Roy Schestowitz

• "IBM is synonymous with layoff" www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1    

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

• "Layoff Severance negotiation - Has anybody been involved with IBM for severance negotiation during layoff in the united states through an attorney . What is the outcome when the attorney is not successful in getting a bigger package . Does IBM still pay the 3 month severance even if you tried to negotiate through an attorney ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khpvk7zz    

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

• Amazon Scraps Partnership With Surveillance Company After Super Bowl Ad Backlash https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2026-02-13/amazon-scraps-partnership-with-surveillance-company-after-super-bowl-ad-backlash    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 04:25:34

• The Surveillance State Just Bought a Super Bowl Ad https://scheerpost.com/2026/02/13/amazons-ring-and-googles-nest-unwittingly-reveal-the-severity-of-the-u-s-surveillance-state/    

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

• Protesters Demand Amazon Cut Ties With ICE and Palantir https://truthout.org/articles/protesters-demand-amazon-cut-ties-with-ice-and-palantir/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 04:26:37

• The Amazon Imperative: Unions Must Join Forces https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-amazon-imperative-unions-must-join-forces/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 04:27:10

• Does the cold really ‘seep into your bones’? https://theconversation.com/does-the-cold-really-seep-into-your-bones-275870    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 04:43:00

• Sharding a Database - presentation at the German Perl Workshop 2026 https://blogs.perl.org/users/max_maischein/2026/02/sharding-a-database---presentation-at-the-german-perl-workshop-2026.html    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 04:44:28

• ANN: CPAN::MetaCurator V 1.08, Perl.Wiki V 1.40 etc https://blogs.perl.org/users/ron_savage/2026/02/ann-cpanmetacurator-v-108-perlwiki-v-140-etc.html    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 04:45:01

• Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (07/2026): Foundations and Forward Motion https://linmob.net/weekly-update-07-2026/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 04:52:28

• Slashdot got very badly confused. Linked to 2 pages from 4 years ago, called it "news" or "new" https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/02/15/0249259/oldest-active-linux-distro-slackware-finally-releases-version-150    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 04:54:48

• Paris Court of Appeal clarifies platforms’ obligations under Article 15 DSM Directive in twin decisions against X http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/02/guest-post-paris-court-of-appeal.html    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 05:01:17

• creative fairness http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/02/rethinking-creative-fairness-under-uks.html    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 05:01:47

• The economy's secret lifeline? Nature https://www.dw.com/en/the-economy-s-secret-lifeline-nature/a-75873269    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 05:02:49

• Wrong approach https://www.dw.com/en/nigerian-lawmakers-approve-real-time-online-election-results/a-75901046    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 05:04:17

• "Pluralistic: The online community trilemma" https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/16/fast-good-cheap/#getting-up    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 05:48:56

• "OK, that claim needs some backup, doesn't it? You can't jump that high on Earth. Big rockets are needed to get into space here. The moon isn't as big, so you could jump higher but you'd still come back down. We need to go somewhere smaller." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2026-02-17_Astronomical_fact_of_the_day.gmi    

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

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-18.gmi    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 06:18:35

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1564.jpg    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 06:21:07

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1920.jpg    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 06:21:19

• "I have been a fan of Texinfo for quite some time. The option to link pages, read info pages in the terminal, and the immutability of the pages, including the ones you have written yourself for your self, makes this a great information and knowledge system." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/use-texinfo-to-create-gorgeous-pdf-files.txt    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 06:22:05

• worm second day gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wormSecond    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 06:22:54

• "Helen and Andy review recent episodes and plans for 2026 (with potty-mouth warning). Side effects and backlash to Online Safety Act. Tech collapsing at scale. Funding and sposorship for show." https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=59    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 06:30:38

• Microsoft lying to and INSULTING people. Good strategy? https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/information-technology/ai-summit-microsoft-india-continues-to-hire-for-demand-driven-skills-says-puneet-chandok-13833291.html https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-effects-workers-psychological    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 07:40:01

• "The entertainment industry’s legal claims in AI copyright cases are strong, but the launch of Bytedance’s Seedance 2.0 highlights the harder challenge: enforcing them across borders." ☛ https://copyrightlately.com/meet-seedance-2-0-hollywoods-newest-ai-copyright-headache/ | Source: CopyrightLately    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:05:34

• "In a first-of-its-kind ruling, a Spanish court has labeled VPN services as "technological intermediaries," ordering them to actively block IP addresses that host illegal LaLiga matches." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/spanish-court-orders-protonvpn-and-nordvpn-to-block-pirate-football-streams/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:05:46

• "Day 2 of the India AI Impact Summit featured additional announcements, sessions, and policy discussions focused on emerging technology." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/newsletters/tech-top-5/balancing-ai-and-copyright-adanis-100b-bet/articleshow/128467239.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:06:00

• "A fight between Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt on the rooftop of a building in a devastated city." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/the-chinese-ai-threatening-hollywood | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:06:44

• "On the latest episode of ATP, a show I should mention that I really love" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/a-passionate-defense-of-the-m-pro-series-of-chips/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:07:16

• "The Turkish government has used internal codes like “N-82” and “G-87” to issue entry bans or deny permit renewals to at least 160 foreign Christians since 2019, according to the legal advocacy group ADF International." ☛ https://www.christianpost.com/news/christians-being-labeled-security-threat-in-turkey.html | Source: Christian Post    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:07:45

• "Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Names Behind Anti-ICE Posts" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:08:03

• "It's a whole other level of frequency and lack of accountability." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/16/dhs-sent-hundreds-of-subpoenas-to-google-meta-and-reddit-demanding-names-of-people-who-criticize-ice.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:08:19

• "He did, in the end, get something in return – a trip in the back of a police car." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/dutch_cops_breach/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:08:54

• "I'm not talking about stealing tips here (though gig-work platforms do steal tips, like crazy): [...]" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/17/no-piecework/#no-justice | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:09:47

• "The company, Xcelerate Solutions, is looking for a Top Secret-cleared analyst to join the “watchlisting team” for the purpose of “Supporting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),” to quote from the job announcement." ☛ https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-expands-watchlist-effort | Source: Ken Klippenstein    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:10:47

• "DHS is using a repurposed Navy logistics program to fund the buildings and materials necessary to create these concentration camps quickly, as first reported by CNN in October." ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-concentration-camps-wexmac-titus | Source: Marisa Kabas    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:12:18

• "use of force" ☛ https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/17/ice-officials-use-of-force-00782501 | Source: Politico LLC    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:14:14

• "requested records from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The agencies failed to release the records as required by law, so we sued for their release in Jun" ☛ https://americanoversight.org/what-we-know-about-how-ice-is-being-trained-on-the-use-of-force/ | Source: American Oversight    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:14:49

• "sharp escalation in use-of-force incidents" ☛ https://americanoversight.org/report-ice-officials-knew-use-of-force-was-rising-well-before-minneapolis-shootings/ | Source: American Oversight    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:15:16

• Microsoft abusing people using words ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-effects-workers-psychological | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:15:44

• "The revocation of Reuters’ credentials is the latest in a troubling pattern of repressive regulatory action against international and independent press in Ethiopia" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/02/ethiopia-revokes-reuters-journalists-accreditation-following-investigative-report/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:17:17

• "The commercially available spyware can provide access to an infected device’s microphone, camera, and data, including contacts, messages, photos, and videos, without the user’s knowledge." ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/02/i-literally-felt-naked-angolan-journalist-teixeira-candido-targeted-with-predator-spyware/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:17:29

• "Project Censored’s fiftieth anniversary yearbook, State of the Free Press 2026, has been receiving a lot of positive attention." ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/project-censored-newsletter-january-2026/?doing_wp_cron=1771401594.2710061073303222656250 | Source: Project Censored    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:19:09

• "an absolute exodus" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/wapo-layoffs-are-another-way-for-bezos-to-suck-up-to-trump/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:19:25

• "The network tried to bury an interview critical of Trump. Stephen Colbert made it an indictment of the administration’s assaults on the First Amendment." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cbs-stephen-colbert-equal-time-doctrine-bari-weiss/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:19:36

• "In the first case, Siahgourabi was sentenced to one year and ten months in prison. The second case remains open, Efe said." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/iranian-journalist-faces-deportation-from-turkey-despite-protection-request-316814 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:19:56

• "Now, however, Save This Life has gone out of business and gone offline, leaving all the microchips in their database unregistered." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/16/pet-microchip-company-went-out-of-business-and-took-your-pets-info-with-it.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:20:22

• "Show ID or pay a fee to attend a “public” meeting?" ☛ https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/02/17/show-id-or-pay-a-fee-to-attend-a-public-meeting/ | Source: Papers Please    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:20:53

• "Horne’s warning is blunt: the gap between knowing cybersecurity is important and actually implementing protective measures is widening." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/cyber-essentials-in-focus-ncsc-warns/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:21:15

• "Specifically, H.R.5419 directs federal agencies to conduct a comprehensive review of administrative barriers that delay the review of communications" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/house-panel-advances-bill-to-boost-broadband-deployment/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:21:39

• "You can’t profit maximize your way to greatness." ☛ https://seths.blog/2026/02/misguided-optimization/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:22:00

• "In 1991, the American astronomer and superstar science popularizer Carl Sagan was nominated for membership in the National Academy of Sciences" ☛ https://en.neritam.com/2026/02/17/why-was-carl-sagan-blackballed-from-the-national-academy-of-sciences/ | Source: Neritam    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:22:22

• "The openSUSE Project is a worldwide community effort promoting the use of Linux everywhere." ☛ https://sysadmin-journal.com/opensuse-board-election-2025-has-been-announced/ | Source: Ish Sookun    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:22:57

• "Deneen’s explanation depends on specific but mostly unstated meanings for the operative words. Here’s my best guess at definitions." ☛ https://emptywheel.net/liberalism-has-failed/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:23:21

• "A crucial aspect of the proposal, which Jacob Kaplan-Moss calls the one weird trick, is to "decide who decides"." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/tpa-adr/ | Source: Tor    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:23:51

• "But we wouldn’t refer to the distrustful survivors as “Naziphobes.” Why? Because their fear of Nazism was perfectly rational." ☛ https://www.frontpagemag.com/islamophobia-and-islamoignorance-william-kilpatrick/ | Source: Frontpage Magazine    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:24:10

• "Under the planned shake-up, St Pancras passengers will be able to board Eurostar trains straight away rather than having to wait in the departures hall." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/02/16/eurostar-to-cut-boarding-times-by-30-minutes/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:24:50

• "The figures each Lambda model card gives us that are relevant for calculating the energy per query are: the hardware used, token generation throughput and total token throughput (input+output tokens)." ☛ https://muxup.com/2026q1/minipost-additional-figures-for-per-query-energy-consumption-of-LLMs | Source: Muxup    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:25:04

• "I don't know how well this one bag journey will go but I have given myself the best possible chance of success." ☛ https://merecivilian.com/1-bag-1-device-10-days-in-bali/ | Source: Mere Civilian    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:25:22

• "The collapse itself, if triggered, might unfold over 50 to 100 years rather than happening suddenly. Still, scientists describe the probability as higher than past estimates." ☛ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/scientists-warn-gulf-stream-collapse-could-trigger-severe-global-disruption/articleshow/128431569.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:27:28

• "The consequences of such an event would be severe. The tropical rainfall belt, on which millions depend for food production, could shift dramatically." ☛ https://arcticportal.org/ap-library/news/3785-new-research-warns-of-growing-risk-of-gulf-stream-collapse | Source: Arctic Portal    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:28:03

• "This became known as the Kessler Syndrome." ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2026/02/the-kessler-syndrome.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:28:22

• "In January, the EPA ruled against xAI in a case in which Elon Musk’s CSAM machine/AI company said that if gas turbines were used in a temporary fashion, they were exempt from regulations." ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/02/xai-ramps-turbine-usage-in-southaven-repeating-its-actions-in-memphis/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:28:39

• "AI facilities may end up emitting carbon dioxide at levels equivalent to millions of passenger cars each year." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/data-center-boom-is-fueling-an-expansion-of-natural-gas-projects/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:28:53

• "Allegedly." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ars-technica-fabricated-quotes/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:29:27

• "Though she’d done this work for more than a decade, Nixon couldn’t understand why the person behind the Waifu/Judische accounts was suddenly threatening her." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/16/1132526/allison-nixon-hackers-security-researcher/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:29:51

• "The experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the US Justice Department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption, and extreme misogyny." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/allegations-in-epstein-files-may-amount-to-crimes-against-humanity-un-experts-11051701#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:30:05

• "So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/epstein-files-crimes-against-humanity-un-experts | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:30:26

• "Mark Zuckerberg is due to take the stand in a landmark trial that could set a precedent for thousands of lawsuits alleging major social media platforms intentionally engineered addictive features" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/zuckerberg-to-testify-in-landmark-social-media-addiction-trial-2016788999 | Source: RTL    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:31:42

• "The Irish Examiner understands the plan will confirm Ireland’s intention to introduce legislation to restrict social media for under-16s." ☛ https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41795567.html | Source: Irish Examiner    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:31:57

• "blatant “From Apple Music” label on playback in the TikTok" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/16/tiktok-apple-music-integrations/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:32:19

• "Since then, criticism of CAIR, especially among Republicans in Texas, has only intensified." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cair-muslims-texas-abbott-islamophobia/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:32:37

• "The Paradox of Tolerance—first introduced by that brilliant old geezer of Karl Popper" ☛ https://mon0.substack.com/p/the-paradox-of-persuasion |    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:33:00

• "That was February 2025. It is now February 2026. And I am here to tell you: the gates did not hold." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-against-america-one-year | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:33:18

• "The key driver is climate change. We’re living in a world that will have fewer livable places and fewer resources. This will happen quickly." ☛ https://werd.io/an-increasingly-dangerous-world/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:33:39

• "around 40 Hindu families" ☛ https://hindupost.in/crime/agras-exodus-alert-40-hindu-families-hang-house-for-sale-posters-amid-repeated-attacks-on-hindu-families/ | Source: Hindu Post    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:34:02

• "a man under investigation" ☛ https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-police-arrest-suspect-with-ties-islamic-state-source-says-2026-01-29/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:34:18

• "Oxymoron" ☛ https://www.raymondibrahim.com/03/26/2014/why-moderate-islam-is-an-oxymoron | Source: Raymond Ibrahim    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:34:34

• "Not only has this incident been widely condemned throughout the West — and rightfully so." ☛ https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18532/mosque-church-massacres | Source: Gatestone Institute    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:34:55

• "The Register contacted the European Parliament for comment." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/european_parliament_bars_lawmakers_from/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:35:20

• "So, at that point, my public stance on Matrix became, simply: Don’t use Matrix" ☛ https://soatok.blog/2026/02/17/cryptographic-issues-in-matrixs-rust-library-vodozemac/ | Source: Dhole Moments    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:35:49

• "Since it aired for a massive audience at the Super Bowl, Ring’s Search Party commercial has become a lightning rod for controversy" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/podcast/879203/ring-search-party-super-bowl-ai-surveillance-privacy-security | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:36:18

• "Palantir is the most dangerous tech company you may not have heard of." ☛ https://afsc.org/palantir-explainer |    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:36:31

• "Apple AirTags have speakers in them, and the speaker is not entirely under the owner’s control." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/17/airtag-has-hole-behind-the-battery-its-likely-been-silenced/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:37:18

• "Below is my opening statement from the debate." ☛ https://nbtv.substack.com/p/privacy-is-not-a-price-you-pay-for | Source: Ludlow Institute    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:37:34

• "VPN Bans Are Still a Terrible Idea" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/eff-wisconsin-legislature-vpn-bans-are-still-terrible-idea | Source: EFF    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:37:58

• EFF letter re: WI S.B. 130 / A.B. 105 ☛ https://www.eff.org/document/eff-letter-re-wi-sb-130-ab-105 | Source: EFF    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:38:07

• Social Control Media ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/seventeen-adult-content-creators-formally-arrested-for-laundering-onlyfans-income-316766 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:38:40

• "Meta's changes do not shut down the Messenger service" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/meta-retire-messenger-desktop-website-2026-1779840 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:38:59

• "The pattern is eerily reminiscent of how the xz-utils supply chain attack began, and the security community is still on high alert after that incident nearly succeeded." ☛ https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-lands-prs-in-major-oss-projects-targets-maintainers-via-cold-outreach | Source: Socket Inc    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:39:29

• "The Conde Nast-owned tech publication Ars Technica has retracted an article that contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes, according to an editor’s note posted to its website." ☛ https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:39:50

• "Semantic ablation is the algorithmic erosion of high-entropy information." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:40:06

• "Commercial real estate stocks took a big dip last Thursday 12 February — one day after the “SaaSpocalypse” — and they’re trying to blame AI: [...]" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/17/the-ai-scare-trade-the-all-purpose-excuse-for-number-go-down/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:40:20

• "ES (Evolution Strategies) is a relatively generic optimization method, but let’s talk about it in terms of neural networks, because that is what I’m thinking about, and also what the elderly literature needs updating for." ☛ https://danmackinlay.name/notebook/evolution_strategy.html | Source: Dan MacKinlay    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:40:39

• "You and I know this was really obviously not some sort of rogue bot — it was a rogue human. They might even be running some sort of scam." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/16/the-obnoxious-github-openclaw-ai-bot-is-a-crypto-bro/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:40:57

• "Say you’re working with a LLM and training it to write good frontend code. Good frontend code is accessible code, so of course you want to instruct the LLM to produce it." ☛ https://ericwbailey.website/published/heres-how-to-instruct-a-llm-to-reference-the-aria-authoring-practices-guide/ | Source: Eric Bailey    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:43:02

• "I don’t want to live in a world where everything is outsourced, handed to the lowest bidder while I have no idea about the systems that I use, the food that I eat, the religion I participate in, the house I live in." ☛ https://joshblais.com/blog/a-pursuit-of-mastery/ | Source: Joshua Blais    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:43:16

• "Here are three papers describing different side-channel attacks against LLMs. " ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/side-channel-attacks-against-llms.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:43:27

• "Cognitive debt is likely a much bigger threat than technical debt, as AI and agents are adopted." ☛ https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/ |    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:43:41

• "Some programmers have started to warn that similar advances could cannibalize all kinds of knowledge work." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/post-chatbot-claude-code-ai-agents/686029/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:43:57

• "Yes, hard drives. Spinning disks that hold ones and zeroes." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3063473/western-digital-is-out-of-hard-drives-because-ai-of-course.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:44:10

• "While Western Digital hard drives will remain on the shelves for now" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-data-centers-spiking-hard-drive-prices | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 09:44:26

• "Childhood vaccination is one of public policy’s greatest success stories." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-kakistocracy-became-a-quackistocracy | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:39:49

• "That’s remarkable, given that the camera sold for $89.95 – or about $970 / £710 / AU$1,370 in today's money" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/instant-cameras/a-3-year-old-girl-asked-a-simple-question-and-sparked-a-us-usd600-million-camera-revolution | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:40:24

• "The problem with Qwerty keyboards on small touchscreen devices is that they are designed for ten-finger typing, and we typically only use two thumbs to type." ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/learning-keybee | Source: Chris    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:40:44

• "I could go into pros and cons but honestly it's mostly pros at this point since it's turned out to be a great little device for my use case." ☛ https://smallcypress.bearblog.dev/first-impressions-of-my-mp3-player-innioasis-y1/ | Source: Small Cypress    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:41:04

• "How is a manger to make sense of this mess?" ☛ https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/16/poor-deming-never-stood-a-chance/ | Source: Lorin Hochstein    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:41:31

• "Last Friday was my last day at Oracle. Today is my first day at MariaDB.org!" ☛ https://lefred.be/content/i-joined-the-mariadb-foundation/ |    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:41:43

• "Full Sail University just opened its Drone Innovation Center on its Winter Park, Florida campus — a 7,870-square-foot facility complete with indoor flight zones" ☛ https://www.thedronegirl.com/2026/02/17/full-sail-university/ | Source: The Drone Girl    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:42:09

• "Sorting is one of the most studied problems in computer science." ☛ https://00f.net/2026/02/17/sorting-without-leaking-secrets/ | 0f    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:43:18

• "Last time, we did load-store forwarding in the context of our Toy Optimizer. We managed to cache the results of both reads from and writes to the heap—at compile-time!" ☛ https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/toy-tbaa/ | Source: Max Bernstein    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:43:33

• "short, cube-shaped bone" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearthed-a-2200-year-old-bone-they-say-it-could-be-the-first-direct-evidence-of-hannibals-legendary-war-elephants-180988185/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:48:21

• "For over 30 years, complexity theorists have used this theoretical framework to identify problems where quantum computers surpass classical ones." ☛ https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-complexity-theory-for-the-quantum-age-20260217/ | Source: Quanta Magazine    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:48:37

• "The FOCUS project worked by deploying a specially designed strain cable across the newly mapped fault in hopes of detecting tectonic movement." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-02-million-km-undersea-internet-cables.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:49:03

• iophk: Oura is now officially malevolent surveillance hardware if it wasn't before; bought out / sold out: https://www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/a/df9f08af-ef2c-425d-b640-a2b42ef1d905 Sompi    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:52:58

• "A friend of mine suggested I ask people to respond to the email on occasion to help improve its reputation with Gmail/spam filters. When I did that this past month, my inbox was flooded with responses." ☛ https://cassidoo.co/post/do-not-scale-2/ | Source: Cassidy Williams    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:53:44

• "They want to be able to shock you but then insist there’s no real provocation because in the end—if you’ll just shut up and keep reading until you find out what happens in the end—everything comes out just fine." ☛ https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-16-the-serialized-series/ | Source: Bix Frankonis    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:54:16

• "[...] It will go away in a blink of an eye." ☛ https://atharvaraykar.com/likejunkies/ | Source: Atharva Raykar    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:54:41

• "But obsessions like these also tend to lead to burnout. So far I have been lucky to mostly dance around it" ☛ https://cliophate.wtf/posts/reasonable-overkill | Source: Kevin Wammer    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:55:13

• "I still want it, just a little." ☛ https://haleynahman.substack.com/p/172-the-pleasure-of-not-knowing |    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:55:32

• "Recent events in Europe have underscored these risks." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/report-protecting-gps-is-crucial/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:57:01

• "I was talking to my friend acdw about Discord and IRC because dozens had posted the link to New And Upcoming IRCv3 Features for Libera.chat, on Linkbudz." ☛ https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2026-02-11-discord-features | Source: Alex Schroeder    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:57:13

• "Web fonts are usually defined by the CSS @font-face rule. The font-display property allows us some control over how fonts are loaded." ☛ https://dbushell.com/2026/02/17/web-font-choice-and-loading-strategy/ | Source: David Bushell    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:57:30

• "For some reason, a bunch of big companies are really leaning into Markdown right now. AI may be the reason, but I kind of love the possible side benefits." ☛ https://tedium.co/2026/02/17/markdown-growing-influence-cloudflare-ai/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:57:43

• "Learning Python often starts with the same building blocks: variables, functions, and loops." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/levelling-up-with-python-create-with-data/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 14:58:18

• "If you are interested in continued collaboration with the Vinyl Cache project, please register an account on our self hosted forgejo instance following this link." ☛ https://vinyl-cache.org/organization/moving.html |    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:00:17

• "Ask a dozen ecosystems what platform you’re running on and you’ll get a dozen different answers." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/17/platform-strings.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:00:30

• "I know this might be slightly controversial for my fellow developers, but: I tend to prefer a (good) GUI over the CLI." ☛ https://lostfocus.de/2026/02/17/gui-cli/ | Source: Dominik Schwind    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:00:43

• "Compared with Deferred, this IOPromise allows for completing the promise via unsafeTryComplete, which can be used in an imperative (non-IO) context, but it still exposes an IO-driven API." ☛ https://alexn.org/blog/2026/02/17/hybrid-io-driven-promise-in-scala-snippet/?pk_campaign=rss | Source: Alexandru Nedelcu    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:01:01

• Open Data ☛ https://datageeek.com/2026/02/17/modeling-bitcoin-volatility-through-structural-breaks-a-compositional-perspective/ | Source: DataGeeek    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:08:21

• "The 13th ROS-Industrial Europe Conference 2025 took place on 17–18 November 2025 in Strasbourg, co-located with ROSCon FR&DE." ☛ https://rosindustrial.org/news/2026/2/17/ros-2-in-industry-key-takeaways-from-the-ros-industrial-conference-2025 | Source: ROS Industrial    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:11:57

• "In this post I describe different approaches for client-libraries to implement Redis protocol pipelining." ☛ https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-17-archive-redis-pipelining/ | Source: Ian Duncan    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:13:30

• "I was able to exploit it to gain Code Execution inside the Firefox renderer process and reported my findings to Mozilla." ☛ https://kqx.io/post/firefox0day/ |    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:14:26

• "The vulnerability comes from the Google Stable Channel Update for Desktop." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/cve-2026-2441-google-chrome/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:14:49

• "Tor Browser 15.0.6 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1506/ | Source: Tor    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:15:14

• "Reminder: The Tor Browser Alpha release-channel is for testing only." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-160a3/ | Source: Tor    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:15:52

• "This is a really old question/debate in online community design." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/16/fast-good-cheap/#getting-up | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:16:17

• "The other day, I decided it was finally time. It was finally time to open Emacs to demonstrate certain code functionalities in class. The result was predictable: it caused further confusion among already confused students." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/02/a-note-on-presenting-code-in-emacs/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:16:35

• Slop and sloppers https://text.npr.org/1199885893    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:17:16

• microsoft relaying FUD via The Register MS https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/open_source_registries_fund_security/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:17:45

• "How GoReleaser strengthened security through GitHub's Secure Open Source Fund - GoReleaser" https://goreleaser.com/blog/github-secure-fund/ GitHub = NSA back doors    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:18:08

• "Jesse Jackson’s speech to the Democratic National Convention, July 19, 1988" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/jesse-jacksons-speech-to-the-democratic    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:18:23

• "Further | Fuck This Guy: The Hunted Becomes the Beached | Opinion" https://www.commondreams.org/further/fuck-this-guy-the-hunted-becomes-the-beached    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:18:37

• "European leaders warn that US ties have shifted permanently" https://www.semafor.com/article/02/16/2026/european-leaders-warn-that-us-ties-have-shifted-permanently    

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

• "No, It’s Not Back to Business as Usual" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/for-europe-its-not-back-to-business-as-usual/686023/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:19:05

• "Bill Gates-Backed Breakthrough Energy Halts New Investment, Lays Off Staff" https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/bill-gates-backed-breakthrough-energy-halts-new-investment-lays-off-staff-11051620 http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/The_Epstein_Files_Don_t_Say_the_Ages_of_Those_Russian_Girls_Bil.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:19:32

• "Built around the powerful dual-core ESP32-P4 RISC-V SoC, this board delivers serious performance and unmatched peripheral integration for advanced embedded and IoT development." ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/esp32-p4-pc-open-source-hardware-board-the-most-comprehensive-and-feature-rich-esp32-p4-board-on-the-market/ | Source: Olimex    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:21:33

• "However, I can try and get as close as possible to the signal generation process as possible with what I do have: A games console from the 1970s’ and the ability to code in assembly language." ☛ https://heliomass.com/posts/2602-i-see-colour-bars/ | Source: Heliomass    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:25:35

• "What we got was the Y3506_V05_20251215 revision. It's a clone of a clone" ☛ https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2026-02-17-less-but-better-a-braun-clock-for-the-r36s | Source: Eliseo Martelli    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:25:53

• "Printed a couple of card boxes for our new-found card game phase, and I had just enough filament for the final one!" ☛ https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/filament-chicken | Source: Jasper Tandy    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:26:09

• "Today was a hard day for $reasons, so it was a tremendous joy to receive a notification from the local Australia Post parcel locker that my latest shipment from Ukraine arrived!" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/my-childhood-motherboard-arrived/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:27:20

• "If you’re looking to jack up your car and you don’t have anything on hand, your 3D printer might not be the first tool you look towards." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/17/3d-printed-jack-mixes-two-filaments-for-great-performance/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:27:34

• "The setup removes just five LEGO pieces from the original design, eliminating the hand crank from the mechanism." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/17/lego-orrery-gets-a-real-time-drive-upgrade/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:27:49

• "Antenna design is often referred to as a black art or witchcraft, even by those experienced in the space." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/17/bruteforcing-accidental-antenna-designs/ | Source: Hackaday    

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

• "Every OpenBSD admin has booted bsd.rd at least once — to install, upgrade, or rescue a broken system." ☛ https://openbsdjumpstart.org/bsd.rd/ |    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:29:58

• "With that in mind, we’ve improved Plasma’s usability and accessibility, and added practical new features into the mix." ☛ https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.0/ | Source: KDE    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:30:35

• "On OpenBSD, the built-in httpd runs inside a strict chroot located at /var/www" ☛ https://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20260217 | Source: Vincent Delft    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:31:09

• "There are two general challenges that make incremental backups more complicated than full backups." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/IncrementalBackupsTwoChallenges | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:36:19

• "Modern CSS code snippets, side by side with the old hacks they replace. Every technique you still Google has a clean, native replacement now." ☛ https://modern-css.com/ |    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:36:35

• "The algorithms have gotten wildly sophisticated over the decades. Modern engines don’t just swap between a few discrete models." ☛ https://phinze.com/writing/level-of-detail |    

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

• "The code hasn't been functional since 2007 due to incompatibilities with the more widely used Intel AGP driver." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-kernel-7-0-finally-abandons-intel-440bx-edac-driver-removal-marks-another-goodbye-to-the-legendary-motherboard-chipset | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:40:38

• "I just have to tell you my current state with my migration to OpenCloud…" ☛ https://janlukas.blog/thoughts/2026/02/update-home-server |    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:42:47

• Earth vs Mars the Advance Wars-like from Relic Entertainment gets Steam Deck Verified | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/earth-vs-mars-the-advance-wars-like-from-relic-entertainment-gets-steam-deck-verified/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:46:06

• SCOPECREEP is a curious mix of tower defense and active incremental where you collect souls | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/scopecreep-is-a-curious-mix-of-tower-defense-and-active-incremental-where-you-collect-souls/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

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

• Check out the full second episode of Games For Everyone | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/check-out-the-full-second-episode-of-games-for-everyone/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/check-out-the-full-second-episode-of-games-for-everyone/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:48:15

• "when you pay peanuts, you hire monkeys .....and d-mb Indian monkeys @IBM at that. Posing, Posturing and Upskilling about AI and Quantum from Alvind and Krabanaugh doesn't change a single thing. (Or Kyndryl !)" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kha4h3ef    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:50:15

• Astro Protocol is a tactical space 4x game designed for people with little time | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/astro-protocol-is-a-tactical-space-4x-game-designed-for-people-with-little-time/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:51:56

• Brotato gets a major update with Paws - Claws adding pets | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/brotato-gets-a-major-update-with-paws-claws-adding-pets/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/brotato-gets-a-major-update-with-paws-claws-adding-pets/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:54:02

• KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/kde-plasma-6-6-released-with-improved-accessibility-new-on-screen-keyboard-and-lots-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 15:58:37

• Game manager Lutris v0.5.20 released with Proton upgrades, store updates and much more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/game-manager-lutris-v0-5-20-released-with-proton-upgrades-store-updates-and-much-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:07:24

• Valve confirm Steam Deck stock issues due to "memory and storage shortages" | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/valve-confirm-steam-deck-stock-issues-due-to-memory-and-storage-shortages/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:08:17

• Rocket League is adding Easy Anti-Cheat, Psyonix say Linux will still be supported with Proton | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/rocket-league-is-adding-easy-anti-cheat-psyonix-say-linux-will-still-be-supported-with-proton/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:08:43

• "In response to these challenges, we’re excited to announce today the general availability (GA) of the Red Hat build of Podman Desktop." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-red-hat-build-podman-desktop-enterprise-ready-local-container-development-environments | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:17:53

• "As automation expanded across teams, systems, and domains, Bradesco reached a new stage of maturity. Execution at scale was already well established, delivering efficiency and speed. " ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/redefining-automation-governance-execution-observability-bradesco | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:18:06

• IBM Red Hat promoting slop ☞ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-llm-d-brings-critical-resource-optimization-softbanks-ai-ran-orchestrator    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:18:25

• "ifconfig (Interface Configuration is a utility for system/network administration in Unix/Linux operating systems used to configure, manage, and query network interface parameters via the command-line interface or in system configuration scripts." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/ifconfig-command-examples/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:19:21

• "As part of this certification process, we have also included Ubuntu Core as a fully certified Operating Environment for the first time, starting with Ubuntu Core 22, and will continue to support Ubuntu Core with future FIPS certifications." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/announcing-fips-140-3-for-ubuntu-core22 | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:23:41

• "A little over one year ago, our team began to recognize this pattern in our own work." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/a-year-of-documentation-driven-development | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:23:56

• Translate Texinfo files using po4a ☞ https://box.matto.nl/translate-texinfo-files-using-po4a.html    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:36:40

• MODICIA 6.12.69 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/modicia    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:38:34

• Give Your Weather Report an Animated ASCII Spin in GNU/Linux Terminal ☞ https://itsfoss.com/weathr/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:38:47

• CentOS 10-20260216 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/centos    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:39:57

• Give Your Weather Report an Animated ASCII Spin in GNU/Linux Terminal ☞ https://itsfoss.com/weathr/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:40:30

• Plasma Setup Released ☞ https://merritt.codes/blog/2026/02/17/2026/_plasma-setup-release    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:41:20

• Coalition sues to block removal of history, science displays from US national parks ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/coalition-sues-to-block-removal-of-history-science-displays-from-us-national-parks/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:42:44

• Height Surgery for Men Can Add Inches But Has Risks ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/height-surgery-limb-lengthening-men-health.html    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:44:02

• Got raw milk? Michigan proposal would legalize wider sales ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/got-raw-milk-michigan-proposal-would-legalize-wider-sales/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:44:28

• Oakland County diverts mental health patients to ERs amid crisis center takeover ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/oakland-county-diverts-mental-health-patients-to-ers-amid-crisis-center-takeover/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:45:10

• The rise in transgender killers proves that we have a major mental health crisis unfolding ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/02/17/opinion/the-rise-in-transgender-killers-proves-that-we-have-a-major-mental-health-crisis-unfolding/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:45:59

• filebyte – list files and directories ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/filebyte-list-files-directories/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:46:30

• Couik – terminal-based typing test ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/couik-terminal-based-typing-test/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:46:54

• picocom – minimal dumb-terminal emulation program ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/picocom-minimal-dumb-terminal-emulation-program/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:51:07

• up – write GNU/Linux pipes ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/up-write-linux-pipes/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:51:37

• Discordo – feature-rich terminal Discord client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/discordo-feature-rich-terminal-discord-client/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:56:42

• StarPSX – PlayStation 1 emulator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/starpsx-playstation1-emulator/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:57:09

• Spent – minimalist personal finance tracker ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/spent-minimalist-personal-finance-tracker/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:58:11

• How the contextual SBOM pattern improves vulnerability management ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/17/how-contextual-sbom-pattern-improves-vulnerability-management    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:58:52

• Linux Matters 75: Mark's Meshing About ☞ https://linuxmatters.sh/75/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 16:59:25

• Oh Là Là! Red Bait Open Sources Digital Sovereignty Readiness Tool ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/02/oh-la-la-red-hat-open-sources-digital-sovereignty-readiness-tool/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:00:03

• Huge Web of Hidden Electromagnetic Waves Discovered Around Tiny Ice World ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/huge-web-of-hidden-electromagnetic-waves-discovered-around-tiny-ice-world    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:01:13

• NASA Restarts Countdown After Fixing Hydrogen Leaks on Its Moon Rocket ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-restarts-countdown-after-fixing-hydrogen-leaks-on-its-moon-rocket    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:01:32

• First-of-Its-Kind Map of Alzheimer's Reveals Hidden Gene Activity ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its-kind-map-of-alzheimers-reveals-hidden-gene-activity    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:02:08

• Daily Mail’s Stephen Wright ‘devastated’ by Doreen Lawrence hacking claims ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/daily-mails-stephen-wright-devastated-by-doreen-lawrence-hacking-claims/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:02:26

• Suicide https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/mediahuis-trials-use-of-ai-agents-to-carry-out-first-line-news-reporting/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:05:54

• Simple Lifelong Habits Can Cut Your Alzheimer's Risk by 38%, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/simple-lifelong-habits-can-cut-your-alzheimers-risk-by-38-study-finds    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:06:25

• Radio Free Asia says it has resumed broadcasts to China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/radio-free-asia-says-it-has-resumed-broadcasts-to-china    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:08:05

• Malaysia drops defamation case against Australian writer in Thailand ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-drops-defamation-case-against-australian-writer-in-thailand    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:09:03

• 85% of TB cases in Malaysia involve locals, says health minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/85-of-tb-cases-in-malaysia-involve-locals-says-health-minister    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:09:31

• Seoul eases curbs on North Korea’s top daily Rodong Sinmun, but few South Koreans are reading it ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/seoul-eases-curbs-on-north-koreas-top-daily-rodong-sinmun-but-few-south-koreans-are-reading-it    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:10:05

• Tiny Supernova Error Could Make The Dark Energy 'Crisis' Vanish, New Paper Suggests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/tiny-supernova-error-could-make-the-dark-energy-crisis-vanish-new-paper-suggests    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:10:33

• The Link Between Air Pollution And Alzheimer's Is Now Clearer Than Ever ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-link-between-air-pollution-and-alzheimers-is-now-clearer-than-ever    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:10:45

• Common Diabetes Drug Linked With 'Exceptional Longevity' in Women ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/common-diabetes-drug-linked-with-exceptional-longevity-in-women    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:11:00

• New Light Therapy Can Suppress a Key Marker of Hair Loss by 92% ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-light-therapy-can-suppress-a-key-marker-of-hair-loss-by-92    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:11:27

• Do Positive Affirmations Really Work? A Psychologist Explains The Science ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/do-positive-affirmations-really-work-a-psychologist-explains-the-science    

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

• Beating 'Heart-on-a-Chip' Could Help Fight The World's Leading Cause of Death ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/beating-heart-on-a-chip-could-help-fight-the-worlds-leading-cause-of-death    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:14:08

• Simplify managing your Docker compose files with this handy tool ☞ https://thenewstack.io/simplify-managing-your-docker-compose-files-with-this-handy-tool/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:14:36

• Qt for MCUs 2.11.2 LTS is released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-mcus-2.11.2-lts-is-released    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:15:47

• Question of True Remorse When Hey Hi (AI) Helps Write Your Court Apology ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/world/asia/new-zealand-court-ai-apology.html    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:22:24

• Spain launches probe into social control media giants as European regulation starts to boil ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/17/spain-launches-probe-social-media-giants-european-regulation-starts-boil/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:24:18

• Software Patents ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/mexico-canada-economic-action-plan-usmca/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Software_Patents_and_USMCA_or_NAFTA.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:25:09

• AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-abuse-harassment-stalking    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:25:47

• Pentagon Issues Threat to Anthropic ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/pentagon-issues-threat-anthropic    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:27:29

• Build CachyOS Kernel 6.19.2 on Debian Forky (VENV) ☞ https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2026/02/build-cachyos-kernel-6192-on-debian.html    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:29:19

• Chmod Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/chmod/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:32:14

• Out soon: EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part II    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:33:27

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

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:34:26

• Pixi – pixel art editor and animation editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pixi-pixel-art-animation-editor/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:34:42

• Russell Coker: Links February 2026 ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/02/17/links-february-2026/   

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:35:26

• Sons of sanctioned Belarusian oligarch held Lithuanian citizenship – media ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2842278/sons-of-sanctioned-belarusian-oligarch-held-lithuanian-citizenship-media    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:35:55

• Only One in 50 Saudis Would Use Abusive Monopolist Microsoft for Search, Almost Same as Would Use Russia's Yandex ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/Only_One_in_50_Saudis_Would_Use_Microsoft_for_Search_Almost_Sam.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:36:14

• State Department: No 'Gentleman's Agreement' Between US, Russia On Expired Nuclear Treaty ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-russia-nuclear-start-treaty/33680877.html    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:36:33

• Buying pets in Russia, Belarus unsafe, says Latvian authority ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/17.02.2026-buying-pets-in-russia-belarus-unsafe-says-latvian-authority.a635070/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:36:50

• Talks on Russia-Ukraine War Enter 2nd Day in Geneva ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/world/europe/russia-ukraine-us-talks-war.html    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:37:19

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Bets on Diplomacy Without Diplomats ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/politics/trump-witkoff-kushner-diplomacy.html    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:37:37

• With Russia grinding closer, Ukrainians weigh the cost of land for peace ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0217/ukraine-peace-talks-russia-donbas-territory-concessions    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:37:54

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

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:38:09

• Ukraine, Russia Wrap First Day Of US-Brokered Talks Amid Fresh Strikes ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-peace-talks-geneva-attacks/33680422.html    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:40:14

• EU Pushes Ukraine On Repair Of Druzhba Pipeline Carrying Russian Oil To Hungary, Slovakia ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/eu-ukraine-druzhba-russian-oil-pipeline-hungary-slovakia/33680685.html    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:40:37

• Lithuanian agency to run international fund for Ukraine transport rebuild ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2842324/lithuanian-agency-to-run-international-fund-for-ukraine-transport-rebuild    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:40:56

• Russians, Belarusians to compete under own flags at Paralympics: IPC tells AFP ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/russians-belarusians-to-compete-under-own-flags-at-paralympics-ipc-tells-afp    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:41:15

• Russia, Ukraine seem to be 'putting up a performance for president Convicted Felon', analyst says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/russia-ukraine-seem-to-be-putting-up-a-performance-for-president-trump-analyst-says    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:41:28

• Who is Vladimir Medinsky, the nationalist historian leading Russia’s peace talks delegation? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260217-who-is-vladimir-medinsky-the-nationalist-historian-leading-russia-s-peace-talks-delegation    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:41:44

• First day of Ukraine-Russia peace talks in Geneva ends with no breakthroughs ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260217-first-day-of-ukraine-russia-peace-talks-in-geneva-ends-with-no-breakthroughs    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:42:15

• LIVE: Ukraine war talks to resume in Geneva with no sign of breakthrough ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260218-live-ukraine-war-talks-to-resume-in-geneva-with-no-sign-of-breakthrough    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:42:31

• Project Management Web Platform with Redmine on Raspberry PI and Docker ☞ https://peppe8o.com/redmine-raspberry-pi/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:43:37

• NGO: Some Latvian employers exploit Ukrainians ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/employment/17.02.2026-ngo-some-latvian-employers-exploit-ukrainians.a635001/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:44:00

• Baltics, Nordics, Poland and Ukraine are 'Europe's shield' ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/17.02.2026-baltics-nordics-poland-and-ukraine-are-europes-shield.a635056/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:44:27

• Latvia to give another 10 million euros to support Ukraine's military ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/17.02.2026-latvia-to-give-another-10-million-euros-to-support-ukraines-military.a635085/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:44:42

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Said He’d End the War in Ukraine in a Day. It’s Harder Than He Thought. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/world/europe/trump-ukraine-war-putin.html    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:45:01

• ‘Belarus in isolation only benefits Putin’: released activist starts over in Germany ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2842356/belarus-in-isolation-only-benefits-putin-released-activist-starts-over-in-germany    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:45:22

• Putin, women, favours: DOJ files reveal Jeffrey Epstein’s efforts to build Russian ties ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260217-putin-women-doj-files-reveal-jeffrey-epstein-build-russian-ties    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:45:43

• The 14th Anniversary of Our Foundation ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/17/the-14th-anniversary-of-our-foundation/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:46:41

• Xorg Officially Abandons "Master" Branch for "Main", Throws Away 2 Years of Code ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/xorg-officially-abandons-master-branch    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:46:52

• How To Install Fish Shell on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-fish-shell-almalinux-10/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:48:04

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

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:48:22

• How To Install Brackets Code Editor on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-brackets-code-editor-debian-13/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:48:43

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

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:50:36

• How to Install SMPlayer on Ubuntu (26.04, 24.04, 22.04) ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-smplayer-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:51:03

• How to Install LibreCAD on Ubuntu (26.04, 24.04, 22.04) ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-librecad-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:51:34

• Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059176/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:52:38

• High-end Android phones are now powerful enough to emulate the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/high-end-android-phones-are-now-powerful-enough-to-emulate-the-pc-version-of-cyberpunk-2077-youtuber-gets-2020s-hottest-pc-game-running-at-playable-frame-rates-on-red-magic-11-pro    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:53:09

• Despite a Court-Ordered Injunction, Anna’s Archive Releases Millions of Spotify Tracks Online—With More Likely On the Way ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/17/annas-archive-releases-spotify-tracks/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:53:48

• Boneless Wings Are Still Wings, Judge Rules ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/boneless-chicken-wings-lawsuit-ruling.html    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:57:18

• California Judge Delivers a Major Setback for Global Piracy Crackdowns — The DMCA Suddenly Has a Lot Less Bite ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/17/dmca-limits-global-lawsuit/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:57:56

• Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/nyregion/budget-mamdani-property-taxes.html    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:58:36

• EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) in Practice @ FOSDEM 2026: From Awareness to Action ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/02/17/eu-cyber-resilience-act-cra-in-practice-fosdem-2026-from-awareness-to-action/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 17:59:50

• A Road Trip from Kandahar to Kabul on Highway 1 in Afghanistan ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/world/asia/afghanistan-highway-taliban-security.html    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:00:34

• Militants kill 11 Pakistani security personnel, one child near Afghan border, army says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/militants-kill-11-pakistani-security-personnel-one-child-near-afghan-border-army-says    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:00:48

• How Legal Immigration Became a Deportation Trap ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-immigration/how-legal-immigration-became-a-deportation-trap    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:01:08

• Engineer finds his smart sleep mask can read other people's brainwaves due to poor software security ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/wearable-tech/engineer-finds-his-smart-sleep-mask-can-read-other-peoples-brainwaves-superpower-granted-via-poor-quality-software-with-hardcoded-high-level-credentials    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:01:50

• Unit 42: Nearly two-thirds of breaches now start with identity abuse ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/attackers-abuse-identity-unit42-palo-alto-networks-incident-response-report/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:02:30

• KDE 6_26.02 for Slackware-current ☞ https://blog.slackware.nl/kde-6_26-02-for-slackware-current/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:05:42

• A Deadly Medieval Path in England Claims a Modern Victim: An Amazon Van ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/world/europe/broomway-england-amazon-van.html    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:06:31

• Why is Debian Called the Universal Operating System, Again? ☞ https://itsfoss.com/debian-universal-operating-system/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:07:02

• Someone Just Made an Immutable Gentoo-Based Distro Tailored for Gaming ☞ https://itsfoss.com/matrixos/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:07:38

• FSF Blogs: Maintaining what we love all year long ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-i-love-free-software-day    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:08:39

• "Tax progressively, with richer people paying higher rates. Don't use value added tax (VAT) or head taxes because these don't scale up. Ignore the people who say that the rich are going to leave. Ignore the people who say that this is socialism, communism or whatever. Ignore the people who say that this is unfair to those who worked hard to build their wealth. It's all bullshit." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-02-18-taxes    

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

• These are the only Linux distros I recommend for developers https://www.howtogeek.com/these-are-the-only-linux-distros-i-recommend-for-developers/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:34:12

• These 5 underrated Linux desktop environments need more attention https://www.howtogeek.com/underrated-linux-desktop-environments-that-need-more-attention/    

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

• REMnux v8 brings AI integration to the Linux malware analysis toolkit https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/17/remnux-8-linux-malware-analysis-toolkit/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:34:59

• KDE Plasma 6.6 Officially Released https://www.techpowerup.com/346467/kde-plasma-6-6-officially-released    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:37:03

• I just set up a new Linux desktop, here are the first 5 things I did https://www.howtogeek.com/i-just-set-up-a-new-linux-desktop-here-are-the-first-things-i-did/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:38:15

• Propping up a scam (slop) and outsourcing - lowering salaries https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linux-foundation-research-finds-open-source-is-key-to-driving-indias-ai-market-302688143.html    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:39:13

• "Atomic Linux distros keep updates from breaking your system. Here's how, and which ones I prefer.' https://www.zdnet.com/article/atomic-linux-distros-stress-free-os-updates/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:40:11

• Rocket League devs promise not to break Linux support or ban mod users when Easy Anti-Cheat gets added https://www.pcguide.com/news/rocket-league-devs-promise-not-to-break-linux-support-or-ban-modders-when-easy-anti-cheat-gets-added/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:40:42

• Gentoo https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/after-microsoft-couldnt-keep-its-ai-hands-to-itself-a-notoriously-complex-linux-distro-has-started-its-long-march-away-from-github/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:41:24

• "In this one we go over topics like the Steam Machine and Steam Frame timing, Steam Deck stock, Discord, the Open Gaming Collective, the GDC 2026 report and much more." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/check-out-the-full-second-episode-of-games-for-everyone/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:42:18

• Rootkit is coming to Rocket League, but Psyonix promises not to get all Fortnite with it and hose your Steam Deck and Linux installs https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/easy-anti-cheat-is-coming-to-rocket-league-but-psyonix-promises-not-to-get-all-fortnite-with-it-and-hose-your-steam-deck-and-linux-installs/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:42:43

• "Who said weather reports have to be boring and I am not even talking about the Maxican Weather" https://itsfoss.com/weathr/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:43:36

• This one command-line app saves me an hour every day https://www.howtogeek.com/this-one-command-line-app-saves-me-an-hour-every-day/    

posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026 at 18:44:06