Roy Schestowitz

• German carmakers https://www.dw.com/en/indian-trade-deal-provides-opportunity-for-german-carmakers/a-75719169    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 05:43:13

• poverty https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-13-million-living-at-risk-of-poverty/live-75779558    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 05:43:33

• US Figure Skater Amber Glenn Faces Backlash Over Politics and Copyright Issues After Olympic Gold https://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2026-02-09/us-figure-skater-amber-glenn-faces-backlash-over-politics-copyright-issues-after-olympic-gold    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 05:44:19

• DeepComputing Opens Pre-Orders for Its Third-Generation Framework Laptop 13 RISC-V Mainboard https://www.hackster.io/news/deepcomputing-opens-pre-orders-for-its-third-generation-framework-laptop-13-risc-v-mainboard-2cd3285a967a    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 05:52:09

• I installed Ubuntu on my old MacBook Air and I wish I'd done it sooner https://www.howtogeek.com/installed-ubuntu-on-my-old-macbook-air-and-i-wish-id-done-it-sooner/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 05:52:55

• Adios! Says Ubuntu to The Software and Updates Tool https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-software-and-updates-removal/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 05:53:20

• "A previously undocumented Linux botnet operation called SSHStalker was discovered targeting nearly 7,000 systems in attacks that blend 2009-era Internet Relay Chat (IRC) with modern mass-compromise automation." https://www.scworld.com/news/sshstalker-botnet-hijacks-7000-linux-systems-using-irc-and-ssh    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 05:54:29

• "This release also adds TLS 1.3 support with bleeding-edge mbedTLS versions and multi-socket support for servers." https://9to5linux.com/openvpn-2-7-released-with-support-for-dco-linux-kernel-module-mbedtls-4    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 05:58:18

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-12.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 06:00:27

• "skyjake announces Lagrange on iOS. Like an actual build that's not Test Flight. gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2026-02_lagrange-in-app-store.gmi I haven't used iOS in quite some time, so being out of Test Flight I take is a good thing! That's awesome." gemini://station.martinrue.com/justyb/fe37d5420c594d04a4bed7cf074d6ff3    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 06:00:58

• "I was talking to my friend acdw about Discord and IRC because dozens had posted the link to New And Upcoming IRCv3 Features for Libera.chat, on Linkbudz. When I see descriptions of IRCv3 features I always wonder how they might be useful. The explanations I see never seem all that compelling to me. I feel like software developers are working on features that I don't understand and everybody else is looking at Discord and saying: "like that!"" gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-02-11-discord-features    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 06:02:23

• "I was talking to my friend acdw about Discord and IRC because dozens had posted the link to New And Upcoming IRCv3 Features for Libera.chat, on Linkbudz. When I see descriptions of IRCv3 features I always wonder how they might be useful. The explanations I see never seem all that compelling to me. " gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-02-11-discord-features    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 06:02:39

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1914.jpg    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 06:04:21

• "Creating an ebook in EPUB format is easy, for certain values of "easy". All one really needs is a text editor, a few command-line utilities; also needed is a working knowledge of XHTML, CSS, along with an understanding of the format's structure and required boilerplate." https://lwn.net/Articles/1054751/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 06:08:09

• Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice https://lwn.net/Articles/1055211/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 06:08:51

• Sub-schedulers for sched_ext https://lwn.net/Articles/1056014/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 06:09:24

• Modernizing swapping: introducing the swap table https://lwn.net/Articles/1056405/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 06:10:25

• API changes for the futex robust list https://lwn.net/Articles/1056387/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 06:10:52

• The future for Tyr https://lwn.net/Articles/1055590/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 06:11:49

• "Kyndryl just executing the financial shenanigans they learned at IBM. SEC, if you're listening, investigate!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kh3rc4qq    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 06:18:26

• "yes the future looks bright for everyone but the IBM shareholders with this blossoming Kyndryl scandal. Alvind and Krabanaugh would never look more handsome or dapper than when dressed up in those bright flaming orange jumpsuits on their way to jail. Not to mention they'll become some gangsters girlfriends, once they get behind bars." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kh72z96q    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 06:22:58

• "I can’t wait to get rid of my low performers very soon" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgtrz521    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 06:23:32

• favouritism at IBM: "Etch engineer who was promoted to senior manager within last year. She was moved to make room for other failed managers whose own respective areas completely collapsed under their failed mismanagement" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg3ctq05    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 06:26:24

• Writing About Crime is Not a Crime https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/02/12/writing-about-crime/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 07:26:14

• "Despite being sued by Spotify and several record labels, Anna's Archive has silently begun releasing the actual music files from its massive Spotify scrape." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-quietly-releases-millions-of-spotify-tracks-despite-legal-pushback/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:18:49

• "Nintendo can welcome two new pirate site blocking orders in Europe at the start of the year" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/nintendo-piracy-nxbrew-and-nswpedia-targeted-in-european-blocking-efforts/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:19:08

• "The fundamental ethical issue with LLMs is plagiarism. LLMs are, by their very nature, plagiarism machines." ☛ https://www.deobald.ca/essays/2026-02-10-the-problem-with-llms/ | Source: Steven Deobald    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:19:19

• "The US-Mexico-Canada Agreement is up for review this year" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/02/11/2026/trump-reportedly-weighs-quitting-usmca | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:19:50

• "If Apple decides to kick you in the face, it must give you 5 minutes notice. And if you think it was too hard a kick, you can complain to Apple, which will investigate Apple." ☛ https://brucelawson.co.uk/2026/on-apples-pinky-promises-to-cma/ | Source: Bruce Lawson    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:20:12

• "In reality, the Trump administration has made it extremely clear they’re hoping to scuttle the Netflix deal to help Larry Ellison acquire Warner Brothers, CNN, and HBO." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/11/trump-doj-launches-bunk-investigation-of-netflix-merger-as-a-favor-to-larry-ellison/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:20:23

• "The Islamic regime has carried out extrajudicial killings of injured protesters inside hospitals and arrested countless medical personnel suspected of treating those wounded by Tehran, an Iranian doctor told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday." ☛ https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-886292 | Source: Jerusalem Post    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:33:15

• "In late December, mass protests erupted across Iran, leading security forces to massacre thousands of people over the course of several days in January. Scores of wounded demonstrators were left scrambling for medical help." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/cora-engelbrecht-lede-iran-waits-for-war | Source: New Yorker    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:33:46

• "Based on the latest verified aggregated data from Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) up to the end of the forty-fifth day since the start of the protests, a total of 676 protest-related incidents have been recorded. These incidents were reported in 210 cities across 31 provinces nationwide." ☛ https://english.anf-news.com/human-rights/number-of-protesters-injured-and-killed-in-iran-and-rojhilat-rises-83874 | Source: ANF News    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:34:00

• "Based on the latest verified aggregated data from Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) up to the end of the forty-fifth day since the start of the protests, a total of 676 protest-related incidents have been recorded." ☛ https://english.anf-news.com/human-rights/number-of-protesters-injured-and-killed-in-iran-and-rojhilat-rises-83874 | Source: ANF News    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:34:21

• "You have an element with a configurable background color, and you’d like to calculate whether the foreground text should be light or dark." ☛ https://css-tricks.com/approximating-contrast-color-with-other-css-features/ | Source: CSS Tricks    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:35:12

• "protesters" ☛ https://www.en-hrana.org/day-46-of-the-protests-conditional-release-with-mandatory-pledges-arrest-of-teachers-and-european-parliament-session/ | Source: Human rights Activists News Agency    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:35:55

• "First-hand reports confirm that some people you can still fly with no ID card or documents, despite a new scheme of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)" ☛ https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/02/11/first-hand-reports-confirm-you-can-still-fly-with-no-id/ | Source: Papers Please    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:36:19

• "Remember when people used to say “the Internet isn’t real life” to hush women who were threatened or pornified by online misogynists? Of course, the Internet is real life." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/grok-deepfake-danger/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:36:33

• "The Defense Department is teaming up with the Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, to allow recruits headed to basic training who don’t have a REAL ID to get through airport security without having to pay a fee, a Pentagon official said." ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/military-tsa-basic-training/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:36:47

• "Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent in October while in her vehicle." ☛ https://www.twincities.com/2026/02/11/federal-enforcement-chicago-dhs/ | Source: TwinCities Pioneer Press    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:37:16

• "The sprawling property, located 20 miles north of Reno, Nevada, stretches from the Great Basin through the Sierra Nevada and encompasses sagebrush scrublands and juniper and pine forests" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/11/washoe-tribal-land-return-california | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:37:32

• "Assistant United States Attorney Gordon Kromberg and the government omitted [sic] a federal law that should have prohibited the raid of Hannah Natanson’s home when applying for a search warrant" ☛ https://thedissenter.org/us-prosecutor-faces-disciplinary-complaint-for-authorizing-fbi-raid-against-reporter/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:38:13

• "Section 5 of the FTC Act prohibits ​unfair or deceptive acts or practices. A representation is deceptive under the FTC ⁠Act if ⁠it is material and ⁠would likely ​mislead consumers." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2026-02-11/us-ftc-raises-concerns-over-accusations-apple-news-favors-articles-from-left-wing-outlets | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:38:29

• "Not only is generative AI prone to inaccuracies, but experiments conducted by The Tyee while developing our own AI policy revealed that text ChatGPT generated was also vague and bland — much weaker than what a human journalist could write." ☛ https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/02/11/AI-Elephant-Newsroom/ | Source: The Tyee    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:38:46

• "The government’s capture of the media sector, through its control of state-owned public service media, consolidation of private outlets under government-allied ownership, and diversion of state advertisement funds to government-friendly outlets, is well-documented." ☛ https://mertek.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/The_Repression_of_Independent_Media_in_Hungary.pdf |    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:40:22

• "The Repression of Independent Media in Hungary, 2010-2025" ☛ https://mertek.eu/en/2026/02/10/ahead-of-hungarian-elections-report-analyzes-playbook-to-repress-independent-media-and-offers-recommendations-for-reform/ |    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:40:55

• "The most comprehensive document to date on how the Orbán governments of the past fifteen years have repressed the Hungarian independent media has just been published. The joint report prepared by the Rule of Law Lab at New York University School of Law and Mérték Media Monitor..." ☛ https://telex.hu/english/2026/02/10/fifteen-years-of-orban-regime-proof-that-repressing-the-media-without-resorting-to-overt-censorship-is-possible | Source: Telex (Hungary)    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:41:40

• This is how IBM and EPO shill criticism... they can do illegal drugs and nobody will report that    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:42:11

• "President Trump has seen his rating by the agency slip in recent months, peaking at 47 percent last February and dipping to less than 37 percent in its last poll taken in December." ☛ https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:43:28

• "Confronted with this PR gibberish, The Hill immediately asked the obvious question and Gallup would not deny interference from the White House." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/11/after-88-years-gallup-will-no-longer-poll-presidential-approval-ratings.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:43:40

• "This is significant because the EFF was the birthplace of the Blue Ribbon campaign for free speech online. Today, the blue ribbon is in tatters." ☛ https://danielpocock.com/en/lawsuit-reactions-eff-behaviour-reveals-zombification-censorship/ | Source: Daniel Pocock    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:43:52

• "This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity." ☛ https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/culture-current/ai-weiwei-china-west-shrinking-space-dissent-2026-02-07/?ref=tiv.today | Source: Reuters    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:44:06

• "This is the harshest punishment to be handed down under the law, which China imposed after huge protests in 2019 demanding more freedom, and defends as essential for the city's stability." ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8d5pl34vv0o?ref=tiv.today | Source: BBC    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:44:23

• "The deliberate slowdown of Telegram is yet another attempt by Russian authorities to tighten control over the information space and silence independent journalism" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/02/cpj-russias-telegram-throttling-another-step-toward-total-information-control/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:44:41

• "Yes, the metaphors are colorful. But the underlying point is exactly correct. Section 230 places liability where it belongs: on the person who actually created the content. Not on the platform that hosts it. This is how the entire internet works." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/11/an-18-million-subscriber-youtuber-just-explained-section-230-better-than-every-politician-in-washington/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:45:03

• "Lapeer Community Schools Superintendent Matt Wandrie that the books had been removed, noting that the list of books removed matched a list of titles identified by the organization Take Back the Classroom." ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2026/02/10/lapeer-community-schools-to-review-83-books-removed-from-school-media-centers/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:45:24

• "At the conclusion of the two-day hearing at Cheshire coroner’s court, Devonish found Harrison “knew full well he had shot his own daughter, pointing a gun at chest height and pulling the trigger”." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/11/british-woman-lucy-harrison-unlawfully-killed-by-father-kris-harrison-texas | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:47:06

• "Lying has become so normal within the Trump administration that his top aides lie on his behalf, even when the lie is transparent." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-lies-media-propaganda-facts-democracy/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:47:37

• "The one thing the longevity-vampire community has not yet learned from Dracula is operational security." ☛ https://machielreyneke.com/blog/vampires-longevity/ |    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:56:08

• "Bad Vampire" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/02/peter-thiel-bad-vampire/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:56:20

• "Let’s say a land wanted to make burglary illegal. They notice that a lot of people who do breaking and entering wear shoes when doing so. So they make wearing shoes illegal." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/eu-vs-means | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:56:38

• "Now, I know I usually like to zoom out and take the holistic “whole-forest-rather-than-a-single-leaf” approach in these essays so I’d better call out that this time, I’m not doing that." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/kalkite-nimby | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:58:37

• "The federal civil service has long been built on a straightforward principle: Career employees should be hired and removed based on merit, not political alignment." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2026/02/why-trumps-plan-to-reclassify-federal-workers-should-worry-everyone/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:58:51

• "Trout Unlimited is doing a citizen science project in our area: Environmental DNA sampling to locate hidden brook trout populations in the NYC suburbs: Fairfield, Westchester" ☛ https://cagrimmett.com/2026/02/11/big-apple-brook-trout/ | Source: Chuck Grimmett    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 08:59:24

• "It should be apparent, but what they do not tell you is that when it snows and the snow builds up, you get no power" ☛ https://austinwhite.org/posts/solar-power-and-the-northeast | Source: Austin White    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:00:23

• "These steps are welcome, but won't make much of a dent as they apply only to Anthropic's own datacenters, which make up a small part of the US bit barn armada. A growing body of evidence suggests those facilities are driving up the price of electricity across America." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/anthropic_power_promises/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:00:37

• "Two sources identified the technology as a high-energy laser." ☛ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/airspace-closure-followed-spat-over-drone-related-tests-and-party-balloon-shoot-down-sources-say/ | Source: CBS    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:00:56

• "The answer, impossibly, seems to be door number three." ☛ https://futurism.com/science-energy/airport-laser-pentagon-trump | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:01:12

• "Despite half a century of efforts to improve water quality and restore fisheries in America’s Chesapeake Bay, its ecological condition continues to decline." ☛ https://overpopulation-project.com/watershed-woes/ | Source: Overpopulation    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:06:39

• "At just 1.3C of global heating in recent years, extreme weather is already taking lives and destroying livelihoods across the globe. At 3-4C, “the economy and society will cease to function as we know it”, scientists said last week, but a hothouse Earth would be even more fiery." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/point-of-no-return-hothouse-earth-global-heating-climate-tipping-points | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:06:51

• "At just 1.3C of global heating in recent years, extreme weather is already taking lives and destroying livelihoods across the globe. At 3-4C, “the economy and society will cease to function as we know it”" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/point-of-no-return-hothouse-earth-global-heating-climate-tipping-points | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:07:11

• "A one-time assistant to Jeffrey Epstein told the FBI effectively under penalty of perjury that the pedophile introduced Donald Trump to his wife Melania, a newly released document shows." ☛ https://www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-assistant-told-feds-he-introduced-melania-to-trump-files-reveal/ | Source: The Daily Beast    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:07:47

• "Trump is in Epstein files "more than a million times," Raskin alleges" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2026/02/10/trump-epstein-files-jamie-raskin-unredacted | Source: Axios    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:08:01

• "So, does Trump think Maxwell is evil, or does he wish her well? Why is he considering a pardon for someone he declared to be evil? Could it be dangling a carrot to keep her quiet?" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/11/unredacted-epstein-files-contain-a-whole-lot-of-donald-j-trump.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:08:30

• "The Attorney General evaded nearly every question and used her time as a campaign pitch for Donald Trump. When Representative Lieu had had enough, Bondi insisted that Lieu not accuse her of breaking the law." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/11/congressperson-tells-pam-bondi-he-believes-she-is-lying-to-congress.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:08:53

• "A Kafkaesque saga in which the government has failed to produce critical video footage has reached new levels of absurdity." ☛ https://www.404media.co/government-loses-hard-drives-it-was-supposed-to-put-ice-detention-center-footage-on/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:09:10

• "Global Telnet traffic "fell off a cliff" on January 14, six days before security advisories for CVE-2026-24061 went public on January 20." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/were_telcos_tipped_off_to/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:09:31

• "Under the Trump administration, the SEC has taken a sledgehammer to enforcement against corporate crimes, with cases dropping to record lows — at the same time that corporate lobbying of the federal government has surged to unprecedented levels." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/02/trump-sec-investors-whistleblowers-regulation/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:10:01

• "President Donald Trump has been carrying out a frenzied deregulation of financial markets. Recently, the administration stacked the US’s top watchdog of corporate auditors with Trump loyalists and former executives of the companies they will now oversee." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/02/trump-finance-regulation-sec-accounting/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:10:21

• "This is a clear contradiction to what Trump has claimed about his involvement with the child sex trafficker." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/raskin-trump-mentioned-more-than-a-million-times-in-unredacted-epstein-files/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:10:45

• "Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are accusing the Justice Department of covering up the names of co-conspirators of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as fallout from the Epstein files grows across the globe. Millions of pages remain unreleased." ☛ https://truthout.org/video/journalist-mainstream-media-complicit-in-normalizing-epstein-file-revelations/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:11:03

• "The exchange was included in the Department of Justice’s latest public release of the Epstein files and is one of the clearest examples of the disgraced financier’s interest in “race science,” the pseudoscientific practice of ascribing racial inequities to genetics." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/02/epstein-race-science-watson-pinker-chomsky-musk/685965/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:11:19

• "Fortanga’s source claimed the blogger was detained on the morning of 6 February by officers of the Federal Security Service (FSB)." ☛ https://oc-media.org/islamic-blogger-marziev-detained-in-ingushetia/ | Source: Open Caucasus Media    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:12:24

• "Meta -- the parent company of Instagram and Facebook -- and Google-owned YouTube are defendants in the blockbuster trial" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/instagram-ceo-to-testify-at-social-media-addiction-trial-1452279296 | Source: RTL    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:12:50

• "The Kremlin merely feigns interest in peace talks, hoping to restore its bilateral relations with the United States to their previous level and formalise Ukraine’s defeat" ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2836335/estonia-s-foreign-intelligence-report-2026-highlights | Source: LRT    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:16:10

• "Inspired in part by Australia's move and by guidance in the recent Economic Survey, an annual government assessment of India's economic situation" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/indian-teens-roll-their-eyes-at-talk-of-a-social-media-ban/a-75911731 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:16:29

• "collaborative combat aircraft" ☛ https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-military/2026/02/11/us-marine-corps-advances-plans-for-drone-wingman/ | Source: USMC    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:16:51

• "With a 24-foot payload bay, the Lamprey can be modified to perform a wide range of operations, from the seabed to the surface, according to the company." ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/unmanned/2026/02/10/lockheeds-unveils-lamprey-undersea-drone-that-can-attach-to-ships/ | Source: C4ISRNET    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:25:35

• "By placing 80 percent of its U.S. assets under the control of non-Chinese investors, the joint venture aims to avoid an outright ban." ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/02/what-would-the-founding-fathers-think-of-tiktok/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:32:23

• "Ordinary people serving on grand juries have become a new front line in the resistance against the Trump regime." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-citizens-revolt | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:32:35

• "There are people in positions of great power in the U.S. government engaged in evil conspiracies against everything that is good and decent." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-banality-of-maga-evil | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:32:46

• "The anti-fascist assembly ban in Hungary cannot be separated from the repression in the so-called Budapest complex: on 4 February" ☛ https://digit.site36.net/2026/02/11/repression-and-sanctions-over-anti-fascism-demonstration-bans-in-hungary-more-debanking-in-germany/ | Source: Site36    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:32:59

• Confidentiality: "However, the Anne Frank Fonds was unhappy with this approach, and took legal action. Its argument was that such geo-blocking could be circumvented with VPNs" ☛ https://walledculture.org/copyright-litigation-over-anne-franks-writings-likely-to-impact-the-fate-of-vpns-in-the-eu/ | Source: Walled Culture    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:33:37

• "ethos of inclusivity" ☛ https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-cash-law-repeal-unbanked/ | Source: San Francisco, California    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:39:35

• "Discord collects user data, and recently announced they are going to require ID verification." ☛ https://greycoder.com/the-best-alternatives-to-discord/ | Source: GreyCoder    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:39:49

• "That might sound weird. Let me explain." ☛ https://soatok.blog/2026/02/11/on-discord-alternatives/ | Source: Dhole Moments    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:40:06

• "But in addition to traditional cybersecurity concerns around how well these chatbots can protect personal health data, there are a host of questions around what kind of legal protections users would have around the personal medical data they share with these apps." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/ai-healthcare-apps-hipaa-privacy-risks-openai-anthropic/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:40:20

• "The British Medical Association's (BMA) recommendation follows the US spy-tech firm's recent work with US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE)." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/bma_palantir_nhs/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:41:11

• "If you pay for a subscription your personal data won’t be used to show you adverts. It is worth noting it will still be used for things such as account recommendations or to improve Meta’s own products and services" ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/to-consent-or-pay/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:41:45

• "If you’re given the option of selecting a verification method and are deciding which to use, we recommend considering the following questions for each process allowed by each vendor: [...]" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/10/so-youve-hit-an-age-gate-what-now/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:43:31

• "Familiar Faces" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/no-one-including-our-furry-friends-will-be-safer-rings-surveillance-nightmare-0 | Source: EFF    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:43:45

• "After subtracting the lavish lattes and Asos deliveries that had massively inflated my average weekly spend, I allowed myself £180 for the basics, including food and travel." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/10/my-week-of-only-using-cash-could-a-return-to-notes-and-coins-change-my-life | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:43:59

• Windows TCO: "remote code execution (RCE) is a security vulnerability that allows an external program to be loaded and run without the user’s permission" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3058647/windows-notepad-is-now-complex-enough-to-have-a-serious-security-flaw.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:44:36

• "getting the support it needed to thrive" ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/how-dave-jorgenson-took-the-washington-post-video-audience-with-him/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:45:25

• "You had to buy a ticket. There was a two-drink minimum." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-crisis-no-12 | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:45:36

• "Yovdiy was fined 30,000 rubles (€325)" ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/pressed-like-on-youtube-video-was-fined-for-discreditation-of-army/445003 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:47:27

• [Old] "What happened this morning was an example of how AI differs from social media in another key way. Social media shows you content while AI shapes how you frame problems. Yes, social media can influence that too, but less directly, not as actively." ☛ https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/real-ai-risk-isnt-job-loss-its-epistemic/ | Source: James Randall    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:47:59

• "In various people’s testing, the refusal string works on web pages and even social media." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/11/the-anthropic-test-refusal-string-kill-a-claude-session-dead/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:48:19

• "Anthropic also published a commitment to keep Claude ad-free. I doubt this will age well. Call me cynical, but my assumption is that Anthropic will one day have ads in its products, but perhaps not “Claude” specifically." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ads-in-ai/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:48:35

• "But worker productivity has been rising for years, yet the median wage has barely risen when adjusted for inflation." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-bogus-4-day-workweek-that-ai | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:48:50

• "Prompt Injection Via Road Signs" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/prompt-injection-via-road-signs.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:49:25

• "Hey girl I hate to tell you this, but I think there’s some picture of you going around. Maybe AI or deep fake but they don’t look real. Uncanny valley kind of but either way I’m sorry." ☛ https://www.404media.co/grok-nudify-ai-images-impersonation-onlyfans/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:49:38

• "The relentless addition of artificial intelligence in popular apps raises questions about what’s at stake. The answer: the future of the [Internet] and its lifeblood, digital advertising." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/technology/personaltech/ai-google-meta-opt-out.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:50:10

• "The truth is that despite protestations, consumers have progressively become comfortable with a give-and-take model, be that exchanging information for value received, or suffering advertising for pricing relief" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/google_openai_advertising_approaches/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:50:28

• "But beware: attackers can use malicious prompts in chat to trick an AI agent into generating a data-leaking URL, which link previews may fetch automatically." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/10/ai_agents_messaging_apps_data_leak/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:50:52

• "The device had already been on the market for about three years. Until then, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had received unconfirmed reports of seven instances in which the device malfunctioned and another report of a patient injury." ☛ https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-arise-botched-surgeries-misidentified-body-2026-02-09/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:51:09

• "It was also noted by Reuters that FDA-authorized medical AI devices have seen twice the recall rate compared to the baseline" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/adding-ai-to-sinus-surgery-system-saw-malfunctions-rocket-from-eight-to-100-incidents-according-to-new-investigation-skull-puncturing-errors-are-the-stuff-of-nightmares | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:55:17

• "This is a shared challenge for anyone who supports young people as they navigate the online world: parents and carers, youth leaders and volunteers, and educators across all subjects." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/helping-young-people-stay-safe-online-in-the-age-of-ai/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:55:34

• "Agents are underdeterministic. Underdeterminism is incompatible with trust. Period." ☛ https://tuananh.net/2026/02/09/hope-is-not-a-security-strategy/ | Source: Tuan-Anh    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:55:50

• "The reverse-centaur doesn’t just burn out the human." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/10/how-to-think-about-ai-is-it-the-tool-or-are-you/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:56:08

• "But here’s the thing: Laptops with Windows 11 26H1 on them won’t be upgradable to Windows 11 26H2. They’ll remain on a separate Windows track until an undisclosed time" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3058740/microsoft-just-forked-windows.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:56:34

• "Once, in 1994 or so, I was sitting in a cafe with friends, and I had the crazy idea that I was going to write my own web browser. I was a college student at the time, and had played with Mosaic and … well, probably only Mosaic." ☛ https://bitsplitting.org/2026/02/11/comfort-zone/ | Source: Daniel Jalkut    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:57:13

• "All that reading/writing leads to lots of blogging lessons learned – and those are nicely shared in the blogging section of his blog" ☛ https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/robin-moffatt-on-technical-blogging | Source: Cynthia Dunlop    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:57:25

• "Developed by Rep. Mark Tisdel (R-Rochester Hills) and state Sen. Dayna Polehanki (D-Livonia)" ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2026/02/10/whitmer-signs-off-on-school-cell-phone-ban-set-for-next-fall/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:57:43

• "If I knew it was going to go down this badly, I wouldn’t have left the United States" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-02-10/he-left-u-s-for-internship-trumps-travel-ban-made-it-impossible-to-return | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:58:04

• "There's a third class of properties, that I will call possibility properties: P(x) is "can x happen in this model"?" ☛ https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/proving-whats-possible/ | Source: Buttondown LLC    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 09:58:36

• "For me, the fundamental economic argument for free trade is not unambiguously positive. Yes, lower trade barriers should leave us all with more left over with which we can do cool things." ☛ https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/11/free-trade-and-the-left | Source: Andy Wingo    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:05:33

• "The [Internet] is supposed to be fun!" ☛ https://goodinternetmagazine.com/ |    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:05:45

• "I’ll spoil the story right here: a Home Lab is just a spare computer in your home that’s running all the time. Some are connected to the internet and some are not." ☛ https://goodinternetmagazine.com/whats-a-home-lab-and-why-do-you-need-one/ |    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:05:59

• "You don’t need to apologize for taking hours, days, or years to reply to one of my emails." ☛ https://ploum.net/2026-02-11-do_not_apologize_for_replying_to_my_email.html | Source: Lionel Dricot    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:06:15

• New Proton Experimental update adds controller support to more launchers on Linux / SteamOS | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/proton-experimental-update-adds-controller-support-to-more-launchers-linux-steamos/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:07:35

• Mesa 26.0 is out bringing ray tracing performance improvements for AMD RADV | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/mesa-26-0-is-out-bringing-ray-tracing-performance-improvements-for-amd-radv/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:09:40

• No Man's Sky Remnant update brings a fancy gravity gun and customizable trucks | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/no-mans-sky-remnant-update-brings-a-fancy-gravity-gun-and-customizable-trucks/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/no-mans-sky-remnant-update-brings-a-fancy-gravity-gun-and-customizable-trucks/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:10:40

• Overwatch has returned with new heroes and a new UI | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/overwatch-has-returned-with-new-heroes-and-a-new-ui/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/overwatch-has-returned-with-new-heroes-and-a-new-ui/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:11:07

• Retro Macintosh games Return to Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle arrive on Steam in March | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/retro-macintosh-games-return-to-dark-castle-and-beyond-dark-castle-arrive-on-steam-in-march/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/retro-macintosh-games-return-to-dark-castle-and-beyond-dark-castle-arrive-on-steam-in-march/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:14:01

• Retro Macintosh games Return to Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle arrive on Steam in March | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/retro-macintosh-games-return-to-dark-castle-and-beyond-dark-castle-arrive-on-steam-in-march/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:16:06

• Wireless VR streaming levels up on Linux with the latest WiVRn release | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/wireless-vr-streaming-levels-up-on-linux-with-the-latest-wivrn-release/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/wireless-vr-streaming-levels-up-on-linux-with-the-latest-wivrn-release/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:16:14

• Valve fix up rumble related controller latency in the latest Steam Beta | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/valve-fix-up-rumble-related-controller-latency-in-the-latest-steam-beta/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/valve-fix-up-rumble-related-controller-latency-in-the-latest-steam-beta/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:16:43

• My Lovely Valentine https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/02/12/my-lovely-valentine/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:29:53

• Clever auto-battling racer Backseat Champions has a demo out now | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/clever-auto-battling-racer-backseat-champions-has-a-demo-out-now/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/clever-auto-battling-racer-backseat-champions-has-a-demo-out-now/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:35:28

• Prefixer is a modern alternative to Protontricks that's faster and simpler | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/prefixer-is-a-modern-alternative-to-protontricks-thats-faster-and-simpler/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/prefixer-is-a-modern-alternative-to-protontricks-thats-faster-and-simpler/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:36:06

• Discord attempt to put out the fires with a clarification over new age verification | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/discord-attempt-to-put-out-the-fires-with-a-clarification-over-new-age-verification/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/discord-attempt-to-put-out-the-fires-with-a-clarification-over-new-age-verification/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:36:17

• "Version 0.122 of Game of Trees has been released (and the port updated): [...]" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260211061627 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:37:32

• "I was writing a test case for lld to support “thunks” [llvm#180266] which uses a linker script to place two sections very far apart (8GiB) in the virtual address space." ☛ https://fzakaria.com/2026/02/11/creating-massively-huge-fake-files-and-binaries | Source: Farid Zakaria    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:37:44

• "shandbox enter will open a shell within the sandbox for easy interactive usage." ☛ https://muxup.com/shandbox | Source: Muxup    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:38:11

• "Go 1.26 introduces two significant refinements to the language syntax and type system." ☛ https://go.dev/blog/go1.26 | Source: Go Programming Language    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:38:34

• "I can't even be particularly upset about the decision. It makes sense and is entirely rational — the security story around libxslt is grim" ☛ https://www.jmduke.com/posts/styled-rss-feeds.html | Source: Justin Duke    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:40:32

• "In all my searching both in 2023 and again in late 2025/early 2026, I’ve been unable to find any indication anywhere that fourth-level registrations within portland.or.us" ☛ https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-11-whence-godaddys-authority-to-supersede-rfc-1480/ | Source: Bix Frankonis    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:40:44

• "Nikon Heartography was an adorable marketing stunt where the camera company gave a dog the ability to trigger photos by connecting the camera to a heart monitor." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/compact-cameras/nikon-heartography-nikon-once-turned-a-dog-into-a-photographer-using-a-compact-camera-and-a-heart-rate-monitor | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:41:22

• "The advance was led by graduate student Jackson Wilt and former postdoctoral researcher Natalie Larson in the lab of Jennifer Lewis, the Hansjorg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)." ☛ https://seas.harvard.edu/news/3d-printing-soft-robots |    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:41:38

• "This technique prints multiple materials through a single nozzle, which is continuously rotating as it prints." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/harvard-researchers-develop-novel-3d-printing-method-for-soft-robotics-rotational-multi-material-method-creates-muscle-like-structures-that-can-be-programmed-to-twist-lift-or-bend | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:41:59

• "My two favorite non-fiction books were history doorstoppers that I owned and wanted a good excuse to plow through: Eric Hobsbawm’s history of the 20th century" ☛ https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-11-most-interesting-ideas-i-read | Source: Derek Thompson    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:49:37

• "Pretty excited about a refresh of Religious Ecologies that we have coming soon. Here’s a tiny sneak preview, as a treat" ☛ https://writing.jasonheppler.org/2026/02/11/pretty-excited-about-a-refresh/ | Source: Jason Heppler    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:49:48

• "BSDCan is the definitive BSD event in North America and welcomes BSD Unix developers, administrators, and users of every level of experience." ☛ https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ | Source: BSDCan    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:51:35

• "EuroBSDCon 2026 will be held in Brussels, Belgium; September 09-13, 2026." ☛ https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/ |    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:51:46

• "Erdoğan replaces justice, interior ministers" https://bianet.org/haber/erdogan-replaces-justice-interior-ministers-316582    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:55:04

• "Chat Control – en uppdatering" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/02/10/chat-control-en-uppdatering/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:55:17

• ndtv helps cover up for pedophiles sex trafficking ring https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/gates-foundation-says-it-did-not-make-any-payments-to-jeffrey-epstein-10991505#publisher=newsstand the devil is in the details, of the precise wording ... http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/The_Epstein_Files_Don_t_Say_the_Ages_of_Those_Russian_Girls_Bil.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:56:02

• "I Went to the March for Billionaires" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/march-for-billionaires-silicon-valley-ai/685957/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:56:17

• "The Eclipse of Dallas" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/dallas-city-hall/685953/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:58:19

• "Four states sue to block Trump's $600M political 'hit list' of public health cuts | Courthouse News Service" https://www.courthousenews.com/four-states-sue-to-block-trumps-600m-political-hit-list-of-public-health-cuts/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:58:33

• "No, AI Doesn’t Justify Lower Interest Rates" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/no-ai-doesnt-justify-lower-interest    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:58:47

• "Office Hours: Is Trump Really, Truly, Finally Losing His Mind?" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-is-trump-really-truly    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 10:59:00

• "Kimwolf is a botnet that surfaced in late 2025 and quickly infected millions of systems" ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/02/kimwolf-botnet-swamps-anonymity-network-i2p/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:00:00

• "I encountered this problem when I created my own system from "scratch", starting with Ubuntu Server" ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu-network-online-offline.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:00:23

• "The Parrot team have announced the release of Parrot 7.1, an update to the project's 7.x series." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12728 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:00:47

• "This is a follow-up to my part 1 of Switching macOS to Arch Linux with Omarchy" ☛ https://www.ssp.sh/blog/linux-omarchy-the-good-bad-and-fixable/ | Source: Simon Späti    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:01:26

• "The Tiny Core Linux project develops one of the world's most minimalist Linux distributions, with the smallest edition requiring less than 30MB of space." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12727 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:02:01

• "I have been a quite strong advocate of Webmentions for a long time." ☛ https://blog.fabiomanganiello.com/article/webmentions-with-batteries-included |    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:02:29

• "Designing ZFS pool and VDEV topology is a foundational decision for Proxmox performance, resiliency, and operability." ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/pool-and-vdev-topology-for-proxmox-workloads/ | Source: Klara    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:03:27

• "It is also very convenient when you want to run a program shipped as a container on your desktop." ☛ https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2026-02-10-podman-containers-with-systemd.html | Source: Data Swamp    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:03:39

• "My final episode of Mac Power Users was released over the weekend: [...]" ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/02/mpu-835/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:04:24

• "Plus we discuss why “vibe coding” your app might be a catastrophically bad idea" ☛ https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-454/ | Source: Graham Cluley    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:04:34

• "Edge Manager" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/simplifying-modern-defence-operations-red-hat-edge-manager | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:08:12

• you got involved in Kubernetes."    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:08:28

• Spotlight on SIG Architecture: API Governance ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/02/12/sig-architecture-api-spotlight/ "Hello Jordan, thank you for your availability. Tell us a bit about yourself, your role and how you got involved in Kubernetes."    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:08:38

• "This article is the first in a short series. The follow-ups will look specifically at the two primary network interconnects that enable RDMA, InfiniBand and RoCE." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/what-is-rdma | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:08:55

• System meant to reduce prison recidivism marred by management struggles ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2026/02/system-meant-to-reduce-prison-recidivism-marred-by-management-struggles/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:09:26

• Women lead the way in Latvian science and engineering ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/11.02.2026-women-lead-the-way-in-latvian-science-and-engineering.a634119/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:13:00

• Canada Updates: Police Identify Suspect in Mass Shooting ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/11/world/canada-shooting-tumbler-ridge    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:13:35

• This Comet Stopped Spinning. Then It Started Rotating Backward. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/science/comet-spinning-backwards.html    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:13:57

• Canada police say 18-year-old carried out mass shooting ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/canada-police-say-18-year-old-carried-out-mass-shooting    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:14:37

• South Korea to overhaul English writing test after complaints it was too hard ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-to-overhaul-english-writing-test-after-complaints-it-was-too-hard    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:15:17

• Hyundai, BMW Korea, Kia to recall nearly 180,000 vehicles over software defects: S. Korean ministry ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hyundai-bmw-korea-kia-to-recall-nearly-180000-vehicles-over-software-defects    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:16:02

• South Korean exchange's $40B Bitcoin mistake casts pall over country's fledgling crypto legislation — staffer fat-fingered 620,000 BTC instead of Korean Won ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptocurrency/south-korean-exchanges-usd40b-bitcoin-mistake-casts-pall-over-countrys-fledgling-crypto-legislation-staffer-fat-fingered-620-000-btc-instead-of-korean-won    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:16:25

• Monkey business: Conflicts involving animals cost Malaysia $1.6m worth of losses in 5 years ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/monkey-business-conflicts-involving-the-animals-costs-malaysia-s1-6m-worth-of-losses-in-5-years    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:18:42

• Why Malaysia’s latest judicial commissioner picks are reviving worries about court independence ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/why-malaysias-latest-judicial-commissioner-picks-are-reviving-worries-about-court-independence    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:19:40

• Threatened by China, Japan’s voters choose to stand tall ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/threatened-by-china-japans-voters-choose-to-stand-tall/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:20:19

• Philippines urges China to keep tone ‘calm’ as rhetoric heats up ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-urges-china-to-keep-tone-calm-as-rhetoric-heats-up    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:20:42

• Chinese President Pooh-tin Jinping makes rare public reference to recent military purges ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinas-xi-makes-rare-public-reference-to-recent-military-purges    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:20:58

• China charges former AstraZeneca regional head Leon Wang ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-charges-former-astrazeneca-regional-head-leon-wang    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:21:27

• President Lai warns countries in region could be ‘next’ if China seizes Taiwan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-president-lai-warns-countries-in-region-next-in-case-of-china-attack    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:22:01

• Lithuanian prime minister says Taiwan office in Vilnius could be renamed ‘Taipei’ ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2836247/lithuanian-prime-minister-says-taiwan-office-in-vilnius-could-be-renamed-taipei    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:22:32

• Australia charges 2 Chinese nationals with foreign interference ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/11/australia-charges-2-chinese-nationals-with-foreign-interference/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:22:56

• Taiwan leader Lai Ching-te warns countries in region could be ‘next’ in case of China attack ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/12/taiwan-leader-lai-ching-te-warns-countries-in-region-could-be-next-in-case-of-china-attack/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:23:26

• South Africa and China sign trade deal amid tariff row with the US ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20260211-south-africa-and-china-sign-trade-deal-amid-tariff-row-with-the-us    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:24:04

• Print a full-width horizontal line using the current terminal width (custom character supported) ☞ http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/43206/print-a-full-width-horizontal-line-using-the-current-terminal-width-custom-character-supported    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:24:40

• Import a wireguard configuration into networkmanager ☞ http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/43207/import-a-wireguard-configuration-into-networkmanager    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:25:03

• Paul Dacre says hacking and tapping claims ‘grave, preposterous, deeply upsetting’ ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/paul-dacre-says-hacking-and-tapping-claims-grave-preposterous-deeply-upsetting/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:25:33

• All Life on Earth Shares an Ancestor – And Some of Our Genes Predate It ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/all-life-on-earth-shares-an-ancestor-and-some-of-our-genes-predate-it    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:28:18

• A Surprising 'Rocket Storm' Could Reveal How Mars Lost Its Water ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-surprising-rocket-storm-could-reveal-how-mars-lost-its-water    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:28:48

• 'Dark Matter' in Your Genome Could Unlock New Disease Treatments ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dark-matter-in-your-genome-could-unlock-new-disease-treatments    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:29:40

• Memory Loss in Alzheimer's Linked to Problems With The Brain's 'Replay Mode' ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/memory-loss-in-alzheimers-linked-to-problems-with-the-brains-replay-mode    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:29:55

• Scientists Say It's Time to Learn More About Sexual Health in Space ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-say-its-time-to-learn-more-about-sexual-health-in-space    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:31:28

• Major Review Reveals The Best Exercises For Easing Depression ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/major-review-reveals-the-best-exercises-for-easing-depression    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:31:41

• Mars Organics Are Hard to Explain Without Life, NASA-Led Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mars-organics-are-hard-to-explain-without-life-nasa-led-study-finds    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:32:25

• The Secret to One of Peru's Most Powerful Kingdoms Came Out of Birds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-secret-to-one-of-perus-most-powerful-kingdoms-came-out-of-birds    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:32:44

• Andy Wingo: free trade and the left ☞ https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/11/free-trade-and-the-left    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:34:13

• More seniors in China growing addicted to the internet; loneliness, boredom cited as key reasons ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/more-seniors-in-china-growing-addicted-to-the-internet-loneliness-boredom-cited-as-key-reasons    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 11:58:43

• A busted Athlon-ara motherboard BIOS ☞ https://rubenerd.com/a-busted-athlon-era-motherboard-bios/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:00:19

• Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/linux-mint-plans-longer-development-cycle    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:03:13

• Parrot 7.1 Ethical Hacking Distro Released with Enlightenment Spin, Updated Tools ☞ https://9to5linux.com/parrot-7-1-ethical-hacking-distro-released-with-enlightenment-spin-updated-tools    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:07:22

• IPFire DBL Launches as a Community-Powered Domain Blocking for Everyone ☞ https://9to5linux.com/ipfire-dbl-launches-as-a-community-powered-domain-blocking-for-everyone    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:07:32

• OpenVPN 2.7 Released with Support for DCO GNU/Linux Kernel Module, mbedTLS 4 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/openvpn-2-7-released-with-support-for-dco-linux-kernel-module-mbedtls-4    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:07:42

• Mesa 26.0 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New ☞ https://9to5linux.com/mesa-26-0-open-source-graphics-stack-officially-released-heres-whats-new    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:07:53

• Tails 7.4.2 Anonymous GNU/Linux OS Released to Fix Critical Security Vulnerabilities ☞ https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-4-2-anonymous-linux-os-released-to-fix-critical-security-vulnerabilities    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:08:03

• CrossOver 26 released with Wine 11.0 and NTSync support ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/crossover-26-released    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:08:20

• Obarun 2026-02-11 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/obarun    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:08:36

• Google Chrome 145 Released with JPEG-XL Decoding Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/chrome-145-jpeg-xl-decoding/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:09:30

• Hermes – package manager for Arch GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hermes-package-manager-arch-linux/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:09:49

• 8 Top Free and Open Source Clojure Web Frameworks ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-clojure-web-frameworks/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:10:00

• Tiny Core 17.0 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tinycore    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:10:21

• Use These Hacks to Keep Your GNU/Linux Box Running ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2026/304/Administrative-Hacks    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:11:03

• accel-php – PPTP/L2TP/SSTP/PPPoE/IPoE server ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/accel-php-pptp-l2tp-sstp-pppoe-ipoe-server/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:16:19

• Chamber – secrets manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/chamber-secrets-manager/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:17:24

• revela – static image gallery generator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/revela-static-image-gallery-generator/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:17:35

• 3 Best Free and Open Source Awk Static Site Generators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-awk-static-site-generators/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:18:54

• STU – S3 terminal user interface ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/stu-s3-terminal-user-interface/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:20:23

• Shelly – modern Arch package manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/shelly-modern-arch-package-manager/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:20:36

• 6 Best Free and Open Source Robotic Process Automation Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-robotic-process-automation-tools/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:20:49

• rustormy – neofetch-like weather CLI ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rustormy-neofetch-like-weather-cli/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:21:02

• Windows malware painted as "Linux" https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32704    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:21:37

• 6 Best Free and Open Source C++ Static Site Generators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-cplusplus-static-site-generators/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:21:49

• Puny Manager – CLI password manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/puny-manager-cli-password-manager/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:21:58

• 7 Best Free and Open Source JavaScript Engines ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-javascript-engines/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:22:17

• netinfo – display network and system information ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/netinfo-display-network-system-information/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:22:37

• blaeckfetch – system fetch ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/blaeckfetch-minimalist-system-fetch/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:22:55

• Slop festival = scammers galore https://www.accessnow.org/event/access-now-at-indian-ai-impact-summit-2026/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:23:59

• Nurses at 4 N.Y.C. Hospitals Vote to End Strike, but It Continues at One ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/nyregion/nyc-nurses-strike-vote.html    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:24:59

• Reopening GDPR and ePrivacy through the Digital Omnibus: a risky path for EU digital rights ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/reopening-gdpr-and-eprivacy-through-the-digital-omnibus-a-risky-path-for-eu-digital-rights/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:25:23

• Information Integrity & Wikipedia: How community-governed platforms can inform future policy-making. ☞ https://edri.org/take-action/events/information-integrity-wikipedia-how-community-governed-platforms-can-inform-future-policy-making/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:25:50

• Against Technosolutionism: Governing Platforms as Systems of Care ☞ https://edri.org/take-action/events/against-technosolutionism-governing-platforms-as-systems-of-care/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:26:37

• The State of the Internet 2026 with Fieke Jansen ☞ https://edri.org/take-action/events/the-state-of-the-internet-2026-with-fieke-jansen/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:26:58

• Science Cafe: Why the current internet sucks ☞ https://edri.org/take-action/events/science-cafe-why-the-current-internet-sucks/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:27:30

• Support.Mozilla.Org: What’s up with SUMO – H2 2025 ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/sumo/2026/02/10/whats-up-with-sumo-h2-2025/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:28:24

• YouTube Music Lyrics Now Locked Behind Premium Subscription ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/11/youtube-music-lyrics-premium-subscription/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:28:52

• Ingevity’s $85 Million Lesson: Antitrust Tying Still Has Teeth ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/02/ingevitys-million-antitrust.html    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:29:24

• "Microsoft Asset" (Vidal) pretends to be a spokesperson for Open Source whilst promoting mass plagiarism by LLMs ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/from-brussels-to-the-world-open-source-as-a-global-asset    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:33:11

• mtPaint 3.50.13 compiled in Excalibur ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/mtpaint-35013-compiled-in-excalibur.html    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:35:05

• IBM promoting slop and other misleading buzzwords ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/11/agentic-ai-design-reliable-workflows-across-hybrid-cloud    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:36:15

• Wayland Display Server Guide on Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://linuxconfig.org/wayland-display-server-guide-on-ubuntu-26-04    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:36:44

• How to Parse Command-Line Options in Bash with getopts ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/bash-getopts/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:37:13

• FTP Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/ftp/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:37:25

• Linux man pages 6.17 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1058323/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:37:46

• Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1058265/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:38:12

• postmarketOS FOSDEM 2026 and hackathon recap ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1058285/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:42:18

• PiLink PL-R5/R5M Series – IP20/IP65 Industrial PCs powered by Raspberry Pi CM5 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/11/pilink-pl-r5-r5m-series-ip20-ip65-industrial-pcs-powered-by-raspberry-pi-cm5/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:43:05

• Hong Kong gov’t to deregister 3 Apple Daily firms, list them as ‘prohibited organisations’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/12/hong-kong-govt-to-deregister-3-apple-daily-firms-list-them-as-prohibited-organisations/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:43:51

• Militants kill five police in attack in northwest Pakistan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/militants-kill-five-police-in-attack-in-northwest-pakistan    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:44:09

• 'Secure' boot made real security so much worse ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-to-refresh-windows-secure-boot-certificates-in-june-2026/ https://techrights.org/wiki/UEFI/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:45:33

• OpenAI researcher quits over slippery slope of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot ads ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/11/openai-researcher-quits-slippery-slope-chatgpt-ads/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:46:01

• Thunderbird Blog: Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest: February 2026 ☞ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/02/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-february-2026/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:47:12

• Dave Townsend: Can't you do this faster with AI? ☞ https://www.oxymoronical.com/blog/2026/01/cant-you-do-this-faster-with-ai/ "Both within Mozilla and from others in the industry. You come up with a plan for implementing some feature, put your best estimate on how long it will take to implement"    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:51:24

• Steam Deck availability goes up in smoke — suddenly goes out of stock in US, Asia stores ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/steam-deck-availability-goes-up-in-smoke-suddenly-goes-out-of-stock-in-us-asia-stores    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:51:42

• How Hate Groups Are Using Online Games to Recruit Kids ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/world/europe/online-extremism-gaming-children.html    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:54:33

• Simple solution ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1121/simple-solution    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:55:09

• ESP32 Marauder 5G – Apex 5 module for Flipper Zero combines ESP32-C5, two Sub-GHz radios, nRF24, and GPS ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/11/esp32-marauder-5g-apex-5-module-for-flipper-zero-combines-esp32-c5-two-sub-ghz-radios-nrf24-and-gps/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:55:45

• Apple Patches Everything: February 2026, (Wed, Feb 11th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32706    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 12:56:13

• Unresponsive Buttons on My Fastest Hardware Ever ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/unresponsive-buttons/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:01:47

• Here Are Your Choices for a Self-hosted eBook Server ☞ https://itsfoss.com/self-host-ebook-server-software/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:02:07

• Guide to configuring multiple authentication providers in Developer Hub ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/11/guide-configuring-multiple-authentication-providers-developer-hub    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:03:53

• Software Patents and judges who know nothing about programming ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/emotional-perception-and-8-new-square-reopen-ai-case-at-supreme-court/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:06:07

• Maxeon and Aiko settle solar panel dispute ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/maxeon-and-aiko-settle-solar-panel-dispute/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:06:31

• Flash Uplink patent monopoly validity challenge coming soon ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/2/11/flash-uplink-patent-validity-challenge    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:06:53

• Mobbing at the European Patent Office (EPO) - Part VI - Attacks on Staff and Attacks on the Law Merit Another New Series ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/11/Mobbing_at_the_European_Patent_Office_EPO_Part_VI_Attacks_on_St.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:07:10

• Former Samsung Electronics vice-president sentenced to 3 years’ jail for leaking company secrets ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/former-samsung-electronics-vice-president-sentenced-to-3-years-jail-for-leaking-company-secrets    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:07:36

• "Quick question: what might be the impact of the EBA's ruling on the practice of national patent monopoly offices (and courts) and the UPC?" http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/g-125-description-amendments-amicus.html?showComment=1770805761108#c3469307735583616088    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:08:18

• Cambodia floats new law in crackdown on gangs running scam farms ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodia-floats-new-law-in-crackdown-on-gangs-running-scam-farms    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:09:45

• Physicians for Human Rights and Council for Global Equality Sue U.S. State Department for Release of Critical AIDS Relief Data ☞ https://phr.org/news/physicians-for-human-rights-and-council-for-global-equality-sue-u-s-state-department-for-release-of-critical-aids-relief-data/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:10:37

• Hong Kong Activist Anna Kwok’s Father Convicted of National Security Crime ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/world/asia/hong-kong-anna-kwok-father.html    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:11:30

• Shelly IoT door controller config fail: leaving your garage, home and security exposed ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/shelly-iot-door-controller-config-fail-leaving-your-garage-home-and-security-exposed/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:12:21

• Father of wanted Hong Kong activist found guilty of handling insurance funds linked to ‘absconder’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/11/breaking-father-of-wanted-hong-kong-activist-found-guilty-of-handling-funds-linked-to-absconder/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:12:52

• 'If the Cuban government were to collapse, that would be a security threat to the United States' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/spotlight/20260211-if-the-cuban-government-were-to-collapse-that-would-be-a-security-threat-to-the-united-states    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:26:07

• Adapting Benin’s battle with violent militant groups ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/security/national-security/adapting-benins-battle-with-violent-militant-groups/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:26:33

• On Discord Alternatives ☞ https://soatok.blog/2026/02/11/on-discord-alternatives/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:33:18

• Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Over 80 Vulnerabilities Addressed by defective chip maker Intel and AMD ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chipmaker-patch-tuesday-over-80-vulnerabilities-addressed-by-intel-and-amd/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:33:44

• Ivanti Patches Endpoint Manager Vulnerabilities Disclosed in October 2025 ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ivanti-patches-endpoint-manager-vulnerabilities-disclosed-in-october-2025/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:34:13

• Conduent Breach Hits Volvo Group: Nearly 17,000 Employees’ Data Exposed ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/conduent-breach-hits-volvo-group-nearly-17000-employees-data-exposed/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:35:10

• Nevada Unveils New Statewide Data Classification Policy Months After Cyberattack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/nevada-unveils-new-statewide-data-classification-policy-months-after-cyberattack/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:35:40

• Snail Homes, Bog Bodies, and Mechanical Flies: Robert Testard’s Illustrations for Les secretz de l’histoire naturelle (ca. 1485) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/secrets-de-l-histoire-naturelle    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:38:31

• Tails 7.4.2 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tails    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:38:53

• Hong Kong suspends raw oyster sales from 2 suppliers after dozens of food poisoning cases ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/11/hong-kong-suspends-raw-oyster-sales-from-2-suppliers-after-dozens-of-food-poisoning-cases/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:39:54

• Remarks by Commissioner McGrath at the plenary debate on the rule of law, fundamental rights, and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_26_393    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:40:42

• Stable kernels for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1058268/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:41:07

• Open Stack standalone 4G LTE IoT board runs RTOS on Quectel EC200U LTE module (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/11/open-stack-standalone-4g-lte-iot-board-runs-rtos-on-quectel-ec200-lte-module/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:41:51

• Microsoft Loses Ground in Switzerland ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/11/Microsoft_Loses_Ground_in_Switzerland.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:42:09

• Ring Boasts About Power to Surveil Entire Neighborhoods ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/ring-doorbell-surveillance-dog    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:42:37

• AI Omnibus: Reject the proposals to undermine transparency in the Hey Hi (AI) Act ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/ai-omnibus-reject-the-proposals-to-undermine-transparency-in-the-ai-act/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:43:22

• Conference Digital Commons: Infrastructures, Design, and the Ethics of Autonomy ☞ https://edri.org/take-action/events/conference-digital-commons-infrastructures-design-and-the-ethics-of-autonomy/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:43:51

• Global Gathering 2026 ☞ https://edri.org/take-action/events/global-gathering-2026/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:44:05

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

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:45:12

• Linux Gets 7.0 Version Because Linus Ran Out of Toes (Seriously) ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-gets-70-version-because-linus    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:45:24

• ODF Toolkit Project Announces Release 0.13.0: Last Release Supporting JDK 11 ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/11/odf-toolkit-project-announces-release-0-13-0-last-release-supporting-jdk-11/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:45:59

• Olympic Figure Skaters Are on Thin Ice Over Music Copyright Rules ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/world/europe/winter-olympics-figure-skating-music-copyright.html    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:46:30

• Just-Introduced ‘CLEAR Act’ Would Force Hey Hi (AI) Companies to Disclose Copyright Inputs — And Seriously Complicate Matters for Hey Hi (AI) Mega-Giants ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/10/clear-act-ai-companies-disclose-inputs/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:46:50

• Lithuania’s intelligence warns of alleged Belarus KGB recruitment attempt via YouTube ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2836109/lithuania-s-intelligence-warns-of-alleged-belarus-kgb-recruitment-attempt-via-youtube    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:47:08

• Lithuanian foreign minister says discussions on Minsk policy do not signal shift ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2836228/lithuanian-foreign-minister-says-discussions-on-minsk-policy-do-not-signal-shift    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:47:21

• Chinese tourists head to Russia, Thailand on extended Lunar New Year break ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinese-tourists-head-to-russia-thailand-on-extended-lunar-new-year-break    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:47:41

• Latvian State Security Service: Russia recruits criminals, China recruits academics ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/11.02.2026-latvian-state-security-service-russia-recruits-criminals-china-recruits-academics.a634129/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:48:04

• NATO Is Expected to Step Up Arctic Security. Here’s Why. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/world/europe/nato-arctic-russia-military.html    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:48:23

• NATO Launches 'Arctic Sentry' Mission ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/nato-launches-arctic-sentry-mission-greenland-arctic-security/33675261.html    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:48:36

• Foreign cars flow to Russia through China, skirting Ukraine war sanctions ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/foreign-cars-flow-to-russia-through-china-skirting-ukraine-war-sanctions    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:48:52

• Live: Russia evacuates village in Volgograd after military facility hit by debris ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260212-live-russia-evacuates-village-in-volgograd-after-military-facility-hit-by-debris    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:49:10

• Lithuania pits security against voting rights of Russian, Belarusian residents ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2827252/lithuania-pits-security-against-voting-rights-of-russian-belarusian-residents    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:49:23

• Russia attacks on Ukraine energy grid cause severe harm, Amnesty Intentional says ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/russia-attacks-on-ukraine-energy-grid-cause-severe-harm-rights-group-says/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:49:48

• Ukraine will not hold elections until a ceasefire is in place, Zelensky says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260211-ukraine-elections-only-after-ceasefire-in-place-zelensky-says    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:50:10

• Ukraine war: Why is a teenager accused of burying his father 'eight times'? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20260211-pro-russian-accounts-falsely-accuse-ukrainian-teenager-of-staging-funerals    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:50:27

• Lithuanian president says calls to resume dialogue with Putin weaken Europe ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2836064/lithuanian-president-says-calls-to-resume-dialogue-with-putin-weaken-europe    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:50:46

• Pluralistic: Europe takes a big step towards a post-dollar world (11 Feb 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/11/post-dollar-world/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:52:25

• What we know about the Canadian school shooter ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260211-what-we-know-canadian-school-shooter-brisith-columbia-suicide    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:53:04

• Stop Living in the Browser: Run Your Favorite LLMs on GNU/Linux with Cherry Studio ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/02/stop-living-in-the-browser-run-your-favorite-llms-on-linux-with-cherry-studio/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:56:32

• "This release improves the management of the software repositories by using the lightweight Mirror Director HTTP redirector." https://9to5linux.com/parrot-7-1-ethical-hacking-distro-released-with-enlightenment-spin-updated-tools    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:59:02

• "Can be integrated into virtually any existing solution that supports standard filtering formats, including DNS resolvers, firewalls, and more." https://9to5linux.com/ipfire-dbl-launches-as-a-community-powered-domain-blocking-for-everyone    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:59:27

• The APT command has hidden powers, here are 5 of them https://www.howtogeek.com/the-apt-command-has-hidden-powers-here-are-5-of-them/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 13:59:54

• The InkPad One is a new Linux-powered rival to the Kindle Scribe https://www.techradar.com/tablets/ereaders/the-inkpad-one-is-a-new-linux-powered-rival-to-the-kindle-scribe    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 14:01:23

• KiCad Aims to Ease Linux Installation, Moves to Self-Contained AppImage Distribution https://www.hackster.io/news/kicad-aims-to-ease-linux-installation-moves-to-self-contained-appimage-distribution-7d2def267fc5    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 14:01:54

• "One afternoon, I ran history | tail -n 50 out of idle curiosity. I was not debugging anything. I was not optimizing. I was procrastinating productively, which is a Linux tradition." https://www.makeuseof.com/automated-annoying-daily-linux-tasks-saved-hours-every-week/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 14:03:01

• This nasty Steam performance bug for Linux has gone unfixed for seven years https://www.xda-developers.com/nasty-steam-performance-bug-for-linux-gone-unfixed-seven-years/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 14:03:39

• "A core component of SSHStalker is a Golang scanner that scans for port 22 for servers with open SSH in order to extend its reach in a worm-like fashion." https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/sshstalker-botnet-uses-irc-c2-to.html The issue here seems to be weak passwords or servers with ports open to everyone    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 14:05:58

• "The extension provides real-time notifications about forks, issues, stars, language, and last update time for your GitHub repos." https://9to5linux.com/github-tray-gnome-shell-extension-puts-your-github-repos-in-the-system-tray    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 14:27:59

• "This release also fixes bugs in the Tor Connection assistant, Welcome Screen app, and Electrum wallet." https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-4-2-anonymous-linux-os-released-to-fix-critical-security-vulnerabilities    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 14:28:26

• IBM changes: "In the past, mgrs got a lump of money and had to distribute it via a tool. They would allocate a percentage to whole they feel needed it. Wasn’t very much to work with (avg 2-3 %) per employee. Not expecting anything better but expect 1-2% for core and top perfs. So sad" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kh21matb    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 14:53:24

• SUSE uses Microsoft https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/suse_runs_ms/    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 15:44:23

• Or maybe the prior headline was FALSE: "SUSE exec blurts that the company uses Teams"    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 15:46:09

• Seems like misreporting by The Register MS    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 15:46:23

• Will it do the same for Brett Wilson clients? https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/sra-makes-emergency-compensation-payments-to-pm-law-clients/5125888.article    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 17:20:04

• "Alhena 5.5.1 was released with tighter integration into the underlying OS. Alhena on Mac behaves like a native MacOS app with respect to app lifecycle. OS file associations are supported on all platforms. Window size and location is now saved and used at startup (including multi-monitor and virtual screens)." gemini://ultimatumlabs.com/gemlog/20260212.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 18:16:30

• 🖼️ xkcd: Installation #3206 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3206.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 18:17:59

• [japan] [food] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2026-02-11.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 18:18:52

• [japan] [night] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2026-02-12.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 18:19:27

• Spectacle gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/02/12/spectacle.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 18:20:12

• no mo coffee gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/coffee    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 18:21:33

• Kyndryl Holdings Inc down over 9% today, IBM down 5%+    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 18:34:48

• "Asking if MSFT is laying off is like asking if the Pope is a Roman Catholic." https://www.teamblind.com/post/microsoft-layoffs-h2ksea74    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 18:45:30

• "I wasn't using the Ubuntu for years (I think my last Ubuntu was on the Ubuntu Touch phone - until the device died - and on the GPD Pocket which is also non-functional now). I have been using the Debian on the MNT devices." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2026_02_03.txt    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 18:57:42

• "I bought new battery for the device (it's Nokia phone compatible one; they seem to be still made). So it boots again and has some battery life (in the best tradition of open source hardware projects the Ben newer had reliable suspend and the latest OS versions don't support this feature at all)." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2026_02_04.txt    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 18:58:21

• "Researchers from the University of Michigan have developed an open source modular robotic testbed designed to experimentally investigate the evolutionary origins of animal locomotion: the Robot of Theseus (TROT)." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260212-theseus.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 18:58:55