Roy Schestowitz

• worm fourth eve gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wormFourthEve    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:13:13

• worm fifth day gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wormFifth    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:14:13

• gopherproxy.sh down again due to bot abuse gopher://gopher.zcrayfish.soy:70/1/phlog/20260221-gopherproxy-sh-down-again-due-to-bot-abuse    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:15:07

• Producing garbage for the AI scrapers gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-02-20-garbage    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:15:54

• "I am a crappy anarchist. I don't appreciate governments for the mass-scale murder and suffering (and to a lesser but tangible degree, corruption and lies) they cause and participate in. But I also don't feel a strong need to fight the State, as another and possibly worse State will take its place. As bad as things are where I am, I have personally witnessed much worse." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/stack/38259    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:17:14

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-21.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:17:53

• "If you laugh at the World of Warcraft German teenager, you need to face the fact that you’re (probably) laughing at an autistic teenager." gemini://tilde.pink/~oce/en/internet-social-network.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:18:36

• "Misfin B has also not been updated in almost three whole years; for what it's worth, the site hosting Misfin's original specification is still up, but the server's certificate expired some time in 2024." gemini://gemini.iikorni.space/log/20260221-misfin.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:19:21

• "The dividers can be replaced by two coefficient potentiometers. However, since both potentiometers would be representing the same input — mass — then I have to make sure those two potentiometers are always set to the same ratio." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260220-0.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:20:23

• "Some TLS libraries like OpenSSL are able to initiate Kernel TLS automatically when it's available, however it is difficult to configure OpenSSL to _*require*_ Kernel TLS. It's also appealing to be able to use a smaller TLS library like BearSSL. However, BearSSL has no support for Kernel TLS. They must be bridged manually." gemini://jeffrey.cam/log/bearssl_ktls.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:21:10

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1567.jpg    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:22:25

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1923.jpg    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:22:33

• Xbox's new chief content officer Matt Booty says "there are no organizational changes underway".... HAHA!!! Except laying off ALL the leadership!! But "no organizational changes"... firing the managers... that' NOTHING!    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:28:20

• "content officer"... let that sink in. They now throw XBox in the "HEY HI" bucket.    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:28:55

• Media = parrots. Anything Microsoft says, it'll repeat.    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:29:31

• "whoa, don't tell them the secret to success ... you have to fork over a fortune to an ivy league school to learn that ... 101 ways to commit financial fraud" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khhc3y9q    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:30:13

• Copyrights issue: "The plaintiffs seek injunctive relief, saying Google needs to be transparent when it tries to use copyrighted work, and ask for owner’s consent before use." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/authors-illustrators-push-for-copyright-owner-class-in-case-against-google-ai/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:44:03

• "Despite fighting an existential war against Russia, Ukraine continues to make progress in the fight against online piracy." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/ukraine-paves-the-way-for-pirate-site-blocking-despite-ongoing-war/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:44:17

• "an interesting thing happened: a private company that manages Trump’s intellectual [sic] property [sic] licensing filed for trademarks" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/trump-wants-an-airport-renamed-after-him-while-his-company-trademarks-those-same-names/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:44:42

• "This post is not about debating the larger legitimacy of gun control." ☛ https://michaelweinberg.org/blog/2026/02/04/3d-printer-gun-screen/ | Source: Michael Weinberg    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:45:20

• "significant technical skill" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/19/stupidity-on-steroids-three-u-s-states-want-your-3d-printer-to-snitch-on-what-you-print.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:45:32

• "In addition, manufacturers are pivoting towards consumer hardware subscriptions, where you never own the hardware and in the most dystopian trajectory, consumers might not buy any hardware at all" ☛ https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/ | Source: マリウス    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:45:44

• "“Open” tends to get thrown around a lot when talking about the Internet: Open Source, Open Standards, Open APIs." ☛ https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/02/20/open_systems | Source: Mark Nottingham    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:46:32

• "Logical Dominance" ☛ https://kmcd.dev/posts/internet-map-2026/ | Source: Kevin McDonald    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:46:44

• "Ruben Ray Martinez was killed during a traffic stop on South Padre Island in Texas last March, several outlets, citing documents obtained by nonprofit watchdog American Oversight" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ruben-ray-martinez-ice-shooting-good-pretti-b2924800.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:47:23

• "European settlers" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-grok-america-stolen-land | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:47:51

• "That is why we, joined by the ACLU of Northern California, have asked several large tech platforms to do more to protect their users, including: [...]" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/20/open-letter-to-tech-companies-protect-your-users-from-lawless-dhs-subpoenas/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:48:10

• "Ready for this? $432. Per hour." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-if-the-typical-workers-pay-had | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:48:29

• "Previously, FGM was only punishable under law as assault or aggravated assault." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20211474 | Source: YLE    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:48:49

• "That’s when it fully clicked: this is what independent journalism looks like now. Agile. Embedded. Uncomfortable. Sometimes frightening. Often lonely. And absolutely essential." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/palabra/2026/02/trump-mass-deportation-a-journalists-fear-from-the-inside.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:49:24

• "Fifty-nine Palestinian journalists shared their stories of torture and abuse at the hands of the Israeli military" ☛ https://thedissenter.org/we-returned-from-hell-report-details-israeli-torture-against-palestinian-journalists/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:49:35

• "Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr joked that Stephen Colbert had been prevented from airing an interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico" ☛ https://www.rawstory.com/brendan-carr-stephen-colbert-maga/ | Source: Raw Story    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:50:06

• "An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit." ☛ https://www.404media.co/man-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-speaking-slightly-too-long/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:50:18

• "One or two guys spoke in favor of it, they let one of those guys go over several seconds, probably 20, 30 seconds, really said nothing about him going over but when Darren Blanchard did it" ☛ https://ktul.com/news/local/community-activist-arrested-at-data-center-meeting-in-claremore | Source: Sinclair Inc    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:50:34

• "Under the rule, USCIS will collect social media handles and messaging app information from individuals applying to change their immigration status, and may also request information from their family members." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/uscis-aims-to-expand-social-media-surveillance-of-immigrants-and-us-citizens/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:50:47

• "The suit alleges that Bondi and Noem coerced Facebook into disabling the group and coerced Apple into pulling the app from its App Store, in direct violation of the First Amendment. Because, you know, government officials calling social media companies and demanding they remove content is… bad." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/20/bondi-bragged-about-forcing-facebook-to-censor-speech-now-fire-is-suing/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:51:02

• "The complaint lays out a fairly astonishing abuse of government power. Let’s start with the Civil Investigative Demand (fancy term for a subpoena) the FTC sent to NewsGuard last May." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/20/newsmax-didnt-like-its-newsguard-rating-so-the-ftc-attacked-newsguard-and-now-newsguard-is-suing/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:51:29

• "The European Commission’s fine in December was the first-ever penalty under the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA)" ☛ https://therecord.media/musk-x-appeal-europe-fine | Source: The Record    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:52:21

• "directed the removal or flagging" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/19/outside-magazines-list-of-nps-signs-altered-by-the-trump-administration.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 06:52:33

• "I think I’ve been listening to the pessimists too much. It’s true that some things are bad, and I’ve blogged about many of them, but the only way out is hope." ☛ https://www.manton.org/2026/02/19/pessimism.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:01:56

• "Beloved British single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi has achieved meme stock stardom, as its share price surged 90 percent over the course of a couple of days earlier this week." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/20/raspberry_pi_meme_stock_disorder/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:02:07

• "Meta’s biggest election investment aims to prevent state legislation that it fears could inhibit artificial intelligence development. Its spending starts this week in Texas and Illinois." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/technology/meta-65-million-election-ai.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:02:24

• "In January 2026, its metaverse division slashed 1,500 jobs, while it also let go of about 8,000 workers last year — a part of the 100,000 tech industry positions caught in layoffs as of mid-2025" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/zuckerberg-cuts-meta-employee-bonuses-by-5-percent-follows-10-percent-reduction-last-year-despite-ai-splurge-usd130-billion-capex-vision-and-eye-watering-ai-pay-packages-force-efficiency-elsewhere-in-the-business | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:02:57

• "In January 2026, its metaverse division slashed 1,500 jobs, while it also let go of about 8,000 workers last year" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/zuckerberg-cuts-meta-employee-bonuses-by-5-percent-follows-10-percent-reduction-last-year-despite-ai-splurge-usd130-billion-capex-vision-and-eye-watering-ai-pay-packages-force-efficiency-elsewhere-in-the-business | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:03:09

• "Crime is legal" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/epstein-maga-trump-morals/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:03:23

• "Skeptics, however, are far more pessimistic about Bitcoin’s chances in the long run, saying the [cryptocurrency] has lost its way" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/concern-bitcoin-value-destroyed | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:09:55

• "But Evan, no one needs to own a gun, but we all need to own cars." ☛ https://darthmall.net/notes/2026/subaru-part-of-the-problem/ | Source: W Evan Sheehan    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:10:09

• "With Trump faltering and their policy agenda incomplete" ☛ https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-super-pacs-2026-midterms/ | Source: Molly White    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:10:21

• "Jeffrey Epstein’s interest in Vladimir Putin is well documented in the files released by the U.S. Justice Department in late January" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/02/21/ex-microsoft-executive-nathan-myhrvold-told-jeffrey-epstein-he-hosted-putin-s-wife-and-daughter-on-his-superyacht | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:11:06

• "Inadvertently, this inside view has reaffirmed what incarcerated journalists have long reported: rampant deprivation of basic human necessities" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/journalists-jailed-by-ice-are-revealing-the-horrors-of-incarceration/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:11:41

• microsoft layoffs happening, XBox replaced by slop to pretend it is not dead    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:14:03

• they call it "coreAI", which is a fiction, a shell    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:14:22

• "Islamic State group (IS) terrorists leveled the Kwara State community in a February 3 attack." ☛ https://adf-magazine.com/2026/02/nigeria-faces-growing-terror-threat/ | Source: ADF    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:14:56

• "not with jackboots and salutes, but with a television huckster" ☛ https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/u-s-historian-robert-kagan-we-are-watching-a-country-fall-under-dictatorship-almost-without-resistance-a-d262290b-cca0-4c2f-945d-2ef3b64c574f#ref=rss | Source: Spiegel    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:16:18

• "Blue states would have a major tool to push back. Whether they would use it is less clear." ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2026/02/20/repub/as-trump-pushes-voting-restrictions-states-have-a-rarely-used-option-to-push-back/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:17:13

• "Many discussions of inequality in America fail to grapple with the way we have become an oligarchy" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-ultra-rich-are-different-from | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:17:31

• "The wound is still there. The ruling dressed it. It did not close it." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-vindication-they-dont-deserve | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:17:53

• "I don’t talk about “big A” in this guide. I have no idea what the deal is vis-à-vis security, privacy or anonymity when it comes to the “fruit company”." ☛ https://bobbyhiltz.com/posts/2022/03/guide-privacy/ | Source: Bobby Hiltz    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:18:50

• "Together with two other researchers, they set out to look into Persona, the San Francisco-based startup that’s used by Discord for biometric identity verification – and found a Persona frontend exposed to the open [Internet] on a US government authorized server." ☛ https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/ | Source: The Rage    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:19:14

• "My daughter just got asked by Roblox to prove her age with a photo. Her account is managed by me through parent controls where I have already set her age. I did not authorise Roblox taking a photo of my child. I’m not impressed." ☛ https://superdavey.com/posts/roblox-age-verification | Source: Superdavey    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:20:09

• Arizona Age Verification Bill ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/02/20/arizona-age-verification-bill/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:20:45

• "As Hamilton Nolan advises, remove your Ring doorbell." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/ring-cancels-its-partnership-with-flock.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:21:00

• "Though that might sound pretty tame on paper, there are some unsettling implications that could arise from this feature." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3003806/microsoft-teams-will-soon-snitch-on-your-location-to-your-organization.html | Source: PC World    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:21:16

• "The agency is asking private biometric contractors how to build a unified platform that would let employees search faces and fingerprints across large government databases already filled with biometrics gathered in different contexts." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-wants-a-single-search-engine-to-flag-faces-and-fingerprints-across-agencies/ | Source: Wired    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:24:19

• "Rackspace Technology, a hybrid multicloud and AI solutions company, and Palantir Technologies Inc." ☛ https://itwire.com/business-it-news/data/rackspace-and-palantir-partner-to-run-foundry-and-aip-in-production-with-governed-managed-operations.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:25:18

• "Discord's push towards mandatory age verification had already drawn sharp criticism before this incident." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/discord-age-verification-security-breach-1780591 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:25:42

• "To be clear: Geek Squad is Best Buy’s legitimate tech support service, but scammers exploit its good reputation to deceive their victims." ☛ https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/how-to-spot-a-geek-squad-scam-email/ | Source: PIA    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:28:01

• "Most phishing websites are little more than static copies of login pages for popular online destinations" ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/02/starkiller-phishing-service-proxies-real-login-pages-mfa/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:28:32

• Privatisation ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasa-report-reveals-the-failures-that-left-two-astronauts-stranded-on-the-international-space-station-180988233/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:29:05

• "NASA administrator Jared Isaacman copped to leadership failures across the org during a press conference on Thursday" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/19/nasa_starliner_blame/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:29:29

• Windows TCO: "The closure affects all 35 of the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s health clinics, which provide a range of care to patients from cancer treatment to chronic-pain management" ☛ https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/20/politics/cyberattack-closes-clinics-mississippi | Source: CNN    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:30:07

• Windows TCO: "University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) has temporarily closed most of its clinics following a ransomware attack" ☛ https://www.hipaajournal.com/ummc-ransomware-attack/ | Source: HIPAA    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:33:44

• Windows TCO: "University officials warned that the shutdown could continue for days as they try to evaluate the extent of the attack, including whether patients’ sensitive information was compromised" ☛ https://apnews.com/article/cyberattack-university-mississippi-clinics-hospital-4b27a578a5e095c5a7d25c90768a5312 | Source: Associated Press    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:34:09

• Windows TCO: "Emergency services are still available at UMMC, with downtime protocols in effect." ☛ https://www.mississippifreepress.org/university-of-mississippi-medical-center-hit-by-ransomware-attack-closes-clinics-and-cancels-services/ | Source: Mississippi Journalism and Education Group    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:34:22

• "ActivityPub is a federated protocol used by public houses in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland for announcing scheduled events, drink promotions" ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/20/activitypub.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:35:02

• "At the end of the day, the business goal of GenAI is to boost monopolist profits by eliminating decent jobs, and damn the consequences." ☛ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/16/GenAI-and-OSS-opinion | Source: Tim Bray    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:35:53

• "The person behind MJ Rathbun has anonymously come forward." ☛ https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wrote-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-4/ | Source: Scott Shambaugh    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:36:40

• "A lot of people may already work for very little, but Artificial Intelligence never does." ☛ https://emptywheel.net/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-ai-part-five/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:44:26

• "It still just statistically picks a next word, the next symbol, though with more parameters than it used to. This fine tunes the answer more, but it still can’t tell what is true or useful, it still isn’t thinking like a living being. AI still doesn’t know in a human way."    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:45:15

• "Yesterday, Dependabot opened thousands of PRs against unaffected repositories to update filippo.io/edwards25519. These PRs were accompanied by a security alert with a nonsensical, made up CVSS v4 score and by a worrying 73% compatibility score" ☛ https://words.filippo.io/dependabot/ | Source: Filippo Valsorda    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:45:35

• "Pitch Us Freelance Yes it is. It is still exactly as simple as it sounds." ☛ https://aftermath.site/anthropic-claude-ai-leftist-technology/ | Source: Aftermath Site LLC    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:45:52

• "If I’m doing math billions of times that doesn’t make the base process somehow more substantial. It’s still math, still a machine designed to predict the next token without being able to reason, meaning that yes, they are just fancy pattern-matching machines."    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:46:08

• "The previous outage used Amazon’s old Q vibe coder, not the new Kiro vibe coder." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/20/amazon-web-services-vibe-codes-itself-an-outage-or-two/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:46:22

• "When you ask the chatbot for a strong password, it doesn’t generate a password — it picks example patterns of random passwords from its training." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/19/ai-vibe-generates-the-same-random-passwords-over-and-over/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:46:48

• "There is a historic data center buildup going on to fuel this bubble, and what used to be reliable, cheap and boring parts have shot through the roof price wise." ☛ https://aftermath.site/ram-prices-hdd-prices-ai-bubble-computer-expensive/ | Source: Aftermath Site LLC    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:47:09

• "But there’s a bigger, more disturbing issue at play. Will government demands for military use make AI itself less safe?" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/backchannel-anthropic-dispute-with-the-pentagon/ | Source: Wired    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:47:28

• "Controversy over the chatbot Grok escalated rapidly through the early weeks of 2026." ☛ https://theconversation.com/the-furore-over-groks-sexualised-images-has-begun-an-ai-reckoning-275448 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:47:47

• "Doctrine development has historically been a time consuming and tedious process that stretches years, and officials are looking to speed it up by incorporating AI into the writing process, the Army said." ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/02/20/army-using-ai-to-update-doctrine/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:48:01

• "We recently introduced a policy governing large language model (LLM) assisted contributions to EFF's open-source projects." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/effs-policy-llm-assisted-contributions-our-open-source-projects | Source: EFF    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:52:26

• "In a new analysis of a survey published by the National Bureau of Economic Research and highlighted by Fortune, around 90 percent of the nearly 6,000 interviewed CEOs" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/survey-ceos-ai-workplace | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:52:43

• "A few weeks ago, after going to FOSDEM, I finally decided to move away from Cloudflare. That’s something that has been on my mind for quite a while, but I guess the law of inertia was keeping me from doing it" ☛ https://hacdias.com/2026/02/20/cloudflare/ | Source: Henrique Dias    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:53:16

• "I love seeing new approaches to things, so I bought Terry Godier's new RSS app, Current, which is designed in a way meant to avoid the sense of obligation around unread articles." ☛ https://baty.blog/trying-current-a-new-rss-reader | Source: Jack Baty    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:53:35

• "Like many in the early days, I used a ton of Google services over the years. But recently with all the news about what information Google has been giving to the Government, I decided to get rid of all of my other Google stuff and just keep YouTube." ☛ https://jarunmb.com/posts/just-youtube-now | Source: MB    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:53:55

• "E-commerce hub Shopify and file transfer service Dropbox were also affected by the November outage." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/cloudflare-outage-down-disruption-b2924706.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:54:15

• "The farmer was offered $60,000 per acre to build a data center on his property. But giving up his family legacy wasn’t in the cards for him." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/farmer-hero-rejecting-payment-data-center | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:55:19

• "digital casino" ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/social-media-health-warnings/ | Source: Greg Morris    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:55:31

• "When the ban went into effect in August, each student received a pouch with their name on it. Immediately, says O'Neil, students began finding hacks to get around the system." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5675979 | Source: NPR    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:56:22

• "But there’s one more show to go for me, and we’re gonna blow it out" ☛ https://blast-o-rama.com/2026/02/20/i-say-so-long-and-farewell-to-super-art-fight-march-28th/ | Source: Marty Day    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:57:05

• [Old] "The similarities between his fictional corporate and my everyday reality is just too eerie for words sometimes–like this strip, for instance: [...]" ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/corporate/dilbert | Source: Rui Carmo    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:58:05

• "That’s because, even though Congress appears unwilling to totally destroy the NIH" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nih-research-cuts-trump/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:58:41

• "A union find variant I think is simple and interesting is the “weighted” union find." ☛ https://www.philipzucker.com/weighted_uf/ | Source: Philip Zucker    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:58:54

• "According to reports, which are being understandably kept high-level to avoid copycats, the attack did not meddle with the price displayed on the hotel booking site" ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/spanish-police-say-they-have-arrested-hacker-who-booked-luxury-hotel-rooms-for-just-one-cent | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:59:33

• "I built Wayback Link Preserver to do something about it, specifically for Micro.blog." ☛ https://gunnar.se/2026/02/21/introducing-wayback-link-preserver-for.html | Source: Gunnar    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 07:59:46

• "True or false? Your green laser pointer is more powerful than your red one. The answer is almost certainly false." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/20/displaying-the-rainbow/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:00:03

• Turn recipes into huge cooking production lines in the new Snacktorio demo | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/turn-recipes-into-huge-cooking-production-lines-in-the-new-snacktorio-demo/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:04:54

• Truly horrinle advice made to boost a Ponzi scheme https://probably.co.uk/posts/ai-prompting-for-early-careers/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:05:21

• iophk: mistakes Microsoft GitHub for being important or useful https://source.opennews.org/articles/journalism-lost-sharing-culture/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:05:56

• "IEEPA! IEEPA! IEEPA! - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/ieepa-ieepa-ieepa    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:06:10

• "Massachusetts Democrats ought to be ashamed. - Exploding Comma" https://explodingcomma.com/posts/massachusetts-democrats-ought-to-be-ashamed    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:06:24

• "Combined with all the Epstein revelations of child rape by Trump and his buddies, he is starting to act as a trapped animal. He mainly ran to be president again to avoid going to prison and now with the midterms looking bad for him, he is getting worried." https://smist08.wordpress.com/2026/02/20/elbows-up/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:06:58

• "Activity on GitHub has cratered. In 2016, news organizations posted more than 2,000 public projects to the code-sharing site. Last year, that number slumped below 400, an 80% decline." https://source.opennews.org/articles/journalism-lost-sharing-culture/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:07:21

• "Trump Imposes New Tariffs to Sidestep Supreme Court Ruling" https://www.wired.com/story/trump-imposes-new-tariffs-following-supreme-court-ruling/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:07:35

• Anon: spin, see: 404 Media instead https://www.newson6.com/tulsa-oklahoma-news/arrest-made-during-heated-claremore-meeting-over-proposed-data-center    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:07:57

• MIT takes Microsoft bribes for propaganda such as this https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/19/1133360/microsoft-has-a-new-plan-to-prove-whats-real-and-whats-ai-online/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:08:34

• "Trump’s dream is a giant slush fund Congress can’t touch" https://www.vox.com/politics/479821/trumps-slush-fund-venezuela-oil-gaza-board-of-peace-tariffs    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:08:47

• "Trump’s Attack on the Supreme Court Was Unhinged Even for Him" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-supreme-court-tariff-conspiracy/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:09:01

• UK: Age limit for VPNs, part 2 | "UK: Åldersgräns för VPN, del 2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/02/20/uk-aldersgrans-for-vpn-del-2/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:09:29

• "Hungary blocks EU's 90 billion euro loan to Ukraine, demanding Russian oil ahead of war anniversary" https://kyivindependent.com/hungary-blocks-eus-90-billion-euro-loan-to-ukraine-demanding-russian-oil-ahead-of-war-anniversary/ MinceR    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:09:48

• "NORAD intercepts 5 Russian aircraft near Alaska, though military says there was no threat" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/alaska-norad-anchorage-military-bering-strait-b2924793.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:10:05

• "As Expected, SCOTUS Rules against Trump on Tariffs" https://emptywheel.net/as-expected-scotus-rules-against-trump-on-tariffs/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:10:18

• Going in the WRONG direction: "Converting a bunch of HTML files to DOCX using batch processing – DSPACE" https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2026/02/20/converting-a-bunch-of-html-files-to-docx-automatically/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:10:45

• "Discord Will Be Used To Spy On You https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/discord-will-be-used-to-spy-on-you:d Sompi    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:11:02

• "Throughout the more than two hour meeting, the president repeatedly seemed to doze off at his seat as other heads of state and dignitaries addressed him" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-pledges-10-billion-board-of-peace-meeting-1235519576/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:11:27

• The Wolf Among Us, The Last Express and more join the GOG Preservation Program | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/the-wolf-among-us-the-last-express-and-more-join-the-gog-preservation-program/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:12:19

• MOUSE: P.I. For Hire looks awesome in the new boss trailer | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/mouse-p-i-for-hire-looks-awesome-in-the-new-boss-trailer/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/mouse-p-i-for-hire-looks-awesome-in-the-new-boss-trailer/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:14:19

• It's now easier to install MGSHDFix for Metal Gear games on Linux / Steam Deck | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/its-now-easier-to-install-mgshdfix-for-metal-gear-games-on-linux-steam-deck/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:24:19

• "Suppose, not hypothetically, that you have a program that optionally takes a time in the past to, for example, report on things as of that time instead of as of right now" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/HoursMinutesToTime | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:25:24

• "Haskell binaries can get quite large (think ~100MB), especially for projects with many transitive dependencies. Here are two strategies that can help at link time, the latter being more experimental." ☛ https://brandon.si/code/linking-smaller-haskell-binaries/ | Source: Brandon Simmons    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:26:07

• "In 2017, WikiLeaks published Vault7" ☛ https://spencer.wtf/2026/02/20/cleaning-up-merged-git-branches-a-one-liner-from-the-cias-leaked-dev-docs.html | Source: Spencer Lloyd DixoLloyd Dixon    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:26:54

• "I procrastinated a long time, but I finally migrated my self-hosted Git instance from Gitea to Forgejo. I still don’t know how to pronounce it, but it’s maintained by Codeberg e.V., where I’m also a member." ☛ https://janlukas.blog/thoughts/2026/02/hey-forgejo | Source: Jan-Lukas Else    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:27:20

• "A little piece about dealing with security providers and clearing my side project's reputation after a false positive flagging." ☛ https://trysound.io/how-my-side-project-got-banned-from-the-internet/ | Source: Bogdan Chadkin    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:27:38

• "I generally use OWASP SAMM as a framework to measure what needs to be done (sticking largely to the Design, Implementation & Verification functions), but it boils down to a number of phases to raise the bar: [...]" ☛ https://neilmadden.blog/2026/02/20/looking-for-vulnerabilities-is-the-last-thing-i-do/ | Source: Niel Madden    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:27:50

• "When I decided to build my startup on European infrastructure, I thought it would be a straightforward swap. Ditch AWS, pick some EU providers, done. How hard could it be?" ☛ https://www.coinerella.com/made-in-eu-it-was-harder-than-i-thought/ | Source: Coinerella    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:39:49

• "So, physical music stores have been my first source for buying music to own." ☛ https://yordi.me/how-i-built-my-own-music-streaming-setup/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:40:13

• "Meetups were held in Brazil, Canada, the Canary Islands of Spain, China, Croatia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Kenya, Poland, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/librelocal-2026-is-in-may-start-organizing-meetups | Source: FSF    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:40:34

• "If you're looking to become involved in PostgreSQL development and have a chance to interact with senior hackers, this event might be for you!" ☛ https://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/02/hacking-workshop-for-march-2026.html | Source: Robert Haas    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:41:33

• "The really big issue was when I went to check updates page within the WordPress Admin panel and was met with an error page. Hm." ☛ https://troypatterson.me/2026/02/20/bluehost-blues/ | Source: Troy Patterson    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:44:20

• "As of this commit it looks like they've changed their mind: [...]" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/ladybird/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:46:14

• "I only have a moment to gush today, so I’ll cut right to it." ☛ https://bobbyhiltz.com/posts/2026/02/dillo-appreciation/ | Source: Bobby Hiltz    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:46:24

• "Especially in 2026" ☛ https://medv.io/blog/your-personal-blog-should-have-comments | Source: Anton Medvedev    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:47:08

• [Old] "Explore why Google search may feel worse, why it isn’t necessarily worse, and how shifting dynamics shape the search experience." ☛ https://searchengineland.com/is-google-really-getting-worse-actually-its-complicated-455079?ref=gregmorris.co.uk | Source: Third Door Media LLC    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:47:16

• "Google’s search results are now so bad that appending “reddit” to every query has become a mainstream coping strategy." ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/letting-go-of-the-old-web/ | Source: Greg Morris    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:47:25

• [Old] "Abstract Many users of web search engines have been complaining in recent years about the supposedly decreasing quality of search results" ☛ https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf?ref=gregmorris.co.uk | Source: Webis Group    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:47:35

• "Cache busting is a way to make sure visitors always load the most up-to-date version of your website – even if their browser has an older copy stored in cache." ☛ https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/cache-busting/ | Source: PIA    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:47:54

• "I long back to the [Internet] of old, where not everything is dominated by algorithms that determine what is interesting for you." ☛ https://www.arjenwiersma.nl/the-internet-of-old | Source: Arjen Wiersma    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:48:03

• "The malware primarily targets users in Argentina through financial fraud campaigns." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/first-android-malware-promptspy/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:48:53

• "The custom-built camera works by taking a standard roll of 35mm film, which is standardized to take 36 pictures, and exposing a wider section of the film to create a panorama." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/20/panoramic-film-camera-made-from-3d-printed-parts/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:49:16

• "In addition to a couple of physical systems, I run roughly two dozen Linux virtual machines, most of them Ubuntu-based." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu-kernel-6-8-100-buggy-network.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:50:41

• "Because of this unlikely high count of systems, I often encounter problems most other people don't see. Case in point: random networking connectivity issues in Ubuntu (or flavors) running with the latest available kernel at the time of writing."    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:50:53

• "One of the primary benefits of the new implementation is that you can have a single bridge for everything and the packet processing has been optimized." ☛ https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/using-new-bridges-freebsd-15/ | Source: Feld    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:51:50

• Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth arrives April 27, will run "great" on Steam Deck | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/moomintroll-winters-warmth-arrives-april-27-will-run-great-on-steam-deck/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/moomintroll-winters-warmth-arrives-april-27-will-run-great-on-steam-deck/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:52:07

• Lexispell is a Balatro-styled roguelike word game with a demo worth trying | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/lexispell-is-a-balatro-styled-roguelike-word-game-with-a-demo-worth-trying/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/lexispell-is-a-balatro-styled-roguelike-word-game-with-a-demo-worth-trying/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:52:17

• Slay the Spire 2 arrives March 5 with 4-player co-op | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/slay-the-spire-2-arrives-march-5-with-4-player-co-op/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/slay-the-spire-2-arrives-march-5-with-4-player-co-op/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:52:41

• Widelands, the open source Settlers-like, devs plan to ban all AI generated contributions | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/widelands-the-open-source-settlers-like-devs-plan-to-ban-all-ai-generated-contributions/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/widelands-the-open-source-settlers-like-devs-plan-to-ban-all-ai-generated-contributions/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:53:33

• Widelands, the open source Settlers-like, devs plan to ban all AI generated contributions | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/widelands-the-open-source-settlers-like-devs-plan-to-ban-all-ai-generated-contributions/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:53:44

• Steam Deck now out of stock in the EU in addition to USA, Canada and Japan | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/steam-deck-now-out-of-stock-in-the-eu-in-addition-to-usa-canada-and-japan/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/steam-deck-now-out-of-stock-in-the-eu-in-addition-to-usa-canada-and-japan/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:53:58

• "Most of what I use on my Linux machine is great, but some applications just aren’t up to par with what’s available on macOS." ☛ https://initialcharge.net/2026/02/baty-mac-polish/ | Source: Mike Rockwell    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:55:06

• "What I miss most about running macOS is not macOS. It’s the software. The polish." ☛ https://baty.net/posts/2026/01/linux-and-or-macos/ | Source: Jack Baty    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:55:23

• "The key here is NitroFS, which allows you to implement a similar kind of segmented loading as the N64 uses." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/20/porting-super-mario-64-to-the-original-nintendo-ds/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 08:55:47

• "The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from Feb. 13 to 19." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/02/20/planet-roundup/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:05:41

• "Collabora has announced GStreamer 1.28, expanding its machine learning and AI inference capabilities for media pipelines." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/gstreamer-1-28-adds-ai-inference-engines-yolo-decoders-and-tensor-auto-discovery/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:06:53

• "The ESP32 Bus Pirate reimplements that concept in firmware form, allowing low-cost ESP32-S3 development boards to function as multi-protocol debugging and experimentation platforms." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/esp32-bus-pirate-update-adds-rf-tools-usb-host-mode-signal-analysis-and-cellular-plans/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:07:09

• "The platform is based on an 8-core Qualcomm Kryo 670 CPU clocked at up to 2.1GHz, paired with 8GB of LPDDR4x memory (3200MT/s, single-channel)." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/fanless-factor-101-arrives-with-qualcomm-qcs6490-and-10gbe-networking/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:07:17

• "Oracle Database Appliance is an engineered system designed to simplify Oracle Database deployments for small to medium organizations and distributed environments." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-openshift-421-brings-kubernetes-oracle-database-appliance | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:07:37

• IBM pushing slop to inflate the bubble ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/small-models-big-impact-future-scaling-enterprise-ai-agents | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:07:58

• Fedora Community Blog: Community Update – Week 8 2026 ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/community-update-week-8-2026/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:08:51

• Felipe Borges: GNOME is participating in Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2026! ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/feborges/gnome-is-in-gsoc-2026/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:09:31

• ScummVM has been accepted to the Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2026 ☞ https://www.scummvm.org/news/20260220/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:09:53

• A Powerful To-Do App for Android That Collects Absolutely None of Your Data ☞ https://itsfoss.com/super-productivity-android-app/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:22:02

• This Week in Plasma: 6.6 is Here! ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/21/this-week-in-plasma-6.6-is-here/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:37:37

• Ratado – keyboard-driven terminal task manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ratado-keyboard-driven-terminal-task-manager/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:38:24

• Soundboardd – small local soundboard daemon ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/soundboardd-small-local-soundboard-daemon/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:38:43

• CNCjs – web-based interface for CNC milling controller ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cncjs-web-based-interface-cnc-milling-controller/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:39:11

• Kanha – web-app pentesting suite ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/kanha-web-app-pentesting-suite/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:39:21

• typtea – terminal-based typing speed tester ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/typtea-terminal-based-typing-speed-tester/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:39:43

• tmpo – minimal CLI time tracker for developers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tmpo-minimal-cli-time-tracker-developers/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:39:59

• 14 Best Free and Open Source Key Value Stores for Big Data ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/keyvaluestores/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:40:47

• Linux Candy: Lolcat++ is a rewrite of the popular LOLCAT ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-candy-lolcat-rewrite-popular-lolcat/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:40:58

• corner – terminal-based task journal for developers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/corner-terminal-based-task-journal/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:41:09

• ClockTemp – TUI clock ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/clocktemp-tui-clock/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:41:26

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

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:41:52

• Jaspr – modern web framework for building websites in Dart ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/jaspr-modern-web-framework/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:42:19

• krep – optimized string search utility ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/krep-optimized-string-search-utility/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:42:32

• Kyma – terminal-based presentation tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/kyma-terminal-based-presentation-tool/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:42:49

• 13 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Calendar Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-terminal-based-calendar-tools/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:43:40

• hapless – run and manage background processes ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hapless-run-and-manage-background-processes/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:43:55

• PRS – web security scanner ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/prs-web-security-scanner/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:44:19

• How to manage your productive life with BASB, GTD, and Scrum ☞ https://www.reallinuxuser.com/how-basb-gtd-and-scrum-help-me-to-manage-my-productive-life/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:45:21

• LibreOffice is in the Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2026! ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/20/libreoffice-is-in-the-google-summer-of-code-2026/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:46:51

• KDE Attacks Critics as "Sad People" Who Are "Straight Up Lying" ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/kde-attacks-critics-as-sad-people    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:47:04

• How To Install XnView MP on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-xnview-mp-debian-13/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:48:14

• How To Install Apache Tomcat on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-apache-tomcat-linux-mint-22/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:48:44

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

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:49:03

• How to Install Wget on Debian 13 ☞ https://www.linuxcloudvps.com/blog/how-to-install-wget-on-debian-13/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:50:07

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

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:50:19

• How To Install proprietary trap AWS CLI on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-aws-cli-debian-13/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:50:28

• Can forest schools teach children how to care for the environment? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/down-to-earth/20260220-can-forest-schools-teach-children-how-to-care-for-the-environment    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:50:45

• PromptSpy Android Malware Abuses Gemini Hey Hi (AI) at Runtime for Persistence ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/promptspy-android-malware-abuses-gemini-ai-at-runtime-for-persistence/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:51:22

• Transmission 4.1.1 Released with Many Fixes [Ubuntu PPA Updated] ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/transmission-4-1-1-released-with-many-fixes-ubuntu-ppa-updated/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:52:33

• Second beta for Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0 ☞ https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-6.0.0-beta2-released/ "Note that 6.0.0-beta2 has more issues, especially on GNU/Linux and Wayland"    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 09:58:40

• Every Single Headphone That Researchers Tested Contained Horrifying Chemicals ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/headphone-chemicals-bpa    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:02:15

• Lockheed Martin F-35s Can Be Jailbroken Like $80 Million iPhones, European Military Chief Says ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/f35-jailbreak-dutch    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:05:35

• A Cancer Detection Test Fails in Major Study ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/health/cancer-detection-test-grail.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:10:40

• Palestinian-American Teenager Killed in West Bank Is Laid to Rest ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/middleeast/palestinian-american-teenager-killed-west-bank.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:10:55

• ‘Green Houses’ offer cozier alternative to Michigan nursing homes ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/green-houses-pace-offer-michigan-seniors-cozier-alternative-to-nursing-homes/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:11:49

• Michigan county’s argument against solar farms? They’re a health hazard ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/michigan-countys-argument-against-solar-farms-theyre-a-health-hazard/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:12:05

• North Korea’s Kim opens 9th party congress citing economic achievements ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-convenes-9th-party-congress-kcna-reports    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:12:25

• South Korea says US trade deal still intact after Convicted Felon tariff ruling ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-says-us-trade-deal-still-intact-after-trump-tariff-ruling    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:12:56

• Man given 2-year prison term in Indonesia’s Medan for selling protected sun bear ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/man-given-2-year-prison-term-in-indonesias-medan-for-selling-protected-sun-bear    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:14:03

• Malaysia weighing impact of US tariff ruling, says trade minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-weighing-impact-of-us-tariff-ruling-says-trade-minister    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:14:22

• Proposed RTS Link fare of $5 to $7 ‘affordable’ for many Malaysians, but may still be steep for some ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/proposed-rts-link-fare-of-5-to-7-affordable-for-many-malaysian-workers-but-costlier-than    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:14:36

• How China Is Stoking Fear About Travel to Japan ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/asia/china-travel-japan-fear.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:17:27

• US, China fighter jets briefly face off near South Korea: Report ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-china-jets-briefly-face-off-near-south-korea-yonhap-says    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:17:51

• US imports more from Taiwan than China for first time in decades ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-imports-more-from-taiwan-than-china-for-first-time-in-decades    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:18:11

• 'Made in China 2025' initiative ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/the-state-of-chinas-decade-long-semiconductor-push-still-a-decade-behind-despite-hundreds-of-billions-spent-and-significant-progress-examining-the-original-made-in-china-2025-initiative    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:18:53

• Epstein Scandal Leaves Some Young Convicted Felon Voters Feeling Betrayed ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/style/epstein-files-young-conservatives.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:20:06

• Chris Boffey: Star reporter, news editor, mentor and ‘great human being’ ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/obituaries/chris-boffey-star-reporter-news-editor-mentor-and-great-human-being/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:20:59

• Women’s interest magazine sales 2025: Harper’s Bazaar grows in print and digital ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/womens-interest-magazine-sales-2025-harpers-bazaar-grows-in-print-and-digital/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:23:23

• Just 11 out of 131 ABC-audited magazines grew sales in 2025 ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/biggest-selling-magazines-in-uk-2025/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:24:00

• A Signal of Parkinson's May Be Hiding in Your Hair, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-signal-of-parkinsons-may-be-hiding-in-your-hair-study-finds    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:25:04

• Gaia Detected an Entire Swarm of Black Holes Traveling Through The Milky Way ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/gaia-detected-an-entire-swarm-of-black-holes-traveling-through-the-milky-way    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:25:24

• Something Strange Altered Earth's Magnetic Field 40 Million Years Ago ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/something-strange-altered-earths-magnetic-field-40-million-years-ago    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:25:42

• 'Freak of Nature': Scientists Think Greenland's Ice Is Churning Like Molten Rock ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/freak-of-nature-scientists-think-greenlands-ice-is-churning-like-molten-rock    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:26:08

• Scientists May Have Found The Key Cellular Process Behind Aging in Animals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-may-have-found-the-key-cellular-process-behind-aging-in-animals    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:26:28

• There's a Critical Thing You Can Do to Keep Alzheimer's Symptoms at Bay ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-critical-thing-you-can-do-to-keep-alzheimers-symptoms-at-bay    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:26:56

• Scientist Reveals The Best Shoes to Wear While Lifting Weights ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientist-reveals-the-best-shoes-to-wear-while-lifting-weights    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:27:12

• What’s going down in Iran—and the marches in Canada calling for intervention ☞ https://breachmedia.ca/whats-going-down-in-iran-and-marches-in-canada-calling-for-intervention/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:29:50

• Want an easy way to manage Podman containers? Here it is. ☞ https://thenewstack.io/want-an-easy-way-to-manage-podman-containers-here-it-is/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:38:26

• Liquid Now Offering 4 Hours of Free Public WiFi, Here’s What You Should Know ☞ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/02/liquid-offering-for-hours-free-wifi-to-everyone/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:43:53

• Using threat modeling and prompt injection to audit Comet ☞ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/02/20/using-threat-modeling-and-prompt-injection-to-audit-comet/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:46:04

• Mozilla Privacy Blog: Behind the Velvet Rope: The Hey Hi (AI) Divide on Display at the India Hey Hi (AI) Impact Summit 2026 ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/02/20/behind-the-velvet-rope-the-ai-divide-on-display-at-the-india-ai-impact-summit-2026/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:46:53

• This Week in GNOME: #237 Article Rendering ☞ https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/02/twig-237/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:48:07

• 5 Best Free and Open Source C++ Application Servers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-cplusplus-application-servers/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:49:21

• Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/8 ☞ https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2026/02/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2026-8/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:51:39

• Security updates for Friday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059638/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:52:10

• The Book of Remind ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059641/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:53:01

• ZIP/UNZIP Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/zip-unzip/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:53:26

• Buying a new ThinkPad for the first time! ☞ https://rubenerd.com/buying-a-new-thinkpad-for-the-first-time/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:54:06

• Kiwi TCMS: Community Edition Explained ☞ https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2026/02/18/community-edition-explained/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:55:03

• Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits 2nd week of feb 2026 ☞ https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2026/02/14/misc-fedora-bits-2nd-week-of-feb-2026/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:55:39

• Kiwi TCMS: Private Tenant Extras Subscription Explained ☞ https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2026/02/17/private-tenant-extras-subscription-explained/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:58:01

• Fedora Community Blog: Master Podman 5.8: Join Fedora Test Week ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/master-podman-5-8-join-fedora-test-week/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 10:58:38

• Pravin Satpute: The Performance and Scale Booth at DevConf 2026 ☞ http://pravin-s.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-performance-and-scale-booth-at.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:00:16

• FreeBSD 14.4-BETA3 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/freebsd    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:00:47

• Thomas Goirand: Seamlessly upgrading a production OpenStack cluster in 4 hours : with 2k lines shell script ☞ http://thomas.goirand.fr/blog/?p=426    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:01:42

• Bits from Debian: Proxmox Platinum Sponsor of DebConf26 ☞ https://bits.debian.org/2026/02/proxmox-platinum-debconf26.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:03:39

• Christian Gmeiner: GLES3 on etnaviv: Fixing the Hard Parts ☞ https://christian-gmeiner.info/2026-02-20-gles3-on-etnaviv-fixing-the-hard-parts/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:04:18

• 2.1-channel audio HAT for Raspberry Pi features Texas Instruments TAS5825M class-D amplifier ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/20/2-1-channel-audio-hat-for-raspberry-pi-features-texas-instruments-tas5825m-class-d-amplifier/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:05:03

• Raoul Peck documents the dystopian warnings from '1984' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/arts24/20260220-raoul-peck-documents-the-dystopian-warnings-from-1984    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:05:51

• A.I. Isn’t Coming for Every White-Collar Job. At Least Not Yet. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/technology/ai-coding-software-jobs.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:07:43

• Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison seeks negotiations over Panama Canal ports ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/20/hong-kongs-ck-hutchison-seeks-negotiations-over-panama-canal-ports/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:09:16

• As Convicted Felon Considers Second Iran Attack, It Could Be Deadlier Than the First ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/us/politics/trump-iran-risks.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:10:26

• U.S. Planes Land at Jordan Base, a Key Hub for Planning Possible Iran Strikes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/us/politics/us-military-jordan-iran.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:10:42

• EPO Union Leaders in Rijswijk Explain Where EPO Strikes Stand and How to Prepare for Next Week's ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/EPO_Union_Leaders_in_Rijswijk_Explain_Where_EPO_Strikes_Stand_a.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:10:57

• US Supreme Court strikes down Convicted Felon’s tariffs as unlawful ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/us-supreme-court-strikes-down-trumps-tariffs-as-unlawful/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:11:41

• Dihydroxyacetone Man calls Supreme Court decision to strike down his tariffs 'deeply disappointing' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260220-us-supreme-court-strikes-down-trump-s-sweeping-tariffs-upending-cornerstone-of-economic-agenda    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:12:02

• Dihydroxyacetone Man considers strike on Iran as Tehran says draft nuclear deal coming soon ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260220-trump-considers-strike-on-iran-as-tehran-says-draft-nuclear-deal-coming-soon    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:12:15

• US Supreme Court strikes down The Insurrectionist’s sweeping tariffs ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/us-supreme-court-strikes-down-donald-trump-s-sweeping-tariffs    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:12:34

• Dihydroxyacetone Man vows temporary 10% global tariff after justices nix earlier effort ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/supreme-court-strikes-down-trumps-sweeping-tariffs-upending-economic-agenda/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:12:56

• Acer and Asus shut down support for PC and laptops in wake of patent monopoly dispute ruling, drivers and updates inaccessible to existing customers ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/acer-and-asus-shut-down-support-for-pc-and-laptops-in-wake-of-patent-dispute-ruling-drivers-and-updates-inaccessible-to-existing-customers-german-website-finds-a-workaround    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:15:17

• BMS and Johnson & Johnson battle over novel CAR-T cell therapy in Europe ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/bms-battles-johnson-johnson-over-novel-cell-therapy-in-europe/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:15:31

• OpenAI's Scam Altman warns that firms are using 'AI washing' to mask layoffs across the globe ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openais-sam-altman-warns-that-firms-are-using-ai-washing-to-mask-layoffs-across-the-globe-ai-boss-calls-out-corporate-excuses-while-warning-of-palpable-job-disruption-ahead    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:16:32

• Lithuanian military intelligence warns of hostile state recruitment on social control media ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2845081/lithuanian-military-intelligence-warns-of-hostile-state-recruitment-on-social-media    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:17:20

• Look Out, OpenAI: Perplexity Admits Hey Hi (AI) Adverts Were a Mistake, Is Now Getting Rid of Them ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-perplexity-admits-ai-adverts-mistake    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:18:08

• Jack Dorsey’s New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/jack-dorsey-block-falling-apart-ai    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:18:47

• OpenAI’s Hardware Device Just Leaked, and You Will Cringe ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-hardware-device-leaked-cringe    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:19:35

• Librsvg got its first Hey Hi (AI) slop pull request ☞ https://viruta.org/librsvg-ai-slop.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:22:43

• Short of staff, Michigan schools try virtual speech therapy for special ed ☞ https://bridgemi.com/talent-education/short-of-staff-michigan-schools-try-virtual-special-education-speech-therapy/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:37:22

• China’s ‘King of Banned Films’ Wants to Change the Subject ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/asia/lou-ye-china-film-director.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:37:39

• Package Version Tracking Gains New Capabilities ☞ https://openbuildservice.org/2026/02/20/version-tracking-improvements//    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:38:20

• Los Angeles County Files a Major Lawsuit Against Roblox—’Breeding Ground for Predators’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/19/los-angeles-county-lawsuit-roblox/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:40:52

• U.S. Senators Are Officially Throwing Their Weight Around In the FTC v. Live Nation Lawsuit — With the BOTS Act Taking Center Stage ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/19/bots-act-lawsuit-live-nation-senators-brief/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:41:33

• WordPress 7.0 Beta 1 ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2026/02/wordpress-7-0-beta-1/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:42:14

• #KeepItOn: authorities must reverse social control media shutdown order and restore access in Gabon ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/keepiton-social-media-restore-access-in-gabon/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:43:07

• $20 million lost in 'jackpotting' ATM malware attacks in 2025, FBI reports — scheme forces machines to spit out cash, targets banks and ATM operators ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/usd20-million-lost-in-jackpotting-atm-malware-attacks-in-2025-fbi-reports-scheme-forces-machines-to-spit-out-cash-targets-banks-and-atm-operators    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:43:42

• FBI: $20 Million Losses Caused by 700 ATM Jackpotting Attacks in 2025 ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/fbi-20-million-losses-caused-by-700-atm-jackpotting-attacks-in-2025/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:44:09

• Rudra is a new keyboard-driven launcher for GNOME Shell ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/rudra-gnome-keyboard-launcher    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:45:30

• Ghostty terminal is finally adding scrollbar support ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/ghostty-linux-scrollbars-coming    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:46:16

• Argent 1.5.3-rc6 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/argent    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:46:39

• How to Install Gateway API in Kubernetes ☞ https://www.linuxtechi.com/install-gateway-api-in-kubernetes/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:48:00

• Chaos Comes to KDE in KaOS ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Chaos-Comes-to-KDE-in-KaOS    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:48:33

• MediaTek MT7902 wireless chipset finally gets a GNU/Linux driver ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/20/mediatek-mt7902-wireless-chipset-finally-gets-linux-drivers/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:49:17

• Head of Russia’s Antidoping Agency Was Involved in 2014 Doping Scheme, Whistle-Blower Claims ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/europe/olympics-doping-russia.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:49:45

• Russia Takes the Gulag Out of the Gulag History Museum in Moscow ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/europe/russia-gulag-history-museum-stalin.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:49:58

• 7 Chinese tourists dead after bus sinks in Russia’s Lake Baikal ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/eight-feared-dead-after-a-bus-with-chinese-tourists-sinks-into-russias-lake-baikal    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:50:14

• Russian Woman, Who Allegedly Drunk-Texted FBI Agents, Pleads Guilty To Lying About FSB Ties ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-zarubina-fbi-fsb-guilty/33683111.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:50:37

• Lithuanian interior minister bans rapper Gio Pika from entering country ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2845170/lithuanian-interior-minister-bans-rapper-gio-pika-from-entering-country    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:50:54

• Lithuania’s Micevičius to skip Paralympics opening ceremony ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2845405/lithuania-s-micevicius-to-skip-paralympics-opening-ceremony    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:51:11

• In Ukraine, Senators See War’s Impact and Press for Stronger U.S. Support ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/us/politics/senators-ukraine-visit.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:51:26

• Ukrainian Women Tell Their Stories of Sexual Violence by Russian Soldiers ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/europe/russian-soldiers-sexual-violence-ukraine.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:51:41

• Hungary Poses Unexpected Hurdle to Europe’s 90-Billion Euro Loan to Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/europe/euro-loan-ukraine-hungary-obstacle.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:51:53

• 'We will be able to defend Ukraine' thanks to EU loan: Ambassador Vsevolod Chentsov ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/talking-europe/20260220-we-will-be-able-to-defend-ukraine-thanks-to-eu-loan-ambassador-vsevolod-chentsov    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:52:06

• War in Ukraine: Four young Ukrainians tell us how they see their future ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260220-war-in-ukraine-four-young-ukrainians-tell-us-how-they-see-their-future    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:52:21

• How Russian drones are terrorising civilians in Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-observers/20260221-ukraine-life-russian-drones-civilians    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:52:34

• Fluff 2026.02.18 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/fluff    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:52:55

• Macron's readiness to talk to Putin "a very good idea": EU Council former president Charles Michel ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/talking-europe/20260220-macron-s-readiness-to-talk-to-putin-a-very-good-idea-eu-council-former-president-charles-michel    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:53:56

• mintCast 479 – Bill’s Bash Scripts Bring All The Boys To The Yard ☞ https://mintcast.org/479-bills-bash-scripts-bring-all-the-boys-to-the-yard/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:54:59

• Japanese-Language Phishing Emails, (Sat, Feb 21st) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32734    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:55:47

• Latvian nature museum wants your best bird photos ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/environment/20.02.2026-latvian-nature-museum-wants-your-best-bird-photos.a635584/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:56:05

• Japan PM says China seeks to change status quo ‘with force or coercion’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/20/japan-pm-says-china-seeks-to-change-status-quo-with-force-or-coercion/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:56:55

• Hong Kong jobless rate rises slightly to 3.9% ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/20/hong-kong-jobless-rate-rises-slightly-to-3-9/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:57:18

• The MAGA Agenda Is Sinking in Popularity. What Might The Insurrectionist Do? ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/the-maga-agenda-is-sinking-in-popularity-what-might-donald-trump-do    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:58:36

• The Evidence on Ozempic to Treat Addiction ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/the-evidence-on-ozempic-to-treat-addiction    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:58:57

• 30 years later, the iconic 'Bliss' green hill from backdoored Windows XP is still thriving ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/30-years-later-the-iconic-green-hill-from-windows-xps-bliss-wallpaper-is-still-thriving-new-picture-captures-the-hill-looking-almost-identical-to-the-original    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:59:23

• Nazi Execution Photos Went Up For Sale. Greece Stopped It. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/europe/greece-nazi-execution-photos.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 11:59:42

• Michigan fight over special ed services lingers, years after Covid shutdown ☞ https://bridgemi.com/talent-education/michigan-fight-over-special-ed-services-lingers-years-after-covid-shutdown/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:00:54

• Pluralistic: A perforated corporate veil (20 Feb 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/20/karioca-konzernrecht/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:01:19

• Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 313 released ☞ https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-313-released/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:02:24

• Guide: Building and Using the OMEMO Sync Client ☞ https://shibe-bit.github.io/Guides/OmemoClient    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:02:50

• DOJ’s first $1M antitrust whistleblower award may sway corporate views on risk—and on employees ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2026/02/dojs-first-1m-antitrust-whistleblower-award-may-sway-corporate-views-on-risk-and-on-employees/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:03:25

• The White House scrapped SBOMs in favor of agency-managed cyber risk. Flexibility, meet accountability. ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/02/the-white-house-scrapped-sboms-in-favor-of-agency-managed-cyber-risk-flexibility-meet-accountability/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:09:24

• In Other News: Ransomware Shuts US Clinics, ICS Vulnerability Surge, European Parliament Bans Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-ransomware-shuts-us-clinics-ics-vulnerability-surge-european-parliament-bans-ai/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:09:49

• Chip Testing Giant Advantest Hit by Ransomware ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chip-testing-giant-advantest-hit-by-ransomware/    

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

• NIST agentic Hey Hi (AI) initiative looks to get handle on security ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/02/nist-agentic-ai-initiative-looks-to-get-handle-on-security/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:10:32

• BeyondTrust Vulnerability Exploited in Ransomware Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/beyondtrust-vulnerability-exploited-in-ransomware-attacks/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:10:43

• Australia bars citizen from returning from Syria under counterterrorism powers ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/australia-bars-citizen-from-returning-from-syria-under-counterterrorism-powers/    

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

• Vilnius tech firm NTLAB in legal battle with government over national security ruling ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2845233/vilnius-tech-firm-ntlab-in-legal-battle-with-government-over-national-security-ruling    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:11:40

• Japan PM Takaichi warns of China ‘coercion’, vows security overhaul ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-pm-takaichi-warns-of-china-coercion-vows-security-overhaul    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:11:56

• 3 in 5 US undergrads struggle with basic needs. How some colleges are helping. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2026/0220/college-students-campus-help-food-housing    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:12:28

• Suspect used Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot in planning drug killings in South Korea: Police ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/suspect-used-chatgpt-in-planning-drug-killings-in-south-korea-police    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:13:05

• Canadian trans shooter’s disturbing Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot messages alarmed employees — but company never alerted cops ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/02/20/world-news/canadian-trans-shooter-jesse-van-rootselaars-disturbing-chatgpt-messages-alarmed-openai-employees-but-company-never-alerted-cops/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:14:20

• U.K. Police Contacting Security Officers Who Once Protected Former Prince Andrew ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/europe/prince-andrew-search-epstein.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:15:07

• OpenAI Flagged a Mass Shooter’s Troubling Conversations With Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Before the Incident, Decided Not to Warn Police ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-mass-shooter    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:15:51

• Future of music is human, says Latvia's Sonarworks ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/features/20.02.2026-future-of-music-is-human-says-latvias-sonarworks.a635557/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:16:43

• Ramsey Elkholy’s Monotronic Sues Pangea Entertainment Over Lack of Promotion In Alleged Breach of Contract ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/20/monotronic-sues-pangea-entertainment/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:17:02

• Why did the Supreme Court rule against tariffs? Here’s what the justices said. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2026/0220/supreme-court-tariffs-trump-economy    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:17:37

• After Supreme Court Loss, Convicted Felon Plans to Impose Global Tariffs Using Different Laws ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/us/politics/trump-tariffs-plans.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:17:49

• MediaTek Genio 360/360P hexa/octa-core Cortex-A76/A55 AIoT SoC features 8 TOPS NPU for cost-sensitive embedded applications ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/20/mediatek-genio-360-360p-hexa-octa-core-cortex-a76-a55-aiot-soc-features-8-tops-npu-for-cost-sensitive-embedded-applications/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:21:21

• Asos co-founder Quentin Griffiths dies in Thailand after balcony fall ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/co-founder-of-asos-quentin-griffiths-dies-in-thailand-after-balcony-fall    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:23:22

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

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:23:55

• Ubuntu 26.04 is replacing its classic tools, and I actually prefer the new ones https://www.makeuseof.com/ubuntu-2604-replacing-classic-tools-i-actually-prefer-the-new-ones/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:27:37

• I waited years for Windows updates to get exciting. Linux did it in six months https://www.xda-developers.com/i-waited-years-for-windows-updates-to-get-exciting-linux-did-it-in-six-months/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:30:48

• 3 handy Linux apps to try this weekend (February 20 - 22) https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-to-try-this-weekend-february-20/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:32:17

• RetroDECK for Linux & Steam Deck to remove Nintendo Switch emulation “forever” in face of DMCA strikes https://www.pcguide.com/news/retrodeck-for-linux-steam-deck-removes-nintendo-switch-emulation-forever-in-face-of-dmca-strikes/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:33:03

• "Over the past few updates though, Luxtorpeda has also expanded to include running popular patches and mod packs for certain Windows games with Proton - with it doing all of the work for you. All you need to do is just set the games to use Luxtorpeda." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/its-now-easier-to-install-mgshdfix-for-metal-gear-games-on-linux-steam-deck/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 12:33:46

• Massive Xbox Layoffs Expected Again in Q1 2026, Likely as Big as the Last Round https://tech4gamers.com/xbox-layoffs-expected-q1-2026/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/20/Not_Only_Leaders_of_XBox_Got_Sacked_Layoffs.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 14:17:51

• Blidnly parroting slop as excuse https://thecsrjournal.in/livspace-lays-off-1000-employees-amid-ai-transition-in-bengaluru/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 14:36:14

• 🖼️ xkcd: Eliminating the Impossible #3210 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3210.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 14:46:20

• "On my desk sits a small rack that keeps audio gear, power, and network in one place: the DeskPi RackMate T0. Here's what lives in it and how it's wired." gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2026-02-22-my-desk-rack.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 14:47:18

• "I’m going to address homologies between the adoption of Unix systems and of a vegan diet. If you’re already a RYF or a BSD user, you may infer from this flight log POST strategies for adopting a vegan diet; it’s also true the other way around." gemini://tilde.pink/~oce/mainstream-unix.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 14:47:53

• economic crisis https://www.dw.com/en/macron-warns-europe-faces-political-and-economic-crisis/a-75890865    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 15:54:24

• strike https://www.dw.com/en/lufthansa-pilots-crew-to-strike-on-thursday/a-75901363    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 15:54:45

• Capitalisme gemini://ploum.net/2026-02-21-capitalisme_et_education.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 16:01:16

• "I'm not going to dig into the archive because basic human respect shouldn't be this difficult and it's why Debian is losing active contributors." https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00058.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 16:31:39

• "Unproductive behaviour on Debian mailing lists - including excessively long, complex, and unfocused messages that consume disproportionate attention and discourage participation - is not acceptable." https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00060.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 16:33:29

• Wow, long writing discouraged by Debian?    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 16:33:48

• "I am sad that you leave. Debian needs your criticism." https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00062.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 16:36:26

• "I agree what Jonas said. In my opinion, it was not the contents of the messages you sent, it was the way and the choice of words that let where we are not. You could have changed that without throwing decades of Debian membership away, just by toning down yourself. I am sad to see that you chose the nuclear option." https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00065.html    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 16:37:25

• "Indeed. I had my share of disagreements with Branden over the years, but his recent emails have been a pleasure to read." https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00070.html So now Debian people can see that it's like a kind of cult, where everyone can be ousted for the lousiest reason    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 16:40:35

• Firefox at meagre 1.5% in Ireland https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/ireland/#monthly-200902-202602    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 17:29:42

• "A lawyer found guilty of stalking has been sanctioned by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), who said they had "serious concerns" over his conviction." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwzqn6x948o http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/23/Microsoft_s_Graveley_a_Serial_Strangler_of_Women_Pays_People_on.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 17:31:58

• On RMS: "Be polite when responding to them so that it's them who seem rude and unreasonably to any outsider/s."    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 17:39:46

• EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part IV will probably come out on Monday during the EPO strike. The timing is critical.    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 18:19:50

• "You are wasting your time and money. Start focusing on your next steps NOW. No company negotiates severance related to layoffs. They have the law on their side at this moment. Everyone laid off will get the same package. If down the road it can be proved the scope of the layoff was discriminatory that will be the time to get representation and negotiate. This is for US."    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 19:00:32

• "if you take the severance and sign you waive your right to sue. I would think if you sue and lose you don’t get the twelve weeks as you wouldn’t have signed" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khpvk7zz    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 19:00:50

• Epstein files: Germany on high alert https://www.dw.com/en/epstein-files-germany-on-high-alert/a-75898626    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 20:23:09

• increase in global graft https://www.dw.com/en/corruption-watchdog-reports-increase-in-global-graft/a-75838368    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 20:23:33

• crimes against journalists https://www.dw.com/en/germany-logs-rising-rate-of-crimes-against-journalists/a-75899832    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 20:24:05

• 2025 Corruption Index flags drops in Western nations https://www.dw.com/en/2025-corruption-index-flags-drops-in-western-nations/a-75838368    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 20:24:45

• Hollywood Groups Condemn ByteDance's AI Video Generator, Claiming Copyright Infringement https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2026-02-15/hollywood-groups-condemn-bytedances-ai-video-generator-claiming-copyright-infringement    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 20:27:06

• How Linux reduces context switching without special apps https://www.makeuseof.com/how-linux-reduces-context-switching-without-special-apps/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 20:27:55

• 5 things your Chromebook can do that most people don't realize https://www.makeuseof.com/5-hidden-things-chromebooks-do/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 20:28:06

• Stop Constantly Breaking Your Linux Desktop https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=PKSb1VqPbFc    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 20:30:13

• Wayland catching up with DECADES-OLD features https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=s-W7mZhx7QQ    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 20:31:34

• No, Seriously! Your Ubuntu Can Run Arch Linux Apps… Here’s How "https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=Ok_oFKC9iHU    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 20:47:18

• Systemd from scratch https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=OHyWs323uPc    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 20:47:35

• Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Quick Overview https://www.yewtu.be/shorts/FClZ6cRnA1g    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 20:47:54

• CentOS Stream 10 overview https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=RRoqTyarLIM    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 20:48:28

• New kernel boosts Linux performance, Mint makes big changes, Discord Backlash - Linux Weekly News https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=9ymhN8q3_d0    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 20:49:06

• I Tested 50+ Linux Distros in 2026! https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=TW-93uvVKPQ    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 20:49:31

• Debian Linux Is Going Through A Crisis https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=ldoHviThNqQ    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 20:49:49

• A Quick First Look AT iDeal OS https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=7HW1c-_mrrg"    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 20:50:23

• [uk] [photos] gemini://rainywhile.net/photos/2026-02-21/    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 21:10:41

• "I did my checklist before leaving earth, but I feel like I forgot something important... Not a fun feeling but I won't really know until I get settled." gemini://orbitaloutpost.club/~kaze/gemlog/2026-02-21-intransit.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 21:12:45

• "The layoff was extremely abrupt. We had been given no indication that the organization faced any actual financial trouble, let alone the idea of shrinking its workforce. But my dismissal was effective immediately; I wasn't allowed to finish the workday or transfer any knowledge or outstanding tasks to the rest of my team" gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202602/20260221-the-dream-job-gone.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 21:14:53

• "My LDAP credentials were actually yanked out from under me while I was in the meeting in which they broke the news to me."    

posted Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 21:15:15

• &nb &n &nbs