Roy Schestowitz

• "cooking the books as happened at IBM's twin Kyndryl, and getting away with it." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgz0qa0f    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 03:25:59

• "IBM share price ended the day at $259.50. It got punished for its false claim about AI. Other tech companies got punished to a lesser level about their inflated claims concerning AI. Now, that the IBM AI claim is busted, what else can the id1ot Indian at the top claim to be IBM advantage ? ZERO ...." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kh72z96q    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 03:26:41

• "They spent 10–20 years under IBM, learned every trick in the book, absorbed the culture, the systems, the playbook. And now we’re supposed to believe that in a single year they tossed all that aside and suddenly went rogue? Please. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kh3rc4qq    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 03:27:57

• "This article is suspect given they couldn't even spell Kavanaugh's name right. The spelling isn't even close. If they can't get basic facts straight makes you question if the rest are accurate. This appears to be hack article. I am not a fan of IBM however have to call it as it comes across." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kh5de75m    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 03:28:44

• "Arvin's talking about increase in GDP is gaslighting. They set automatic percentages at the beginning of 2025 which is 1% for high, 2% for core and 0% for low. It ended up being 15% high, 70% core and 15% low were the skews that managers had to adhere to." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kh21matb    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 03:29:26

• "GDP budget for a manager is based upon a percentage of salary. Setting the low percentages combined with the skews means the total payout has to be lower not higher. Arvind will do anything to get to those free cash flow that he wants and believes will make IBM a growth company."    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 03:29:47

• "Lower performers will get 0% for GDP. Managers were made aware of the fixed percentages for GDP in early 2025. 0% low, 1% core and 2% high. Low performers should be prepared for a PIP as the next step." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgtrz521    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 03:30:15

• "Yes a PIP is just an RA with a lower severance fixed at 1 month and lesser of any of the benefits an RA comes with. HR established in 2025 that low performers have to be exited via a PIP and RAs can only be core and high performers." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgsqzeab    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 03:30:50

• "IBM Stock has lost 10-15 % of its value in the past few days. Ouch! Shareholders cannot be happy campers right now." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgj7w26n    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 03:33:07

• They go after the wrong firms https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/new-blow-to-sra-as-solicitor-cleared-of-slapp-behaviour-awarded-costs/5125886.article    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 05:41:14

• GNU/Linux still growing https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/06/GNU_Linux_Rising_to_5_in_Cameroon_and_It_s_Hardly_the_Exception.shtml https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/cameroon/#monthly-200902-202602    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 07:40:26

• Chrome seems not strong in Belgium (EU) https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/belgium/#monthly-200902-202602    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 08:17:29

• "Just weeks earlier, Lagha and Lajoie learned that they were at risk of breaching copyright law because of their use of a musical composition featuring hits" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/world/europe/winter-olympics-figure-skating-music-copyright.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 08:47:58

• "to disable sideloaded Android" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/argentina-blocks-pirate-streaming-services-magis-tv-and-xuper-tv-vpn-usage-skyrockets/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 08:48:08

• "That's the value of platforms. The danger of platforms is when they grow so powerful that they usurp the relationship between the parties they are supposed to be facilitating" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/11/post-dollar-world/#de-dollarization | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 08:51:13

• "I get the policy goals here, but the solution just won’t work. It’s the same problem as DRM: trying to prevent general-purpose computers from doing specific things" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/3d-printer-surveillance.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 08:51:50

• "My home library system, Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS)" ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2026/02/e-bookaudiobook-advocay-tools-and.html | Source: Becky Spratford    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 08:52:00

• "To set up his argument, Reich briefly considers comments from business tycoons like Zoom’s Eric Yuan and JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/robert-reich-jobs-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 08:53:00

• "coarse and sordid oligarchy." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/02/slave-power-conspiracy-rise-edmund-quincy/685976/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 08:53:17

• "Dubbed a “Let Kids Be Kids” measure, bill author Rep. Jake Teshka, R-North Liberty, said the goal is to draw clearer lines between ordinary" ☛ https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/briefs/indiana-senate-sends-let-kids-be-kids-child-supervision-bill-to-governor/ | Source: The Indiana Capital Chronicle    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 08:53:32

• "The attorney of Marimar Martinez, shot by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents multiple times in Chicago in October" ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/attorney-of-woman-shot-by-ice-agent-accuses-officials-of-fabricating-evidence/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 08:53:48

• "How it came to be that Thurgood Marshall, the nation’s first Black Supreme Court Justice, was replaced by Thomas, is a story worth examining." ☛ https://washingtonspectator.org/how-clarence-thomas-bamboozled-his-way-onto-the-supreme-court/ | Source: The Washington Spectator    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 08:54:03

• "I am seeing it across the board with all of my patients of all backgrounds" ☛ https://www.vox.com/life/478770/ice-immigration-minneapolis-liam-ramos-kids-anxiety-stress | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 08:54:28

• "Unions have the resources to organize Amazon and are already working to do so." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/02/amazon-unions-coordination-labor-teamsters/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 08:54:45

• "404 Media has obtained a cache of internal police emails showing at least two agencies have bought access to GeoSpy, an AI tool that analyzes architecture" ☛ https://www.404media.co/cops-are-buying-geospy-ai-that-geolocates-photos-in-seconds/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 08:58:13

• "According to labour law expert Keijo Kaivanto, Finnish firms usually either provide workers with equipment or reimburse them for the use of their own tools." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20209883 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 08:58:30

• "Whose ideological expectations was Hastey referring to? Would it be impertinent for me to suggest it’s the sociopath in the Oval Office?" ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-tragic-end-of-cbs-news | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:11:45

• "Meanwhile, the people most likely to pay directly for news are older, wealthier, liberal Democrats." ☛ https://werd.io/most-americans-dont-pay-for-news-and-dont-think-they-need-to/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:12:06

• "I have been using my full name on Signal — and I’m the only Ben Werdmuller in the world." ☛ https://werd.io/a-note-abo/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:12:38

• "Based on information received by HRANA, Branch 9 of the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Mr. Karimpour, a citizen adhering to the Yarsan faith." ☛ https://www.en-hrana.org/death-sentence-of-yaghoub-karimpour-upheld-by-the-supreme-court/ | Source: Human rights Activists News Agency    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:12:52

• "Frames are central organizing ideas for making sense of events and suggesting what is at stake." ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/frame-checking-insurgency-minnesota/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:13:17

• "Yet as Section 230 turns 30 this week, there are bipartisan proposals in Congress to either repeal or sunset the law." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/12/on-its-30th-birthday-section-230-remains-the-linchpin-for-users-speech/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:13:37

• "Criticize the government online? The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) might ask Google to cough up your name." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/homeland-security-wants-names-effector-383 | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:13:50

• "Donald Trump relies on the First Amendment when he belittles, denigrates, humiliates, and slurs his opponents." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/if-we-dont-have-free-speech-then-we-just-dont-have-a-free-country | Source: New Yorker    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:14:08

• "I want to speak with you tonight about The World of Fake Values." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/dont-fear-being-right | Source: The Next Move    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:15:09

• "The power structure in America has a deep investment in keeping people afraid and begging for protection." ☛ https://louplummer.lol/the-art-of-not-living-in-fear-revisited/ | Source: Lou Plummer    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:16:46

• "Our present-day realm of state terror operates through abductions, murders, and content farms." ☛ https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/pseudo-culture | Source: Mandy Brown    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:17:03

• "Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has opened its largest global R&D facility for fixed networks in Siruseri, Chennai, a major IT and technology hub in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu, The Economic Times reported." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/nokia-launches-its-largest-fixed-networks-rd-lab/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:17:19

• "The enemy drone swarm turned out to be a simple party balloon, a potentially enormous — and unintentionally hilarious — overreaction, contradicting" ☛ https://futurism.com/science-energy/immigration-officials-el-paso-balloon-laser | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:19:27

• "The confusing thing is that depending on where you look, you will find wildly different claims." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/12/the-death-of-baseload-and-similar-grid-tropes/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:19:37

• "The U.S. oil and gas industry produces 25.9 billion barrels of wastewater each year (or 1.0878 trillion gallons), according to the most recent data available" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/epa-knew-toxic-oil-industry-waste-underground-dangerous-1235510004/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:20:03

• "The University’s proposed data center in Ypsilanti Township has been controversial because U-M officials have consistently provided few details and have left township representatives out of the process." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/the-university-finally-held-a-community-meeting-in-ypsilanti-it-failed-to-put-data-center-fears-to-rest/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:20:14

• "Following Reports the Oil Industry is Lobbying for Total Immunity from Climate Lawsuits, U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) told A.G. Bondi that She Is Working on A Bill" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/house-member-crafting-legislation-to-stop-climate-lawsuits | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:22:59

• "Many of these data centers want the kind of flexible, around-the-clock energy associated with combined-cycle natural gas turbines." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/data-centers-are-scrambling-to-power-the-ai-boom-with-natural-gas/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:23:56

• "One study showed that coal power plants led to nearly half a million US deaths over a 20-year period." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/trump-orders-defense-energy-departments-to-reinvest-in-coal/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:24:08

• "Meta, which owns technologies like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, will construct 13 total buildings spanning four million square feet on 1,500 acres." ☛ https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/02/11/details-on-long-expected-meta-data-center-campus-unveiled/ | Source: The Indiana Capital Chronicle    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:24:29

• "That story of impunity is all the more outrageous now in the midst of rising populist anger and ever-growing inequality." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/us/politics/epstein-files.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:25:08

• "Why y’all don’t wanna talk about the Epstein files?" ☛ https://variety.com/2026/music/news/cardi-b-homeland-security-epstein-files-1236661618/ | Source: Variety    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:25:21

• "Absolutely wild stuff in this testimony." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/i-dont-want-to-answer-whether-the-president-partied-with-young-girls/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:28:25

• "You can see all three of these in the emails that surround a secretive August 2, 2015, dinner featuring Epstein and a host of Big Tech oligarchs, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/02/zuckerberg-epstein-big-tech-elite/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:28:38

• "The Second Gilded Age." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/as-epstein-files-turn-into-partisan-circus-institutional-power-protects-its-own/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:28:59

• "Mr. Epstein, who died in jail in 2019 in what was officially ruled a suicide, is alleged to have run a sex-trafficking ring catering not just to himself but also potentially to some of the world’s most powerful people" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2026/0212/epstein-files-giuffre-trump-congress-fbi | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:29:13

• "And that’s when news organizations, including Reuters, caught something alarming: one of the pages Bondi held up clearly showed searches that Jayapal herself had done of the Epstein files: [...]" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/12/bondi-spying-on-congressional-epstein-searches-should-be-a-major-scandal/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:29:25

• "The measure is designed to close what lawmakers say are persistent loopholes in the current sanctions regime and to curb Moscow’s ability to fund its war in Ukraine." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-bill-targets-russian-oil-revenue-drop-act/33676373.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:30:15

• "In the extensive correspondence between the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and the late pedophile, both men expressed a deep aversion to democracy." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/peter-thiel-jeffrey-epstein-democracy/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:30:26

• "By housing TikTok’s data on Oracle’s cloud infrastructure—a firm whose multibillion-dollar existence is owed in part to U.S. intelligence and law enforcement contract" ☛ https://newrepublic.com/article/205956/americanized-tiktok-backdoor-ice-surveillance | Source: New Republic    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:30:39

• "What if that position does not exist? What if it has never existed?" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-crisis-no-13 | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:31:12

• "OpenSAFELY was the obvious contender for NHS research." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/12/palantir-is-ice/#robo-mengele | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:31:29

• "we see no evidence that specific core network autonomous systems have blocked Telnet, contrary to previous reports." ☛ https://www.terracenetworks.com/blog/2026-02-11-telnet-routing |    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:32:02

• "OpenSSL sucks. The BoringSSL and AWS-LC forks are Googled and Amazoned to death; they don't care about anyone but their own use cases." ☛ https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/wolfssl-sucks-too/ | Source: Feld    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:32:18

• "Here are some of the best VPNs that support anonymous [sic] payment methods like Bitcoin, Monero, gift cards, or even cash." ☛ https://greycoder.com/best-vpns-with-anonymous-payments-bitcoin-monero-gift-cards-cash/ | Source: GreyCoder    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:32:30

• "It’s not fully clear who is manufacturing these devices, what’s on them, or who runs the services that allow people to access all this television without paying for it." ☛ https://werd.io/everyone-is-stealing-tv/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:32:57

• "Surveillance pricing already has its own page in Wikipedia." ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2026/02/12/because-pricing-is-getting-too-personal/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:33:11

• "masked engagement" ☛ https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-ice-masks-up-in-more-ways | Source: Ken Klippenstein    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:33:25

• "When I was setting up the G-Shock GBD-200 to test I always read the privacy policy and always do when it comes to wearables." ☛ https://ljpuk.net/2026/02/12/dont-trust-casio-with-your-data-when-their-privacy-policy-contradicts-itself/ | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:33:42

• "A while back I wrote a post about alternatives to WhatsApp, and in some ways this post feels similar. I’m not sure what the core motivation for migrating from Discord is at this time." ☛ https://lqdev.me/posts/alternatives-to-discord-2026-02-11/ | Source: Luis Quintanilla    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:34:10

• "In fact, TikTok collects sensitive and potentially embarrassing information about you even if you've never used the app." ☛ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260210-tiktok-is-tracking-you-even-if-you-dont-use-the-app-heres-how-to-stop-it | Source: BBC    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:34:26

• "It distributes secret little tracking pixels that can track users across multiple websites, regardless of whether they have the TikTok app on their device." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3059825/tiktok-tracks-your-every-move-even-if-you-dont-have-the-tiktok-app.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:34:39

• "Iain Corby, executive director of the Age Verification Providers Association, called the FTC officials’ comments and plans a “major landmark” in the development and spread of age verification implementation worldwide." ☛ https://therecord.media/ftc-push-for-age-verification-a-major-landmark-for-implementation | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:34:55

• "Disney has agreed to a $2.75 million fine with the state of California and implementation of a comprehensive privacy program" ☛ https://therecord.media/california-fines-disney-data-privacy | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:36:39

• "Sometimes the model will ask the user for more context before it creates their cartoon image." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/11/ai_caricatures_social_media_bad_security/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:36:54

• "As one would expect, the Trump administration was never going to be the one to ensure the paperwork arrived ahead of the deployment." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/12/ice-cbp-knew-facial-recognition-app-couldnt-do-what-dhs-says-it-could-deployed-it-anyway/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:37:05

• "For the past several years, the Maine Legislature has debated how aggressive the state should be in protecting consumer privacy online." ☛ https://mainemorningstar.com/2026/02/12/maine-advances-privacy-law-amid-new-immigration-data-collection-concerns/ | Source: Maine Morning Star    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:37:18

• "Sponsored by Sen. Kirk Cullimore, R-Cottonwood Heights, the Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee unanimously approved SB275 on Wednesday, sending it to the Senate floor." ☛ https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/02/12/utah-digital-id-bill-of-rights-could-lead-nation-in-privacy-framework/ | Source: Utah News Dispatch    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:37:31

• "A prominent senator pressed senior enlisted leaders on non-disclosure agreements troops are asked to sign by privatized military housing companies." ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/military-housing-hearing/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:37:58

• "This has been an issue for years, and problems with health care access have been exacerbated by new Tricare contracts implemented last year" ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/02/12/health-care-access-a-top-complaint-among-troops-top-enlisted-leaders-tell-lawmakers/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:38:11

• Windows TCO ☛ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32704 | Source: SANS    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:38:32

• "Prominent opposition politicians and journalists in Turkey have accused social media platform X of suppressing dissenting voices" ☛ https://stockholmcf.org/turkish-opposition-figures-allege-censorship-on-x-citing-sudden-drops-in-followers-and-reach/ | Source: Stockholm Center For Freedom    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:38:54

• "Some accounts appear to be suspended only in Turkey and not in the rest of the world. Activist Ömer Faruk Aslan created a second account to avoid censorship." ☛ https://www.politico.eu/article/musks-x-suspends-opposition-accounts-turkey-protest-civil-unrest-erdogan-imamoglu-istanbul-mayor/ | Source: Politico    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:39:04

• "His social media feed has been his main tool for communicating with his supporters and keeping himself in the public eye." ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgve4q99d5o | Source: BBC    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:39:15

• "Twitter and its imitators have adopted a structural design that is fundamentally bad for people" ☛ https://osteophage.dreamwidth.org/9540.html | Source: Coyote    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:39:27

• "I wholeheartedly agree with Michael on this, and it's a term I intend to steal." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/the-internet-is-a-hamster-wheel | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:39:43

• "Simple solution" ☛ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1121/simple-solution | Source: David Revoy    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:40:11

• "The program is unusual in that Dashers are more often delivering food than helping out a driving robot." ☛ https://www.404media.co/waymo-is-getting-doordashers-to-close-doors-on-self-driving-cars/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:40:22

• "One of the better books I read in college was Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea (1985) by philosopher John Haugeland." ☛ https://blog.plover.com/2026/02/05/#micro-worlds | Source: Mark-Jason Dominus    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:40:34

• "Previously known as both Clawdbot and Moltbot, OpenClaw recently became a Silicon Valley darling" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/malevolent-ai-agent-openclaw-clawdbot/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:40:49

• "The file contained ransomware, a nasty strain of malware that encrypts the files it comes across on a victim’s system" ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132386/ai-already-making-online-swindles-easier/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:41:02

• "Cloudflare's network now supports real-time content conversion at the source, for enabled zones using content negotiation headers." ☛ https://blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for-agents/ | Source: Cloudflare    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:41:13

• "Having previously devised a mechanism to make AI crawlers pay to consume website content" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/13/cloudflare_markdown_for_ai_crawlers/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:41:25

• "At some point, we, as a society, are going to realize that farming copyright enforcement out to bots and AI-driven robocops is not the way to go, but today is not that day." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/12/microsofts-ai-powered-copyright-bots-fucked-up-and-got-an-innocent-game-delisted-from-steam/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:41:39

• "We used to call it an engineer, now it is like a reviewer" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-burnout-machine | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:41:51

• "Some of the worst freaks to walk planet Earth are using Elon Musk’s Grok to “unblur” the faces of women and children in the latest Epstein files, as documented by the research group Bellingcat." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-unblur-epstein-files | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:42:05

• "Now, Østergaard is out with a new warning: that the world’s intellectual heavyweights are accruing a “cognitive debt” when they use AI." ☛ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/ai-debt-scientist-psychosis | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:42:22

• "I thought about it, my overall experience and made one suggestion." ☛ https://austinwhite.org/posts/my-doctor-fired-me | Source: Austin White    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:42:52

• "I realized that today, after again feeling absolutely terrible but then dragging myself out of bed to at least walk on my foldable treadmill." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/when-exercise-started-helping-me/ | Source: Ava    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:43:03

• "The alternative is clarity. Shared understanding instead of intentional pain." ☛ https://seths.blog/2026/02/tip-for-tap/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:43:12

• "The researchers, led by a team from the University of Hong Kong, identified a specific protein that acts as an 'exercise sensor' for bones. When activated, it promotes bone growth and reduces fat buildup." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/breakthrough-study-reveals-the-secret-of-how-exercise-fights-osteoporosis | Source: Science Alert    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:43:25

• "The lawmakers and witnesses expressed particular alarm over the administration’s six interagency agreements, or IAAs" ☛ https://georgiarecorder.com/2026/02/11/repub/democrats-defend-the-actual-existence-of-the-department-of-education-in-forum/ | Source: The Georgia Recorder    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:43:55

• "In back-to-back votes, the committee unanimously advanced Senate Bill 78" ☛ https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/02/12/indiana-house-panel-advances-school-cellphone-crackdown-revised-youth-social-media-bills/ | Source: The Indiana Capital Chronicle    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:44:07

• "Gifted children process information very quickly and their attention is selective." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/health/2026-02-12/the-overabundance-of-adhd-diagnoses-harms-gifted-children.html | Source: El País    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:44:19

• "I am writing this email as a young aspiring researcher/scientist. We live in a period of uncertainty and I have a lot of doubts about the decisions I should make." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/02/the-future-of-mathematics-and.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:44:38

• "The main idea is to trap an electron using a magnetic field into a circular path." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/12/does-this-electron-make-me-look-fat-weighing-an-electron/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:44:51

• "In some cases, this means users bypass traditional abstract databases, library catalogs, and full-text content platforms." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/12/guest-post-theres-an-elephant-in-the-room-but-not-in-your-usage-reports/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:45:07

• "Andy Bell is completely redesigning his personal site from scratch and breaking down each part to educate and hopefully, inspire you to build your own corner of the internet" ☛ https://piccalil.li/projects/personal-site/2/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:45:33

• "The world of free and open-source software (FOSS) is full of big-hearted, altruistic people who love serving society by giving away their labor for free. It’s incredible." ☛ https://pointieststick.com/2026/02/12/while-you-support-others-who-supports-you/ | Source: Nate Graham    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:45:45

• Links 13/02/2026: SUSE Uses Microsoft Internally, MElon's Company Helps Turn Epstein Files Into Child Abuse (After the Pornography Scandals) https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/13/Links_13_02_2026_SUSE_Uses_Microsoft_Internally_MElon_s_Company.shtml   

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:50:28

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-13.gmi    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:52:55

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1915.jpg    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 09:54:25

• "Transparent DNS forwarders transfer DNS requests without rebuilding packets." ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/mkoch/forward-to-hell-on-misusing-transparent-dns-forwarders-for-amplification-attacks/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:28:07

• "Before going deeper into identifying potential Kerberos abuse, we will briefly explain how the Kerberos protocol works." ☛ https://blog.nviso.eu/2026/02/12/capture-the-kerberos-flag-detecting-kerberos-anomalies/ | Source: NVISO Labs    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:28:17

• "Go has indisputably the best package integrity story of any programming language ecosystem." ☛ https://words.filippo.io/go-source/ | Source: Filippo Valsorda    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:28:47

• "It is no secret that we often use and abuse bash to write things that ought to be in a different language. But bash does have its attractions." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/12/bash-via-transpiler/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:29:12

• "Code signing is commonly used to cryptographically verify the origin of software. A typical Android build consists of many individually signed pieces, which requires a significant amount of signing keys." ☛ https://calyxos.org/news/2026/02/10/calyxos-hsm-signing/ |    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:32:59

• "Unlike C, modern systems languages usually treat allocators as first-class citizens." ☛ https://antonz.org/allocators/ | Source: Anton Zhiyanov    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:33:14

• "Building that made me appreciate how much complexity hides behind .gitignore, and got me thinking about all the other tools with their own ignore files." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/12/the-many-flavors-of-ignore-files.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:33:32

• "11th-13th February 2001 is the occasion of the most famous skiing holiday in software." ☛ https://www.sicpers.info/2026/02/happy-25th-birthday-to-the-manifesto-for-agile-software-development/ | Source: SICP    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:33:45

• "The latest iteration of the TIOBE Index of programming languages indicates that more specialized languages are creeping up on Python’s dominance." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/statistical-language-r-is-making-a-comeback-against-python/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:33:59

• "But of course, it is not just open content that is vulnerable. All content online today has essentially been treated as fair game." ☛ https://creativecommons.org/2026/02/12/how-to-keep-the-internet-human/ | Source: Creative Commons    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:34:41

• "A lot of people are jumping on the Linux bandwagon after being abused for too long by big tech companies" ☛ https://techtea.io/articles/2026/new-linux-users/ | Source: TechTea    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:35:16

• "Action Scheduler is a library for triggering a WordPress hook to run at some time in the future." ☛ https://cagrimmett.com/2026/02/12/action-scheduler-clean-up/ | Source: Chuck Grimmett    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:36:00

• "I need to travel to China right now because I’m the bomb there" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/made-in-china-niche-websites-are-seeing-a-surge-of-mysterious-traffic-from-china/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:36:36

• "When a url is posted on a forum/chat, it’s often automatically made linkable. But sometimes the regexp that grabs the url also grabs a trailing punctuation mark. [...]" ☛ https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-02-12-urls-with-trailing-punctuation/ | Source: Amit Patel    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:36:47

• Anon: just like Finnair, squeezing for profits on the way down ... "though its turnover dropped." ... burning infrastructure and the future in exchange for quarterly profits https://yle.fi/a/74-20210102    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:37:28

• "This is one particular piece of POSIX compliance that I think everyone should ignore." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ViUndoMyViews | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:37:52

• "When you buy a 3D scanner, it will probably come with a turntable to spin the subject part and help you get a consistent scan from all sides." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/02/12/building-the-ultimate-turntable-for-3d-scanning/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:38:21

• "We now have several new power supply modules available. All of them operate with an input voltage of 85VAC to 255VAC at 50Hz or 60Hz, thus covering worldwide mains power networks." ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/new-power-supply-modules-for-pcb-mounting-in-stock/ | Source: Olimex    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:38:34

• "Once I worked that out, I stopped recording while I deleted thousands of recordings. Still, the Analyzer continued to fall behind a couple of times." ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/no-birds-yet | Source: Jeremy Cherfas    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:38:46

• "The new features and capababilities for moteus just keep coming!" ☛ https://blog.mjbots.com/2026/02/12/pwm-input-support/ | Source: Robotic Systems LLC    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:39:07

• "I was working on benchmarking some new code on a Raspberry Pi Pico today and needed to debug it." ☛ https://linuxjedi.co.uk/ditching-the-debug-probe-using-a-segger-j-link-with-a-raspberry-pi-pico/ | Source: Andrew Hutchings    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:39:35

• "It had been at least five minutes since Clara’s father handed down an old computer" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/a-busted-athlon-era-motherboard-bios/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:39:54

• "I have no need for a 3D printer." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/i-have-no-need-for-a-3d-printer/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:40:19

• "The self-contained device first uses an ESP32 and its associated camera module to take a picture, with a screen that shows the current view of the camera as the picture is being taken." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/12/storing-image-data-as-analog-audio/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:40:37

• "Florent 'Skia' Jacquet has announced an update to Ubuntu's 24.04 LTS branch." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12729 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:41:13

• "If you’ve spent time on Fedora or RHEL systems, you’ve encountered SELinux." ☛ https://blog.hofstede.it/selinux-a-practical-guide-for-fedora-and-rhel/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:43:02

• "What these arguments all seem to miss is that there already is a mass-market Linux for the desktop: it’s called ChromeOS." ☛ https://kevinboone.me/not_desktop.html | Source: Kevin Boone    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:46:44

• "Nicholas Merrill, president and founder of Calyx Institute, has left the organization to pursue other projects." ☛ https://calyxos.org/news/2025/08/01/a-letter-to-our-community/ |    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:46:59

• "It is unclear when it is expected to be ready. GamingOnLinux first reported on the job advertisement." ☛ https://www.heise.de/en/news/The-next-big-step-GOG-Galaxy-is-apparently-to-be-ported-to-Linux-11159147.html | Source: Heise    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:49:01

• "So far, the DRM-free game platform GOG only runs on Windows and macOS. The company is now looking for a new developer for a Linux version." ☛ https://soylentnews.org/~hubie/journal/20123 | Source: Soylent News    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:49:13

• "Can’t quite pinpoint why, but at this point, I have no issue starting games one after another, leaving them for days or weeks or months—even years—without worrying, I just know that I’ll eventually return to those that are worthy." ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/just-poking-away-at-videogames/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:49:31

• Linux Mint may slow down releases to have more development time | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/linux-mint-may-slow-down-releases-to-have-more-development-time/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:50:17

• Diablo II: Resurrected - Infernal Edition gets released on Steam and Steam Deck Verified | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/diablo-ii-resurrected-infernal-edition-gets-released-on-steam-and-steam-deck-verified/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:50:49

• Steam Deck completely out of stock in the US, Canada and Asia | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/steam-deck-completely-out-of-stock-in-the-us-canada-and-asia/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:51:10

• eReader gemini://pandora.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-02-12-ereader.gmi    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:52:36

• "It seems you can offend people by agreeing with them that AI all knowing and great for coding. So instead of venting to people about how stupid AI is, let's just went into GeminiSpace!" gemini://sublime.jp.eu.org/gemlog/2026-02-11-the-slop-0001.gmi    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:53:25

• "I would like to see if I can set up a simple flight model on my THAT that calculates horizontal-and-vertical lift, drag, acceleration, and velocity, based on adjustable Angle of Attack and thrust inputs." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260212-0.gmi    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:54:23

• "I want to leave Discord, because I want to avoid the ever approaching tide of online age verification. But if I'm being honest with myself, I know I'm not going to." gemini://gemini.njms.ca/gemlog/if-you-love-me.gmi    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:54:58

• Final ex Post gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/02/13/final-ex-post.gmi    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:56:03

• "The other day, someone told me that “Discord is a good product”. And I’m grateful for that phrasing because it helps me explain why I’m having such a cow about Discord." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/discord    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:57:13

• "I've been playing with the Reticulum mesh network since early last summer. My ROOPHLOCH entry last year was powered by Reticulum, and I currently operate, to the best of my knowledge, the only LoRa RNode in my town." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202602/20260213-the-limited-utility-of-reticulum.gmi    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 13:57:56

• a toast to dokuja gopher://baud.baby:70/0/phlog/fs20260213.txt    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:00:55

• How Many Dudes does it take to beat 1 horse-sized duck and 75 duck-sized horses? This game answers your dumb questions | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/how-many-dudes-does-it-take-to-beat-1-horse-sized-duck-and-75-duck-sized-horses-this-game-answers-your-dumb-questions/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:01:49

• Buckshot Roulette dev becomes a major Godot Engine donor | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/buckshot-roulette-dev-becomes-a-major-godot-engine-donor/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/buckshot-roulette-dev-becomes-a-major-godot-engine-donor/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:02:24

• Gothic 1 Remake gets a June release date | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/gothic-1-remake-gets-a-june-release-date/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/gothic-1-remake-gets-a-june-release-date/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:03:13

• "Pam Bondi's Gutter: Five Ways the Attorney General Confirmed She Is Engaged in an Epstein Cover Up" https://emptywheel.net/pam-bondis-gutter-five-ways-the-attorney-general-confirmed-she-is-engaged-in-an-epstein-cover-up/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:03:59

• "If Ukrainians Were Dolphins - by Jay Nordlinger" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/if-ukrainians-were-dolphins    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:04:11

• what an asshole: "... given that I have a bot account storming the SciML Open Source Software repositories with tens to hundreds of PRs a day, with many of them successful." https://www.juliabloggers.com/what-agentic-ai-vibe-coding-in-the-hands-of-actual-programmers-engineers/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:04:56

• iophk: bitcoin is _*not*_ anonymous https://greycoder.com/best-vpns-with-anonymous-payments-bitcoin-monero-gift-cards-cash/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:05:15

• "Resist and Unsubscribe" https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:05:29

• "Stop Giving Out Your Cell Number. Here's Why." https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Cell-vs-voip:9    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:05:42

• "Making America Stagnate Again - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/making-america-stagnate-again    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:05:54

• "Just a moment..." https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/03/new-york-wants-to-ctrlaltdelete-your-3d-printer/ blocked by gratuitous javascript    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:06:10

• IDG spam for Microsoft proxy https://www.csoonline.com/article/4125145/startup-amutable-plotting-linux-security-overhaul-to-counter-hacking-threats.html hijacking the "Linux" brand to promote Microsoft http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/Amutable_s_Management_and_Founders_Are_100_Microsoft.shtml    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:06:57

• Microsoft moles in "linux" clothing https://www.heise.de/en/news/Secure-Linux-Amutable-brings-cryptographically-verifiable-integrity-11157020.html http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/Amutable_is_a_Microsoft_Proxy_Like_Xamarin_With_Some_IBM_Red_Ha.shtml    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:07:25

• "Don’t Let Trump Fool You. The Economy Is Bad, and He Is to Blame." https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/trump-economy-jobs-report/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:07:40

• "Rubio turns up the gas heat on Europe" https://www.semafor.com/article/02/12/2026/rubio-turns-up-the-gas-heat-on-europe    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:07:57

• "I'm #1 on google thanks to AI BULL💩 - the modern internet is a joke." https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/i'm-1-on-google-thanks-to-ai-bull%F0%9F%92%A9:2    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:08:09

• "Pam Bondi’s Contempt for Congress" https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/pam-bondis-contempt-for-congress    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:08:22

• The American threat to an open internet | "Det amerikanska hotet mot ett öppet internet" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/02/12/det-amerikanska-hotet-mot-ett-oppet-internet/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:08:51

• iophk: It's mostly managers and the C-suite who believe that but the devastation comes from them acting on those beliefs. https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/Why-the-Classic-Computer-Science-Degree-Might-Leave-You-Jobless-in-2026-%E2%80%93-And-What-to-Do-Instead:3    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:09:14

• "Police identify 18-year-old as suspect in Tumbler Ridge shootings" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8w95knp55o    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:09:32

• "Making an off-canvas menu free from heinous JavaScript has always been possible, but not ideal. I wrote up one technique for Smashing Magazine in 2013." ☛ https://dbushell.com/2026/02/12/declarative-dialog-menu-invoker-commands/ | Source: David Bushell    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:10:26

• The 'No ICE in Minnesota' charity bundle is live on itch.io | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/the-no-ice-in-minnesota-charity-bundle-is-live-on-itch-io/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/the-no-ice-in-minnesota-charity-bundle-is-live-on-itch-io/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:11:07

• More Total War games arrive on GOG along with a return of The Long Dark | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/more-total-war-games-arrive-on-gog-along-with-a-return-of-the-long-dark/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/more-total-war-games-arrive-on-gog-along-with-a-return-of-the-long-dark/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:13:14

• Blades of Fire is jumping from Epic to Steam with big upgrades and Steam Deck support | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/blades-of-fire-is-jumping-from-epic-to-steam-with-big-upgrades-and-steam-deck-support/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:13:38

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

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:16:49

• Essora Eos – minimal Devuan based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/essora-eos-minimal-devuan-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:24:48

• A single stable kernel for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1058478/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:25:14

• Hands-On With Lilidog GNU/Linux 26.02.06, the New Debian-Based Openbox Distro ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/02/hands-on-with-lilidog-linux-26-02-06-the-new-debian-based-openbox-distro/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:25:42

• Olav Vitters: GUADEC 2026 accommodation ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/ovitters/2026/02/12/guadec-2026-accommodation/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:42:31

• InstaCom patent monopoly validity challenge coming soon ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/2/12/instacom-patent-validity-challenge-coming-soon    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:43:12

• Peterreins Schley and ZSP enforce PIs for Wobbleworks over 3Doodler ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/peterreins-schley-zsp-enforce-pis-for-wobbleworks-over-3doodler/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:43:33

• Fill Out All The Margins 📖: OpenSSF Releases Compiler Annotations Guide for C and C++ ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/02/12/fill-out-all-the-margins-%f0%9f%93%96-openssf-releases-compiler-annotations-guide-for-c-and-c/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:44:36

• Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: cross building, rebootstrap updates, Refresh of the patch tagging guidelines and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph) ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-01-2026/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:54:00

• Linux Mint Wants Fewer Releases Each Year (For Good Reasons) ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-mint-longer-release-cycle/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:54:42

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1058473/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:55:20

• cull – reclaim precious disk space ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cull-reclaim-precious-disk-space/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:56:27

• dumbpipe – create a dumb pipe between two machines ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dumbpipe-create-dumb-pipe/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:56:36

• Pyright – static type checker ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pyright-static-type-checker/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:56:48

• Panox – clipboard manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/panox-clipboard-manager/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:56:58

• Screen Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/screen/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:57:20

• Monthly Report - February 2026 ☞ https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/monthly-report-2602/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:58:01

• How to build an image mode pipeline with GitLab ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/12/how-build-image-mode-pipeline-gitlab    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 14:58:47

• 7 Best Free and Open Source Screen-Readers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-screen-readers/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:01:21

• Envy – manage secrets ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/envy-manage-secrets/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:01:34

• ElecWhat – simple desktop WhatsApp client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/elecwhat-simple-desktop-whatsapp-client/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:01:44

• Phpactor – heavy-lifting refactoring and introspection tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/phpactor-heavy-lifting-refactoring-introspection-tools/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:01:55

• Sad news? GNU/Linux Mint may soon be shutting down its shorter development cycle ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-mint-is-shutting-down-its-shorter-development-cycle/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:02:16

• Also here: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-mint-team-considers-longer-gaps-between-releases-in-attempt-to-accelerate-development-efforts-current-six-month-cycle-means-we-spend-more-time-testing-fixing-and-releasing-than-developing    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:02:40

• How Posit’s Public Package Manager manylinux_2_28 repository can help you if your R project is stuck on Ubuntu Focal Fossa ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/02/how-posits-public-package-manager-manylinux_2_28-repository-can-help-you-if-your-r-project-is-stuck-on-ubuntu-focal-fossa/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:04:38

• 4 Months Trapped in a Hospital for an Obsolete Way of Treating Their Disease ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/health/tb-sanitarium-cameroon.html    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:05:33

• Alcohol’s Effects on the Body: What Does Drinking Do to Your Health? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/well/alcohol-body-health-effects.html    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:05:46

• Canada School Shooter’s Online Life Showed Interest in Violent Extremism ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/world/canada/tumbler-ridge-shooting-suspect-social-media.html    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:06:01

• Federal Judge Blocks Convicted Felon Plan to Cut $600 Million in Health Funds ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/us/politics/trump-health-funding-cuts-ruling.html    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:06:20

• Dihydroxyacetone Man revokes Obama-era climate finding on greenhouse gas risks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260212-trump-epa-revokes-scientific-finding-underpinned-us-fight-climate-change    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:06:45

• Dihydroxyacetone Man scraps legal basis for climate rules ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20260212-trump-scraps-legal-basis-for-climate-rules    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:07:03

• Dihydroxyacetone Man cancels federal climate regulations. Here’s what it means for Michigan ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/trump-cancels-federal-climate-regulations-heres-what-it-means-for-michigan/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:07:13

• Is the Rat War Over? ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/is-the-rat-war-over    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:08:04

• North Korea warns of ‘terrible response’ if South Korea sends more drones ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-says-south-korea-should-take-steps-to-prevent-violation-of-its-sovereignty    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:08:39

• More cloud seeding under way to beat dry season, says Malaysian disaster agency ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/more-cloud-seeding-under-way-to-beat-the-dry-season-says-malaysian-disaster-agency    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:20:54

• Malaysia’s anti-graft chief says open to probe on his shareholding after media report ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-anti-graft-chief-says-open-to-probe-on-his-shareholding-after-media-report    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:21:12

• ‘Punk wellness’: China’s stressed young people mix traditional medicine and cocktails ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/punk-wellness-chinas-stressed-youth-mix-traditional-medicine-and-cocktails    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:21:29

• China orders cereulide tests as infant formula makers Nestle, Danone face recalls over toxin ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-orders-cereulide-tests-as-nestle-danone-face-recalls    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:21:43

• C.I.A. Video Appeals to Potential Spies in China’s Military ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/us/politics/cia-china-spies.html    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:21:59

• bipartisan group targets ASML's Dutch exports of lithography machines used to create advanced chips ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/u-s-lawmakers-demand-sales-ban-on-chipmaking-tools-to-china-bipartisan-group-targets-asmls-dutch-exports-of-lithography-machines-used-to-create-advanced-chips    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:23:51

• China calls Taiwanese leader Lai Ching-te a ‘war instigator’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/12/china-calls-taiwanese-leader-lai-ching-te-a-war-instigator/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:24:17

• Chinese automakers BYD, Geely are bidding on Mexico’s shuttered Aguascalientes Nissan plant ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/shuttered-nissan-plant-in-aguascalientes/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:24:52

• Mitchell Hashimoto Launches Vouch to Fight Hey Hi (AI) Slop in Open Source Ecosystem ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/mitchell-hashimoto-vouch/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:25:23

• Nandy launches competition probe into DMGT’s Telegraph takeover ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/nandy-minded-to-seek-competition-probe-into-dmgts-telegraph-takeover/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:58:46

• Parkinson's May Emerge From a Deeper Brain Network Than We Thought ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/parkinsons-may-emerge-from-a-deeper-brain-network-than-we-thought    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:59:07

• Can Drinking Hot Water Really Help You Lose Weight? Experts Explain ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/can-drinking-hot-water-really-help-you-lose-weight-experts-explain    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:59:19

• Scientists Discover a Brain Circuit That Enhances Physical Endurance In Mice ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-a-brain-circuit-that-enhances-physical-endurance-in-mice    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 15:59:52

• Valentine's Day: 9 Cosmic Objects That Prove Love Is Universal ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/valentines-day-9-cosmic-objects-that-prove-love-is-universal    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:00:10

• We Were Wrong About Fasting, Massive Review Shows ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/we-were-wrong-about-fasting-massive-review-shows    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:00:23

• Ozempic-Style Patches Promise Easy Weight Loss, But Do They Work? ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ozempic-style-patches-promise-easy-weight-loss-but-do-they-work    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:00:38

• A Giant Star Vanished, And Scientists Think a Black Hole Is to Blame ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-giant-star-vanished-and-scientists-think-a-black-hole-is-to-blame    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:00:55

• Discovery of an 'Inside Out' Solar System Puzzles Astronomers ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/discovery-of-an-inside-out-solar-system-puzzles-astronomers    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:01:07

• Central Bank raises 2026 inflation forecast range amid food-driven risks ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/central-bank-raises-2026-inflation-forecast-range-amid-food-driven-risks-316636    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:01:56

• Qt Creator 19 Beta2 released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-19-beta2-released    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:02:44

• China cracks down on anti-marriage social control media content during Lunar New Year holiday ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/13/china-cracks-down-on-anti-marriage-social-media-content-during-lunar-new-year-holiday/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:03:05

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 638 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/02/11/this-week-in-rust-638/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:03:40

• BSD Now 650: Korn Chips ☞ https://www.bsdnow.tv/650    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:05:27

• Flexibility and Rising Costs Are Keeping Mothers at Work ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/business/economy/mothers-labor-force-participation.html "thanks to flexible work setups" = 'thanks' to employers paying too little and giving salaries below living costs    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:06:52

• Build a zero trust environment with Red Bait Connectivity Link ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/12/build-zero-trust-environment-red-hat-connectivity-link    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:08:47

• Why Tech Giants Are Accused of Causing Social Media Addiction ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/technology/100000010701326/why-tech-giants-are-accused-of-causing-social-media-addiction.html    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:09:45

• Hacks.Mozilla.Org: Launching Interop 2026 ☞ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/launching-interop-2026/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:10:56

• Attacks on Health in Ukraine Continue to Escalate Four Years into Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion ☞ https://phr.org/news/attacks-on-health-in-ukraine-continue-to-escalate-four-years-into-russias-full-scale-invasion/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:11:53

• Milano-Cortina: Controversy erupts over Ukrainian athlete’s helmet ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/milano-cortina-controversy-erupts-over-ukrainian-athlete-s-helmet    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:12:16

• Milano-Cortina: Ukrainian athlete disqualified over war tribute helmet ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/milano-cortina-ukrainian-athlete-disqualified-over-war-tribute-helmet    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:12:36

• Lithuania condemns Ukrainian athlete's disqualification from Winter Olympics ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2837292/lithuania-condemns-ukrainian-athlete-s-disqualification-from-winter-olympics    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:12:49

• Ukrainian Skeleton Athlete Disqualified From Olympics Over Helmet Dispute ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukrainian-skeleton-athlete-vladyslav-heraskevych-barred-olympics/33675935.html    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:13:05

• A Ukrainian athlete wanted to honor fallen countrymen. The IOC said no. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Olympics/2026/0212/winter-olympics-banned-Ukrainian    

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

• Russia Strikes Ukraine Overnight As Zelenskyy Denies Plans For Elections On War Anniversary ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-strikes-ukraine-zelenskyy-elections/33675846.html    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:13:47

• These Ukrainian Drones Don’t Just Kill. They Deliver Oatmeal Cookies. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/world/europe/ukraine-drones-vampire-russia.html    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:14:09

• Ukrainian Olympian Is Disqualified Over Helmet Honoring War Dead ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/world/olympics/ukraine-skeleton-olympics-banned-helmet-heraskevych.html    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:14:23

• Cofounders Fleeing MElon’s xAI ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/cofounders-fleeing-elon-musk-xai    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:16:38

• OpenAI Fires Top Safety Exec Who Opposed ChatGPT’s “Adult Mode” ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-fires-safety-exec-opposed-adult-mode    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:16:55

• Gail Slater Leaves Role as Justice Dept.’s Antitrust Chief ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/technology/gail-slater-antittrust-justice-department.html    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:17:25

• Feeding 10 billion: Australia’s role in avoiding hunger-conflict spirals ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/feeding-10-billion-australias-role-in-avoiding-hunger-conflict-spirals/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:18:23

• How Europe Woke Up to Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/world/europe-trump-munich-security-canada-minnesota.html    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:18:39

• NATO Remains Vital to U.S. Security, Ex-Ambassadors and Generals Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/world/europe/nato-us.html    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:18:54

• Amnesty chief warns “attacks on international law” are undermining global security ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/amnesty-chief-warns-attacks-on-international-law-are-undermining-global-security/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:19:30

• Bangladesh election raises expectations of a new political era ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/bangladesh-election-raises-expectations-of-a-new-political-era    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:20:05

• Counting starts in Bangladesh’s first free election in 17 years ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/counting-starts-in-bangladesh-s-first-free-election-in-17-years    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:20:20

• ApolloMD Data Breach Impacts 626,000 Individuals ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/apollomd-data-breach-impacts-626000-individuals/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:21:22

• Europeans perceive growing threat to their security and trust EU to do more in this field, according to latest Eurobarometer ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_403    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:22:14

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSpdlog 0.0.27 on CRAN: C++20 Accommodations ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/02/12#rcppspdlog_0.0.27    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:23:10

• Debian DFSG Team announces new dashboard and queue processes ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1058480/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:23:20

• Ed updated ☞ https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Ed    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:23:45

• Extract Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub repository URLs from BlackArch tools pages ☞ http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/43210/extract-github-repository-urls-from-blackarch-tools-pages    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:24:27

• Fake security (back doors) and more Windows TCO ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-to-enable-windows-baseline-security-with-new-runtime-integrity-safeguards/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:25:21

• Police decline to disclose number of sedition arrests over comments about fatal Tai Po blaze ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/12/police-decline-to-disclose-number-of-sedition-arrests-over-comments-about-fatal-tai-po-blaze/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:27:10

• Apple discloses first actively exploited zero-day of 2026 ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/apple-zero-day-vulnerability-cve-2026-20700/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:27:38

• Apple Patches iOS Zero-Day Exploited in ‘Extremely Sophisticated Attack’ ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/apple-patches-ios-zero-day-exploited-in-extremely-sophisticated-attack/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:28:19

• de next-RAP8-EZBOX – An ultra-compact, fanless or actively-cooled defective chip maker Intel Core i7-1365UE Raptor Lake embedded system ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/12/de-next-rap8-ezbox-ultra-compact-fanless-or-actively-cooled-intel-core-i7-1365ue-raptor-lake-embedded-system/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:31:16

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

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:32:58

• Terrible and malicious agenda brought about by GAFAM ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/epic-games-brings-secure-boot-and-tpm-to-competitive-fortnite-most-players-unaffected-by-new-measures    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:41:45

• of course, as usual, it has nothing to do with security, it is about controlling people against their will    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:42:21

• SlimeVR Butterfly Trackers – nRF52833-based, ultra-slim, full-body VR trackers offer up to 48h battery life (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/12/slimevr-butterfly-trackers-nrf52833-based-ultra-slim-full-body-vr-trackers-offer-up-to-48h-battery-life/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:42:50

• Mozilla Localization (L10N): Pontoon Translation Search: Unifying Localization Across Mozilla ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2026/02/12/pontoon-translation-search-unifying-localization-across-mozilla/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:43:14

• openSUSE Board on Participation, Governance and Community ☞ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/02/12/board-interview-participation-gov-community/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:43:36

• "A port is a logical entity that represents an endpoint of communication and is associated with a given process or service in an operating system." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/find-out-which-process-listening-on-a-particular-port/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:44:31

• "I really like how this case brought different groups together" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/when-an-upstream-change-broke-smartcard-fips-authentication-and-how-we-fixed-it | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:45:32

• Buzzwords saturation ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/open-platforms-edge-ai-and-sovereign-telco-clouds-ecrio-canonical-at-mwc-barcelona | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:45:59

• "Based on our work with customers, we've identified a few common areas where we can all “level up” our vulnerability management game." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/elevate-your-vulnerability-management-strategy-red-hat | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:47:05

• "For decades, Red Hat has catalyzed open source adoption across the European Union. We advocate for ‘default-to-open’ EU policies because they help unlock Europe’s full potential." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/building-bridges-european-digital-sovereignty | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:47:23

• UK bets on buzzwords for defence https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/uk-ministry-defence-collaborates-red-hat-improve-digital-delivery-unlock-ai-capabilities-and-scale-its-hybrid-cloud    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:50:56

• IBM Red at pushes buzzwords, not substance, as IBM's stock depends on these lies https://www.redhat.com/en/compiler-podcast/data-security-and-ai    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 16:51:52

• Thanks for participating in APRICOT 2026 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/12/thanks-for-participating-in-apricot-2026/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:03:15

• The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Rust 1.93.1 ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/02/12/Rust-1.93.1/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:04:05

• What’s next for Chinese open-source Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:13:06

• Digital Omnibus: EU DPAs reject many proposed changes to the GDPR ☞ https://noyb.eu/en/digital-omnibus-eu-dpas-reject-many-proposed-changes-gdpr    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:14:07

• ‘Disagreement itself has become morally legible’: Glenn Loury critiques self-censorship ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/02/12/disagreement-morally-glenn-loury/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:17:53

• Europe’s Leaders Gather At Munich Summit, Reeling From Convicted Felon’s Criticism ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/world/europe/munich-conference-europe-trump-vance-trust-rubio.html    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:19:00

• “If We Don’t Have Free Speech, Then We Just Don’t Have a Free Country” ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/if-we-dont-have-free-speech-then-we-just-dont-have-a-free-country    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:19:25

• Nifty Dialogs ☞ https://blog.broulik.de/2026/02/nifty-dialogs/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:20:47

• FOSS Weekly #26.07: Kernel 6.19, Hey Hi (AI) for Real Sysadmin Works, Arch Apps on Ubuntu and More GNU/Linux Stuff ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-07/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:22:14

• Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS released with Linux 6.17 + Mesa 25.2 ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/ubuntu-24-04-4-lts-released    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:23:07

• Edubuntu 24.04.4 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/edubuntu    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:23:29

• Kubuntu 24.04.4 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kubuntu    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:23:41

• GitHub Tray GNOME Shell Extension Puts Your Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Repos in the System Tray ☞ https://9to5linux.com/github-tray-gnome-shell-extension-puts-your-github-repos-in-the-system-tray    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:24:48

• Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Is Now Available for Download Powered by GNU/Linux Kernel 6.17 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-24-04-4-lts-is-now-available-for-download-powered-by-linux-kernel-6-17    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:24:59

• NetworkManager 1.56 Released with New Features and Improvements ☞ https://9to5linux.com/networkmanager-1-56-released-with-new-features-and-improvements    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:25:09

• Neoleo – lightweight curses spreadsheet ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/neoleo-lightweight-curses-spreadsheet/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:25:32

• Mimiclaw is an OpenClaw-like Hey Hi (AI) assistant for ESP32-S3 boards ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/13/mimiclaw-is-an-openclaw-like-ai-assistant-for-esp32-s3-boards/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:26:33

• Ubuntu MATE 24.04.4 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ubuntumate    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:27:15

• Ubuntu Studio 24.04.4 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ubuntustudio    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:27:25

• Default Applications Chooser fixes ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/default-applications-chooser-fixes.html    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:28:55

• Unofficial 7-zip.com website served up malware-laden downloads for over a week — infected PCs forced into a proxy botnet ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unofficial-7-zip-com-website-served-up-malware-for-10-days-files-turned-pcs-into-a-proxy-botnet    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:29:16

• GNOME 50 Beta is out! Enhanced Remote Desktop & Orca Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/gnome-50-beta-is-out/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:30:36

• Lubuntu 24.04.4 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/lubuntu    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:31:12

• Ubuntu Budgie 24.04.4 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ubuntubudgie    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:31:23

• Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04.4 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ubuntucinnamon    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:36:39

• Ubuntu Kylin 24.04.4 is out as well☞ https://distrowatch.com/ubuntukylin    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:36:51

• Addressing human rights abuses and attacks on press freedom facilitated by AppLogic Networks in Egypt ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/human-rights-abuses-facilitated-by-applogic-networks-in-egypt/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:37:47

• From Sandvine to AppLogic Networks: a rebrand doesn’t mean reform ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/from-sandvine-to-applogic-networks-a-rebrand-doesnt-mean-reform/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:39:01

• Artificial Insecurity: threats to information integrity ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/artificial-insecurity-information-integrity/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:40:17

• Ubuntu Unity 24.04.4 is out☞ https://distrowatch.com/ubuntuunity    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:40:36

• VailuxOS 1.6.0.2 is also out☞ ☞ https://distrowatch.com/vailuxos    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:41:00

• UN warns Sudan airstrikes threaten lives and vital establishments ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/un-warns-sudan-airstrikes-threaten-lives-and-vital-establishments/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:41:58

• Indian farmers protest trade deal with US ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20260212-indian-farmers-protest-trade-deal-with-us    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:42:18

• OmegaLinux 3.4 is out☞ ☞ https://distrowatch.com/omegalinux    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:42:35

• Mainstream Media Intentionally Ignoring EPO Strikes ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/12/Mainstream_Media_Intentionally_Ignoring_EPO_Strikes.shtml    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:42:45

• The EPO's Corruption and Violation of Rules is Spreading to the United Kingdom (Software Patents) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/12/The_EPO_s_Corruption_and_Violation_of_Rules_is_Spreading_to_the.shtml    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:42:59

• North Korea warns of ‘terrible response’ over South Korean drone flights ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260213-north-korea-warns-of-terrible-response-over-south-korean-drone-flights    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:43:39

• US dispatch: Attorney General questioned over Epstein files, federal shootings, surveillance ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/us-dispatch-attorney-general-questioned-over-epstein-files-federal-shootings-surveillance/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:44:09

• ClicknClear Inks Universal Music Deal Following ‘Minions’ Winter Olympics Licensing Debacle ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/12/clicknclear-universal-music-deal/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:44:41

• The Next Linux Kernel Turns 7.0 ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/The-Next-Linux-Kernel-Turns-7.0    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:47:35

• YouTube Music Lyrics Are Now Locked Behind Premium Subscription — Let’s See How This One Goes Over ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/11/youtube-music-lyrics-premium-subscription/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:51:51

• How To Install OpenVPN Server on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-openvpn-server-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:52:32

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

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:52:43

• Minsk seeking to formally legalise truck detentions, Lithuanian association says ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2837254/minsk-seeking-to-formally-legalise-truck-detentions-lithuanian-association-says    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:53:08

• Tsikhanouskaya’s aide says she wrote to Lithuanian PM before Warsaw move but got no reply ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2837277/tsikhanouskaya-s-aide-says-she-wrote-to-lithuanian-pm-before-warsaw-move-but-got-no-reply    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:53:18

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

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:53:59

• Russia Telegram block condemned as a blow to freedom of expression by rights group ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/russia-telegram-block-condemned-as-a-blow-to-freedom-of-expression-by-rights-group/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:54:17

• Russia fully blocks WhatsApp, intensifying it's 'crackdown on free expression' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/russia-fully-blocks-whatsapp-intensifying-it-s-crackdown-on-free-expression    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:54:35

• NATO downplays Greenland dispute as US defence chief absent from summit ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260212-nato-downplays-greenland-dispute-as-us-defence-chief-absent-from-summit    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:55:14

• Arctic Sentry: Europe takes the lead in NATO Arctic security mission ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/arctic-sentry-europe-takes-the-lead-in-nato-arctic-security-mission    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:55:37

• EU leaders back major economic overhaul to counter pressure from US, China and Russia ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260213-eu-leaders-major-economic-overhaul-counter-pressure-us-china-russia    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:56:08

• Security service seeks prosecution for Latvian helping Russian company ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/12.02.2026-security-service-seeks-prosecution-for-latvian-helping-russian-company.a634339/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:56:48

• bubi reaches uptime of 800 days next week. Right now: 17:57:21 up 792 days    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 17:57:56

• Linux Mint might overhaul its release schedule https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-mint-might-overhaul-its-release-schedule/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 18:11:22

• Linux Gamers on Radeon Graphics Get Ray Tracing Performance Boost in Mesa 26.0.0 Update https://www.techpowerup.com/346251/linux-gamers-on-radeon-graphics-get-ray-tracing-performance-boost-in-mesa-26-0-0-update    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 18:12:58

• "Fedora-based Bluefin Linux combines the simplicity of ChromeOS with the power of a full Linux distribution, offering an immutable, container-focused desktop." https://thenewstack.io/bluefin-linux-chromeos-simplicity-meets-linux-power/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 18:13:52

• Oracle Virtualization adds support for Oracle Linux 9 compute https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/oracle-virtualization-adds-support-for-oracle-linux-9-compute    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 18:14:27

• Linus Torvalds rejects Linux 7.0 MMC changes as 'complete garbage' https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20260212-linus-torvalds-rejects-mmc-changes-linux-7/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 18:14:51

• "Since there's a few different versions of Proton it's easy to get confused, so check out what they're for in the GamingOnLinux guide." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/proton-experimental-update-adds-controller-support-to-more-launchers-linux-steamos/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 18:16:08

• Mesa 26.0 Brings Ray Tracing Updates for AMD Radeon on Linux https://videocardz.com/newz/mesa-26-0-open-source-graphics-library-for-linux-releases-significant-imporvmenets-to-raytraicng-on-radeon-gpus    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 18:17:22

• "Mewgenics from Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel is officially out now, and it will absolutely annihilate your free time. Disclosure: a key was provided to GamingOnLinux." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/mewgenics-is-weird-completely-chaotic-and-its-out-now/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 18:18:10

• "What is it? WiVRn is an application that wirelessly streams a virtual reality game to a standalone VR headset from a Linux computer. It's has different levels of support across various Meta Quest headsets, Pico, HTC Vive and others." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/wireless-vr-streaming-levels-up-on-linux-with-the-latest-wivrn-release/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 18:18:31

• Mesa 26.0 Rolls Out, Bringing Major Vulkan And Ray-Tracing Improvements For Radeon GPUs On Linux https://wccftech.com/mesa-26-0-rolls-out-bringing-major-vulkan-and-ray-tracing-improvements-for-radeon-gpus-on-linux/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 18:19:32

• I wanted Windows Notepad on Linux—this app is the closest replacement I’ve found https://www.howtogeek.com/i-wanted-notepad-on-linuxthis-app-is-the-closest-replacement-ive-found/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 18:22:26

• This relies on badly protected PCs or weak passwords https://www.csoonline.com/article/4130967/sshstalker-botnet-brute-forces-its-way-onto-7000-linux-machines.html    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 18:23:54

• ""Completely garbage!" Linus blasts the Linux MMC code update: It can't even compile, and no testing was done at all." https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3680250199322244    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 18:24:27

• How to use your Android phone to master Linux Bash scripts (instead of doomscrolling) https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-bash-scripts-how-to-learn-on-android-device/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 18:26:30

• "The Linux Mint team has published its January report, outlining several improvements and plans to move to a longer development cycle." https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-mint-is-shutting-down-its-shorter-development-cycle/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 18:27:07

• Linux Mint may publish fewer updates a year, but that's not necessarily a bad thing https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-mint-may-publish-fewer-updates-a-year-but-thats-not-necessarily-a-bad-thing/    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 18:27:30

• Windows all-time low https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/spain/#monthly-200902-202602 http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/02/Big_Gains_for_GNU_Linux_in_Spain_This_Year.shtml    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 19:34:51

• Cory Doctorow Explains Richard Stallman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccHbp4U74ho    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 21:04:55

• "Equipment/devices (e.g. laptop, cellphone) which their records believe you still have??" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khc9389d    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 21:21:46

• "The PPM image format is an evolution of the PBM which was monochrome, PPM has RGB colors." gemini://gmi.noulin.net/2026-02-13-ppm-image-format.gmi    

posted Friday, February 13, 2026 at 21:24:22