Roy Schestowitz

• Police search European Commission buildings https://www.dw.com/en/brussels-police-search-european-commission-buildings/a-75935130    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 03:34:57

• Slop a net loss https://www.dw.com/en/ai-fueled-chip-shortage-is-driving-up-smartphone-prices/a-75925338    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 03:35:29

• hen Microsoft bought Skype ten years ago, Bill Gates removed the encryption feature within 30 days and today in 2024 Skype has become a government spy hub compiling the biggest voice print database in the world. Are YOU on it? Have you used Skype? https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepStateSecrets/comments/1r5pnx1/when_microsoft_bought_skype_ten_years_ago_bill/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 03:38:03

• Relegated to weird subs https://old.reddit.com/r/ConspiracyII/comments/1r5poip/when_microsoft_bought_skype_ten_years_ago_bill/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 03:38:28

• "it feels like IBM always got rid of a lot of people with PIPS in addition to RAs" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 03:46:42

• "thanks for reminding us of what the company has already said about layoffs: During the 4Q Earnings call on January 28, 2026, the company indicated there would be layoffs in 2026 at levels similar to 2025."    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 03:47:12

• "The words they used were: “For operating pretax margin, we expect about 100 basis points of expansion with workforce rebalancing fairly consistent with the prior year.” FYI: “Workforce rebalancing charges” is code for restructuring costs tied to headcount actions: severance, role eliminations, org redesign etc."    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 03:47:20

• "Eh, well, NASA's technical rigor was somewhat absent or shot down by NASA management during the Challenger thing, so if NASA has a technical rigor now it's because the body count was yea high and for many humans it usually requires that the body count be yea high before a move is made to start thinking about fixes." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/02/22/progress-goes-boing.gmi    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 03:56:54

• Evil strikes through pride gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/glog/2026-02-22-evil-through-pride.gmi    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 03:57:54

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1569.jpg    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 03:58:28

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1925.jpg    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 03:58:38

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-23.gmi    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 03:59:12

• "You approach the system core that radiates a most omnious power..." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/02/23/knr.gmi    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 04:00:02

• "If you're like me, you occasionally get the urge to trash your old projects and start over from scratch. The thinking goes "With what I know now, I could do better the next time around." Sometimes that's a good idea. Other times you're just suffering from an unhealthy unattainable desire for perfection like me." gemini://nicholasjohnson.ch/2026/02/21/my-imperfect-journal/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 04:00:44

• FCC Cybersecurity Alert and Recommendations to Communications Providers https://databreaches.net/2026/02/08/fcc-cybersecurity-alert-and-recommendations-to-communications-providers/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 04:04:13

• OT and ICS Security Gaps https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2026/02/10/poland-energy-sector-cyber-incident-highlights-ot-and-ics-security-gaps    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 04:05:17

• Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 Reauthorized Through September 2026 https://www.insideprivacy.com/cybersecurity-2/cybersecurity-information-sharing-act-of-2015-reauthorized-through-september-2026/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 04:06:40

• It won't protect anybody from the pyramid scheme https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/bitcoins-security-system-is-due-for-an-upgrade/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 04:08:25

• security risks https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canadians-chinese-electric-vehicles-9.7087040    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 04:10:03

• But the agenda remains the same https://www.dw.com/en/ring-cuts-surveillance-firm-ties-amid-super-bowl-ad-outcry/a-75964203    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 04:27:35

• too little, too late https://www.dw.com/en/mehmet-oz-s-vaccine-call-is-too-little-too-late/a-75951461    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 04:28:36

• safety summit https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-deutsche-bahn-calls-safety-summit/live-75944470    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 04:29:15

• Egypt bolstering ties with Somalia https://www.dw.com/en/why-is-egypt-bolstering-ties-with-somalia-now/a-75958140    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 04:29:55

• Obnam server API: token validation in requests https://obnam.org/blog/2026/06/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 04:30:50

• Fracking https://www.projectcensored.org/ai-fossil-fuel-data-center-propaganda/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 04:32:48

• Censorship Eased in Post-Assad Syria https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-02-16/the-damascus-book-fair-draws-crowds-with-censorship-eased-in-post-assad-syria    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 04:33:13

• Op-ed: Weakening Section 230 Would Chill Online Speech https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/op-ed-weakening-section-230-would-chill-online-speech    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 04:33:38

• When a Deportation Case Falls Apart, Free Speech Is on Trial https://scheerpost.com/2026/02/15/when-a-deportation-case-falls-apart-free-speech-is-on-trial/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 04:34:23

• "Richard Stallman's "Right to Read" from 1999 is worth another read." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098009    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 05:50:38

• "It has a back door with which Amazon can remotely erase any book. In 2009, it erased thousands of copies of 1984, by George Orwell." https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 05:51:56

• Linux 7.0-rc1 https://lwn.net/Articles/1059772/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 05:56:41

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 06:54:35

• very steep decline for social control media https://gs.statcounter.com/search-vs-social-vs-ai-chatbot-market-share/all/belgium/#monthly-200902-202602    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 06:54:42

• Helping to sell a PONZI SCHEME https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/acadia-university-ai-open-course-9.7073938    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 07:14:05

• energy boom? Or Ponzi scheme? https://bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/the-energy-boom-is-coming-for-great-lakes-water-is-michigan-ready/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 07:15:35

• Parrot 7.1 Release Notes ⚓ https://parrotsec.org/blog/2026-02-11-parrot-7.1-release-notes/ ䷉ Source: | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//parrotsec.org/blog/2026-02-11-parrot-7.1-release-notes/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 07:17:22

• Ubuntu 24.04.4 still the same bloat, fewer known holes    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 07:20:33

• REMnux v8: 15 Years of Building a Malware Analysis Toolkit ⚓ https://zeltser.com/remnux-v8-release | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//zeltser.com/remnux-v8-release    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 07:21:22

• "KaOS presents a February ISO with a complete change from what you expect from this distribution." https://kaosx.us/news/2026/kaos02/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 07:22:40

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

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 07:55:29

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

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 07:56:27

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

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 07:57:06

• Hackers Use Signal QR Codes to Spy on Military and Political Leaders https://hackread.com/hackers-signal-qr-codes-spy-on-military-political-leaders/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 07:57:38

• Cheeto Mussolini Set to Repeal Scientific Finding That Serves as Basis for US Climate Change Policy https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2026-02-10/trump-set-to-gut-u-s-climate-change-policy-and-environmental-regulations-white-house-official    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 07:58:11

• Under GOP Pressure, Federal Agency Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Official Manual for U.S. Judges https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-judicial-center-climate-change-republican-pressure    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 07:58:25

• Cheeto Mussolini Administration Dismantles More Climate Regulations https://therevelator.org/despite-trump/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 07:58:47

• Cheeto Mussolini sides with climate change https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/479118/climate-change-epa-endangerment-finding-trump-zeldin-explained    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 07:59:03

• Senile old man who does not care about even 5 years from now https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trump-just-killed-the-epas-ability-to-fight-climate-change/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 07:59:39

• Cheeto Mussolini drops key US climate rule, swaps health for cheap cars https://www.dw.com/en/trump-drops-key-us-climate-rule-swaps-health-for-cheap-cars/a-75939736    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 07:59:54

• Cheeto Mussolini’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the evidence says otherwise https://scheerpost.com/2026/02/14/trumps-epa-decides-climate-change-doesnt-endanger-public-health-the-evidence-says-otherwise/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 08:00:11

• Climate crisis at the table, market regime in the fields https://bianet.org/yazi/climate-crisis-at-the-table-market-regime-in-the-fields-316129    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 08:00:27

• Mazur Monday: CILEX reveals its arguments as Court of Appeal case set to start https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/mazur-monday-cilex-reveals-its-arguments-as-court-of-appeal-case-set-to-start/5125972.article    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 08:02:16

• High-powered Court of Appeal gears up to hear Mazur https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/high-powered-court-of-appeal-gears-up-to-hear-mazur    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 08:02:56

• "ProtonVPN has fought back hard against a pirate site blocking request in France, but without result." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/protonvpn-fights-french-pirate-site-blockades-but-court-rejects-overblocking-fears/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 08:58:56

• "The project also leads to deep open questions about how agentic engineering interacts with licensing and IP for both open source and proprietary code: [...]" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/22/ccc/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 08:59:19

• "Language barriers and translation costs are persistent obstacles to communication and have particularly pronounced economic impacts in technical domains" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-02-language-barriers-international-diffusion-knowledge.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:01:06

• "The practical implication is urgent and political, not merely technical." ☛ https://conesible.de/wab/whitepaper_webaccessbench.pdf |    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:01:40

• "It is a systematic civil-rights failure that has now found its way into software as a whole, through lightning-fast adoption of AI systems that are trained on over 20 years of institutional barriers." ☛ https://conesible.de/wab/ |    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:01:53

• "Here's one of the best things I've read in the New York Times in a long time (gift link): an account of participating in the defense of Minneapolis against ICE as joyful, in prose that is itself a joy to read" ☛ https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/welcoming-the-stranger-and-fighting-the-power-a-roundup/ | Source: Rebecca Solnit    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:02:07

• "monthslong assault on Minneapolis and surrounding areas, dubbed Operation Metro Surge, was coming to an end." ☛ https://organizingmythoughts.org/we-belong-to-each-other-now-lessons-from-minneapolis/ | Source: Kelly Hayes    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:02:42

• "Thinking about the reality of anti-Black fascism led me to the indispensable work of Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill V. Mullen." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/the-black-anti-fascist-tradition-recognized-fascism-didnt-begin-in-europe/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:02:57

• "More than 300 students at Woodbridge Senior High School were recently suspended after joining protests with other schools in Virginia." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/quakertown-students-arrested-ice-investigation-b2925429.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:03:09

• "The new entity will take over the building where the Gulag History Museum operated until it was forced to suspend operations in November 2024" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/02/21/moscow-s-gulag-museum-forced-russians-to-confront-their-own-history-the-kremlin-has-decided-that-era-is-over-a-new-museum-of-memory-has-one-villain-the-nazis | Source: Meduza    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:03:41

• "There is a reason why the administration has cracked down on the arts and humanities alongside its brutal assault on migrants." ☛ https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-02-22-act-of-resistence/ | Source: Dan Sinker    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:03:54

• "Social media has become a central source [sic] of political news[sic] for many people, prompting concerns about misinformation" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-02-algorithmic-shifting-political-views-conservatism.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:04:23

• "Notifications already told you what you needed to know. A headline arrived, you read it or you didn’t, and the words were the ones the journalist had written." ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/ai-is-the-new-middleman/ | Source: Greg Morris    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:04:35

• "Based on an Institute for Policy Studies analysis of data from the Forbes real time billionaire list from 2025" ☛ https://ips-dc.org/resource-richest-15-u-s-centi-billionaires-see-wealth-surge-33-percent-to-3-2-trillion/ | Source: Institute for Policy Studies    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:05:09

• "Striking graph illustrating stock in the UK Raspberry Pi holding company spiking on Tuesday: [...]" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/22/raspberry-pi-openclaw/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:05:20

• "But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this. There’s a reason that education sucks." ☛ https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/comedy/george-carlin-dumb-americans-transcript/ |    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:05:53

• [Old] "[...] They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, 'cause they own this fucking place." ☛ https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/964648-but-there-s-a-reason-there-s-a-reason-there-s-a-reason |    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:06:05

• [Old] "It’s called ‘the American Dream’ because you have to be asleep to believe it" ☛ https://publicseminar.org/2016/02/its-a-big-club-and-you-aint-in-it-george-carlin-as-social-and-political-theorist/ | Source: Public Seminar    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:06:16

• "The Secretary of State’s Office says through the ELT system, lien and title records are transmitted directly and securely to its office and maintained electronically until the lien is satisfied." ☛ https://www.wifr.com/2026/02/11/illinois-go-paperless-with-vehicle-titles/ |    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:06:50

• "The Illinois General Assembly first approved the ELT program all the way back in 2000, but outdated technology prevented a full implementation." ☛ https://www.slashgear.com/2102659/mandatory-digital-vehicle-lien-title-illinois/ | Source: SlashGear    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:07:02

• "Despite this type of chain drive tracing its roots all the way back to Leonardo da Vinci, they actually offer many advantages over the fancy carbon-fiber-reinforced polyurethane belt." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/why-chains-are-still-better-for-bicycles-than-belts/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:07:16

• "Not only are electrical demands of data centers supercharging our carbon emissions, but the technology itself is now being used to actively resist climate regulations." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-civiclick-environment | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:07:52

• "In a world that’s full of cameras on the surface, it’s easy to forget that humans have explored just 5% of Earth’s oceans." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/underwater-photography/underwater-camera-films-shark-in-antarctic-ocean-thought-to-be-a-world-first | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:08:22

• "This practice falls under the category of collective punishment, which is prohibited under international law." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/palestinian-women-arrested-to-bait-their-relatives-israel-labels-as-wanted/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:08:52

• "To welcome back its adherents, along with children born and raised within this ideological furnace" ☛ https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/02/isis-brides-gaza-visas-and-the-irgc/ | Source: Spectator AU    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:09:17

• "The researchers were thorough and checked for various snooping methods, including fingerprinting of devices to identify users." ☛ https://en.neritam.com/2026/02/21/many-governments-encourage-schools-to-let-companies-snoop-on-students/ | Source: Neritam    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:09:55

• [Old] "The recommendations Human Rights Watch makes follow the usual approach of regulating the use of data once collected." ☛ https://www.gnu.org/education/governments-let-companies-snoop-on-students.html#top | Source: GNU    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:11:50

• "These concerns weren’t just cheap talk in Washington. In 1974, Congress passed the Privacy Act" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/column/882516/privacy-laws-america | Source: The Verge    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:12:38

• "On the surface, license plate readers might seem passive, a non-issue unless you’re up to no good. Yet as DeFlock notes, they come with many hidden dangers to ordinary residents." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-surveillance-flock-contracts | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:13:15

• "NASA has once again postponed the launch of Artemis II, the crewed lunar flyby mission, setting a new launch window for April." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-delays-artemis-ii-launch-again/ | Source: Wired    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:14:26

• "The latest issue, NASA reported, is something to do with the Artemis II rocket launch vehicle’s helium flow system." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/science/helium-fault-forces-nasa-to-delay-artemis | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:14:38

• "Going to have a go at utilising ActivityPub on this blog, it now becomes part of the fediverse." ☛ https://mark.hysted.com/trying-activitypub/ | Source: Mark Hysted    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:15:14

• "Social media as we know it today started in 2003 with MySpace and was then overtaken by Facebook and has progressed to what we have today." ☛ https://ldstephens.net/posts/life-before-social-media/ | Source: L D Stephens    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:15:27

• "I thought about this question for a bit. Do we really need to pick up all that daily changing and evolving AI and agentic stuff to not be “left behind?”" ☛ https://www.ufried.com/blog/not_left_behind/ | Source: Uwe Friedrichsen    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:17:11

• "Crawlers that ignore such warnings are thereafter fair game, the "gloves are off" with respect to how much lethality a trespassing agent may expect to meet" ☛ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/robots-dot-text/ | Source: The Cyber Show    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:17:27

• "ChatGPT gets an easy math problem wrong (I got it right). How is that possible? A commenter on this post asked for me (or anyone) to solve the problem without AI: [...]" ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/02/chatgpt-gets-easy-math-problem-wrong-i.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:17:43

• "I will be here, working on things until your slophype settles down and you can think rationally again." ☛ https://akselmo.dev/notes/leave-me-behind/ | Source: Akseli Lahtinen    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:17:57

• "Not in a minimalist sense. In a practical one. What would survive if I stopped paying for everything tomorrow?" ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/i-rent-my-entire-life/ | Source: Greg Morris    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:19:11

• "These outages are a great example of exactly that." ☛ https://rys.io/en/182.html | Source: Michał Woźniak    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:19:22

• "At the same time, the German-based company has convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal that would sharply limit its liability in the lawsuits." ☛ https://eu.sentinel-standard.com/story/news/local/michigan/2026/02/20/herbicide-defense-priority-glyphosate-michigan-farming/88776335007/ |    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:19:49

• "No person shall be held liable for damages or penalties for any act or failure to act resulting directly or indirectly from . . . compliance." ☛ https://cen.acs.org/policy/glyphosate-phosphorous-bayer-climate-endangerment-lawsuits-pesticide-liability-fda-nuclear-xenergy-triso-smr-nsf/104/web/2026/02 | Source: American Chemical Society    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:20:05

• "This executive order reads like it was drafted in a chemical company boardroom" ☛ https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/02/trump-enrages-maha/ |    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:20:26

• "This executive order reads like it was drafted in a chemical company boardroom" ☛ https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/02/trump-enrages-maha/ |    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:20:43

• "Trump ordered U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins, in consultation with the U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, to ensure no orders" ☛ https://eu.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/michigan/2026/02/20/herbicide-defense-priority-glyphosate-michigan-farming/88776335007/ | Source: Gannett    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:20:54

• "White rice takes more work to prepare for sale and leaves behind the vitamin-rich bran. We need to harvest more brown rice to make a single serving of white." ☛ https://seths.blog/2026/02/brown-rice-and-status/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:21:11

• "I’m not going to stop running any time soon, I’m just trying to be honest about what it costs and who’s paying for it, because the running community rarely talks about that part." ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/what-boston-will-cost-me/ | Source: Greg Morris    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:21:33

• "The Danish Joint Arctic Command, on its Facebook page, said the crew member was evacuated on Saturday, some 7 nautical miles, or about 8 miles, off Nuuk — the capital of the vast, ice-covered territory — and transferred to a hospital in the city." ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/02/22/danish-military-evacuates-us-submariner-who-needed-urgent-medical-care-off-greenland/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:22:14

• "The challenges of AI use discussed are primarily around the labour market and algorithmic bias." ☛ https://science.food.gov.uk/article/123638-use-of-ai-in-the-uk-food-system |    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:22:30

• "In a bygone age, food went from farm and orchard straight to the general store — the only middleman being a clerk whose storefront served as an easy rallying point for consumers." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-supply-chain-groceries | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:22:48

• "It terrifies me when I see infants in their strollers looking at videos or games on cell phones" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/health/2026-02-22/beatriz-martinez-psychiatrist-in-a-few-years-letting-children-be-glued-to-screens-will-be-seen-in-the-same-light-as-dipping-their-pacifier-in-alcohol.html | Source: El País    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:23:07

• "Early last Tuesday there was a widespread power outage at work, which took out power to our machine rooms for about four hours." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/PDUsCanFailEventually | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:23:35

• "Early last Tuesday there was a widespread power outage at work, which took out power to our machine rooms for about four hours." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/PDUsCanFailEventually | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:23:59

• "In a recently published study, researchers at a Spanish university fitted 26 people, aged in their mid-20s to mid-60s" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-02-brain-harder-office-private-offices.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:24:35

• "We know that when students put their phones down, their grades go up" ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/government/whitmer-signs-classroom-cell-phone-ban/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:24:49

• "This time, we will get protein sequence of interest and use AlphaFold Server to predict our protein and generate pdb, and instead of relying on known coordinates of the protein" ☛ https://www.kenkoonwong.com/blog/mdsim2/ | Source: Ken Koon Wong    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:25:18

• "The total lunar eclipse will occur on March 3. It will be clearly visible in North and Central America, while in Central and South Asia it will only be partially visible. It will not be visible in Europe or Africa." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-view-the-blood-moon-total-lunar-eclipse-on-march-3/ | Source: Wired    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:25:32

• "Some of the earliest states arose from the development of administrative institutions whose task was to manage economic and social affairs." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-02-year-bureaucracy-prehistoric-uncovered-western.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:25:45

• "In reality we weren't selling in six different ways. Our from from lead through to meeting, trial and close were similar for each. Some took longer and they had different close rates but that isn't a good reason to split them up." ☛ https://www.elliotcsmith.com/reflection-on-revamping-our-sales-process/ | Source: Elliot C Smith    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:26:14

• "was built around what we are for, not what we are against" ☛ https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-22-spitting-in-the-wind-comes-back-at-you-twice-as-hard/ | Source: Bix Frankonis    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:26:28

• "The original reason for the attack was a 2023 post where Patokallio dug into how Archive Today operates, and in the process tried figuring out the identify of the site's operator(s)." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/search-engines/wikipedia-officially-blacklists-all-links-to-archive-today-website-operator-caught-tweaking-their-own-archive | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:26:46

• "Zach Bryan’s concert raised a broader question: Why does live music at the University of Michigan feel so out of reach?" ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/music-at-michigan-needs-an-all-night-revival/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 09:26:58

• "They’re fully attached to your device of choice (phone, computer, Yubikey, etc)." ☛ https://cassidoo.co/post/passkeys/ | Source: Cassidy Williams    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:15:54

• "A recent post by Henrique made me look into Bunny DNS again." ☛ https://janlukas.blog/thoughts/2026/02/bunnydns | Source: Jan-Lukas Else    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:16:08

• "For as long as I have been coding in Java, we have had requirements to measure the execution time of blocks of code." ☛ https://blog.frankel.ch/jvm-timing-options/ | Source: Nicolas Fränkel    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:17:01

• [Old] "so you think set -e is OK, huh?" ☛ https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105 | Source: Greg Wooledge    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:17:30

• [Old] "The idea is fairly straightforward: add frozendict as a new immutable type to the language's builtins module. As Stinner put it: [...]" ☛ https://lwn.net/Articles/1047238/ | Source: LWN    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:18:19

• [Old] "It’s well-known that null-terminated C strings are bug-prone and unsafe to use." ☛ https://thasso.xyz/fixing-c-strings.html | Source: Thassilo Schulze    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:18:54

• "By leveraging the typing guarantees we eliminate entire classes of bugs while making the code more robust and maintainable." ☛ https://www.lelanthran.com/chap13/content.html |    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:19:24

• "For a long time, I used GitHub as my sync layer – it’s free, convenient, and I was already using it – but recently I’ve been looking at alternatives." ☛ https://alexwlchan.net/2026/bare-git/?ref=rss | Source: Alex Chan    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:19:58

• "The folder names differ, the contents overlap in some places and diverge in others, and the portability story between them is worse than you’d expect. A companion to my earlier post on git’s magic files." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/22/forge-specific-repository-folders.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:21:46

• "So knowing Igor had been giving pull requests to Apktool for years it was an easy ask to grant him access to the repository with a maintainer role." ☛ https://connortumbleson.com/2026/02/22/apktool-v3-0-0-released/ | Source: Connor Tumbleson    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:22:02

• "The whole thing fit inside the machine’s 64KB ROM. Sixty. Four. Kilobytes." ☛ https://denodell.com/blog/constraints-and-the-lost-art-of-optimization | Source: Den Odell    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:23:36

• "I’ve updated one of my PostgreSQL instances to PostgreSQL 18, it’s time to update the others." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/02/22/upgrading-postgresql-in-place-on-freebsd/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:24:16

• "It’s Postgres and we’re talking about vector embeddings" ☛ https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/02/22/we-have-pgvector-at-home.html | Source: Consensus Labs LLC    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:24:29

• "This feature began as an issue filed in the HTML tracker in 2024, but in the span of the last 3 months the actual work on it has ramped up!" ☛ https://scottjehl.com/posts/lazy-media/ | Source: Scott Jehl    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:25:05

• "People often think that getting started with Vim means spending hours crafting an elaborate .vimrc with dozens of plugins." ☛ https://batsov.com/articles/2026/02/22/how-to-vim-build-your-vimrc-from-scratch/ | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:26:18

• "After quite a bit of reading on what might work well, I settled on Restic." ☛ https://www.rousette.org.uk/archives/a-new-backup-strategy-using-restic/ | Source: But she's a girl...    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:26:32

• "Moment police officer defends Christian preacher's freedom of speech after Whitechapel group say 'This is a Muslim area' | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15582043/moment-police-defend-christian-preacher-muslim-area.html    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:28:56

• .ilsos.gov blocked https://www.ilsos.gov/news/2026/february-11-2026-giannoulias-expands-electronic-lien-and-titling-to-deliver-faster-more-secure-vehicle-titles.html    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:29:19

• "Harmeet Dhillon Confesses She Blew Off Her Don Lemon Homework" https://emptywheel.net/harmeet-dhillon-confesses-she-blew-off-her-don-lemon-homework/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:29:33

• "STHLM ZINE FEST – Stockholms finest zinefestival!" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://sthlmzinefest.wordpress.com/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:29:47

• IDG (China) click bait, the article fails to steer readers to GNU/Linux https://www.pcworld.com/article/3056694/strip-out-windows-11s-bloatware-ads-and-other-grossness-for-free.html Microsoft pays this site to do this!!    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:30:17

• iophk: patents were /supposed to/ promulgate knowledge, now they are too vague and act only as barriers https://phys.org/news/2026-02-language-barriers-international-diffusion-knowledge.html    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:30:45

• "EU Says US Must Honor a Trade Deal After Court Blocks Trump Tariffs" https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2026-02-22/eu-says-us-must-honor-a-trade-deal-after-court-blocks-trump-tariffs "'A deal is a deal': EU 'expects' US to honour trade deal as Trump hikes tariffs - RTL Today" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/eu-expects-us-to-honour-trade-deal-as-trump-hikes-tariffs-164637089    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:31:10

• "Social media ban on children: protection or rights violation?" https://bianet.org/haber/social-media-ban-on-children-protection-or-rights-violation-316917    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:31:24

• "As Ukraine War Enters Fifth Year, Europe Faces Hard Truth On China" https://www.rferl.org/a/china-ukraine-russia-sanctions-peace-deal-putin-xi-zelenskyy/33682608.html    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:31:42

• "There are now cheap Chinese portable consoles that can be run as emulation stations like the one I had in my raspberry pi." ☛ https://olano.dev/blog/batlexp/ | Source: Facundo Olano    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:32:37

• "Recently [ElecrArc240] got his paws on an Intel-branded 3 kW power supply that apparently had been designed as a reference PSU for servers." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/22/inside-a-compact-intel-3000-w-water-cooled-power-supply/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:32:52

• "They’re connected to a Heltec ESP32 LoRa module which is set up to publish messages out on the Meshtastic communications channel. A second module is connected to the WiFi at the house which is communicates with his Home Assistant server." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/22/meshtastic-does-more-than-simple-communication/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:33:08

• "There’s also a bell on the unit to provide audible notifications, which us dinged with a solenoid fired via a 2N2222 transistor switching a 12-volt supply from a boost converter." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/22/exclamation-point-indicates-worthy-notifications/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:33:27

• "FreeBSD is worth a brief aside here, because it differs from Linux in a fundamental way. Linux is a kernel" ☛ https://hypha.pub/back-to-freebsd-part-1 |    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 13:49:54

• ">[...] We also report on GhostBSD experimenting with an alternative X11 implementation while Asahi Linux reports on the team's progress" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260223 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 14:08:11

• "I’ve seen some people upset about the fact that scp has been deprecated." ☛ https://lpar.ath0.com/posts/2020/11/farewell-to-scp/ | Source: Matthew    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 14:08:33

• "The super-simple form of the algorithm here just consists of scanning each row of pixels left-to-right until you've added up enough lightness to make the pixel white." ☛ https://macwright.com/2026/02/22/color-dithering.html | Source: Tom MacWright    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 14:08:44

• "Encouraged that in the past the FreeBSD Handbook – Jails chapter was reworked also using information from my FreeBSD Jails Containers article" ☛ https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/freebsd-mit-kerberos-server/ | Source: Vermaden    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 14:09:03

• "After zpool upgrade blocked by gpart: /dev/da0p1: not enough space, I’ve decided to create a new Azure VM, snapshot the now-faulty-drive, attach it to the host, and start zfs replication to copy the data to new drive." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/02/22/nagios03-drive-recovery/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 16:31:40

• "The word “isolation” gets used loosely." ☛ https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/52/lets-discuss-sandbox-isolation/ | Source: Shayon Mukherjee    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 16:31:54

• "We haven't done releases based on features (or on "stable vs unstable") for a long, long time now. " ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/23/linux_7_0_rc1/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 16:32:18

• Ladybird has been shot dead https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 16:35:52

• Slop AND Rust... and it's not even April 1 yet    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 16:36:24

• AAEON UP Squared Series Gains Mainline GNU/Linux Support for 40-Pin GPIO in GNU/Linux 6.18 ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/aaeon-up-squared-series-gains-mainline-linux-support-for-40-pin-gpio-in-linux-6-18/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 16:56:08

• KMyMoney 5.2.2 released ☞ https://blog.bembel.net/2026/02/kmymoney-5-2-2-released/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 16:57:03

• OnLogic Factor 101 – A fanless industrial edge Hey Hi (AI) computer with Qualcomm QCS6490 SoC, 10GbE networking ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/23/onlogic-factor-101-a-fanless-industrial-edge-ai-computer-with-qualcomm-qcs6490-soc-10gbe-networking/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 16:57:53

• GizmoSQL – high-performance SQL server ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/gizmosql-high-performance-sql-server/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:00:39

• 8 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Desktop Search Engines ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/desktopsearchengines/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:00:51

• Juliaup – Julia version manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/juliaup-julia-version-manager/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:01:04

• cariddi – scanning tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cariddi-scanning-tool/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:01:18

• OpenBuilds CONTROL – connect and control your CNC, Laser, Plasma or Dragknife machine ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/openbuilds-control-connect-cnc-laser-plasma-dragknife-machine/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:01:30

• Grab – asynchronous file downloader ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/grab-asynchronous-file-downloader/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:03:04

• qmassa – display GPU usage stats ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/qmassa-display-gpu-usage-stats/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:03:21

• Jump ‘n Bump – family fun ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/jump-n-bump-family-fun/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:03:35

• Linux 7.0 Credits Now Honor The Creator Of Linux-Next ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Credits-Linux-Next https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc1-Released    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:04:03

• swaptop – real-time swap usage monitor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/swaptop-real-time-swap-usage-monitor/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:04:15

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

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:04:29

• OmegaLinux 2026.02.21 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/omegalinux    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:04:54

• parallel @ Savannah: GNU Parallel 20260222 ('Epstein files') released [stable] ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10856    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:07:52

• GNU Gawk 5.4 Released https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:08:29

• Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will default to OpenJDK 25 ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/ubuntu-2604-openjdk-25-default    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:09:08

• Simon Ser: Status update, February 2026 ☞ https://emersion.fr/blog/2026/status-update-84/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:09:54

• Over 200 Venezuelan political prisoners launch hunger strike over amnesty law exclusions ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260222-200-venezuelan-political-prisoners-hunger-strike-amnesty-law-exclusions    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:44:21

• Windows 11 resume: Abusive Monopolist Microsoft wants to extend the “handoff” from Android to more apps via WNS ☞ https://hackwarenews.com/windows-11-resume-microsoft-wants-to-extend-the-handoff-from-android-to-more-apps-via-wns/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:44:35

• US-Iran talks expected on Thursday amid fears of strikes ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260222-iran-us-talks-expected-thursday-despite-fears-of-strikes    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:44:56

• Pakistan launches border strikes on Afghanistan ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/pakistan-launches-border-strikes-on-afghanistan    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:45:13

• Iran, Pressured At Home And Abroad, Looks Set For Third Round Of US Talks ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-geneva-nuclear-talks-trump-witkoff-protests/33684779.html    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:46:58

• EPO Strikes Are Already Working (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/22/EPO_Strikes_Are_Already_Working.shtml    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:47:15

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Considers Targeted Strike Against Iran, Followed by Larger Attack ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/us/politics/trump-iran-strike-attack.html    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:47:33

• Iran Students Protest for Second Day Despite State Crackdown ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/world/middleeast/iran-student-protests.html    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:48:01

• Reasons to Go on Strike in the European Patent Office (EPO) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/23/Reasons_to_Go_on_Strike_in_the_European_Patent_Office_EPO.shtml    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:48:51

• Colorado law could force surveillance for 3D printers to prevent use for making gun parts ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/colorado-could-ban-3d-printers-not-under-its-surveillance-to-prevent-creating-gun-parts-fourth-state-to-propose-new-bans-is-expanding-firearms-laws-to-regulate-digital-files    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:49:46

• Google "Intelligence": Despite Slam-Dunk or "Smoking Gun" Proof, Drug Abuse in EPO Leadership is "Unverified Allegations" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/22/Google_Intelligence_Despite_Slam_Dunk_or_Smoking_Gun_Proof_Drug.shtml    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:50:02

• Cities Are Shredding Their Hey Hi (AI) Surveillance Contracts en Masse ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-surveillance-flock-contracts    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:50:24

• Parallelizing a Game Hey Hi (AI) Engine: Root-Level Optimization ☞ https://pavanportfolio.droptools.site/blog/benchmark    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:50:55

• Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer ☞ https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/02/22/%C3%B8yvind-kol%C3%A5s-interview-ww2017/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:51:41

• nagios03: drive recovery ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2026/02/22/nagios03-drive-recovery/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:52:42

• Upgrading PostgreSQL in place on FreeBSD ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2026/02/22/upgrading-postgresql-in-place-on-freebsd/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:53:56

• Entirely Foreseeable proprietary trap AWS Outages ☞ https://rys.io/en/182.html    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:55:05

• Barrage of Emails From Hey Hi (AI) Politics Platform Defeats Clean Air Initiative ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-civiclick-environment    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 17:56:07

• First victim of Hey Hi (AI) agent harassment warns 'thousands' more could be next ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/first-victim-of-ai-agent-harassment-warns-thousands-more-could-be-next    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:05:01

• AI Could Cause Workers to Rise Up Against the Corporations Driving Them Into Poverty ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-labor-workers-movement    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:06:09

• Woman Uses Hey Hi (AI) to Apologize for Burning Down House, Biting Cop ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/woman-apologizes-ai-burning-house    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:06:32

• AI “Filmmaker” Gets Funding, Begs For Ideas On What to Actually Make ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-filmmaker-begs-for-ideas    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:06:49

• How Hey Hi (AI) Labs Proliferate ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/how-ai-labs-proliferate/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:08:00

• more scam hubs, wasting energy    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:08:31

• Neanderthals Mysteriously Collected Horned Skulls in a Cave, But Why? ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/neanderthals-mysteriously-collected-horned-skulls-in-a-cave-but-why    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:10:57

• Will Exercise Help Your Osteoarthritis? A New Review Has Surprising Findings ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/will-exercise-help-your-osteoarthritis-a-new-review-has-surprising-findings    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:11:11

• NASA's Giant Moon Rocket Has a New Problem ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/nasas-giant-moon-rocket-has-a-new-problem    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:11:24

• Life May Have Started as Sticky Goo, Long Before Cells Even Existed ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/life-may-have-started-as-sticky-goo-long-before-cells-even-existed    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:11:45

• Oldest Fossilized Butthole Found in 290-Million-Year-Old Reptile ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/oldest-fossilized-butthole-found-in-290-million-year-old-reptile    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:11:58

• China calls on US to cancel Convicted Felon-era tariffs following Supreme Court ruling ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260223-china-us-cancel-trump-era-tariffs-supreme-court    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:12:17

• Philippine senator calls out China during visit to disputed island ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/22/philippine-senator-calls-out-china-during-visit-to-disputed-island/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:12:38

• China’s visa-free travel is diplomacy sweetener as it rekindles ties with middle powers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-visa-free-travel-is-diplomacy-sweetener-as-it-rekindles-ties-with-middle-powers    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:13:02

• Courting China Again ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/world/china-germany-diplomacy-trump-tariffs-mexico.html    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:13:20

• Australian innovation is needed to break China’s grip on critical minerals ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australian-innovation-is-needed-to-break-chinas-grip-on-critical-minerals/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:13:46

• Revelations of Chinese nuclear tests mark start of a new era ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/revelations-of-chinese-nuclear-tests-mark-start-of-a-new-era/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:13:59

• Malaysia’s anti-graft chief questioned in shareholding probe ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-anti-graft-chief-questioned-in-shareholding-probe    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:14:20

• The Economics of 3D Printed Homes Are Surprisingly Horrible ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/3d-printed-houses-finances    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:17:43

• Quentin's death sparks tensions across France ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/spotlight/20260222-quentin-s-death-sparks-tensions-across-france    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:18:12

• Greenland does not need Convicted Felon’s ‘great hospital boat’, Denmark says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260222-greenland-does-not-need-trump-s-great-hospital-boat-denmark-says    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:18:30

• Kim Jong Un re-elected leader of North Korea's ruling Workers’ Party ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260222-north-korea-kim-re-elected-ruling-party-congress    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:18:48

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

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:19:13

• South Korea protests Japanese event over disputed islands ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-protests-japanese-event-over-disputed-islands    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:19:38

• South Korean police checking for more possible victims of ‘motel drug killings’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-police-checking-for-more-possible-victims-of-motel-drug-killings    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:19:53

• Two-thirds of South Koreans contacted for work after hours: Survey ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/two-thirds-of-south-koreans-contacted-for-work-after-hours-survey    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:20:27

• North Korea’s Kim re-elected to lead ruling party at congress: KCNA ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-ruling-party-re-elects-kim-jong-un-general-secretary-for-bolstering-nuclear-power    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:21:05

• Ramsey Elkholy’s Monotronic Sues Pangea Entertainment and A&R Worldwide Over Alleged Breach of Contract ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/20/monotronic-sues-pangea-entertainment/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:22:22

• China may yet persuade Southeast Asia to support new maritime order ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/china-may-yet-persuade-southeast-asia-to-support-new-maritime-order/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:23:13

• Inside Iran’s Preparations for War and Plans for Survival ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/world/middleeast/iran-larijani-khamenei-pezeshkian.html    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:23:46

• Iran Could Direct Proxies to Attack U.S. Targets Abroad, Officials Warn ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/us/politics/iran-terrorist-attacks-proxies-trump.html    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:24:09

• Why promises of ‘iron fist’ security are winning support in Latin American elections ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2026/0222/Why-promises-of-iron-fist-security-are-winning-support-in-Latin-American-elections    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:24:28

• New Student Protests Highlight Ongoing Unrest In Tehran ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-student-protests-tehran/33684646.html    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:24:51

• BREAKING: Court rejects appeals of all 12 activists in landmark ‘Hong Kong 47’ national security case ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/23/breaking-court-rejects-appeals-of-all-12-activists-in-landmark-hong-kong-47-national-security-case/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:25:16

• It is NOT open, it's a submarine of software patents https://www.phoronix.com/news/AOMedia-OAC-Open-Audio-Codec    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:26:13

• No, toss these in the trash, tell people to never buy these ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/hackers-ring-doorbell-fulu    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:27:06

• Intel is dead. Skulls and skeletons and chatbots. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-shifts-customer-support-to-microsoft-copilot-studio    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:27:54

• So there is no real support anymore, just stonewalling    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:28:24

• Computer History Museum unveils comically large-scale rendition of the 1986 Fashion Company Apple Macintosh Plus ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/case-mods/computer-history-museum-unveils-comically-large-scale-rendition-of-the-1986-apple-macintosh-plus-towering-all-in-ones-keyboard-looks-disproportionately-huge-today    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:28:52

• Far too many "Scam Altman says" and "MElon sez" pieces this week. This is not journalism, it's even worse than the average slop.    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:29:45

• So what's left of the media is "OUR MEGAPHONE FOR OUR SPONSOR/S"    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:30:10

• Junichi Uekawa: Hey Hi (AI) generated code and its quality. ☞ http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2026-Feb-22.html.en#2026-Feb-22-14:45:56    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:33:54

• "Large chunks of code that's generated by Hey Hi (AI) is hard to review and generally of not great quality."    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:34:11

• "Possibly two layers that cause quality issues. One is that the instructions aren't clear for the AI, and the misunderstanding shows; I could sometimes reverse engineer the misunderstanding, and that could be resolved in the future. The other is that probably what the Hey Hi (AI) have learnt from is from a corpus that is not fit for the purpose."    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:34:38

• Installation of NVIDIA drivers on openSUSE and SLE (G07) ☞ https://sndirsch.github.io/nvidia/2026/02/22/nvidia-drivers-G07.html    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:36:35

• The Ambient IoT Alliance aims to promote and develop standards for batteryless IoT devices using energy harvesting ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/23/ambient-iot-alliance-promote-develop-standards-for-batteryless-iot-devices-energy-harvesting/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:38:04

• Benjamin Mako Hill: What makes online groups vulnerable to governance capture? ☞ https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/what-makes-online-groups-vulnerable-to-governance-capture    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:40:49

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:41:20

• New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, including Log Riders - 2026-02-18 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-clients-2026-02-18-edition/index.html    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:42:19

• Sites Without JavaScript Deserve Your Visits (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/22/Sites_Without_JavaScript_Deserve_Your_Visits.shtml    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:42:38

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

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:43:22

• Setup CachyOS Kernel 6.19.3 on MX25.1 KDE Edition (VENV) ☞ https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2026/02/setup-cachyos-kernel-6193-on-mx251-kde.html    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:44:32

• You can log into 28 vintage computer systems in your browser for free, thanks to the Interim Computer Museum — Experience legendary OSes, architectures, programming languages, and games ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/you-can-log-into-28-vintage-computer-systems-in-your-browser-for-free-thanks-to-the-interim-computer-museum-and-sdf-org-experience-legendary-oses-architectures-programming-languages-and-games    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:45:10

• How To Install Ruby on Rails on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-ruby-on-rails-fedora-43/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:45:44

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

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:46:01

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

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:46:29

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

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:46:53

• Afghanistan's ruling Taliban says Pakistan strikes kill, injure dozens ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/pakistan-says-it-carried-out-cross-border-strikes-in-afghanistan    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:48:20

• Jack Wallen Speaks Up for FOSS Force’s Independence ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/02/jack-wallen-speaks-up-for-foss-forces-independence/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:48:48

• Speeding Up Mistakes | LINUX Unplugged 655 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/655/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:50:54

• Trolling: "I just don't understand the hatred for IBM... You guys must all have been laid off from IBM and are holding a grudge... is that it?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kj5gz683    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 18:53:14

• 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 Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:02:05

• Russian launches missile barrage on Ukraine's energy facilities ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/russian-launches-missile-barrage-on-ukraine-s-energy-facilities    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:02:33

• AI analytics giant, Palantir: More scrutiny needed? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/spotlight/20260222-ai-analytics-giant-palantir-more-scrutiny-needed    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:03:00

• In Pictures: Hong Kong protesters call for ceasefire ahead of Russia-Ukraine war’s 4th anniversary ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/23/in-pictures-hong-kong-protesters-call-for-ceasefire-ahead-of-russia-ukraine-wars-5th-anniversary/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:03:34

• Dozens Wounded, 1 Dead In 'Terrorist Act' In Ukraine's Lviv ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-lviv-terrorist-blasts-missile-strikes/33684614.html    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:03:58

• South Korea urges Russian embassy to remove 'victory' banner as Ukraine war anniversary nears ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korea-urges-russian-embassy-to-remove-victory-banner-as-ukraine-war-anniversary-nears    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:04:10

• South Korea protests ‘Victory’ banner hung from Russian embassy in Seoul ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-protests-victory-banner-hung-from-russian-embassy    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:04:33

• Russian embassy in Seoul displays ‘Victory will be ours’ banner ahead of Ukraine war anniversary ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/russian-embassy-in-seoul-displays-victory-will-be-ours-banner-ahead-of-ukraine-war-anniversary    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:04:47

• Ukraine Has Passed a Point of No Return ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/opinion/ukraine-russia-war-four-years.html    

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

• Russia Attacks Ukraine Ahead of Invasion’s 4th Anniversary ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/world/europe/ukraine-russia-attacks-lviv.html    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:05:16

• Rights group calls for justice for prisoners after former Belarus presidential candidate released following stroke ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/rights-group-calls-for-justice-for-prisoners-after-former-belarus-presidential-candidate-released-following-stroke/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:05:51

• MagOS 20260221 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/magos    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:06:12

• Color dithering ☞ https://macwright.com/2026/02/22/color-dithering.html    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:06:45

• Forget Linux Mint. These distros are the only way to switch https://www.howtogeek.com/forget-linux-mint-this-is-the-distro-beginners-should-be-using/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:07:33

• After years of using GNOME, this is the desktop I switched to instead https://www.makeuseof.com/after-years-using-gnome-this-is-desktop-i-switched-to-instead/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:08:23

• Looking for the best Linux window manager? Here’s how I rank them https://www.howtogeek.com/how-i-rank-linux-window-managers/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:08:46

• Why Linux is the best place to learn coding https://www.howtogeek.com/why-linux-is-the-best-place-to-learn-programming-and-coding/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:09:13

• "Linux fans love to position Linux as the mortal enemy of Windows, but I think the whole debate misses how people really use Linux, or don't use it. Here are the reasons why." https://www.howtogeek.com/the-windows-vs-linux-debate-is-a-waste-of-time/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:10:01

• Linux 7.0 merges AMDGPU update for decade old Radeon GPUs https://videocardz.com/newz/linux-7-0-merges-amdgpu-update-for-decade-old-radeon-gpus    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:10:41

• The FOSS community has made its own MinIO fork after the original went read-only https://www.xda-developers.com/the-foss-community-has-made-its-own-minio-fork-after-the-original-went-read-only/bsp; 

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:13:15

• How to find resource-hogging processes using the Linux command line https://www.howtogeek.com/find-resource-hogging-processes-using-the-linux-command-line/    

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

• worm eight day gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wormEight    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:16:43

• "Noted maker Mitch Altman is updating his classic TV-B-Gone, unveiling a next-generation variant that delivers a longer range — and may include code learning and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connectivity by the time its design is finalized." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260223-tvbgone2.gmi    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:17:22

• "For context, I use Wake-on-LAN so I don't have to manually power on my cluster of Lenovo machines (worker nodes) every morning. The script checks the MAC addresses of each machine and sends a "magic packet" to wake them up." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/wake-on-lan-script-update/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:18:23

• I Use Gentoo Now gemini://hellfirehost.uk.eu.org/gemlog/2026-02-23.gmi    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 19:18:52

• strike https://www.dw.com/en/kenya-flights-delayed-as-workers-strike-at-airport/a-75988033    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:13:57

• budget chaos https://www.dw.com/en/france-macron-s-pro-business-agenda-hit-by-budget-chaos/a-75895518    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:14:33

• Revolutionaries https://scheerpost.com/2026/02/08/collapsing-empire-us-bows-to-african-revolutionaries/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:15:04

• Belarusian activist Kolesnikova on starting over in Germany https://www.dw.com/en/belarusian-activist-kolesnikova-on-starting-over-in-germany/a-75972919    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:16:25

• two years since death https://www.dw.com/en/alexei-navalny-supporters-mark-two-years-since-death/a-75986171    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:16:52

• postal service continues to struggle https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/federal-government-1-billion-loan-canada-post-9.7080922    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:18:52

• N.B. sends personal info to wrong addresses in medicare mailing mistake "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/medicare-mailing-error-personal-information-new-brunswick-9.7081125    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:19:56

• Why we're becoming disconnected from nature https://www.dw.com/en/why-we-re-becoming-disconnected-from-nature/a-75828665    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:43:35

• AI-fueled chip shortage drives up smartphone prices https://www.dw.com/en/ai-fueled-chip-shortage-drives-up-smartphone-prices/a-75925338    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:44:25

• I thought I understood what animal testing meant until I brought home a former lab dog https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/first-person-adopting-a-former-lab-dog-9.7074419    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:44:59

• South Korea government is promoting bill for statutory damages for personal information leaks. https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2026/02/11/HPOB64AA55H27EEOVRD2ZHWVXM/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:45:54

• Singapore says China-backed hackers targeted its four largest phone companies https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/singapore-china-backed-hackers-targeted-largest-phone-companies-salt-typhoon/ owing to BACK DOORS: http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/17/CALEA_CALEA2_is_the_Real_Problem_Not_Chinese_Operatives_Exploit.shtml    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:47:06

• Hacktivist scrapes over 500,000 stalkerware customers’ payment records https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/hacktivist-scrapes-over-500000-stalkerware-customers-payment-records/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:47:51

• Discord to start requiring face scan or ID to access adult content https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1d67vdlk1ko    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:48:29

• existential threats from the U.S. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/united-states-threats-canada-anxiety-coping-9.7083301    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:49:12

• "received racist abuse on Instagram"... but it's OK when Cheeto does it, no cops detain him for it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cx24x0vg4jvo    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:55:52

• CodeRED Emergency Notification System Incident Update https://smnewsnet.com/archives/553876/update-st-marys-county-codered-emergency-notification-system-incident-update/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:56:47

• Maine House Passes Strong Privacy Bill https://epic.org/maine-house-passes-strong-privacy-bill/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:57:27

• Kettering Adventist Health now notifying patients affected by May 2025 ransomware attack https://databreaches.net/2026/02/12/kettering-adventist-health-now-notifying-patients-affected-by-may-2025-ransomware-attack/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:58:38

• It’s 2026, but hospitals still haven’t prevented snooping in celebrities’ records https://databreaches.net/2026/02/12/its-2026-but-hospitals-still-havent-prevented-snooping-in-celebrities-records/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 20:59:35

• Comcast agrees to $117.5M data breach class action settlement https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news/comcast-agrees-to-117-5m-data-breach-class-action-settlement/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 21:03:19

• ApolloMD reveals that 626,540 patients were affected by May, 2025 cyberattack https://databreaches.net/2026/02/12/apollomd-reveals-that-626540-patients-were-affected-by-may-2025-cyberattack/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 21:04:46

• "Working at IBM, stopped buying IBM shares through ESPP (discount is not worth the risk). Liquidated all IBM shares I owned when share price moved above $300. Liquidated all the RSU vested shares too. Made a decent gain from shares held over the years. I do not think IBM has any future worth investing in it." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kj5gz683    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 21:29:48

• "Maybe they can do another acquisition. That 1D1OT Monkey of a CFO Krabanaugh and that Sh1t for brains CEO Alvind love paying way above." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kj5gz683    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 21:30:14

• South Korea blames Coupang data breach on management failure, not sophisticated attack https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/south-korea-says-coupang-must-address-security-loopholes-probe-data-breach-2026-02-10/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 21:33:52

• Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commissioner fines 3 LVMH luxury brands after Salesforce data breaches https://databreaches.net/2026/02/13/koreas-personal-information-protection-commissioner-fines-3-lvmh-luxury-brands-after-salesforce-data-breaches/    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 21:34:46

• IRS Improperly Shares Immigrants’ Data with ICE: Explained https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/irs-overshares-thousands-of-immigrants-data-with-ice-explained    

posted Monday, February 23, 2026 at 21:35:24

•  &n &nb &n &nbs