Roy Schestowitz

• 3 Threat Groups Started Targeting ICS/OT in 2025: Dragos ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/3-threat-groups-started-targeting-ics-ot-in-2025-dragos/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:27:34

• Man Linked to Phobos Ransomware Arrested in Poland ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/man-linked-to-phobos-ransomware-arrested-in-poland/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:27:58

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-19.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:36:54

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1565.jpg    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:37:19

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1921.jpg    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:37:26

• worm third day gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wormThird    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:38:27

• "Developer and maker Martijn Braam is looking to turn a Raspberry Pi HQ Camera Module into a high-quality broadcast camera tailored for live streaming — by simply outputting the video straight to HDMI." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260218-picam.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:39:10

• Hackers Offer to Sell Millions of Eurail User Records ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-offer-to-sell-millions-of-eurail-user-records/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:46:00

• “Europe must become more independent – there is no other choice”, says President von der Leyen at 2026 Munich Security Conference ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ac_26_430    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:46:36

• Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasse’s Art of Cookery (1751 edition) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-cookery    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:47:18

• Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/eight-horses    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:47:33

• AGL’s Business Intelligence Journey – Understanding Activity ☞ https://toscalix.com/2026/02/17/agls-business-intelligence-journey-understanding-activity/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:48:08

• Gentoo Takes the First Step to Ditch Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Copilot-Infested Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/gentoo-github-switch-begins/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:48:48

• Password Managers Vulnerable to Vault Compromise Under Malicious Server ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/password-managers-vulnerable-to-vault-compromise-under-malicious-server/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:49:20

• “Smart” Water Meters ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/02/17/smart-water-meters/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:49:34

• French court sentences former Senate adviser for upskirt photos ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/french-court-sentences-former-senate-adviser-for-upskirt-photos    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:50:28

• Fake Incident Report Used in Phishing Campaign, (Tue, Feb 17th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32722    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:51:07

• NXP S32N79 octa-core Arm Cortex-A78E/12-core Cortex-R52 “Super-Integration Processor” targets Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/18/nxp-s32n79-octa-core-arm-cortex-a78e-12-core-cortex-r52-super-integration-processor-targets-software-defined-vehicles-sdv/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:56:47

• PiBot CNC Pendant V4.0 – A handheld Bluetooth and RJ12 controller for FluidNC-based CNC machines ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/17/pibot-cnc-pendant-v4-0-a-handheld-bluetooth-and-rj12-controller-for-fluidnc-based-cnc-machines/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:57:03

• Valve confirms Steam Deck is out of stock due to memory and storage shortages ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/valve-confirms-steam-deck-is-out-of-stock-due-to-memory-and-storage-shortages-supply-of-popular-gaming-handheld-in-trouble-because-of-massive-ai-demand    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:57:31

• Firefox Tooling Announcements: New Deploy of PerfCompare (Feb 17th) ☞ https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/new-deploy-of-perfcompare-feb-17th/147456    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:58:03

• openSUSE Board Election 2025 has been announced ☞ https://sysadmin-journal.com/opensuse-board-election-2025-has-been-announced/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:58:55

• Washington’s expectations of allies come into focus in Munich ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/washingtons-expectations-of-allies-come-into-focus-in-munich/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:59:36

• Jackson’s ‘Keep Hope Alive’ Speech in 1988 Was a Call for Social Justice and Unity ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/politics/jesse-jackson-keep-hope-alive-speech.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 04:59:50

• Top Machine Learning Developer Speechless at Simple Question: Should Hey Hi (AI) Simulate Emotional Intimacy? ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-developers-emotional-intimacy    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:01:29

• How to Replace nm-tray with NetworkManager GNOME (nm-applet) in FunOS ☞ https://funos.org/replace-nm-tray-with-nm-applet-funos/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:01:56

• GStreamer 1.28 brings Hey Hi (AI) inference to your media pipeline ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/gstreamer-128-brings-ai-inference-to-your-media-pipeline.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:02:27

• UPC is an illegal and unconstitutional kangaroo court, now exploited by patent trolls and litigation fanatics, as many warned ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/legal-commentary/upc-received-50-more-infringement-cases-in-2025/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:03:47

• Meta Patented Hey Hi (AI) That Takes Over Your Account When You Die, Keeps Posting Forever ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/meta-patented-ai-die-keeps-posting    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:04:10

• EPO "Productivity" Will Fall Off a Cliff If Examiners Stick to the European Patent Convention (EPC) and Follow the Real Rules (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/EPO_Productivity_Will_Fall_Off_a_Cliff_If_Examiners_Stick_to_th.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:04:23

• Olimex ESP32-P4-PC board offers HDMI video output, Ethernet, four USB 2.0 ports, and more ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/17/olimex-esp32-p4-pc-board-offers-hdmi-video-output-ethernet-four-usb-2-0-ports-and-more/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:13:30

• DIA consolidates open source, media exploitation organizations ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/intelligence-community/2026/02/dia-consolidates-open-source-media-exploitation-organizations/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:14:30

• KDAB at Embedded World 2026, Nuremberg, Germany ☞ https://www.kdab.com/kdab-at-embedded-world-2026-nuremberg-germany/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:15:50

• Rights group condemns US transfer of detainees with ISIS affiliation to Iraq ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/rights-group-condemns-us-transfer-of-detainees-with-isis-affiliation-to-iraq/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:16:37

• IBM Red Hat promoting slop some more, expect quality of products to nose-dive ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/17/uncomfortable-truth-about-vibe-coding    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:17:58

• Plasma 6.6.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059187/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:19:04

• EPO's Central Staff Committee on Fourth Technical Meeting, Two Days Before First of (At Least) 4 Winter Strikes at the Second-Largest European Institution ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/EPO_s_Central_Staff_Committee_on_Fourth_Technical_Meeting_Two_D.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:19:54

• Drone strikes in the Kordofan's region ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/drone-strikes-in-the-kordofan-s-region    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:20:35

• Why the US can destroy terrorist camps in Nigeria, but not terrorism – security scholar ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/joint/diplomacy-a-peace/why-the-us-can-destroy-terrorist-camps-in-nigeria-but-not-terrorism-security-scholar/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:20:56

• Chinese hackers exploited a Dell zero-day for 18 months before anyone noticed ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/china-brickstorm-grimbolt-dell-zero-day/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:21:37

• Murena Volla 12.6-inch privacy-focused tablet runs /e/OS Google-free Android OS on MediaTek Helio G99 SoC ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/18/murena-volla-12-6-inch-privacy-focused-tablet-runs-e-os-google-free-android-os-on-mediatek-helio-g99-soc/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:22:18

• Building What Comes Next: Community Engagement at Creative Commons ☞ https://creativecommons.org/2026/02/17/building-what-comes-next-community-engagement-at-creative-commons/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:23:29

• KDE Plasma 6.6 is out – screenshot OCR, refresh rate fix + more ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/kde-plasma-6-6-released    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:24:04

• An update on upki ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059184/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:24:32

• MidnightBSD 4.0.2 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/midnightbsd    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:25:20

• Libinput 1.31.0 added Adjustable Disable While Typing Timeout ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/libinput-1-31-0-disable-while-typing-timeout/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:25:57

• 'Linux' Foundation Puts Slop Images, Not Just Slop Text, in Linux.com ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Linux_Foundation_Puts_Slop_Images_Not_Just_Slop_Text_in_Linux_c.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:26:18

• New GNU/Linux Botnet Discovered ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/New-Linux-Botnet-Discovered    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:27:25

• Still Some Slopfarms in View, Sometimes Targetting "Linux" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/Still_Some_Slopfarms_in_View_Sometimes_Targetting_Linux.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:27:56

• luasmith – flexible static site generator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/luasmith-flexible-static-site-generator/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:29:04

• 5 Top Free and Open Source OCaml Web Frameworks ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-ocaml-web-frameworks/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:29:36

• lancher – local project-template manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lancher-local-project-template-manager/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:29:47

• Tweak Limine Installer to not exclude USB ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/tweak-limine-installer-to-not-exclude-usb.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:30:44

• ByteDance Quickly Dials Back ‘Seedance 2.0’ After Disney Legal Threats Sink In ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/17/bytedance-seedance-2-0-legal-threats/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:31:07

• Spain to Investigate Social Media Giants, Escalating Trans-Atlantic Tech Dispute ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/world/europe/spain-investigate-social-media.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 05:31:31

• "stop ra-ing the companies to line your pockets" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khnx2mms    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 06:08:18

• "I feel like hiring an attorney for a severance agreement is the biggest waste of time and money unless there’s clearly something unlawful or you have an huge amount unpaid work/commission. All of that severance money they would owe you would just straight to the lawyer." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khpvk7zz    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 06:10:05

• "IBM is going to have a fierce legal team. You can’t just hire some no-name attorney to battle with their IBM’s legal team." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khpvk7zz    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 06:10:22

• Mass Layoffs (But Silent Layoffs) Still Happening in IBM, You Need Only Look Closely (There Are NDAs, PIPs, 'Early Retirement' Sweeteners and IBM - Like Microsoft - Skirts the WARN Act) http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Mass_Layoffs_But_Silent_Layoffs_Still_Happening_in_IBM_You_Need.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 06:35:17

• Anon: Coming up in today's batch: "The political effects of X s feed algorithm | Nature" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2 apropos conspiracy of silence    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 08:30:59

• "It would be magnificent if the SRA were to reform even slightly."    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 08:31:11

• BEFORE Microsoft took over The Register MS https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/29/richard_stallman_cancer/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 08:36:11

• iophk: The keyboard built into the Raspberry Pi 550+ is excellent and the SSD is not too small for most use cases.    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 09:21:00

• IBM To Kernel Maintainer: "You Are An IBM Employee 100% Of The Time" https://www.phoronix.com/news/IBM-Employee-100p-Time    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 09:56:54

• "The AI rip-off was not just ugly." ☛ https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/ |    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:10:37

• "Over the past year, Creative Commons communities around the world have continued to show what’s possible when people come together around shared values of openness, collaboration, and care." ☛ https://creativecommons.org/2026/02/17/building-what-comes-next-community-engagement-at-creative-commons/ | Source: Creative Commons    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:10:47

• "Pay TV provider DISH Network has filed a complaint against 'DMTN IPTV' and its alleged operators, including one who posed as Breaking Bad's creator on Facebook." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/dish-sues-dmtn-iptv-in-21m-piracy-lawsuit-operator-posed-as-breaking-bad-creator/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:13:06

• "What started as an organic exchange in various spaces has revealed something larger: a strong appetite to move these conversations into the open." ☛ https://creativecommons.org/2026/02/18/cc-licenses-data-governance-and-the-african-context/ | Source: Creative Commons    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:13:21

• Right of Publicity ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/why-your-notebooklm-podcast-might-sound-like-its-hosted-by-npr/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:18:20

• "Which? claimed that Qualcomm abused its market position as a dominant producer of processors and radio chips for smartphones" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/qualcomm_wins_uk_competition_case/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:18:46

• "This is the scenario Netflix feared. On Tuesday, Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) reopened talks with Paramount..." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/netflixs-big-bet-under-threat | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:19:24

• "Over the past few weeks, I dove head-first into the YouTube rabbit hole of the analog life, the personal cloud, less dependency on big tech companies" ☛ https://yordi.me/owning-my-music-again/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:27:43

• "IPv6 scanning has often been compared to finding needles in an impossibly large haystack." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/18/unveiling-ipv6-scanning-dynamics-the-largest-telescope-reveals-a-surging-diverse-ecosystem/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:28:10

• "Workers in Michigan became the first Chipotle employees to ever win union recognition." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/02/chipotle-unionization-michigan-teamsters-organizing/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:28:42

• "ICE worked with Palantir Technologies to work on ImmigrationOS to make its job easier" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ai-immigration-enforcement-1780087 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:29:03

• "This year’s report, out today, shows union density at 10%." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/labor-movement-attack | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:29:23

• "The union membership rate--the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions --was 10.0 percent in 2025" ☛ https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm |    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:29:41

• "In a statement on Monday, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) said the FBI had contacted it." ☛ https://crooksandliars.com/2026/02/fbi-officially-says-it-wont-give-local |    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:30:18

• "The theologian and historian Gary Dorrien has made it his mission to chronicle and revive the tradition of Christian democratic socialism." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/02/dorrien-christianity-american-democratic-socialism/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:30:52

• "The finding is the latest evidence that despite being placed on the U.S. government’s Entity List in July 2023" ☛ https://therecord.media/predator-spyware-used-to-infect-phone-angola-journalist | Source: The Record    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:38:37

• "The most enthusiastic modern proponent that I know of the orality theory of everything is Bloomberg’s Joe Wiesenthal" ☛ https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-the-decline-of-literacyand-the | Source: Derek Thompson    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:39:00

• "But none of this is about traffic. If you tether your payment model to the number of public pageviews you receive" ☛ https://werd.io/in-graphic-detail-subscriptions-are-rising-at-big-news-publishers-even-as-traffic-shrinks/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:39:39

• "CBS preemptively enforced a rule change that hasn't happened, on behalf of a government that hasn't enacted it." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/17/cbs-blocked-colbert-from-interviewing-a-candidate-so-he-put-it-on-youtube-instead.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:45:13

• "Walking his audience through the FCC’s “equal time” rule" ☛ https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/stephen-colbert-cbs-blocked-james-talarico-interview-fcc-equal-time-1236665220/ | Source: Variety    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:45:39

• "The initiative aims at improving access to secure, fast, and reliable connectivity for the transition towards cloud-based infrastructure and Artificial Intelligence." ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14709-Digital-Networks-Act_en | Source: European Commission    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:46:40

• "A week ago we discussed free trade, and specifically took a look at the classical mechanism by which free trade is supposed to improve overall outcomes, as measured by GDP." ☛ https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/18/free-trade-and-the-left-bis-from-cobden-to-lenin | Source: Andy Wingo    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:47:01

• "And why you shouldn’t worry about the wealthy abandoning your states" ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/memo-to-kathy-hochul-and-gavin-newsom | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:47:17

• "To kill the serpent, we need a different approach." ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/online-safety-needs-structural-change-not-more-layers-of-control/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 10:47:33

• "By using knowledge gained from his PV solar-powered quadcopter, [Luke] set about to take it all a few steps further." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/18/creating-the-worlds-most-efficient-quadcopter-drone/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:22:14

• "Thorbjornsen is a founder of THORChain, a blockchain through which users can swap one cryptocurrency for another and earn fees from making those swaps." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/18/1132587/jean-paul-thorbjornsen-dark-side-crypto-permissionless-dream/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:22:27

• "Software-defined power is a layer that moves utility functions from fixed, discrete hardware devices into a flexible software environment." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/power-grid/grid-modernization/what-is-software-defined-power-and-why-should-utilities-take-note/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:22:46

• "NAACP Against xAI's Southaven Turbines - 512 Pixels" ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/02/ncaap-against-xais-southaven-turbines/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:23:35

• "It is imperative that the Permit Board disapprove the Permit because both MDEQ and the community must understand the full impact of the MZX Tech" ☛ https://www.memphisflyer.com/naacp-sends-letter-in-opposition-to-southaven-xai-permit/ |    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:23:46

• "Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press" ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/foia-lawsuit-body-cam-footage-mpd-doge-raid-usip-we-won | Source: Marisa Kabas    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:24:31

• "A former Deutsche Bank compliance officer told the FBI she was fired in 2018 after flagging suspicious activity in accounts linked to Jeffrey Epstein and Jared Kushner, offering yet another example of how they operated above the law." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/02/fbi-epstein-kuchner-whistleblower-silenced/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:24:58

• "This marks the latest public development in the ongoing examination of the Epstein investigation and related records" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/les-wexner-deposed-epstein-investigation-1779921 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:25:15

• "American policy under Trump to assist Russia’s efforts to destroy Ukraine." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/munich-rubio-aoc-what-a-real-leader | Source: The Next Move    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:26:15

• "And even more surprisingly, once the algorithm was switched off, their views did not change again. The effect of the algorithm lingered, in part because it led users to follow more conservative influencers" ☛ https://werd.io/the-political-effects-of-xs-feed-algorithm/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:26:32

• "We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour." ☛ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2?ref=werd.io | Source: Nature    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:26:53

• "A few stories about centibillionaires — men whose net worth exceeds $100 billion — and their role in our society: [...]" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/billionaires-gone-wild | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:27:11

• "Individually, each of these events can be defended as constitutionally permissible. The question is not whether each action is likely legal." ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1149 | Source: Unmitigated Risk    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:27:24

• "In concert, these reports reflect a growing reality: Data centers are strategic, interconnected infrastructure supporting our manufacturing, national security, and communication systems." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/data-center-security-ai-infrastructure-investment-op-ed/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:27:40

• "The title of the post is”What AI Security Research Looks Like When It Works,” and I agree: [...]" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/ai-found-twelve-new-vulnerabilities-in-openssl.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:28:21

• "Tor is just one casualty. The Guardian Project, which builds open-source privacy tools" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/17/trumps-aid-freeze-is-killing-us-funded-privacy-tools-like-tor.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:29:15

• "Many users, myself included, view this as a major breach of trust and the final stage of years of gradual enshittification." ☛ https://no-bull.sh/blog/2026/02/16/in-search-of-a-discord-replacement/ |    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:29:27

• "As I’ll demonstrate, it’s surprisingly easy to spin up your own VPN provider on a virtual machine hosted by your choice of the cloud providers" ☛ https://danq.me/2026/02/18/run-your-own-wireguard-vpn/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:30:35

• "Just weeks after last year’s election, Mark Carney’s government committed not one, but two privacy blunders in rapid succession." ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/02/time-for-the-government-to-fix-its-political-party-privacy-blunder-kill-bill-c-4s-disastrous-privacy-rules/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:31:01

• "For those unaware, Amazon's Ring launched Search Party late in September last year as a means to help families reunite with lost pets." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/internal-ring-email-says-search-party-goes-beyond-dogs/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:31:15

• "Search Party was initially designed to find dogs and recently expanded to wildfires. It is on by default for any user with a Ring subscription." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/880906/ring-siminoff-email-leak-search-party-expansion | Source: The Verge    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:31:28

• "intended to promote government efficiency, transparency, and accountability." ☛ https://www.404media.co/palantir-which-is-powering-ice-says-immigration-crackdown-may-hurt-hiring/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:31:44

• "The Netherlands-based company disclosed a data breach in mid-January, informing the public that the personal, order, and travel reservation information of customers who were issued a Eurail pass may have been compromised. Those who reserved a seat through Eurail may also be affected." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-offer-to-sell-millions-of-eurail-user-records/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:32:02

• "The company has not disclosed the total number of affected individuals, but Eurail operates passes across 250,000 kilometers of European railways, serving millions of travelers annually." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/eurail-breach-data-on-dark-web-for-sale/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:32:18

• "That transition was simple in concept and genuinely hard in practice." ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1164 | Source: Unmitigated Risk    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:33:06

• "On February 16, the organization revealed it now had a presence on Codeberg, where contributions could be submitted." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/gentoo_dumps_github_for_codeberg_over_copilot_nagware/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:33:42

• "Agentic workflows - where an AI agent runs automatically in GitHub Actions - are now in technical preview" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/github_previews_agentic_workflows/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:33:52

• Windows TCO: "Today, I discovered anoher campaign that relies exactly on the same technique." ☛ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32726 | Source: SANS    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:35:48

• Windows TCO: "The Phobos ransomware-as-a-service operation emerged in 2019." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/man-linked-to-phobos-ransomware-arrested-in-poland/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:35:59

• "This was a confined-space operation, which is a very difficult, time-consuming, manpower-intensive operation" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-teenager-rescue-bridge-tiktok-b2922394.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:36:38

• "Authorities say the boy had fallen about 50 feet down a 3 feet by 3 feet shaft after climbing a section of the bridge over Roosevelt Island earlier in the day as part of a daring social media stunt." ☛ https://abc7ny.com/post/teenager-rescued-queensboro-bridge-social-media-stunt-went-wrong/18613409/ | Source: ABC    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:36:50

• "According to NYPD sources, the 16-year-old boy told police he was with friends on the bridge, but they left him after he fell. No one else was on the scene when police and firefighters arrived." ☛ https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/queensboro-bridge-teen-falls-tiktok-challenge/ | Source: CBS    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:37:14

• "There are many reasons why Instagram isn't the same anymore. Part of it is down to the social media landscape, and habits of social media users. As I think we've now become a generation of consumption." ☛ https://chrishannah.me/instagram-in-2026/ | Source: Chris Hannah    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:38:02

• "The persons responsible for this URL scheme thought well enough ahead for the complexity and scope it could encapsulate, yet kept it remarkably simple." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/flickr-url-scheme/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:43:57

• "PCWorld reports that YouTube is deliberately disabling core features like comments and descriptions for users with active ad blockers installed." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3063478/youtube-is-breaking-its-own-features-for-users-with-ad-blockers.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:44:13

• EDRI on Software Freedom in EU https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Consultation-response-on-EU-Open-Source-Strategy_final.pdf    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:44:48

• "Unlike many earlier legal challenges against social media companies, these cases managed to overcome the companies’ attempts to get them dismissed based on objections citing Section 230" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/880850/social-media-lawsuits-meta-facebook-instagram-tiktok | Source: The Verge    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:45:03

• "Specifically, Zuckerberg was on hand to answer questions as to whether Meta products such as Facebook and Instagram were intentionally engineered to be addictive" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-testifies-social-media-addiction-trial-meta/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:45:18

• Firefox mostly a survivor in Europe https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/europe/#monthly-200902-202602p;  

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:47:23

• "This is strongly reminiscent of the Shell Game podcast I wrote about recently." ☛ https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/butlers-or-architects.html | Source: Murat Demirbas    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:47:37

• "A high PR count on a repository used to actually mean something. If strangers were showing up to fix your edge cases, you'd built something people cared about." ☛ https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-gatekeeping-or-why-medieval-guilds-had-it-figured-out/ | Source: Westenberg    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:48:04

• "I maintain several open source projects. Some of them are somewhat popular, and attract contributions. In the age of LLMs I increasingly doubt whether I’m dealing with a human on the other side, and this is taking a toll on my mental health." ☛ https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2026/ai-paranoia | Source: Ruud van Asseldonk    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:48:27

• "I have to begin by warning you about the content in this piece; while I won’t be dwelling on any specifics, this will necessarily be a broad discussion about some of the most disturbing topics imaginable." ☛ https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/threatening-kids-with-ai/ | Source: Anil Dash    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:49:03

• "Overproduction" ☛ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1122/overproduction | Source: David Revoy    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:52:51

• "Raspberry Pi offers multiple AI HAT+'s for the Raspberry Pi 5 with built-in Hailo-8 or Hailo-8L AI coprocessors, and they're useful for low-power inference (like for image object detection) on the Pi." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/frigate-with-hailo-for-object-detection-on-a-raspberry-pi/ | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:53:26

• "Orders that haven’t yet been fulfilled, for data centers that haven’t been built yet, for AI services which don’t generate money, to perform services most people don’t even want." ☛ https://blast-o-rama.com/2026/02/17/the-a-i-pocalypse-hits-video-game-hardware/ | Source: Marty Day    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:53:59

• "I feel like this is going to lead to a really strong resurgence in the Right to Repair movement, as we’re all going to be holding onto our tech longer"    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:54:29

• "I’m going to argue that claims about technological inevitability are wrong and monopolistic. " ☛ https://maxlangenkamp.me/posts/tech_not_inevitable/ |    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:54:51

• "All three reactions are warranted" ☛ https://aisle.com/blog/what-ai-security-research-looks-like-when-it-works |    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:55:11

• "Market analysts expect memory prices to rise further in 2026, peaking in the first half of the year: [...]" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3063482/wi-fi-routers-are-expected-to-explode-in-price-due-to-ram-shortage.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:55:27

• "It’s genuinely possible that some companies won’t be able to secure enough RAM." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/881062/ram-shortage-kill-products-companies-phison-ceo-interview | Source: The Verge    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:56:01

• "The rise of machine-based identities and AI agents, which require an identity to take action, is expanding the attack surface for cybercriminals." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/attackers-abuse-identity-unit42-palo-alto-networks-incident-response-report/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:56:24

• "Google launched Lyria 3, the latest iteration of its music creation AI, on Wednesday, and has made it far more available than the previous versions of the engine." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/google_musical_slop/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:56:44

• "The most serious issue can cause a so-called Black Screen of Death (BSOD) with the error code KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3064817/windows-11-update-causing-bsods-and-wi-fi-issues-microsoft-confirms.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:57:40

• "This vulnerability affects Microsoft 365 accounts and compromises sensitive data like contracts and medical information stored in Sent and Drafts folders." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3064782/copilot-bug-allows-ai-to-read-confidential-outlook-emails.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:58:57

• "Several types of attacks were conducted against each of the tested password managers to degrade security guarantees, undermine expected protections, and fully compromise user accounts." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/password-managers-vulnerable-to-vault-compromise-under-malicious-server/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 11:59:13

• "The Lone Star State's Attorney General, Ken Paxton, is filing the lawsuit against California-based TP-Link Systems Inc." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/texas_sues_tplink_over_china/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:00:09

• "Tech CEOs are not afraid of your phone, they are afraid of your boredom, because boredom is where you notice your life" ☛ https://naeemnur.com/doing-what-every-tech-ceo-loathes/ |    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:01:37

• "Keeping the phone at home, despite the nagging fear that there will be something to make me wish I had its camera with me, leaves me only with the choice of reading or blankly watching the world around me." ☛ https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-18-reading-my-mind/ | Source: Bix Frankonis    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:01:48

• "Yesterday I got to thinking about how all the various kinds of burnout really are just separate tentacles of the burnout hydra that is living in a system that prioritizes the needs of capital above the needs of people." ☛ https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-18-its-like-the-burnout-said-phenomenon/ | Source: Bix Frankonis    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:04:48

• "In this case, the model's sycophancy weighting overrode its safety guardrail protocols." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/google_gemini_lie_placate_user/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:05:03

• "The second notebook I keep with me always is A5 sized notebook. I use it for more functional brainstorming and planning." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/different-notebook-sizes-for-different-ideas/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:05:25

• "For years, Gwen has been sharing that expertise as a prolific blogger, conference presenter, and co-author of the popular O’Reilly Kafka guide." ☛ https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/gwen-shapira-on-technical-blogging | Source: Cynthia Dunlop    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:05:57

• "Going to the next room – exploring the periphery – has taken me from medieval art to religious art to landscapes" ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/02/14/art-in-person | Source: James G    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:06:09

• "Sine waves sound clean, but also unnatural. We will never hear a sine wave in nature—it’s just too idealized." ☛ https://scvalex.net/posts/80/ | Source: Alexandru Scvorțov    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:11:44

• "specialized terms and phrases used for efficient communication between colleagues" ☛ https://phinze.com/writing/useful-tech-terms | Source: Paul Hinze    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:12:22

• "It seems natural to think of online communities competing for the time and attention of their participants." ☛ https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/why-do-people-participate-in-similar-online-communities | Source: Benjamin Mako Hill    

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

• "Computer Science Professor Joseph Halpern passed away on Friday after a long battle with cancer." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/02/joe-halpern-1953-2025.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:12:59

• "The odd thing is that when I do finally end up reading them, they often end up being very different from what I'd imagined." ☛ https://www.elliotcsmith.com/the-unbound-potential-of-open-tabs/ | Source: Elliot C Smith    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:13:16

• "Nadjma's insight was to flip this framework inward. Your professional image is your personal RAG report." ☛ https://sysadmin-journal.com/what-your-appearance-says-before-you-speak-lessons-from-pmi-mauritius/ | Source: Ish Sookun    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:13:34

• "That’s why the professional answer to so many questions is: “it depends”." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/observations-on-care/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:13:53

• Mewgenics is a clear hit reaching over a million sales | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/mewgenics-is-a-clear-hit-reaching-over-a-million-sales/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/mewgenics-is-a-clear-hit-reaching-over-a-million-sales/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:19:49

• Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan for the Vibrant Visuals update | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/minecraft-java-is-switching-from-opengl-to-vulkan-for-the-vibrant-visuals-update/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:24:13

• Unity CEO says an upcoming Beta will allow people to "prompt full casual games into existence" | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/unity-ceo-says-an-upcoming-beta-will-allow-people-to-prompt-full-casual-games-into-existence/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:24:40

• So in addition to Microsoft Mono they will be pushing slop into games    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:25:24

• Hytale gets a huge Patch 3 update with Animal Taming, Map Markers and lots of new content | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/hytale-gets-a-huge-patch-3-update-with-animal-taming-map-markers-and-lots-of-new-content/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:26:39

• CoStar layoffs hit Richmond -- again https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/costar-layoffs-richmond-feb-18-2026    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:27:53

• Prepare for HDD availability trouble as they're getting sold out too | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/prepare-for-hdd-availability-trouble-as-theyre-getting-sold-out-too/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/prepare-for-hdd-availability-trouble-as-theyre-getting-sold-out-too/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:28:48

• Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/experimental-code-ready-for-testing-to-enable-hdmi-2-1-frl-with-amdgpu-on-linux ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:45:16

• The Register MS selling Microsoft again https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/capita_microsoft_copilot_pensions/ see http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/The_Register_MS_is_Promoting_Slop_Promotion_Connected_to_Micros.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:47:30

• "Politics Is Everywhere, So Why Do People Feel So Powerless?" https://jacobin.com/2026/02/hyperpolitics-jager-institutions-media-review/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:47:46

• iophk: these are effectively proprietary devices because LF fails to enforce the GPL https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/texas_sues_tplink_over_china/ https://techrights.org/o/2020/04/28/openwashing-vmware-after-gpl-abuses/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:48:13

• "How one country stopped a Trump-style authoritarian in his tracks" https://www.vox.com/politics/479290/brazil-democracy-trump-bolsonaro-multiparty    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:48:30

• "Why the hell is Trump threatening war with Iran again?" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-the-hell-is-trump-threatening    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:48:45

• "Munich, Rubio, AOC: What A Real Leader Would Say" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/munich-rubio-aoc-what-a-real-leader    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:49:02

• "Europe's $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard" https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=26/02/14/0514214    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:49:18

• Godot Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/godot-engine-suffering-from-lots-of-ai-slop-code-submissions/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/godot-engine-suffering-from-lots-of-ai-slop-code-submissions/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:51:00

• NVIDIA recommended driver 580.126.18 released for Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/nvidia-recommended-driver-580-126-18-released-for-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:51:51

• "same limitations as in-person training" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-learning-reinvents-virtual-training | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:53:06

• "If you're already using Red Hat Insights, all the features you rely on—like the advisor, vulnerability, and compliance services—are staying exactly the same." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/simplify-red-hat-enterprise-linux-provisioning-image-builder-new-red-hat-lightspeed-security-and-management-integrations | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:53:21

• "There is no flashy interface, no proprietary cloud service, no opaque black box and no paid service that charges a monthly fee." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/02/18/building-self-hosted-trading-infra-on-os/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:53:56

• "Previously I have written about how useful public cloud storage can be when starting a new project without knowing how much data you will need to store." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/predict-compare-and-reduce-costs-with-our-s3-cost-calculator | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:54:25

• "What’s the best way to display a rainbow on a computer?" ☛ https://brandonli.net/spectra/doc/ |    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:55:55

• "The nsnotifyd tool is a neat little utility that can be used for automating tasks when a DNS zone changes." ☛ https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/nsnotifyd-with-powerdns-secondary/ | Source: Feld    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:56:11

• "‘Webmention’ is a standardized way for owners of websites or blogs to tell one another that a link has been posted from one article to another." ☛ https://kevinboone.me/webmention.html | Source: Kevin Boone    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:56:23

• "In many of the proposed PQC signing algorithms, the signature size is relatively large compared with the ECDSA signature size of 64 bytes, which is the current standard in DNSSEC." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/19/dnssec-and-pqc-the-practical-impact-of-increased-tcp-in-dns/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:56:40

• "qlcal delivers the calendaring parts of QuantLib." ☛ https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/02/18/#qlcal-r_0.1.0 | Source: Dirk Eddelbuettel    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 12:59:51

• [Old] "This model was conceived in 2010, now more than 10 years ago, and not very long after Git itself came into being." ☛ https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ |    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:00:35

• "Today, a very quick note on dynamic instance type checks in virtual machines with single inheritance." ☛ https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/18/two-mechanisms-for-dynamic-type-checks | Source: Andy Wingo    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:05:03

• "In a previous post, I wrote about linker relaxation: the linker’s ability to replace a slower, larger instruction with a faster, smaller one when it has enough information at link time." ☛ https://fzakaria.com/2026/02/18/linker-pessimization | Source: Farid Zakaria    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:05:17

• "This is something I just tried out last week but it seems to have enough potential to be worth showing unpolished." ☛ https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/stream-of-consciousness-driven-development/ | Source: Buttondown LLC    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:05:34

• "Few things are more frustrating when first developing your own libraries than RPATH." ☛ https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/rpath/ | Source: Logikal Solutions    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:05:49

• "It is — and it totally makes sense." ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/02/18/cpp26-std_is_within_lifetime | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:06:05

• "February is a month to celebrate love for many things: our loved ones, our communities, and the free software behind most people's digital lives" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-i-love-free-software-day | Source: FSF    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:06:53

• "It's worth noting that this was a time consuming process and a rather technical one." ☛ https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/owning-your-data | Source: Cory Dransfeldt    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:07:04

• "Here’s the Hackaday Europe 2026 announcement that you’ve all been waiting for." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/18/2026-hackaday-europe-call-for-participation-we-want-you/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:08:30

• "The dust has finally settled on the United Nations General Assembly’s twenty-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20)." ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/desiree-miloshevic/how-global-digital-cooperation-entered-its-implementation-phase/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:08:43

• "Each year, we review our work against the following three core objectives." ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/alena-muravska/looking-back-at-2025-what-the-numbers-say-about-engagement-skills-and-coordination/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:08:55

• "PCWorld reports that Mozilla Firefox has ended support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, with version 115" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3064835/firefox-ends-support-for-windows-7-upgrade-to-10-or-linux.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:12:04

• "These fake extensions bypassed Chrome Web Store security using misspelled names" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3063476/30-fake-ai-chrome-extensions-caught-stealing-passwords-and-more.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:12:42

• "Because RSS is an open protocol, and because there are so many different possible ways to follow and read the news" ☛ https://ranchero.com/2026/02/17/new-rss-reader-current.html |    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:13:33

• "When I started Buttondown back in 2018, I went with the former." ☛ https://www.jmduke.com/posts/subpaths-vs-subdomains.html | Source: Justin Duke    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:13:44

• "Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, I’ve been thinking a little more about what makes a good man page." ☛ https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/02/18/man-pages/ | Source: Julia Evans    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:14:54

• "In my last post, I talked about switching from ZNC to Soju as my IRC bouncer." ☛ https://susam.net/soju-user-delete-hash.html | Source: SusamPal    

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

• "Some thoughts about my experience getting my parents' new devices up and running, and how bad it keeps getting today." ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/setting-up-phones-is-a-nightmare/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:30:57

• "With the addition of E2EE for ‌RCS‌, messages between ‌iPhone‌ users and Android users will eventually be just as secure as iMessage" ☛ https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/16/ios-26-4-rcs-encryption-testing/ | Source: MacRumors    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:31:56

• "Handheld and SFF specialist ETA Prime on YouTube has made it happen with gaming phone running the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 at 30 to 40 FPS in emulation." ☛ 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 | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:32:12

• "All it takes is an UNO Q, a suitable USB-C hub, and a USB camera — a low-magnification USB microscope works best to get a clear and close-up view of the resistor." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/02/19/arduino-uno-q-solves-the-classic-resistor-pile-issue/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:33:02

• "I didn’t think to take a picture of the tower before I removed all the components and took it downstairs to the ewaste pile, but inside I was able to extract a near immaculate 550 W power supply, an Asus DVD writer, some screws, and a few ports, switches, and LEDs." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/some-more-roadside-tech-goodies/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:33:20

• "The organ produces music by playing notes on embedded instruments, which are themselves operated by air pressure, with note arrangements read off what amounts to a very long punch card." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/18/inside-a-dutch-street-organ-the-art-of-mechanical-music-making/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:33:36

• "That's nearly two hundred frames in one single second. Incredibly impressive, yes. But do you really need to shoot this fast? Unless you’re a pro who’s shooting at the Winter Olympics, the answer is no." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/mirrorless-cameras/i-actually-reduce-the-fps-on-my-camera-when-shooting-action-to-get-better-shots-heres-why | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:34:17

• "Sales of refurbished PCs are on the up amid shortages of key components, including memory chips, that are making brand new devices more expensive." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/refurbished_pcs_memory_crunch/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:34:39

• "Gijs Tuinman made the comments during a podcast interview after being asked whether the aircraft's software could be modified by European force" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/jailbreak_an_f35/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:35:09

• "The contents and format of the bsd.rd ramdisk kernel is shown, so you can understand and customize it for your own needs." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260218061632 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:35:45

• "And yet, there has remained one question seemingly on everyone’s lips." ☛ https://asahilinux.org/2026/02/progress-report-6-19/ |    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:36:12

• "Found in a thrift store, the 1960s Selchow & Righter SCRABBLE® variant that nobody loved. It has no board, but 180 tiles, slightly different from the SCRABBLE® ones (dang, I love that I can type ®, can’t you tell?)" ☛ https://scruss.com/blog/2026/02/18/official-scrabblebrand-anagrams/ | Source: Stewart C Russell    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:37:41

• "When World of Warcraft was launched in 2004, it became somewhat of a juggernaut in the MMORPG space." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/18/an-open-source-client-for-world-of-warcraft/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:37:55

• "Every h-feed has a HTML ID that uniquely identifies it. For example, /hwc-notes#hwc-pacific identifies the HWC Pacific notes h-feed on the /hwc-notes web page." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/02/13/multiple-h-feeds-same-page | Source: James G    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:39:41

• "That’s right — I’m running this show now, and you know what that means: I’m runnin’ a little long, baby. Strap in!" ☛ https://piccalil.li/the-index/165/ | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:40:03

• "This morning I saw log entries I’ve never noticed before. They seem to have started 9 hours ago. First, this email arrived." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/02/18/452-4-3-1-insufficient-system-storage/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:40:16

• "Credit goes to him. Besides that I like to share everything that could be useful – I also treat my blog as a place where I keep and maintain my FreeBSD documentation …" ☛ https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/native-freebsd-kerberos-ldap-with-freeipa-idm/ | Source: Vermaden    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:40:37

• "To implement the effect, we take a fixed-size window and replace each pixel value with the arithmetic mean of n pixels in its neighborhood." ☛ https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/its-all-a-blur | Source: Lcamtuf    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:41:03

• "To better understand what’s happening here, consider the above test case: [...]" ☛ https://markjames.dev/blog/6502-jump-indirect-bug |    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:41:45

• "Another crucial structural shift came in 1992, when Torvalds moved the kernel under the GNU General Public License (GPL)." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/linus_torvalds_and_friends/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:42:04

• "ARC and L2ARC sizing in Proxmox is a capacity-planning problem, not a tuning exercise." ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/arc-and-l2arc-sizing-for-proxmox/ | Source: Klara    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:42:21

• "My impression of many of those conversational shows was that even though they were relatively lightly edited" ☛ https://coyotetracks.org/blog/trim-silence/ | Source: Watts Martin    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:43:14

• Antoine Beaupré: net-tools to iproute cheat sheet ☞ https://anarc.at/blog/2026-02-18-iproute2/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:55:19

• Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography ☞ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/02/18/carelessness-versus-craftsmanship-in-cryptography/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:57:26

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 639 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/02/18/this-week-in-rust-639/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 13:59:11

• Why Some People Thrive on Four Hours of Sleep ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/why-some-people-thrive-on-four-hours-of-sleep    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:33:59

• No more fainting spells: Cat gets pacemaker implant in milestone for Thai animal healthcare ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/no-more-fainting-spells-cat-gets-pacemaker-implant-in-milestone-for-thai-animal-healthcare    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:34:17

• NIH’s Bhattacharya will also run the CDC while Convicted Felon administration looks for a permanent director ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/people/2026/02/nihs-bhattacharya-will-also-run-the-cdc-while-trump-administration-looks-for-a-permanent-director/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:34:36

• Extra! Extra! News from N. Korea now more freely available but are S. Koreans 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 Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:35:09

• South Korean civilians sent drones to North 4 times after Lee became president, harming ties: Seoul ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korea-says-civilians-sent-drones-to-north-korea-four-times-harming-ties    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:35:27

• North Korea flexes nuclear-capable rocket launcher ahead of key congress ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-says-new-military-goals-to-be-set-at-party-congress    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:35:45

• North Korea's Kim Jon-Un unveils nuclear-capable rocket system ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260219-north-korea-kim-jon-un-unveils-nuclear-capable-rocket-system    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:36:06

• Thomas Lange: 42.000 FAI.me jobs created ☞ http://blog.fai-project.org/posts/42000/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:36:44

• Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, January 2026 (by Santiago Ruano Rincón) ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-01/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:37:04

• 8 Years Later, Linux-based AsteroidOS 2.0 is Here to Add New Life to Your Old Smartwatch ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/asteroidos-2-release/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:37:29

• An Asahi GNU/Linux progress report ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059339/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:37:57

• How the killing of a French far-right activist sparked an online manhunt ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20260218-how-the-killing-of-a-french-far-right-activist-sparked-an-online-manhunt    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:39:11

• Tarek Ziadé: Running SmolLM-135M in rustnn with flexible inputs ☞ https://tarekziade.github.io/2026/02/18/running-smollm-135m-in-rustnn/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:40:11

• Manage Hey Hi (AI) resource use with TokenRateLimitPolicy ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/18/manage-ai-resource-use-tokenratelimitpolicy    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:41:05

• Anubis v1.25.0: Necron ☞ https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/releases/tag/v1.25.0    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:42:33

• Adrian Vovk: GNOME OS Hackfest @ FOSDEM 2026 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2026/02/18/gnome-os-hackfest-fosdem-2026/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:43:32

• KDE Plasma 6.6 Released! New Initial Setup & OCR Support in Spectacle ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/kde-plasma-6-6-released/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:45:58

• GobMis 5.0 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/gobmis    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:46:23

• Calculate 20260217 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/calculate    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:46:35

• FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, February 20, starting at 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC) ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2026-02-20-irc    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:46:49

• The tech is coming/it’s inevitable/etc ☞ https://rubenerd.com/the-tech-is-coming/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:48:21

• "The future is less certain than we realize, and a wise course of action involves acknowledging both our uncertainty but also the way that narrative power can shape outcomes. Be wary the oracle bearing the message that their technology is inevitable."    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:49:09

• 10 Chambers announces massive layoffs as Den of Wolves development continues https://www.notebookcheck.net/10-Chambers-announces-massive-layoffs-as-Den-of-Wolves-development-continues.1229336.0.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:51:15

• Australia rejects foreign threats after claim of China interference ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-rejects-foreign-threats-after-claim-of-china-interference    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:56:21

• How China plans to dominate global trade long after Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/how-china-plans-to-dominate-global-trade-long-after-trump    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:56:42

• Beijing slams US appointment of Tibetan rights envoy ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/beijing-slams-us-appointment-of-tibetan-rights-envoy    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:57:21

• IBM works for Pentagon ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/red-hat-digital-sovereignty-assessment-tool/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:58:09

• Irish Times journalism now fully funded by subscribers ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/irish-times-journalism-now-fully-funded-by-subscribers/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:58:41

• Skeptic Builds “Havana Syndrome”-Style Device, Tests It on Himself, Suffers Grim Consequences ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/weapon-havana-syndrome-scientist    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:59:02

• Major Review on Intermittent Fasting Finds Little Evidence For Weight Loss ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/major-review-on-intermittent-fasting-finds-little-evidence-for-weight-loss    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:59:27

• X-Ray Blaze Could Be First Glimpse of a Black Hole Shredding a White Dwarf ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/x-ray-blaze-could-be-first-glimpse-of-a-black-hole-shredding-a-white-dwarf    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 14:59:47

• Glaciers Can Suddenly And Dangerously Surge Up to 60 Meters a Day ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/glaciers-can-suddenly-and-dangerously-surge-up-to-60-meters-a-day    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:00:03

• Immune Cells Do Something Unexpected to Stop This Brain Parasite From Spreading ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/immune-cells-do-something-unexpected-to-stop-this-brain-parasite-from-spreading    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:00:28

• Humans Are Still Evolving Before Our Eyes on The Tibetan Plateau ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-are-still-evolving-before-our-eyes-on-the-tibetan-plateau    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:00:40

• Scientists Want to Intercept Cancer Decades Before It Develops. Here's How. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-want-to-intercept-cancer-decades-before-it-develops-heres-how    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:01:10

• Surprise Shark Caught on Camera in an Unexpected Place ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/surprise-shark-caught-on-camera-in-an-unexpected-place    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:01:32

• Giant Gravity Anomaly Under Antarctica Is Getting Stronger, Scientists Reveal ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/giant-gravity-anomaly-under-antarctica-is-getting-stronger-scientists-reveal    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:01:48

• Deer Create Mysterious Ultraviolet Signals That Glow in Forests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/deer-create-mysterious-ultraviolet-signals-that-glow-in-forests    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:02:06

• Qt Quick Certification Tests Published ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-quick-certification-tests-published    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:02:40

• about stenography: "How the media keeps manufacturing Elon Musks "Genius"" https://boingboing.net/2026/02/17/how-the-media-keeps-manufacturing-elon-musks-genius.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:03:11

• Being seen as "Smart" is a PR service/product https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:04:06

• Over 80% of companies report no productivity gains from Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/over-80-percent-of-companies-report-no-productivity-gains-from-ai-so-far-despite-billions-in-investment-survey-suggests-6-000-executives-also-reveal-1-3-of-leaders-use-ai-but-only-for-90-minutes-a-week    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:05:21

• Unity Says It Has a New Product That Cooks Up Entire Games Using Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/unity-create-entire-games-using-ai    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:06:41

• Oxford Researcher Warns That Hey Hi (AI) Is Heading for a Hindenburg-Style Disaster ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-hindenburg-disast    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:06:59

• Millions of people can’t understand life-or-death weather alerts: GAO ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/02/millions-of-people-cant-understand-life-or-death-weather-alerts-gao/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:07:29

• Australia to ban citizen from returning to country under rarely-used terror laws ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-to-ban-citizen-from-returning-to-country-under-rarely-used-terror-laws    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:08:45

• Feds and retirees face fresh uncertainty amid resurgent instability ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/02/feds-and-retirees-face-fresh-uncertainty-amid-resurgent-instability/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:09:34

• South Sudan Appoints Dead Man to Election Panel, as Political Crisis Grows ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/world/africa/south-sudan-dead-man-election-crisis.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:12:14

• Israel’s Actions Questioned at Security Council Meeting ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/world/middleeast/security-council-israel-gaza-board-peace.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:12:27

• Timeline: Over 60 Hong Kong civil society groups disband following the onset of the security law ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/19/explainer-over-50-groups-gone-in-11-months-how-hong-kongs-pro-democracy-forces-crumbled/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:12:44

• Dell RecoverPoint Zero-Day Exploited by Chinese Cyberespionage Group ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/dell-recoverpoint-zero-day-exploited-by-chinese-cyberespionage-group/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:13:38

• CISA: Hackers Exploiting Vulnerability in Product of Taiwan Security Firm TeamT5 ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-hackers-exploiting-vulnerability-in-product-of-taiwan-security-firm-teamt5/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:14:13

• "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" - > "if you are smart, why did you collect money you never used?"    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:15:40

• Arduino UNO Q solves the classic resistor pile issue ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/02/19/arduino-uno-q-solves-the-classic-resistor-pile-issue/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:16:07

• Building a Secret with Math: The Diffie-Hellman Guide ☞ https://shibe-bit.github.io/Learnings/Diffie-HellmanKeyExchange    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:16:29

• KDE Plasma 6.6 Turns Spectacle Into an OCR Tool and Ships a New Setup Wizard ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/kde-plasma-6-6-release/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:17:16

• US authorities return 11 Mexican parrots seized at border ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/us-authorities-return-11-mexican-parrots/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:17:43

• Public Knowledge Opposes FCC Vote Jeopardizing Lifeline Program ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-opposes-fcc-vote-jeopardizing-lifeline-program/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:18:14

• TerraMaster F2-425 Plus 3+2-bay hybrid NAS review – Part 1: unboxing, teardown, drives installation, and first boot ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/19/terramaster-f2-425-plus-32-bay-hybrid-nas-review-part-1-unboxing-teardown-drives-installation-and-first-boot/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:19:48

• Lenovo denies allegations of transferring data to China ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/lenovo-denies-allegations-of-transferring-data-to-china-class-action-lawsuit-alleges-company-uses-trackers-to-expose-american-behavioral-data-to-foreign-adversaries    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:20:29

• Realtor Uses AI, Accidentally Posts Photo of Rental Property With Demonic Figure Emerging From Mirror ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/realtor-ai-photo-mirror    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:21:45

• Don't walk on ice to Mangaļsala shipwreck ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/18.02.2026-dont-walk-on-ice-to-mangalsala-shipwreck.a635193/ "Social media shows photos and videos of residents walking on the ice to view the wreck in the Baltic Sea ice reserve zone, where movement is prohibited, Latvian Television reported on 17th February."    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:22:17

• Shipwreck Found at the Bottom of Lake Michigan After Nearly 150 Years ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/us/shipwreck-lac-la-belle-discovered-lake-michigan.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:22:48

• Protect Your Framework Laptop 13 | Why Bumpers Matter ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2026/02/18/protect-your-framework-laptop-13-why-bumpers-matter/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:23:28

• An Inexact Art: Willis Electric and the Limits of Damages Gatekeeping ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/02/inexact-electric-gatekeeping.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:24:39

• Pete Zaitcev: Meanwhile in space ☞ https://zaitcev.livejournal.com/270241.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:24:54

• EPO "Productivity" Will Fall Off a Cliff If Examiners Stick to the European Patent Convention (EPC) and Follow the Real Rules ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/EPO_Productivity_Will_Fall_Off_a_Cliff_If_Examiners_Stick_to_th.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:25:13

• Koyo Licensing sensitive display patent monopoly campaign - invalidity charts coming soon ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/2/18/koyo-licensing-sensitive-display-patent-campaign-invalidity-charts-coming-soon    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:25:27

• Software Patents: Songbird Tech patent monopoly validity challenge coming soon ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/2/18/songbird-tech-patent-validity-challenge-coming-soon    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:26:05

• Patents on algos again ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/2/18/4000-for-key-patent-innovations-entity-malikie-innovations-cryptographic-patents-prior-art    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:26:34

• Corrupt EPO for litigation euros (graft) ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/munich-drives-rising-case-numbers-in-germany/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 15:27:24

• Pete Zaitcev: The end of MinIO ☞ https://zaitcev.livejournal.com/269969.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 16:37:23

• Red Hat Makes Available Supported Version of Podman Desktop Tool for Containers ☞ https://cloudnativenow.com/features/red-hat-makes-available-supported-version-of-podman-desktop-tool-for-containers/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 16:37:59

• UN experts criticize Ireland police use of “less-lethal” weapons at protests ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/un-experts-criticize-ireland-police-use-of-less-lethal-weapons-at-protests/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 16:38:25

• European Commission’s plans will lead to worse regulations ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/european-commissions-plans-will-lead-to-worse-regulations/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 16:39:05

• How recommender algorithms threaten election integrity ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/how-recommender-algorithms-threaten-election-integrity/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 16:39:25

• Ensuring human rights-based, global perspectives in the DSA enforcement: the DSA Human Rights Alliance’s guidelines ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/ensuring-human-rights-based-global-perspectives-in-the-dsa-enforcement-the-dsa-human-rights-alliances-guidelines/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 16:39:45

• Congressional report recommends ‘FedRAMP’ for commercial data brokers ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/02/congressional-report-recommends-fedramp-for-commercial-data-brokers/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 16:40:42

• Czech ministry apologizes to journalist for blanket collection of mobile phone data ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/czech-ministry-apologizes-to-journalist-for-blanket-collection-of-mobile-phone-data/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 16:41:00

• US pressure on the Digital Services Act in the Netherlands ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/us-pressure-on-the-digital-services-act-in-the-netherlands/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 16:41:14

• Europe’s digital sovereignty starts with open source ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/europes-digital-sovereignty-starts-with-open-source/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 16:41:38

• As Convicted Felon Weighs Possible Iran Strikes, U.S. Military Moves Into Place ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/us/politics/us-military-iran.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 16:41:59

• White House urges Iran to strike deal as Convicted Felon renews military threat ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260218-white-house-urges-iran-to-strike-deal-as-trump-renews-military-threat    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 16:42:12

• An update to the malicious crate notification policy (Rust Blog) ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059338/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 16:42:57

• Monado at the core of Android XR ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/monado-at-the-core-of-android-xr.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 16:43:34

• New Keenadu Android Malware Found on Thousands of Devices ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-keenadu-android-malware-found-on-thousands-of-devices/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 16:43:58

• Python Series Part 23: Text Widget - Part 1 ☞ https://www.linux.org/threads/python-series-part-23-text-widget-part-1.59025/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 16:45:08

• rsimg – terminal image viewer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rsimg-terminal-image-viewer/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 16:45:38

• 14 Best Free and Open Source Steganography Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-steganography-tools/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 16:46:00

• Hazelnut – automated file organizer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hazelnut-automated-file-organizer/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:04:17

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

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:04:28

• zrok – secure internet sharing platform ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/zrok-secure-internet-sharing-platform/   

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:04:58

• Lightning Image Viewer – fast and lightweight desktop image viewer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lightning-image-viewer-fast-lightweight/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:05:19

• ElegooSlicer – slicer for FDM printers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/elegooslicer-slicer-fdm-printers/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:09:01

• xfr – modern iperf3 alternative ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/xfr-modern-iperf3-alternative/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:09:24

• HyprQuickFrame – screenshot utility for Hyprland ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hyprquickframe-screenshot-utility-hyprland/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:09:49

• crabdrop – file manager for S3-compatible storage ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/crabdrop-file-manager-s3-compatible-storage/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:10:11

• QuickSnip – OCR and Surveillance Giant Google Lens search ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/quicksnip-ocr-google-lens-search/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:10:34

• AsteroidOS 2.0 open-source smartwatch OS released, now supports around 30 devices ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/18/asteroidos-2-0-open-source-smartwatch-os-released-now-supports-around-30-devices/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:10:56

• Fedora now available in Syria ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059342/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:11:38

• UFW Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/ufw/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:13:44

• MySQL/MariaDB Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/mysql-mariadb/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:13:56

• Optimize infrastructure health with Red Bait Lightspeed MCP ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/18/optimize-infrastructure-health-red-hat-lightspeed-mcp    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:14:48

• Control updates with download-only mode in bootc ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/18/control-updates-download-only-mode-bootc    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:15:13

• FFconvert removed ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/ffconvert-removed.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:15:58

• yt-dlp now needs javascript ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/yt-dlp-now-needs-javascript.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:16:29

• KDE endorses the UN's Open Source Principles ☞ https://ev.kde.org/2026/02/18/kde-joins-osu/bsp;  

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:16:56

• Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059333/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:17:24

• How to Install Brave on Fedora GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-brave-on-fedora-linux/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:18:57

• whereis Command in GNU/Linux (With Examples) ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/whereis-command-in-linux/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:19:17

• ifconfig Command in GNU/Linux (With Examples) ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/ifconfig-command-in-linux/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:19:29

• How to Install proprietary trap AWS CLI on Arch GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-aws-cli-on-arch-linux/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:19:44

• How To Install SMPlayer on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-smplayer-fedora-43/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:20:16

• How To Install Nginx Proxy Manager on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-nginx-proxy-manager-manjaro/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:20:35

• Humans are Now Censoring Other Humans to Protect Feelings of Hey Hi (AI) Bots ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/humans-are-now-censoring-other-humans    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:21:07

• LibreOffice at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/18/libreoffice-at-fosdem-2026-in-brussels/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:21:30

• LibreOffice Named a 2026 “Best Value” Leader by Capterra ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/18/libreoffice-named-a-2026-best-value-leader-by-capterra/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:21:49

• GodotCon Amsterdam - Save the date! ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/godotcon-2026/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:22:14

• “Anonymous Work” and the Hey Hi (AI) Author Fight ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/02/anonymous-author-fight.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:23:01

• Lithuania submits evidence to UN aviation body over Belarus balloons ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2843285/lithuania-submits-evidence-to-un-aviation-body-over-belarus-balloons    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:23:25

• Bookshelf: A European leader speaks out ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/bookshelf-a-european-leader-speaks-out/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:24:25

• Russia’s Exile From World Sports Will End Next Month at Paralympics ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/world/europe/russia-paralympics-italy.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:24:44

• Russia Celebrated Him. Now He’s Accused of Having Troops Shoot Themselves. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/world/europe/russia-military-corruption.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:25:03

• Lithuania slams Russians, Belarusians competing under own flags in Paralympic Games ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2843168/lithuania-slams-russians-belarusians-competing-under-own-flags-in-paralympic-games    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:25:20

• US says will match alleged Chinese low-yield nuclear tests ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/18/us-says-will-match-alleged-chinese-low-yield-nuclear-tests/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:25:53

• The Behind the Scenes Search for Compromise on Territory in Ukraine Talks ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/world/europe/ukraine-russia-peace-talks-demilitarized-zone.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:26:11

• Witkoff Cites 'Meaningful Progress' On First Day Of US-Brokered Talks Between Russia, Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-peace-talks-geneva-attacks/33680422.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:26:25

• EU Quizzes Ukraine On Timeline For Repair Of Druzhba Oil Pipeline ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/eu-ukraine-druzhba-russian-oil-pipeline-hungary-slovakia/33680685.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:26:39

• Zelenskyy Says 'Progress' In Military Talks In Geneva, Political Talks 'Not Easy' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-war-peace-talks-geneva/33681350.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:26:55

• EU unveils strategy to bolster Eastern border regions, including Lithuania ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2843369/eu-unveils-strategy-to-bolster-eastern-border-regions-including-lithuania    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:27:10

• Humanitarian situation in Ukraine 'the worst it's ever been', IFRC says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/humanitarian-situation-in-ukraine-the-worst-it-s-ever-been-ifrc-says    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:27:24

• Ukraine's officials to boycott Paralympics over Russian flag decision ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/ukraine-s-officials-to-boycott-paralympics-over-russian-flag-decision    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:27:39

• Could Africa’s youth bulge help fill Europe’s military ranks? ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/land/land-land/could-africas-youth-bulge-help-fill-europes-military-ranks/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:27:52

• Factsheet: Communication on EU's Eastern Regions Bordering Russia, Belarus and Ukraine ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/fs_26_432    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:28:11

• Commission supports the EU's eastern regions bordering Russia, Belarus and Ukraine ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_433    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:28:36

• Fighting for Convicted Felon's attention? Russia, Ukraine in rival bids to sway US mediators ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20260218-fighting-for-trump-s-attention-russia-ukraine-in-rival-bids-to-sway-us-mediators    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:29:31

• New: "Scam Altman says some companies are "AI washing" job cuts, but he wasn't sure what percentage of layoffs fell into that category."    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:32:44

• his chatbot hype is also AI-washing    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:33:04

• "Companies that have cited AI when reducing employee head count include Amazon, IBM, Salesforce, and HP." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sam-altman-says-ai-displacing-113050990.html They ask Mr AI-washing about AI-washing. How much are they paid for this hogwash?    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:35:14

• "Thanks for posting that. In fact you might want to create a new stand alone item for review and comments. That is outrageous and NOT the IBM I joined in the early 80s. Lots of people got 1st time PCs and became great programmers on their own time on their own devices. 1 of a million reasons why IBM is a hot mess and will soon join Sears, Polaroid, Enron etc etc." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khhxvbrb    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:36:22

• "Is is most likely some stup1d, useless, good for nothing manager's action. Managers at IBM are ignorant and full of hot air. They do not understand the implications of the sh1t that comes out of their foul mouths." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khhxvbrb    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:36:54

• "These examples indicate IBM is on a path to destroying itself. It’s sad to see a company do this to itself." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khhxvbrb    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:37:01

• openSUSE Leap 16.0 is now available on Surveillance Giant Google Cloud Platform ☞ https://sysadmin-journal.com/opensuse-leap-16-0-is-now-available-on-google-cloud-platform/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:39:42

• Need Help Remembering GNU/Linux Commands? Try Brief ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/02/need-help-remembering-linux-commands-try-brief/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:40:21

• Robert Kadlec: The Man Behind Convicted Felon’s Biowarfare Policy ☞ https://unlimitedhangout.com/2026/02/investigative-reports/robert-kadlec-the-man-behind-trumps-biowarfare-policy/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:41:22

• Texas Congressman’s Aide Told Co-Worker of Affair Before Killing Herself ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/us/politics/texas-gonzales-suicide-affair.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:41:48

• Texas woman arrested for allegedly helping bedridden ex-husband’s suicide — after taking advice from ‘right to die’ nonprofit ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/02/18/us-news/texas-woman-arrested-for-allegedly-helping-bedridden-ex-husbands-suicide-after-taking-advice-from-right-to-die-nonprofit/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:42:04

• Japan to ban in-flight use of power banks from April ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-to-ban-in-flight-use-of-power-banks-from-april    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:42:29

• Extreme Hollywood Backlash Continues Against ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0: Threats Unilaterally Issued by Netflix, Warner Bros., Disney, and Paramount ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/18/hollywood-backlash-seedance-2-0/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:42:48

• Gabon suspends access to social control media amid teachers' strike ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/gabon-suspends-access-to-social-media-amid-teachers-strike    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:43:04

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

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:44:09

• "It all began when Torvalds and his friend Lars Wirzenius met at the University of Helsinki. They began tinkering with PCs; computer games (Prince of Persia); social networking, which in those days was Usenet; and Unix." https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/linus_torvalds_and_friends/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:47:07

• "The AsteroidOS 2.0 release aims to provide a stable, beautiful base for people who want an open smartwatch today, and an interesting project for developers who want to experiment, learn and contribute." https://itsfoss.com/news/asteroidos-2-release/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:47:34

• Firefox ends support for Windows 7: Upgrade to 10 or Linux https://www.pcworld.com/article/3064835/firefox-ends-support-for-windows-7-upgrade-to-10-or-linux.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:48:11

• "Unfortunately, the HDMI Forum refused to allow HDMI 2.1+ features in the open source driver, but that hasn't stopped one developer." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/experimental-code-ready-for-testing-to-enable-hdmi-2-1-frl-with-amdgpu-on-linux/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:48:46

• "But this is a good time to remind you that you'll need to be on a quite up to date version anyway, since NVIDIA revealed more security issues with their drivers back in January." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/nvidia-recommended-driver-580-126-18-released-for-linux/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:49:17

• AsteroidOS 2.0 Brings an Open, Linux-Based Replacement OS to More Smartwatches Than Ever https://www.hackster.io/news/asteroidos-2-0-brings-an-open-linux-based-replacement-os-to-more-smartwatches-than-ever-c0a9cc6d7d1b    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:49:47

• Beyond the Firewall: A Guide to Enterprise-Grade Linux VPS Security in 2026 https://programminginsider.com/beyond-the-firewall-a-guide-to-enterprise-grade-linux-vps-security-in-2026/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:50:56

• Want to develop your Linux skills? I've found the perfect distro for you https://www.zdnet.com/article/nutyx-distribution-learning-linux-skills/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:52:23

• Nvidia releases 580.126.18 Linux driver to fix Kernel 6.19 compatibility issues https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-releases-580-126-18-Linux-driver-to-fix-Kernel-6-19-compatibility-issues.1229298.0.html    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:53:43

• How I reduced context switching on Linux by redesigning my browser workflow https://www.makeuseof.com/reduced-context-switching-on-linux-redesigning-browser-workflow/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:54:21

• "ByteSnap Design has partnered with Digi International to introduce a managed security service aimed at helping manufacturers keep embedded Linux devices secure throughout their operational lifetimes." https://www.newelectronics.co.uk/content/news/bytesnap-design-and-digi-international-launch-managed-security-service-for-embedded-linux-devices    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:55:20

• Proprietary software hides flaws and does not patch these at all (unless/until forced to) https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/18/open-source-adoption-patching-challenges/ This is marketing using FUD.    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:56:55

• back doors company https://itsfoss.com/news/red-hat-digital-sovereignty-assessment-tool/    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:57:24

• How to Remotely Manage Linux VMs With RDP https://redmondmag.com/articles/2026/02/17/how-to-remotely-manage-linux-vms-with-rdp.aspx    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 17:58:56

• "Need to boost that stock price, and fund those bonuses somehow. If you collect a couple hundred dollars from each RAed employee, (about ~ 10000 people last year ). That’s a couple more million for executives bonuses. This goes to show how desperate they are to save money. Pathetic." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khc9389d    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 18:32:35

• "you know, im again in the hospital. again by the order of the court :-/ 4 more weeks for me in the institution." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2787    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 18:34:24

• 🖼️ xkcd — Plums #3209 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3209.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 18:34:59

• "I think I have everything... I wish I knew more of what will be required? Does the Outpost provide tables for my shop? What about money and cash register? There's so much unknown there. Plants?" gemini://orbitaloutpost.club/~kaze/gemlog/2026-02-18-letsmove.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 18:35:51

• [cat] [japan] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2026-02-19.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 18:36:20

• "I've been into Nintendo's Famicom platform lately. It has a great appeal to someone who's continual disillusionment with modern software and modern software platforms grows stronger with every passing day." gemini://gemini.iikorni.space/log/20260219-fami.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 18:37:04

• And no prison? https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/solicitors-50-year-career-ended-by-dishonesty-findings/5125930.article    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 19:39:12

• Linuxiac is still slop    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 19:41:17

• "Pseudonymous maker "SeeNoFutur3," hereafter simply "Future," has presented his daughter with a gift — hidden inside a wooden box unlockable only by solving a gyroscopic puzzle." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260219-twist.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 19:43:13

• Moving Away From The Cloud gemini://going-flying.com/~mernisse/36.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 19:47:38

• "So when I made my personal capsule at buffering.party I created "the tarpit" - a part of the site listed in robots.txt that just returns never-ending links that get slower and slower as you go." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Geminispace/38189    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 19:48:51

• worm fourth day gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wormFourth    

posted Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 19:50:37

• &n &nbs