive_standalone/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:30:07

• "Airlines and the TSA started asking for ID, but they couldn’t legally require it. Even according to the TSA’s website, if you do not show your ID, “you may still be allowed to fly.”" ☛ https://www.frommers.com/tips/airfare/the-tsa-new-45-fee-to-fly-without-id-is-illegal-says-regulatory-expert/ |    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:30:15

• "In 2018, Citizen Lab researchers discovered that a Saudi operator called KINGDOM was targeting dissidents abroad with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware." ☛ https://citizenlab.ca/saudi-arabia-ordered-to-pay-3m-to-london-dissident-over-pegasus-spying/ | Source: Citizen Lab    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:30:41

• "Using ARO, ThothX can detect one-metre-long objects in orbit at a distance of 100,000 kilometres—about a quarter of the way to the moon." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/canada-is-building-a-surveillance-network-in-space/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:30:59

• "To answer the question in the headline, MyTerms is not "beyond" the GDPR, because the GDPR says contract is one of the six lawful bases for processing personal data." ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2026/02/03/toes-day/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:31:15

• "If you’re really looking to understand what’s being claimed here, the best way to do it is to read the complaint yourself: you can find it here (PDF)" ☛ https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/02/02/whatsapp-encryption-a-lawsuit-and-a-lot-of-noise/ | Source: Cryptography Engineering    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:31:40

• "The lawsuit is almost certainly rubbish. But the discomfort people feel about Meta handling their private messages isn't irrational." ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/whatsapp-encryption-reputation/ | Source: Greg Morris    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:31:57

• "Around this time, you realize that the web interface for this thing has some stuff that phones home, and part of what it does is to send stack traces back to sentry.io." ☛ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/02/03/badnas/ | Source: Rachel    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:32:09

• How to Stop Stalker Ads ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/how-to-stop-stalker-ads/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:32:31

• "In this blog, we outline how ad brokers track your online activity and explain what you can do to minimise this." ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/how-do-advertisers-track-you-online/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:32:48

• "And that’s important background to the search of Xitter in Paris. What had started as an investigation into things specific to Europe" ☛ https://emptywheel.net/elon-musk-under-investigation-for-trafficking-child-sexual-abuse-material/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:33:20

• "If you have been affected by intimate image abuse, including AI-generated images, you are not alone. There are some things you can do: [...]" ☛ https://refuge.org.uk/news/grok-image-abuse-statement/ |    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:34:17

• "voluntary interview" ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260203-french-summons-musk-for-voluntary-interview-as-authorities-raid-x-offices | Source: France24    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:35:08

• "French prosecutors raided the offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Tuesday as part of a preliminary investigation into a range of alleged offences" ☛ https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/paris-prosecutors-raid-offices-part-investigation-child-abuse-129807009 | Source: ABC    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:35:49

• "investigated for a litany of alleged offense" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/france-police-raid-x-offices-in-paris-summon-elon-musk/a-75782874 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:36:09

• "Generative AI has made it easier than ever for perpetrators to create fake images at the expense of women’s safety" ☛ https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/03/business/x-paris-prosecutor-raid-intl | Source: CNN    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:36:27

• "French cybercrime authorities were on Tuesday, February 3, carrying out a search of the French offices of social media network X, the Paris public prosecutor's office said" ☛ https://www.lemonde.fr/en/police-and-justice/article/2026/02/03/paris-prosecutors-raid-french-offices-of-elon-musk-s-x_6750083_105.html | Source: Le Monde    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:37:12

• "The raid is part of an investigation launched in January last year into the suspected abuse of algorithms and fraudulent data extraction" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/03/french-headquarters-elon-musk-x-raided-paris-cybercrime-unit | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:37:31

• "child pornography images" ☛ https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/france-paris-prosecutors-x-office-elon-musk-sexual-deepfakes-holocaust-rcna257202 | Source: NBC    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:38:02

• "potential to produce harmful sexualised image and video content." ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo | Source: BBC    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:38:23

• "The offices of X, formerly known as Twitter, were raided this morning by police in Paris." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/03/paris-cops-raid-offices-of-elon-musks-x-in-child-porn-investigation.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:38:42

• "The International AI Safety report is an annual survey of technological progress and the risks it is creating across multiple areas, from deepfakes to the jobs market." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/03/deepfakes-ai-companions-artificial-intelligence-safety-report | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:39:01

• "The survey found that about three-quarters of teachers who use AI rely on it to prepare lessons, develop curricula or draft documents." ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2821214/nearly-70-of-lithuanian-teachers-use-ai-at-work-prompting-new-guidelines | Source: LRT    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:39:47

• "The previous administration had an AI chatbot that was functionally unusable" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-chatbot-mamdani | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:40:08

• "Price rises have accelerated as we enter 2026, and the cost of some parts has more than doubled over the last quarter." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:40:29

• "some parts has more than doubled over the last quarter." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-5-price-increases-drastically-as-ai-shortage-bites-16gb-version-now-usd205-second-price-increase-in-three-months-over-70-percent-more-expensive-than-original-msrp | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:41:01

• "AI experts and consumer groups have been sounding the alarm on Grok’s mounting safety concerns, citing it as unstable." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/new-letter-warns-next-grok-mistake-could-be-leaked-national-security-files | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:41:45

• "A security engineer's wake-up call after Claude Code repeatedly created insecure routes despite existing security abstractions." ☛ https://www.provos.org/p/dangers-of-coding-with-ai/ | Source: Niels Provos    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:43:04

• "There’s a new report about two AI coding assistants, used by 1.5 million developers, that are surreptitiously sending a copy of everything they ingest to China." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/ai-coding-assistants-secretly-copying-all-code-to-china.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:43:30

• "What I hate is the entire GenAI (and, by proxy, IT) business. I hate how they are allowed to ignore social contracts (licenses) without any repercussions, while normal people are forced to suicide." ☛ https://michal.sapka.pl/weblog/2026/what-i-mean-when-i-say-that-i-hate-genai/ | Source: Michał Sapka    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:43:57

• "I don’t like automatic summarisation any more. Especially in the context of technical publications." ☛ https://blakerain.com/blog/i-dont-like-automatic-summarisation/ | Source: Blake Rain    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:44:21

• "Is this because there is real demand for it, or because companies and institutions like Mozilla are pushing AI as hard as they can?" ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/ai-industry-doesnt-take-no-for-an-answer/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:44:37

• "The RAM shortage is caused by increased datacenter demand, which has encouraged memory makers to focus more on selling pricey HBM (high-bandwidth memory) to hyperscalers." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/02/raspberry_pi_ram_shortage_price_hike/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:45:06

• "The memory shortage is worse than most of us first thought." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/02/dram_prices_expected_to_double/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:45:35

• "January saw only a 0.1% increase" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/ddr5-ram-begins-to-stabilize-in-germany-january-saw-only-a-0-1-percent-increase-in-pricing-across-the-month-some-kits-even-saw-price-cuts-as-volatility-begins-to-plateau | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:45:59

• "Our risk engine has identified two VS Code extensions, a campaign we're calling MaliciousCorgi - 1.5 million combined installs" ☛ https://www.koi.ai/blog/maliciouscorgi-the-cute-looking-ai-extensions-leaking-code-from-1-5-million-developers |    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:52:10

• "What we’ve learned empirically is that the ntdll APIs are generally well-engineered, reasonable, and powerful, but the kernel32 wrappers introduce unnecessary heap allocations, additional failure modes, unintentional CPU usage, and bloat." ☛ https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-03 | Source: Zig    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:52:27

• "This is a monumental misstep, but declining performance and living on past grandeurs is fast becoming the new Apple way." ☛ https://canion.blog/2026/02/04/rotting-to-the-core.html | Source: Canion dot Blog    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:52:42

• "We are experiencing a period of great angst in the Apple community, and most of it is the result of Tim Cook’s leadership." ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/3050158/winter-of-our-apple-discontent.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:53:09

• "kissing the ring and kow-towing to a tyrant, clearly having chosen himself as a corporate sacrifice to the appalling present government of the US." ☛ https://mattgemmell.scot/the-fallen-apple/ |    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:53:30

• "CVE-2026-21509 is a security feature bypass vulnerability in Microsoft Office for which Microsoft rushed an out-of-cycle patch on Jan. 26 after confirming active zero-day exploitation." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/russian-hackers-weaponize-office-bug-within-days | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:53:58

• "Not only that, but Snap keeps older versions of VS Code after updates, potentially multiplying the number of local Trash folders and the trashed-but-not-deleted files therein." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/04/vs_code_for_linux_trash_fail/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:54:23

• "That resilience is showing up most clearly in tech budgets." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/europe_tariffs_forrester/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:54:43

• "These databases and the information within them are used to identify under-vaccinated populations relating to specific diseases" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/02/the-cdc-has-mysteriously-frozen-vaccine-databases-without-explanation/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:55:16

• "The doctor confirmed: it was an excellent sign, meaning the healing phase had begun. No serious permanent damage. It would take time, but I would heal." ☛ https://my-notes.dragas.net/2026/02/02/the-weight-of-a-millimeter/ | Source: Stefano Marinelli    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:55:27

• "This isn’t an open-source project, but it is quite well-documented, and the general design logic and workings of the device are freely available." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/02/a-higher-end-pico-based-oscilloscope/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:55:49

• "However, there's another, more fundamental reason why I think 8K television is following the same path as 3D TV: it simply isn't necessary." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/video-editing/8k-video-is-dying-but-you-shouldnt-mourn-its-loss | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:56:03

• "The Solicitors Regulation Authority has said it will demand answers from partners of a law firm network amid reports the business has closed suddenly." https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/staff-in-despair-as-20-practice-network-shuts-suddenly/5125786.article    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 08:59:12

• "The first edition of the Enamed exam evaluated 350 medical programs, offered by public and private institutions, through an exam administered to nearly 90,000 students." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-02/brazil-shocked-to-find-that-13000-students-about-to-graduate-from-medical-school-lack-basic-knowledge-to-practice-medicine.html | Source: El País    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 09:04:12

• "Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education." ☛ https://computinged.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/defining-learner-centered-design-of-computing-education-what-i-did-on-my-sabbatical/ | Source: CER    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 09:04:25

• "Here is small collection that I hope to build over time." ☛ https://box.matto.nl/internet-evergreens.html | Source: MJ Fransen    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 09:04:39

• "Eight years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company." ☛ https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/ | Source: Michael Lynch    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 09:04:50

• "It helps to do the work to understand why things aren’t the same for each individual, and even better, how to create the conditions for culture and systems to make the goals you seek more likely to be met." ☛ https://seths.blog/2026/02/everybody-wants-to-win/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 09:11:56

• "To test whether such a process was occurring beneath the Uintas, we turned to seismic tomography." ☛ https://theconversation.com/why-does-this-river-slice-straight-through-a-mountain-range-after-150-years-scientists-finally-know-274888 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 09:12:26

• "This is a law of succession most forecasters are familiar with: add one success and one failure to get the Bayesian posterior of coin flips. It’s called Laplace’s law of succession." ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/laws-of-succession | Source: Chris    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 09:12:38

• "The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/medieval-monks-wrote-over-a-copy-of-an-ancient-star-catalog-now-a-particle-accelerator-is-revealing-the-long-lost-original-text-180988123/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 09:12:48

• "Accuracy means hitting the target." ☛ https://seths.blog/2026/02/precision-vs-accuracy/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 09:13:36

• "It's nice to engage on different scales, to think about bigger and smaller pictures all at once. There, tactics and strategy meet, and there is much to be learned." ☛ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/nop26/ | Source: The Cyber Show    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 09:14:17

• "John Owen, one of the last veterans of the French and Indian War, posed for this photograph shortly before his death in 1843 at the age of 107." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/03/one-of-the-earliest-born-humans-ever-to-be-photographed.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 09:14:35

• "the discoverers, in the sense that they put them on the pop charts, of Nyro, Nilsson, Newman, and even Elton John and Bernie Taupin" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/three-dog-night-chuck-negron-dead-obituary-1235510182/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 09:15:22

• "Beyond the celebrations, though, I wanted to reflect on a number of the deeper conversations I’ve had over these last few days." ☛ https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/03/nye-tech-30/ | Source: Anil Dash    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 09:16:05

• "Teymur asked me, probably hoping for some kind of automation. Alas, there is none. And still, here is my “workflow” for my link blog" ☛ https://lostfocus.de/2026/02/03/linkblog-workflow/ | Source: Dominik Schwind    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 09:16:21

• "Good, I successfully moved my WithKnown instance to its new home at Hetzner" ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/where-are-my-images | Source: Jeremy Cherfas    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 09:16:36

• "The artefact we see here is from something called “quoted printable”, or as we used to call it when it was introduced: “Quoted unreadable”." ☛ https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/02/whats-up-with-all-those-equals-signs-anyway/ | Source: Lars Ingrebrigtsen    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:10:24

• "The short answer: you can’t. Not directly, anyway. And it’s not just an iOS or iPadOS limitation—macOS won’t let you do it either." ☛ https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/02/photos-wont-let-you-remove-the-raw-photo-from-a-rawjpeg-pair/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:10:37

• "Let’s start looking at the new features in HTTP/1.1 that made it a such a sturdy pillar of the web for so long and then build a server in Go that implements them from scratch." ☛ https://kmcd.dev/posts/http1.1-from-scratch/ | Source: Kevin McDonald    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:10:50

• "There are a variety of ways to pass secrets from one program to another on Unix, and many of them may expose your secrets under some circumstances." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/PassingSecretsViaStdin | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:11:19

• "Python is one of my favorite programming languages due to its terseness and amazing flexibility" ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/dev/python | Source: Rui Carmo    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:14:12

• "Maybe especially as a programming language." ☛ https://www.philipzucker.com/leancall/ | Source: Philip Zucker    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:14:23

• "Meet our new editors!" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/02/announcing-new-statistical-software-peer-review-editors-natalia-da-silva-and-andrew-heiss/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:16:16

• "Thank you all for the continued support since we started out in June 2024." ☛ https://opencollective.com/gothub/updates/web-interface-is-now-enabled-and-we-need-more-subscribers | Source: Open Collective    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:23:09

• "If I go into a bookshop or library, there’s no urgency." ☛ https://derekkedziora.com/notes/2026-02-03-unintended-values | Source: Derek Kędziora    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:23:29

• "Yes, many accessibility annotation kits do come with the ability to specify focus order. And yes, being able to place focus on the interactive parts of your website or web app is an important thing." ☛ https://ericwbailey.website/published/you-probably-shouldnt-be-annotating-focus-order/ | Source: Eric Bailey    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:23:55

• "It’s never been a good idea to ship everything you think of. Every addition accretes complexity and comes with a cognitive cost." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/saying-no/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:24:20

• "The title of my ending keynote at FOSDEM February 1, 2026." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/02/03/open-source-security-in-spite-of-ai/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:24:36

• "I'm working on a silly word game right now, which means I need a list of words for it." ☛ https://ntietz.com/blog/good-english-word-datasets/ | Source: Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:25:29

• "The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) invites project briefing proposals for our Spring 2026 Membership Meeting" ☛ https://www.cni.org/news/cni-spring-meeting-cfp-reminder | Source: Coalition for Networked Information    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:26:31

• "The Perl and Raku Conference 2026 is a community-organized gathering of developers, enthusiasts, and industry professionals." ☛ https://www.perl.com/article/cast-iron-community-your-chance-to-sponsor-tprc-2026/ | Source: Perl    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:26:47

• "It seems premature to talk about a migration that is only halfway done, even if it's the hard half that's done" ☛ https://www.jmduke.com/posts/postgres-jobs.html | Source: Justin Duke    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:27:29

• "Mozilla Firefox has always seemed like the “cool kid” browser option, for the power users who don’t want to deal with Google or Microsoft." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3050934/finally-firefox-just-gave-you-an-ai-off-switch.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:28:12

• "Over the past year, Firefox joined Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome in doubling down on AI" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/872489/mozilla-firefox-ai-features-off-button | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:28:26

• "I was however not prepared for it, but as a direct consequence I was handed a medal this year" ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/02/02/a-third-medal/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:29:24

• "Why do RSS readers look like email clients?" ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/feed-readers-email-apps/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:29:54

• "This weekend I had some fun building a little Astro site for RSS aggregation." ☛ https://www.raymondcamden.com/2026/02/02/building-an-rss-aggregator-with-astro | Source: Raymond Camden    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:30:15

• "The response was limited to 4000 characters including URLs. To be consistent with the commission’s terminology, we use OSS instead of FOSS." ☛ https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2026/02/03/202602-european-open-digital-strategy/ | Source: SequoiaPGP    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:31:04

• "The Emacs distribution I mostly recommend to my students is Doom Emacs." ☛ https://www.arjenwiersma.nl/completion-in-emacs-hledger | Source: Arjen Wiersma    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:31:17

• "Twelve new GNU releases in the last month (as of January 31, 2026): [...]" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-january-gnu-spotlight | Source: FSF    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:31:28

• "The four-armed gripper you see here prints as a single piece, and is cable-driven with a single metal-geared servo powering the assembly." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/02/print-in-place-gripper-does-it-with-a-single-motor/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:32:12

• "Some high-resolution photos are also found on the separate blog page." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/02/teardown-of-an-apple-airtag-2-with-die-shots/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:32:29

• "My G6 Thumb Camera arrived a few days later, as straightforward a copy of a branded product as I have seen" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/03/the-surprising-hackability-of-a-knock-off-chinese-toy-camera/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:32:46

• "Right away, we’ll state that this is not a traditional typewriter." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/03/lego-typewriter-writes-plastic-letters/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:32:57

• "As part of his quest to find the best affordable generator for his DIY hydroelectric power system, [FarmCraft101] is trying out a range of off-the-shelf and DIY solutions" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/03/rewinding-a-car-alternator-for-240-volt/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:36:05

• "all the segments need to be illuminated" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/03/the-graph-theory-of-circuit-sculptures/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:36:22

• "Arduino doesn’t have the cultural cachet of its fellow single-board player Raspberry Pi, but it’s arguably more popular for those who like to break out the soldering iron." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3051013/this-arduino-board-is-bigger-than-your-head-and-it-works.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:37:36

• "It's rare to find Loongson CPUs outside of China, but a Linux reviewer has managed to get one of the CPU manufacturer's 12-core chips for testing." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/china-made-loongson-12-core-chip-is-approximately-three-times-slower-than-six-core-ryzen-5-9600x-3b6000-hampered-by-low-clock-speeds-in-linux-benchmarks | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:37:55

• "At the end of July 2025 — so almost 6 months ago — we launched the second RP2350 Hacking Challenge, searching for practical side-channel attacks on the power-hardened AES implementation underpinning RP2350‘s secure boot." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/rp2350-hacking-challenge-2-less-randomisation-more-correlation/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:38:21

• [Old] "That didn’t sit right with me." ☛ https://robertoviola.cloud/2025/07/22/how-i-built-qz-and-how-echelon-is-now-breaking-it/ |    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:54:21

• "Chris Lamb finished his term as Debian Project Leader in April 2019 but his attacks on my family and I continue to this day." ☛ https://danielpocock.com/en/15-billion-dollar-lawsuit-ubuntu-google-debian-crowdfunding-campaign-launch/ | Source: Daniel Pocock    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:54:57

• "[...] In our News section this week we talk about progress being made in postmarketOS while Xfce begins work on its own Wayland window manager. [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260202 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 10:55:26

• [Old] "The final distribution is very simple and consists only of minimum of tools and hardware support." ☛ https://krzysztofjankowski.com/floppinux/floppinux-2025.html |    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:00:15

• "We continue our exploration of old change requests on the Gerrit code review tool that have been waiting for several years for someone to pick them up and get them merged." ☛ https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2026-02-03-the_gerrit_pending_review_iceberg_5/ | Source: HaikuOS    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:00:33

• "In the eyes of KDE it seems that OSes that do not use systemd are ‘niche’ and not worth supporting" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/02/kde-binds-itself-tightly-to-systemd-drops-support-for-non-systemd-systems/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:05:31

• "Anyway. The winner wasted no time setting up the contest for 2026." ☛ https://solhsa.com/oldernews2026.html#C-S-S-C-G-C-2025 | Source: Jari Komppa    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:06:05

• "Anyway. The winner wasted no time setting up the contest for 2026." ☛ https://solhsa.com/oldernews2026.html#C-S-S-C-G-C-2025 | Source: Jari Komppa    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:06:21

• "OpenTTD 15 is now out and ready for you to play!" ☛ https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/01/01/openttd-15-0 |    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:06:33

• "Browser engineers have been working towards a solution for this in CSS called contrast-color(). Here’s what that will look like: [...]" ☛ https://piccalil.li/blog/some-css-only-contrast-options-until-contrast-color-is-baseline-widely-available/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:08:09

• [Old] "In typography/design, ‘sidenotes’ place footnotes/endnotes in the margins for easier reading." ☛ https://gwern.net/sidenote |    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:08:24

• "We can break this into two sub-problems: [...]" ☛ https://lalitm.com/post/exponential-search/ | Source: Lalit Maganti    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:08:52

• "After my recent presentation at FOSDEM, someone asked a pretty reasonable question. What does it cost to run OpenBenches?" ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/02/the-cost-of-running-openbenches-org/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:12:46

• "In this blog, we’ll discuss the massive technological transformation that StarHub, and the telco industry as a whole, is currently undergoing." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/evolution-sovereign-techco-embracing-polycloud-agentic-ai-and-digital-trust | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:13:57

• "The Jean Canyon platform is available in two main configurations based on Intel’s Core Ultra 9 275-HX or Core Ultra 7 255-HX processors." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/core-ultra-hx-powers-rtx-equipped-nuc-15-workstation/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:14:56

• "The WalnutPi 2B is based on the Allwinner T527, an octa-core 64-bit Cortex-A55 processor clocked at up to 1.8 GHz, paired with a 200 MHz RISC-V coprocessor for auxiliary and control tasks." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/walnutpi-2b-is-a-raspberry-pi-style-sbc-with-allwinner-t527-and-2-tops-npu/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:15:08

• "New major versions transactional-update and Ruby 4.0 begin the new year with major changes." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/02/03/tw-monthly-update-jan/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:17:52

• Introducing Node Readiness Controller | Kubernetes ⚓ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/02/03/introducing-node-readiness-controller/ ䷉ Source: Kubernetes Blog | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//kubernetes.io/blog/2026/02/03/introducing-node-readiness-controller/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:18:38

• "Feeling remorseful: 'Way too far': Latino Trump voters shocked by Minneapolis crackdown - RTL Today" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/way-too-far-latino-trump-voters-shocked-by-minneapolis-crackdown-941426672    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:18:49

• Authorities want to see prison for foul streaming | "Myndighet vill se fängelse för fulstreaming" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/02/02/myndighet-vill-se-fangelse-for-fulstreaming/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:19:29

• The prosecution wants to see prison sentences for illegal IP TV | "Åklagarmyndigheten vill se fängelsestraff för illegal ip-tv | SVT Nyheter" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/aklagarmyndigheten-vill-se-fangelsestraff-for-illegal-ip-tv    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:20:09

• "Tove Jansson läser | Yle Arenan" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://arenan.yle.fi/poddar/program/30-662    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:20:25

• iophk: NTLM was only ever just another security hole https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/microsoft-plans-to-bury-its-ntlm-security-relic-after-30-years    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:20:41

• "Microsoft's winning formula may be starting to fray" https://techcentral.co.za/microsofts-winning-formula-is-starting-to-fray/277058/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:20:54

• "France Moves Government Departments Off Zoom and MS Teams Onto Homegrown Visio" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/02/02/0029236    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:21:07

• "Shartgate: Nothing to see here, please keep voting" https://boingboing.net/2026/02/03/shartgate-nothing-to-see-here-please-keep-voting.html    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:21:23

• ""A president who doesn't care about the law, who commands an obedient Congress and is supported by a radicalized base of tens of millions of people who believe his lies, represents a threat to the next election," writes French." https://boingboing.net/2026/02/02/the-2026-midterms-are-already-in-peril.html    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:21:47

• "Read more on LinkedIn." :( adafruit outsourced to JS and Microsoft https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/03/raspberry-pis-new-monthly-industrial-embedded-newsletter/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:22:22

• "Open Source security in spite of AI - Daniel Stenberg - YouTube" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wYSwZ20NJU https://yewtu.be/watch?v=6wYSwZ20NJU    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:22:48

• I really have no idea what's going on in STICKER/BALL but I love the chaos | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/i-really-have-no-idea-whats-going-on-in-sticker-ball-but-i-love-the-chaos/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/i-really-have-no-idea-whats-going-on-in-sticker-ball-but-i-love-the-chaos/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:23:29

• Dune: Awakening Chapter 3 is live bringing massive changes | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/dune-awakening-chapter-3-is-live-bringing-massive-changes/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/dune-awakening-chapter-3-is-live-bringing-massive-changes/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:23:59

• HELLDIVERS 2 has a big new event to take down the Automatons and you get tanks | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/helldivers-2-has-a-big-new-event-to-take-down-the-automatons-and-you-get-tanks/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:24:23

• Civilization VII major update "Test of Time" will stop the forced civ swapping | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/civilization-vii-major-update-test-of-time-will-stop-the-forced-civ-swapping/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:25:28

• Factory 95 is a retro Windows inspired automation sim about making a slide-show factory | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/factory-95-is-a-retro-windows-inspired-automation-sim-about-making-a-slide-show-factory/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:39:16

• Get some quality action in the Sci-Fi Shooters 2.0 Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/get-some-quality-action-in-the-sci-fi-shooters-2-0-humble-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:40:16

• Firefox will get AI controls to turn it all off | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/firefox-will-get-ai-controls-to-turn-it-all-off/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/firefox-will-get-ai-controls-to-turn-it-all-off/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 11:40:32

• "Mozilla has decided that if AI is going to live in your browser, you should at least be able to kill it when it gets annoying." https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/firefox_ai_kill_switch/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 12:55:24

• "ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and Le Chat Mistral." How much did Microsoft pay Mozilla to do this??? https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-controls/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 12:58:01

• Matt Rosoff, the Microsofter who manages El Reg, never writes about MICROSOFT layoffs https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/29/amazon_layoffs/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 13:00:32

• Microsoft https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2026/02/03/area-loses-jobs-tech-industry-construction.html    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 13:01:19

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-04.gmi    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 13:52:14

• "It has been some time since I have posted. This isn't due to any sort of dislike for Gemini itself, but rather a combination of things - an increasing distaste for computing and all its works, disgust for the new degrees of despicable behavior by the American government, and a lack of confidence in myself. Please bear with me. This post is an attempt to get back into a habit of posting." gemini://arcanesciences.com/gemlog/26-02-04/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 13:53:14

• Alex Schroeder’s Diary — Jupiter gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-02-04-jupiter    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 13:53:59

• [japan] [photos] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2026-02-03.gmi    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 14:01:26

• Alex Schroeder’s Diary — The AI-bro curse gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-02-04-curse    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 14:02:10

• "A message in the FreeBSD forum [1] mentions another sad move from kDE. Recently I wrote about how KDE is going all-in on a Wayland future [2]. This time it is about a step towards a systemd-only system." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/kde-login-manager-systemd-only.txt    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 14:03:06

• Amutable is to Microsoft what Techpaladin is to Valve    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 14:03:51

• Oh Dear! Notepad++ Was Quietly Compromised for Six Months (But Don't Panic Just Yet) ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/notepad-plus-plus-compromised/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 14:29:48

• Linux Matters 74: Audio Trainers and Wallet Drainers ☞ https://linuxmatters.sh/74/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 14:31:27

• What’s new for developers in OpenShift 4.21 ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/03/whats-new-developers-openshift-4-21    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 14:39:54

• 'NATO could do so much more', Ukraine MP says as Russia resumes large-scale strikes ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/nato-could-do-so-much-more-ukraine-mp-says-as-russia-resumes-large-scale-strikes    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 14:40:43

• Ukraine: Kyiv residents face power outages amid Russian strikes ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/ukraine-kyiv-residents-face-power-outages-amid-russian-strikes    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 14:40:56

• Ukraine Accuses Russia Of 'Winter Genocide' After Fresh Strikes On Energy Sites ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-strikes-ukraine-kyiv-rutte-peace-talks-nato/33667594.html    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 14:41:08

• Weakening nuclear arms control increases risks of crisis escalation ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/weakening-nuclear-arms-control-increases-risks-of-crisis-escalation/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 14:44:58

• Poland to probe possible links between Epstein and Russia, PM Tusk says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/poland-to-probe-possible-links-between-epstein-and-russia-pm-tusk-says    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 14:45:11

• India says trade deal with US 'best in the region' but keeps mum on Russian oil ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20260203-india-says-trade-deal-with-us-best-in-the-region-but-keeps-mum-on-russian-oil    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 14:45:40

• How To Install Vtiger CRM on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-vtiger-almalinux-10/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 14:46:21

• "Nota: Vivo en América, en el pacifico Mexicano. Muy cerca de USA. Seguramente esto me sesga bastante a sus modelos industriales y consumistas." gemini://text.eapl.mx/incongruencias-modernas    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 14:48:18

• Christina's Feb questions gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2026-02-04-5q.txt    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 14:49:34

• Pipeline – watch YouTube and PeerTube videos ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pipeline-watch-youtube-peertube-videos/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 15:30:09

• FAT – modern TUI-based file and archive viewer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fat-modern-tui-file-archive-viewer/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 15:31:26

• tredis – terminal UI for Redis ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tredis-terminal-ui-redis/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 15:31:39

• ziglint – linting suite ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ziglint-linting-suite/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 15:32:06

• stax – CLI and TUI for stacked Git branches and PRs ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/stax-tui-stacked-git-branches-prs/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 15:32:22

• Vortix – terminal UI for WireGuard and OpenVPN ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/vortix-terminal-ui-wireguard-openvpn/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 15:32:46

• Pigsty v4.0 Released: Ready for the Agent Era ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pigsty-v40-released-ready-for-the-agent-era-3228/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 15:33:15

• In Person Community-Led PostgreSQL Training March 5th, at SCaLE 23x in Pasadena, California ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/in-person-community-led-postgresql-training-march-5th-at-scale-23x-in-pasadena-california-3218/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 15:33:40

• Kansas Town Uses License Plate Readers to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/alpr-against-op-ed-writer    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 15:34:22

• Yup! https://boingboing.net/2026/02/03/melinda-gates-ended-marriage-with-bill-gates-over-epstein-allegations.html http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/04/BillBC_BBC_Covered_Up_Pedophilia_Now_It_s_Covering_Up_for_Its_S.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/26/Journalistic_Malpractice_Helps_Bill_Gates_Cover_Up_His_Marriage.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 15:52:17

• It is up SOME MORE this month http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/GNU_Linux_Still_up_statCounter_Says_to_6_in_Bosnia_And_Herzegov.shtml https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/bosnia-and-herzegovina/#monthly-200902-202602    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 16:07:57

• Same in Serbia https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/serbia/#monthly-200902-202602 https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/22/Serbia_GNU_Linux_Rises_Windows_Down_to_All_Time_Lows.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 16:13:37

• Over 6% in Yemen https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/yemen/#monthly-200902-202602    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 16:16:15

• "The irony was that Bill had gotten his BASIC source code by dumpster diving and then developed it into a product using stolen time from university computers. That was back when you paid for computer usage by the hour or fraction thereof." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/02/02/1228214#1432505    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:03:13

• Canonical: Ubuntu is GAFAM (US), We're Resellers of American Proprietary Software (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/03/Canonical_Ubuntu_is_GAFAM_US_We_re_Resellers_of_American_Propri.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:04:13

• Canonical: Ubuntu is GAFAM (US), We're Resellers of American Proprietary Software (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/03/Canonical_Ubuntu_is_GAFAM_US_We_re_Resellers_of_American_Propri.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:04:23

• Feedback to the Haneda Problem ☞ https://rubenerd.com/feedback-to-the-haneda-problem/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:04:49

• 2026 fixes, and an IPv6 update again ☞ https://rubenerd.com/fixes-early-2026-edition/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:05:09

• Additional Bunker Hill EV patents prior art found ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/1/30/additional-bunker-hill-ev-patents-prior-art-found    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:05:45

• Hong Kong privacy watchdog records 20% increase in data breaches – a third involves hacking ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/04/hong-kong-privacy-watchdog-records-20-increase-in-data-breaches-a-third-involves-hacking/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:06:26

• Mail says there is ‘no evidence’ it obtained call records of Kylie ex ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/mail-says-there-is-no-evidence-it-obtained-call-records-of-kylie-ex-detective-danno/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:06:58

• BBC proposes to close central regional investigations unit ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/bbc-local-proposes-to-close-central-regional-investigations-unit/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:12:46

• Never mind the bloodbath? Convicted Felon turns to direct talks with Iran over nukes ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20260203-never-mind-the-bloodbath-trump-turns-to-direct-talks-with-iran-over-nukes    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:13:03

• Study Reveals an Unexpected Way to Boost Recovery After a Stroke ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/study-reveals-an-unexpected-way-to-boost-recovery-after-a-stroke    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:13:28

• Confirmed: NASA's Crewed Moon Mission Delayed After Fuel Leaks ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/confirmed-nasas-crewed-moon-mission-delayed-after-fuel-leaks    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:13:45

• 6 Expert Tips to Drink Coffee Safely if You Have High Blood Pressure ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/6-expert-tips-to-drink-coffee-safely-if-you-have-high-blood-pressure    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:14:04

• Poop From Young Donors Reverses Age-Related Decline in The Guts of Older Mice ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/poop-from-young-donors-reverses-age-related-decline-in-the-guts-of-older-mice    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:14:19

• Business confidence in Mexico hits its lowest point in 3 years ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/business-confidence-mexico-lowest-point-in-three-years/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:14:46

• Food prices continue to surge despite drop in overall inflation ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/food-prices-continue-to-surge-despite-drop-in-overall-inflation-316319    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:15:03

• Police Raid SpaceX’s Brand New Offices ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/police-raid-spacex-x-acquisition    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:17:05

• Investors Dumping American Stocks as the Country Bets Everything on Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/investors-dumping-american-stocks-ai    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:18:34

• Spain introduces social control media ban and stricter online regulations for minors ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/spain-introduces-social-media-ban-and-stricter-online-regulations-for-minors/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:19:39

• AMD stock falls    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:20:23

• Mamdani Shuts Down NYC’s Disastrous Hey Hi (AI) Chatbot ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-chatbot-mamdani    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:21:34

• Grok’s Analysis of Whether Mamdani Is Related to Epstein May Be the Single Most Amazing Hey Hi (AI) Response We’ve Ever Seen ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-analysis-mamdani-related-epstein    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:21:45

• Covert recording is easy, which is the problem ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/covert-recording-is-easy-which-is-the-problem/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:22:28

• Sequoia's Input to the Upcoming European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy ☞ https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2026/02/03/202602-european-open-digital-strategy/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:23:21

• Sara Weiss’ Journeys to the Planet Mars (1903) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/journeys-to-the-planet-mars    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:24:09

• Data Brokers, and Other Things Not Covered by 230 ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/data-brokers-and-other-things-not-covered-by-230/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:24:43

• My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder ☞ https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:25:59

• Just in case: Australia needs to prepare for a world without US leadership ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/just-in-case-australia-needs-to-prepare-for-world-without-us-leadership/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:39:07

• Amid harsh winter, 'half of Gaza's residents are living in dilapidated tents' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-observers/20260203-gaza-half-residents-living-dilapidated-tents    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:39:21

• Reddit Mod Deleted Breathtaking Photo Taken by NASA Astronaut From Space Because It Was “Blurry” ☞ https://futurism.com/space/reddit-deleted-photo-nasa-astronaut-blurry    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:41:05

• Behaviour evidence: debian-private cult keyword analysis https://danielpocock.com/en/behaviour-evidence-debian-private-cult-keyword-analysis/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:51:15

• WordPress 6.9.1 Maintenance Release ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2026/02/wordpress-6-9-1-maintenance-release/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:53:10

• Bodycam: Review ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/bodycam-review/index.html    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 17:53:30

• "Nancy Mace asks Comer to subpoena Bill Gates over Epstein ties" https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/4445537/nancy-mace-comer-subpoena-bill-gates-epstein-ties/ "Well, she's dead, so....." http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/15/Meme_Well_He_s_Dead_So_Bill_Gates_Tells_the_Media_Which_He_Pays.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:01:24

• Primos Storage cloud services patents prior art found ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/2/3/primos-storage-cloud-services-patents-prior-art-found    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:03:13

• New EU Report Urges More Aggressive Action Against Transnational Repression ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/new-eu-report-urges-more-aggressive-action-against-transnational-repression/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:04:00

• Join Us at Open Source SecurityCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/02/03/join-us-at-open-source-securitycon-europe-2026-in-amsterdam/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:04:32

• Cast-Iron Community: Your Chance to Sponsor TPRC 2026 ☞ https://www.perl.com/article/cast-iron-community-your-chance-to-sponsor-tprc-2026/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:05:04

• Stephen Smoogen: Generations (take N+1) ☞ http://smoogespace.blogspot.com/2026/02/generations-take-n1.html    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:06:01

• Upgrade volume performance without downtime: VolumeAttributesClass on OpenShift ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/04/upgrade-volume-performance-without-downtime-volumeattributesclass    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:08:24

• "It's a corporate strategy to stay under the radar, reduce mass panic, protect share price, and avoid triggerering a WARN. It should be illegal and it deserves greater attention. What a world we live in! Moreover, as Melinda French-Gates stated in a recent interview."    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:10:51

• ""I believe certain individuals are at a time of reckoning." Or as the older generation would say "the chickens are coming home to roost."" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kggtsgsq    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:11:00

• "There is no other coverage of IBM's collapse. It's taking Red Hat down with it as it goes. The Tim Cook link above is relevant due to methods and values shared between IBM and Apple." -Anon    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:11:07

• WIN 11 is such a piece of garbage it made me switch to Linux https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgf892xr    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:11:58

• "Microsoft stock takes a big hit today... Investors are pushing the stock lower knowing all Microsoft products are garbage. It also does not help maters with the face of Microsoft embarrassing news. No Nobel Peace Prize in the future." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgkffpdg    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:12:30

• Jonathan Dowland: FOSDEM 2026 talk recording available ☞ https://jmtd.net/log/fosdem/2026/video/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:13:33

• Those should never have been added in the first place. Mozilla is paid to spread this horrible thing. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/firefox-148-disable-ai-features    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:15:27

• "This release also adds the ability to drag and drop tabs in the COSMIC Files file manager." https://9to5linux.com/system76-releases-cosmic-1-0-5-with-new-option-to-show-battery-percentage    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:18:25

• Why enterprise businesses should adopt immutable Linux for the desktop https://thenewstack.io/why-enterprise-businesses-should-adopt-immutable-linux-for-the-desktop/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:19:03

• Ancient Linux distros you don't remember anymore https://www.makeuseof.com/ancient-linux-distros-you-dont-remember-anymore/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:20:31

• I installed these 6 lightweight Linux tools on a cheap mini PC and turned it into a silent home server https://www.makeuseof.com/installed-lightweight-linux-tools-mini-pc-turned-into-silent-home-server/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:20:57

• Visual Studio Code is eating up hundreds of gigabytes on Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/visual-studio-code-is-eating-up-hundreds-of-gigabytes-on-linux/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:21:43

• A real Linux computer you can carry in your pocket https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/02/a-real-linux-computer-you-can-carry-in-your-pocket/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:22:26

• "It’s the Open Source world, I’m sure someone will either fork KDE or make a clone that runs on sysvinit and others." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/02/kde-binds-itself-tightly-to-systemd-drops-support-for-non-systemd-systems/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:23:11

• This Rust-powered tool makes Linux search effortless https://www.howtogeek.com/this-linux-gui-app-makes-grep-easy-even-if-you-forget-the-flags/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:24:15

• I tried the oldest Linux distro still standing, and it was a total reality check https://www.howtogeek.com/this-is-the-oldest-linux-distro-still-standing-and-im-shocked-people-still-use-it/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:24:45

• This Debian-based Linux distro has one of the smartest security features I've tested in years https://www.zdnet.com/article/ideal-os-linux-distribution-review/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:26:49

• Galaxy S26 Ultra Linux Terminal Support Could Be a Big Win for Developers https://www.androidheadlines.com/2026/02/galaxy-s26-ultra-linux-terminal-support-could-be-a-big-win-for-developers.html    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:27:25

• How I speed up my Linux system for free while RAM prices are out of control https://www.zdnet.com/article/ram-prices-linux-zram/    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:27:54

• "Where is that rascal Kramer when IBM needs him to pump up the stock ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgj7w26n    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:54:11

• [japan] [cat] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2026-02-04.gmi    

posted Wednesday, February 04, 2026 at 18:56:58