Roy Schestowitz

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-26.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 05:10:27

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1572.jpg    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 05:10:56

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1928.jpg    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 05:11:05

• "So the first attempt at not-really-DLA was to seed some points in the middle of the board, construct a Dijkstra map, then fire random lines across the board, and if the line was close enough to a seed or a newly grown point (the "." in the example below) to mark that point as used and update the Dijkstra map." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/02/26/dla.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 05:11:59

• Autenticación con Signify gemini://moribundo.flounder.online/blog/052_signify.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 05:22:26

• "My wife and I have started using Signal for our communication instead of WhatsApp, where most of our friends and family still are. It was a deliberate decision, mostly encouraged by me, to keep our conversations as private and secure as possible." gemini://capsule.rohitfarmer.com/gemlog/2026/2026-02-25-we-use-signal-now.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 05:23:08

• Layoffs at Skate Developer Full Circle https://insider-gaming.com/layoffs-at-skate-developer-full-circle/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 05:49:58

• skate. Developer Full Circle Hit With Layoffs - News https://www.vgchartz.com/article/467128/skate-developer-full-circle-hit-with-layoffs/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 05:51:09

• Where Does the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Stand on Machine-Generated Legal Documents and Copy-pasting One Client's Lawsuit to Start Another (for American Serial Strangler)? https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/26/Where_Does_the_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Stand_on_Mac.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 06:43:08

• Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us https://theintercept.com/2026/02/16/daniel-sanchez-estrada-prairieland-trial-zines/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 07:08:39

• Techrights clearly stuck a nerve with yesterday's Moglen piece. The man whose spouse calls him a "rapist" is having a go at Moglen again. Double standards much?    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 07:54:31

• This is the piece in question: http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/25/In_Praise_of_Eben_Moglen.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 07:55:00

• "That's a hell of a lot of money to hand over to a middleman, but it's not like vendors have much choice." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/25/most-favored-nation/#price-fixing | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:02:41

• "A new paper from Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) makes a straightforward argument" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/26/internet "Once you know about Klein's mirror-world, you see it everywhere – from conservative panics about the power of Big Tech platforms (that turn out to be panics about what Big Tech does with that power, not about the power of tech itself): [...]" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/24/mamdani-thought/#public-excellence | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:04:08

• "What he never knew was that the little girl he passed notes with was one of the beneficiaries of his words. He didn’t know I was queer (I cannot overstate how eleven I was)." ☛ https://emptywheel.net/morality-is-a-long-game/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:04:23

• "Yazidi women, who paid the heaviest price during the 2014 genocide due to the absence of a self-defense force, said: “YBŞ-YJŞ are our children and they are protecting us." ☛ https://english.anf-news.com/kurdistan/yazidi-women-if-iraq-wants-to-protect-us-it-must-recognize-the-ybS-yjS-84088 | Source: ANF News    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:04:36

• -routing-as-supply-chain-risk/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:03:08

• "Rooted in manufacture rather than labor and object rather than maker" ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2026/02/25/cult-of-media/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:07:05

• "With final negotiations on the controversial CSA Regulation underway, you’d be forgiven for thinking that our digital rights are out of the woods." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/chat-control-is-in-the-final-stretch-but-it-could-be-a-marathon-not-a-sprint/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:07:56

• "Desinformación tras el abatimiento de “El Mencho”: volumen, velocidad y alcance" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-25/the-use-of-ai-and-bots-behind-the-wave-of-digital-disinformation-about-the-fall-of-el-mencho.html | Source: El País    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:09:00

• eBay layoffs: Reports suggest up to 800 employees impacted across US and global teams https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/ebay-job-cuts-reports-suggest-up-to-800-employees-impacted-across-us-and-global-teams/amp_articleshow/128802444.cms    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:35:55

• "America has been successfully invaded by an army of shoddiness. Our bones are gnawed upon by lazy rats. Even our pervasive sense of menace is shoddy in its approach." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/shoddy-people | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:45:52

• "That leaves one crucial question: financing. Mistral has just completed a €1.7 billion funding round, notably with participation from ASML, the Dutch leader in photolithography equipment." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/mistrals-new-ambitions | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:46:24

• "That is a statistical claim. It asserts that the sign-in data has no decision-relevant information." ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1205 | Source: Unmitigated Risk    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:47:10

• "The moment physical security runs on the same network as corporate IT without proper network segmentation, exposure increases dramatically." ☛ https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/why-physical-security-needs-to-be-part-of-it%e2%80%99s-network-strategy.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:47:25

• "The EU’s CRA (REGULATION (EU) 2024/2847) represents one of the most significant pieces of software security legislation in recent history." ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/getting-ready-for-the-cyber-resilience-act/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:47:42

• "I’ve run early-spring pictures of these little purple guys almost every year since this blog’s birth in early 2003. Except for last year." ☛ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/24/Crocuses-of-2026 | Source: Tim Bray    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:48:15

• "Unlike a certain (in)famous penguin, the US Navy knew exactly what it was doing when it ordered the N-class airships after World War Two." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/25/what-one-winged-squids-can-teach-the-airship-renaissance/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:48:44

• "The drone is capable of delivering assured logistics in contested or denied environments ‍and it integrates ISR payloads (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance)." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/military/military-drone-world-most-dangerous-environment | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:49:23

• "And “access” isn’t enough. There are 447 million people who are connected to the grid, according to official records, but don’t use power" ☛ https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/476083/energy-abundance-access-electricty-progress-africa-oceania-energy-poverty | Source: Vox    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:49:38

• "For the first time, scientists have directly observed metal pollutants leaching from a piece of orbital junk" ☛ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rocket-reentry-metal-pollution-detected | Source: Science News    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:58:13

• "Who is actually benefiting from these massive data centers that, in many cases, are the size of one or two shopping malls combined?" ☛ https://alabamareflector.com/2026/02/24/repub/data-center-tax-breaks-are-on-the-chopping-block-in-some-states/ | Source: Alabama Reflector    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 08:58:34

• "Only one summary -- focused largely on her allegations against Epstein -- appears in the public database." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/epstein-files-missing-records-about-minor-who-made-claim-against-donald-trump-largest-cover-up-11137769#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:02:02

• "That distinction — opinion versus description — is the one I will not surrender. It is also the one the speech was designed to make impossible." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-golden-age-is-behind-you | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:02:50

• "You may remember that back in November I mentioned that Montana was considering a bill that would effectively negate the Supreme Court’s awful Citizens United decision" ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-california-can-neuter-citizens | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:04:01

• "A major influence campaign was uncovered not by the CIA or MI6, but by OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, all because a user was treating the chatbot like a private notebook to plan his next 'smear' operation." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/open-ai-spy-a-secret-chinese-campaign-was-exposed-by-1-mistake-using-chatgpt-as-a-diary-11137014#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:04:22

• "As debate intensifies over a group of Australian women and children in Syrian camps linked to the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) group" ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/can-australia-stop-its-citizens-from-coming-home-this-is-what-the-law-says/lvt5vwe9u | Source: SBS    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:04:49

• "There is also growing consensus among scientists about the health implications of excessive screen exposure at early ages." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-02-24/digital-addiction-in-children-i-treat-children-who-spend-the-weekend-in-their-room-with-their-cellphones.html | Source: El País    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:05:05

• "State of play: Grok, Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT are all available in the military's unclassified systems, and Google and OpenAI have also been in talks to move over into the classified space." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2026/02/23/ai-defense-department-deal-musk-xai-grok | Source: Axios    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:07:38

• "To understand my point, I need to first explain three different cryptography attack papers / blog posts. I promise this won’t be boring." ☛ https://soatok.blog/2026/02/25/cryptography-engineering-has-an-intrinsic-duty-of-care/ | Source: Dhole Moments    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:07:56

• "The heart of the build is an ESP32 microcontroller, which [Theory to Thing] first paired with a temperature sensor as a source of randomness." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/25/random-number-generator-uses-camera-noise/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:12:04

• "Security experts warn against using AI-generated passwords after finding predictable patterns in outputs from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude that make them vulnerable to attacks." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3071019/do-not-use-ai-generated-passwords-security-experts-warn.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:12:18

• "And it's against that backdrop that the Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit organisation focused on device ownership rights" ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/10-000-bounty-hack-ring-cameras | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:39:37

• "In an email sent to list holders, Amazon said beginning March 25, it will reveal users’ shipping addresses to third-party sellers." ☛ https://www.404media.co/amazon-wishlist-address-private-third-party/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:40:00

• "Companies have historically worried that collecting data for age verification could violate the FTC’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule)" ☛ https://therecord.media/ftc-says-it-wont-enforce-coppa-age-verification | Source: The Record    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:40:24

• "I’m not sure if you’ve all been following this, but something huge is happening right now: the U.S. government just gave an AI company until end of day Friday to hand over its ethics, or else." ☛ https://nbtv.substack.com/p/mass-surveillance-autonomous-weapons | Source: Ludlow Institute    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:40:43

• "I just returned from ETH Boulder and ETH Denver, two back-to-back conferences in Colorado where I gave five presentations on the importance of privacy." ☛ https://nbtv.substack.com/p/enough-is-enough | Source: Ludlow Institute    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:41:08

• "All of the execution paths identified by its research team are designed to trigger during the Next.js devs' normal working routine." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/jobseeking_nextjs_devs_attack/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:41:51

• Windows TCO ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/ramp-forum-seizure-fractures-ransomware-ecosystem | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:42:17

• "The watchdog took issue with Reddit’s age verification measures." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/reddit-hit-with-20-million-uk-data-privacy-fine-over-child-safety-failings/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:43:29

• "One can be pedantic about the use of “algorithmic” and “the algorithm” to describe a particular set of rules for recommending tweets" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/twitter-algorithm-political-effects/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:43:44

• "I'm Scared" ☛ https://joshwithers.blog/2026/02/25/im-scared | Source: Josh Withers    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:44:00

• "I have joined the ranks of iocaine, nephentes and friends. It’s called garbage." ☛ https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2026-02-20-garbage | Source: Alex Schroeder    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:44:41

• "Yue posted screenshots too. The bot is deleting all her email before February 15th that isn’t in a “keep” list. She tells it to stop and it keeps going! “STOP, OPENCLAW!” Oh no!" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/24/metas-director-of-ai-alignment-falls-for-openclaw/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:44:57

• "AI is just the excuse — Accenture was laying people off furiously throughout 2025, because it’s having problems selling consulting: [...]" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/25/accenture-youre-promoted-or-fired-on-using-the-ai/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:45:12

• "GenAI Threat management is just Insider Threat management, but faster and at scale." ☛ https://www.chrisfarris.com/post/dr_strangeclaw/ | Source: Chris Ferris    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:45:35

• "Literal Translations" ☛ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1123/literal-translations | Source: David Revoy    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:45:56

• "Long block quote, sorry." ☛ https://www.derekthompson.org/p/nobody-knows-anything | Source: Derek Thompson    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:46:15

• "Let’s start with belief number one: [...]" ☛ https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/02/25/two-things-i-believe-about-coding-agents.html | Source: Drew Breunig    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:46:32

• "A few days ago some 4 or 5 OpenClaw instances opened blogs on Bear." ☛ https://herman.bearblog.dev/vulnerability-as-a-service/ | Source: Herman Martinus    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:49:12

• "You may want to see my previous post on this topic for more context on what we're doing." ☛ https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/botforensics.html | Source: James Stanley    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:49:33

• "More importantly, Perplexity built itself largely in opposition to Google, arguing that traditional blue links were obsolete in the age of AI." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/perplexity-wanted-to-make-google | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:49:50

• "AI is dangerous as hell. I view it as one of the four existential crises America now faces — along with climate change, widening inequality, and the destruction of our democracy" ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/pete-hegseth-and-the-ai-doomsday | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:50:10

• "These things are not trustworthy, and yet they are going to be widely trusted." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/poisoning-ai-training-data.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:50:31

• "It's official. I can eat more hot dogs than any tech journalist on Earth." ☛ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt-and-googles-ai-and-it-only-took-20-minutes | Source: BBC    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:54:28

• "The affidavit notes that, in January, the FBI got a search warrant for the man’s conversations with Grok." ☛ https://www.404media.co/fbi-subpoenaed-x-to-get-grok-prompts-used-to-create-nonconsensual-porn/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:54:49

• "One of the ways they are allegedly doing this is through an open source tool called Scrapling, which is designed to bypass anti-bot systems like Cloudflare Turnstile." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/openclaw-users-bypass-anti-bot-systems-cloudflare-scrapling/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:55:09

• "The problem with making coding easier for more people is that it makes spam more conventionally attractive. Which is bad." ☛ https://tedium.co/2026/02/25/vibe-coded-email-spam/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:55:29

• "Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if we do not move them, they die" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/pope-priests-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:55:50

• "The Pope therefore invited the priests to enter into real life and called for vigilance when confronted with artificial intelligence and internet use." ☛ https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-02/pope-dialogue-priests-rome-young-people-internet-prayer-study.html | Source: Vatican News    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:56:05

• "We have a number of systems where we traditionally set strict overcommit handling, and for some time this has caused us some heartburn." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdUserAndSystemSliceLimits | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:57:53

• "Android and iPhone devices are used throughout the world today." ☛ https://danielpocock.com/en/australian-signals-directorate-ex-employee-sold-back-doors-to-russia/ | Source: Daniel Pocock    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:58:19

• "So I tried the logical fix first: a $90 battery replacement from a local repair shop." ☛ https://flamedfury.com/posts/four-more-years/ | Source: Flamed Fury    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:58:42

• "But if I put these two factors aside, there’s nothing about those older Macs, nothing about the older Mac OS versions they run that makes them less reliable." ☛ https://morrick.me/archives/10267 | Source: Riccardo Mori    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:59:31

• "Marquis contends that attackers exploited data stolen from SonicWall’s cloud backup service to understand precisely how customers configured their firewalls. That insight allegedly gave them a blueprint for breaching defenses." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/marquis-sues-sonicwall-ransomware/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 09:59:49

• "The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has stated that developers need access to key iOS and iPadOS features to build innovative products and services, so UK consumers do not miss out." ☛ https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-interoperability-commitments-to-the-uk-cma-promise-nothing/ | Source: Open Web Advocacy    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:00:04

• "would give Monsanto everything it desires—a near-complete release of liability" ☛ https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/02/not-so-fast-lawyers-for-cancer-victims-see-red-flags-in-bayers-roundup/ | Source: The New Lede    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:00:43

• "To reach their conclusions, the researchers tracked 184 students over the course of 12 weeks" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/peak-mental-sharpness-can-boost-your-productivity-by-40-minutes-a-day | Source: Science Alert    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:01:04

• "The eradication of smallpox, which was formally declared on May 8, 1980, is a civilizational achievement I’d put on par with any other" ☛ https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/477307/smallpox-william-foege-disease-infectious-disease-measles-vaccines-rfk | Source: Vox    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:02:11

• "Simply put, fiber-optic drones are equipped with a cable thinner than a fishing line that trails back to the operator" ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/fiber-optics-drones-have-emerged-as-critical-kit-for-both-russia-and-ukraine/ | Source: Atlantic Council    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:03:20

• "SB69 is the follow-up to a similar bill last year that set a default policy barring students from using their phones during class time." ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51453839/bill-banning-phone-use-during-school-hours-is-one-step-closer-to-becoming-law | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:04:01

• "arguably the most impactful education legislation passed by this House since the HOPE Scholarship was created three decades ago." ☛ https://georgiarecorder.com/2026/02/24/cell-phone-ban-for-high-schools-school-metal-detectors-literacy-bill-move-through-georgia-house/ | Source: The Georgia Recorder    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:04:20

• "Colleagues who have done it report that students are almost universally grateful. They understand the reasoning. They understand the logic" ☛ https://www.404media.co/whats-the-point-of-school-when-ai-can-do-your-homework/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:04:40

• "I quit my job at EnterpriseDB hacking on PostgreSQL products last month to start a company researching and writing about software infrastructure." ☛ https://notes.eatonphil.com/2026-02-25-i-started-a-company.html | Source: Phil Eaton    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:05:01

• "The comparison to a drunk person who thinks they are walking in a straight line captures the problem well: we think we are better than we actually are." ☛ https://jeroensangers.com/2026/02/25/multitasking-leads-to-an-overestimation.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:05:21

• "Hubble was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990, carried in the payload bay of Space Shuttle Discovery." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/hubble_orbit_decay/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:08:07

• "Last week I had the pleasure of meeting Alex Bellos in Oxford. Among other things Bellos writes the Guardian Monday puzzle column" ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/02/a-probability-challenge.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:08:36

• "Phoenix development on FreeBSD can be a bit of a pain because they integrated TailwindCSS nicely, but it depends on some prebuilt tailwind and esbuild binaries that it auto-fetches for you" ☛ https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/phoenix-tailwind-freebsd/ | Source: Feld    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:09:09

• "“Small web” here means independent, non-commercial sites made by individuals to share ideas, experiences, or knowledge—not to chase ad money or growth hacking. See the Kagi blog post." ☛ https://greycoder.com/kagi-small-web-a-collection-of-independent-web-sites/ | Source: GreyCoder    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:09:25

• Open-source mapping for disaster response [LWN.net] https://lwn.net/Articles/1057691/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:18:32

• Open source security in spite of AI [LWN] ⚓ https://lwn.net/Articles/1058266/ ䷉ Source: LWN | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//lwn.net/Articles/1058266/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:18:58

• More accurate congestion notification for TCP [LWN.net] https://lwn.net/Articles/1058666/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:19:40

• "The merge window for Linux 7.0 has opened, and with it comes a number of interesting improvements and enhancements. At the time of writing, there have been 7,695 non-merge commits accepted." https://lwn.net/Articles/1057769/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:20:12

• The reverting of revocable [LWN.net] https://lwn.net/Articles/1058041/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:20:50

• Do androids dream of accepted pull requests? [LWN] ⚓ https://lwn.net/Articles/1058643/ ䷉ Source: LWN | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//lwn.net/Articles/1058643/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:21:49

• "So what? Why care about DNSSEC adoption anyway? It isn’t the first thing to fail despite great expectations, and it sure won’t be the last." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/25/towards-an-industry-best-practice-for-dnssec-automation/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:26:33

• "Go 1.20 and 1.21 added cause-tracking functions to the context package that fix this" ☛ https://rednafi.com/go/context-cancellation-cause/ | Source: Redowan Delowar    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:27:23

• "The Slow Death of the Power User" https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/ c.f. Andy's older post about why we can't teach cybersecurity http://news.tuxmachines.org/node/158485    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:28:13

• "A coupla few years ago I wrote about Integrating RtMidi's event loop with IO::Async." ☛ https://fuzzix.org/revisiting-async-and-the-rtmidi-event-loop | Source: Fuzzix    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:28:40

• "Naming is hard, but it matters more than usual when the names carry assumptions about what’s actually in place." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/25/two-kinds-of-attestation.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:29:11

• "We get a crash nearly instantly: [...]" ☛ https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/toy-fuzzer/ | Source: Max Bernstein    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:30:56

• "Systems often face partial failure, yet our interfaces force us into a binary choice: success or error" ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/02/25/partial-truth-vs-explicit-failure | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:33:35

• "This move turns out to have been a mistake and we are now undoing that part of the decision" ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/02/25/curl-security-moves-again/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:33:53

• "I don’t think I need to point out why having data in America is a bad idea with the current administration so a move to more of a European company base" ☛ https://ljpuk.net/2026/02/25/switching-to-european-tech-companies/ | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:35:31

• "learning to program equips young people with the knowledge and skills" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/using-primm-to-teach-programming-a-new-short-course-for-educators/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:41:04

• "There were two meetings over the past two months for EmacsATX, the Austin Emacs Meetup group." ☛ https://macadie.info/2026/02/24/2026-01-austin-emacs-meetup/ | Source: Eric MacAdie    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:41:37

• "The WordPress REST API is a powerful tool for building custom WordPress-powered applications." ☛ https://remkusdevries.com/optimizing-the-wordpress-rest-api-for-performance-and-scalability/ | Source: Remkus de Vries    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:46:02

• "A few weeks ago I introduced Pure Blog a simple PHP based blogging platform that I've since moved to and I'm very happy." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/introducing-pure-comments-and-pure-commons | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 10:46:24

• "A while ago, I wrote about the index corruption that you can get after an operating system upgrade" ☛ https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/c-collation-best-for-postgresql-clusters/ | Source: Cybertec PostgreSQL International GmbH    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:04:05

• "Before algorithms decided what you should read, people shared ideas on blogs and personal websites." ☛ https://www.arjenwiersma.nl/introducing-tsjoch | Source: Arjen Wiersma    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:04:42

• Next month it will be 6 months of OSI headless. All the scandals added up.    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:05:25

• "In the previous post, we successfully performed the TLS handshake and sent our 24-byte connection preface. To the server, we now look like a valid HTTP/2 client." ☛ https://kmcd.dev/posts/http2-from-scratch-part-2/ | Source: Kevin McDonald    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:05:35

• "Put simply, I have a feeling that the “HTML” you got looks like this, courtesy of insert name of JavaScript framework: [...]" ☛ https://cssence.com/2026/breaking-points/ | Source: Matthias Zöchling    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:06:20

• "Last weekend Clara and I found an NZXT tower by the side of the road for bulk council rubbish collection." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/testing-the-gigabyte-ga-h170-hd3/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:06:57

• "Structurally, there’s nothing too wild going on here. It’s a wood-framed climbing structure that stands 10 meters long and 2.5 meters high, and can be covered in lots of climbing holds." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/25/building-an-interactive-climbing-wall/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:07:16

• "This would pair very nicely with the LCARS dashboard we featured in January." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/25/control-your-smart-home-with-trek-inspired-comm-badge/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:07:46

• "If you want smooth top surfaces on your 3D printed parts, a common technique is to turn on ironing in your slicer." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/25/stop-ironing-3d-prints/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:10:00

• "What you're seeing above is a C program that was compiled using GCC into native 8086 machine code being executed fully within CSS." ☛ https://lyra.horse/x86css/ | Source: Lyra    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:10:19

• "If you’re using Zorin OS 17, you can now upgrade your computer to Zorin OS 18 directly using the Upgrade Zorin OS app" ☛ https://blog.zorin.com/2026/02/25/upgrades-from-zorin-os-17-to-18-are-now-available/ | Source: Zorin Group    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:11:38

• "Here are some of the ways we supported FreeBSD in the fourth quarter of 2025." ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-q4-2025-status-update/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:12:50

• "On FreeBSD, we have pkg autoremove to take care of this." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/freebsd-pkg-autoremove/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:13:51

• "This loot box model that Valve has developed — charging an individual for a chance to win something of value based on luck alone" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/games/884978/valve-lawsuit-loot-boxes-new-york-attorney-general-lawsuit | Source: The Verge    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:15:29

• "Linux Graphics Senior Software Engineer" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3071101/nvidia-is-hiring-linux-gaming-experts.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:16:53

• "Wasm is a binary instruction format that works alongside JavaScript." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/webassembly-deep-dive/ | Source: The New Stack    

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

• "Suppose that you have a disk or filesystem cache in memory (which you do, since pretty much everything has one these days)." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/DiskCacheHitMissWantDetails | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:17:52

• "For forensic analysts and incident responders, this is a significant shift: mquire delivers reliable memory analysis even when traditional tools can’t." ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/02/25/mquire-linux-memory-forensics-without-external-dependencies/ | Source: Trail of Bits    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:18:18

• "ZFS Fast Dedup in Proxmox VE 9.x, powered by OpenZFS 2.3, introduces a bounded and predictable deduplication model using DDT quotas, prefetch, and prune operations." ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-fast-dedup-for-proxmox-ve-9x/ | Source: Klara    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:18:38

• "A former “We Dissent” host returns to the show!" ☛ https://ffrf.org/news/releases/we-dissent-reintroduces-an-old-friend-to-dig-into-the-federal-courts/ | Source: Freedom From Religion Foundation    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:19:55

• Open source graphics drivers Mesa 26.0.1 released with various bug fixes and a security fix | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/open-source-graphics-drivers-mesa-26-0-1-released-with-various-bug-fixes-and-a-security-fix/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:21:54

• GOG fans can finally get in on the Brotato action, just keep in mind - it might suck away endless hours of your time if you're not careful.   

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:22:38

• Brotato gets a DRM-free release on GOG | GamingOnLinux ⚓ h"Bill Gates Slammed As So Cheap In Jeffrey Epstein E-Mail After Russian Mistress Was Left Broke" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/epstein-emails-blackmail-bill-gates-1781630 ttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/brotato-gets-a-drm-free-release-on-gog/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/brotato-gets-a-drm-free-release-on-gog/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:22:55

• KDE Plasma 6.6.1 rolls out with lots of fixes for KWin | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/kde-plasma-6-6-1-rolls-out-with-lots-of-fixes-for-kwin/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/kde-plasma-6-6-1-rolls-out-with-lots-of-fixes-for-kwin/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:24:34

• The Boomer Shooter Blueprint bundle is an epic deal with Selaco, CULTIC and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/the-boomer-shooter-blueprint-bundle-is-an-epic-deal-with-selaco-cultic-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:26:05

• Happy four years to the Steam Deck - still the top PC gaming handheld | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/happy-four-years-to-the-steam-deck-still-the-top-pc-gaming-handheld/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:26:22

• Lutris v0.5.21 and v0.5.22 arrive with Valve's Sniper runtime support and new game runners | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/lutris-v0-5-21-and-v0-5-22-arrive-with-valves-sniper-runtime-support-and-new-game-runners/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:27:20

• D7VK version 1.4 brings further enhancements for older Direct3D via Vulkan | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/d7vk-version-1-4-brings-further-enhancements-for-older-direct3d-via-vulkan/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 11:27:33

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:08:45

• Milseading headline from The Register MS https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/microsoft_azure_local/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/26/The_Register_UK_Seems_to_Have_Become_American_and_Management_is.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:09:32

• More HEY HI SPAM https://theconversation.com/how-the-ai-boom-was-enabled-by-a-1970s-economic-revolution-276669    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:10:15

• "Slop’s Up!"    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:10:33

• Microsoft propaganda site pushing slop :( https://www.theverge.com/policy/884625/peace-corps-tech-promote-american-ai    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:10:57

• "Del Bigtree Wants His Kids to Get Polio" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/02/del-bigtree-pro-infection-polio-measles/686092/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:11:14

• stanforddaily running mindless microsoft stenography https://stanforddaily.com/2026/02/25/microsoft-cso-calls-for-ai-governance/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:11:43

• "Amid sagging poll numbers ahead of the midterm elections, he made false claims about the US economy, international politics and migration. DW Fact check takes a closer look at three claims." https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-donald-trump-claims-biden-inflation-ending-wars-migration-what-is-true/a-76117703    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:12:03

• "Europe v America: Who’s Really Winning? - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/europe-v-america-whos-really-winning    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:12:19

• "Chat Control 2: Nu börjar förhandlingarna" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/02/25/chat-control-2-nu-borjar-forhandlingarna-2/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:12:35

• "“Russia: its history, literature, and culture, have become pariahs”" https://neweasterneurope.eu/2026/02/25/russia-its-history-literature-and-culture-have-become-pariahs/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:12:54

• Competence porn (1% vol.) | "Competenceporn (1% vol.) | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/competenceporn-1-vol    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:13:38

• "Tim Walz accuses Trump of withholding $259m in Medicaid funds ‘to punish blue states’ – as it happened" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/feb/25/donald-trump-state-of-the-union-us-politics-iran-latest-news-updates    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:13:58

• "Trump Cheers Lethal Doxxing - Ken Klippenstein" https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-cheers-lethal-doxxing    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:14:29

• "‘Defend Your Culture!’ - by Jay Nordlinger - The Next Move" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/defend-your-culture    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:14:46

• DRM: "This youtube lawsuit could kill yt-dlp, obs-studio, and every screen recorder you use" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/this-youtube-lawsuit-could-kill-yt-dlp,:5    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:15:07

• "Refactoring" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/refactoring-isnt-just-technical-its-economic-hedge | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:16:39

• Far too much slop promoting by Red Hat these days ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/mcp-security-current-situation | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:17:04

• "The February 21, 2026 release of DietPi v10.1 introduces new hardware support, expands the software catalog with the WhoDB database management tool, and includes a range of enhancements and bug fixes across supported single-board computers." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/dietpi-february-2026-update-adds-nanopi-zero2-support-and-whodb-database-tool/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:17:58

• Lutris 0.5.22 added Steam Family Sources & New Game Runners ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/lutris-0-5-22-added-steam-family-sources-new-game-runners/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:25:25

• GNU MediaGoblin: MediaGoblin 0.15.0 ☞ https://mediagoblin.org/news/mediagoblin-0.15.0-release.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:30:46

• Alex Oliva (GNU Linux-Libre): Stricter is Less Popular ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/26/Alex_Oliva_GNU_Linux_Libre_Stricter_is_Less_Popular.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:31:03

• Showtime video player edges closer to Ubuntu debut ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/showtime-video-player-ubuntu-2604-coming-soon    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:33:20

• Dynamic Music Pill adds slick media controls to the GNOME panel ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/dynamic-music-pill-gnome-panel-media-controller    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:33:50

• Ubuntu’s Default Terminal Ptyxis 50 adds Per-Tab Profile Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/ubuntus-default-terminal-ptyxis-50-adds-per-tab-profile-support/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:34:32

• FreeBSD pkg autoremove ☞ https://rubenerd.com/freebsd-pkg-autoremove/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:39:25

• mquire: GNU/Linux memory forensics without external dependencies ☞ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/02/25/mquire-linux-memory-forensics-without-external-dependencies/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:44:14

• FreeBSD Foundation Q4 2025 Status Update ☞ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-q4-2025-status-update/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:45:05

• ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.3 Brings PDF Editor Upgrades With New Signing and Editing Tools ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/onlyoffice-docs-9-3-release/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:46:24

• Testing the Gigabyte GA-H170-HD3 motherboard ☞ https://rubenerd.com/testing-the-gigabyte-ga-h170-hd3/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:46:56

• Introducing Pure Comments (and Pure Commons) ☞ https://kevquirk.com/introducing-pure-comments-and-pure-commons    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:48:01

• curl security moves again ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/02/25/curl-security-moves-again/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:49:08

• Daniel Pocock: Australian Signals Directorate ex-employee sold back doors to Russia ☞ https://danielpocock.com/en/australian-signals-directorate-ex-employee-sold-back-doors-to-russia/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:51:17

• iophk: The unindicted co-conspirators get off scot free: https://yle.fi/a/74-20212466 Just the one chump takes the fall not those who set up the environment with bugdoors for him to use.    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:53:06

• Poisoning Hey Hi (AI) Training Data ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/poisoning-ai-training-data.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:53:42

• Literal Translations ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1123/literal-translations    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:54:10

• Reddit Hit With $20 Million UK Data Privacy Fine Over Child Safety Failings ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/reddit-hit-with-20-million-uk-data-privacy-fine-over-child-safety-failings/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:54:53

• Getting ready for the Cyber Resilience Act ☞ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/getting-ready-for-the-cyber-resilience-act/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 16:59:40

• Chat Control is in the final stretch – but it could be a marathon, not a sprint ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/chat-control-is-in-the-final-stretch-but-it-could-be-a-marathon-not-a-sprint/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:00:21

• Internet routing as supply chain risk ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/26/internet-routing-as-supply-chain-risk/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:00:58

• Pluralistic: The whole economy pays the Amazon tax (25 Feb 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/25/most-favored-nation/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:01:22

• LOL483 | The Economics and Ethics of Intellectual Property, Loyola University—New Orleans ☞ https://stephankinsella.com/as_paf_podcast/lol483-economics-ethics-of-ip-loyola-no-2026/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:02:01

• Support period lengthened for the 6.6, 6.12, and 6.18 kernels ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1060271/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:02:48

• Matthias Clasen: An update on SVG in GTK ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/gtk/2026/02/25/an-update-on-svg-in-gtk/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:03:43

• RMS segment to be published as webm soon, maybe tonight.    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:11:52

• Watch, read Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s final State of the State address ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/watch-live-at-7-pm-gretchen-whitmers-final-state-of-the-state-address/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:18:23

• State of the Union: Convicted Felon makes false, misleading claims about immigration, economy ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20260225-state-of-the-union-trump-makes-false-misleading-claims-about-immigration-economy    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:18:42

• Berlinale executives summoned over film director's anti-Israel speech ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/berlinale-executives-summoned-over-film-director-s-anti-israel-speech    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:19:04

• Extolling the Virtues: ‘Space-Efficient’ Preamble Fails to Limit ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/02/extolling-efficient-preamble.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:20:16

• Tie Goes to the Runner? Three Months of SMED Practice at the USPTO ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/02/tie-goes-to-the-runner-three-months-of-smed-practice-at-the-uspto.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:20:42

• DJI sues the FCC over its prohibition on importing new foreign-made drones into the US ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/dji-sues-the-fcc-over-its-prohibition-on-importing-new-foreign-made-drones-into-the-us-chinese-firm-contests-its-placement-on-the-regulators-covered-list    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:21:49

• This is how Fairphone is supporting KLABU Sports Clubhouses in refugee communities around the world ☞ https://www.fairphone.com/en/2026/02/25/this-is-how-fairphone-is-supporting-klabu-sports-clubhouses-in-refugee-communities-around-the-world/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:22:27

• Designing Mankala Logos ☞ https://pavanportfolio.droptools.site/blog/logo-design    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:24:10

• IBM Did Not Fall Because of COBOL Vapourware, I.C.B.M. Still Collapses Because It's Worthless, Way Overvalued, and Very Likely Cooks the Books ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/24/IBM_Did_Not_Fall_Because_of_COBOL_Vapourware_IBM_Still_Collapse.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:24:30

• Mass Graves in Sudan Reveal ‘War Against Civilians’ ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2026/02/mass-graves-in-sudan-reveal-war-against-civilians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mass-graves-in-sudan-reveal-war-against-civilians    

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

• Version 4.11.0 of syslog-ng is now available ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/other/version-4110-of-syslog-ng-is-now-available/    

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

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

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:27:00

• Someone is Bringing Fedora GNU/Linux to Phones (And It’s Not Red Hat) ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/fedora-pocketblue-remix-overview/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:27:36

• RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/rk3588-and-rk3576-video-decoders-support-merged-in-the-upstream-linux-kernel.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:28:26

• Kali & LLM: macOS with Claude Desktop GUI & Anthropic Sonnet LLM ☞ https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-llm-claude-desktop/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:29:25

• PHP Error Reporting: Enable, Display, and Log Errors ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/php-error-reporting/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:32:35

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:33:40

• React and React Native get closer to Jeffrey Epstein through the 'Linux' Foundation now    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:33:51

• ApiSnip – trim OpenAPI specifications ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/apisnip-trim-openapi-specifications/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:39:06

• netshow – interactive, process-aware network monitoring ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/netshow-interactive-process-aware-network-monitoring/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:39:36

• Sidekiq – simple efficient background jobs for Ruby ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sidekiq-simple-efficient-background-jobs-ruby/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:40:19

• Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1060185/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:41:24

• 3,300 Capsules Known to Lupa and Currently Accessible ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/25/3_300_Capsules_Known_to_Lupa_and_Currently_Accessible.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:45:24

• ‘I thought I was safe’: What’s behind Malaysia’s rising TB cases ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-tb-cases-are-up-heres-whats-driving-the-rise-and-how-to-protect-yourself    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:46:18

• How to protect your bone health as you age ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-to-protect-your-bone-health-as-you-age-aYfeL8w8hsPu    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:46:42

• License Plate Readings Shouldn’t Be Public Data ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/alpr-as-public-data    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:47:13

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

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:48:25

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

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:48:42

• How To Install ELK Stack on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-elk-stack-debian-13/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:49:02

• How To Install Figma on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-figma-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:49:50

• California Law to Require Linux, backdoored Windows Implement Age Verification by Jan 1, 2027 ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/california-law-to-require-linux-windows    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:50:14

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

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:50:37

• How To Install Proton Mail on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-proton-mail-debian-13/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:50:56

• How To Install Brasero on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-brasero-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:51:26

• Hyperlink dialog improvements from Siddhi Salunkhe ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/25/hyperlink-dialog-improvements-from-siddhi-salunkhe/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:52:04

• Former German concentration camp Buchenwald: Row over keffiyehs resurfaces as memorial criticises instrumentalisation ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2026/02/25/former-german-concentration-camp-buchenwald-row-over-keffiyehs-resurfaces-as-memorial-criticises-instrumentalisation/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:52:40

• More is not better, better is better, higher quality/merit ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/business/25.02.2026-2025-was-a-good-year-for-trademarks-and-patents-in-latvia.a636254/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:54:01

• Are Opt-Outs Impossible? Musician Fires Back Against Stability Hey Hi (AI) In Training-Focused Infringement Suit ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/25/stability-ai-anders-manga-dismissal-motions/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:55:24

• Australian Signals Directorate ex-employee sold back doors to Russia ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/25/Australian_Signals_Directorate_ex_employee_sold_back_doors_to_R.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:56:18

• Ex-US Defense Contractor Executive Jailed for Selling Exploits to Russia ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ex-us-defense-contractor-executive-jailed-for-selling-exploits-to-russia/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:56:45

• Russia Extracts CAR Gold to Fund War in Ukraine ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2026/02/russia-extracts-car-gold-to-fund-war-in-ukraine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=russia-extracts-car-gold-to-fund-war-in-ukraine    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:58:11

• Ukraine Wants to Join the E.U. to Secure Peace. Here’s What to Know. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/world/europe/ukraine-european-union-membership.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:58:56

• Thanks, Ukrainians Say, but Please Stop Calling Us Resilient ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/world/europe/ukrainian-war-resilience.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 17:59:15

• Testing a different style of diplomacy ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0225/Testing-a-different-style-of-diplomacy    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:00:01

• ‘Latent threat’: Russia-South Korea rift deepens as Seoul mulls over support for Ukraine ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/latent-threat-russia-south-korea-rift-deepens-as-seoul-mulls-support-for-ukraine    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:00:18

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Vows In Address To 'Never Allow' Iran To Have Nuclear Weapons. ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-state-of-the-union-iran-ukraine/33687631.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:00:38

• Dihydroxyacetone Man, Zelenskyy Speak By Phone Ahead Of Geneva Talks As Pressure Mounts For Tougher Line On Russia ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-zelenskyy-call-geneva-talks-russia-ukraine-pressure/33688205.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:00:58

• Lithuania raises €4 million for Ukraine during RADAROM! fundraiser ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2850066/lithuania-raises-eur4-million-for-ukraine-during-radarom-fundraiser    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:01:19

• Lithuania to send 30 RBS missiles to Ukraine – defence minister in Kyiv ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2850074/lithuania-to-send-30-rbs-missiles-to-ukraine-defence-minister-in-kyiv    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:01:42

• US court denies illegal search challenge in child pornography conviction ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/us-court-denies-illegal-search-challenge-in-child-pornography-conviction/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:02:19

• World Central Kitchen calls international community not to forget Kyiv and Gaza ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/spotlight/20260225-world-central-kitchen-calls-international-community-not-to-forget-kyiv    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:02:43

• Senegal PM vows to double penalty for same-sex relations ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/zimbabwe-ends-health-funding-talks-with-ussp;  

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:03:07

• South Africans recruited for Russo/Ukrainian conflict coming home ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/security/human-security/south-africans-recruited-for-russo-ukrainian-conflict-coming-home/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:03:32

• “We will not give up”: Ukrainian leaders mark four years of resistance against Russian invasion ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/02/25/ukrainian-leaders-mark-four-years/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:03:50

• WATCH AGAIN: 'Thoughts and deeds for Ukraine' concert in Rīga ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/video/24.02.2026-watch-again-thoughts-and-deeds-for-ukraine-concert-in-riga.a636167/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:04:08

• LSM campaign for Ukraine raises 745,000 euros ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/25.02.2026-lsm-campaign-for-ukraine-raises-745000-euros.a636257/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:04:37

• NebiOS 10.2 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/nebios    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:05:41

• Enterprising developer somehow writes an x86 CPU emulator in plain CSS — no Javascript, no WASM, just stylesheet computing ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/programming/enterprising-developer-somehow-writes-an-x86-cpu-emulator-in-plain-css-no-javascript-no-wasm-just-stylesheet-computing    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:06:06

• How to use auto-instrumentation with OpenTelemetry ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/25/how-use-auto-instrumentation-opentelemetry    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:07:43

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s State of the Union Was a Win for Democrats ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-sotu-2026.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:08:28

• MapWizard – tool for osu! beatmap editing ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mapwizard-tool-osu-beatmap-editing/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:09:21

• ClusterCut Lets You Share a Clipboard Across Your GNU/Linux Desktop Fleet ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/02/clustercut-lets-you-share-a-clipboard-across-your-linux-desktop-fleet/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:10:36

• 'Linux' Foundation pushing software patents, not tackling them ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/02/free-software-and-linux-foundation-veteran-named-oin-patent-ambassador/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:11:35

• MARKTerm – render Markdown in a terminal ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/markterm-render-markdown-terminal/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:15:21

• HelixNotes – local-first Markdown note-taking app ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/helixnotes-local-first-markdown-note-taking-app/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:15:52

• Trix Player – GNU/Linux music player built with Rust ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/trix-player-linux-music-player-rust/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:17:45

• Tiny RDM – Redis desktop manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tiny-rdm-redis-desktop-manager/    

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

• RVVM – RISC-V virtual machine ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rvvm-risc-v-virtual-machine/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:18:53

• The Average American Would Pay $49 Per Month to Drink Recycled Toilet Water, Study Finds ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/average-american-drink-toilet-water    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:22:45

• Casey Means, Surgeon General Nominee, Sidesteps Questions on Vaccines at Senate Hearing ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/surgeon-general-casey-means-senate-hearing.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:23:00

• Why South Korea’s Dubai Chewy Cookie Craze Rose and Fell So Fast ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/world/asia/south-korea-dubai-chewy-cookies.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:23:17

• North Korea’s Kim says could ‘get along’ with US but shuns South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-kim-says-relations-with-us-depend-on-us-attitude-military-parade-held    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:23:51

• North Korea leader Kim’s daughter appears at military parade, state media footage shows ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-leader-kims-daughter-appears-at-military-parade-state-media-footage-shows    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:24:10

• ‘No more rip-off’: South Korea moves to end unfair pricing amid concern over negative image among tourists ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/no-more-rip-off-south-korea-moves-to-end-unfair-pricing-amid-concern-over-negative-image-among    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:24:43

• In South Korea, what you ask Hey Hi (AI) could land you in court ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/in-south-korea-what-you-ask-ai-could-land-you-in-court    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:25:07

• Kim signals openness to US ties while calling South Korea ‘most hostile’ ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260226-kim-signals-openness-to-us-ties-while-calling-south-korea-most-hostile    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:25:48

• Malaysia bets on durian trails, wildlife to extend tourism boom ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-bets-on-durian-trails-wildlife-to-extend-tourism-boom    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:26:13

• Google Apologizes for Sending the Worst Push Notification You Can Possibly Imagine ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-apologizes-notification    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:27:38

• What does Prosus's buyout mean for JustEat drivers? ☞ http://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5731/what-does-prosuss-buyout-mean-justeat-drivers    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:28:12

• Bird Flu Strikes California Elephant Seals for the First Time ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/science/bird-flu-elephant-seals.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:29:24

• For Convicted Felon, Military Strike in Iran Could Serve Symbolic Purpose ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/us/politics/trump-iran-strike.html   

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:29:49

• Why would Convicted Felon strike Iran? How lack of clarity imperils a diplomatic deal. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2026/0225/trump-iran-military-objectives-nuclear-diplomacy    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:30:05

• Myanmar junta air strike kills at least 17: Local groups ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmar-junta-air-strike-kills-at-least-17-local-groups    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:30:43

• Pakistan wary of militant attacks after Afghanistan air strikes ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/pakistan-wary-of-militant-attacks-after-afghanistan-air-strikes    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:31:03

• DR Congo govt forces launch attacks on multiple fronts against AFC/M23 troops ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260225-dr-congo-govt-forces-target-strategic-coltan-mine-in-drone-strike-against-m23-rebels    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:31:36

• EPO Strike Actions and Other Industrial Actions Are Effective When Management Fears the Staff and Staff No Longer Fears Any Managers ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/24/EPO_Strike_Actions_and_Other_Industrial_Actions_Are_Effective_W.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:31:53

• Combatting Censorship in the "Civilised World": The Media Blackout Surrounding EPO Strikes and Other Large-Scale Actions ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/24/Combatting_Censorship_in_the_Civilised_World_The_Media_Blackout.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:32:08

• Medical Device Maker UFP Technologies Hit by Cyberattack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/medical-device-maker-ufp-technologies-hit-by-cyberattack/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:32:35

• VLC for Android 3.7.0 ☞ https://www.videolan.org/news.html#news-1    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:33:06

• Haiku to mentor interns in Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2026 ☞ https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-02-21_haiku_accepted_in_gsoc_2026/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:33:34

• The COMIX-35, a reimagined COMX-35 ☞ https://rubenerd.com/the-comix-35/   

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:34:31

• Which wiki software to use? ☞ https://rubenerd.com/which-wiki-software-to-use/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:34:57

• LazyCelery – monitor and manage Celery workers and tasks ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lazycelery-monitor-manage-celery-workers-tasks/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:35:31

• Typhoon weather app clears up with Qt6 port ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/typhoon-weather-app-qt6-port    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:36:22

• VyOS 2026.02 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/vyos    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:36:56

• BashCore 2602 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/bashcore    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:37:10

• OpenZFS 2.4.1 released but controlled by Microsoft (shithub)    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:37:46

• They Try to Ruin Linux, Too ("Attestation" in GNU/Linux) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/25/They_Try_to_Ruin_Linux_Too_Attestation_in_GNU_Linux.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:38:21

• A Lot of Slopfarms Died, Surveillance Giant Google News Feeds the Few Which Survived and Still Target "Linux" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/25/A_Lot_of_Slopfarms_Died_Google_News_Feeds_the_Few_Which_Survive.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:38:36

• Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cloc ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/alternatives-popular-cli-tools-cloc/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:39:35

• 10 Top Free and Open Source Lisp Web Frameworks ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-lisp-web-frameworks/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:40:03

• ffsend – securely share files from the command line ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ffsend-securely-share-files-command-line/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:40:29

• Repeating mere CLAIMS from GAFAM as facts https://www.securityweek.com/google-disrupts-chinese-cyberespionage-campaign-targeting-telecoms-governments/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:41:35

• 5 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Flickr Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/flickrtools/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:42:06

• Impala – TUI for managing wifi on GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/impala-tui-managing-wifi-linux/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:42:56

• Chatuino – Twitch chat client for the terminal ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/chatuino-twitch-chat-client-terminal/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:43:11

• Nigeria Grapples With Terrorist Intelligence-Gathering ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2026/02/nigeria-grapples-with-terrorist-intelligence-gathering/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:44:07

• Anything that has Microsoft/RDP will have many security holes, the core issue is RDP. FreeRDP ia reminder of that.    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:45:12

• Morality is a Long Game ☞ https://emptywheel.net/morality-is-a-long-game/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:46:25

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s new retirement plan builds on a bipartisan model ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2026/0225/trump-biden-retirement-plan-match    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:46:53

• Sahil Dhiman: Publicly Available NKN Data Traffic Graphs ☞ https://blog.sahilister.in/2026/02/publicly-available-nkn-data-traffic-graphs/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:47:46

• New in Qt 6.11: QRangeModel updates and QRangeModelAdapter ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/new-in-qt-6.11-qrangemodel-updates-and-qrangemodeladapter    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:48:35

• Qt Widgets to Qt Quick, An Application Journey Part 3 ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qtwidgets-to-qtquick-application-journey-part3    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:48:52

• MetaBrainz mourns the loss of Robert Kaye ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1060189/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:49:13

• Germany’s Leader Merz Delivers a Blunt Warning to China on Trade ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/world/asia/china-germany-merz-visit-xi.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:53:13

• China’s Spring Festival travel and spending hit record highs, but it’s not all rosy ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-spring-festival-travel-and-spending-hit-record-highs-but-theres-a-catch    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:53:28

• China warns US it will respond if trade probe spurs new tariffs ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-warns-us-it-will-respond-if-trade-probe-spurs-new-tariffs    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:53:44

• Chinese drone maker DJI sues to challenge US import ban ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/25/chinese-drone-maker-dji-sues-to-challenge-us-import-ban/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:54:11

• React Is No Longer Meta's Project, It Now Has Its Own Foundation ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/react-foundation-launch/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:55:08

• Forever Chemicals Linked to Faster Aging in Middle-Aged Men, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/forever-chemicals-linked-to-faster-aging-in-middle-aged-men-study-finds    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:55:36

• CEO sets out the case for Beehiiv versus Substack ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/beehiiv-ceo-tyler-denk-interview-substack-newsletters-platform/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:56:00

• Former Mail on Sunday exec says emails from phone hacker don’t prove illegality ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-mail-on-sunday-exec-says-emails-from-phone-hacker-dont-prove-illegality/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:56:23

• Green MP condemns Reform plans for ICE-style deportations ☞ https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/02/25/green-mp-condemns-reform-plans-for-ice-style-deportations/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:57:09

• Aloe Vera Compound May Help Fight Alzheimer's Disease, Simulations Suggest ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/aloe-vera-compound-may-help-fight-alzheimers-disease-simulations-suggest    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:57:41

• Running Ultra-Marathons May Harm Your Blood Cells, Study Warns ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/running-ultra-marathons-may-harm-your-blood-cells-study-warns    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:57:55

• Ancient Killer Is Rapidly Gaining Resistance to Antibiotics, Scientists Warn ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-killer-is-rapidly-gaining-resistance-to-antibiotics-scientists-warn    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:58:13

• Quakes on The Moon Are Far More Widespread Than We Realized ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/quakes-on-the-moon-are-far-more-widespread-than-we-realized    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:58:36

• New Details Revealed on NASA's First Medical Evacuation ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-details-revealed-on-nasas-first-medical-evacuation    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:58:52

• Sri Lanka arrests ex-intelligence chief over 2019 Easter bombings ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/sri-lanka-arrests-ex-intelligence-chief-over-2019-easter-bombings    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 18:59:47

• C3 Hey Hi (AI) shares plunge as earnings miss, shrinking sales and weak outlook rattle investors ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/25/c3-ai-shares-plunge-earnings-miss-shrinking-sales-weak-outlook-rattle-investors/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:00:53

• Meta’s Head of Hey Hi (AI) Safety Just Made a Mistake That May Cause You a Certain Amount of Alarm ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-ai-safety-mistake-alarm    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:01:26

• If Hey Hi (AI) Causes an Office Job Wipeout, It’ll Cause Huge Problems for Blue Collar Work Too ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-blue-collar-jobs-wipeout    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:01:45

• UN calls for ocean governance to abide by international law ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/un-calls-for-ocean-governance-to-abide-by-international-law/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:02:24

• DOJ Claps Back Against Live Nation’s ‘Meritless Attempt to Delay Trial’ — As the Concert Giant’s Lawyer Quietly Deletes His ‘Time to Move On’ Post ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/25/live-nation-antitrust-lawsuit-doj-trial-delay/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:02:59

• Getting an OpenSSF Baseline Badge with the Best Practices Badge System ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/02/25/getting-an-openssf-baseline-badge-with-the-best-practices-badge-system/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:03:46

• China Ramps Up Debt Collection ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2026/02/china-ramps-up-debt-collection/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:04:58

• Lawmakers Ask Tech Companies What User Data They Provided to D.H.S. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/technology/lawmakers-tech-companies-dhs.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:05:36

• Hong Kong mogul Jimmy Lai wins appeal in fraud case ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kongs-court-of-appeal-overturns-tycoon-jimmy-lais-fraud-conviction-and-sentencing    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:06:04

• credcheck v4.6 has been released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/credcheck-v46-has-been-released-3244/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:08:50

• Hong Kong court quashes Jimmy Lai’s fraud conviction over Apple Daily HQ lease violation ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/26/breaking-hong-kong-court-quashes-jimmy-lais-fraud-conviction-over-apple-daily-hq-lease-violation/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:09:29

• A.I. Dating Apps Complicate China’s Efforts to Boost Birthrate ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/technology/china-ai-dating-apps.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:09:58

• D4vd Confirmed to Be Subject of L.A. County Grand Jury Investigation Into Death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/25/d4vd-la-grand-jury-investigation/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:10:44

• Can Hey Hi (AI) Detection Tools Really Spot Fake Images and Videos? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/technology/ai-detection-generated-photos-video.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:11:54

• Seven journalists convicted for taking photos at courtroom ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/seven-journalists-convicted-for-taking-photos-at-courtroom-317088    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:12:17

• Telink ML9118A – A 32-bit RISC-V IoT module with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and 802.15.4 connectivity ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/25/telink-ml9118a-a-32-bit-risc-v-iot-module-with-wi-fi-6-bluetooth-5-4-and-802-15-4-connectivity/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:12:45

• Cryptography Engineering Has An Intrinsic Duty of Care ☞ https://soatok.blog/2026/02/25/cryptography-engineering-has-an-intrinsic-duty-of-care/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:14:35

• US dispatch: TV network censors political interview over federal broadcasting rule ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/us-dispatch-tv-network-censors-political-interview-over-federal-broadcasting-rule/    

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

• Chinese group’s Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot use reveals worldwide harassment campaign against critics ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/chinese-chatgpt-online-harassment-campaign-against-critics-dissidents/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:16:22

• Microsoft clarifies backdoored Windows 11 printer driver policy — support for legacy printers is not ending ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/microsoft-clarifies-windows-11-printer-driver-policy    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:16:42

• This musical payphone rings on rainy days ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/02/25/this-musical-payphone-rings-on-rainy-days/    

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

• The new Arduino® Matter Discovery Bundle™ is everything you need to learn, experiment, and build with Matter! ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/02/25/the-new-arduino-matter-discovery-bundle-is-everything-you-need-to-learn-experiment-and-build-with-matter/   

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:17:29

• The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlin ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-blinkered-flaneur    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:18:01

• CISA gives agencies until Friday to patch critical cyber bug ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/02/cisa-gives-agencies-until-friday-to-patch-critical-cyber-bug/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:18:29

• Five stages to secure military operational technology using zero trust and risk operations centers ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2026/02/five-stages-to-secure-military-operational-technology-using-zero-trust-and-risk-operations-centers/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:18:51

• SolarWinds Patches Four Critical Serv-U Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/solarwinds-patches-four-critical-serv-u-vulnerabilities/    

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

• These 5 Common Medicines Can Carry Hidden Risks, Expert Warns ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/these-5-common-medicines-can-carry-hidden-risks-expert-warns    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:19:38

• CarGurus Data Breach Impacts Over 12 Million Users ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/over-12-million-users-impacted-by-cargurus-data-breach/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:20:05

• Wynn Resorts Confirms Data Breach After Hackers Remove It From Leak Site ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/wynn-resorts-confirms-data-breach-after-hackers-remove-it-from-leak-site/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:20:41

• Rubio defends Maduro capture as Caribbean leaders raise concerns ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260226-rubio-defends-maduro-capture-as-caribbean-leaders-raise-concerns    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:21:10

• Lithuanian cabinet approves updated national security strategy ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2850323/lithuanian-cabinet-approves-updated-national-security-strategy    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:21:46

• Father of Hong Kong activist sentenced to 8 months in jail under national security law ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/father-of-hong-kong-activist-sentenced-to-8-months-in-jail-under-national-security-law    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:22:32

• "Ubuntu-based Winux 11.26.03 arrives with multiple package updates" https://www.notebookcheck.net/Ubuntu-based-Winux-11-26-03-arrives-with-multiple-package-updates.1233534.0.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:23:43

• Why Ubuntu is a frustrating choice for desktops but great for laptops https://www.howtogeek.com/why-ubuntu-is-bad-for-linux-desktops-but-excellent-for-linux-laptops/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:24:09

• Linux Foundation operative in Linux Foundation sponsored site publishing Linux Foundation propaganda https://thenewstack.io/roi-open-source-contribution/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/27/What_Linux_Foundation_Research_is_Paid_Marketing.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:26:27

• 4 reasons I can no longer use Linux as my daily driver https://www.howtogeek.com/i-loved-desktop-linux-but-these-4-things-have-stopped-me-from-going-back-to-it/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:26:59

• NVIDIA is hiring engineers to improve Linux gaming performance for new GeForce RTX devices https://www.tweaktown.com/news/110255/nvidia-is-hiring-engineers-to-improve-linux-gaming-performance-for-new-geforce-rtx-devices/index.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:27:29

• Nvidia seemingly wants to make Linux better for gamers — and one way or another, that must worry Microsoft https://www.techradar.com/computing/gpu/nvidia-seemingly-wants-to-make-linux-better-for-gamers-and-one-way-or-another-that-must-worry-microsoft    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:28:07

• Nvidia getting more serious about gaming on Linux and Arm: hiring engineer to work on 'native-speed x86-64 gaming on Linux/ARM64 platforms' https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/nvidia-getting-more-serious-about-gaming-on-linux-and-arm-hiring-engineer-to-work-on-native-speed-x86-64-gaming-on-linux-arm64-platforms/   

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:28:41

• Review: Kubuntu Focus Zr Gen 1 Linux Laptop https://www.wired.com/review/kubuntu-focus-zr-gen-1-linux-laptop/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:29:37

• NVIDIA starts listing jobs for Linux gaming with Valve's Proton in its sights — AMD probably wonders what took them so long https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/nvidia/nvidia-listing-jobs-for-linux-gaming-with-valve-proton-in-mind    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:30:56

• "Upgrade directly and keep your existing files, apps, and settings. Available to all Zorin OS 17 Core, Pro, and Education users today." https://blog.zorin.com/2026/02/25/upgrades-from-zorin-os-17-to-18-are-now-available/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:31:50

• Openwashing https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-react-foundation-302695870.html   

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:33:39

• Microsoft inside    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:34:20

• How to discredit Linux https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/bcachefs_creator_ai/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:36:01

• "Both platforms are mature, well-supported, and not going anywhere. But for the ones who want something genuinely open and free of platform lock-in, things are getting better." https://itsfoss.com/news/fedora-pocketblue-remix-overview/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:36:29

• Steam Deck https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/happy-four-years-to-the-steam-deck-still-the-top-pc-gaming-handheld/    

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

• These 4 TUI apps will convince you to actually use your Linux terminal https://www.howtogeek.com/these-tui-apps-will-convince-you-to-actually-use-your-linux-terminal/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:39:07

• This KDE add-on brought Home Assistant controls to my Linux desktop https://www.howtogeek.com/this-kde-add-on-brought-home-assistant-controls-to-my-linux-desktop/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:40:00

• "vendor-neutral governance body." = openwashing https://dataconomy.com/2026/02/25/linux-foundation-launches-react-foundation-with-metas-support/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:40:56

• Linux VPN apps are next https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/proton-vpn-releases-quality-of-life-update-for-ios-users-mac-and-linux-vpn-apps-are-next    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:41:27

• NVIDIA Hiring Engineers to Optimize Proton and Vulkan API Performance on Linux https://www.techpowerup.com/346714/nvidia-hiring-engineers-to-optimize-proton-and-vulkan-api-performance-on-linux    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:41:51

• Making Linux fly: Siebel School researchers work on aviation certification for the Linux kernel https://siebelschool.illinois.edu/news/linux-kernel-fly-boeing    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:43:11

• Assuring LF is a front group for monopolies, back doors, and other such interests https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/google-renews-platinum-membership-with-the-linux-foundation-continuing-its-ongoing-support-for-the-open-source-community-302692882.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:44:35

• Basically paid-for seats https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linux-foundation-announces-the-election-of-panasonic-automotive-systems-shojiro-nakao-and-toshiba-corporations-yoshitake-kobayashi-to-the-board-of-directors-302695571.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:46:28

• Nvidia targets Linux and Proton optimisation with new Job Listings https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu-displays/nvidia-targets-linux-and-proton-optimisation-with-new-job-listings/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:47:00

• Microsofter perpetuating the idea installing GNU/Linux is super-hard https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/333013/some-thoughts-about-alternative-computing-lifestyles    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:50:34

• 'We have a new major number purely because I'm easily confused and not good with big numbers' says Linus Torvalds about Linux 7.0 https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/we-have-a-new-major-number-purely-because-im-easily-confused-and-not-good-with-big-numbers-says-linus-torvalds-about-linux-7-0/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:51:01

• Elektrobit and Mobileye partner on safety Linux for L4 autonomy https://www.just-auto.com/news/elektrobit-and-mobileye-collaborate-on-safety-linux-for-level-4-autonomy/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:51:48

• An orgy of mostly mindless buzzwords and hype https://www.lightreading.com/ai-machine-learning/linux-foundation-showcases-open-collaboration-across-ai-5g-and-cloud-native-telco-at-mwc-barcelona-2026    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 19:53:16

• worm eleventh day gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wormEleven    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 20:24:57

• "When I checked the logs on the PI running my super secret onion site, I noticed a request for robots.txt from the Lupa search engine. Sure enough, Lupa now lists Gemini .onion addresses." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/bluesman/38548    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 20:25:35

• "The average user easily obliges and installs an app when a random, suspicious-looking website asks them to. However, they resist installing Element, Signal, and other secure messaging applications after half an hour of their trusted friend or member explaining why it's a good idea to do so!" gemini://nader.pm/app-vs-app/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 20:26:09

• "I want to move my virtual machine from hoster edis.at to hoster hosting.de. I'm using Debian stable/13/Trixie. Both of these are KVM but I am just client, I don't have access to their management tools. So how to go about it?" gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-02-26-clone-from-the-inside    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 20:26:54

• 🖼️ xkcd: Little Red Dots #3212 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3212.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 20:27:30

• "Here, I am continuing with writing little snippets of Lali[0] code. Here are two functions, 'mirrorlr' and 'mirror'. The 'mirror' function, works by returning the symmetrical element, given an element DIGIT of the list LST." gemini://tilde.club/~keyboardan/gemlog/2026-02-26__Lali_Lambda:_mirror.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 20:28:13

• "Pseudonymous maker "superwillis," hereafter simply "Willis," has designed a compact cyberdeck with a difference: it's designed to provide age-suitable curated entertainment to a three-year-old toddler — as a combination streaming remote and touchscreen busy board." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260226-toddler.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 20:28:55

• "Even outside of the fact that so many outlandish conspiracy theories have been proven true in the past months about who actually rules this world, the surface-level stuff is bad enough. Let's start with one thing in particular (don't worry, I'll circle back to a silver lining)" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2788    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 20:29:50

• "Well, I'm happy to say that i have finally sent my phd thesis after months of writing. It was quite a painful period. Even if my supervisor was happy to proofread and help, the corrections were quite brutal and my self-steem took a heavy blow. Quite happy it's over, thinking of buying the new diablo2 expansion and having some fun with demons" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2789    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 20:30:29

• IGN Contacted: One of the UK's Largest Gaming Publications to Conduct Layoffs https://ixbt.games/en/news/2026/02/26/odno-iz-krupneisix-igrovyx-izdanii-velikobritanii-provedet-sokrashheniia.html    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 20:35:22

• EA Announces Layoffs at Skate Studio Full Circle https://gam3s.gg/news/ea-announces-layoffs-at-skate-studio-full-circle/    

posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 20:36:19

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