Roy Schestowitz

• Tesla charges trade union member in IG Metall fight https://www.dw.com/en/germany-tesla-charges-trade-union-member-in-ig-metall-fight/a-75913837    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 04:38:50

• humorous publicity campaign https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-deutsche-bahn-halts-humorous-publicity-campaign/a-75917110    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 04:39:16

• Is Signal Free Software? https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_008.pdf#page=31    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 04:46:42

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

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 04:47:17

• "I let Ampcode autonomously complete 48 Taskwarrior tasks on my eBPF project in a single day. The agent picked up one task after another — implemented, self-reviewed, spawned sub-agent reviews, addressed comments, committed, and moved on — all without me intervening. Here is how the setup works, what the project is about, and the full skill that drives the loop." gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2026-02-22-taskwarrior-autonomous-agent-loop.gmi    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 04:49:18

• "I let Ampcode autonomously complete 48 Taskwarrior tasks on my eBPF project in a single day. The agent picked up one task after another — implemented, self-reviewed, spawned sub-agent reviews, addressed comments, committed, and moved on — all without me intervening." gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2026-02-22-taskwarrior-autonomous-agent-loop.gmi    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 04:49:39

• "Here is how the setup works, what the project is about, and the full skill that drives the loop."    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 04:49:47

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-22.gmi  &nb sp; 

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 04:51:01

• "Sunday. Quite hectic: there's a lot of preparation to what's gonna be happening in April and May, and there's not enough time to have it all perfectly in order." gemini://thousand.naps.day/d/2026-02-22.gmi    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 04:51:54

• GPG es vulnerable gemini://moribundo.flounder.online/blog/050_gpg_vulnerable.gmi    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 04:53:07

• "This is a system for version numbering that I imagine using in connection with an (unlikely to ever exist) operating system that I have also been thinking about for a long time." gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/emptyhallway/halfbaking/untitled-version-numbering-system.gmi    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 04:54:13

• EU ups drone cooperation amid hybrid threats https://www.dw.com/en/eu-ups-drone-cooperation-amid-hybrid-threats/a-75920686    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 05:28:19

• simpler regulations? https://www.dw.com/en/eu-needs-capital-market-reform-simpler-regulations-von-der-leyen-says/a-75906525    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 05:28:49

• Death Penalty on the decline https://www.dw.com/en/death-penalty-on-the-decline-in-southeast-asia/a-75911721    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 05:29:21

• Turkey deems OnlyFans income illicit, detains 16 over alleged laundering https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-deems-onlyfans-income-illicit-detains-16-over-alleged-laundering-316680    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 05:30:18

• Turkey sees surge in food prices once again ahead of Ramadan https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-sees-surge-in-food-prices-once-again-ahead-of-ramadan-316705    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 05:30:55

• Workers Unpaid https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/02/11/workers-unpaid-for-renovating-saudi-princes-tangier-palace    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 05:31:25

• This woman took a photo of a police drone. Then she got ticketed for distracted driving https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/kingston-police-drones-distracted-drivers-caught-charges-withdrawn-9.7082828    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 05:32:53

• 'Threat to world peace' https://www.dw.com/en/threat-to-world-peace-how-germans-see-the-us-now/a-75920632    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 05:34:32

• capping population at 10 million https://www.dw.com/en/switzerland-to-vote-on-capping-population-at-10-million/a-75941387    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 05:35:23

• If humans cared about their long-term survival (which they don't really), they'd cap human numbers on the entire planet at around 10 million, not 10 billion.    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 05:36:31

• Merkel calls speculation about German presidency bid 'absurd' https://www.dw.com/en/merkel-calls-speculation-about-german-presidency-bid-absurd/a-75930205    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 05:38:51

• spiralling rents https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-new-plans-to-tackle-spiralling-rents/a-75937069    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 05:39:30

• boost EU competitiveness https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-merz-says-time-to-act-to-boost-eu-competitiveness/a-75921822    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 05:42:37

• strike https://www.dw.com/en/germany-lufthansa-strike-grounds-hundreds-of-flights/a-75922927    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 05:43:01

• more strikes in 2026 https://www.dw.com/en/germany-braces-for-more-strikes-in-2026/a-75937430    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 05:43:27

• Bayer Files Suit Against Trio of COVID-19 Vaccine Makers https://patentdocs.org/2026/02/12/bayer-files-suit-against-trio-of-covid-19-vaccine-makers/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 05:45:07

• Anon: Removable HDs have become rare and very expensive thanks to "AI" All storage, especially volatile storage, but even persistent storage has suffered. The manufacturers don't care that it is going to waste, it is easier to sell in bulk to scammers than deal with the logistical nightmare of consumer sales.    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 06:10:51

• Epstein files implicate Deutsche Bank https://www.dw.com/en/epstein-files-implicate-deutsche-bank/a-75919028    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 06:11:38

• Hacker News is bollox! Hours ago: "Richard Stallman has his email printed out on paper for him to read"    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 06:12:50

• Someone in Reddit today: "Stallman warned about all of this decades ago. Proprietary software as surveillance. Convenience as a trap. Users as products. "    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 06:13:24

• """The REAL "five-nines" of IT: Is it fast? Nein! Is it reliable? Nein! Is it secure? Nein! Is it documented? Nein! Is it maintainable? Nein!""" https://holland-consulting.net/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 09:59:45

• "Google did so alleging violations of the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/21/serpapi_google_scraping_lawsuit/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 10:08:24

• "It's a good example of the attitude AI people have toward copyright, trademarks, and intellectual property: they don't even think about it." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/21/microsoft-blogger-suggests-you-train-ai-on-pirated-harry-potter.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 10:10:23

• "over 100,000 wanna-be ticket buyers" ☛ https://variety.com/2026/music/news/bruce-springsteen-ticket-prices-variations-1236669375/ | Source: Variety    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 10:11:17

• [Old] "In May 1998 the US Department of Justice and the Attorneys General of 20 states along with the District of Columbia sued Microsoft in federal court" ☛ https://blog.randomoracle.io/2024/03/19/browser-in-the-middle-25-years-after-the-msft-antitrust-trial/ |    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 10:11:34

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://bounties.fulu.org/bounties/ring-video-doorbells | Source: FULU Foundation    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 10:12:11

• "You might have IPv6 Internet; you can find out by going to https://test-ipv6.com. If your computer has a globally routable address it will be in the 2000::/3 range" ☛ https://lpar.ath0.com/posts/2026/02/ipv6-address-assignment/ |    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:00:08

• "The medical charity Doctors Without Borders, which supports health care clinics around Afghanistan, reported a 28% drop in urgent admissions during the first few days after the vice ministry began its crackdown." ☛ https://text.npr.org/g-s1-110736 | Source: NPR    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:00:37

• "Liteplo is the genius behind RentAHuman, an online marketplace where humans can lease out their bodies to autonomous AI agents." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/rentahuman-musk-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:00:51

• "Think of it like Fiverr, but doing away with the human recruiter and letting autonomous bots do the hiring instead." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/ai-agent-rentahuman-bots-hire-humans/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:01:04

• "The dream holiday ended abruptly on Friday 26 September, as Karen and Bill were trying to leave the US." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:01:22

• "chanting of subversive slogans." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/world/middleeast/iran-student-protests.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:01:45

• "The Taliban has quietly enacted a new penal code that allows husbands to physically punish their wives and children as long as it doesn’t cause broken bones or open wounds." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/taliban-new-penal-code-legalizes-domestic-violence-against-women/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:02:09

• "The biggest concern is it's not meant for humans" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hutchins-community-opposes-ice-facility-1780690 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:02:32

• "When you have an autocratic presidential candidate, you don’t treat that person like a normal presidential candidate" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-free-speech-press-black-journalists-nabj/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:06:10

• "The Freedom of Information Act is a Michigan public records law meant to help inform citizens about how their government works." ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2026/02/21/process-of-foia-the-unseen-work-of-providing-government-transparency/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:06:25

• "The move allows Putin to personally decide when online communications in the country or a specific region should be turned off, without having to give a reason." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-internet-law-restriction-tech-censorship/33684027.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:07:33

• "On August 5, 2023, I published a blog post called archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet." ☛ https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/ |    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:07:46

• "A threat to any of our First Amendment rights is a threat to all of our First Amendment rights" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-fcc-stephen-colbert-hate-machine/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:08:05

• "US discussions of European military dependence commonly assume that independence requires the attributes of a superpower: global reach, expeditionary capacity, and a highly centralised state authority." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2026/02/21/the-us-state-has-proved-itself-dispensable/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:08:49

• "The adoption of Rust in the Linux kernel has been ongoing for quite some time, first appearing in the mainline kernel in version 6.1, over three years ago." ☛ https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-7-coming-could-be-biggest-update-years/ | Source: XDA    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:09:51

• "Elevate for Educators in India" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-president-smith-visits-delhi-govt-school-launches-plan-to-skill-20-lakh-teachers-in-ai/articleshow/128609575.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:10:11

• "As an editor of mine once observed, America is ruled by two political parties: the party of the evil billionaires, and the party of the sane (so slightly less evil) billionaires." ☛ http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/02/more-in-sadness-than-in-anger.html | Source: Antipope    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:11:44

• "And this seemed plausible ... before it turned out that the CEO class as a whole believe entirely in AI (which, to be clear, is just another marketing grift in the same spirit as cryptocurrencies/blockchain, next-generation nuclear power, real estate backed credit default options"    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:12:07

• "AI is being sold on the promise of increasing workforce efficiency. And in a world which has been studiously ignoring John Maynard Keynes' 1930 prediction that by 2030 we would only need to work a 15 hour work week, they've drawn an inevitable unwelcome conclusion from this axiom: that there are too many of us."    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:12:34

• "How to get out of jury duty" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/02/how-to-get-out-of-jury-duty/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

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

• "Musk’s attorney Stephen Broome made a case in the courtroom for kicking more candidates out of the jury pool based on how they’d responded in the questionnaire, the outlets reported" ☛ https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/sf-jury-elon-musk-21369850.php | Source: SFGate    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:13:51

• "Software teams scan their code for vulnerabilities using so-called static analysis tools. Such programs are usually built around a database of rules, or definitions of common cybersecurity vulnerabilities." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/20/cybersecurity-stocks-drop-anthropic-debuts-claude-code-security/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:14:27

• "Senior warrant officers hoping to receive a bonus for extending their active duty service commitment will submit confidential “bids,” which represent the minimum monthly paycheck bump" ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-warrant-officer-bonus-auction/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:15:33

• "It is definitely exciting to open the browser to my BirdNET-Pi as I rise to see what the past dawn has brought." ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/a-tawny-owl-maybe | Source: Jeremy Cherfas    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:16:25

• "Accordingly, we believe that very important measures need to be taken here as well" ☛ https://oc-media.org/georgian-government-to-ban-import-of-cars-made-before-2020/ | Source: Open Caucasus Media    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:16:58

• "Mercury is highly toxic, especially to babies and children, impacting the brain and nervous system. Coal plants are the dominant cause of mercury emissions in the US." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/epa-repeals-regulations-for-mercury-and-toxic-air-pollutants-from-power-plants/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:17:26

• "EPA also eliminated a common-sense requirement that power plants install cost-effective systems to continuously monitor the amount of pollution they emit" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/epa-dismantles-protections-for-mercury-and-air-toxics-from-power-plants | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:17:44

• "Data center buildouts have regularly been in the news for their massive power needs, the strain they put on the grid, and the energy prices that can increase for residents in the general vicinity." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/datacenter-developers-leverage-natural-gas-to-sidestep-power-grids-short-term-solution-might-increase-carbon-emissions-and-prove-costly-in-the-long-run | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:18:03

• "The Justice Department recently asked a judge to lift secrecy requirements on the files." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-york/articles/2026-02-21/ghislaine-maxwell-fights-release-of-more-epstein-documents-calling-disclosure-law-unconstitutional | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:18:30

• "The fake liberal media says I’m charging $5,000 for front-row tickets" ☛ https://variety.com/2026/music/news/kid-rock-slams-journalists-5000-dollar-tour-tickets-1236669404/ | Source: Variety    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:18:47

• "The ongoing and escalating water crunch has inspired localities throughout the West to creatively conserve water through water recycling programs" ☛ https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/479784/colorado-river-water-crisis-cattle-beef-dairy | Source: Vox    

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

• "Continuous discussions are ongoing with big tech companies" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/discussion-on-with-social-media-platforms-over-protection-needed-for-society-union-minister-ashwini-vaishnaw/articleshow/128614637.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:24:09

• "The rise of the global far-right can be seen as an epidemic." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-22/understanding-the-far-right-ideology-spreading-across-the-planet-you-should-be-more-afraid-of-the-sound-of-slippers-than-marching-boots.html | Source: El País    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:24:37

• "For all his bluster about voter fraud, Elon Musk has been one of the most flagrant flaunters of US election law" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/882838/georgia-elon-musk-america-pac-voter-fraud | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:24:56

• "In a joint assessment by the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) and the Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD)" ☛ https://therecord.media/russia-cyberattacks-europe-warfare | Source: The Record    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:25:25

• "In the last five to 10 years I would say we have seen a complete shift in what drone technology is and how it can be used" ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/news/your-military/2026/02/20/drones-change-everything-about-combined-arms-combat-us-army-aviation-chief-says/ | Source: C4ISRNET    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:26:01

• "dangerously undermines the constitutional principle of government neutrality" ☛ https://ffrf.org/news/releases/ffrf-denounces-secretary-hegseths-sectarian-attack-on-godless-americans/ | Source: Freedom From Religion Foundation    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:26:33

• "The company revealed that the weapon system autonomously detects and classifies moving targets in poor visibility situations caused by darkness" ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/military/smart-weapon-hits-moving-targets-us-navy | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:27:01

• "If more people realize their browsing is being tracked so exhaustively by these three companies" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/web-pixels-tracking/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:34:27

• "Fitness apps collect incredibly intimate data, from geolocation to biometric vitals" ☛ https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2026-02-21-the-bloat-of-modern-fitness-apps | Source: Eliseo Martelli    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:35:06

• "Networked surveillance cameras, after all, first transmit all the footage to their corporate owner, after which other parties might get access." ☛ https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/its-time-to-get-rid-of-networked-cameras/ | Source: Buttondown LLC    

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

• "This apparently all started when some media organizations reporting on the FBI’s subpoena cited a 2023 post from Patokallio" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/archive-today-ddos/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:36:22

• "Further investigation has revealed that, since 2020, the Archive.today owners assumed the identity of N[...] P[...] on various websites." ☛ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_5 | Source: Wikipedia    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:36:38

• "This is a problem with both domains and IP addresses, but it's way worse with IP addresses." ☛ https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/ip_address_certs | Source: Ayer    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:36:57

• Windows TCO: "The guilty plea is a rare instance where a [cracker] involved in the breach of a municipal government office has been brought to justice." ☛ https://therecord.media/romanian-hacker-faces-7-years-oregon-breach | Source: The Record    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:38:00

• Social Control Media ☛ https://arkoinad.com/posts/weekly_post_112.html | Source: Abhinav Gopalakrishnan    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:39:00

• Social Control Media ☛ https://blog.kamens.us/2026/02/21/red-roof-inn-in-batavia-ny-gives-a-master-class-in-how-not-to-respond-to-a-mediocre-review/ | Source: Jonathan Kamens    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:39:20

• "Even the Academy, the most precious, legacy-protecting institution in Hollywood, has not come out in a really firm way about AI." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/hollywood-lying-about-ai-usage | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:39:56

• "The festival has had the air of an arthouse bubble when it comes to the topic of AI and the event's leadership is keeping above the fray." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/ai-revolution-looms-over-berlin-film-fest/articleshow/128650758.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:40:10

• "Maybe you’ve heard: Memory is expensive now. The price of RAM has tripled, quadrupled, even sextupled depending on the type of chip, all because AI companies are gobbling it up." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/880812/ramageddon-ram-shortage-memory-crisis-price-2026-phones-laptops | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:40:29

• "First, the price of graphical processing units (GPUs) started shooting through the roof. Then the price of RAM skyrocketed, followed by both solid-state and mechanical hard drives." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/personal-electronics-spiking-price-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:40:50

• "The presentation comes as businesses across every industry are attempting to figure out how to best use AI and not miss out on potential innovations and cost savings" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/lessons-ai-hacking-model-every-layer-risky | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:41:11

• "I think that maybe surprisingly I welcome and appreciate and support the socio-technological work that makes visible all the invisible actors that make up "AI" or even "LLMs"." ☛ https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/2026/02/21/some-clarifications-on-yesterdays-critique-of-critique/ | Source: Martin Hähne    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:41:34

• "I’m a member of my old high school’s “AI council”. My kids go there now, so I have both my own experience and my kids’ to build on when I speak in that council." ☛ https://joost.blog/healthy-doubt/ | Source: Joost de Valk    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:42:07

• "And if we go a step further and even entertain the thought of a superintelligence: What makes you think a being a thousand times smarter than you with all knowledge at its disposal has any care for being your assistant?" ☛ https://blog.avas.space/ai-consciousness/ | Source: Ava    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:42:17

• "The Electronic Frontier Foundation says it will accept LLM generated code from contributors to its open source projects but will draw the line at non-human generated comments and documentation." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/20/eff_demands_human_documentation_as/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:42:43

• "Voice is where many AI systems first break down, especially as companies rush to deploy agents in customer-facing environments, said Scott Stephenson, co-founder chief executive officer of Deepgram Inc." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/20/real-time-voice-ai-harder-sounds/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:43:04

• "This time, though, the masses have not been won over." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/technology/ai-boom-backlash.html | Source: New York Times    

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

• "In my case, I don't have a problem with Google being a big corp. My main motivation was reducing the risk of losing my digital identity and data due to an account lockout." ☛ https://iamvishnu.com/posts/degoogling | Source: Vishnu Haridas    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:44:10

• "Also, these games, if you have your digital backup — wink wink — they have been emulated for all these years." ☛ https://gabz.blog/posts/emulate-vs-paying-up | Source: Gabriel    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:44:33

• "Harnesses exist because interacting with a machine learning model itself is not a great user experience – you feed it a prompt and it returns a result. That's a single-turn interaction. Input and output." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/20/anthropic_clarifies_ban_third_party_claude_access/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:44:53

• "Much of the concern around social media addiction has focused on children. But adults are also susceptible to using social media so much that it starts affecting their day-to-day lives." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/social-media-can-be-addictive-even-for-adults-but-there-are-ways-to-cut-back/articleshow/128649173.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:46:34

• "Although I’ve regularly visited this food center for years—one of several in the area, which range from religious to anarchist to more of a secular nonprofit model like this one—on this particular day" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/journalist-on-snap-food-crisis/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:47:10

• "Despite its apparent uselessness to most cells in the body, evidence is accumulating that loss of Y is associated with severe health conditions, including cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases and cancer." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/men-lose-their-y-chromosome-with-age-we-finally-know-the-cost | Source: Science Alert    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:47:24

• "So you’ve heard of split keyboards and want to buy one, but don’t know where to start? You’ve come to the right place!" ☛ https://www.justinmklam.com/posts/2026/02/beginners-guide-split-keyboards/ |    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:48:45

• "The Integrated Circuits Inspired by Wireless and Biomedical Systems (IC-WiBES) group, led by Prof. Abhishek Srivastava, develops application-specific integrated circuits with full systems being built around them." ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/southern-states/telangana/iiit-h-researchers-design-custom-semiconductor-chips-for-critical-public-systems-1938990 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:48:58

• "NIST has developed a chip that reliably emits a single photon on demand. This ability will improve the efficiency of QKD (quantum key distribution) as we prepare for the arrival of quantum computers" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/nists-quantum-breakthrough-single-photons-produced-on-a-chip/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:49:43

• "I use computers to Get Things Done. I also happen to have made a career out of doing so. I flip bits on a screen, explain to clients how they can flip bits on a screen, and architect systems that facilitate the flipping of screen bits for others." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/buying-a-new-thinkpad-for-the-first-time/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:50:07

• "These use two-out-of-five code to represent the phone numbers and corresponding five relay packs, allowing the crossbar switch to be properly configured." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/retrotechtacular-bleeding-edge-memory-devices-of-1959/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:50:24

• "Over the years I've accumulated a couple of things that I probably don't need anymore, however, I haven't made the time to get rid of them, and honestly I don't know what to do about them." ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/devices-collecting-dust/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:50:40

• "I learned BASIC, then C, C++, Java. I don’t remember not being able to program. I grew up reading slash dot (had a 5 digit id) and absorbed the culture around open source and free software." ☛ https://alexalejandre.com/programming/steve-klabnik-interview/ |    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:51:58

• "One of the most powerful pillars of his vision remains human development. Free education has returned millions of children to school, restoring hope and opportunity to families that had been excluded by poverty." ☛ https://www.lusakatimes.com/2026/02/22/the-vision-that-is-rebuilding-zambias-future/ | Source: Lusaka ZM    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:53:04

• "This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Stefano Verna, whose blog can be found at squeaki.sh." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/interview/stefano-verna | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:53:43

• "This is a follow-up on my previous post." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/updated-thoughts-on-people-and-blogs | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:54:00

• "With 3 in 5 American undergraduates reporting food or housing insecurity, a new model of support has taken hold on college campuses." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2026/0220/college-students-campus-help-food-housing | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:54:17

• "The work is published in the journal Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-02-algorithmic-grading-class-extra-student.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:54:44

• "beg a much deeper question: As machines become more capable of doing the labor of research and learning, what happens to higher education? What purpose does the university serve?" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-02-greatest-ai-higher-isnt-erosion.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:55:39

• "The fun part is that these macro-level empirical studies…already exist." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/studies-on-behavioral-advertising-that-probably-already-exist/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:57:30

• "In simple terms, some resistors use materials that cause electron flow to take different paths through the resistor." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/quieting-noisy-resistors/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:57:46

• "Wikipedia is currently weighing three options to address the issue: retaining the status quo, removing all links, or discouraging future citations while keeping existing links." ☛ https://www.techspot.com/news/111296-wikipedia-may-remove-almost-700000-links-amid-archivetoday.html | Source: TechSpot    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 11:59:47

• "At any rate, the point is that I’ve rolled back my fonts to things I’ve used before: System UI and Monospace Code as specified by Modern Font Stacks." ☛ https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-21-the-font-of-wisdom/ | Source: Bix Frankonis    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:00:00

• "I have the desire to write. Always have, now more than ever, but my writing muscle is so unused that I’m not even sure how to start. So I guess I’ll just write what comes to mind." ☛ https://cwa.omg.lol/post/a-few-reps | Source: Aaron Aiken    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:00:35

• "One essential part of this blog is my daily retrospective of posts from this day through my blogging history – 25 years ago, 20 years ago, 15 years ago, 10 years ago, 5 years ago, and last year." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/#stock-buyback | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:00:58

• "If you’re reading this on my website right now, you might be thinking: what the hell did Henrique do? After a few years of calmness and small changes here and there, I’ve decided to fully redesign this website." ☛ https://hacdias.com/2026/02/21/redesign/ | Source: Henrique Dias    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:01:14

• blocked by gratuitous javascript https://dixken.de/blog/i-found-a-vulnerability-they-found-a-lawyer    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:16:05

• "Linux Distros Migrating from GitHub? | Copilot going too far" https://odysee.com/@switchedtolinux:0/linux-distros-migrating-from-github:f    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:16:21

• "This superbowl ad pissed us off enough to spend $10,000 saying f u" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/this-superbowl-ad-pissed-us-off-enough:5    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:16:42

• "Willie Colón, Pioneering Salsa Icon, Dead at 75" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/willie-colon-salsa-icon-dead-obituary-1235520661/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:17:00

• Record low support for the monarchy – but the king is super popular | "Rekordlav oppslutning om monarkiet – men kongen er super­populær – NRK Norge – Oversikt over nyheter fra ulike deler av landet" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://www.nrk.no/norge/rekordlav-oppslutning-om-monarkiet-_-men-kongen-er-superpopulaer-1.17775717    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:17:14

• "Dutch defense secretary discusses jailbreaking F-35 jet so it cant be disabled by America" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/dutch-defense-secretary-discusses:3    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:17:26

• "Legendary Salsa Musician Willie Colón Dead at 75" https://www.tmz.com/2026/02/21/willie-colon-dead/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:17:45

• "‘Dictator vibes’ as dear leader Trump puts name and face front and center" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/trump-name-face-justice-department    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:18:16

• "As Epstein Scandal Tightens, Trump Announces That He's Releasing All Government Files About Alien Life" https://futurism.com/future-society/epstein-scandal-trump-files-alien-life    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:18:29

• "Donald Trump is preparing for war" https://www.newstatesman.com/world/americas/north-america/us/2026/02/donald-trump-is-preparing-for-war    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:18:44

• "Five forces that may reshape the African continent in 2026" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/africasource/five-forces-that-may-reshape-the-african-continent-in-2026/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:19:04

• "Pakistan Launches Fresh Attacks Inside Afghanistan Amid Rising Tensions" https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistan-afghanistan-border-attacks-taliban-islamic/33684530.html    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:27:10

• "The Supreme Court’s tariff decision extends far beyond tariffs" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-supreme-courts-tariff-decision    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:27:28

• "Imperia: A European Culture Story, Part 1 — Crooked Timber" https://crookedtimber.org/2026/02/21/imperia-a-european-culture-story-part-1/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:27:42

• "In Nashville, Hegseth talks “Western values,” Christian nationalism • Tennessee Lookout" https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/21/in-nashville-hegseth-talks-western-values-christian-nationalism/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:27:57

• "Trump's Tantrum Tariffs" https://emptywheel.net/trumps-tantrum-tariffs/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:28:15

• "Why Trump Is Trying to Steal Jesse Jackson’s Glory" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-jesse-jackson-black-voters/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:28:28

• "A Growing Number of Democrats Are Skipping Trump's State of the Union Address - NOTUS — News of the United States" https://www.notus.org/congress/a-growing-number-of-democrats-are-skipping-trumps-state-of-the-union-address    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:28:43

• Snyk are scammers and slop is a scam. So Snyk is probably in deep trouble, slopwashing follows https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/20/snyk_ceo_stands_down/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:29:24

• "Trump Hikes Global Tariffs to 15 Percent Following Supreme Court Ruling | Truthout" https://truthout.org/articles/trump-hikes-global-tariffs-to-15-percent-following-supreme-court-ruling/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:29:40

• "'I'm Allowed to Destroy the Country': Trump Claims He Can Do Anything After Supreme Court Overturns Global Tariffs" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-executive-power-supreme-court-setback-1780711    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:30:05

• "US and Chinese jets engage in rare standoff over Yellow Sea: Reports" https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/us-chinese-jets-engage-over-yellow-sea    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:30:17

• "You've sometimes made a list of pros and cons regarding a hard decision, right? Maybe the decision turns out to be easy in the end; maybe not." ☛ https://blog.cr.yp.to/20260221-structure.html | Source: DJ Bernstein    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:30:58

• "If you need to release in an air-gapped environment, you may now export your key and validate it offline: [...]" ☛ https://carlosbecker.com/posts/goreleaser-v2.14/ | Source: Carlos Becker    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:31:25

• "In a previous post we have shown that we can use time-to-event curves to describe the time course of germinations/emergences for a seed lot (this post)." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/02/fitting-time-to-event-models-with-an-environmental-covariate/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:31:56

• "Both tools are totally independent. One is a cgi scrip to install on a gotwebd instance; the other is pure local on the dev machine." ☛ https://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20260221 | Source: Vincent Delft    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:33:09

• "Your project doesn’t necessarily have to be a refined masterpiece to have an impact on the global hacker hivemind. Case in point: this great demo of using a 64-point time-of-flight ranging sensor." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/in-praise-of-the-proof-of-concept/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:33:26

• "What a paradox, I realized afterwards. The very desire to fix the bug prevented me from seeing I had to fix the tool first, and made me less effective in my bug hunt" ☛ https://ochagavia.nl/blog/fix-your-tools/ | Source: Adolfo Ochagavía    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:33:48

• "I've raised a few PRs against the Guix Codeberg repository recently, and each time I've done so with Forgejo's agit workflow." ☛ https://carlo.zancanaro.id.au/posts/forgejo-agit-and-pull-request-templates.html | Source: Carlo Zancanaro    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:34:11

• quoting the late George Carlin https://apina.biz/213397.jpeg?mode=sfw    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:34:47

• "What happens if you break the rules and have a high surrogate followed by a high surrogate?" ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/02/21/how-fast-do-browsers-correct-utf-16-strings/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:36:28

• [Old] "My intro to Hugo was back in 2016, a mere 3 years after its inception, when I was in my early days of learning web development." ☛ https://www.justinmklam.com/posts/2025/05/hugo-tips-and-tricks/ |    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:37:52

• "Meanwhile, two other performance problems sit underneath the N+1 problem, less famous but just as costly" ☛ https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-20-haskell-postgresql-without-suffering/ | Source: Ian Duncan    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:38:20

• "There are downsides though. Electron apps are bloated; each runs its own Chromium engine. The minimum app size is usually a couple hundred megabytes." ☛ https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/02/21/why-is-claude-an-electron-app.html | Source: Drew Breunig    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:44:55

• "If you’re running nginx on FreeBSD and want HTTP/3, this should save you several hours of troubleshooting." ☛ https://blog.hofstede.it/http3-on-freebsd-getting-quic-working-with-nginx-in-a-bastille-jail/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:45:14

• "If I browse it (with a secret token in the URL), the page is the same, but every time I click on an article, it disappears." ☛ https://squeaki.sh/p/i-turned-my-website-into-my-feed-reader/ |    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:45:28

• "Search engines, and now AI systems layered on top of them, build models of entities." ☛ https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/stop-trying-to-rank-for-keywords/ | Source: Jono Alderson    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:45:52

• "Since then I've continued to try other browsers, but nothing has stuck. I've tried Vivaldi, Brave, Waterfox, Gnome Web, Zen, and goodness knows what else." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/i-still-havent-found-a-new-browser-and-thats-ok | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:46:10

• "I have recently switched from ZNC to Soju as my IRC bouncer and I am already quite pleased with it." ☛ https://susam.net/from-znc-to-soju.html | Source: SusamPal    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:47:35

• "The closed-source chat platform Discord announced on February 9 that it would soon require some users to verify their ages in order to access some content" ☛ https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1058319/be805deea6b3e6c5/ | Source: LWN    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:47:51

• "None of my usual tooling is available for Linux, so I dove into Darktable, which seems to be the top contender for dealing with RAW files. (RawTheraPee doesn't attract me for some reason)." ☛ https://baty.blog/my-photography-workflow-is-a-disaster | Source: Jack Baty    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:51:31

• "Today we're releasing the second beta of Krita 5.3.0 and Krita 6.0.0. Our thanks to all the people who have tested the first beta. We received 49 bug reports in total, of which we managed to resolve 14 for this release." ☛ https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-6.0.0-beta2-released/ | Source: Krita    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:51:59

• "He’s documenting the process of creating The Archer in a series of videos" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/love-complex-automata-dont-miss-the-archer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:52:56

• "This decoding is mostly done by the microcode engine, with conditional instructions like cos featuring circuitry that sprawls all over the IC." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/how-the-intel-8087-fpu-knows-which-instructions-to-execute/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:53:15

• "Depending on who you ask, Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II is either the most sophisticated weapons platform ever built" ☛ https://futurism.com/science-energy/f35-jailbreak-dutch | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:53:57

• "Why use a chroot(2) on NetBSD? The most basic reason, for me, is I just like working with NetBSD." ☛ https://overeducated-redneck.net/blurgh/netbsd-chroot-isolation.html |    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:55:27

• [Old] "With a bit of layer remapping that I adapted from using small form factor keyboards, I was able to achieve a layout that keeps my hands relatively centered around home row." ☛ https://www.justinmklam.com/posts/2025/11/remapping-standard-keyboard/ |    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:55:43

• [Old] "The only dependencies are rsync (any modern version on the backup server, incredibly old supported on the client), and a POSIX shell (ksh, sh or bash) on the backup server." ☛ https://holland-consulting.net/scripts/ibs/ |    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:56:09

• "It all began with the nav. Notice how in the sidebar of this here blog where you can open and close folders to reveal more entries?" ☛ https://robinrendle.com/notes/pointer-box-offset/ | Source: Robin Rendle    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:56:28

• "If feed readers didn't do any conditional GETs and I didn't have any rate limiting (and all of the requests that got HTTP 429s would still have been made), the additional feed requests would have amounted to about another 3.5 GBytes of responses sent out to people." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/FeedLimitingImportance | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:57:04

• "This week I finished up an OS project I have been working on for over a year. It’s a from-scratch kernel designed to serve this blog." ☛ https://thasso.xyz/tatix.html |    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 12:57:46

• Microsoft Issues Statement on Potential Layoffs After Major Xbox Leadership Changes https://gamerant.com/xbox-layoffs-2026-microsoft-statement/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:04:55

• Nov 5, 2005: Beacon Theater, New York City, New York https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/comedy/george-carlin-dumb-americans-transcript/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:27:07

• JPMorgan Admits to Debanking Convicted Felon After Jan. 6 Capitol Attacks ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/business/jpmorgan-trump-debanking.html    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:31:09

• Vasudev Kamath: Learning Notes: Debsecan MCP Server ☞ https://copyninja.in/blog/debsecan-mcp.html    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:32:33

• How To Install Audacious on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-audacious-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:33:15

• How To Install Umami Analytics on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-umami-analytics-almalinux-10/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:34:32

• How To Install 7-Zip on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-7-zip-debian-13/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:35:01

• Several PC games run on Snapdragon 8 Elite Android device ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/youtuber-successfully-runs-several-pc-games-on-snapdragon-8-elite-android-device-with-16gb-ram-the-witcher-3-spider-man-miles-morales-and-cyberpunk-2077-playable-at-720p    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:35:39

• Open Gamepad UI – game launcher and overlay ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/open-gamepad-ui-game-launcher-overlay/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:36:11

• ls Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/ls/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:36:53

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

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:37:58

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

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:38:22

• It's SPAM https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-seasoned-admins-bundle/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:39:21

• Scientists Suggest That Igniting Oil Spills to Create Fire Tornadoes Might Actually Be Good for the Oceans ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/fire-tornado-pollution    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:40:37

• It Seems Bad That Temu Is Selling Peptides ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/temu-peptides-biohacking    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:41:05

• Stanford’s New “Universal Vaccine Formula” Nasal Spray Protects Mice Against Stunning Range of Diseases ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/stanford-universal-vaccine-mice    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:43:06

• Cleaning up old snapshost: snapshot has dependent clones ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2026/02/16/9375/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:44:17

• North Korean movie about assassination attempt of leader aired on TV ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korean-movie-about-assassination-attempt-of-leader-aired-on-tv    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:44:37

• AnalogVUMeter – classic analog stereo VU meter ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/analogvumeter-classic-analog-stereo-vu-meter/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:55:04

• Luban – 3-in-1 software tailor-made for Snapmaker machines ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/luban-software-tailor-made-snapmaker-machines/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:55:53

• Zap – play sound effects ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/zap-play-sound-effects/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:56:15

• mergiraf – git merge driver ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mergiraf-git-merge-driver/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:56:27

• YARA-X – re-incarnation of YARA ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/yara-x-re-incarnation-yara/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:56:38

• cclip – clipboard manager for Wayland ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cclip-clipboard-manager-wayland/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:56:50

• Linux Saloon 188 | MX GNU/Linux 25.1 Distribution Exploration ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2026/02/21/linux-saloon-188-mx-linux-25-1-distribution-exploration/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:57:28

• Rip Rip Hooray! – specialized audio CD-ripper ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rip-rip-hooray-specialized-audio-cd-ripper/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:58:31

• GNU/Linux Grew a Lot in Nicaragua ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/GNU_Linux_Grew_a_Lot_in_Nicaragua.shtml    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:58:47

• BablerEdit – desktop translation editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bableredit-desktop-translation-editor/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:59:02

• 13 Best Free and Open Source GUI-Based Calendar Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-calendar-software/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 13:59:14

• North Korea’s ninth party congress bolsters repression of youth and information ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/north-koreas-ninth-party-congress-bolsters-repression-of-youth-and-information/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:11:01

• Malaysia’s TB outbreak: Public urged to mask up in crowded places as cases hit over 3,100 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-tb-outbreak-public-urged-to-mask-up-in-crowded-places-as-number-of-cases-rise-over-3000    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:11:49

• Man nabbed while trying to steal railway cables in Malaysia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/man-nabbed-while-trying-to-steal-railway-cables-in-malaysia    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:12:10

• Brazil, India ink critical minerals deal as leaders meet ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/brazil-india-ink-critical-minerals-deal-as-leaders-meet    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:12:46

• Philippine senator calls out China in visit to disputed island ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippine-senator-calls-out-china-in-visit-to-disputed-island    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:13:06

• Australian warship transits Taiwan Strait, tracked by China’s navy ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-warship-transits-taiwan-strait-tracked-by-chinas-navy    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:13:27

• [SoK 2026] Midterm update for 'Automating promo data collection' task ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/18/sok-2026-midterm-update-for-automating-promo-data-collection-task/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:20:50

• "We returned from hell’: Rights group raises alarm over torture in Israeli jails ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260221-we-returned-from-hell-rights-group-raises-alarm-over-torture-in-israeli-jails    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:22:08

• Steam Deck shortage goes global — Valve's handheld console now out of stock in Europe, Canada, the US, and Japan ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/steam-deck-shortage-goes-global-valves-handheld-console-now-out-of-stock-in-europe-canada-the-us-and-japan    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:22:37

• ‘Mad scientist’ visualizes Atari 2600 fetching data from ROM for mesmerizing light show — signal propagation through the 8-bit circuits animated ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/mad-scientist-visualizes-atari-2600-fetching-data-from-rom-for-mesmerizing-light-show-signal-propagation-through-the-circuits-animated    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:23:39

• Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits 3nd week of feb 2026 ☞ https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2026/02/21/misc-fedora-bits-3nd-week-of-feb-2026/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:25:15

• New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Super Battle Golf, Demon Tides and Under the Island - 2026-02-21 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-02-21-edition/index.html    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:25:48

• Track Zelda release anniversaries in your calendar ☞ https://evanhahn.com/zelda-anniversary-calendar/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:26:16

• Lenovo alerts partners to looming price hikes on consumer and server products — soaring memory costs drive the surge ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/lenovo-alerts-partners-to-looming-price-hikes-on-consumer-and-server-products-soaring-memory-costs-drive-the-surge    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:28:36

• CNX pushing Windows again: "after running backdoored Windows updates." https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/21/chuwi-corebook-air-plus-16-review-part-2-an-amd-ryzen-5-6600h-powered-mid-range-laptop-tested-with-windows-11-pro/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:30:05

• At Least 10 Killed in Lebanon, Officials Say, After Israel Strikes Hezbollah ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/world/middleeast/israel-strikes-lebanon-hezbollah.html    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:31:14

• New York Nurses’ Strike Ends After 6 Weeks as Last Holdouts Approve Deal ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/nyregion/nyc-nurses-strike-ends.html    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:31:46

• Pakistan launches deadly strikes in Afghanistan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/pakistan-strikes-militant-camps-in-afghan-border-region-govt    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:32:08

• US ramps up military buildup in Middle East amid talks with Iran ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/us-ramps-up-military-buildup-in-middle-east-amid-talks-with-iran    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:32:24

• US Supreme Court strikes down Convicted Felon's sweeping tariffs ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/us-supreme-court-strikes-down-trump-s-sweeping-tariffs    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:32:53

• Hezbollah says 'resistance' is the only choice after deadly Israeli strike ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260221-hezbollah-says-resistance-is-the-only-choice-after-deadly-israeli-strike    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:33:17

• It’s Comically Easy to Trick Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Into Saying Things About People That Are Completely Untrue ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/easy-trick-chatgpt-spread-lies-people    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:35:13

• Competing for another country ☞ https://rubenerd.com/competing-for-another-country/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:36:36

• Octave 11.1.0 Released with 11 New Functions & Better HiDPI Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/octave-11-1-0-released-with-11-new-functions-better-hidpi-support/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:37:23

• World's tallest church: Sagrada Familia inches closer to the sky ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/world-s-tallest-church-sagrada-familia-inches-closer-to-the-sky    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:37:56

• Amazon’s Blundering Hey Hi (AI) Caused Multiple proprietary trap AWS Outages ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-ai-aws-outages    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:38:42

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: qlcal 0.1.0 on CRAN: Easier Calendar Switching ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/02/21#qlcal-r_0.1.0    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:39:22

• Containerized KDE Development: Building the Mankala Engine with Distrobox ☞ https://pavanportfolio.droptools.site/blog/distrobox-kde    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:40:13

• Lakka 6.1 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/lakka    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:40:44

• As the fifth year under trustee administration draws to a close: seeking the truth ☞ https://bianet.org/yazi/as-the-fifth-year-under-trustee-administration-draws-to-a-close-seeking-the-truth-316922    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:42:25

• Critical Grandstream Phone Vulnerability Exposes Calls to Interception ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-grandstream-phone-vulnerability-exposes-calls-to-interception/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:42:48

• Police official suspected of money laundering role ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/21.02.2026-police-official-suspected-of-money-laundering-role.a635723/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:43:10

• Iranian Students Chant Anti-Government Slogans, Clash With Security Forces In Tehran ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-student-protests-tehran/33684136.html    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:43:30

• How $600 Drones Are Outsmarting Colombia’s Billion-Dollar Military ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/world/americas/colombia-combat-drones-military.html    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:43:57

• Jonathan Dowland: Lanzarote ☞ https://jmtd.net/log/lanzarote/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:47:24

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Official Backs Russia’s Return to Global Sports ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/world/europe/trump-administration-russia-global-sports-return.html    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:47:52

• Uncertainty in Europe After Convicted Felon’s Supreme Court Tariff Loss ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/world/europe/political-uncertainty-trump-tariff-loss.html    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:48:39

• The Ex-Taxi Driver at the Center of Russia’s Shadow War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/world/europe/russia-sabotage-europe.html    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:48:58

• Ukraine Claims New Long-Range Cruise Missile Hit Weapons Factory In Central Russia ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-drone-strikes-factory-missile-odesa/33684082.html    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:49:12

• French baker brings bread and comfort to war-hit Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/french-baker-brings-bread-and-comfort-to-war-hit-ukraine    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:49:27

• Four Years On, Ukraine Supporters Rally in Washington, Call for ‘Rock-Solid’ Western Unity ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-washington-rally-russia-war-trump-putin/33684529.html    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:51:09

• This Week in Linux 337: KDE Plasma 6.6, Lutris Update, Asahi Linux, NuTyX, Valve vs Patent Troll & more GNU/Linux news ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-337/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:52:16

• FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending February 20, 2026 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/02/foss-forces-top-five-articles-for-the-week-ending-february-20-2026/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:52:43

• Pakistan says it carried out cross-border strikes in Afghanistan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/pakistan-says-it-carried-out-cross-border-strikes-in-afghanistan    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:53:01

• Pakistan Launches Fresh Attacks Inside Afghanistan Amid Rising Tensions ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistan-afghanistan-border-attacks-taliban-islamic/33684530.html    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:53:15

• Virus kills over 70 tigers at north Thailand park ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/virus-kills-over-70-tigers-in-thailand-park    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:54:24

• Developer’s Honest Assessment of Hey Hi (AI) at Work Rattles the Official Narrative ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/developer-honest-assessment-ai    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:54:49

• Simulation model of ventilation–perfusion mismatch ☞ https://yingtongli.me/blog/2026/02/21/vq-mismatch.html    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:56:26

• This Strange Spiky Dinosaur Had Skin Unlike Anything We've Ever Seen ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-strange-spiky-dinosaur-had-skin-unlike-anything-weve-ever-seen    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:57:30

• Scientists Simulated The Big Bang's Aftermath, And Found The Universe Was Like Soup ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-simulated-the-big-bangs-aftermath-and-found-the-universe-was-like-soup    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:57:43

• Stressed Chinese youth mix traditional medicine and cocktails ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/22/stressed-chinese-youth-mix-traditional-medicine-and-cocktails/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:58:07

• ‘Gov’t should bear greatest responsibility’: Tai Po fire survivors recall futile whistle-blowing attempts ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/22/govt-should-bear-greatest-responsibility-tai-po-fire-survivors-recall-futile-whistle-blowing-attempts/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:58:19

• This Week in Science: Children of Chernobyl, Hair Loss Light Therapy, And More! ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-week-in-science-children-of-chernobyl-hair-loss-light-therapy-and-more    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:58:33

• This Extreme Radiation-Resistant Organism Evolved a Remarkable Ability ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-extreme-radiation-resistant-organism-evolved-a-remarkable-ability    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:58:44

• Play Can Make Adults Feel Happier And Less Stressed, Research Shows ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/play-can-make-adults-feel-happier-and-less-stressed-research-shows    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 14:58:56

• Intel works on making gaming on Linux better as it scouts for new talent https://www.xda-developers.com/intel-works-on-making-gaming-on-linux-better-as-it-scouts-for-new-talent/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 15:11:09

• Also has bugs, missing functionality etc. https://www.makeuseof.com/replaced-standard-linux-coreutils-with-rust-versions-surprisingly-faster/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 15:12:55

• I switched to a tiling window manager and I'm never going back https://www.makeuseof.com/i-switched-to-a-tiling-window-manager-and-im-never-going-back/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 15:14:09

• "We don't always have scallions on hand, we generally don't keep stocked with pickled ginger or Japanese moutain yam, and I'm personally not a fan of bonito flakes - so those are the major changes. We also prefer more batter than Kenji calls for, and we pre-cook the bacon, let it cool a bit, and mix it into the pancake so that we can flip it more easily." gemini://gemini.patatas.ca/recipes/okonomiyaki.gmi    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 15:28:59

• Mamoru Hosoda gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/JP-scarlet-mamoru-hosoda-2025.gmi    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 15:29:25

• "I was worried that it'll take more time and I'll be under more pressure before the deadline, but things are kinda looking good at the moment (I am still worried sick that it will be tough). In light of this milestone, I decided to gather my thoughts and write something and also try to put things down for the future." gemini://sublime.jp.eu.org/gemlog/2026-02-20-midcrunch-crisis.gmi    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 15:30:25

• "Almost the end of February and still no layoffs! Isn’t that strange?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 16:15:04

• "All bets are off if you do not take the package within the prescribed acceptance date. Not accepting means no severance and a army of corporate lawyers descending and crushing you in years of drawn out litigation aimed to financially ruin you . Accept your fate and move on …" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khpvk7zz    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 16:16:06

• "All tech stocks are down a lot. MSFT lost $100+. They will all recover at some point including IBM. This cr-p about AI ki-ling software companies is just a joke." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kh72z96q    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 16:16:51

• no, she is a bot https://kotaku.com/xbox-exclusives-halo-asha-sharma-microsoft-2000672587 microsoft uses a bot for PR now    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 18:21:07

• Old but relevant https://hounslowherald.com/cabinet-member-steps-down-after-law-firm-closed-p28598-95.htm    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 18:44:44

• Hired guns https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/New_Article_Challenges_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_for_.shtml    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 18:45:02

• "The wood pecker knocking on my house got me out of bed." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wormSix    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 19:18:15

• worm seventh day gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wormSeven    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 19:19:21

• Scripted nonsense over the weekend while XBox crashes and burns https://gamerant.com/xbox-president-sarah-bond-leaving-statement/    

posted Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 20:49:57

• &nb &n &nbs