Roy Schestowitz

• "Lots of people are saying some of those things now, but Stallman was saying them decades ago." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000728    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 02:56:27

• "I once wrote a post about Ursula K. Le Guin's book “The Other Wind,” the volume that concludes the Earthsea cycle. I never published it because I intended to return to the subject, explore it further, reflect on it, perhaps change my mind, perhaps gain new perspectives." gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/glog/2026-02-15-inny-wiatr.gmi    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 03:05:04

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-15.gmi    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 03:06:58

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1917.jpg    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 03:07:20

• "Who remembers Loadbars? The small, humble server load monitoring tool I wrote back in November 2010 as a Perl+SDL project during my first job after graduating from university as a Linux Sysadmin." gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2026-02-15-loadbars-resurrected-from-perl-to-go.gmi    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 03:08:50

• "This article spoils the climaxes of the base Pokémon Scarlet/Violet games, and the climax of the Indigo Disk DLC." gemini://mbox-sys.net/en/gemlog/2026-02-15_headcanon_pokemon_typechart/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 03:09:28

• "X" SEZ is NOT journalism. "Meta says no repeat of last year’s ‘low performer’ job cuts"    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 04:34:21

• Check what is true, not what a malicious, lying (for decades) company CLAIMS.    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 04:34:47

• But it's so much easier to parrot authority, innit?    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 04:35:15

• "Lexmark confirms layoffs in Lexington. Officials won't say how many people let go" (hours ago). This is useful journalism! They TRY to get MORE info. IBM proxy/offshoot says no! So they report: "Officials won't say how many people let go"    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 04:36:29

• This is what all journalists should do, get the information the companies try to hide; when they refuse, find out what's happening or report the companies HIDING this info. That's how society can progress towards answers.    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 04:37:31

• Slopfarms lowered the _Expected Quality_ of journalism. If you "compete" with trash, you might end up becoming trash.    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 04:38:10

• China grows while Europe slows in South American EV market https://www.dw.com/en/china-grows-while-europe-slows-in-south-american-ev-market/a-75718939    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 04:40:25

• Berlin airport halts takeoffs, landings for second day https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-airport-halts-takeoffs-landings-for-second-day/a-75832931    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 04:40:56

• Washington Post publisher resigns after job cut uproar https://www.dw.com/en/washington-post-publisher-resigns-after-job-cut-uproar/a-75858162    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 04:41:41

• Collapsing Empire: US Bows To African Revolutionaries https://scheerpost.com/2026/02/08/collapsing-empire-us-bows-to-african-revolutionaries/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 04:44:29

• Former Nuance Communications employee facing more charges in 2023 Geisinger data breach case https://www.pennlive.com/news/2026/02/man-accused-in-2023-geisinger-data-breach-case-faces-more-charges.html    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 04:48:09

• Don’t panic: 0apt’s listings and data leaks are fakes — Researchers https://databreaches.net/2026/02/04/dont-panic-0apts-listings-and-data-leaks-are-fakes-researchers/?pk_campaign=feed&pk_kwd=dont-panic-0apts-listings-and-data-leaks-are-fakes-researchers    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 04:48:48

• Hiring blindly instead of quotas https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/university-of-alberta-removes-edi-from-hiring-policy-9.7076210    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 04:49:42

• Two Ivy League universities had donor information breaches. Will donors be notified? https://databreaches.net/2026/02/04/two-ivy-league-universities-had-donor-information-breaches-will-donors-be-notified/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 04:51:04

• Proprietary TCO. Nitrogen’s ransomware can’t be decrypted — even by Nitrogen https://www.pcgamer.com/software/security/new-ransomware-spotted-with-a-coding-mistake-that-means-even-the-hackers-cant-decrypt-the-files/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 04:52:00

• Announcing NetBSD 11.0 RC1 https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/NetBSD_11_0_RC1_available.shtml https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12725    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 04:56:33

• Last updated February 2, 2025, i.e. over a year ago https://stallmansupport.org/updates.html    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 04:57:25

• about stenography: "The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology" https://karlbode.com/the-press-is-still-propping-up-elon-musks-supergenius-engineer-mythology/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 05:23:46

• The media knows that writing absurd things can get more "hits"    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 05:24:16

• The issue is, this media values clicks or ad revenue, not credibility    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 05:24:37

• Buying credibility is hard, even if you pay a million bucks to harass critics https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/28/When_the_Business_Goal_is_to_Protect_the_Image_of_Criminals_Fro.shtml    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 05:25:13

• Too late? https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/how-to-protect-the-2026-elections-from-donald-trump    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 05:26:15

• Apple's "maps" drove you off cliffs https://www.maketecheasier.com/dont-trust-apple-weather-for-forecasts/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 05:27:13

• "Apple Health+ canceled: Why Apple is giving up on its all-in-one health coach"    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 05:27:33

• As if Tim Crook et al care about your health...    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 05:27:54

• Jimmy Lai, 6 Apple Daily execs to be sentenced in Hong Kong’s biggest media trial https://cpj.org/2026/02/jimmy-lai-6-apple-daily-execs-to-be-sentenced-in-hong-kongs-biggest-media-trial/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 05:28:23

• Matthew J. Garrett Has Just Sent a Threat to Put My Wife and I in Prison Because His Own Spouse Says He's a Rapist http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/11/Matthew_J_Garrett_Has_Just_Sent_a_Threat_to_Put_My_Wife_and_I_i.shtml    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 05:28:51

• blackmoreops covers WINDOWS now? https://www.blackmoreops.com/how-to-install-ollama-on-a-different-drive-in-windows/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 05:29:32

• It does seem to have defected to Microsoftism https://www.blackmoreops.com/how-to-access-ollama-from-another-pc-on-your-local-network/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 05:30:13

• How to Break Up with Your Phone https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/how-to-break-up-with-your-phone take a hammer. break it!    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 05:31:05

• DMCA notice to SuspectFile is refute ttps://databreaches.net/2026/02/06/legal-threat-dmca-notice-to-suspectfile-is-refuted-but-it-never-should-have-happened/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:05:22

• Hong Kong plans to revive privacy law requiring firms to report data breaches https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3342754/hong-kong-plans-revive-privacy-law-mandating-firms-report-data-breaches    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:05:56

• Some good news: downstream victims of mass data theft campaigns are less likely to pay — incident responders https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/victims-are-rebuffing-ransomware-mass-data-theft-campaigns-a-30676    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:06:43

• Romania’s oil pipeline operator confirms cyberattack as hackers claim data theft https://therecord.media/romania-conpet-oil-pipeline-ransomware-attack    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:07:19

• Hospital employee snooped in 98 patient records, Saskatchewan privacy commissioner finds https://www.swiftcurrentonline.com/articles/hospital-employee-snooped-in-98-patient-records-privacy-commissioner-finds    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:08:17

• Several Dutch agencies suffer major data breach https://en.apa.az/europe/several-dutch-agencies-suffer-major-data-breach-491025    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:08:53

• measles https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/measles-unvaccinated-public-health-advice-9.7080188 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/no-desks-no-strategy-experts-say-government-s-latest-return-to-office-order-ignores-reality-9.7077299    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:18:18

• Most of the world doesn’t require a prescription for birth control. Why do Canadians still need one? https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/canada-prescription-birth-control-9.7074160    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:18:58

• "did you get the epstein?" https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-epstein-barr-virus-triggers-ms-in-some-people/a-75790721    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:21:50

• declines https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/detroit-three-decline-report-9.7071248    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:24:36

• 2026-02-03 [Older] How a new, more sustainable lithium mining process could kick off the industry in Western Canada

   

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:26:11

• How a new, more sustainable lithium mining process could kick off the industry in Western Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/lithium-alberta-mining-brines-9.7068876    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:26:30

• Scientist using dogs in controversial study explains for the first time what was going on https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/scientist-using-dogs-in-controversial-study-explains-for-the-first-time-what-was-going-on-9.7071014    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:30:05

• Nearly 1,300 customers affected by Canada Computers data breach, company says https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-computers-data-breach-scope-9.7074605    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:31:10

• Canada's Carney Wins Admiration Globally but Struggles to Lower Food Costs at Home https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-02-05/canadas-carney-wins-admiration-globally-but-struggles-to-lower-food-costs-at-home    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:31:43

• "do we have to pay extra to get rid of copilot... it is like some sort of std" 3 hours ago in Microsoft Layoffs https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kggtsgsq    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:33:25

• EU seeks self-reliance as US, China dominate defense sector https://www.dw.com/en/eu-seeks-self-reliance-as-us-china-dominate-defense-sector/a-75730393    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:34:47

• Global economy needs nature to thrive https://www.dw.com/en/global-economy-needs-nature-to-thrive/a-75873269    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:36:26

• Hong Kong media dealt blow by Jimmy Lai’s 20-year sentence https://www.dw.com/en/hong-kong-media-dealt-blow-by-jimmy-lai-s-20-year-sentence/a-75876162    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:38:45

• Canada’s Pivot is a Warning to the US and the Entire Alliance System https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/05/canadas-pivot-is-a-warning-to-the-us-and-the-entire-alliance-system/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:39:45

• crypto [sic] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/crypto-mining-hacking-cyber-crime-us-extradition-james-roach-9.7074161    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:40:57

• Rail strike https://www.dw.com/en/spain-rail-strike-begins-as-drivers-protest-safety-failures/a-75871995    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 06:45:21

• "South Korea's copyright agency is recruiting 25 people to monitor foreign-language piracy sites for illegal copies of Korean movies" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/south-korea-seeks-multilingual-talent-to-hunt-down-k-content-piracy/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:04:42

• "Copyright owners increasingly claim more draconian copyright law and policy will fight back against big tech companies." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/copyright-kills-competition/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:05:04

• "It’s important to note that camera manufacturers patent designs all the time, and that it's never a guarantee something will come into fruition." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/lenses/nikon-patent-raises-my-hopes-that-my-favorite-dslr-lens-will-come-to-z-mount-cameras-at-last | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:05:32

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/is-netflix-making-us-stupid/a-75876174 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:06:39

• "Human rights groups have reported that thousands of protesters were killed in Iran." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260214-about-200-000-join-iran-demonstration-in-munich-police-1 | Source: France24    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:07:15

• "One of numerous figures in Iran’s fractious exiled opposition, he was greeted by loud cheers as he arrived." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iranian-protests-europe-munich/33678410.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:07:35

• The Register MS = infantile storytelling about "AI". Disclosure: The Register MS is paid to promote the "AI" Ponzi scheme.    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:09:03

• "Banging drums and chanting for regime change" ☛ https://www.timesofisrael.com/200000-rally-against-irans-regime-in-munich-as-pahlavi-urges-global-day-of-action/ | Source: The Times Of Israel    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:09:27

• "Thanks to AI [sic], white-collar workers are discovering what blue-collar workers learned a half-century ago: they’re disposable." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/02/class-white-collar-workers-ai-capitalism/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:10:16

• "During the same period, the number of injured civilians has been recorded at 25,845; total arrests at 53,845 cases; student arrests at 141 cases" ☛ https://www.en-hrana.org/day-49-of-the-protests-unidentified-bodies-and-the-continued-judicial-case-building/ | Source: Human rights Activists News Agency    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:16:03

• "made untruthful statements under oath" ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/perjury-probe-into-ice-testimonies-marks-latest-shooting-where-evidence-contradicts-trump-officials-101771032707714.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:16:21

• "ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion to acquire warehouses across the country and turn them into large-scale immigrant detention centers" ☛ https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/13/ice-to-open-second-tennessee-immigrant-detention-center-in-lebanon/ | Source: Tennessee Lookout    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:17:31

• "if it were to be found that ICE agents are out there essentially" ☛ https://northdakotamonitor.com/2026/02/13/north-dakota-has-an-anti-mask-law-could-it-apply-to-ice-agents/ | Source: North Dakota Monitor    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:17:45

• "Here’s the truth: As written, the SAVE Act would require documentary proof of citizenship — a passport, birth certificate, naturalization certificate" ☛ https://nevadacurrent.com/2026/02/13/if-you-like-chaos-with-your-disenfranchisement-youll-love-the-us-save-act-and-nv-voter-id-combo/ | Source: Nevada Current    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:19:20

• "These people are showing up voluntarily, to do the responsible thing, to show up for their court hearing" ☛ https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/02/13/ice-making-arrests-in-matheson-courthouse-utah/ | Source: Utah News Dispatch    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:19:31

• "sworn testimony provided by two separate officers" ☛ https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/13/ice-minneapolis-shooting-assault-00780839 | Source: Politico LLC    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:22:43

• "JV: It’s a news aggregating platform." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/ice-map-rice-university-students/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:23:06

• "A total of 53,344 arrests have been recorded, of which 139 involve students." ☛ https://www.en-hrana.org/day-48-of-the-protests-ongoing-arrests-un-warning-and-rising-number-of-forced-confessions/ | Source: Human rights Activists News Agency    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:24:29

• "Iran’s government most likely tracked the protesters through location data emitting from their phones, researchers later concluded." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/iran-protests-surveillance-facial-recognition.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:24:46

• "Journalists in the Chinese finance hub told AFP they were already operating within political “red lines” since the demise of outlets like Apple Daily." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/14/hong-kong-journalists-face-precarious-future-after-jimmy-lai-jailed/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:25:17

• "All these articles and videos bring in the views despite lacking the substance implied by either their publisher or, in the case of these video interviews, their length and serious tone." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ceo-said-a-thing/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:25:31

• "There's a few rules for this brand of journalism. One, you can't include any useful context that might shed helpful light on whether what the executive is saying is true." ☛ https://karlbode.com/the-press-is-still-propping-up-elon-musks-supergenius-engineer-mythology/ |    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:25:46

• "Lemon, independent journalist Georgia Fort, and seven others were indicted on charges of Conspiracy Against Right of Religious Freedom, 18 USC § 241, and with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, 18 U.S.C. § 248(a)(2)." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/journalist-don-lemon-pleads-not-guilty-in-minnesota-first-amendment-case/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:26:23

• "ensure that the people who protect and serve our commonwealth every day can do so without any interference, any impediments" ☛ https://kentuckylantern.com/2026/02/12/advancing-bill-would-criminalize-harassing-law-enforcement-ice-agents-and-medics/ | Source: Kentucky Lantern    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:26:55

• "Despite dropping the appeal, the administration continues investigating the UC system and other campuses as part of its campaign to reshape higher education." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-02-13/trump-drops-appeal-of-court-order-blocking-uc-ucla-settlement | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:27:10

• This soon turns a year old https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Brett_Wilson_LLP_Reported_to_the_Solicitors_Regulation_Authorit.shtml    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:27:51

• "‘We know where you live.’" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/us/minneapolis-ice-agents-protester-home-visits.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:28:10

• "The free-speech-as-highest-good view also misunderstands the purpose of free speech in a free society at an even more fundamental level." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-02-13/free-speech-1st-amendment-charlie-kirk | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:28:32

• "I was never informed of the acts of misconduct that I allegedly committed before or during the meeting" ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/13/student-who-launched-petition-urging-probe-into-deadly-tai-po-fire-says-cuhk-expelled-him-weeks-before-graduation/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:29:06

• "While students began gathering on the North Campus to protest, riot police units were seen positioned at the campus gate." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/student-access-blocked-police-deployed-ahead-of-erdogan-s-visit-to-bogazici-university-316695 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:29: 22

• "An Iranian dissident journalist, Kaveh Taheri, was arrested by Turkish police on 26 January and sent to a deportation centre." ☛ https://spectator.com/article/why-erdogan-wants-to-help-iran/ |    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:29:42

• "Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/russia-poisoned-alexei-navalny-with-dart-frog-toxin-european-nations-say/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:30:03

• "Representatives of five countries — the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany, and the Netherlands" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/02/14/russia-killed-opposition-leader-alexey-navalny-using-a-rare-dart-frog-toxin-european-countries-say | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:30:18

• "Normally, the NPF backs improvements on park lands, such as habitat restoration and trail renovation." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-250th-anniversary-america/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:32:19

• "The Temple of War: People and Ideas That Made the Russian Invasion Possible" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/02/13/putin-s-temple-of-war-was-just-the-beginning-russia-is-building-churches-mosques-and-even-underground-chapels-to-convince-the-nation-that-the-invasion-of-ukraine-is-sacred | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:32:34

• "The CIA’s Chinese-language video, published on the agency’s YouTube channel on Thursday, appears to target disaffected officers and appeals for information on China’s leaders and armed forces." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/14/beijing-vows-measures-after-cia-chinese-language-recruitment-ad/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:32:47

• old: "Inside Modern Intel Architecture W W/ Bill Binney & Dr. Katherine Horton" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=hSTodbDwXxk good: bill binney is still around; bad: the content of his warnings    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:33:17

• "Grafana Labs sells an observability platform based on the open-source Grafana project." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/13/grafana-labs-reportedly-raising-funding-9b-valuation/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:33:57

• "The State-run transport undertaking had called for tender for retrofitting old diesel buses into electric buses on September 15, 2025." ☛ https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/telangana-begins-retrofitting-diesel-buses-to-electric-for-greener-transport/article70629530.ece | Source: The Hindu    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:34:27

• "the administration’s move may well backfire. Legal experts say that regulating carbon dioxide is well-supported by the text of the Clean Air Act" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trump-just-killed-the-epas-ability-to-fight-climate-change/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:35:00

• "Without enough males to sustain breeding, population growth could quickly vanish, though it’s hard to predict when this tipping point could arrive." ☛ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sea-turtle-population-collapse | Source: Science News    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:35:19

• "The endangerment finding was rooted in an overwhelming body of scientific evidence that illustrates how greenhouse gases threaten public health" ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2026/02/13/rep-dingell-calls-endangerment-finding-repeal-unlawful-promises-to-fight-in-congress/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:35:35

• "That “slackening” includes the elimination of federal consumer carbon pricing, the conclusion of green home retrofit funding and the cancellation of the oil and gas emissions cap, the report says." ☛ https://www.theenergymix.com/canada-not-on-track-to-hit-net-zero-by-2050-or-meet-any-climate-targets-study/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:36:01

• "The changes could alter the interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere, disrupt major ocean circulation systems that help regulate climates around the world, and potentially affect marine ecosystems." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-02-ocean-saltiest-regions-freshening-circulation.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:36:22

• "The scramble for copper exposes geopolitical rivalries as industrial heavyweights -- including China, the United States, Canada, Europe, India and Gulf states -- compete to secure supplies." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/world-copper-rush-promises-new-riches-for-zambia-1472101019 | Source: RTL    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:36:39

• "The millions of documents recently (and chaotically) released by the Department of Justice have left Americans reading myriad e-mails and text messages that seem to describe" ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/the-epstein-files-reveal-what-trump-knew | Source: New Yorker    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:37:40

• "A blogger in Siberia faces criminal charges after posting a video documenting unsanitary conditions at a morgue, according to a lawyer familiar with the case." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/02/14/a-russian-blogger-documented-horrific-conditions-at-a-local-morgue-and-police-promptly-beat-him-up-and-threw-him-in-jail | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:37:51

• Law firms that exist to help criminals attack the reports of crimes should not exist. They are, in effect, participating in crimes and cover-up thereof.    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:38:31

• "The folks behind Jmail are at it again with a clone of Wikipedia that turns the treasure trove of data in Epstein’s emails into detailed dossiers on his associates." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/879508/jikipedia-epstein-email-encyclopedia | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:38:43

• "This hidden figure is said to possess intricate knowledge of the mechanisms Epstein used to manipulate power structures." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mysterious-figure-behind-epstein-legacy-1779031 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:39:36

• "have been at an impasse for months on a compromise plan that could replace the river’s operating guidelines set to expire at the end of 2026." ☛ https://nevadacurrent.com/2026/02/13/colorado-river-states-miss-deadline-compromise-nowhere-in-sight/ | Source: Nevada Current    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:40:27

• "try to impose a long-term solution" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-02-13/states-miss-colorado-river-deadline | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:40:44

• "The statement said major social media platforms would be urged to establish task forces, strengthen staffing and increase online inspections, particularly during the upcoming nine-day holiday." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/13/china-cracks-down-on-anti-marriage-social-media-content-during-lunar-new-year-holiday/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:41:00

• "According to TikTok, the Local Feed is intended to help users stay connected to their local community, showing posts based on location," ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/12/tiktok-us-precise-location-local-feed/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:41:48

• "The new feature also ties into TikTok’s push to attract small businesses to its app, not only as content producers but as advertisers." ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/tiktok-launches-an-opt-in-local-feed-in-the-u-s-leveraging-users-precise-location/ | Source: TechCrunch    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:42:14

• "Few Democratic politicians have leaned into the fight against the Trump administration as aggressively as Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker." ☛ https://www.vox.com/podcasts/479187/jb-pritzker-ice-illinois-2028-herndon | Source: Vox    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:47:39

• "As a result, SAVE has made persistent mistakes, particularly in assessing the status of people born outside the U.S." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/dhs-system-for-confirming-voter-citizenship-is-making-widespread-mistakes/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:47:52

• "It’s good that the federal occupation of Minnesota is ending. But the Trump administration shouldn’t be allowed to pretend it never happened." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/02/ice-minnesota-trump-noem-justice/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:48:14

• "A Ukrainian cyber unit claims it tricked Russian soldiers into revealing their positions and donating money to Ukraine's Armed Forces" ☛ https://kyivindependent.com/using-starlink-ruse-ukrainian-cyber-forces-trick-russian-soldiers-into-revealing-positions-donating-to-armed-forces/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:48:52

• "While the Beijing-based company has been embroiled in a range of legal and privacy rows linked to the social media app for years" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/all-in-on-ai-what-tiktok-creator-bytedance-did-next-1276315090 | Source: RTL    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:49:09

• "Why is Discord even pushing for age verification to begin with?" ☛ https://soatok.blog/2026/02/14/is-end-to-end-encryption-optional-for-large-groups/ | Source: Dhole Moments    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:49:59

• "How To Hunt Down Someone Who Wanted An Abortion." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/cops-criticize-flock-safety-after-its-caught-handing-out-access-to-federal-agencies/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:50:36

• "teen-appropriate experience" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/discord-voluntarily-pushes-mandatory-age-verification-despite-recent-data-breach | Source: EFF    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:50:51

• "And sure, you could argue, that wouldn’t be an issue if you simply use the company’s devices on your porch. Not even that’s a safe bet, however." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ring-cameras-surveillance-privacy | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:52:49

• "A commercial about a lost dog being reunited with his family ignited concerns that a “Search Party” feature posed privacy risks. Ring parted ways with the tech company Flock Safety." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/business/amazon-ring-flock-partnership-super-bowl.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:53:04

• "Maybe this doesn't sound so bad to you; after all, if they lose out on tracking that generates money, they should be compensated, right?" ☛ https://blog.avas.space/pay-or-ok/ | Source: Ava    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:53:23

• "For one, it is still considering the scope of which faces its glasses ought to recognize: [...]" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-ray-bans-facial-recognition/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:53:39

• "Ring maintains a Community Requests program with another major police surveillance tech company called Axon." ☛ https://therecord.media/ring-ends-partnership-with-flock-superbowl-ad | Source: The Record    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:53:54

• "influencers across social media have been claiming that Ring is providing a direct link to ICE." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:54:16

• "Since late 2025, the State Department had acquired about 7,000 Starlink terminals, the WSJ said, citing U.S. officials." ☛ https://www.telesurenglish.net/u-s-secretly-sent-6000-starlink-terminals-to-iran/ | Source: teleSUR    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:54:51

• "That makes the whole picture even more challenging" ☛ https://therecord.media/nato-must-impost-costs-russia-china-cyber-hybrid-deputy-secretary | Source: The Record    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:55:41

• "Threat actors are exploiting security gaps to weaponize Windows drivers and terminate security processes in targeted networks, and there may be no easy fixes in sight." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/microsoft-under-pressure-defenses-byovd-attacks | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:55:55

• "Europe’s power grids, hospitals, financial systems, satellites and military command networks are all deeply dependent on digital infrastructure — and increasingly exposed, she warned." ☛ https://therecord.media/eu-cyber-critical-infrastructure-tech | Source: The Record    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:56:09

• "If adopted and released to the public, it would violate the privacy rights of millions of people and cost the company billions of dollars in legal battles." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/seven-billion-reasons-facebook-abandon-its-face-recognition-plans | Source: EFF    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:56:41

• "This means that You Tube is no longer accessible in Russia. The WhatsApp domain has also disappeared from Roskomnadzor's servers." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/youtube-whatsapp-blocked-in-russia/a-75940102 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:56:53

• "Meta Russia had already been designated as an extremist organisation, and WhatsApp had complained about what it said was an attempt to fully block its service." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/russia-bans-whatsapp/277633/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:57:07

• "Social media harms continue to top the political agenda, as eight countries – Spain, France, Denmark, Italy, Greece, Finland, Germany, and the United Kingdom" ☛ https://peoplevsbig.tech/press-release-eu-polling/ |    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:57:24

• "Authorities have seized assets worth 7 million dollars. The operation marks the first time that the revenue earned through adult content is deemed proceeds of crime." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/sixteen-detained-over-laundering-onlyfans-income-316680 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:57:38

• "The throughline there, Wenner said on Semafor’s Mixed Signals podcast" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/02/12/2026/rolling-stone-scion-on-investing-in-track-star-and-the-anti-algorithmic-future-of-music-media | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:57:54

• "This isn’t an unprecedented move, but it raises concerns about the future of the early-[Internet] staple. How will it maintain its human-powered identity amid AI’s chokehold on the [Internet]?" ☛ https://www.vox.com/culture/478731/wikipedia-ai-meta-amazon-elon-musk-tiktok | Source: Vox    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:58:30

• "Too many players have mistaken the AI boom for a chance to buy credibility rather than to build capability." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/02/13/2026/the-ai-bubble-will-burst-the-middle-east-isnt-ready | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:59:06

• "“We’re going to roll out agentic AI,” State Department CIO Kelly Fletcher said Thursday during the FedScoop-produced GDIT Emerge event in Washington, D.C. “We’re going to continue to embed AI in our systems.”" ☛ https://fedscoop.com/state-department-agentic-ai-statechat-chatbots/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 09:59:42

• "Last fall, I wrote about how the fear of AI was leading us to wall off the open [Internet] in ways that would hurt everyone." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/news-publishers-are-now-blocking-the-internet-archive-and-we-may-all-regret-it/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:00:06

• "Conversations about AI’s impact mainly focus on efficiency and scale or on policy and ethics." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/13/guest-post-the-human-heart-of-science-navigating-ai-anxiety-in-the-academic-world/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:00:18

• "Charlie is joined by Stu Mackenzie, the front man of the prolific Australian band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, to talk about making music in the algorithmic age." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/02/is-ai-ruining-music/685992/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:00:33

• "At first, I thought it was a mistake. I tried different browsers, devices and networks. I cleared the cache, reinstalled the app and even changed the settings back and forth. Nothing helped." ☛ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04064-7 | Source: Nature    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:00:46

• "Blundering Husband Asks Claude AI to "Organize" Wife's PC, Accidentally Erases Her Cherished Family Photos" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-wife-photos | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:01:31

• "According to analyses by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) institute, prices for these chips rose by 50% last year" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/ai-chip-shortage-semiconductor-industry-smartphone-prices-apple-iphone-samsung/a-75925338 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:01:47

• "Lenovo has warned about mounting pressure on PC shipments as a worsening memory-chip shortage grips the industry." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/chip-shortage-hits-pcs-as-ai-swallows-the-worlds-memory-supply/277618/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:02:02

• "You might think making rules requires knowledge, even expertise, and checking the facts on the ground. But the heads of the DOT don’t have time for that nonsense: [...]" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/13/lets-vibe-regulate-us-transport-with-gemini/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:02:16

• "William Gibson is, again, right: The future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed." ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/02/14/1500 | Source: Rui Carmo    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:02:28

• "The usual argument goes like this. Agents exercise discretion. They interpret ambiguous input. They pick tools. They sequence actions." ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1129 | Source: Unmitigated Risk    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:02:57

• "The alliance ​includes companies such as Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Alphabet's ​Google, India's Reliance Jio Platforms" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-ericsson-lead-global-tech-alliance-for-digital-trust/articleshow/128316750.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:03:22

• "criminalizing abortion as murder and drawing strong condemnation from human rights groups" ☛ https://www.telesurenglish.net/puerto-rico-criminalizes-abortion/ | Source: teleSUR    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:03:56

• "Factorial experiments are very common in agriculture and they are usually laid down to test for the significance of interactions between experimental factors." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/02/testing-for-interactions-in-nonlinear-regression/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:04:08

• "A deep dive into automating Cigna's claims portal with AI and browser automation, and how the technical struggles revealed accessibility failures that likely violate federal law." ☛ https://www.provos.org/p/had-to-write-a-script-to-submit-to-cigna/ | Source: Niels Provos    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:04:23

• "When Professor Farber started his career in the mid-1950s, at Bell Laboratories, computers were practically islands unto themselves." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/technology/david-farber-dead.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:04:55

• "Just within the past year we’ve accomplished some major financial milestones that makes all of this possible." ☛ https://initialcharge.net/2026/02/all-in-family/ | Source: Mike Rockwell    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:05:08

• "One star, dubbed M31-2014-DS1, stood out like a sore thumb — brightening in 2015, fading roughly a year later, and eventually disappearing from view, even in optical light." ☛ https://futurism.com/space/star-disappear-black-hole | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:06:01

• "At work, I forked an old package that converts .tex files to WordPress-compatible HTML and updated it to generate modern Gutenberg markup for the WordPress block editor." ☛ https://cagrimmett.com/2026/02/13/latex-to-gutenberg-conversion/ | Source: Chuck Grimmett    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:06:13

• "Now, a new mathematical study suggests that an unusual state of matter known as a time crystal could offer a more stable and potentially simpler way to measure time." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/time-crystals-replace-quantum-clocks | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:06:42

• "world's foremost historians on Abraham Lincoln, while his knowledge of the American Civil War was among the most extensive in academia." ☛ https://telex.hu/english/2026/02/12/hungarian-born-historian-who-became-expert-on-lincoln-has-died | Source: Telex (Hungary)    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:07:29

• "most of the advice in Andrea's post is correct and reasonable, and we should do more of it" ☛ https://www.jmduke.com/posts/how-id-grow-buttondown.html | Source: Justin Duke    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:07:52

• "DNS queries seem like a more reliable indication of the popularity of your favorite Linux distro than Distrowatch’s infamous ranking." ☛ https://blog.paranoidpenguin.net/2026/02/a-look-at-the-traffic-originating-from-my-tor-exit-relays/ | Source: Roger Comply    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:17:20

• "The below is transcribed from a 1991 talk by John Cleese titled Creativity in Management. I encourage you to watch the 30-minute recording on YouTube." ☛ https://timotijhof.net/posts/2026/john-cleese-on-creativity-transcript/ | Source: Timo Tijhof    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:17:44

• "One that keeps haunting me is “Honor thy error as a hidden intention”, which basically boils down to taking a “mistake” and seeing where it leads you if you had meant to do it." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/honor-thy-error/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:18:20

• "It doesn’t dive deep into emojis but focuses more on text encoding. Some facts, for example, about Hangul encoding were new to me." ☛ https://victor.kropp.name/blog/2026/utf-8-explained/ | Source: Victor Kropp    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:24:30

• "When designing and producing Raspberry Pi devices, we consider as many potential use cases as possible" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/certifying-third-party-antennas-for-use-with-raspberry-pi-compute-modules/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:24:44

• "There is an open issue asking to revert this change." ☛ https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2026-02-14-fish-shell-delete-behavior.html | Source: Data Swamp    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:25:17

• "RubyGems, PyPI, crates.io, Hex, Hackage, CRAN, and LuaRocks all use flat namespaces: one global pool of names, first-come-first-served. You pick a name, and if nobody has it, it’s yours." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/14/package-management-namespaces.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:26:04

• "As a maintainer of several OneBusAway projects, I regularly ask contributors to rebase their branches before merging. The response is often hesitation or outright fear." ☛ https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/01/git-rebase-for-the-terrified/ |    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:26:22

• "Pystd is an experiment on what a C++ standard library without any backwards compatibility requirements would look like. Its design goals are in order of decreasing priority: [...]" ☛ https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/02/whats-cooking-with-pystd-experimental-c.html | Source: Jussi Pakkanen    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:26:37

• "What do you think the output of the var_dump at the top of the code snippet will be? I'll give you a little bit to work this out in your head." ☛ https://svenluijten.com/articles/understanding-php-yield-and-yield-from-directives | Source: Sven Luijten    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:26:56

• "Where do great research ideas come from in computer science education?" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/embodied-machine-learning-from-research-ideas-to-classroom-activities/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:27:25

• "I didn't have the guts to replace my main blog at baty.net yet. Too much work." ☛ https://baty.blog/the-all-new-batyblog | Source: Jack Baty    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:27:57

• "Static blogs using Markdown files are great, but I like to post a lot of images, and SSGs make that more difficult." ☛ https://baty.blog/blog-management-fatigue | Source: Jack Baty    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:28:16

• "Miniflux is a minimalist, open-source RSS feed reader that you can host yourself." ☛ https://christiano.dev/post/self_hosted_rss/ | Source: Christiano Anderson    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:28:57

• "As a practical thing, if you want people using blocked syndication feed readers to have a chance to see your explanation" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/FeedReaderErrorsProblem | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:29:12

• "Logseq won me over by fixing the exact issues that started to frustrate me in Google Keep." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/i-thought-google-keep-enough-until-i-tried-open-source-app/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:30:13

• "The first Mobile Progress Report of 2026 provides a high-level overview to our mobile plans and priorities for the coming year." ☛ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/02/mobile-progress-report-february-2026/ | Source: Thunderbird    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:31:23

• "In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to run faster, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor chip." ☛ https://www.righto.com/2026/02/8087-instruction-decoding.html | Source: Ken Shirriff    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:32:28

• "ST’s VL53L5CX is a very small 8×8 grid ranging sensor that can perform distance measurements at a distance of up to 4 meters." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/real-time-3d-room-mapping-with-esp32-vl53l5cx-sensor-and-imu/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:32:39

• "According to the Robotera website, the L7 features 55 degrees of freedom, the number of independent movements a robot can make. Its arm features seven degrees of freedom, while its hand alone is said to boast 12." ☛ https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/robot-sword-china | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:32:54

• "This was purely an experiment for the lolz. Here’s what I did and why you shouldn’t." ☛ https://blog.hofstede.it/rhel-on-zfs-root-an-unholy-experiment/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:33:38

• "I recently upgraded my servers to FreeBSD 15, and as part of it, I reinstalled all the packages." ☛ https://www.ncartron.org/fixing-baikal-not-working-anymore-after-upgrading-to-freebsd-15.html | Source: Nico Cartron    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:36:26

• "Pentium III is i686. Debian is not doing 32 bit no more. The machine is low on resources, so looking at alternatives." ☛ https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/openbsd-on-a-very-old-laptop/ | Source: Darren Goossens    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:36:51

• "Today I ran across another article that talked in passing about "retained mode"" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/RepaintModeGUI | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:38:53

• "For all the abilities of modern Linux, there are some apps – especially paid commercial ones – that still require Windows." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/14/winapps_and_winboat/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:39:19

• "The LMS7002M supports dual-channel transmit and receive paths with channel bandwidths from 0.5 MHz to 90 MHz." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/xsdr-packs-2x2-mimo-artix-7-fpga-and-3-8-ghz-tuning-into-m-2-2230-form-factor/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:40:50

• "On the compute side, RK3576 combines quad Cortex-A72 cores clocked up to 2.2GHz with quad Cortex-A53 cores up to 1.8GHz." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/bit-brick-k1-pro-adds-6-tops-npu-and-dual-nvme-to-compact-sbc/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:41:17

• Opinion poll: 47% want to ban X | "Opinionsundersökning: 47% vill förbjuda X" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/02/13/opinionsundersokning-47-vill-forbjuda-x/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:42:53

• "Sweden proposes making gang [sic] membership a jailable offence" https://www.thelocal.se/20260213/sweden-proposes-making-gang-membership-a-jailable-offence    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:43:07

• "Ditching Ultralytics: Training YOLOX for Aircraft Detection - Austin's Nerdy Things" https://austinsnerdythings.com/2026/02/13/training-yolox-aircraft-detection-mit-license/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:43:21

• "Vladimir Putin is trapped in a war he cannot win but dare not end" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/vladimir-putin-is-trapped-in-a-war-he-cannot-win-but-dare-not-end/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:43:36

• Fighting causes instead of prohibitions | "Social-Media-Debatte: Ursachenbekämpfung statt Verbote" https://netzpolitik.org/2026/social-media-debatte-ursachenbekaempfung-statt-verbote/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:44:21

• iophk: the _*cost*_ to move such an enormous fleet back and forth that far is obscene ... economic and environmental https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-military/2026/02/13/uss-gerald-ford-the-second-aircraft-carrier-sent-to-middle-east-report/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:44:48

• "Donald Trump Threatens To Order Election Reforms Ahead Of Midterms" https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trump-threatens-to-order-election-reforms-ahead-of-midterms-11001834#publisher=newsstand    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:45:04

• hindustantimes running spam and ads for child sex trafficking supporters, disgraceful to say the least https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/bill-gates-to-visit-mumbai-to-sign-mou-and-review-malaria-eradication-efforts-101771010602922.html http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/The_Epstein_Files_Don_t_Say_the_Ages_of_Those_Russian_Girls_Bil.shtml    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:46:01

• "‘Reduced to atoms’: The devastating 1945 Allied bombing campaign in Dresden" https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2026/02/13/reduced-to-atoms-the-devastating-1945-allied-bombing-campaign-in-dresden/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:46:16

• "Trump’s DOJ Tried to Indict Democratic Lawmakers. A Grand Jury Refused." https://www.vox.com/politics/479064/trump-doj-democrats-indictment-national-guard-ice    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:46:32

• "Thomas Massie tried to defund kill switches in cars & Congress voted against him" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/thomas-massie-tried-to-defund-kill:d    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 10:46:47

• A Love Letter to the Beating Heart ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/opinion/heart-romance-health-organ.html    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:09:30

• GNOME 49.4 Released with Improvements for Nautilus, GNOME Shell, and Mutter ☞ https://9to5linux.com/gnome-49-4-released-with-improvements-for-nautilus-gnome-shell-and-mutter    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:11:57

• REMnux 8 GNU/Linux Toolkit for Malware Analysis Is Out to Celebrate 15th Anniversary ☞ https://9to5linux.com/remnux-8-linux-toolkit-for-malware-analysis-is-out-to-celebrate-15th-anniversary    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:12:06

• Vim 9.2 Is Out with Comprehensive Completion, Wayland Support, and More ☞ https://9to5linux.com/vim-9-2-is-out-with-comprehensive-completion-wayland-support-and-more    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:12:15

• Google Promoting Slop, Not Journalism ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Google_Promoting_Slop_Not_Journalism.shtml    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:17:17

• Vim 9.2 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1058744/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:19:16

• FreeBSD 14.4-BETA2 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/freebsd    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:21:16

• Earth on Track to Become Uninhabitable, Scientists Say ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/earth-uninhabitable-climate-change    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:30:52

• Why Lee Sang-min and Han Duck-soo received such different sentences in S. Korea insurrection cases ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/why-lee-sang-min-and-han-duck-soo-received-such-different-sentences-in-s-korea-insurrection-cases    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:35:22

• South Korea designates general anaesthetic etomidate as narcotic following abuse cases ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-designates-general-anaesthetic-etomidate-as-narcotic-following-abuse-cases    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:35:44

• How one Sarawak farm became Singapore’s sole live pig supplier after 18-year trade ban ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/sarawak-wants-more-pig-farms-even-as-other-malaysian-states-raise-a-stink    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:36:18

• Malaysia’s TB outbreak: 503 new cases recorded ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-tb-outbreak-503-new-cases-recorded    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:36:43

• Malaysia’s frontline cops now equipped with body-worn cameras ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-frontline-cops-now-equipped-with-body-worn-cameras    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:37:30

• Plagiarised videos reposted with false subtitles aimed at stoking anti-Japan sentiment in China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/plagiarised-videos-reposted-with-false-subtitles-aimed-at-stoking-anti-japan-sentiment-in-china    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:37:59

• Japan Releases Chinese Boat Captain After Detaining Him for 30 Hours ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/world/asia/japan-china-boat-captain-release.html    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:38:14

• China top court says drivers responsible despite autonomous technology ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-top-court-says-drivers-responsible-despite-autonomous-technology    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:38:59

• This Week in Science: Mars Molecules, a Cholesterol-Cutting Compound, And More! ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-week-in-science-mars-molecules-a-cholesterol-cutting-compound-and-more    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:42:42

• Valentine's Day: Exchanging Saliva May Help You Fall in Love ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/valentines-day-exchanging-saliva-may-help-you-fall-in-love    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:43:00

• There's One Simple Method to Lower Alcohol Intake, And It Works ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-one-simple-method-to-lower-alcohol-intake-and-it-works    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:43:22

• Spaceflight Can Alter The Position of The Human Brain, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/spaceflight-can-alter-the-position-of-the-human-brain-study-finds    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:44:17

• Scientists Are 'Sniffing' Ancient Egyptian Mummies. Here's Why. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-are-sniffing-ancient-egyptian-mummies-heres-why    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:44:36

• Black Hole May Be '100 Trillion Times' More Powerful Than The Death Star ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/black-hole-may-be-100-trillion-times-more-powerful-than-the-death-star    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:45:12

• Intel fined $3 million by India’s antitrust regulator over discriminatory CPU warranty policy ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-fined-usd3-million-by-indias-antitrust-regulator-over-discriminatory-cpu-warranty-policy-says-intel-abused-its-dominant-position-in-the-boxed-processor-market    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:46:06

• Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-facial-recognition-glasses    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:46:39

• Another Proprietary Chaffbot Company Researcher Just Quit in Disgust ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-researcher-quit-ads    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:47:26

• Thousands Rally for Iran Regime Change in Cities Around the World ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/world/europe/iran-regime-rallies-munich.html    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:48:19

• Rights group finds 50 Morocco companies remain unpaid for Saudi renovation job since 2024 ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/rights-group-finds-50-morocco-companies-remain-unpaid-for-saudi-renovation-job-since-2024/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:49:06

• Budget standoff over immigration shuts down US Department of Homeland Security ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260214-standoff-over-immigration-shuts-down-us-department-of-homeland-security-minneapolis-ice    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:49:52

• Paris police shoot knife attacker ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/paris-police-shoot-knife-attacker    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:50:13

• "NATO has been woken up by Hell Toupée, and it’s stronger because of it" says Mark Rutte ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/t%C3%AAte-%C3%A0-t%C3%AAte/20260214-nato-has-been-woken-up-by-president-trump-and-it-s-stronger-because-of-it-says-mark-rutte    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:50:31

• Updates to My Commenting System ☞ https://kevquirk.com/updates-to-my-commenting-system    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:51:19

• De-mystifying XMPP: Insights from a Mentorship Session ☞ https://shibe-bit.github.io/Learnings/XMPPandHTTP    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:52:27

• Bits from Debian: DebConf 26 Registration and Call for Proposals are open ☞ https://bits.debian.org/2026/02/debconf26-registration-opens.html    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:53:06

• Malaysia’s Bersatu files police reports over official Facebook (Farcebook) page hijacking ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-bersatu-files-police-reports-over-official-facebook-page-hijacking    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:54:18

• X Is In Such Dire Straits That Its Head of Product Says It Can’t Afford to Display the Color Blue ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/twitter-x-color-blue    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:57:03

• Over 300 Malicious Chrome Extensions Caught Leaking or Stealing User Data ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/over-300-malicious-chrome-extensions-caught-leaking-or-stealing-user-data/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:57:22

• MICROSOFT SPAM disguised as "journalism" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/technology/they-are-in-love-but-dont-speak-the-same-language.html    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:58:11

• Microsoft Added Hey Hi (AI) to Notepad and It Created a Security Failure Because the Hey Hi (AI) Was Stupidly Easy for Hackers to Trick ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-added-ai-notepad-security-flaw    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 11:58:49

• Explainer: How national security judges sentenced Jimmy Lai, from health records to foreign collusion ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/15/explainer-how-national-security-judges-sentenced-jimmy-lai-from-health-records-to-foreign-collusion/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:03:45

• Python Mutable References with Caching ☞ https://soumyadghosh.github.io/website/blog/python-mutable-reference-caching/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:04:22

• Deskflow | Seamless Multi-Computer Control ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2026/02/14/deskflow-seamless-multi-computer-control/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:06:21

• China is the real threat, Taiwan says in rebuff to Wang Yi’s Munich speech ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-is-the-real-threat-taiwan-says-in-rebuff-to-munich-speech    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:06:46

• Canada high court affirms constitutional right to travel within the country ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/canada-high-court-affirms-constitutional-right-to-travel-within-the-country/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:08:32

• iFixIt calls BMW’s new anti-consumer security screws 'a logo-shaped middle finger to right to repair,' ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/manufacturing/ifixit-calls-bmws-new-anti-consumer-security-screws-a-logo-shaped-middle-finger-to-right-to-repair-adafruit-3d-prints-a-solution-bmws-connector-reverse-engineered-using-patent-filing-as-a-design-blueprint    

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

• Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent monopoly dispute — Nokia wins patent monopoly ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/acer-and-asus-halt-pc-and-laptop-sales-in-germany-amid-h-264-codec-patent-dispute-nokia-wins-patent-ruling-forcing-tech-giants-to-license-hevc-codec    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:12:15

• Niko Matsakis: Sharing in Dada ☞ https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/02/14/sharing-in-dada/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:15:45

• Life in Beirut Beneath the Drones ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/world/middleeast/beirut-drones-sound-israel-airstrikes.html    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:16:15

• New U.S. Boat Strike Kills 3 in the Caribbean ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/us/politics/boat-strike-kills-3.html    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:16:38

• Android 17 Beta 1 released with H.266/VVC support, camera improvements, and more ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/14/android-17-beta-1-released-with-h-266-vvc-support-camera-improvements-and-more/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:18:16

• Script convert limine.cfg to limine.conf ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/script-convert-liminecfg-to-limineconf.html    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:20:14

• Ubuntu 24.04.4 Released with Kernel 6.17, Mesa 25.2 & Numerous Fixes ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/ubuntu-24-04-4-released-with-kernel-6-17-mesa-25-2-numerous-fixes/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:27:07

• REMnux 8 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/remnux    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:28:03

• Anonymous Threats Against My Wife and Against Yours Truly ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/13/Anonymous_Threats_Against_My_Wife_and_Against_Yours_Truly.shtml    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:28:53

• Will Lockett's Newsletter: Abusive Monopolist Microsoft became Microslop and backdoored Windows users are "flocking" to GNU/Linux "to escape the mess" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Will_Lockett_s_Newsletter_Microsoft_became_Microslop_and_Window.shtml    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:29:05

• Proxmox VE Series Part 2: Installing Proxmox ☞ https://www.linux.org/threads/proxmox-ve-series-part-2-installing-proxmox.59024/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:29:44

• Sidecar – development workflow in one shell ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sidecar-development-workflow-one-shell/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:30:32

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

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:30:45

• Parallelizing Game HEY HI: A Deep Dive into Multi-Threading Libraries for Search Algorithms ☞ https://pavanportfolio.droptools.site/blog/research    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:37:13

• Zelenskyy Calls For Strong Security Guarantees Against 'Slave To War' Putin ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-call-strong-security-guarantees-against-russia-putin/33678350.html    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:37:49

• Steinar H. Gunderson: A286874(15) >= 42 ☞ http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2026-02-14-19-56_a286874_15_42.html    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:38:18

• envx – environment variable manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/envx-environment-variable-manager/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:45:00

• 6 Best Free and Open Source Photo Geotagging Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-photo-geotagging-tools/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:45:15

• Raffi – application launcher ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/raffi-application-launcher/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:45:28

• 5 Useful Free and Open Source TUI Notes Apps ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/useful-free-open-source-tui-notes-apps/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:45:40

• Celebrating “I love Free Software day” ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/14/celebrating-i-love-free-software-day/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:46:14

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

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:47:23

• How To Install Dozzle on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-dozzle-linux-mint-22/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:48:07

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

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:50:36

• Microsoft is Lobbying Brussels via Opensource.org and OSI ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Microsoft_is_Lobbying_Brussels_via_Opensource_org_and_OSI.shtml    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:51:12

• Rise of YouTube politicians tests South Korea’s democratic resilience ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/rise-of-youtube-politicians-tests-south-koreas-democratic-resilience    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:51:36

• Introducing geoboundaries ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/02/introducing-geoboundaries/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:56:42

• Fitting time-to-event models with an environmental covariate ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/02/fitting-time-to-event-models-with-an-environmental-covariate/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:57:04

• Default password for root is "woofwoof" ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/default-password-for-root-is-woofwoof.html    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:57:26

• Limine 10.7.0 patched to support ext4 ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/limine-1070-patched-to-support-ext4.html    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:58:03

• Wget Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/wget/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 12:58:44

• HackerOS is what a GNU/Linux enthusiast’s OS should be ☞ https://thenewstack.io/hackeros-is-what-a-linux-enthusiasts-os-should-be/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:01:42

• Ly – display manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ly-display-manager/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:02:23

• Betula – self-hosted personal link collection manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/betula-self-hosted-personal-link-collection-manager/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:02:37

• Zelensky rules out holding elections until there is a cease-fire with Russia. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/14/world/munich-security-conference-rubio/zelensky-rules-out-holding-elections-until-there-is-a-cease-fire-with-russia    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:03:02

• Roy Medvedev, Soviet Era Historian and Dissident, Is Dead at 100 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/world/europe/roy-medvedev-dead.html    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:03:21

• In Munich, Europe Says It Is ‘De-risking’ From the U.S. Amid Convicted Felon’s Unpredictability ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/world/europe/europe-munich-rubio-russia.html    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:03:40

• Secret documents reveal Russia’s cross-continental disinformation campaign ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260214-secret-documents-reveal-russia-s-cross-continental-disinformation-campaign    

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

• Rubio Reassures Zelenskyy Of US Commitment, But Warns Of 'Hard' Concessions ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/rubio-zelenskyy-ukraine-munich-russia-war/33678813.html    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:04:19

• OpenMeters – audio metering/visualization program ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/openmeters-audio-metering-visualization-program/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:05:19

• Bloop – build server for the Scala programming language ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bloop-build-server-scala/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:05:32

• zond – network mapping and discovery tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/zond-network-mapping-and-discovery-tool/    

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

• Navalny Was Poisoned With Frog Toxin, European Governments Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/world/europe/russia-navalny-poison.html    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:06:25

• Russia Poisoned Navalny With Exotic Frog Toxin, European Countries Say ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/navalny-poison-frog-toxin-death/33678392.html    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:06:46

• Russia fatally 'poisoned' Putin critic Navalny with rare toxin, European states say ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260214-russia-fatally-poisoned-putin-critic-navalny-with-rare-toxin-european-states-say-in-joint-statement    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:07:05

• European states accuse Russia of Navanlny poisoning ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/european-states-accuse-russia-of-navanlny-poisoning    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:07:17

• Russia fatally 'poisoned' Putin critic Navalny with rare toxin, UK says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/russia-fatally-poisoned-putin-critic-navalny-with-rare-toxin-uk-says    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:07:29

• mintCast 478 – The Anti-Windows Cast ☞ https://mintcast.org/478-the-anti-windows-cast/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:08:41

• What Happens When a Megalomaniac Begins to Fail ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/what-happens-when-a-megalomaniac-begins-to-fail    

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

• Google Noise began linking to another slopfarm, https://www.mixvale.com.br    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:26:12

• It says "Reference links researched: https://ubuntu.com/blog https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/ https://9to5linux.com/ " - that means plagiarised not, researched    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:26:57

• "The GNOME Project released GNOME 49.4 today as the fourth point release of the latest GNOME 49 “Brescia” desktop environment series with more bug fixes and improvements." https://9to5linux.com/gnome-49-4-released-with-improvements-for-nautilus-gnome-shell-and-mutter    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:27:16

• "Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat – or WinApps sails a similar course" https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/14/winapps_and_winboat/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:28:50

• Linux 7.0 may receive a self-repairing feature that automatically fixes your XFS filesystem https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-7-0-impressive-self-repairing-feature-fixes-your-filesystem/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:33:54

• $150 Steam Machine: Mining surplus becomes a Linux console with 60 FPS | igor´sLAB ⚓ https://www.igorslab.de/en/150-dollar-steam-machine-mining-clearance-item-becomes-a-linux-console-with-60-fps/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:34:41

• 5 powerful Python one-liners that will make you a better coder https://www.howtogeek.com/cool-one-liners-that-show-how-powerful-python-is/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:36:13

• AerynOS is the atomic Linux distro nobody is talking about https://www.xda-developers.com/aerynos-is-the-atomic-linux-distro-nobody-is-talking-about/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:36:58

• Why my favorite Linux distro is slowing down - and I'm thrilled about it https://www.zdnet.com/article/whats-coming-next-for-linux-mint/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:37:34

• "Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding - “People who go all in on AI agents now are guaranteeing their obsolescence." -- Jeremy Howard" gemini://tobykurien.com/microblog.gmi    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:40:25

• kidnapped https://www.dw.com/en/venezuela-opposition-leader-guanipa-kidnapped-after-release/a-75864364    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 13:49:55

• unemployment rate detached from facts on the ground https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/job-numbers-january-2026-9.7077050    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:00:41

• Arctic highway https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/arctic-highway-melting-permafrost-9.7078353    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:02:27

• international student https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-person-international-student-9.7076884    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:03:23

• geoengineering https://www.dw.com/en/why-scientists-warn-of-privately-funded-geoengineering/a-75716067    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:08:40

• Don't use Microsoft https://www.howtogeek.com/visual-studio-code-is-eating-up-hundreds-of-gigabytes-on-linux/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:13:15

• "Discover the all-in-one Linux toolbox that handles JSON, JWT, Cron, and image conversion in a single, private interface." https://www.howtogeek.com/this-linux-tool-boosted-my-developer-productivity/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:14:22

• "Your workflow is begging for Linux Mint applets." https://www.howtogeek.com/must-have-linux-mint-applets-for-students-and-working-professionals/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:16:03

• "LibreOffice is one of the best alternatives to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, and now it's rolling out a major update. LibreOffice 26.2 has arrived with some new features, compatibility improvements with Microsoft Office, and faster performance." https://www.howtogeek.com/libreoffices-first-big-update-for-2026-has-arrived/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:17:04

• "Nothing beats the command-line when it comes to searching files. Here are some handy commands you can learn to find your files 10X faster." https://www.howtogeek.com/the-fastest-ways-to-find-files-from-the-command-line-on-linux/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:18:30

• "Too many distros are solving the same solved problems, and it’s turning choice into confusion." https://www.howtogeek.com/if-linux-is-going-to-thrive-some-distros-must-go/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:19:09

• "An operating system that's truly mine." https://www.howtogeek.com/tried-replacing-windows-with-linux-mint-heres-how-it-went/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:21:16

• "Linux doesn’t just look different, it ages better, keeps workflows stable, and teaches skills that carry across servers, containers, and VMs." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-advantages-you-only-notice-after-you-switch/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:21:54

• "Open source saves money, but it can cost time and energy. After enough broken automations and weird edge cases, I now chase reliability." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-used-to-chase-open-source-purity-but-now-i-chase-reliability/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:25:09

• "Learn the ABCs of BSD." https://www.howtogeek.com/difference-bsd-and-linux/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:25:39

• "A much better experience on modern Linux distributions." https://www.howtogeek.com/wayland-support-is-coming-to-intellij-idea-pycharm-and-other-ides/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:26:01

• "Make your ancient Mac feel new again." https://www.howtogeek.com/installed-ubuntu-on-my-old-macbook-air-and-i-wish-id-done-it-sooner/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:29:47

• "You don't need to live in the Linux terminal." https://www.howtogeek.com/tips-for-using-linux-without-touching-the-command-line/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:30:21

• "Switching between channels and servers should be a bit snappier now." https://www.howtogeek.com/discord-is-getting-a-speed-boost-on-desktop-platforms/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:30:50

• "Did you know you can check the maximum speed of a USB port with one command?" https://www.howtogeek.com/uses-for-the-lsusb-command-on-linux/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:33:21

• "Customizing the bootloader is much easier than you might think. You can download and install community themes with one-line commands." https://www.howtogeek.com/default-grub-looks-so-ugly-heres-how-to-give-it-a-makeover/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:36:39

• "These small distros can have some surprisingly major uses." https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-tiny-linux-distros-are-worth-keeping-on-a-usb-stick/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:37:12

• "Discover the true power of Emacs applications beyond mere text editing. From advanced email workflows to simplistic feed readers, Emacs does it all." https://www.howtogeek.com/emacs-packages-that-replace-everyday-apps-email-notes-to-dos-rss/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:37:46

• "Here's your ticket to make your own retro platform game, right on your Linux desktop." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-to-try-this-weekend-february-6/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:38:10

• "Pull fresh Unsplash wallpapers and rotate them on GNOME automatically with a Python script plus a systemd service and timer." https://www.howtogeek.com/build-a-wallpaper-changer-on-ubuntu-with-python-and-systemd/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:38:51

• "How Linux Mint turns your mouse’s right-click button into the most productive tool." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-mint-isnt-just-for-beginners-and-this-hidden-cinnamon-feature-proves-it/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:39:15

• "Linux Mint has a collection of powerful secret weapons that most people completely ignore." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-mint-cinnamon-spices/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 14:39:54

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 17:09:30

• Windows fell to third place in Macao https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/macao/#monthly-200902-202602 http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/18/Android_With_Linux_Rises_to_Record_Highs_in_Hong_Kong_and_in_Ma.shtml    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 17:09:39

• Firefox measured around 10% in German, an anomaly https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/germany/#monthly-200902-202602 same in France    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 17:38:30

• "We went to an abruce perens is active, but only in Microsoft's LinkedOut it seems, which is... kind of absurd.    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:18:49

• Also in MElon's bad site actually https://x.com/BrucePerens and his own site has been practically offline for weeks    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:21:47

• to the National Gallery for even more art. They have a whole room of Rembrandts!" gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2026-02-15_What_day_was_it_yesterday_.gmi    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:01:34

• On entanglement gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/garden/entanglement    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:03:48

• without being in charge of his own platform, he will be subjected to manipulation    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:22:56

• Immutable Linux distros solve a problem most home users don't have https://www.xda-developers.com/immutable-linux-distros-solve-a-problem-most-home-users-dont-have/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:28:50

• I found a free tool that makes setting up NixOS instances incredibly simple https://www.xda-developers.com/free-tool-makes-easy-set-up-different-nixos-instances/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:29:54

• Steam says a lot of games aren't compatible with Proton, but you can sometimes make them work anyway https://www.xda-developers.com/steam-says-many-games-arent-proton-compatible-but-you-can-make-them-work/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:30:45

• "Because everything is better while it's running in your terminal." https://www.xda-developers.com/this-cool-linux-app-lets-you-play-youtube-music-from-your-terminal/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:33:29

• "It's still good, but not the best." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-mint-isnt-the-answer-for-windows-refugees-anymore/Proxmox is overkill for your first server, and that's exactly why you should learn it https://www.xda-developers.com/proxmox-is-overkill-for-your-first-server-and-you-should-learn-it/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:35:06

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:33:54

• I switched from Arch to something boring, but I still want to switch back https://www.xda-developers.com/switched-from-arch-something-boring-still-want-switch-back/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:36:02

• Proxmox's best feature isn't virtualization; it's the backup system https://www.xda-developers.com/proxmox-best-feature-backups/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:36:56

• Proprietary + Microsoft = https://www.xda-developers.com/nasty-vs-code-snap-bug-devouring-gigabytes-of-storage-not-purging-deleted-files/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:38:14

• "A lot of exciting developments happened in January alone." https://www.xda-developers.com/2026-will-be-the-year-of-gaming-on-linux/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:39:03

• Vanilla OS 2 lets me run Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch apps at the same time https://www.xda-developers.com/vanilla-os-2-lets-run-ubuntu-fedora-arch-and-android-apps-same-time/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:39:46

• "Before Valve brought Proton to light for the Steam Deck, Linux gaming was at the mercy of developers and tools like WINE" https://www.xda-developers.com/nvidia-razer-are-now-taking-linux-more-seriously/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:43:14

• "No more guessing." https://www.xda-developers.com/keeping-an-eye-on-your-laptop-battery-on-cosmic-just-got-a-ton-easier/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:44:12

• "I decided it was time to put my Proxmox box to good use, and create a Linux VM that I could use for these utilities. The result was a cleaner workstation, and tools that work better for my use case." https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-tools-i-replaced-with-a-single-linux-vm/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:45:35

• Linux distros are finally competing on design, and it shows https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distros-finally-competing-design-shows/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:46:42

• In oligarchic societies, money decides outcomes or outcomes lean towards money, gravitate towards what oligarchs demand    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:48:59

• Not quite https://www.xda-developers.com/appimages-are-just-exe-files-for-linux-and-nobody-explains-it-that-simply/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:49:42

• 6 GNOME extensions that made me stop missing Windows entirely https://www.xda-developers.com/gnome-extensions-made-me-stop-missing-windows-entirely/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:50:23

• Promoting Microsoft much? https://www.xda-developers.com/i-let-ai-guide-my-entire-journey-through-switching-from-windows-to-linux/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:51:35

• "It's almost here, too." https://www.xda-developers.com/kde-plasma-660-will-fix-the-most-annoying-part-of-logging-in-with-biometrics/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:52:37

• Anon: "the US is no longer an oligarchy, though it was one for several decades. in January 2025 it pivoted to a kakistocracy and has been gutted to the point it is unlikely to survive long, The Kremlin has heavy business investments in each one of the insiders in the regime, both male and female, but the males are _*all*_ active participants in Epstein's activities."    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:53:28

• "GOG is hitting the ground running with its FOSS support." https://www.xda-developers.com/gog-has-already-started-working-on-linux-gaming-as-it-says-theyre-a-big-fan-of-the-os/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:54:19

• "It also adds some nice tweaks for some handheld consoles." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-619-is-out-now-and-it-gives-old-amd-gpus-a-30-speed-boost/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:54:50

• "It's looking sleek so far." https://www.xda-developers.com/appmanager-is-a-gear-lever-alternative-with-a-macos-aesthetic-and-it-just-hit-version-300/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:55:20

• "Get these apps after booting Linux for first time." https://www.makeuseof.com/open-source-apps-i-install-immediately-after-installing-linux/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:57:33

• "Sorry, but I moved on from Ubuntu, because it frankly doesn't fit me anymore." https://www.makeuseof.com/reasons-im-not-going-back-to-ubuntu/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:57:57

• "Repetition disguised as discipline exposed by a simple Linux command." https://www.makeuseof.com/automated-annoying-daily-linux-tasks-saved-hours-every-week/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 18:58:58

• This free app replaced my entire office suite without any learning curve https://www.makeuseof.com/using-libre-office-instead-of-microsoft-office/    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 19:00:24

• "In my search to replace most of the paid programs on my PC with open-source alternatives, LibreOffice checked all the boxes for things that I needed. It gives me a chance to write and create documents and export them in .docx, pdf, or other Microsoft-accessible file formats."    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 19:01:14

• BrasIRC a new and steadily growing IRC network https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=BrasIRC    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 19:22:23

• "IBM’s job 1 = lower costs no matter what how it impacts the company. So I believe your band 10 was most likely why the computer picked you. (You are expensive vs a new hire (especially if the new hire was in India))" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 19:24:56

• ""Back in the day" (when I was still an employee), dismissals took place quarterly. January, April, July, October...over and over again." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 19:25:19

• "Top performing band 10 and got RA'd went to the office and actually worked on location 3 days a week. I am a white male ... Meanwhile people who go to the office once a month and are on teams meeting all day did not get RA'd. Guess the reason" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 19:26:01

• "Thanks for sending me the location of the device in NYC. Will be "out of town" for a few days." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1    

posted Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 19:26:36