Roy Schestowitz

• pandemic travel restrictions were constitutional https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/covid-border-court-9.7088149    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:12:15

• Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Demands Infor­ma­tion from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas and Con­duent as Part of Inves­ti­ga­tion into Largest Data Breach in U.S. History https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-demands-information-blue-cross-blue-shield-texas-and-conduent-part    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:13:08

• Nevada unveils new statewide data classification policy months after cyberattack https://www.carsonnow.org/02/14/2026/nevada-unveils-new-statewide-data-classification-policy-months-after-cyberattack    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:14:11

• Guernsey medical practice sanctioned after cyber criminals access patient data through email account https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2026-02-13/physiotherapist-in-guernsey-sanctioned-over-data-protection-breach    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:15:24

• Dutch phone giant Odido says millions of customers affected by data breach https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/dutch-phone-giant-odido-says-millions-of-customers-affected-by-data-breach/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:16:12

• Cyber Attacks on Schools Plateaued in 2025, but More Records Exposed https://www.govtech.com/education/cyber-attacks-on-schools-plateaued-in-2025-but-more-records-exposed    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:16:49

• He tried to extort the Dutch police. It didn’t work out well for him. https://www.politie.nl/nieuws/2026/februari/13/07-man-aangehouden-voor-computervredebreuk-na-vergissing-politie.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:17:29

• Why some Canadian companies are turning their workers into owners instead of selling to the U.S. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bakx-eot-employee-ownership-trust-capital-gains-exemption-9.7083436    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:19:28

• entral Alberta town faces uncertain future as it drowns in debt and faces potential insolvency https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/gibbons-alberta-finances-future-9.7085467    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:19:58

• As the telephone turns 150, are we hanging up on phone calls? https://www.dw.com/en/as-the-telephone-turns-150-are-we-hanging-up-on-phone-calls/a-75844380    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:30:15

• US House Votes Against Canada Tariffs in Rare Rebuke to Cheeto Mussolini https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2026-02-11/us-house-backs-bid-to-end-canada-tariffs-in-rare-rebuke-to-trump    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:32:28

• U.S. House poised to vote against Cheeto Mussolini's tariffs on Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-tariffs-canada-house-representatives-vote-congress-9.7084213    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:33:10

• Stellantis keeping 650 staff hired for EV research in Canada, despite broader pullback https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/stellantis-electric-vehicle-windsor-research-battery-nextstar-9.7083566    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:34:17

• German building projects run over time and budget https://www.dw.com/en/why-german-building-projects-run-over-time-and-budget/a-75206468    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:34:56

• "IBM Plunges 12.5% to $223...Nice work team ! IBM (IBM) plunged 12.5% after investors reacted to Anthropic's new AI tool that threatens its COBOL services, significantly outpacing the tech sector's 1.5% decline." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kj683zvh    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:44:08

• "Let's see what Alvind has to say about this....Krabanaugh is probably upskilling in what his exit should look. Because no freaking layoff in February is going to work on bringing up the stock price back to $300 per share...where is IBM's good buddy, Cramer now ?"    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:44:42

• "Maybe Krabanaugh can upskill and try to do some more financial engineering [...] Alvin’d can spew out AI or Quantim"    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:45:15

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1570.jpg    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:56:00

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1926.jpg    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:56:10

• Voltage Divider on Slide Rule gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260223-0.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:57:00

• "These four terms can be used to grade essays, as opposed to those English (or sub in a less bad language as appropriate of which there are many but declining in number) teachers who grade more on the feelies. C? B? No idea why." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/02/24/MOIS.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:57:47

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-24.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:58:11

• "Image Quality Labs is aiming to make it easier to use common camera modules, including the popular Raspberry Pi Camera Module family, with the Arduino UNO Q single-board computer — by adapting its board-to-board connectors into MIPI Camera Serial Interface (CSI) ports." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260223-iql.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 05:59:27

• "Maker Guy Dupont was looking for a way to allow his three-year-old daughter access to a controlled and curated subset of videos on YouTube without providing unfettered access to even YouTube kids — and with a strict time limit. The solution: a physical binder of video URLs." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260223-printtube.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 06:00:21

• "Pseudonymous maker "slartibartfist" has built a printer with self-destructing printouts — by shining a laser onto glow-in-the-dark paper." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260223-ephemeral.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 06:01:10

• "Robotics student Theo Heng has designed a compact adjustable power supply for motors that uses a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller to negotiate up to 48V and 5A from a suitable USB Power Delivery (USB PD) 3.1 power source: the PD240W." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260220-pd240w.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 06:01:54

• "Pseudonymous educator and maker "Unboxed_STEM," hereafter simply "Unboxed," has shared a design for a low-cost Raspberry Pi-powered underwater gadget designed for sub-surface videography and temperature monitoring: Sensea." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260220-sensea.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 06:02:30

• "Researchers from the University of Arizona, Sampoerna University, and Politeknik Negeri Jakarta have developed a 3D-printable finger prosthesis powered by the wearer — with the aim of restoring natural grip functionality." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260220-finger.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 06:03:33

• These features help you optimize your productivity on your Chromebook. https://www.makeuseof.com/5-hidden-things-chromebooks-do/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:06:55

• "Avoid the stress of installing apps. It's all there, in the system, waiting for you." https://www.makeuseof.com/how-linux-reduces-context-switching-without-special-apps/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:09:55

• "Your browser is capable of so much more than just light browsing." https://www.makeuseof.com/reduced-context-switching-on-linux-redesigning-browser-workflow/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:10:20

• "No need to hunt down special apps. Linux sports a lot of amazing tools out of the box." https://www.makeuseof.com/replaced-productivity-apps-with-built-in-linux-tools-didnt-miss-them/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:10:51

• "Stop thinking differently." https://www.makeuseof.com/i-tried-running-linux-on-an-apple-silicon-mac-and-regretted-it/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:11:30

• "Want to see some performance gains? Linux may be the answer." https://www.makeuseof.com/using-nobara-on-desktop-pc-for-gaming/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:12:00

• "Firmware, encryption, and filesystem traps that break dual boot." https://www.makeuseof.com/if-you-dual-boot-linux-dont-make-these-costly-mistakes/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:12:32

• Stop using your browser for these 6 tasks — the terminal does them better https://www.makeuseof.com/stop-using-browser-for-these-tasks-terminal-does-them-better/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:13:20

• "Linux is more than a backup OS, and these programs prove it." https://www.makeuseof.com/programs-to-know-as-linux-user/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:14:32

• "Modern defaults, deeper questions about Ubuntu’s direction." https://www.makeuseof.com/ubuntu-2604-replacing-classic-tools-i-actually-prefer-the-new-ones/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:15:13

• I replaced Tmux, Screen and my entire Terminal Workflow using a single Multiplexer https://www.makeuseof.com/replaced-tmux-screen-entire-terminal-workflow-using-single-multiplexer/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:16:12

• "The distro matters less. What's important is how you set it up." https://www.makeuseof.com/tried-mint-kubuntu-debian-what-matters-for-windows-refugees/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:17:30

• "When tiling windows floats your boat more than floating windows tiles your desktop." https://www.makeuseof.com/i-switched-to-a-tiling-window-manager-and-im-never-going-back/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:18:18

• "What if your core commands aren’t keeping up?" https://www.makeuseof.com/after-years-using-gnome-this-is-desktop-i-switched-to-instead/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:19:15

• I love Proxmox community scripts, but a single command executes 8 remote scripts as root https://www.xda-developers.com/love-proxmox-community-scripts-one-commands-scripts-root/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:22:55

• NixOS broke my brain, but it permanently fixed my home lab https://www.xda-developers.com/nixos-broke-my-brain-but-it-permanently-fixed-my-home-lab/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:24:03

• I switched from GNOME to KDE Plasma and found the one thing I can't live without https://www.xda-developers.com/i-switched-from-gnome-to-kde-plasma-and-found-the-one-thing-i-cant-live-without/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:25:19

• Dealve finds the lowest price for PC games in your terminal, and it looks incredibly sleek https://www.xda-developers.com/dealve-finds-lowest-price-pc-games-terminal-and-it-looks-incredibly-sleek/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:26:16

• Linux Mint 22 convinced me Cinnamon is the most underrated desktop https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-mint-convinced-me-cinnamon-is-the-most-underrated-desktop/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:27:19

• "It's easy to bypass, though." https://www.xda-developers.com/nasty-steam-performance-bug-for-linux-gone-unfixed-seven-years/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:28:28

• Bluefin convinced me the future of Linux is boring (in the best way) https://www.xda-developers.com/bluefin-convinced-me-future-of-linux-is-boring-in-the-best-way/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:30:10

• "Linux might be the better choice after all." https://www.xda-developers.com/wsl-great-run-linux-natively-instead/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:31:28

• Timeshift saved my Linux install after I broke it tweaking things I shouldn't have https://www.xda-developers.com/timeshift-saved-my-linux-install-after-i-broke-it/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:32:09

• I ran Arch for a year before realizing I should have used CachyOS https://www.xda-developers.com/ran-arch-year-before-realizing-cachyos/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:33:20

• 4 Linux distros you should use instead of upgrading to Windows 11 https://www.xda-developers.com/4-linux-distros-you-should-use-instead-of-upgrading-to-windows-11/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:34:28

• "Slow and steady wins the race." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-mint-may-publish-fewer-updates-a-year-but-thats-not-necessarily-a-bad-thing/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:35:21

• "And honestly, people should be." https://www.xda-developers.com/aerynos-is-the-atomic-linux-distro-nobody-is-talking-about/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:36:05

• Automating my Proxmox backups was the peace of mind my home lab needed https://www.xda-developers.com/automating-proxmox-backups-was-the-peace-of-mind-my-home-lab-needed/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:36:49

• 6 microcontroller projects that used to require a full SBC running Linux https://www.xda-developers.com/microcontroller-projects-used-require-full-sbc-running-linux/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:37:53

• Cool Linux distributions you should try out this weekend https://www.xda-developers.com/cool-linux-distributions-you-should-try-out-this-weekend/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:39:04

• "No more disk checks, hopefully." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-7-0-impressive-self-repairing-feature-fixes-your-filesystem/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:39:46

• This lightweight tool changes everything for multi-node Proxmox setups https://www.xda-developers.com/proxmox-datacenter-manager-changes-everything-for-multi-node-setups/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:40:22

• "See, this is why I love FOSS." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-7-0-adding-mainline-kernel-support-rock-band-4-guitars/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:41:14

• 4 Proxmox backup mistakes that could cost you everything https://www.xda-developers.com/proxmox-backup-mistakes-that-could-cost-you-everything/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:42:18

• "It's still being worked on, though." https://www.xda-developers.com/you-can-now-download-fedora-atomic-os-for-android/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:43:18

• "You can still download KDE Plasma if you want it." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distro-dropped-kde-plasma-support-tries-to-escape-systemd/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:43:46

• HexOS is doing for NAS software what Ubuntu did for Linux desktops https://www.xda-developers.com/hexos-doing-nas-software-what-ubuntu-did-linux-desktops/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:44:47

• Universal Blue wants to redefine the entire Linux ecosystem https://www.xda-developers.com/universal-blue-wants-to-redefine-the-entire-linux-ecosystem/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:45:54

• "Copilot was just being too darn nosy." https://www.xda-developers.com/gentoo-begins-its-exodus-from-github-as-it-settles-into-codeberg/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:47:12

• Proxmox taught me more about Linux in a month than a year of distro-hopping https://www.xda-developers.com/proxmox-taught-more-about-linux-in-month-than-year-distro-hopping/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:47:54

• "And they didn't use emacs, because they were Vi-Kings"    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:52:11

• "Linux Mint, MX Linux, and several other saw some exciting changes in January." https://www.howtogeek.com/these-linux-distros-got-major-updates-last-month/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:52:41

• "If a bad update killed your desktop interface, don't panic. You can still trigger a Timeshift restoration from the TTY console." https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-use-timeshift-to-create-reliable-linux-snapshots-and-rollbacks/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:53:22

• "Roy and Rianne's ... etc: handful of unconditional requests over the past couple of months" https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/02/23/readers/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:53:59

• "Ditch the clunky find, grep, and cat commands. This compact alternative fuses fzf, ripgrep, and bat into a blazing-fast interactive search weapon." https://www.howtogeek.com/how-one-bash-function-gives-me-real-time-search-across-thousands-of-files/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:57:06

• "Elevate your Linux game with these APT power moves." https://www.howtogeek.com/the-apt-command-has-hidden-powers-here-are-5-of-them/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:58:13

• "Who needs a separate distro when you can tweak the Debian you already have?" https://www.howtogeek.com/how-i-built-my-own-tiny-linux-distro-using-debian/p;  

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:58:41

• How to create a Jellyfin server with your media https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-create-a-jellyfin-server-with-your-media/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 07:59:51

• This is the easiest way to run Linux distros on your Android phone https://www.howtogeek.com/this-is-the-easiest-way-to-run-linux-distros-on-your-android-phone/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:01:05

• "Your terminal doesn't have to look like a boring block of white-on-black text. Personalizing it so much easier than it seems." https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-make-your-linux-terminal-look-stunning/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:02:12

• "Control services, read logs, profile boot time, and inspect crashes with these four built-in systemd tools." https://www.howtogeek.com/4-systemd-tools-that-make-everyday-linux-troubleshooting-much-easier/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:02:43

• "With its built in theme settings, Q4OS can be a real blast from the past." https://www.howtogeek.com/im-going-back-to-the-2000s-this-weekend-by-installing-this-linux-distro/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:07:01

• The 6 test patterns that real-world Bash scripts actually use https://www.howtogeek.com/the-test-patterns-that-real-world-bash-scripts-actually-use/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:08:06

• "you can finally play Borderlands 4 and Expedition 33." https://www.howtogeek.com/crossover-on-linux-and-mac-can-now-play-more-windows-games/   

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:09:06

• "Notes app in disarray? Try the alternative I found." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-to-install-this-weekend-february-13/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:09:41

• "Refresh your tablet PC with these tablet-friendly Linux distros." https://www.howtogeek.com/putting-linux-on-a-tablet-heres-7-distros-to-try/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:11:48

• "If Ubuntu is your only Linux experience, you might be repeating the same pattern you tried to leave behind." https://www.howtogeek.com/if-you-only-use-ubuntu-you-are-missing-out-on-what-linux-is-all-about/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:12:20

• These 14 GNU/Linux commands helped me become a better troubleshooter https://www.howtogeek.com/these-linux-commands-helped-me-become-a-better-troubleshooter/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:13:13

• "Linux is just a tab away." https://www.howtogeek.com/not-sure-if-youll-like-linux-try-it-from-your-browser/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:14:03

• "Become an Ubuntu power user in no time." https://www.howtogeek.com/8-ubuntu-tips-and-tricks-for-first-time-users/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:14:38

• "The team is "very interested in adopting a longer development cycle."" https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-mint-might-overhaul-its-release-schedule/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:15:06

• "Gain new superpowers!" https://www.howtogeek.com/5-reasons-to-start-using-the-linux-command-line/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:15:37

• Homelab projects to try this weekend (February 13 - 15) https://www.howtogeek.com/homelab-projects-to-try-this-weekend-february-13-15/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:16:32

• "Three quick tweaks that make Ubuntu feel faster and more comfortable from day one." https://www.howtogeek.com/the-3-ubuntu-settings-i-change-on-every-fresh-install/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:17:39

• "You want a Linux device that's never broken? Make sure this tool is set up and running regularly." https://www.howtogeek.com/this-is-the-advanced-linux-feature-every-beginner-should-know/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:18:11

• "This distro is sleek, easy to use, and has built-in support for Windows apps." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-mint-isnt-the-best-windows-replacement-anymore/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:19:18

• "Ubuntu doesn’t make wallpaper rotation obvious. These tools cover every setup, from quick GNOME extensions to a simple script you can forget about." https://www.howtogeek.com/5-easy-ways-to-automatically-change-your-wallpaper-on-ubuntu/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:19:48

• "Did you know Wayland is a place you can visit?" https://www.howtogeek.com/these-linux-software-names-make-a-lot-more-sense-once-you-know-the-full-story/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:20:15

• "How a simple script can transform your desktop cleanup." https://www.howtogeek.com/this-bash-script-replaced-apps-i-use-everyday/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:20:47

• "Turn your Android phone into a powerful control panel for your Linux PC." https://www.howtogeek.com/how-i-run-terminal-commands-on-my-linux-pc-from-my-android-home-screen/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:21:18

• "Linux can be more than just an OS you tinker with—it can replace Windows and become your daily device for everything." https://www.howtogeek.com/on-the-inside-jordan/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:21:48

• iophk: Neat CSS effect: https://concerts.lynnandtonic.com/ (scroll to the bottom)    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:23:36

• "The right desktop environment can transform your Linux experience from acceptable to exceptional." https://www.howtogeek.com/underrated-linux-desktop-environments-that-need-more-attention/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:24:40

• This free firmware made my old router useful again (and safer) https://www.howtogeek.com/open-source-tool-made-old-router-usable/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:25:42

• "New Linux installation, same old configuration files." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-just-set-up-a-new-linux-desktop-here-are-the-first-things-i-did/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:26:52

• "From just learning to code to seasoned developers, these are your distros of choice." https://www.howtogeek.com/these-are-the-only-linux-distros-i-recommend-for-developers/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:27:21

• "Forget clunky file management commands. This app's rapid navigation, instant previews, and effortless bulk operations make file management a breeze." https://www.howtogeek.com/this-one-command-line-app-saves-me-an-hour-every-day/   

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:28:40

• "From homelabbers to pro sysadmins, these are the distros for you." https://www.howtogeek.com/these-are-the-only-linux-distros-i-recommend-for-sysadmins/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:29:15

• "No accidentally breaking things using the terminal." https://www.howtogeek.com/forget-linux-mint-this-is-the-distro-beginners-should-be-using/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:29:50

• "They offer better security, stability, and portability. What isn't to like?" https://www.howtogeek.com/better-way-to-install-apps-on-linux/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:30:15

• "Navigating Git history shouldn't feel like a chore. This one tool offers instant diffs, visual branches, and effortless filtering at your fingertips." https://www.howtogeek.com/this-tiny-tool-makes-git-history-readable-again/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:30:48

• Don't set up Nginx Proxy Manager—use this instead for your Homelab https://www.howtogeek.com/dont-set-up-nginx-proxy-manager-do-this-instead/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:31:29

• "Whether you want to run a simple desktop or host your own servers, check out these Debian spin-offs first." https://www.howtogeek.com/debian-based-linux-distros-that-are-better-than-debian/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:32:22

• "Software engineer and maker Patrick Nelson is working on building a fully-automatic turntable with a modular expansion system to add potential advanced features like a record-flipper or vintage computing connectivity — and is making it available as open hardware." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260216-nelson.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:53:44

• "Maker and self-described "electronics/synth nerd" Paula Maddox has built a laptop with a difference: it's based around the MOS Technology 6502 eight-bit microprocessor, as famously powering Commodore and Apple's early home computers among many other devices." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260216-maddox.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:54:37

• "Maker Glen Akins has released an open-source MIDI soundboard, designed with live streaming in mind — and capable of playing pre-recorded sound effects out through either an integrated or external speaker via instructions from a connected MIDI control surface." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260216-akins.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:55:18

• "Maker Josh Hendrickson has turned an ultrawide display into an under-cabinet multi-function smart clock with weather forecasting, by adding a Raspberry Pi single-board computer and a replacement 3D-printed housing." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260217-clock.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:56:03

• "Maker Kris Slyka has designed a transmitter for analog TV signals using "almost no parts" — starting with nothing more than a spare STMicroelectronics STM32G431 development board and ending with a compact custom PCB dubbed the VideoThing." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260217-tv.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:58:18

• "Pseudonymous maker "Ok_Party_1645," hereafter simply "Party," has shown off a cyberdeck truly worthy of the name — built, as it is, by hand from reclaimed parts and a low-cost single-board computer: the SexyberDeck." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260217-deck.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 08:59:02

• "I have successfully deplyed Anubis on this server to protect the HTTPS side of things and WOW is it effective against the particular bots that have been plaguing the site!! HTTPS traffic has dropped by around 99.8%!" gopher://gopher.zcrayfish.soy:70/1/phlog/20260223-gopherproxy-sh-back-up-new-mitigations    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:01:21

• Funny commentary: "Commentary on this techrights piece: https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/20/Linus_Torvalds_Bill_Epsteingate_Good_Enough_for_Me_to_Wine_and_.shtml "... from a a reader: "Bill Gates is yet another Microsoft product full of viruses"    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:08:40

• "Dutch language diary written by the young Jewish writer Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/23/how-copyright-litigation-over-anne-franks-diary-could-impact-the-fate-of-vpns-in-the-eu/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:28:14

• "The Tracy Anderson Method is a method. And copyright law protects works of expression, not procedures, systems, or methods." ☛ https://copyrightlately.com/tracy-anderson-copyright-dispute/ | Source: CopyrightLately    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:28:42

• "Belgium's site-blocking machine keeps turning. A new order, obtained by local broadcasters RTL Belgium and RTBF, compels ISPs, Cloudflare, and Google to restrict access to five illegal IPTV services." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/belgian-pirate-site-blocking-order-targets-cloudflare-and-google-but-not-their-dns/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:29:03

• "Those personal uses of AI tools have a very different scope than large-scale training and data collection." ☛ https://www.manton.org/2026/02/23/defining-consent-for-ai.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:29:17

• Software Patents: "AI resurrections." ☛ https://www.404media.co/metas-ai-patent-to-simulate-dead-people-shows-the-dangers-of-spectral-labor/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:30:42

• "Before streaming platforms dominated at-home entertainment, consumers relied on places like Blockbuster, the now nearly erased movie rental chain and RedBox" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2026-02-23/why-gen-z-wants-to-buy-rent-dvds-blu-rays-in-age-of-streaming | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:32:15

• "Now, the U.S. state of Colorado is mulling over a bill to implement age reporting for installing apps on computers and mobile devices." ☛ https://itsfoss.com/news/colorado-age-attestation-bill/ | Source: It's FOSS    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:32:27

• "Rather than having people verify their age on every app they use, Colorado's SB26-051 would implement a way for devices to share an 'age-bracket' signal to third-party apps." ☛ https://www.pcmag.com/news/colorado-lawmakers-push-for-age-verification-at-the-operating-system-level | Source: PC Mag    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:32:40

• "applications available in a covered application store" ☛ https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051 |    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:32:50

• "Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date or age of the user of that device to provide a signal regarding the user's age bracket (age signal)" ☛ https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/110990/download |    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:33:02

• "The Renew Democracy Initiative and The Next Move are excited to bring you Older/Wiser with Linda Chavez" ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/the-history-of-mass-deportation-in | Source: The Next Move    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:33:36

• "To kick off my new article series, #WebAccessibilityFails, I decided to focus on a bad practice I often see in main navigations during accessibility audits." ☛ https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2026/aria-haspopup-menu | Source: Manuel Matuzović    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:34:22

• "55 years ago, in a courthouse serving the San Jose-Milpitas district of Santa Clara County, a judge for the first time signed a search warrant that treated a computer system as something that could be searched, and its content seized." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/55-years-ago-today-the-first-computer-search-warrant-was-issued | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:34:37

• "according to documents from two administration whistleblowers made public Monday." ☛ https://www.notus.org/immigration/ice-new-agent-training-whistleblower-testimony | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:35:04

• "Without reform, ICE will graduate thousands of new officers who do not know their constitutional duty, do not know the limits of their authority and who do not have the training to recognize an unlawful order" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-whistleblower-ryan-schwank-trump-b2926118.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:35:36

• "Debates on how the media should be covering what Donald Trump says have been going on for over a decade now." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/23/the-media-still-cant-figure-out-that-trump-says-things-that-arent-true/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:36:44

• "Five journalists reported critically on the US corporation Palantir with the WAV research collective and “Republik” – and Palantir is now demanding a right of reply at the commercial court. This could prove to be a boomerang." ☛ https://digit.site36.net/2026/02/23/palantir-is-suing-the-swiss-republik-an-opportunity-to-talk-about-what-kind-of-company-it-is-says-one-journalist/ | Source: Site36    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:36:59

• [Old] "It shouldn't be for the state to decide which religions and ideologies must not be discussed or critiqued in the public street." ☛ https://www.christiantoday.com/news/pastor-arrested-after-commenting-on-islam-and-biological-sex | Source: Christian Today    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:37:33

• "using public order legislation to impose "de facto blasphemy laws" in the U" ☛ https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2173977/preacher-arrested-religious-hatred-islam-trans | Source: Express    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:38:05

• "Because if the lawsuits that removing 230 protections would enable would still eventually win on First Amendment grounds, the only thing you’re doing in removing 230 protections is making lawsuits impossibly expensive for individuals" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/23/yes-section-230-should-apply-equally-to-algorithmic-recommendations/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:38:41

• "But after another year of treading water, it’s time to make the pragmatic choice. Rust has the ecosystem and the safety guarantees we need." ☛ https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/ | Source: The Ladybird Browser Initiative    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:39:17

• "Saying “no AI” takes out about 45% of the S&P 500. (Presumably by dollar value.) We don’t have Goldman’s list of stocks for this index." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/23/bet-against-the-bubble-goldman-sachs-non-ai-stock-index/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:39:38

• "How had the above worked out?" ☛ https://blast-o-rama.com/2026/02/23/microsoft-shifting-leaders-at-xbox-or-shuffling-chairs-on-the-titanic/ | Source: Marty Day    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:40:02

• "This is also another example of why I don't love when big companies acquire small studios." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/financially-secure-sony-shuts-down-a-great-game-studio-they-acquired-seemingly-just-to-ruin/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:43:52

• "By “right-sizing”, Ryan means laying off ten percent of the Reality Labs workforce, and pouring money into the Ray-Ban partnership instead of metaverse initiatives." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-vr-horizon-separation/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:44:20

• "Billionaire philanthropy is worse than an oxymoron. It’s a sham." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/billionaire-philanthropy-is-a-sham | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:44:35

• "Gell-Mann amnesia" ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/insider-amnesia/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:44:58

• "port of a critical library" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/23/ladybird-adopts-rust/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:45:32

• "How the choice was made may raise some eyebrows, though." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/23/ladybird_goes_rusty/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:46:00

• "When those numbers get manipulated, the perception gets manipulated." ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1176 | Source: Unmitigated Risk    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:46:34

• "Consulting firms invested billions with hopes to lead companies through the AI boom, but clients found many consultants lacked AI expertise themselves." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/02/23/2026/openai-deepens-consulting-ties | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:47:02

• "According to the agency, tour operators that use hiking trails, rest areas or other facilities in areas that are managed by Metsähallitus" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20211823 | Source: YLE    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:47:42

• You would not be crazy to say that language-to-language conversion (programming) is nothing new, it's actually an old thing, but now they paint it with "HEY HI" brush    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:48:49

• "When local officials in rural Wiscasset, Maine, voted on November 4, 2025, to pause a data center discussion in the community of around 4,000 year-round residents, it may have been a sign of what’s to come." ☛ https://mainemorningstar.com/2026/02/23/as-data-centers-look-to-rural-new-england-maine-considers-a-moratorium/ | Source: Maine Morning Star    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:49:26

• "When local officials in rural Wiscasset, Maine, voted on November 4, 2025, to pause a data center discussion in the community of around 4,000 year-round residents, it may have been a sign of what’s to come." ☛ https://mainemorningstar.com/2026/02/23/as-data-centers-look-to-rural-new-england-maine-considers-a-moratorium/ | Source: Maine Morning Star    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:49:41

• "And a more recent study by the nonprofit watchdog Environmental Integrity Project has found that EPA environmental protection has effectively ground to a halt: [...]" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/23/who-knew-mindless-and-corrupt-deregulation-apparently-kills-people/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:49:53

• "As mining companies scour Zambia's Copperbelt for metals used in sustainable energy, locals are dealing with unchecked pollution and contamination." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/zambians-pay-price-amid-copperbelt-mining-boom/a-76018569 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:50:06

• "I just want you to pause and notice something." ☛ https://karlbode.com/the-u-s-press-loves-to-pretend-widespread-corruption-doesnt-exist/ | Source: Karl Bode    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:50:47

• "This is the Nordic paradox. In societies with well-established regulations and robust unions, certain forms of precarious labor have nonetheless flourished." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/02/nordic-labor-gig-work-tech-platforms/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:51:43

• "U.S. right-wingers were especially enthralled with what they perceived as the toughness, masculinity, and anti-wokeness of Russian soldiers." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/day-1461-of-putins-three-day-war | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:52:02

• "Since the 2010 Citizens United ruling threw the floodgates open, political spending has increased, and with it, public concern. Sure." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-havent-even-started-spending | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:56:54

• "This is where I plug my own Password Safe." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/on-the-security-of-password-managers.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:57:22

• "Privacy-Preserving Attribution" ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/performance-max-preserving-attribution/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:58:10

• "information about how their app is used so they can improve it" ☛ https://notes.1705.net/posts/arrogance/ | Source: David H    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:58:44

• "Discord is attempting to distance itself from the age verification provider Persona following a steady stream of user backlash." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/878369/discord-persona-age-verification | Source: The Verge    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:59:00

• "Although this is a feature is currently found in Android's Find Hub, it apparently could make its way into Google Messages in the near future." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/google-messages-could-let-you-share-live-location-soon/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:59:24

• "Civil libertarians have expressed alarm about the privacy and cybersecurity risks inherent to the policy and say it violates porn users’ rights." ☛ https://therecord.media/ofcom-porn-fine-verification | Source: The Record    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 09:59:39

• "X (formerly Twitter) has filed an appeal against the €120 million penalty imposed by the European Commission under the Digital Services Act (DSA)" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/e120m-digital-services-act-penalty/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:00:07

• "The complaints land barely a week after Google was already on the defensive over Gemini's behavior" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/23/gemini_users_say_their_chat/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:00:27

• "The joint statement [PDF] signed by more than 60 regulators, including the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC)" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/23/privacy_watchdogs_ai_images/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:00:52

• "While that last sentence may be true, it appears sharing was on by default when it came to Ring’s own cameras." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/23/rings-super-bowl-ad-generates-so-much-backlash-it-has-ended-its-partnership-with-flock-safety/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:01:08

• "It is vital that MEPs act now to rule out mass snooping on our private messages." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/open-letter-we-say-no-to-big-tech-mass-snooping-on-our-messages/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:01:32

• "The more important story is what Wednesday’s proceedings are being used to build." ☛ https://reclaimthenet.org/zuckerberg-instagram-age-verification-trial | Source: Reclaim The Net    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:01:52

• "The Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) is focusing on three areas in its guidance and supervision during 2026." ☛ https://www.imy.se/en/news/imys-prioriteringar-2026--ai-barn-och-brottsbekampning/ | Source: Sedishj Authority for Privacy Protection    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:02:09

• "When eventually conducted, the test was stopped when hydrogen leaks occurred — a problem that also grounded the Artemis I mission in 2022." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/nasas-artemis-ii-moon-rocket-back-to-the-hangar/a-76090621 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:02:43

• "Weeks later, further fueling attempts delivered mixed results, prompting NASA to drop the February window and target March as the next opportunity" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/23/artemis_ii_launch_april_helium_issues/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:02:58

• Against Social Control Media. "I am a 15-year-old girl." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/23/15-year-old-girl-misogyny-social-media-online-abuse | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:03:38

• "Allegations have surfaced in Lithuania that critics of the political party Nemunas Dawn are being blocked on Facebook after sharing posts critical" ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2848276/fake-followers-and-frozen-accounts-digital-battle-around-lithuania-s-nemunas-dawn | Source: LRT    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:03:56

• "In my last piece, I talked about the harms that AI is visiting on children through the irresponsible choices made by the platforms creating those products." ☛ https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/23/taking-action-ai-harms/ | Source: Anil Dash    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:05:54

• "Here’s a quick overview of various products as I browsed online and gathered news and announcements from the space." ☛ https://ferd.ca/the-picture-they-paint-of-you.html | Source: Fred Herbert    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:10:01

• "A lot of the discourse around this has taken the form of "haha, stupid bot", but I posit that it is the beginning of something very interesting and deeply unsettling." ☛ https://herman.bearblog.dev/pockets-of-humanity/ | Source: Herman Martinus    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:10:17

• "Anyway. I guess I’d been thinking about Thrust as one morning recently I somewhat casually asked Claude Code to create it for me in the browser." ☛ https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/thrust_ai_powered_software_archaeology/ | Source: James Randall    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:10:39

• "The negative side effects, however, are just as significant. Each open app consists of an additional Chromium running, which can saturate the computer's resources, slowing it down or crashing it." ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/claude-desktop-app-ai-electron/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:10:57

• "However, the mechanics of continuous learning are not hard. The technical problem of “how do you change the weights of a model at runtime” is straightforward." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/continuous-learning/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:11:12

• "Interesting as this all is, it is a digression. My main points, again: [...]" ☛ https://blog.plover.com/2026/02/12/#micro-worlds-2 | Source: Mark-Jason Dominus    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:11:26

• "A judge in New Zealand is being forced to mull over these criteria after receiving a written apology from a defendant that appears to be generated with — and why else would we be talking about it on this website — an AI model." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/woman-apologizes-ai-burning-house | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:11:50

• "It’s been a big week for AI boosters." ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2026/02/ai-will-not-save-us | Source: New Statesman    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:12:26

• "I have not resolved this yet. I do not know if I will ever resolve this." ☛ https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/i-almost-had-a-good-support-experience-with-google/ | Source: Matthew Brunelle    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:12:51

• "The Cloudflare team clearly stated that we should prefer Workers over Pages, and this is the one that’s going to get future improvements and optimisations." ☛ https://pawelgrzybek.com/deploy-hugo-site-to-cloudflare-workers/ | Source: Paweł Grzybek    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:13:07

• [Old] "Despite warnings and flagged accounts, Zello left accounts with ISIS flag avatars and jihadist descriptions live on its service." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/zello-app-turned-blind-eye-to-jihadis-for-years/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:13:30

• "In bright outdoor light, the pupil constricts to protect the eye while still allowing ample light to reach the retina" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/myopia-is-surging-and-one-common-habit-could-be-driving-it | Source: Science Alert    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:15:52

• "Despite growing awareness and mounting evidence, these practices remain largely unregulated in the EU." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/breaking-the-extractive-digital-business-model-a-rights-based-digital-fairness-act/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:16:07

• "It's part of a larger trend gaining traction in Canada: food prescribing." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/blueberries-dalhousie-study-food-prescribing-healthy-eating-9.7097294 | Source: CBC    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:16:53

• "Or so it would appear." ☛ https://grep.be/blog//en/computer/cluebat/On_Free_Software_Hardware_Firmware/ |    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:17:17

• "Faced with AI-driven markets that have sent GPUs, RAM, and storage prices soaring, most aren’t just hesitant to buy—they’re actively pushing back." ☛ https://boilingsteam.com/poll-better-to-skip-a-year-for-pc-upgrades/index.html | Source: Boiling Steam    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:17:35

• "For those who have not seen such a device in the wild (or at least outside a museum), it required an operator to plug and unplug cables to connect extensions to incoming calls or configure outgoing calls." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/23/bork_goes_retro_with_a/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:17:51

• "Skiing is a reasonably safe activity, yet outside my comfort zone enough for it to matter." ☛ https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2026/054/a1/ski-school/ | Source: Paul Robert Lloyd    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:18:19

• Josh Withers Blog ☛ https://joshwithers.blog/2026/02/24/random-aurora-australis-sighting-on-mount-wellingtonkunyani | Source: Josh Withers    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:19:01

• "To mark its 50th anniversary, this article recounts the story of the proof, focusing particularly on the individuals involved." ☛ https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202603/noti3305/noti3305.html |    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:19:28

• "I'm convinced that checking metrics for our hobbies diminishes the quality of our output. And it fucks with our monkey brains." ☛ https://cliophate.wtf/posts/metrics | Source: Kevin Wammer    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:19:59

• "I’ve also had different virtual desktops or user accounts and spaces for different activities" ☛ https://blog.avas.space/getting-sick-of-my-desk/ | Source: Ava    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 10:20:17

• This publisher is complicit in Microsoft "XBox" spam https://www.theverge.com/games/883159/phil-spencer-xbox-game-pass part of this SPAM campaign: http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Microsoft_Controlled_Media_With_Embargo_and_Press_Operatives.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:07:12

• The slop is how they will kill it while pretending it is "misunderstood" https://fortune.com/2026/02/23/microsoft-gaming-shake-up-touts-xbox-resurgence-ignites-fears-incoming-ai-slop/nbsp;  

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:08:08

• They basically know it's dead. Microsoft threw in the towel, chose a lame duck to kill it. https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/is-this-xbox-s-turning-point-fans-question-microsoft-s-new-direction/story    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:08:53

• Unqualified in every other way, too https://www.dagens.com/technology/gaming/microsoft-gaming-gets-new-chief-without-traditional-gaming-background    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:10:41

• Slop in Google about slop inside Google.... fake "news" flooding the Web https://www.thedetroitbureau.com/today-report/google-restructures-pichai-announces-management-cuts-1764799322    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:11:53

• The media is so bribed that the tech papers try to tell us that pedophiles and incest rapists are alphamales who know better than anybody else. This "media" dooms itself.    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:33:07

• "Brad Reese, 70, said in a Feb. 14 letter to Hershey’s corporate brand manager that for multiple Reese’s products, the company replaced milk chocolate with compound coatings and peanut butter with peanut crème." https://apnews.com/article/reeses-peanut-butter-cups-hershey-chocolate-1a66ec75247fd146888b7a747a740cd3    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:34:15

• "Tariff Policy by the Numbers - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/tariff-policy-by-the-numbers    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:34:33

• anthropic is lying, quantity != quality https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/23/ibm_share_dive_anthropic_cobol/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:34:52

• "Further | For Now A Prince. How Long Till A (Fake) King? | Opinion" https://www.commondreams.org/further/for-now-a-prince-how-long-till-a-fake-king    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:35:24

• "Scam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/sam-altman-train-a-human/686120/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/technology/sam-altman-sister-lawsuit.htbsp;  

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:35:58

• "Can Anti-Billionaire Populism Deliver a 'Blue Wave' for Democrats?" https://www.truthdig.com/articles/can-anti-billionaire-populism-deliver-a-blue-wave-for-democrats/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:36:13

• "How ICE and CBP Use Free Walkie-Talkie App ‘Zello’ to Power Their Operations" https://www.404media.co/how-ice-and-cbp-use-free-walkie-talkie-app-zello-to-power-their-operations/bsp;  

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:36:29

• "Removing a royal from the line of succession" https://rubenerd.com/removing-a-royal-from-the-line-of-succession/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:36:47

• ID requirements for your phone and computer https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/02/23/id-krav-for-din-telefon-och-dator/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:37:17

• note t-shirt image: Microsoft Clippy https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/23/if-pivot-to-ai-brightens-your-life-send-5-to-keep-the-daily-stories-coming/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:38:06

• Microsoft propaganda site selling a Ponzi scheme, uses the "you're holding it wrong(tm)" excuse when it fails https://thenewstack.io/coding-agents-feedback-signals/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:38:50

• "The French civil servant who forced more than 200 women to wet themselves" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/02/22/french-civil-servant-force-women-urinate-marie-helene-brice/ "And now, prosecutors have suddenly given his alleged victims only one month to hand in fresh testimonies before they officially close the inquiry."    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:39:21

• "Go 1.26 makes this a lot simpler by extending the functionality of the built-in new function." ☛ https://pawelgrzybek.com/no-temp-variables-needed-for-pointers-in-go-1-26/ | Source: Paweł Grzybek    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:40:47

• "First an explanation of what this tool actually is, and then some scripts in order of increasing interestingness." ☛ https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/z3-examples/ | Source: Hillel Wayne    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:43:05

• "Clang implements both ABIs in clang/lib/AST/RecordLayoutBuilder.cpp. It processes bit-fields in two distinct phases: [...]" ☛ https://maskray.me/blog/2026-02-22-bit-field-layout | Source: MaskRay    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:43:36

• "The past year has brought a lot of changes, not the least of which is that I'm now working primarily in C after a few years of web development in NodeJS/React/general JavaScript land." ☛ https://mclare.blog/posts/six-months-of-c/ | Source: Maryanne Wachter    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:43:50

• "There is an approach to problem solving where you take simpler and simpler subproblems until they are quite obvious, and then you build back up to the thing you want." ☛ https://www.philipzucker.com/ac_hashcons/ | Source: Philip Zucker    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:44:08

• "This post will go over what I want, which afaik nothing on the market satisfies, and what I plan on doing about that." ☛ https://wolfgirl.dev/blog/2026-02-23-so-ive-been-thinking-about-static-site-generators/ |    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:44:43

• "Obviously lots of things have changed since then." ☛ https://andrewkchan.dev/posts/crawler.html |    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:45:31

• "User-Agents in alphabetical order, marked up with links where applicable: [...]" ☛ https://wolfgirl.dev/blog/2026-02-05-shoutouts-to-all-the-rss-readers/ |    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:45:53

• "So then, let's talk turkey here." ☛ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/02/23/readers/ | Source: Rachel    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:46:22

• "I haven’t acquired any new cabinets for some time now. In fact, I’ve thinned the herd significantly over the past couple of years, after downsizing my living arrangements." ☛ https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/23/taito-space-invaders-restoration-1/ | Source: The Arcade Blogger    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:47:01

• "As rubber replacement is one of the necessary and sometimes more finnicky parts of typewriter restoration" ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2026/02/23/rubber-grommet-repair-on-remington-super-riters-and-standards/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:47:20

• "The Enigma machine was created by German Arthur Scherbius in 1918 as a way to protect sensitive information coming across telegraph lines for banks and business." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/enigma-cipher-device-secrets-cyber-pros | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:47:43

• "Most existing extrusion 3D printers can only switch between two different materials" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/mit-developed-3d-printer-can-output-a-fully-functional-electric-motor-in-a-single-process-team-only-needed-to-magnetize-the-linear-motor-after-printing-motors-cost-just-50-cents-each | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:48:09

• "Automation is something a lot of Raspberry Pi enthusiasts are into, but this month’s subject, Richard Kirby, takes it to a whole other level" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/meet-the-organiser-of-one-of-the-longest-running-raspberry-pi-community-events/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:48:33

• "Gnome has had at least two settings systems, GSettings/dconf (also) and the older GConf." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/DconfVsGconfInGnome | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:49:09

• "It's common to spin up a server in a test so that you can do full end-to-end requests of it." ☛ https://ntietz.com/blog/binding-ephemeral-port/ | Source: Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:49:47

• "An archived log from the #dev-help channel on the Freenode (RIP) afterlife network." ☛ https://kmcd.dev/posts/irc-log-the-cloud-scale-incident/ | Source: Kevin McDonald    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:50:03

• "Jaxson Khan is the CEO and Founder of Aperature AI and a Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto." ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/02/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-258-jaxson-khan-with-an-insider-perspective-on-ai-policy-development-in-canada/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:50:32

• Wine 11.3 https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-11.3    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:53:33

• "Wine 11.3 is here bringing more compatibility fixes for running Windows apps and games on Linux systems." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/wine-11-3-released-with-vkd3d-and-mono-upgrades/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:53:54

• Mesa 25.3.6 released as the last bug fix for this driver series | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/mesa-25-3-6-released-as-the-last-bug-fix-for-this-driver-series/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 11:54:47

• NVIDIA hiring Linux driver engineers to help with Vulkan, Proton and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/nvidia-hiring-linux-driver-engineers-to-help-with-vulkan-proton-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:07:50

• After sacking many ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/intel-hiring-gpu-driver-engineers-for-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:08:20

• Kerbal Space Program spiritual successor Kitten Space Agency now has a Linux version | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/kerbal-space-program-spiritual-successor-kitten-space-agency-now-providing-linux-builds/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:14:01

• Heroic Games Launcher 2.20.0 brings numerous important bug fixes | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/heroic-games-launcher-2-20-0-brings-numerous-important-bug-fixes/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:14:33

• Get A Plague Tale: Innocence - Requiem, Evil West and more in the Focus Entertainment Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/get-a-plague-tale-innocence-requiem-evil-west-and-more-in-the-focus-entertainment-humble-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:18:23

• Steam Next Fest - February 2026 is live with tons of demos | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/steam-next-fest-february-2026-is-live-with-tons-of-demos/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/steam-next-fest-february-2026-is-live-with-tons-of-demos/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:18:38

• "I’ve noticed a recurring pattern where companies invest millions in a state-of-the-art container platform or cloud infrastructure, only to find their delivery speed hasn't budged." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/metrics-matter-how-prove-business-value-devex | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:20:24

• "Digital Sovereignty" cannot be attained with Pentagon (Red Hat/IBM) ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/strengthening-sovereign-enterprise-new-training-red-hat | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:21:19

• "The SBC-ZETA-3950 uses the quad-core Intel Atom E3950 processor running at 1.6 GHz (2.0 GHz burst), with 2MB L2 cache and a 12W base power envelope" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/atom-e3950-powers-winsystems-sbc-zeta-3950-rugged-mini-sbc/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:21:56

• Replace them with slop till the franchise dies? https://www.ign.com/articles/the-state-of-every-xbox-first-party-developer    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:40:02

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

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:41:57

• One Vaccine-Schedule Change That Actually Makes Sense ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/one-vaccine-schedule-change-that-actually-makes-sense    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:42:21

• How a sword and SWAT standoff sparked fury over Michigan mental health crisis ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/how-a-sword-and-swat-standoff-sparked-fury-over-michigan-mental-health-crisis/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:42:50

• Palantir Is Stocking the Wildest Imaginable Item in Its Vending Machines ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/palantir-nicotine-vending-machines    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:43:13

• Lawyers' group raises health concerns over concrete plant near Bolu prison ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/lawyers-group-raises-health-concerns-over-concrete-plant-near-bolu-prison-316991    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:43:41

• North Korea touts nuclear advances as Kim Jong Un rechosen to lead ruling party ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-ruling-party-re-elects-kim-jong-un-general-secretary-for-bolstering-nuclear-power    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:44:11

• Why post on Instagram? 4 in 10 South Koreans use it to boast, survey shows ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/why-post-on-instagram-4-in-10-south-koreans-use-it-to-boast-survey-shows    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:44:41

• K-pop romance scam surge prompts South Korea-Brazil police alliance ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/k-pop-romance-scam-surge-prompts-south-korea-brazil-police-alliance    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:46:07

• North Korea’s Kim says country to develop economy over next 5 years ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-kim-says-country-to-develop-economy-over-next-5-years    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:46:34

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

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 12:47:31

• RebeccaBlackOS 2026-02-22 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/rebeccablackos    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:04:41

• DietPi 10.1 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/dietpi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:04:55

• Antoine Beaupré: PSA: North america changes time forward soon, Europe next ☞ https://anarc.at/blog/2026-02-23-dst-warning/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:05:59

• New Xbox VP a Good Example of Microsoft's Racist Hiring Practices ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/new-xbox-vp-a-good-example-of-microsofts    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:10:53

• Ladybird Ports to Rust Using Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ladybird-ports-to-rust-using-ai    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:11:08

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

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:12:23

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

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:12:42

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

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:13:11

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

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:13:46

• How to Allow Root SSH Login on Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-allow-root-ssh-login-on-ubuntu-26-04    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:15:10

• How to Restart Docker on Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-restart-docker-on-ubuntu-26-04    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:15:58

• How To Install Zed Code Editor on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-zed-code-editor-linux-mint-22/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:17:12

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

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:18:04

• How To Install Apache Tomcat on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-apache-tomcat-almalinux-10/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:18:42

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

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:18:57

• Prompt engineering: Big vs. small prompts for Hey Hi (AI) agents ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/23/prompt-engineering-big-vs-small-prompts-ai-agents    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:19:44

• Can Salt-N-Pepa Ever Win Back Their Masters? Rap Duo Files Appeal Against Universal Music Group Following Difficult Dismissal ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/23/salt-n-pepa-umg-masters-appeal/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:20:32

• FOSSY 2026 track proposals are open! ☞ https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/feb/23/fossy-26-track-proposals-open/ Unsafe? http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/06/FOSSY_2025_Conference_Safety.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:22:24

• The Migrants in the Ancient Forest ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/02/the-migrants-in-the-ancient-forest    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:22:53

• Poland detains Belarusian man on suspicion of spying for Minsk, including in Lithuania ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2848203/poland-detains-belarusian-man-on-suspicion-of-spying-for-minsk-including-in-lithuania    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:23:10

• Calls for justice for political 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 Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:23:51

• Rights groups urge renewal of special procedures in Belarus ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/rights-groups-urge-renewal-of-special-procedures-in-belarus/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:24:15

• Thousands still travel from Latvia to Belarus every month ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/23.02.2026-thousands-still-travel-from-latvia-to-belarus-every-month.a635879/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:24:34

• ‘Mother Russia’ Review: A New Play That’s as Funny as It’s Smart ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/theater/mother-russia-review.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:32:59

• Lithuanian FM says EU must not become ‘hostage’ to Hungary over Russia sanctions ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2848157/lithuanian-fm-says-eu-must-not-become-hostage-to-hungary-over-russia-sanctions    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:33:21

• Otto Kekäläinen: Do Hey Hi (AI) models still keep getting better, or have they plateaued? ☞ https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/ai-models-plateaued-or-not/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:34:11

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

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:35:03

• Wouter Verhelst: On Free Software, Free Hardware, and the firmware in between ☞ https://grep.be/blog//en/computer/cluebat/On_Free_Software_Hardware_Firmware/http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/23/Trusting_the_Evil_Maids.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:36:06

• Ukraine Enters 5th Year Of Russia’s Full-Scale War Amid Both Talks And Fighting ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/33686274.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:36:57

• Four years of folly: mired in Ukraine, Putin won’t back down ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/four-years-of-folly-mired-in-ukraine-putin-wont-back-down/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:37:11

• Latvian Paralympians will not take part in opening ceremony ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/sport/23.02.2026-latvian-paralympians-will-not-take-part-in-opening-ceremony.a635968/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:37:38

• Latvian police help bust fraud network in Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/23.02.2026-latvian-police-help-bust-fraud-network-in-ukraine.a635938/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:37:56

• Health a big obstacle for youth military recruitment in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/23.02.2026-health-a-big-obstacle-for-youth-military-recruitment-in-latvia.a635868/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:38:13

• Last days to donate to Ukraine in LSM's campaign ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/23.02.2026-last-days-to-donate-to-ukraine-in-lsms-campaign.a635869/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:38:30

• Ukrainian Gets 5 Years in US Prison for Aiding North Korean IT Fraud ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ukrainian-gets-5-years-in-us-prison-for-aiding-north-korean-it-fraud/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:38:54

• Ukraine’s morale remains up as it fends of Russia, winter barrage: ‘Still a force to be reckoned with’ ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/02/23/opinion/ukraines-morale-remains-up-as-it-fends-of-russia-winter-barrage-still-a-force-to-be-reckoned-with/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:39:11

• Live: Ukraine marks four years of war with Russia amid reconstruction challenges ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260224-live-ukraine-marks-four-years-of-war-with-russia-amid-reconstruction-challenges    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:39:31

• Four young Ukrainians tell us how they see their future ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260223-four-young-ukrainians-tell-us-how-they-see-their-future    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:39:56

• Hungary blocks EU Ukraine loan, Russia sanctions on eve of war anniversary ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260223-hungary-blocks-eu-ukraine-loan-russia-sanctions-on-eve-of-war-anniversary    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:40:11

• Hungary, Slovakia Block New EU Sanctions On Russia ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/hungary-slovakia-block-eu-sanctions-russia/33685525.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:40:28

• South Korea protests against ‘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 Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:40:51

• Committed, but weary? Russia stays the course after four years of war in Ukraine. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0223/ukraine-war-russia-anniversary-peace-talks    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:41:10

• Letter to Pokrovsk, Ukrainian city of roses: Your beautiful spirit isn’t lost ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0223/ukraine-war-pokrovsk-roses-inspiration    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:41:28

• These Ukrainians Don’t Want to Be Traded to Russia for Peace ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/world/europe/ukraine-war-donetsk.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:41:46

• How Russia Put Its Future at Risk by Remaking Its Economy for War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-future.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:43:19

• EU Support for Ukraine Stumbles as Hungary Looks to Delay Aid ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/world/europe/ukraine-war-russia-eu-hungary.html   

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:43:36

• The Ukrainian Bureaucrat Working to Squeeze Russia’s War Machine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/world/europe/ukraine-russia-sanctions.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:43:57

• Europe’s New Way of War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/world/europe-defense-us-ukraine-mexico-tariffs.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:44:19

• Latvia continues supporting Ukraine as four years pass since Russia's war ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/24.02.2026-latvia-continues-supporting-ukraine-as-four-years-pass-since-russias-war.a636066/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:44:42

• How Russia’s 'thousand cuts' tactic is straining Ukraine’s frontline forces ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260224-how-russia-thousand-cuts-tactic-is-straining-ukraine-frontline-forces    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:45:15

• Live: EU chief von der Leyen arrives in Ukraine to mark four years since Russian invasion ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260224-live-ukraine-marks-four-years-of-war-with-russia-amid-reconstruction-challenges    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:45:38

• Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059864/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:46:00

• "IBM is a mediocre company, offering mediocre products geared toward mediocre customers." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kj683zvh    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:47:10

• "IBM has been selling old tech and business structure (zillions of consultants) as the only way to transform legacy systems but... the fact is they have not left AS400 yet and now Anthropic will get all the COBOL transformation business (except for the IBM subsidiaries and Kyndryl)" http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/24/IBM_Did_Not_Fall_Because_of_COBOL_Vapourware_IBM_Still_Collapse.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:47:51

• "sure, but start the firings in the US from the top, not the bottom - you get a bigger bang for the buck and even bigger savings when you axe those executives who makes lots of $$$ for just warming the chair they sit on. Rinse and repeat as often as necessary... Let's keep drinking the Kool-Aid."    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:48:36

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s controversial pick for Malaysia envoy ousted – a career diplomat is coming instead ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/trumps-controversial-pick-for-malaysia-envoy-ousted-a-career-diplomat-is-coming-instead    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:49:46

• Malaysia mulls over law to curb premiership to two terms ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-mulls-over-law-to-curb-premiership-to-two-terms    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:50:06

• After China, India is next on Canada’s foreign policy reset agenda ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/after-china-india-is-next-on-canadas-foreign-policy-reset-agenda    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:50:24

• Niko Matsakis: What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust ☞ https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/02/23/ubuntu-rustnation/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:51:28

• Kurdish-dubbed Smurfs to launch on official YouTube channel ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/kurdish-dubbed-smurfs-to-launch-on-official-youtube-channel-316976    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:52:07

• The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/technology/taiwan-china-chips-silicon-valley-tsmc.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:53:34

• ‘Welcome to China’ greets Philippine officials on trip to disputed South China Sea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/welcome-to-china-greets-philippine-officials-on-trip-to-disputed-south-china-sea    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:54:13

• China targets Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi, over military ties ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-acts-against-40-japanese-entities-including-mitsubishi-over-military-ties    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:54:32

• Panama wrests control of 2 canal ports from Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/24/panama-wrests-control-of-2-canal-ports-from-hong-kongs-ck-hutchison/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:55:41

• US State Colorado Wants Operating Systems to Tell Every App How Old You Are ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/colorado-age-attestation-bill/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:56:18

• The 'Breaking Bad' Effect From Cancer Is Real, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-breaking-bad-effect-from-cancer-is-real-study-finds    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:57:09

• Lithium Plume in Our Atmosphere Traced Back to Returning SpaceX Rocket ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/lithium-plume-in-our-atmosphere-traced-back-to-returning-spacex-rocket    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:57:39

• Changes to One of The Largest Known Stars May Signal Destruction ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/changes-to-one-of-the-largest-known-stars-may-signal-destruction    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:58:08

• These 40,000-Year-Old Marks May Be a Precursor to Writing ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/these-40000-year-old-marks-may-be-a-precursor-to-writingp;  

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:58:24

• Meditation And Mindfulness Have a Dark Side We Rarely Talk About ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/meditation-and-mindfulness-have-a-dark-side-we-rarely-talk-about    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 13:58:46

• C.I.A. Intelligence Helped Lead Mexican Authorities to ‘El Mencho’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/world/americas/cia-el-hencho-location-mexico.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:06:15

• Ponzi scheme with money that does not exist https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stargate-ai-data-centers-for-openai-reportedly-delayed-by-squabbles-between-partners-sources-say-openai-oracle-and-softbank-disagreed-on-who-would-have-ultimate-control-of-the-planned-data-centers    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:07:05

• Sheer hypocrisy in the plagiarism industry ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-accuses-deepseek-other-chinese-ai-developers-of-industrial-scale-copying-claims-distillation-included-24-000-fraudulent-accounts-and-16-million-exchanges-to-train-smaller-models    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:07:58

• Is Sony Overstating Its Hey Hi (AI) Detection Capabilities? Signs Point to Yes ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/22/sony-ai-detection-capabilities-overstated/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:08:18

• New Hey Hi (AI) Agent Logs Directly Into College Platform Canvas to Do Your Homework for You ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-agent-canvas-homework    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:09:31

• American Hey Hi (AI) Industry Trembles as Deepseek Prepares to Release New Model ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-industry-deepseek-v4    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:09:56

• Supreme Court Considers Fate of Docks and Other Assets Seized by Cuba in 1960 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/us/politics/supreme-court-cuba-cruise-docks.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:14:38

• Supreme Court to Weigh Oil-Industry Effort to End a Major Climate Suit ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/climate/supreme-court-boulder-climate-lawsuit.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:14:58

• Post Leveson chill in police-press relations thaws after 15 years with new rulebook ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/police-media-guidelines-updated/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:15:40

• FedEx Sues for Refund of Convicted Felon Tariffs Rejected by Supreme Court ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/business/fedex-lawsuit-tariffs-refund.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:16:08

• Ireland must expand protection of environmental rights, UN expert says ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/ireland-charged-with-protecting-environmental-rights-un-expert-says/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:16:57

• Live Nation is Still Battling a Wrongful Death Lawsuit Over 2023 Shooting at Beyond Wonderland—Here’s the Latest ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/22/live-nation-wrongful-death-lawsuit-2023/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:17:51

• Australia can reap the benefits of critical-minerals rivalry ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-can-reap-the-benefits-of-critical-minerals-rivalry/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:18:53

• Mexican Forces Say They Tracked El Mencho to Cabin by Following His Lover ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/world/americas/el-mencho-mexico-cartel-military-raid.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:19:15

• Court upholds jailing of 12 activists in 'Hong Kong 47' subversion case ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/hong-kong-appeals-court-upholds-jailing-of-12-activists-in-hong-kong-47-subversion-case    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:19:49

• User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/user-accidentally-gains-control-of-over-6-700-robot-vacuums-while-tinkering-with-their-own-device-to-enable-control-with-a-playstation-controller-security-flaw-reveals-floor-plans-and-live-video-feeds    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:20:15

• 1,000 CUHK students, staff and alumni petition to reinstate student expelled following nat. sec arrest ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/23/1000-cuhk-students-staff-and-alumni-petition-to-reinstate-student-expelled-following-nat-sec-arrest/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:20:50

• Dozens dead in Mexico violence after drug kingpin 'El Mencho' killed ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260223-dozens-dead-in-mexico-violence-after-drug-kingpin-el-mencho-killed    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:21:12

• 25 Mexican National Guard troops killed amid violence following death of cartel leader 'El Mencho' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/25-mexican-national-guard-troops-killed-amid-violence-following-death-of-cartel-leader-el-mencho    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:21:29

• Congress Must Rein in ICE to Improve the State of the Union ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/congress-must-rein-in-ice-to-improve-the-state-of-the-union    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:22:01

• PayPal Data Breach Led to Fraudulent Transactions ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/paypal-data-breach-led-to-fraudulent-transactions/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:22:50

• Mississippi Hospital System Closes All Clinics After Ransomware Attack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/mississippi-hospital-system-closes-all-clinics-after-ransomware-attack/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:23:16

• Recent RoundCube Webmail Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/recent-roundcube-webmail-vulnerability-exploited-in-attacks/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:23:39

• Making Icon Sets Easy With Web Origami ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/origami-icons/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:25:25

• The Rust Programming Language Blog: Rust debugging survey 2026 ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/02/23/rust-debugging-survey-2026/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:26:35

• Sam Thursfield: Status update, 23rd February 2026 ☞ https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2026/02/23/status-update-23rd-february-2026/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:26:56

• The Ladybird browser project shifts to Rust ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059812/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:28:28

• Reflections on a transforming interconnection ecosystem ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/23/reflections-on-a-transforming-interconnection-ecosystem/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:29:03

• Autonomous Hey Hi (AI) Agents Provide New Class of Supply Chain Attack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/autonomous-ai-agents-provide-new-class-of-supply-chain-attack/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:30:24

• US Healthcare Diagnostic Firm Says 140,000 Affected by Data Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/us-healthcare-diagnostic-firm-says-140000-affected-by-data-breach/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:30:37

• Romanian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Selling Access to US State Network ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/romanian-hacker-pleads-guilty-to-selling-access-to-us-state-network/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:36:30

• This Is the Most Overkill Raspberry Pi 5 Cooler I’ve Ever Built ☞ https://the-diy-life.com/this-is-the-most-overkill-raspberry-pi-5-cooler-ive-ever-built/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:37:32

• Fake followers and frozen accounts: digital battle around Lithuania’s Nemunas Dawn ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2848276/fake-followers-and-frozen-accounts-digital-battle-around-lithuania-s-nemunas-dawn    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:37:59

• Hong Kong gov’t mulls booking system, fees for tourist camping spots after NGO slams inaction on overcrowding ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/23/hong-kong-govt-mulls-booking-system-fees-for-tourist-camping-spots-after-ngo-slams-inaction-on-overcrowding/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:38:56

• More Than a Seat: Who Gets To Shape Technology Policy ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/more-than-a-seat-who-gets-to-shape-technology-policy-2/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:40:01

• Public Knowledge Launches Report To Help Tech Policy Organizations Support Equity ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-launches-report-to-help-tech-policy-organizations-support-equity/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:40:39

• The Telecommunications Act of 1996 at 30: An Analysis of Policy, Power, and the Public Interest ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/the-telecommunications-act-of-1996-at-30-an-analysis-of-policy-power-and-the-public-interest/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:41:04

• Canada to Probe What Proprietary Chaffbot Company Knew About Tumbler Ridge Shooter ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/world/canada/canada-shooting-openai.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:41:44

• A Serial Killer Used Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot to Plan Murders, Police Say ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/serial-killer-chatgpt-murders    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:45:09

• 'How I used Section 75 after Fashion Company Apple refused to repair my MacBook' ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-i-used-section-75-after-apple-refused-to-repair-my-macbook-aJJOo5e3r1L5    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:45:48

• AMD VEK385 Versal Hey Hi (AI) Edge Gen 2 FPGA evaluation kit plugs directly into a PCIe Gen5/Gen4 slot ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/23/amd-vek385-versal-ai-edge-gen-2-fpga-evaluation-kit-plugs-directly-into-a-pcie-gen5-gen4-slot/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:46:27

• Silex SX-SDMAX6E tri-band Wi-Fi 6E + Bluetooth LE module features NXP IW623 SoC, comes in M.2 or LGA package ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/23/silex-sx-sdmax6e-tri-band-wi-fi-6e-bluetooth-le-module-features-nxp-iw623-soc-comes-in-m-2-or-lga-package/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:47:08

• German data center giant hikes prices up to 37% starting April 1 — Hetzner cites rising hardware costs for price increases ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/hetzner-to-raise-prices-by-up-to-37-percent-from-april-1    

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

• OpenClaw Alternatives That You Can Run on Raspberry Pi Like Devices ☞ https://itsfoss.com/openclaw-alternatives/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:55:46

• Patents must never cover nature; but with enough lobbying (bribery) anything is feasible ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/02/corrects-district-component.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:58:31

• Asus and Acer back online in Germany after patent monopoly dispute took them out — laptops and desktops still not available following injunction ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/asus-and-acer-back-online-in-germany-after-patent-dispute-took-them-out-laptops-and-desktops-still-not-available-following-injunction    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:59:00

• Videos Show How Violence Unfolded in Mexico After Killing of Cartel Boss ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/world/americas/mexico-violence-el-mencho-videos.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 14:59:32

• Vlad: Weston 15.0 is here: Lua shells, Vulkan rendering, and a smoother display stack ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059933/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:00:22

• Rakudo Weekly 2026.08 Positional Adverbs ☞ https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/02/23/2026-08-positional-adverbs/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:01:19

• Synthetic data for RAG evaluation: Why your RAG system needs better testing ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/23/synthetic-data-rag-evaluation-why-your-rag-system-needs-better-testing    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:01:58

• Inside Chicago’s surveillance panopticon ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/23/1132740/inside-chicago-surveillance-panopticon/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:02:45

• Hong Kong privacy watchdog joins 60 overseas authorities warning of AI-generated intimate images ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/23/hong-kong-privacy-watchdog-joins-60-overseas-authorities-warning-of-ai-generated-intimate-images/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:24:15

• Privacy Under Siege ☞ https://puri.sm/posts/privacy-under-siege/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:24:46

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Says General Caine Sees Easy Victory if U.S. Attacks Iran ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/us/politics/general-caine-iran-strikes-trump.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:25:07

• Iran-US tensions soars ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/spotlight/20260224-iran-us-tensions-soars    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:25:42

• The Forrest Dump Administration Is Using a Rare Legal Trick to Avoid Damaging Facts ☞ https://americanoversight.org/motions-to-strike-foia/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:26:03

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

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:26:21

• EPO Strike Has Begun (or Resumed) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/23/EPO_Strike_Has_Begun_or_Resumed.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:26:35

• EPO Staff Union: The Strike Actions and Other Industrial Actions "Have Already Delivered Measurable Gains." (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/23/EPO_Staff_Union_The_Strike_Actions_and_Other_Industrial_Actions.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:26:47

• Techrights Thanks Every Single EPO Worker Who Went on Strike Today (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/23/Techrights_Thanks_Every_Single_EPO_Worker_Who_Went_on_Strike_To.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:27:02

• Another day, another malicious JPEG, (Mon, Feb 23rd) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32738    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:27:43

• The NetBSD Foundation will participate in Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2026! ☞ http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_tnf    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:28:36

• Finding an NZXT tower from 2015 ☞ https://rubenerd.com/finding-an-nzxt-tower-from-2015/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:29:21

• Firefox 148.0 is out with Global & Individual Hey Hi (AI) Toggle Options ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/firefox-148-0-ai-toggle-options/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:33:39

• Firefox 148 released with Hey Hi (AI) kill switch + more ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/firefox-148-released-ai-kill-switch    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:34:12

• elementary 8.1.1 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/elementary    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:34:30

• FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, February 27, starting at 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC) ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2026-02-27-irc    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:34:52

• GNU Octave 11.1.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1059965/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:35:14

• Waydroid 1.6.2 added Vulkan Support for defective chip maker Intel XE Graphics Driver ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/waydroid-1-6-2-added-vulkan-support-for-intel-xe-graphics-driver/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:35:55

• Luminance – control brightness of displays ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/luminance-control-brightness-displays/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:36:30

• Linuxfx 11.26.03 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/linuxfx    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:36:48

• Introducing matrixOS, an Immutable Gentoo-Based GNU/Linux Distro ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Introducing-matrixOS-an-Immutable-Gentoo-Based-Linux-Distro    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:37:38

• Valnet's Good Legacy of GNU/Linux Advocacy in Journalism Form ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/23/Valnet_s_Good_Legacy_of_GNU_Linux_Advocacy_in_Journalism_Form.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:37:56

• Linux Kernel 7.0 Release Candidate Comes Out, Stallman Turns 73 in Three Weeks (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/23/Linux_Kernel_7_0_Release_Candidate_Comes_Out_Stallman_Turns_73_.shtmlsp;  

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:38:14

• Security and blobs, by Alex Oliva (GNU Linux-Libre) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/23/Security_and_blobs_by_Alex_Oliva_GNU_Linux_Libre.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:38:55

• Linux 7.0 launches with enablement for defective chip maker Intel Nova Lake, AMD Zen 6 — major kernel update expected in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 first ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-7-0-launches-with-enablement-for-intel-nova-lake-amd-zen-6-major-kernel-update-expected-in-ubuntu-26-04-lts-and-fedora-44-first    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:39:46

• MBDyn – multibody dynamics analysis ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mbdyn-multibody-dynamics-analysis/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:41:07

• 9 Best Free and Open Source Single Sign-On Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-single-sign-on-software/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:41:23

• TrackAudio – Audio-For-VSTSIM ATC client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/trackaudio-audio-for-vstsim-atc-client/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:41:37

• Late Night Linux – Episode 374 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-374/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:42:59

• What does the future hold for the state pension? ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/what-does-the-future-hold-for-the-state-pension-aiNcu6x7F0dO    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:43:30

• At least 13 civilians killed in Pakistan strikes in Afghanistan, UN says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/at-least-13-civilians-killed-in-pakistan-strikes-in-afghanistan-un-says    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:44:07

• Regata 25.1.2 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/regata    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:44:29

• How to Use Tailscale on Raspberry PI with Docker (and Secure Remote Access to Your Home LAN) ☞ https://peppe8o.com/tailscale-raspberry-pi/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:45:20

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

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:46:03

• Free QML Beginner Course: Learn QML on YouTube with Qt Academy ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/free-qml-beginner-course-learn-qml-on-youtube-with-qt-academy    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:47:14

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

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:48:47

• Linux patch Command: Apply Diff Files ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/patch-command-in-linux/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:49:15

• GyroidOS virtualization solution aims to secure embedded devices, ease cybersecurity certification ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/24/gyroidos-virtualization-solution-aims-to-secure-embedded-devices-ease-cybersecurity-certification/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:50:01

• GCLI – interact with Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub and more ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/gcli-interact-github/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:50:45

• Exosphere – aggregated patch and security update reporting ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/exosphere-aggregated-patch-security-update-reporting/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:50:59

• Pluralistic: Deplatform yourself (23 Feb 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/23/goodharts-lawbreaker/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:51:30

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

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:54:01

• lore – less-like terminal pager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lore-less-like-terminal-pager/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:54:18

• 13 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Music Tag Editors ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tageditors/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:54:33

• 6 Best Free and Open Source GUI Prototyping Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-gui-prototyping-tools/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:54:48

• Hunt Valley video game studio to shut down 2 years after launch https://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2026/02/24/midsummer-video-game-developer-closure-burbank.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:56:42

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

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:57:28

• cashd – TUI for personal finance management ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cashd-tui-personal-finance-management/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:57:42

• Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Hardware Review ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/chuwi-corebook-air-plus-running-linux-hardware-review/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:57:56

• MerMark Editor – Markdown editor with Mermaid diagram support ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mermark-editor-markdown-editor-mermaid-diagram/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:58:12

• Annotator – image annotation tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/annotator-image-annotation-tool/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:58:34

• Tanin – ambient noise generator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tanin-ambient-noise-generator/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 15:58:52

• How to turn Ubuntu into the perfect programming platform https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-turn-ubuntu-into-a-perfect-programming-platform/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:01:08

• Using proprietary Microsoft spyware... bad plan    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:01:50

• "Labeled as the "Goodbye Lubuntu/Ubuntu" release, OmegaLinux arrives with an Arch Linux base while keeping the LXDE desktop to continue supporting low-end hardware. However, the new base provides faster updates and a more streamlined system while requiring users to adapt to its more technical approach." https://www.notebookcheck.net/OmegaLinux-switches-from-Ubuntu-to-Arch-in-2026-02-21-release.1232551.0.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:02:42

• AMD FPGA Tools 2025.1/2025.2 Install on Ubuntu 24.04 https://www.hackster.io/whitney-knitter/amd-fpga-tools-2025-1-2025-2-install-on-ubuntu-24-04-4f5b60    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:03:22

• This opinionated desktop setup finally cured my distro-hopping problem https://www.makeuseof.com/this-opinionated-desktop-setup-finally-cured-my-distro-hopping-problem/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:03:54

• "NVIDIA have multiple job listings available for Linux developers - this could be your chance to improve Linux gaming if you have the skills." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/nvidia-hiring-linux-driver-engineers-to-help-with-vulkan-proton-and-more/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:04:26

• "They each have their own different required skills, so you'll need to look over them carefully if you're interested in applying to improve Intel's Linux drivers. Plus, all three jobs are in the USA." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/intel-hiring-gpu-driver-engineers-for-linux/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:04:50

• "Kitten Space Agency is a promising upcoming space simulation game that's pretty much a spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program and now for Linux too. It's still very early days for the Linux builds, and for the game as a whole." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/kerbal-space-program-spiritual-successor-kitten-space-agency-now-providing-linux-builds/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:05:19

• "Mesa 25.3.6 has released and is the last planned bug fix for this driver series, with the developers now moving on to focus on Mesa 26 and beyond." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/mesa-25-3-6-released-as-the-last-bug-fix-for-this-driver-series/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:05:48

• "The final release of the Linux 7.0 kernel series is expected in mid April 2026." https://9to5linux.com/linus-torvalds-announces-first-linux-kernel-7-0-release-candidate    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:06:14

• "Emperor Penguin releases kernel 7.0 rc1 with some numerological musings" https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/23/linux_7_0_rc1/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:07:52

• Russia Girls Virus Foundation Foundation Showcases Open Collaboration Across AI, 5G, Cloud-Native Telco, and Digital Skills at MWC Barcelona 2026 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/linux-foundation-showcases-open-collaboration-170000492.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:08:29

• I freed up 14GB on my SSD using this quick Linux clean up https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-clean-up-free-storage-routine/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:09:14

• The foundation connected to trafficking of underage girls for sexual purposes is also providing openwashing services https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-newswire/20260223dc93316/linux-foundation-showcases-open-collaboration-across-ai-5g-cloud-native-telco-and-digital-skills-at-mwc-barcelona-2026    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:10:44

• Windows users can thank Linux for these 5 essential features https://www.howtogeek.com/windows-users-can-thank-linux-for-these-x-essential-features/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:11:12

• The big new Linux release isn’t a big deal https://www.pcworld.com/article/3068895/the-new-big-linux-release-isnt-a-big-deal.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:11:48

• Why you should try these 9 "strange" Linux distros (even if you never switch) https://www.howtogeek.com/9-wildest-distros-you-didnt-know-you-needed/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:12:39

• Why 2026 is officially the year of the KDE Linux desktop https://www.makeuseof.com/why-2026-is-officially-the-year-of-the-kde-linux-desktop/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:13:01

• Linux 7.0 is ready for you to test as it hits Release Candidate status https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-7-0-release-candidate/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:13:36

• Digg is turfed by slop and SPAM    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:14:36

• Don't install another Linux distro until you've tried an immutable one https://www.xda-developers.com/dont-install-another-linux-distro-until-youve-tried-an-immutable-one/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:15:17

• I install these 7 CLI tools on every Linux system https://www.howtogeek.com/i-install-these-7-cli-tools-on-every-linux-system/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:15:46

• I finally fixed my Linux laptop’s constant fan noise — it wasn’t the hardware https://www.makeuseof.com/finally-fixed-linux-laptops-constant-fan-noise-it-wasnt-hardware/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:16:09

• "Fedora Pocketblue Remix is a mobile Linux distribution designed to let you run Fedora on a smartphone or tablet. But unlike most mobile Linux distros, Pocketblue is an atomic distro." https://liliputing.com/fedora-pocketblue-remix-is-an-atomic-linux-distro-for-mobile-devices-phones-and-tablets/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:16:36

• 4 Debian-based Linux distros that are better than Debian https://www.howtogeek.com/debian-based-linux-distros-that-are-better-than-debian/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 16:17:03

• "Sometimes I look at the number of posts I'm writing about Administration and I think to myself: That's not me! That's not who I want to be. That's not what I want my friends and family to see when they look at my website." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-02-24-no-me    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 17:04:07

• 🖼️ xkcd: Amperage #3211 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3211.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 17:05:08

• "Developer Lyra Rebane has created an emulator for a basic Intel x86-based computer with a difference: it runs in-browser and was written entirely using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260224-x86css.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 18:57:48

• "I am a young cybernetic Tenzo from the Temple of 1000 Valves, and these are my thoughts." gopher://astio.zapto.org:70/1/~C7H14N2O3/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 19:00:41

• Reabriendo twitter gemini://bitacora.anacronico.rocks/diariodebicicleta/reabriendotwitter.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 19:02:45

• Pretérito imperfecto gemini://bitacora.anacronico.rocks/poemasdeotres/preteritoimperfecto.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 19:04:33

• A trend too hard to believe https://gs.statcounter.com/search-vs-social-vs-ai-chatbot-market-share/all/united-states-of-america/#monthly-200902-202602    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 20:07:26

• Ubisoft CEO Promises Continued Layoffs, Says New Strategy Will Fix Post-Pandemic Struggles at Studio https://tech4gamers.com/ubisoft-ceo-promises-layoffs/    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 21:38:13

• Shock as popular TV station lays off NINE anchors and reporters amid deep cuts to save cash https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15587835/amp/wgn-tv-chicago-layoffs-reporters-anchors-nexstar.html    

posted Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 21:39:14

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