Roy Schestowitz

• "Ideologically, I subscribe to Richard Stallman's school of thought that ideas should move freely, innovation should compound in the open, and progress should not be fenced off by legal constructs. Over time, this led me to develop a strong discomfort with patents, and I genuinely believed they cause more harm than good." https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/patents-reluctant-pragmatism.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 03:00:24

• SRA reprimanded for SSB Law blunders https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/sra-reprimanded-for-ssb-law-blunders/5126088.article    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 03:03:55

• Solicitors' regulator censured over failures to protect SSB Law consumers https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/solicitors-regulator-censured-over-failures-to-protect-ssb-law-consumers-5621844    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 03:04:44

• Bellevue energy tech company cuts leadership positions as part of layoffs https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2026/03/05/doosan-gridtech-layoffs-bellevue.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 03:12:23

• The authors of MindsEye have conducted layoffs again https://wnhub.io/news/hr/item-50256    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 03:12:44

• The troubling detail buried in America's latest layoffs report https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15615279/amp/america-layoffs-job-market-trouble-challenger.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 03:14:24

• "Employers have already announced 156,742 job cuts in the first two months of 2026, making it the fifth-highest January-to-February total since the financial crisis in 2009. Worse, hiring plans are collapsing. Companies announced just 18,061 planned hires so far this year, a 56 percent drop compared with the same period in 2025."    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 03:15:04

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-03-06.gmi    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 03:41:31

• "Further | Operation Epstein Fury: A Holy War With Shitty Toilets | Opinion" https://www.commondreams.org/further/operation-epstein-fury-a-holy-war-with-shitty-toilets    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 08:08:42

• iophk: The toilets in the aircraft carrier are still more or less completely broken 45-minute waits come out of people 'off' time which consists of only a few hours at a time and is meant for sleep.    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 08:08:54

• iophk: So the toilets are resulting in a lot of sleep deprived sailors and that is going to affect morale and performance. (Morale also affects performances, so that is a double whammy)    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 08:09:06

• Anon: damage from social control media tipping the country to further .ru influence https://yle.fi/a/74-20213743    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 08:48:24

• "Oh, I see you disabled JavaScript. Keep up the good work, my fellow cleanweb person!" https://aartaka.me/ :)    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 09:22:10

• Garrett Does Not Just Try to Cover Up for Himself, He's Clearly Covering Up for His Mates From Microsoft (and Admits Third Parties Fund His Litigation, With Their Legal Bills Estimates Already Approaching $1,000,000) http://techrights.org/n/2026/03/06/Garrett_Does_Not_Just_Try_to_Cover_Up_for_Himself_He_s_Clearly_.shtml    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 09:32:36

• "In the world of open source, relicensing is notoriously difficult." ☛ https://tuananh.net/2026/03/05/relicensing-with-ai-assisted-rewrite/ | Source: Tuan-Anh    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:10:11

• "ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 AI video model seemed unstoppable—until heavy demand strained the company’s compute capacity and copyright complaints began piling up." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/made-in-china-bytedances-ai-ambitions-are-being-hampered-by-compute-restraints/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:10:28

• "notorious markets." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-lists-notorious-piracy-threats-with-focus-on-sports-streaming/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:10:47

• "jury found her guilty of conspiring" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/microsoft-certificate-case/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:11:22

• "The allegations contained within this paragraph constitute conclusions of law" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/04/ai-works-cant-be-copyrighted-or-patented-in-the-us/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:12:28

• "The JPR report complements a second report issued earlier this week that included integrated PC graphics" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3079686/pc-graphics-cards-are-now-nearly-100-percent-nvidia.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:13:01

• "This kind of consolidation is always harmful to the public interest. U.S. telecom already sees muted competition at the hands of regional monopolies" ☛ https://karlbode.com/monopoly-with-a-heaping-side-of-extra-racism/ | Source: Karl Bode    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:13:19

• "Sharma says she'll be talking with partners and studios about Project Helix (and presumably its ability to play PC games) at GDC" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/xbox/microsoft-confirms-next-gen-xbox-will-play-pc-games-project-helix-teased-as-more-than-just-a-console | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:14:09

• "Okay, so the next Xbox is a PC then." ☛ https://blast-o-rama.com/2026/03/05/so-i-guess-there-will-be-another-xbox-after-all/ | Source: Marty Day    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:14:27

• "Again: no existing documentation on any of the public-facing websites governing the use of locality zones indicate this." ☛ https://bix.blog/posts/2026-03-05-killing-the-portland-locality-zone/ | Source: Bix Frankonis    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:17:45

• "In 2025, women held 33.6% of the seats in national parliaments across the EU, marking a 5.4 percentage points (pp) increase compared with 2015." ☛ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/saeima/05.03.2026-women-still-under-represented-in-european-politics-despite-improving-trend.a636920/ | Source: Latvia    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:20:25

• "The March 8, 2026, celebration of International Women’s Day feels loaded." ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/centering-silencing-women-pam-bondi/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:20:43

• "There’s also an elephant in the room, which is the intentional gutting of public service broadcasting here in the US." ☛ https://werd.io/bbc-says-irreversible-trends-mean-it-will-not-survive-without-major-overhaul/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:21:13

• "I stand by the larger point I keep trying to make: even if I agree that there are elements of the present internet I dislike, removing or reforming Section 230 will almost certainly make all of those things worse, not better." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/05/section-230-isnt-the-problem-debating-the-law-on-the-majority-report/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:21:49

• "Angeles called the property’s owner, who, years before, had allowed him to paint the building’s street-facing wall and fence." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/palabra/2026/03/san-diego-artists-push-back-as-barrio-logan-murals-disappear.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:22:05

• "Canadian porn giant Aylo have begun blocking all Australians just days before a March 9 deadline to introduce ‘appropriate age assurance measures’." ☛ https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/06/pornhub-porn-websites-block-australian-users-age-verification-check/ | Source: Crickey    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:22:26

• "not currently accepting new account registrations in your region" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/06/porn-websites-begin-blocking-australian-users-as-deadline-for-age-verification-compliance-looms | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:22:43

• "But if you want to make this absolutely as disgusting as possible" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/05/trump-administration-using-gross-video-game-footage-to-cheerlead-its-war-efforts/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:24:41

• "It happened so fast that this is most likely a government operation." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/hacked-app-part-of-us-israeli-propaganda-campaign-against-iran.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:25:08

• "help is on the way" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/hacked-prayer-app-sends-surrender-messages-to-iranians-amid-israeli-strikes/?_sp=cac71a7f-c88a-42bc-b4ca-23c1ce88f702.1772641675776 | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:25:30

• "None of this has entered into the high-profile spat between Anthropic and the Department of Defense." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/anthropic-pentagon-iran-war-gaza/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:26:30

• "Looking at the current quarter, Broadcom anticipates $22 billion in sales, way ahead of the Street’s $20.56 billion forecast." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/03/04/broadcoms-ai-chip-business-jumps-106-cruises-another-solid-earnings-revenue-beat/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:26:44

• "If there is any solace in these two laws, it’s that they don’t have any real restrictions." ☛ https://blog.system76.com/post/system76-on-age-verification/ | Source: System76    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:27:00

• "Today, we’re going through a panel discussion from the Brookings Institution on Monday 2 March on why electricity prices are going up across the United States." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/05/power-prices-data-centres-nothing-but-data-centres/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:27:35

• "He was flanked by representatives from Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, Google/Alphabet, Oracle, and Amazon." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-signs-white-house-data-center-pledge-with-good-optics-not-much-substance/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:27:53

• "Public procurement rules are also expected to change to favour domestically produced and low-carbon products." ☛ https://www.h2-view.com/story/eu-plans-made-in-europe-rules-for-electrolysers-in-green-hydrogen-projects/2138150.article/ | Source: H2 View    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:28:07

• "In the Journal of Nanophotonics, researchers reported that they developed a photonic crystal light sail designed to address these limitations." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-03-laser-driven-photonic-crystals.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:28:24

• "Studies consistently indicate that air pollution, for example in the form of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2)" ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20260305/pollution-exposure-in-europe-linked-to-mental-health-problems | Source: The Local DK    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:34:27

• "Take moral compromises: most of us set out to be good people, but reality demands small compromises to our ethics." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/05/executive-dysfunction/#crises-precipitate-change | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:35:25

• "Democrats are pushing a resolution to block Donald Trump from taking further military action in Iran without congressional approval." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/03/aipac-trump-israel-democrats-iran/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:36:33

• "Alas, in the case of this ill-conceived holy war, true believers may be embarking not just with epic fury" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/further/operation-epstein-fury-a-holy-war-with-shitty-toilets | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:36:47

• "The wealth of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Charles Koch, and a handful of others is almost beyond comprehension." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-moral-basis-of-civilization | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:37:03

• "In this demonstration a client connects to a server, negotiates a TLS 1.3 session, sends "ping", receives "pong", and then terminates the session." ☛ https://tls13.xargs.org/ |    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:37:42

• "This is also kind of a weasely statement: [...]" ☛ https://werd.io/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protester/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:38:11

• "But the compliance complex is missing the point." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/happy-privacy-bill-season-in-the-low-trust-economy/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:38:26

• "Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years, their images encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel, according to two people familiar with the matter." ☛ https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/iran-war-inside-plan-kill-ali-khamenei-5966861 | Source: CNA    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:38:56

• "Israel used AI tools and algorithms it had developed to sort through mountains of data it was amassing on Iran’s leadership and their movements" ☛ https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-israel-hacked-tehran-traffic-cameras-to-track-khamenei-ahead-of-assassination/ | Source: The Times Of Israel    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:39:37

• "Multiple news outlets are reporting on Israel’s hacking of Iranian traffic cameras and how they assisted with the killing of that country’s leadership." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/israel-hacked-traffic-cameras-in-iran.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:40:05

• "Last year California’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) was signed into law" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/californias-problematic-attempt-to-add-age-verification-to-software/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:40:32

• "A new command-line interface for Google Workspace greases the wheels for personal AI assistants like OpenClaw to tap directly into Workspace documents." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3079523/google-makes-gmail-drive-and-docs-agent-ready-for-openclaw.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:41:03

• "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said the KIDS Act uses child safety as a “smoke screen” for the desires of Big Tech lobbyists." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/890367/house-lawmakers-online-safety-bills-kids-act | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:41:19

• "The bill includes language that will allow some preemption of state laws regulating big tech" ☛ https://therecord.media/house-panel-marks-up-kids-digital-safety-act | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:41:55

• "Utilities considering smart cities applications are eyeing a cornucopia of benefits: energy and cost savings, improved safety and mobility, better traffic analysis" ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/power-grid/smart-grids/smart-city-success-starts-with-sharing-data-but-whats-next/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:42:20

• "A Greek court sentenced four Intellexa executives to prison for their role in a 2022 scandal that involved the use of Predator spyware against more than 90 public figures in the country." ☛ https://citizenlab.ca/intellexa-founder-three-others-sentenced-to-8-years-in-prison-over-greek-spyware-scandal/ | Source: Citizen Lab    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:42:42

• "We've all had the unsettling experience of seeing an ad online that reveals just how much advertisers know about our lives. You're right to be disturbed." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/targeted-advertising-gives-your-location-government-just-ask-cbp | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:43:08

• "Meta may have sold seven million of its Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 alone" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-lied-smart-glasses-privacy-class-action-lawsuit | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:43:57

• "Clients of a long-running email marketing platform are getting targeted with a phishing campaign telling them that their emails" ☛ https://www.404media.co/ice-phishing-scammers-are-sending-support-ice-emails-to-steal-credentials/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:45:00

• "The agency is no longer planning to use the Exploration Upper Stage or Mobile Launcher 2, as development of both has faced delays" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-03-nasa-mobile-launcher-artemis.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:45:44

• Windows TCO: "A 43-year-old Russian national has pleaded guilty in a US court to charges stemming from his role in the Phobos ransomware operation." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/russian-ransomware-operator-pleads-guilty-in-us/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:46:54

• Windows TCO: "Ptitsyn assumed a leadership role in the Phobos ransomware group in January 2022" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/phobos-ransomware-leader-guilty/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:47:13

• Social Control Media ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/05/boomer-shocked-gen-z-attitude-towards-women-change | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:47:40

• "Jonathan Gavalas, 36, believed Google’s Gemini chatbot loved him, had sentience and needed to be freed from its digital prison" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/florida-mans-family-claims-google-chatbot-pushed-him-to-suicide-through-fictional-tasks/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:53:57

• "faces a wrongful death lawsuit filed by a 36-year-old man's father, who alleges the search company's Gemini chatbot convinced his son to attempt a "a mass casualty attack" and to eventually commit suicide." ☛ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/google-gemini-ai-told-user-stage-mass-casualty-attack-suit-claims.html | Source: CNBC    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:54:15

• "The civil suit, filed in federal court in California by the lawyer behind 2025’s Adam Raine suicide case, accuses Google of negligence and defective design." ☛ https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/suicide-lawsuit-google-ai-21955695.php | Source: SFGate    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:56:12

• "In August, Gavalas began using Gemini for shopping assistance, writing support, and travel planning." ☛ https://time.com/7382406/gemini-suicide-lawsuit-death/ | Source: Time    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:56:38

• "Joel Gavalas says that Google's flagship AI product fuelled a delusional spiral that prompted his 36-year old son, Jonathan, to kill himself last year." ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx44p99457o | Source: BBC    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 13:57:26

• "You don’t need it." ☛ https://adrianroselli.com/2026/03/your-browser-can-already-speak-a-page.html | Source: Adrian Roselli    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:00:41

• "I think it’s absurd for the US government to punish Anthropic by labelling them a “supply-chain risk”; Anthropic has been completely transparent with the government and the public about their contractual requirements." ☛ https://robert.ocallahan.org/2026/03/anthropic.html | Source: Robert OCallahan    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:00:57

• "PCWorld reports that Wikipedia faces accuracy issues with AI-translated articles containing factual errors and incorrect citations, known as ‘hallucinations’." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3079595/wikipedia-has-an-ai-translation-problem.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:01:25

• "Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/openai-defense-department-ban-military-use-microsoft/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:01:50

• "When an agent misbehaves, there’s little chance of accountability: As of now, there’s no reliable way to determine whom an agent belongs to. And that misbehavior could cause real damage." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/05/1133962/online-harassment-is-entering-its-ai-era/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:02:41

• "Thirty-six-year-old Florida resident Jonathan Gavalas started using Gemini last year for help with writing and shopping." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/03/04/google-responds-lawsuit-alleging-gemini-coached-man-kill/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:03:28

• "The drift of boys and young men away from everyone else in American society has been an enduring theme of the last few years." ☛ https://www.vox.com/technology/481444/ai-chatgpt-teen-boys-teenagers-dating-relationships | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:03:49

• "The US military is leveraging Anthropic’s Claude in its expanding campaign against Iran, despite a bitter feud with the AI startup." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/03/04/2026/us-military-is-using-claude-in-iran-amid-anthropic-feud | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:04:06

• "The problem is that most of these so-called "individual binaries" has functionality that will not work without the other systemd components." ☛ https://unixdigest.com/articles/dinit-the-init-system-systemd-should-have-been.html | Source: UNIXdigest    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:04:43

• "carrying out cyber campaigns on behalf of the Iranian intel agency since approximately 2018" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/05/mudywater_backdoor_us_networks/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:05:15

• "Microsoft spent last week rejecting emails to Outlook recipients after what appears to be either a fault or overzealous blocking rules." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/users_fume_at_outlookcom_email/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:05:43

• "Years ago I remember building my first computer with my dad." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/futureproofing-pc-builds/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:06:21

• "These wins are not just good luck" ☛ https://www.ala.org/news/2026/03/boost-federal-funding-FY-2027 | Source: American Library Association    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:07:24

• "I have noticed, that it is harder for me to stick with longer books these days, however. I blame TikTok and YouTube." ☛ https://mtwb.blog/posts/2026/books/long-books-are-good-for-you/ | Source: Matthew Weber    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:07:37

• [Old] "The Survey reports literacy on a six-level scale, from Below Level 1 to Level 5." ☛ https://nationalcoalitionforliteracy.org/about-adult-literacy/piaac/ |    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:07:52

• "This editorial behavior raises a broader question." ☛ https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-benefits-and-costs-of-deviating-from-the-beaten-track-eac0e9601359 | Source: Avi Loeb    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:09:52

• "Without a proof, you don't even know whether a theorem is true or false." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/the-purpose-of-proofs.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:10:06

• "README is the central part of software project presentation. There might be websites and manuals for some." ☛ https://and.aartaka.me/ |    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:13:19

• "That’s all my notes are. I’m not summarizing the book. I’m just saving ideas for myself, for later reflection. It helps me remember what I learned from it." ☛ https://sive.rs/bfaq | Source: Derek Sivers    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:13:32

• "That’s all my notes are. I’m not summarizing the book. I’m just saving ideas for myself, for later reflection. It helps me remember what I learned from it." ☛ https://sive.rs/bfaq | Source: Derek Sivers    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:13:48

• "As I learn more, I know more of what to look out for in a work of art. I am learning to distinguish details that are significant in painting: how colour is used, perspective, theme, brush-stroke, symbols." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/03/05/take-two | Source: James G    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:14:11

• "Do you use a lot of semantic HTML? Or are you guilty of generic structure?" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/mouselings-100-webmaster-questions-part-b/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:14:29

• "So I took a little time before bed to find the specification for gemfeeds and write a simple file to fill the gap while I consider if I want to script or automate any of this down the line. For now, it's all just nano and this rubber keyboard. If there are any typos, I blame the keyboard." gemini://rymden.no/tx/2026-03-05.gmi    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:18:42

• "The first time I really realized how useful source control (Subversion at the time, although everyone uses Git now) was, even singleplayer, was when I was working on my website and made a complete mess of things" gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/internet/nice-personal-website/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:20:19

• "Still just fiddling with this capsule. I'm using Molly Brown as my server for now, and I like how it lets me customise the directory listing for my transmissions, for example. The only thing I've found it doesn't do so far is multiple hostnames. But that's no big deal at this point." gemini://rymden.no/tx/2026-03-03.gmi    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:21:51

• "I figured keeping any kind of journal on the index would get unwieldy pretty fast, so I moved it into its own directory for now." gemini://rymden.no/tx/2026-03-02.gmi    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:22:52

• "While abducting and killing other dictatorial heads of state, Trump still insists on shaking hands with Putin and promoting ‘peace’ in Ukraine on Russian premises." gemini://rymden.no/tx/2026-03-01.gmi    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:23:55

• "First, I reindexed/retagged some of my older music with beets (a lovely little Python package)." ☛ https://wrla.ch/log/2026/03/music-updates/ | Source: Wrlach    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:47:22

• "But why is text dominant?" ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/03/05/text-formats-are-everywhere-why/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:47:36

• "When multiple goroutines need to read and write the same value, you need a mutex to make sure they don’t step on each other." ☛ https://rednafi.com/go/mutex-closure/ | Source: Redowan Delowar    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:48:02

• "MP 162: It's been answered many times, but it's always worth revisiting." ☛ https://www.mostlypython.com/what-is-self/ | Source: Eric Matthes    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:48:39

• "Modeling uncertainty, learning, and humility allows everyone to be in growth mode vs approaching their work with a fixed mindset." ☛ https://werd.io/the-safety-levers/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:49:18

• "A follow-up to my post on git’s magic files. Most package managers have a manifest and a lockfile, and most developers stop there." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/05/package-manager-magic-files.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:49:31

• "This is the story of Rushomon, something you didn’t know existed until about 5 seconds ago. Its existence is unlikely to change your life, but the story of its making might" ☛ https://makemeacto.substack.com/p/building-and-launching-a-product | Source: Sergio Visinoni    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:49:53

• "Something interesting happened at work this week. Our company is going to a convention later this month, and they will have a booth with big TV screens showing statistics that update in real time." ☛ https://blog.plover.com/2026/03/05/#documentation-wins | Source: Mark-Jason Dominus    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:50:09

• "There are huge consequences to this. When the cost of generating code goes down that much, and we can re-implement it from test suites alone, what does that mean for the future of software?" ☛ https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/5/theseus/ | Source: Armin Ronacher    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:53:04

• "Blanchard says he was in the clear to change licenses because he used AI – Anthropic's Claude is now listed as a project contributor – to make what amounts to a clean room implementation of chardet." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_kills_software_licensing/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:53:17

• "pg_plan_advice allows you to generate a "plan advice" string that describes the overall shape of the plan." ☛ https://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/03/pgplanadvice-plan-stability-and-user.html | Source: Robert Haas    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:55:09

• "It worked. Really well." ☛ https://amattn.com/p/just_use_postgres.html |    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 14:55:59

• "The “Inspect Accessibility Properties” button was added because I opened the DevTools (Inspector) once." ☛ https://joshua.hu/firefox-making-right-click-not-suck | Source: Joshua Rogers    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:01:16

• "The DOOMSCROLLER 3000 is a device that attaches to your smartphone and helps to prevent you from walking into poles." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/03/06/doomscroll-without-walking-into-poles-with-this-handy-device/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:03:30

• "A relay-based computer is really a 1940s type of design." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/capacitor-memory-makes-homebrew-relay-computer-historically-plausible/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:04:09

• "In theory HDMI’s CEC feature is great, as it gives HDMI devices the ability to do useful things such as turning on multiple HDMI devices with a single remote control." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/prevent-your-denon-receiver-turning-on-from-rogue-nvidia-shield-cec-requests/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:04:32

• "[Peter] shows us how a small gearmotor generator was paired with a bridge rectifier and a buck converter to fill up a super capacitor that runs the train and lights up the tree on the table" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/railway-end-table-powered-by-hand-crank/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:05:54

• "While there is a lot to tell on OpenBSD on SGI hardware alone, I think it is better to see a larger picture. Be warned that this story is quite long!" ☛ http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/sgiall.html | Source: Miod Vallat    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:06:46

• "Some readers will be aware that Miod Vallat (miod@) has been chronicling some of the more challenging parts of OpenBSD development in his OpenBSD stories collection for a while now." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260305143943 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:07:26

• "This report covers hrev59356 through hrev59430." ☛ https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2026-03-05-haiku_activity_contract_report_february_2026/ | Source: HaikuOS    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:08:14

• "I saw this article yesterday from Daniel Lemire about how newline characters are valid in text representations of URLs, per the WHATWG URL Standard." ☛ https://blog.jordan.matelsky.com/bb64/ |    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:09:13

• "Among the systemd resource controls are IPAddressAllow= and IPAddressDeny=, which allow you to limit what IP addresses your systemd thing can interact with." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdSocketIPRestrictions | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:09:40

• "I have a Python program that calculates and prints various pieces of Linux memory information on a per-cgroup basis." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/HardcodingCanBeTheRightAnswer | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:09:56

• "The author explained in their post that when you use a keyboard and press Enter on a skip link, the page scrolls down to the target, but focus stays on the link." ☛ https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2026/skip-links-tabindex | Source: Manuel Matuzović    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:10:22

• "I'm using a remote machine where I push zfs dataset 2 or 3 times per year." ☛ https://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20260305 | Source: Vincent Delft    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:10:38

• "ZFS vs BTRFS Architects features and stability" ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/653 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:11:48

• Anon: "This age gating which is being advanced in legislations across the world is a huge threat to software freedom and I would posit the primary goal with the "think of the children" noise as a distraction."    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:13:27

• Anon Pushing it into the OS layer allows them to ban GNU/Linux and the _*BSDs_    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:14:13

• Slay the Spire 2 is out now in Early Access with online co-op | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/slay-the-spire-2-is-out-now-in-early-access/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/slay-the-spire-2-is-out-now-in-early-access/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:14:39

• Anon: It will be used to push further DRM in the form of proprietary blobs into the stack.    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:15:17

• Theme park building game Parkitect gets its first ever Steam Free Weekend | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/theme-park-building-game-parkitect-gets-its-first-ever-steam-free-weekend/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:15:43

• tr crew still digests information about this age "verification" (spying) 'rootkit'-like functionality because there are many sites already talking about it but nothing particularly witty or insightful. This is connected to the "restricted boot" pushers that spend a million attacking us.    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:17:36

• Oh dear - ARC Raiders was logging your private Discord chats | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/oh-dear-arc-raiders-was-logging-your-private-discord-chats/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:17:50

• This is not about chilren, e.g. https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/online-age-checks-are-going-too-far:a    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:18:17

• Some useful takes on it too, e.g. https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/Age-Verification-Mandates--The-%E2%80%98Protect-the-Kids%E2%80%99-Scam-That%E2%80%99s-Building-a-Permanent-Surveillance-Grid:a    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:18:32

• Restricted boot, UEFI, TPM, EME, etc. techrights will cover this tomorrow (not very long)    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:19:09

• NVIDIA Beta driver 595.45.04 released for Linux - looks to be an exciting one | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/nvidia-beta-driver-595-45-04-released-for-linux-looks-to-be-an-exciting-one/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:19:36

• IBM layoffs this month... "how do you know? I heard February a few months ago. (Can’t wait to leave this place and get severance )." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kjx78wwh    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:21:20

• Upcoming co-op driving and looting horror game The Road looks like a good laugh | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/upcoming-co-op-driving-and-looting-horror-game-the-road-looks-like-a-good-laugh/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:21:52

• Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered is out now | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/legacy-of-kain-defiance-remastered-is-out-now/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/legacy-of-kain-defiance-remastered-is-out-now/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:22:18

• Linux Mint Cinnamon has the new screensaver lock screen ready for Wayland | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/linux-mint-cinnamon-has-the-new-screensaver-lock-screen-ready-for-wayland/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:23:09

• NVIDIA reveal games coming to GeForce NOW during March including Crimson Desert | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/nvidia-reveal-games-coming-to-geforce-now-during-march-including-crimson-desert/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:23:35

• Meta sued over AI smart glasses privacy after workers reviewed nudity, sex and other sensitive footage https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/meta-sued-over-ai-smart-glasses-privacy-after-workers-reviewed-nudity-sex-and-other-sensitive-footage-article-13852425.html/amp    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:25:53

• Slopfarm, but based on a TRUE story. Plagiarism by LLMs. https://www.newsanyway.com/2026/03/06/microsoft-layoffs-shock-data-center-workers-who-moved-across-the-country-for-jobs/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:26:42

• nairobi https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/04/you-bought-zucks-ray-bans-now-someone-in-nairobi-is-watching-you-poop/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:29:53

• "Google can't tell real websites from scams anymore 😂" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/google-can't-tell-real-websites-from:7    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:30:07

• "Online Age Checks Are Going Too Far" https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/online-age-checks-are-going-too-far:a    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:30:23

• "Age Verification Mandates: The ‘Protect the Kids’ Scam That’s Building a Permanent Surveillance Grid" https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/Age-Verification-Mandates--The-%E2%80%98Protect-the-Kids%E2%80%99-Scam-That%E2%80%99s-Building-a-Permanent-Surveillance-Grid:a    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:30:42

• alexn an LLM booster https://alexn.org/blog/2026/03/05/boring-tech-irrelevant/ see http://techrights.org/n/2024/02/02/The_Great_LLM_Delusion_Part_VI_Hype_Agent_Geoff_Hinton_Would_Ne.shtml    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:31:13

• "The Wisdom Of The Subservient Class" https://emptywheel.net/the-wisdom-of-the-subservient-class/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:31:26

• "Dreaming of a Blue Texas - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/dreaming-of-a-blue-texas    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:31:40

• "Two Big Things Trump Doesn’t Want You to Know or Even Think About" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/two-big-things-trump-doesnt-want    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:31:56

• Ridiculous PR stunt from slop bros https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/dario-amodei-trump-dictator    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:32:21

• "US war on Iran has no Plan B, warns Scott Lucas: 'Trump just wants to kill people and blow stuff up' - France 24" https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260305-us-war-on-iran-has-no-plan-b-warns-scott-lucas-trump-just-wants-to-kill-people-and-blow-stuff-up    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:32:36

• "How Trump is Paying for His War AND Giving a Huge Tax Cut to the Rich" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-is-trump-paying-for-his-war-and    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:32:47

• "Politiken tar kontroll över internet" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/03/05/politiken-tar-kontroll-over-internet/nbsp;  

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:33:01

• Cheeto 4 Putin :( :( :( https://kyivindependent.com/us-allows-india-to-buy-russian-oil/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:33:23

• You’ve Never Seen Ants Like This Before ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/science/ants-3d-scans.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:35:03

• Superfood Fuels Mating Frenzy for Critically Endangered Kakapo ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/science/kakapo-endangered-parrots-mating-berries.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:35:33

• Feeling the Effects of 260,000 Federal Jobs Lost ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/climate/climate-forward-science-federal-cuts.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:35:51

• Gas Prices Spiking After Convicted Felon’s War in Iran ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/gas-prices-spiking-trump-war-iran    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:36:15

• Nature Report, Killed by Convicted Felon, Is Released Independently ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/climate/trump-nature-assessment.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:36:57

• Minnesota sues Convicted Felon administration for withholding millions in Medicaid funding ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/03/minnesota-sues-trump-administration-for-withholding-millions-in-medicaid-funding/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:37:20

• South Korea doctors jailed for performing abortion at 36 weeks ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/03/south-korea-doctors-jailed-for-performing-abortion-at-36-weeks/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:37:58

• Jonathan Almeida: My Firefox for Android local build environment ☞ https://jonalmeida.com/blog/firefox-android-studio-setup/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:38:47

• Intellexa Founder, Three Others Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison Over Greek Spyware Scandal ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/intellexa-founder-three-others-sentenced-to-8-years-in-prison-over-greek-spyware-scandal/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:40:38

• Google: Half of 2025’s 90 Exploited Zero-Days Aimed at Enterprises ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/google-half-of-2025s-90-exploited-zero-days-aimed-at-enterprises/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:40:56

• Aliyev Calls Iran Drone Strike In Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan Region 'Act Of Terror' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/azerbaijan-nakhchivan-iran-drone-attack/33695890.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:43:18

• Hacked App Part of US/Israeli Propaganda Campaign Against Iran ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/hacked-app-part-of-us-israeli-propaganda-campaign-against-iran.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 15:43:55

• Meta Lied About Its Smart Glasses Protecting User Privacy, New Class Action Lawsuit Claims ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-lied-smart-glasses-privacy-class-action-lawsuit    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:00:07

• Michigan would regulate police license plate cameras under bipartisan bill ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-would-regulate-police-license-plate-cameras-under-bipartisan-bill/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:00:26

• The Rage at Proprietary Chaffbot Company Has Grown So Immense That There Are Entire Protests Against It ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/rage-openai-protests    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:00:51

• FBI targeted with ‘suspicious’ activity on its networks ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/fbi-targeted-with-suspicious-activity-on-its-networks/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:01:19

• Collabora at Embedded World 2026: Open Source Hey Hi (AI) and Embedded Innovation ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/bringing-the-ai-experience-to-embedded-world-2026.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:34:35

• New stable kernels to address build failures ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1061524/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:35:12

• Two Rejections Per Allowance ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/03/two-rejections-per-allowance.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:35:44

• Patently Unreasonable: Hyatt’s Return to the Supreme Court and the Fight Over Prosecution Laches ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/03/patently-unreasonable-hyatts-return-to-the-supreme-court-and-the-fight-over-prosecution-laches.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:36:11

• UPC is totally illegal and here it is leveraged by a malicious American company against a European one ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/broadcom-and-grunecker-initiate-litigation-against-deutsche-telekom-at-the-upc/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:37:30

• Now JUVE is publishing pure SPAM as 'articles' https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/medium-sized-french-large-patent-attorney-team-seeks/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:38:43

• From the Community | Stanford needs free expression reform now ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/03/04/stanford-free-expression-reform/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:39:55

• Vincent Bernat: Automatic Prometheus metrics discovery with Docker labels ☞ https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-prometheus-metrics-discovery-docker-labels    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:40:28

• Malaysia’s food supply stable despite Middle East tensions, says agriculture minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/food-supply-stable-despite-middle-east-tensions-says-malaysian-agriculture-minister    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:42:24

• China Bets on Technology to Resist U.S. Pressure ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/world/asia/china-us-technology-trade-military.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:42:55

• GNU/Linux? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-to-boost-tech-self-reliance-in-next-5-years-as-rivalry-with-us-deepens    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:43:15

• China's top chip execs claim ASML alternative 'small, fragmented, and weak' ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/chinas-top-chip-execs-admit-fragmentation-is-undermining-the-countrys-asml-alternative    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:43:48

• China boosts military spending with eyes on US, Taiwan ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/03/05/china-boosts-military-spending-with-eyes-on-us-taiwan/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:44:06

• When Congress gets hacked: Why cyber oversight can’t wait ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2026/03/when-congress-gets-hacked-why-cyber-oversight-cant-wait/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:44:31

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 641 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/03/04/this-week-in-rust-641/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:45:24

• How to scale enterprise federated Hey Hi (AI) with Flower and OCM ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/03/05/how-scale-enterprise-federated-ai-flower-and-ocm    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:46:23

• Amazon cut off about 100,000 of its own workers in recent years. Wall Street treats this company as a success story.    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:48:50

• The Boys in Trueblood Came to Rock ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/style/trueblood-garage-band-gen-alpha.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:49:13

• Fewer Pregnant Women Received Acetaminophen in E.R.s After White House Warnings ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/health/tylenol-acetaminophen-autism-trump.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:49:32

• Scientists Reconstruct The Face of a 3.7-Million-Year-Old Human Relative ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reconstruct-the-face-of-a-3-7-million-year-old-human-relative    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:50:18

• Second Pregnancy Does Something Unique to The Brain, Study Reveals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/second-pregnancy-does-something-unique-to-the-brain-study-reveals    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:50:53

• The Blood of Centenarians Reveals 37 Proteins Linked With Slower Aging ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-blood-of-centenarians-reveals-37-proteins-linked-with-slower-aging    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:51:15

• Microplastics May Be Fueling Parkinson's Disease, Scientists Warn ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-may-be-fueling-parkinsons-disease-scientists-warn    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:51:29

• Tinnitus Is Somehow Connected to a Crucial Bodily Function ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/tinnitus-is-somehow-connected-to-a-crucial-bodily-function    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:51:43

• Scientists Cut Amyloid Plaques by 50% in Mice With Engineered Cells ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-cut-amyloid-plaques-by-50-in-mice-with-engineered-cells    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:51:57

• It's Official: NASA Confirms Asteroid 2024 YR4 Will Fly Past The Moon ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/its-official-nasa-confirms-asteroid-2024-yr4-will-fly-past-the-moon    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:52:13

• Babies Are Exposed to 42 'Forever Chemicals' Before Birth, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/babies-are-exposed-to-42-forever-chemicals-before-birth-study-finds    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:52:28

• One 10-Minute Exercise Can Reduce Depression, Even a Month Later ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-10-minute-exercise-can-reduce-depression-even-a-month-later    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:52:44

• Rust 1.94.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1061550/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:53:39

• Accelerated 2D Canvas Benchmarks ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/accelerated-2d-canvas-benchmarks    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:54:36

• AI vibe-coded operating system is so bad it can't even run Doom — Vib-OS can't connect to the internet, browser app is an image viewer [Updated] ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/ai-vibe-coded-operating-system-is-so-bad-it-cant-even-run-doom-vib-os-cant-connect-to-the-internet-browser-app-is-an-image-viewersp;  

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:55:10

• Community Snapshot—February ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/03/community-snapshot-february-2/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:55:56

• WNYC and the Internet Archive Invite Musicians to ‘Reimagine the Public Domain’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/03/05/wync-public-domain-internet-archive-musicians/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:56:21

• How Public WiFi Can Be Dangerous ☞ https://cyberpratibha.com/how-public-wifi-can-be-dangerous/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:56:44

• The Mozilla Blog: Ajit Varma on Firefox’s new Hey Hi (AI) controls: ‘We believe in user choice’ ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/outside-the-fox-ai-controls/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:57:24

• How To Install Nvidia CUDA on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-nvidia-cuda-debian-13/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 16:59:56

• Mouselings 100 webmaster questions part B ☞ https://rubenerd.com/mouselings-100-webmaster-questions-part-b/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:03:19

• How To Change Root Password on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/change-root-password-fedora-43/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:04:45

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

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:05:01

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

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:05:18

• Omarchy GNU/Linux Rejects "Retarded" California Age Verification Law ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/omarchy-linux-rejects-retarded-california    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:06:48

• Boring RAG: When similarity is just a SQL query ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/03/05/rag-apache-camel-postgresql-pgvector    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:07:18

• Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/05/cra-guidances/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:07:51

• Tom Ritter: telemetry helps. you still get to turn it off ☞ http://ritter.vg/blog-telemetry.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:08:40

• Iceland Defeats Iceland: A U.K. Supermarket Ends a Trademark Dispute ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/world/europe/iceland-supermarket-trademark.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:09:25

• How to Mount Ntfs on Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-mount-ntfs-on-ubuntu-26-04    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:10:35

• Your Voice Belongs Here: How to Get Involved in the OpenSSF Community ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/03/05/your-voice-belongs-here-how-to-get-involved-in-the-openssf-community/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:11:06

• "This is an edited transcript of an episode of Outside the Fox, Firefox’s flagship podcast, where we explore what’s happening online and why it matters." ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/outside-the-fox-ai-controls/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:11:38

• IBM Red Hat peddling slop ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-does-real-world-ai-deliver-value-ask-red-hat-example | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:12:14

• More slop from a former "Linux" company ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/mcp-security-implementing-robust-authentication-and-authorization | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:12:50

• IBM has got Red Hat abandoning Linux to promote plagiarism ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/why-future-ai-depends-portable-open-pytorch-ecosystem | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:14:14

• "Launched under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation, OCUDU represents an important shift in how cellular networks are built." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/scaling-future-open-ran-red-hat-joins-ocudu-ecosystem-foundation | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:14:50

• How to Use Rsync Command: 16 Examples for GNU/Linux File Sync ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/rsync-local-remote-file-synchronization-commands/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:15:30

• "If you spend long hours working on your Linux system, such as coding, writing, designing, or managing servers, you know how easy it is to lose track of time" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/best-break-reminder-apps-for-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:15:59

• The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Rust 1.94.0 ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/05/Rust-1.94.0/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:16:52

• Doomscroll without walking into poles with this handy device ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/03/06/doomscroll-without-walking-into-poles-with-this-handy-device/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:21:18

• Text formats are everywhere. Why? ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/03/05/text-formats-are-everywhere-why/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:22:21

• Pluralistic: Blowtorching the frog (05 Mar 2026) executive-dysfunction ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/05/executive-dysfunction/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:25:58

• System76 on Age Verification Laws ☞ https://blog.system76.com/post/system76-on-age-verification    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:26:36

• Why GNU/Linux Users Love to Hate Ubuntu ☞ https://itsfoss.com/opinion/why-hate-ubuntu/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:29:20

• SmartOS 20260305 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/smartos    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:29:53

• KDE neon 20260305 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kdeneon    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:30:40

• nm-tray – simple NetworkManager front end ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/nm-tray-simple-networkmanager-front-end/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:31:26

• ddgst – hashing and checksum utility ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ddgst-hashing-checksum-utility/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:31:48

• Termy – minimal terminal emulator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/termy-minimal-terminal-emulator/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:32:01

• Aerion – graphical email client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/aerion-graphical-email-client/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:32:20

• Vassal – game engine ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/vassal-game-engine/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:32:33

• lo – very small low-level JavaScript runtime ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lo-very-small-low-level-javascript-runtime/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:32:54

• Banana Pi R4 (BPI-R4) ☞ https://www.linux.org/threads/banana-pi-r4-bpi-r4.60066/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:33:23

• 'Linux' Foundation marketing spam in "research" clothing ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-Foundation-Reports-that-Open-Source-Delivers-Better-ROI http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/27/What_Linux_Foundation_Research_is_Paid_Marketing.shtml    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:34:26

• For "MURICAN TALIBAN" ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Age-Verification-Laws    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:36:04

• TUXEDO 20260305 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tuxedo    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:40:19

• Besgnulinux 3-3 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/besgnulinux    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:40:31

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppGSL 0.3.14 on CRAN: Maintenance ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/03/05#rcppgsl_0.3.14    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:41:05

• How to Install Surveillance Giant Google Antigravity on FunOS ☞ https://funos.org/install-google-antigravity-funos/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:41:37

• KeePass Released 2.61 with One-Time Password & Other Improvements ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/03/keepass-released-2-61-with-one-time-password-other-improvements/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:42:34

• Ubuntu is Controlled by a Youngster From the British Army (Background in Mass Surveillance), So One Can Expect Ubuntu to Not Respect Privacy ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/05/Ubuntu_is_Controlled_by_a_Youngster_From_the_British_Army_Backg.shtml    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:42:52

• Board Election Results ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/board-election-results/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:43:29

• Lockbook – encrypted notebook ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lockbook-encrypted-notebook/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:46:08

• 9 Best Free and Open Source Java Application Servers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-application-servers/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:46:26

• 18 Best Free and Open Source Network Analyzers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-network-analyzers/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:46:38

• 10 Best Free and Open Source JavaScript Runtime Environments ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-javascript-runtime-environments/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:46:49

• 5 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Network Simulators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-linux-network-simulators/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:47:04

• Antoine Beaupré: Wallabako retirement and Readeck adoption ☞ https://anarc.at/blog/2026-03-05-wallabako-retirement/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:47:57

• 10 Best Free and Open Source Command-Line HTTP Clients ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/good-command-line-http-clients/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:48:56

• Red Hat hyping up slop https://www.telecoms.com/ai/red-hat-says-the-cost-of-ai-is-becoming-a-hot-topic    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:51:39

• Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your GNU/Linux Computer Might be Next ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/age-verification-pandemic/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 17:56:04

• Parrot OS 7.1: Security Distro’s Surprisingly Good Daily Driver ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/03/parrot-os-7-1-security-distros-surprisingly-good-daily-driver/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:00:31

• FOSS Force: Authenticity, Independence, and Expertise Worth Funding ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/03/foss-force-authenticity-independence-and-expertise-worth-funding/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:00:43

• FOSS Weekly #26.10: Age Verification in Linux, systemd Troubleshooting Tools, Graphene Phone, Longer GNU/Linux LTS Kernels and More ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-10/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:01:22

• US and Middle East countries seek Ukraine's support in drone protection ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/us-and-middle-east-countries-seek-ukraine-s-support-in-drone-protection    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:03:38

• Fallout From Mideast Swirls Over the War in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/world/europe/ukraine-zelensky-iran-middle-east.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:04:01

• How Ukraine’s strength has uplifted Europe ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0305/How-Ukraine-s-strength-has-uplifted-Europe    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:04:15

• Lithuanian FM worried Iran war may divert attention from Ukraine ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2858153/lithuanian-fm-worried-iran-war-may-divert-attention-from-ukraine    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:04:34

• Does anything need to be done about Belarusian radio broadcasts along Latvia's border? ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/media/05.03.2026-does-anything-need-to-be-done-about-belarusian-radio-broadcasts-along-latvias-border.a637479/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:04:53

• Gone fishing: Latvian angler floats from Estonia to Russia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/05.03.2026-gone-fishing-latvian-angler-floats-from-estonia-to-russia.a637540/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:05:07

• Openwashing and shallow piggybacking while OSI actively promotes proprietary interests ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/osi-signs-open-letter-calling-on-higher-education-to-reclaim-its-digital-future    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:06:06

• ss Command in Linux: Display Socket Statistics ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/ss-command-in-linux/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:06:51

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

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:07:08

• Buildroot 2026.02 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1061543/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:07:46

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1061464/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:08:07

• Solicitor regulator censured for 'systemic failures' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj9809qy7xo https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/06/Threats_Issued_to_Daniel_Pocock_Having_Launched_the_JuristGate_.shtml    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:14:53

• SRA returns £9m to clients of closed firm PM Law https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/sra-returns-9m-to-clients-of-closed-firm-pm-law/5126130.article    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:15:54

• Too late https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/sra-pays-out-9-3m-to-pm-law-clients-in-month-after-collapse    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:16:32

• Useless 'regulator' https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Responds_to_Crises_Only_Aft.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/03/Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Failed_to_Detect_Fraud_in_L.shtml    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:17:25

• In a site named "It's FOSS" rootkits are "GOOD NEWS!" ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/ea-anti-cheat-expansion-plans/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:18:49

• ElectronMail ☞ https://sparkylinux.org/electronmail/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:19:16

• Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Power Consumption ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/chuwi-corebook-air-plus-running-linux-power-consumption/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:21:21

• preFlight – advanced 3D printing slicer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/preflight-advanced-3d-printing-slicer/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:21:44

• Subscribi – keep tabs on your subscriptions ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/subscribi-keep-tabs-subscriptions/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:21:56

• meteor – tool to help write conventional commits with git ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/meteor-tool-write-conventional-commits-git/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:22:11

• Weighing up Zngur and CXX for Rust/C++ Interop ☞ https://www.kdab.com/weighing-up-zngur-and-cxx-for-rustc-interop/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:22:36

• imgcat – output images in the terminal ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/imgcat-output-images-terminal/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:24:39

• Microsoft and Microsoft's 'Open' 'AI' Seeking Bailout From the Pentagon Means Brand Erosion ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/05/Microsoft_and_Microsoft_s_Open_AI_Seeking_Bailout_From_the_Pent.shtml    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:24:51

• e1s – manage proprietary trap AWS ECS resources ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/e1s-manage-aws-ecs-resources/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:25:03

• NetBSD 11.0-RC2 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/netbsd    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:25:23

• Howdy Stranger! We need your help... ☞ https://www.scummvm.org/news/20260305/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:26:14

• Radical accessibility on the Arduino® UNO™ Q board with OpenClaw ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/03/05/radical-accessibility-on-the-arduino-uno-q-board-with-openclaw/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:27:12

• New Version Tracking through API and Automatic Labeling ☞ https://openbuildservice.org/2026/03/05/foster-collaboration//    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:28:11

• Firefox Tooling Announcements: MozPhab 2.9.0 Released ☞ https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozphab-2-9-0-released/147579    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:28:41

• A Word to the Wise: Don’t Trust Hey Hi (AI) to File Your Taxes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/technology/artificial-intelligence-taxes-tax-refund.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:31:48

• Is China training an army of robots? Nope, it’s an AI-generated video ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260305-china-army-robots-video-artificial-intelligence    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:32:13

• Even Tech Investors Are Getting Sick of All These Hey Hi (AI) Startups With Weak Ideas ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-startups-investor-funding    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:33:02

• Jack Dorsey Isn’t Telling the Real Story About Block’s Hey Hi (AI) Layoffs, Insider Says ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/jack-dorsey-block-ai-layoffs-insider https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/28/Tech_Layoffs_Are_Not_Because_of_Slop_They_re_an_Effect_of_a_Rot.shtml    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:34:01

• US Supreme Court rules NJ Transit cannot claim state sovereign immunity ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/03/us-supreme-court-rules-nj-transit-cannot-claim-state-sovereign-immunity/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:34:48

• BREAKING: Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai will not appeal nat. security conviction, 20-year jail term, lawyer says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/03/06/breaking-hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-will-not-appeal-nat-security-conviction-20-year-jail-term-lawyer-says/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:35:26

• Philippine resupply mission data leaked to Chinese intelligence, security official says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippine-resupply-mission-data-leaked-to-chinese-intelligence-security-official-says    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:37:12

• Rights group says Germany social security bill undermines human rights ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/03/rights-group-says-germany-new-social-security-bill-undermines-human-rights/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:37:36

• Taiwan scholar barred from testifying in Tiananmen vigil trial over ‘irrelevant’ expertise, Hong Kong court says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/03/05/hong-kong-court-barred-taiwanese-scholar-from-testifying-in-tiananmen-vigil-trial-over-past-ccp-criticism/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:38:20

• Windows TCO: HHS updates a free risk tool to help hospitals size up their cybersecurity exposure ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/hhs-aspr-cybersecurity-risc-toolkit-update/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:39:09

• Cisco Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Enterprise Networking Products ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-patches-critical-vulnerabilities-in-enterprise-networking-products/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:40:04

• LeakBase Cybercrime Forum Shut Down, Suspects Arrested ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/leakbase-cybercrime-forum-shut-down-suspects-arrested/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:40:21

• Cisco Warns of More Catalyst SD-WAN Flaws Exploited in the Wild ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-warns-of-more-catalyst-sd-wan-flaws-exploited-in-the-wild/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:40:42

• Public Knowledge Warns Against Bills Limiting Children’s Internet Access, Barring States from Protecting Kids Online ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-warns-against-bills-limiting-childrens-internet-access-barring-states-from-protecting-kids-online/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:41:27

• X Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel After Using X Verification Software “Au10tix” ☞ https://www.mintpressnews.com/x-users-find-their-real-names-are-being-googled-in-israel-after-using-x-verification-software-au10tix/290703/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:42:13

• OpenAI building Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub alternative ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/openai-building-github-alternative-after-outages-disrupted-engineers    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:44:04

• WordPress 7.0 Beta 3 ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2026/03/wordpress-7-0-beta-3/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:44:41

• Sketch: a character study of Amall ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1126/sketch-a-character-study-of-amall    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:45:08

• Over 40% of Hong Kong’s ‘Gen Z’ suffer from moderate to severe depression, survey finds ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/03/06/over-40-of-hong-kongs-gen-z-suffer-from-moderate-to-severe-depression-survey-finds/ MinceR, will they vote?    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:45:51

• What's new in QML Tooling in 6.11, part 1: QML Language Server (qmlls) ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/whats-new-in-qml-language-server-in-6.11    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:47:36

• iophk: Weasel words in use: https://yle.fi/a/74-20214039 "risk" is a lie, there are people in poverty and people fully marginalized economically    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:48:25

• STM32U3B5/C5 ultra-low-power MCU features 640 KB RAM, 2 MB Flash, and HSP accelerator to run Hey Hi (AI) without batteries ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/03/06/stm32u3b5-c5-ultra-low-power-mcu-features-640-kb-ram-2-mb-flash-and-hsp-accelerator-to-run-ai-without-batteries/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:50:14

• Grinn ReneSOM-V2H is a tiny LGA SoM based on Renesas RZ/V2H processor for vision Hey Hi (AI) applications ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/03/05/grinn-renesom-v2h-is-a-tiny-lga-som-based-on-renesas-rz-v2h-processor-for-vision-ai-applications/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:50:28

• ADLINK Express-PTL Panther Lake COM Express Type 6 module supports up to defective chip maker Intel Core Ultra 7 368H, 128GB DDR5 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/03/05/adlink-express-ptl-panther-lake-com-express-type-6-module-supports-up-to-intel-core-ultra-7-368h-128gb-ddr5/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:50:39

• Apple Music Now Requires Hey Hi (AI) ‘Transparency Tags’ for All Uploaded Music—Here Are the Guidelines ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/03/05/apple-music-ai-transparency-tags-requirement/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:51:13

• A Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines (grith.ai) ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1061548/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:51:58

• KDE Gear 25.12.3 ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.12.3/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:52:34

• António Lobo Antunes, One of Europe’s Most Revered Writers, Dies at 83 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/books/antonio-lobo-antunes-dead.htmlnbsp; 

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:52:46

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/herland    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:53:09

• Dihydroxyacetone Man fires Homeland Security Secretary Noem after mounting criticism over her leadership ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2026/03/trump-says-hes-replacing-homeland-security-secretary-noem-with-gop-sen-markwayne-mullin/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:53:48

• GSA’s CMMC-like rules raise concerns in industry ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/acquisition-policy/2026/03/gsas-cmmc-like-rules-raise-concerns-in-industry/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:54:33

• "Microsoft haters" labelling... now used by Canonical apologists https://itsfoss.com/opinion/why-hate-ubuntu/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:55:50

• Ubuntu says it is reviewing California AB 1043 with legal counsel, no implementation confirmed https://piunikaweb.com/2026/03/05/ubuntu-ab-1043-age-verification-no-plans-confirmed/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/05/Ubuntu_is_Controlled_by_a_Youngster_From_the_British_Army_Backg.shtml    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:56:34

• This privacy-focused Linux phone runs Android apps without all the intrusive tracking https://newatlas.com/mobile-technology/jolla-privacy-focused-linux-phone-android-apps/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:57:56

• Rootkits https://www.tweaktown.com/news/110354/ea-is-hiring-to-bring-battlefield-6-to-windows-on-arm-and-linux-devices/index.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:58:40

• Yay, rootkits! https://www.notebookcheck.net/Battlefield-6-and-Madden-NFL-to-come-to-SteamOS-and-ARM-PCs.1243276.0.html    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 18:59:37

• "AerynOS is an independent Linux distribution built around atomic upgrades, a next-generation package manager, and blazing performance." https://thenewstack.io/aerynos-linux-distribution/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 19:00:28

• PICMG joins Linux Foundation to strengthen open technology collaboration https://www.newelectronics.co.uk/content/news/picmg-joins-linux-foundation-to-strengthen-open-technology-collaboration    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 19:01:18

• 7 things I stopped installing on Linux (and my system is better for it) https://www.makeuseof.com/7-things-i-stopped-installing-on-linux-and-my-system-is-better-for-it/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 19:01:52

• 5 Linux desktop features Windows still can’t replicate properly https://www.makeuseof.com/5-linux-desktop-features-windows-still-cant-replicate-properly/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 19:02:19

• 4 overlooked Linux shells you’ll actually want to use https://www.howtogeek.com/overlooked-linux-shells-youll-actually-want-to-use/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 19:03:05

• [japan] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2026-03-06.gmi    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 19:36:45

• "I got my medical discharge a couple of days ago and can now roam freely in the Outpost now! Should I say it's like a second start here? Maybe, that's how it feels anyway!" gemini://orbitaloutpost.club/~kaze/gemlog/2026-03-06-abigemptyroom.gmi    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 19:37:34

• ## Amanecí rodeada de aves - Simón Angulo gemini://bitacora.anacronico.rocks/resenas/amanecirodeadadeaves.gmi    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 20:48:15

• Feodra outsourcing to proprietary Google spyware https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/flock-2026-financial-assistance-close-march-8th/    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 21:03:36

• "He’s right that most AI output is pretend intelligence. He’s right that the systems are predicting tokens rather than “understanding” in any philosophically robust sense. He’s right that the marketing around AI dramatically overstates what these systems actually do." https://sevencubedsevenlabs.medium.com/richard-stallman-is-right-most-ai-output-is-pretend-intelligence-60aac3db1567    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 21:42:18

• RMS turns 73 in 10 days    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 21:42:34

• "If Stallman is right (mechanism is the limitation), then AI will never produce genuinely intelligent output regardless of architectural innovation. The correct response is to use AI as a simple tool — a fancy autocomplete — and stop pretending it’s anything more. Investment in AI alignment, consciousness research, and architectural innovation is wasted effort."    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 21:44:30

• "I want to be clear about what I’m not arguing. I’m not arguing that current AI systems are intelligent. I’m not arguing that Stallman’s concerns about AI hype are misplaced. I’m not arguing that the public isn’t being misled about what these systems can do."    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 21:45:08

• "On all of those points, Stallman is correct and courageous to say so publicly."    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 21:45:43

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 21:45:58

• "The AI industry IS overhyping its products. The marketing IS misleading. The public DOES misunderstand what these systems are doing. The word “intelligence” in “artificial intelligence” IS doing more work than the technology currently justifies."    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 21:46:09

• "The full moon passed, the energy is calming down. My daughter is back in the country, my home retreat is coming to an end." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wormWaning    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 21:47:51

• "....and what do I have to show for my best laid plans? Two non-booting Macs! My IIsi is making noises that are both electrically and mechanically bad and my trusty Mac LC doesn't make any noise at all." gopher://jonsharp.net:70/0/gl2/03-03-2026-Marchintosh-three-days-in.md    

posted Friday, March 06, 2026 at 21:49:28

•  & &nb & urts/   & &   &nb https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/31/Google_Bribes_EFF_EFF_Promotes_LLM_Slop_as_Fair_Use_To_GAFAM_It.shtml & &nbs