Roy Schestowitz

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-03-19.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 05:54:00

• I haven't thought about software patents in a long time gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-03-18-software-patents    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 05:54:47

• The coming AI winter can't come fast enough for me gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/03/18.2    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 05:56:03

• "i really wouldn't consider myself very active in the gemini space. but i have had a gemini server running for almost 5 years now! and i occasionally love to read the small posts people put on antenna. so thank you for sharing your random thoughts or learnings!" gemini://xoc3.io/blog/2026-03-19    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 05:57:27

• Fancy Curl Sites gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2026-03-18    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 05:58:37

• underwater gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/underwater    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 06:00:08

• The relicensing of chardet [LWN] ⚓ https://lwn.net/Articles/1061534/ ䷉ Source: LWN | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//lwn.net/Articles/1061534/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 06:40:06

• So people who cannot code sneak trash into Debian https://lwn.net/Articles/1061544/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 06:42:45

• Reconsidering the multi-generational LRU [LWN] ⚓ https://lwn.net/Articles/1060967/ ䷉ Source: LWN | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//lwn.net/Articles/1060967/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 06:44:30

• IBM kills Fedora by neglect https://lwn.net/Articles/1060190/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 06:45:49

• Of course Microsoft Lunduke chooses and uses Microsoft GitHub    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:04:06

• "The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) says it is is investigating potential fraud, including the misappropriation of customers' money." https://www.itv.com/news/border/2026-03-18/first-time-buyer-forced-to-abandon-dream-home-after-law-firm-collapse    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:07:44

• "Apple has won its legal battle against music streaming app Musi. A California federal court dismissed the case with prejudice" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/court-dismisses-musis-apple-lawsuit-sanctions-law-firm-for-baseless-claims/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:08:52

• "Italy’s "Piracy Shield" was designed to stop pirated live sports streams in 30 minutes, but Cloudflare says the "black box" system also puts the open Internet at risk." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-challenges-legality-of-italys-piracy-shield-appeals-e14-million-fine/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:09:08

• "This is the result of a portion of the Recorded Artists Actors Performers (RAAP) ruling in 2020." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/03/18/ec-delays-clarifying-rules-brodcast-public-performance/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:09:25

• "It turns out that the people posting the deepfake images and animations do not seem concerned about getting caught." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20215926 | Source: YLE    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:10:19

• "Head of Ticketing for Venue Nation, Live Nation’s amphitheater division, became a star witness" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/03/18/us-v-live-nation-baker-first-witness/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:11:29

• "In brief, the decision drew indie-side criticism and fueled significant sales-volume discrepancies." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/03/18/vinyl-sales-2025-analysis/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:12:04

• "This is what my stack currently looks like: [...]" ☛ https://bitboxer.de/2026/03/17/music | Source: Bodo Tasche    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:12:15

• "Amid the Vietnam War and the Cold War, millions of Americans embraced commune living, LSD and hippie culture." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/the-internet-was-supposed-to-be-free-what-went-wrong/a-75213121 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:13:17

• "AOL, also known as America Online, wasn’t the first online service." ☛ https://dfarq.homeip.net/aol-history/ | Source: David L Farquhar    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:13:28

• "As a practical matter, however, President Trump has taken aim at a culture of public service grounded in expertise, evenhandedness and restraint." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2026/03/why-president-trump-is-targeting-federal-workers/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:13:53

• "For those who need a refresher: back in 2022, the Adams County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio conducted a raid on Afroman’s home with a warrant for drug trafficking and — hilariously — kidnapping. (Kidnapping. Afroman.)" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/18/afromans-defamation-trial-is-going-about-as-well-for-the-deputies-as-their-original-raid-did/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:14:15

• "You can read Tilsen’s dream on his fingers." ☛ https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/indigenous-activist-nick-tilsen-trump-wants-to-hear-nothing-about-the-genocide-against-indigenous-nations-a-7dd75e1c-ebec-4da8-b228-d6d0770258ed#ref=rss | Source: Spiegel    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:14:27

• "ABC's World News Tonight attracted 8.48 million viewers, according to Nielsen. NBC Nightly News scored 6.51 million. Both shows have about a million younger viewers; CBS Evening News has only 400,000. CBS Evening News' new host, Tony Doukoupil, isn't pulling it out" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/03/18/cbs-evening-news-viewership-slips-under-4-million-and-theyre-all-old.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:15:25

• "It's one of the most popular news sites in the country, and it's wildly profitable. It might be the right time for Yahoo to bounce back." ☛ https://werd.io/four-things-about-yahoo-news-that-may-surprise-you/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:16:25

• [Old] "Washington Post publisher Will Lewis said Saturday that he's stepping down, ending a troubled tenure three days after the newspaper said that it was laying off one-third of its staff" ☛ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/days-after-big-layoffs-at-the-washington-post-publisher-will-lewis-says-hes-stepping-down | Source: PBS    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:16:50

• "Violence in Haiti is at an intolerable level, making it nearly impossible for journalists to do their jobs safely." ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/03/2-haitian-journalists-abducted-amid-intensifying-violence-in-port-au-prince/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:18:39

• "Restricting what media can report and how is the hallmark of an authoritarian government" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/03/cpj-condemns-trump-administrations-intimidation-tactics-over-u-s-war-coverage/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:18:54

• "Terrence Tomlin and Eugene McIntosh didn’t expect to walk away from a week at Medill’s Media Innovation and Leadership Academy (MILA) with a check for $10,000." ☛ https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2026/03/18/medill-local-news-accelerator-MILA-2026/index.html | Source: Northwestern University    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:19:20

• "Los Angeles-based musician Ramsey Elkholy has now tapped New York-based firm Aidala" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/03/17/epstein-pal-ramsey-elkholy-monotronic-cease-and-desist-digital-music-news/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 07:19:33

• "I set up the Oxford Literary Festival with a friend in 1997 – nearly 30 years ago." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/news/sally-dunsmore-oxford-literary-festival-activists-speech/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:04:33

• "In the ultimate culmination of Trump’s interests, the US Mint may soon produce a 24-karat gold commemorative coin bearing his image." ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/mint-trump-gold-coin-ccac-video-removed | Source: Marisa Kabas    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:05:18

• "In response to the March 17 Committee on Education and Workforce hearing" ☛ https://www.ala.org/news/2026/03/HR7661-passes-house-committee | Source: American Library Association    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:05:39

• "William Gibson is one of history's most quotable sf writers: "The future is here, it's not evenly distributed"; "Don't let the little fuckers generation-gap you"; "Cyberspace is everting"; and the immortal: "The street finds its own uses for things": [...]" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/17/technopolitics/#original-sin | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:06:11

• "Today I’m burdening you with a longer-than-usual post — one that’s not about Trump, or his war, or Jeffrey Epstein, or even American politics. It’s about something more powerful than any of these things: an idea." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-250th-anniversary-of-adam-smiths | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:06:23

• "OpenAI keeps cutting deals left and right, one of the latest ones being a massive partnership with Amazon that ought to see a total of $188 billion circle between both companies." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-considering-suing-openai-over-altmans-recent-deal-with-amazon-report-claims-exclusivity-dispute-revolves-around-frontier-multi-agent-service | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:06:37

• "Last month, Amazon and OpenAI signed several agreements, including one that makes Amazon Web Services (AWS) the exclusive third-party cloud provider for ‌Frontier, OpenAI's enterprise platform ⁠for ⁠building and running AI agents." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-considers-legal-action-over-50-billion-amazon-openai-cloud-deal-report/articleshow/129649363.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:07:01

• "That is why more independent hotels are replacing manual pricing with automated revenue management" ☛ https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-opinion/why-independent-hotels-are-replacing-manual-pricing-with-automated-revenue-management.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:12:50

• "I somehow have a “default” payment method… that isn’t selected by default." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/default-payment-methods-that-arent/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:13:01

• "Enter the five-minute [cryptocurrency] price prediction" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/crypto-prediction-volatility | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:21:25

• "In real life, King’s Cross consists of a large, magnificent main hall housing tracks 0 to 8." ☛ https://bentsukun.ch/posts/track_9_3_4/ | Source: Benny Siegert    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:21:58

• "In a statement made available to the media, EU Team Leader for Social Sectors" ☛ https://www.lusakatimes.com/2026/03/18/eu-pledges-support-to-zambias-mineral-regulation/ | Source: Lusaka ZM    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:22:58

• "Bell did not provide any additional comments on the legislation aside from introducing the bill." ☛ https://alabamareflector.com/briefs/alabama-house-committee-oks-senate-bill-regulating-data-centers/ | Source: Alabama Reflector    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:23:30

• "The data center has met opposition from township residents and members of the University community due to concerns" ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/news-briefs/umich-finalizes-purchase-of-textile-road-parcel-for-planned-ypsilanti-data-center/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:23:57

• "Oil companies are not trying to follow the winds of the sustainable transition anymore" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/big-oil-has-moved-on-from-greenwashing-heres-the-new-playbook/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:24:08

• "The question remains, will anything change? One must ask, how did this happen? The answer is clear." ☛ https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/03/oh-honey-where-did-you-go/ | Source: The New Lede    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:24:20

• "The other pages in the paper can be matched with their on-screen appearance." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/finding-the-right-bottom-hole-paper/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:40:27

• "This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Scripps editorial team..." https://abc7.com/post/afroman-lemon-pound-cake-rapper-trial-using-adam-county-sheriffs-raid-music-video-enters-second-day-ohio/18729198/ Heads up: ABC now publishes slop    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:44:22

• sites that experiment with slop are sites that will die with slop, like buzzfeed and many others. They do not "adopt" or "pivot" to it, they die with it.    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:45:31

• "Paul R. Ehrlich, an American biologist, died on 13 March." ☛ https://overpopulation-project.com/goodbye-paul-ehrlich/ | Source: Overpopulation    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:46:00

• "Over a career spanning seven decades, he became one of the most cited — and most debated — scientists of his era." ☛ https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/a-tribute-to-paul-r-ehrlich-from-world-vasectomy-day/ | Source: Stanford University    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:46:24

• "beneath the dignity of his office and incompatible with the spirit of the Constitution" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-03-18/montana-senate-handoff-steve-daines-incumbent-arrogance | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:46:52

• "This sort of thing has happened in sports and sports betting for years." ☛ https://www.vox.com/podcasts/483033/polymarket-kalshi-betting-iran-war-assassination-missile-strikes | Source: Vox    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:47:07

• "Fast forward to 2026: America is again in the thick of a Middle Eastern war it does not own, control or understand." ☛ https://dawnmena.org/america-is-bogged-down-against-a-militia-with-a-state/ | Source: Democracy for the Arab World Now    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:47:21

• "traffic cameras in Moscow were vulnerable" ☛ https://thegrayzone.com/2026/03/18/idf-threatens-elimination-for-russian-leaders-who-wish-israel-ill/ | Source: The Gray Zone    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:47:42

• "I am not calling for summary executions. I am calling for trials. Public trials" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/what-should-come-after | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:48:13

• "Let’s Encrypt and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) published the ACME Renewal Information (ARI) standard which makes an endpoint available that provides a recommended window of time for the renewal to occur." ☛ https://letsencrypt.org/2026/03/17/acme-renewal-information-ari.html | Source: Let's Encrypt    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:49:03

• "Additional security is great, but it often comes at a cost. GPG brings a number of usability issues which make managing it at scale, especially for a geographically-diverse team, incredibly difficult." ☛ https://wagtail.org/blog/wagtail-security-gpgectomy/ |    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:49:31

• "Surprising no one, Meta’s new AI glasses are a privacy disaster." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/metas-ai-glasses-and-privacy.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:50:08

• "Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees." ☛ https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/03/03/what-privacy-as-expected-meta-ray-bans-are-a-privacy-disaster | Source: AppleInsider    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:50:21

• "The app works by listening for nearby Bluetooth signals that contain a publicly assigned identifier unique to the Bluetooth device’s manufacturer." ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/nearby-glasses-new-app-alerts-you-wearing-smart-glasses-surveillance-meta-snap-bluetooth/ | Source: TechCrunch    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:50:33

• "Fittingly, one of my translated and summarized decisions finally made it into the weekly newsletter last Thursday!" ☛ https://blog.avas.space/country-reporter-spotlight/ | Source: Ava    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:50:47

• "Public agencies and authorities in Finland will begin sending all official communications through the Suomi.fi portal, starting from Tuesday 14 April." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20215908 | Source: YLE    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:51:01

• Windows TCO: "The package is a pile of shit." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:51:40

• Windows TCO: "computer systems for evidence of cyberattack" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/greek-firms-scan-computer-systems-as-iran-war-raises-cyberattack-risks-sources-say/articleshow/129654465.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:52:01

• "Before that, the Reality Labs division of Meta lost $19.2 billion in 2025. Zuckerberg announced a 30% funding cut to Reality Labs, and Meta’s stock price went up 4%." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/18/facebook-shutting-down-its-horizon-worlds-vr-metaverse/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:52:25

• "Rant of the day: Why is Microsoft not caring about making the LinkedIn app a better app, a better mobile experience? Aren’t they using designers? UX specialists? Even AI?" ☛ https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/18/a-little-rant-about-linkedin.html | Source: Numeric Citizen    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:52:43

• "Already, ​a number of countries across the world are working on plans to curb children's social media access after Australia in December became the world's first country to ban social media for children under 16." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/heavy-social-media-usage-erodes-young-peoples-wellbeing-report-finds/articleshow/129669190.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:52:54

• "engaged in discussions of a potential resolution that ​would mean further proceedings might not be necessary." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/elon-musk-us-sec-in-talks-to-settle-suit-over-2022-twitter-disclosures/articleshow/129646166.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:53:09

• "This is my peers' moment with web development with AI." ☛ https://ohhelloana.blog/overthinking-ai/ | Source: Ana Rodrigues    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:54:22

• "hat you’re seeing in the remarkable chart above is that private sector spending on AI in 2026 is forecast to exceed $700 billion, which is not a number that is easy to think about." ☛ https://www.derekthompson.org/p/yes-ai-is-a-bubble-there-is-no-question | Source: Derek Thompson    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:54:34

• "Following its previous denial, when Claude was confronted with my reading of the log, it accepted that its desktop app had triggered this dialog. Its explanation, though, isn’t convincing: [...]" ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2026/03/17/who-called-git-and-how-claude-was-caught-red-handed/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:54:45

• "It’s like a Trojan Horse of craft: guidelines you might never agree to explicitly are guiding LLM outputs, which means you are agreeing to them implicitly" ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/opacity-of-generative-tools/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:54:57

• "No one is trying to force the Department to contract with Anthropic. Instead, Anthropic is asking only that it not be punished on its way out the door." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/rallying-for-the-future-of-ai-and | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:55:15

• "random text generator" ☛ https://boston.conman.org/2026/03/18.2 | Source: Sean Conner    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:55:43

• "Faiz Siddiqui, writing at what’s left of The Washington Post (Apple News) about the continuing fallout of xAI’s CSAM scandal: [...]" ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/03/tn-teens-grok-lawsuit/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:56:01

• "macOS provides a custom ssh_config option to automatically use the keychain for SSH. This is a seamless integration and allows you to use SSH completely without any agents and still not have to manually type your passphrase." ☛ https://www.netmeister.org/blog/sshkeys-macos-op.html | Source: Jan Schaumann    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:56:30

• "So this blog post is about my painful journey trying to find a nice piece of hardware that works and feels just as good as Apple's hardware as a web developer." ☛ https://blog.johnozbay.com/i-left-apples-ecosystem-for-a-lenovo-chromebook-and-you-can-too.html | Source: John Ozbay    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:56:42

• "I am less certain. You can complain as I did about the adhesive-attached batteries and unrepairable keyboards in the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, but the most recent updates are effectively speed increases with few other changes." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/macbook-neo-repairability-performance/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:56:58

• "Just when you thought systemd couldn’t get any better, we get this discovery by Christine Lemmer-Webber: [...]" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/its-the-vibe-of-systemd/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:57:18

• "This is a useful reframe of our relationship to technology, presented in an arresting way" ☛ https://werd.io/the-last-quiet-thing/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:57:58

• "I thought I was having a spiritual awakening. I was having a psychiatric emergency." ☛ https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-03-18-open_source_gave_me_everything_until_i_had_nothing_left_to_give |    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:58:08

• "Modern processors have the ability to execute many instructions per cycle, on a single core." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/03/18/how-many-branches-can-your-cpu-predict/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:58:31

• "Did I tell you I’m in pain, so you have to pretend my jokes are funny?" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/a-new-thinkpad-unboxing/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:58:46

• "A tidy PC interior is not only nice to look at, but also makes sense. Good cable management ensures better air circulation, facilitates maintenance, and can even extend the service life of individual components in the long term." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3067050/if-you-care-about-your-pc-clean-up-its-cables.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:59:01

• "Some of these tasks were never part of “the market”" ☛ https://www.sicpers.info/2026/03/on-working-machines/ | Source: SICP    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:59:29

• "Also on that stretch of road was the Parkway Central Library run by the Free Library of Philadelphia." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/03/18/library-memories | Source: James G    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:59:40

• "Not every war is yours. Not every point is worth fighting for. What is important is to know when to use your energy to fight." ☛ https://yordi.me/not-every-war-is-yours-to-fight/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 08:59:56

• "The researchers found that children were more likely to play socially and use language expressing emotions when playing with dolls compared with tablets." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-03-dolls-tablets-social-week.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 09:00:08

• "That push to expand the voucher program comes just weeks after Tennessee Governor Bill Lee chose not to apply for millions of dollars in federal summer food assistance, a move that some advocates estimate could affect up to 700,000 children across Tennessee." ☛ https://www.memphisflyer.com/public-education-poisoned-by-choice/ | Source: Memphis Flyer    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 09:00:19

• "Bennett and Brassard famously met in the water off a beach during the 1979 FOCS conference in Puerto Rico. That led to years of collaboration, most notably for their quantum secure key distribution protocol." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/bennett-and-brassard-win-turing-award.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 09:00:42

• "Today I wondered: did Ahmes (the author) have the best possible expansions for all the !!\frac2n!! values, or were there some improvements the Egyptians had missed?" ☛ https://blog.plover.com/2026/03/17/#egyptian-fractions-2 | Source: Mark-Jason Dominus    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 09:00:53

• [Old] "Too many people confuse software innovations with other factors, such as the increasing speed of computer and network hardware." ☛ https://dwheeler.com/innovation/innovation.html | Source: David A Wheeler    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 09:01:22

• "There was a time, roughly 2008 to 2016, when open source felt like a movement with a genuine ethos. Not a business strategy." ☛ https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-03-18-values_i_outgrew_and_the_ones_that_stayed |    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 09:01:35

• "Once you get into fly tying, you accumulate a lot of materials. If you aren’t careful, a lot of that gets thrown into a drawer or a box, which makes that small bag of CDC almost impossible to find." ☛ https://cagrimmett.com/2026/03/17/how-i-organize-my-fly-tying-materials/ | Source: Chuck Grimmett    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 09:01:47

• six   

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 09:02:01

• "Almost six years to the day since I first started freelancing for LibraryPass, when it was just a URL and a landing page with a logo" ☛ https://loudpoet.com/2026/03/17/personal-news-librarypass/ | Source: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 09:02:09

• "There’s only a decade between Lord of the Rings and Dune but the latter is way more post-modern. Not that LotR isn’t pomo, because it is, but Dune takes it a couple of notches further." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/dune | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 09:02:23

• "I have set up a permanent redirect from the old domain to the new one. I won’t be renewing the old domain any further, so the redirects will work till July. Those subscribed to the site via RSS can re-subscribe using the new URL by then to continue receiving posts." ☛ https://orgnizedmess.net/2026/new-internet-home.html | Source: Piya Gehi    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 09:02:34

• "The release delivers 10 JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs), touching on things from HTTP/3 networking support to garbage collection efficiency, cryptographic tooling" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/java-26-performance-ai/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 12:52:17

• "If context weren’t an option, another way to avoid the repeated DB hit would be to cache the session behind something like Redis." ☛ https://rednafi.com/shards/2026/03/user-id-through-context/ | Source: Redowan Delowar    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 12:52:30

• "So context exists for three things: deadlines, cancellation signals, and request-scoped values. Anything that doesn’t fall into one of those three shouldn’t be in a context. The first two are clear enough." ☛ https://rednafi.com/shards/2026/03/what-belongs-in-go-context-values/ | Source: Redowan Delowar    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 12:52:47

• "Requests maintainer Nate Prewitt is planning to add support for type hints to Requests in the next three months." ☛ https://sethmlarson.dev/python-library-requests-is-adding-type-hints-and-needs-your-help | Source: Seth Michael Larson    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 12:53:10

• "A new release of Bio7 is available." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/03/bio7-3-6-released/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 12:54:20

• "I prefer to use the hyphenated task names ($task-name.words.join("-").lc ) as names for my programs." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/token-alphabet.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 12:54:43

• "Bastien Guerry from Software Heritage recently nerd-sniped me with an idea for a git-remote-swh that would let you git clone from a SWHID, pulling source code directly from Software Heritage’s archive by content hash rather than by URL." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/18/git-remote-helpers.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 12:55:07

• "I started writing about patterns because I wanted to put into words what I was seeing in software, and I wonder if, through their broader influence, Alexander’s ideas of “patterns” influenced my thinking even before I knew about them." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/03/18/the-timeless-way-of-building | Source: James G    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 12:55:20

• "I've been trying to use git on the command line more. I think it's a good way to get an understanding of what's actually happening behind the UI." ☛ https://www.neilmacy.co.uk/blog/some-git-stash-commands/ | Source: Neil Macy    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 12:55:36

• "Now let’s see what additional improvements we are getting with C++26." ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/03/18/cpp26-span-improvements | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 12:55:50

• "Zed is promising, and I think they nail a lot of the intangibles that make a product desirable. But it still isn't ready for full-time development work." ☛ https://www.seanmcp.com/articles/zed-still-isnt-ready/ | Source: Sean McPherson    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 12:56:08

• "Big tech companies are laying off workers in the thousands, with CEOs expecting the worst and predicting soaring employment rates among college graduates — while gleefully cutting costs at their companies and not looking back." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-cofounder-analysis-jobs-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 12:56:42

• [Old] "Here are a few ideas." ☛ https://dwheeler.com/essays/law-security.html | Source: David A Wheeler    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 12:57:20

• "With the rise of Actually Idiocy, it’s apparent most people don’t understand or appreciate that." ☛ https://bentsai.org/posts/software-is-people | Source: Ben Tsai    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 12:57:49

• "I’ve been preparing for it. I’ve got like 35 minutes or so, and the concept of modern “entry” and “exit” styles is plenty for that time." ☛ https://chriscoyier.net/2026/03/18/meets-style-sheets/ | Source: Chris Coyier    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 12:58:21

• "It looks like anything fun and creative has been superseded by two tracks of talks - an AI track one day and a security track the next." ☛ https://mitten.lol/blog/2026/03/can-we-talk-about-the-pycon-schedule/ | Source: Laura Fisher    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 12:58:36

• "The event is scheduled for May 19-22 at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, Canada" ☛ https://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/03/hacking-workshop-for-aprilmay-2026.html | Source: Robert Haas    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 12:58:48

• "Mozilla announced via blog post that it’ll be launching Firefox 149 next week" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3092494/firefox-is-rolling-out-its-free-vpn-and-split-screen-mode-soon.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 12:59:59

• "Now, in terms of what to do, I thought that Fraidycat solved the problem for me" ☛ https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/feeding/ | Source: Simone Silvestroni    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:00:32

• "The Thought Catcher uses whisper.cpp for offline speech-to-text." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/phone-free-thought-catcher/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:06:57

• "bring it to life through a costume" ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/03/18/5-fun-sci-fi-ideas-you-can-bring-to-life-with-arduino/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:07:11

• "cybersecurity regulation" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/water-infrastructure-cybersecurity-new-york/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:08:00

• "Asahi Linux is an open-source project that ports Fedora to Apple computers that use Apple's Silicon-powered (AArch64) processors." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12765 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:08:49

• "Many people know, or have heard of, the Motorola 68000 architecture." ☛ http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/m88k1.html | Source: Miod Vallat    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:14:29

• "Too many choices, but I’m determined to align my tech with my ideals and leave the Microsoft world behind." ☛ https://janlukas.blog/thoughts/2026/03/which-distro | Source: Jan-Lukas Else    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:15:02

• "One thing I forgot to mention yesterday was this observation from the Brazilian cybersecurity researcher who emailed me: [...]" ☛ https://boston.conman.org/2026/03/18.1 | Source: Sean Conner    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:16:08

• "I've received several emails about the SYN packets I've been seeing." ☛ https://boston.conman.org/2026/03/17.1 | Source: Sean Conner    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:16:19

• "As someone who really loves DLSS, I gotta say, my first impression of DLSS 5 in these comparisons is that it looks like ass." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/dlss-5-looks-like-ass-and-this-is-coming-from-a-huge-dlss-fan/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:16:47

• [Old] "The Hurd can run on more recent Intel machines, but with no [Internet] connectivity! You can always use the Hurd via qemu." ☛ https://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/faq/drivers/ |    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:17:18

• "We start off by talking about giving presentations and the background to the dark patterns talk." ☛ https://kodsnack.se/international/694/ | Source: Kodsnack    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:17:57

• "This week we dig into ripping Bluerays, best practices for DIY IP camera systems, and your questions answered!" ☛ https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/483 | Source: The Ask Noah Show    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:18:25

• "Apologies to the world" https://soylentnews.org/~mcgrew/journal/20233    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:25:16

• bunnie huang: "Dabao Evaluation Board for Baochip-1x" https://www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao/updates/what-it-is-why-im-doing-it-now-and-how-it-came-about    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:25:32

• "Innocent grandma imprisoned for 6 months due to AI mistake: enough is enough." https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/innocent-grandma-imprisoned-for-6-months:e    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:25:48

• "Apocalyptic Beliefs Are No Longer Fringe—and They're Shaping How People Respond" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/03/17/0827224    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:26:01

• "Putin and Trump for Orbán - by Jay Nordlinger" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/putin-and-trump-for-orban    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:26:23

• "FCC Chairman Threatens To Revoke TV Licenses Over Iran Coverage" https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=26/03/17/0835230    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:26:38

• "One should never work with fascists. The fascists always have their own agenda. And it is never yours." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-world-blinks    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:27:02

• "Donald Trump, Petropresident - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-trump-petropresident    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:27:19

• "Trump Alone - Robert Reich" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-alone    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:27:32

• "Tom the Dancing Bug: Excursions are hell!" https://boingboing.net/2026/03/18/tom-the-dancing-bug-excursions-are-hell.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:37:38

• "Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission elevates religion over rights  — Freedom From Religion Foundation" https://ffrf.org/news/releases/trumps-religious-liberty-commission-elevates-religion-over-rights/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:37:51

• "USS Gerald R. Ford en route to Crete for repairs after fire" https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-uss-gerald-ford-repairs/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:38:07

• "Trump Has Racked Up At Least 157 Extrajudicial Boat Strike Murders In The Last 6 Months" https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/18/trump-has-racked-up-at-least-157-extrajudicial-boat-strike-murders-in-the-last-6-months/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:38:22

• CHEETO "tariffs were ruled illegal. Where’s the refund of $166 billion — plus interest? | Alabama Reflector" https://alabamareflector.com/2026/03/18/repub/trumps-tariffs-were-ruled-illegal-wheres-the-refund-of-166-billion-plus-interest/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:38:50

• "Trump's dire strait: No strategy, no endgame, no allied support? - The Debate - France 24" https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20260318-trump-s-dire-strait-no-strategy-no-endgame-no-allied-support    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:39:06

• "Ingen förlängning av Chat Control 1" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/03/17/ingen-forlangning-av-chat-control-1/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:39:33

• The cassette tax becomes the new memory tax https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/03/18/kassettskatten-blir-ny-minnesskatt/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:39:58

• Private copying compensation https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://regeringen.se/rattsliga-dokument/proposition/2026/03/prop.-202526184    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:40:24

• "Just take a sauna" most played in 2025 https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://www.sydsvenskan.se/noje/bara-bada-bastu-mest-spelad-2025/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:40:54

• "Originally launched in June 2023" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/announcing-ansible-automation-platform-24-end-maintenance-support | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:45:19

• Securing Production Debugging in Kubernetes ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/03/18/securing-production-debugging-in-kubernetes/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:46:08

• Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1063446/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:46:36

• "members took an existing tool to roll out a launcher for openSUSE users that provides a web-based system administration interface, more accessible to users switching from the traditional YaST setup utility." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/03/18/new-launcher-aims-to-simplify-cockpit-installations/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:51:12

• "The refreshed Thelio Mira is offered as a configurable system alongside preconfigured Premium and Elite variants." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/thelio-mira-desktop-updated-with-ryzen-9000-cpus-and-revised-chassis/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:51:44

• keifu – TUI that visualizes Git commit graphs ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/keifu-tui-visualizes-git-commit-graphs/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:52:47

• m5rcode – modern programming language ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/m5rcode-modern-programming-language/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:53:37

• t2sz – compresses a file into a seekable zstd ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/t2sz-compresses-file-seekable-zstd/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:53:50

• btlescan – terminal UI for scanning Bluetooth Low Energy devices ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/btlescan-terminal-ui-scan-bluetooth-low-energy-devices/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:54:22

• Pinchtab – lightweight browser control system designed for Hey Hi (AI) agents ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pinchtab-lightweight-browser-control-system-ai-agents/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:54:40

• 28 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Bioinformatics Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bioinformatics/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:55:00

• TAYGA – out-of-kernel stateless NAT64 implementation ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tayga-out-of-kernel-stateless-nat64-implementation/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:55:11

• RepoRover – universal GNU/Linux package updater ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/reporover-universal-linux-package-updater/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:55:32

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

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:55:43

• 11 Best Free and Open Source Lightweight Graphical Web Browsers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/smallfootprintwebbrowsers/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:56:27

• batctl – battery charge threshold manager for GNU/Linux laptops ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/batctl-battery-charge-threshold-manager-linux-laptops/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:57:20

• Dooble – minimal, scientific, and stable web browser ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dooble-minimal-scientific-stable-web-browser/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:58:37

• Lapse – cross-platform flashcard app ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lapse-cross-platform-flashcard-app/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:58:50

• Best Free and Open Source Media Centers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-media-centers/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:59:29

• Bigcapital – accounting and inventory software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bigcapital-accounting-inventory-software/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 13:59:47

• linuxteck slopfarms issued 4 fake articles in one day    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:00:13

• ubuntupit also 4 pieces of slop in one day    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:00:42

• A Slopfarms Survey for Today (linuxteck.com, linuxsecurity.com, linuxjournal.com) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/18/A_Slopfarms_Survey_for_Today_linuxteck_com_linuxsecurity_com_li.shtml    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:01:11

• UN Creates Open Source Portal ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/UN-Creates-Open-Source-Portal    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:01:40

• Is Manjaro Done? Stick a Fork in It ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/03/is-manjaro-done-stick-a-fork-in-it/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:04:10

• Meet Flow, a Fresh New Browser for GNU/Linux ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/03/meet-flow-a-fresh-new-browser-for-linux/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:04:21

• 5 fun sci-fi ideas you can bring to life with Arduino ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/03/18/5-fun-sci-fi-ideas-you-can-bring-to-life-with-arduino/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:27:19

• OpenAI Cofounder Deletes Controversial Analysis of Which Jobs Are Getting Steam Engined by Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-cofounder-analysis-jobs-ai    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:28:11

• How many branches can your CPU predict? ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/03/18/how-many-branches-can-your-cpu-predict/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:29:12

• It’s the vibe of systemd ☞ https://rubenerd.com/its-the-vibe-of-systemd/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:29:38

• You Might Debate It — If You Could See It ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/opacity-of-generative-tools/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:29:57

• Meta’s Hey Hi (AI) Glasses and Privacy ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/metas-ai-glasses-and-privacy.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:30:31

• IFPI Report Reveals Nearly $32 Billion in 2025 Global Recorded Music Revenue — China Posts 20.1% Growth to Become the World’s Fourth-Largest Market ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/03/18/global-music-industry-revenue-2025/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:31:32

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 643 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/03/18/this-week-in-rust-643/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:33:07

• My Emacs misconceptions ☞ https://box.matto.nl/my-emacs-misconceptions.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:55:35

• PycoClaw – A MicroPython-based OpenClaw implementation for ESP32 and other microcontrollers ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/03/18/pycoclaw-a-micropython-based-openclaw-implementation-for-esp32-and-other-microcontrollers/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:56:13

• Global IP TV Panel 2026MK6 ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202603/global-ip-tv-panel-2026mk6.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:56:56

• Rusbridger says report shows GB News now ‘Reform TV’ ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/rusbridger-says-report-shows-gb-news-now-reform-tv/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:57:53

• Emmanuele Bassi: Let’s talk about Moonforge ☞ https://www.bassi.io/articles/2026/03/17/lets-talk-about-moonforge/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:58:22

• NASA’s Hubble Telescope Spots Comet K1 Exploding Into Fragments ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/science/comet-fragments-hubble-telescope.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:58:56

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Threatens to Do Something Horrible in Africa Unless He Gets a Deal on Precious Minerals ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/trump-africa-zambia    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 14:59:56

• Luxury Cruise Descends Into a Diarrhea Nightmare ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/cruise-norovirus-diarrhea    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:00:22

• Ticks have woken up, so make sure your shots are up to date, says expert ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/18.03.2026-ticks-have-woken-up-so-make-sure-your-shots-are-up-to-date-says-expert.a639317/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:00:33

• Measles outbreak detected in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/18.03.2026-measles-outbreak-detected-in-latvia.a639382/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:00:46

• Running to make butter? ‘Butter run’ challenge churns up social control media in South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/running-to-make-butter-butter-run-challenge-churns-up-social-media-in-south-korea    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:01:16

• ‘Business as usual’ for Iranian shadow fleet passing through South-east Asia, say analysts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/business-as-usual-for-iranian-shadow-fleet-passing-through-south-east-asia-say-analysts    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:02:22

• Despite a supposedly defensive policy, China’s military budget rises fast ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/despite-a-supposedly-defensive-policy-chinas-military-budget-rises-fast/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:02:51

• China Ramps Up Scrutiny of Meta’s Acquisition of Manus ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/technology/china-scrutiny-meta-manus.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:03:18

• Cambodia turns to Singapore, Malaysia for fuel as Vietnam, China restrict supplies ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodia-turns-to-singapore-malaysia-for-fuel-as-vietnam-china-restrict-supplies    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:03:50

• Interview: Pacific islands walk a ‘delicate tightrope’ as China influence rises ☞ https://rfa.org/english/pacific/2026/03/18/pacific-region-china-influence-belt-and-road-graeme-smith/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:04:19

• U.S. robotics companies want federal help to keep Chinese robots out of America’s networks ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/us-robotics-industry-congress-china-competition/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:04:58

• Is It Safe to Inject Gray-Market Chinese Peptides? ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/peptides-china-safety    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:05:28

• Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: Axios, Ladbible, CNBC and Nexstar among latest layoffs ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalism-job-cuts-in-2026-updates/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:05:55

• Lisa Nandy ‘really concerned’ by lack of complaints upheld by IPSO ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/lisa-nandy-really-concerned-by-lack-of-complaints-upheld-by-ipso/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:06:18

• "Gallagher also hit out at government lack of action on SLAPPs and IPSO 'overreach'." ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/tony-gallagher-times-digital-subscribers/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/09/UK_House_of_Lords_Recognises_the_SLAPP_Issue_in_the_UK_and_EFF_.shtml    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:07:25

• Sony Music Says It Just Removed 135,000+ Deepfakes of Its Artists’ Music ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/03/18/sony-music-deepfakes-removal-comments/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:07:53

• Large Medical Cannabis Review Finds Scarce Evidence It Treats Mental Health Disorders ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/large-medical-cannabis-review-finds-scarce-evidence-it-treats-mental-health-disorders    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:08:18

• Quantum Battery Prototype Paves The Way For Almost-Instant Charging ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-battery-prototype-paves-the-way-for-almost-instant-charging    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:08:31

• Something Else Used to Drive Climate Changes, Ancient Ice Cores Reveal ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/something-else-used-to-drive-climate-changes-ancient-ice-cores-reveal    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:08:41

• Hidden Ancient River System Found Deep Under The Surface of Mars ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/hidden-ancient-river-system-found-deep-under-the-surface-of-mars    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:08:53

• Scientists Found a T. Rex Tooth Embedded in Another Dinosaur's Skull ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-found-a-t-rex-tooth-embedded-in-another-dinosaurs-skull    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:09:09

• What Is 'Eye Stroke'? Expert Explains The Rare Wegovy Risk ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/what-is-eye-stroke-expert-explains-the-rare-wegovy-risk    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:09:23

• Cannabis Compounds May Reverse Fatty Liver Disease, Study Suggests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/cannabis-compounds-may-reverse-fatty-liver-disease-study-suggests    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:09:38

• Fed Holds Rates Steady as War in Iran Upends the Economic Outlook ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/business/federal-reserve-interest-rates-inflation.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:10:11

• The Iran War’s Economic Threat to Europe and Asia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/business/iran-war-fiscal-spending-debt.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:10:24

• Samba 4.24.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1063517/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:10:44

• Netanyahu Posts ‘Proof of Life’ Video as Hey Hi (AI) Sows Doubts About What’s Real ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/technology/netanyahu-ai-video-iran-israel.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:11:26

• China not planning to invade Taiwan in 2027: US intelligence report ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-assesses-china-not-planning-to-invade-taiwan-in-2027    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:12:31

• Japan rejects US intelligence assessment of a ‘significant shift’ in its Taiwan stance ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-rejects-us-intelligence-assessment-of-a-significant-shift-in-its-taiwan-stance    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:12:42

• EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.2.3 ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202603/easyos-excalibur-series-version-723.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:16:01

• How Advanced Cluster Management simplifies rule management ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/03/18/how-advanced-cluster-management-simplifies-rule-management    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:16:40

• Vietnamese trio caught setting up ecstasy lab in S. Korea after learning how to make it via Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/vietnamese-trio-caught-setting-up-ecstasy-lab-in-s-korea-after-learning-how-to-make-it-via-chatgpt    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:17:23

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

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:19:11

• Docker Compose: Define and Run Multi-Container Apps ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/docker-compose/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:19:23

• Fedora Asahi Remix 43 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1063451/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:20:07

• Manjaro GNU/Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/manjaro-team-strike/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:20:48

• Nvidia CEO Says Gamers Are Completely Wrong About His New Hey Hi (AI) Feature That Yassifies Games ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-ceo-says-gamers-wrong-ai    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:26:06

• Absurd AI-Powered Lawsuits Are Causing Chaos in Courts, Attorneys Say, “Clogging the System” and Driving Up Costs ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-lawsuits-chaos-courts-lawyers    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:26:32

• Jakarta treaty’s real test may be rhetorical, not military ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/jakarta-treatys-real-test-may-be-rhetorical-not-military/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:31:46

• Keeping Australia’s national-security community fit to avoid strategic surprises ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/keeping-australias-national-security-community-fit-to-avoid-strategic-surprises/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:32:06

• Hormuz disruption highlights importance of food-security resilience ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/hormuz-disruption-highlights-importance-of-food-security-resilience/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:32:23

• China makes energy security ‘reunification’ offer to Taiwan amid Middle East war ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-makes-energy-security-reunification-offer-to-taiwan-amid-middle-east-war    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:33:38

• Hong Kong democracy activist says ‘no enmity’ for Chinese Communist Party ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/03/19/hong-kong-democracy-activist-says-no-enmity-for-chinese-communist-party/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:34:06

• EU Sanctions Chinese, Iranian Firms Supporting Hacking Operations ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/eu-sanctions-chinese-iranian-firms-supporting-hacking-operations/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:38:15

• Teaching your hands to remember: Hapticus and the future of motor learning ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/03/17/teaching-your-hands-to-remember-hapticus-and-the-future-of-motor-learning/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:40:24

• KDE Plasma 6.6.3, Bugfix Release for March ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.3/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:41:17

• Description of SWHID: syntax ☞ https://toscalix.com/2026/03/17/description-of-swhid-syntax/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:41:50

• Privileged Conversations | Apr. 2026 ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/privileged-conversations-apr-2026/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:51:43

• Microsoft considering suing Proprietary Chaffbot Company over Altman's recent deal with Amazon, report claims ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-considering-suing-openai-over-altmans-recent-deal-with-amazon-report-claims-exclusivity-dispute-revolves-around-frontier-multi-agent-service    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:52:43

• Apple Debuts Background Security Improvements With Fresh WebKit Patches ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/apple-debuts-background-security-improvements-with-fresh-webkit-patches/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:53:43

• Join Us at PGDay Armenia 2026 in Yerevan on April 30, 2026 ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/join-us-at-pgday-armenia-2026-in-yerevan-on-april-30-2026-3255/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:54:23

• PGConf.dev 2026 Schedule Announced! ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgconfdev-2026-schedule-announced-3256/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:54:46

• An Unexploded Bomb Near the Colombia-Ecuador Border Leads to a Diplomatic Clash ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/world/americas/colombia-ecuador-bomb-petro-noboa.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:55:57

• Scans for "adminer", (Wed, Mar 18th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32808    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:56:57

• Interesting Message Stored in Cowrie Logs, (Wed, Mar 18th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32810    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:57:17

• US border officials seize 39 pythons being smuggled into Mexico in a tractor ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/us-border-39-pythons-smuggled-into-mexico-in-a-tractor/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:59:00

• Restaurant owner could ‘go broke’ under blue state’s proposed to-go packaging ban, he warns ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/03/19/lifestyle/connecticut-proposed-to-go-packaging-ban-worrying-restaurants/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 15:59:29

• Review of Open Nextion ESP32-S3-based HMI displays with the Arduino IDE and the ESP-IDF framework ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/03/18/review-open-nextion-esp32-s3-based-hmi-displays-with-the-arduino-ide-and-the-esp-idf-framework/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:02:04

• South Korean company following Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot management advice forced to backtrack by court ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/south-korean-company-following-chatgpt-management-advice-forced-to-backtrack-by-court-krafton-improperly-ousted-subnautica-developer-bosses-to-dodge-usd250m-bonus-payout    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:02:55

• Olivier Mehani: Git: ignoring temporary changes ☞ https://blog.narf.ssji.net/2026/03/18/git-ignoring-temporary-changes/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:05:23

• Surge in propofol, ADHD drug prescriptions raises misuse concerns in South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/surge-in-propofol-adhd-drug-prescriptions-raises-misuse-concerns    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:06:37

• Bits from Debian: Debian pt_BR localization team and UFABC's mentoring program ☞ https://bits.debian.org/2026/03/debian-pt-BR-and-ufabc-mentoring-program.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:07:17

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: tidyCpp 0.0.11 on CRAN: Microfix ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/03/18#tidycpp_0.0.11    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:07:50

• Zack Polanski lays out plans to back the “caring majority” in major speech ☞ https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/03/18/zack-polanski-lays-out-plans-to-back-the-caring-majority-in-major-speech/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:08:34

• Ohio Jury Sides With Afroman In High-Profile First Amendment Lawsuit Over ‘Lemon Pound Cake’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/03/18/afroman-wins-lawsuit-vs-cops/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:09:10

• Jakub Steiner: GNOME 50 Wallpapers ☞ https://blog.jimmac.eu/posts/gnome50-wallpapers/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:09:48

• GNOME 50 is Here, and X11 is Finally Gone ☞ https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17301848/gnome-50-release    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:11:19

• GNOME 50 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1063466/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:12:13

• Ozempic Is About to Go Generic in India, China and Canada ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/health/ozempic-wegovy-generic-india-china-canada.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:12:52

• The Tinderbox: A Framework for Skinny-Label Inducement Before the Supreme Court ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/03/the-tinderbox-a-framework-for-skinny-label-inducement-before-the-supreme-court.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:13:30

• BitHarmony video streaming patents prior art found ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/3/16/bitharmony-video-streaming-patents-prior-art-found    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:15:48

• $2,000 for ContactWave messaging patent monopoly prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/3/17/2000-for-contactwave-messaging-patent-prior-art    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:16:15

• Local division Mannheim holds single day hearing for ZTE vs Samsung ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/local-division-mannheim-holds-single-day-hearing-for-zte-vs-samsung/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:16:34

• Reel and Hogan Lovells deflect damages suit in dispute with Fives ELC ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/reel-and-hogan-lovells-deflect-damages-in-dispute-with-fives-elc/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:16:56

• The European Patent Office (EPO) Holds a Public Demonstration Tomorrow and It'll be Live-streamed ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/17/The_European_Patent_Office_EPO_Holds_a_Public_Demonstration_Tom.shtml    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:17:19

• A Step Close to Shutting Down the European Patent Office (EPO) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/18/A_Step_Close_to_Shutting_Down_the_European_Patent_Office_EPO.shtml    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:17:29

• UPC is Still Illegal and Unconstitutional (Kangaroo Court for Patents, Manned by Corporate Staff), Federal Court of Justice of Germany Receives Belated Complaint About It ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/18/UPC_is_Still_Illegal_and_Unconstitutional_Kangaroo_Court_for_Pa.shtml    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:17:39

• He Tried to Rob 6 Banks, Police Say. His Total Takings: $605. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/nyregion/nyc-bank-robber-chase.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:18:16

• Shadow economy still present in Latvia's housing market ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/18.03.2026-shadow-economy-still-present-in-latvias-housing-market.a639337/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:18:31

• Dominion Harbor entity, Sovereign Peak Ventures, image coding patent monopoly prior art found ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/3/17/dominion-harbor-entity-sovereign-peak-ventures-image-coding-patent-prior-art-found https://techrights.org/wiki/Dominion_Harbor/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:19:29

• Taavi Väänänen: Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 ☞ https://taavi.wtf/posts/wikimedia-hackathon-nwe-2026/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:19:59

• "AI Companies" is a misnomber, they are plagiarism vendors ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/ai-companies-fund-open-source-security/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:27:52

• Intel Ends Work On Open-Source kAFL-Fuzzer For Fuzzing VMs ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Ends-kAFL-Fuzzer    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:30:06

• Software Patents: NL Giken video streaming patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/3/17/nl-giken-video-streaming-patent-challenged    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:31:24

• maintenance script changes ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2026/03/18/maintenance-script-changes/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:32:29

• "Crows hold grudges against individual humans for up to 17 years | Urban@UW" https://urban.uw.edu/news/crows-hold-grudges-against-individual-humans-for-up-to-17-years/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:33:12

• Better memory than most humans https://www.earth.com/news/crows-remember-humans-and-hold-grudges-for-up-to-17-years/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:33:33

• USA lost Europe's trust: "Danmark forberedte sig på muligt angreb fra USA: Fløj poser med blod til Grønland og gjorde klar til at sprænge landingsbaner i luften | Grønland | DR" https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/groenland/danmark-forberedte-sig-paa-muligt-angreb-fra-usa-floej-poser-med-blod-til-groenland-og-gjorde-klar    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:34:13

• Denmark will remember for up to 17 years those that attacked it    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:34:59

• In Microsoft LinkedOut too many people fill their profiles with buzzwords like clown and hey hi. The IT "industry" is profoundly sick and hijacked by marketing liars.    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:37:04

• Season of KDE 2026 ☞ https://sayandeep.bearblog.dev/season-of-kde-2026/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:38:06

• LLM Compressor v0.10: Faster compression with distributed GPTQ ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/03/18/llm-compressor-010-faster-compression-distributed-gptq    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:38:53

• 2 Charged With Surveillance for Iran on London’s Jews ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/world/europe/iran-uk-arrests-surveillance.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:39:11

• US publishers see traffic boost for breaking news from Surveillance Giant Google Discover ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/us-publishers-see-traffic-boost-for-breaking-news-from-google-discover/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:39:49

• Researchers discover zero-day DarkSword exploit chain in iOS 18 ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/03/18/researchers-discover-zero-day-darksword-exploit-chain-ios-18/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:40:15

• IBM Red Hat insists on selling slop and plagiarism instead of GNU, Linux etc.    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:41:31

• Court again rules in favour of Bits of Freedom: freedom of choice for Instagram and Facebook (Farcebook) users remains intact ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/court-again-rules-in-favour-of-bits-of-freedom-freedom-of-choice-for-instagram-and-facebook-users-remains-intact/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:54:17

• Artificial Insecurity: how Hey Hi (AI) tools compromise confidentiality ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/artificial-insecurity-how-ai-tools-compromise-confidentiality/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:54:36

• hello @ Savannah: hello-2.12.3 released [stable] ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10867    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:55:12

• GRUB Bootloader Development Moves To FreeDesktop.org ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-GRUB-To-FreeDesktop    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:55:26

• Local-privilege escalation in snapd ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1063453/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:56:38

• GNOME 50 released – this is what’s new ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/gnome-50-released    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:57:26

• FFmpeg 8.1 Released with Rockchip & JPEG-XS Support [Ubuntu PPA] ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/03/ffmpeg-8-1-rockchip-jpeg-xs/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:59:05

• Is Firefox getting a new logo? Mozilla’s socials go purple ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/is-firefox-about-to-get-a-new-logo    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:59:36

• Koritno, Majšperk ☞ https://rubenerd.com/koritno-majsperk/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 16:59:46

• Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/firefox-adding-a-free-vpn    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:00:29

• Stack Overflow is no longer a stack? ☞ https://rubenerd.com/stack-exchange-is-no-longer-a-stack/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:01:12

• Why this blog wastes horizontal space ☞ https://rubenerd.com/why-this-blog-wastes-horizontal-space/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:01:30

• ICO must investigate Reform ‘competition’ for data protection breaches ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/ico-must-investigate-reform-competition-for-data-protection-breaches/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:01:52

• Break privacy to make privacy? Age verification isn’t the answer ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/break-privacy-to-make-privacy-age-verification-isnt-the-answer/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:02:07

• Blender 5.1 Released with Gnome Client-Side Decoration for Wayland ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/03/blender-5-1-released-with-gnome-client-side-decoration-for-wayland/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:02:39

• texmacs @ Savannah: TeXmacs 2.1.5 released ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10866    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:03:10

• Five lessons from three years of risk assessments under the Digital Services Act ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/five-lessons-from-three-years-of-risk-assessments-under-the-digital-services-act/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:05:10

• EDRi-gram, 18 March 2026 ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-18-march-2026/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:05:31

• U.N. Says Attacks on Iran Set to Drive Hunger to Record Levels ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/world/middleeast/iran-strikes-hunger-record-levels.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:06:23

• Energy Facilities Attacked in Iran and Qatar, Sending Prices Soaring ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/business/energy-environment/israel-strikes-south-pars-gas-oil-prices.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:08:01

• Iran Maintains Near-Total Internet Blackout Amid U.S.-Israeli Strikes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/world/middleeast/iran-internet-shutdown.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:08:27

• Strikes Deliver Another Blow to Iran’s Domestic Energy Sites ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/world/middleeast/iran-war-israel-strikes-energy-gas-sites.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:08:52

• Pakistan Pauses Afghanistan Airstrikes for Eid ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/world/asia/pakistan-afghanistan-war-drug-rehabilitation-strikes.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:09:41

• Iranian Missile Attack Leaves 3 Palestinians Dead in West Bank ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/world/middleeast/iran-west-bank-missile-strike.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:10:05

• Rights groups call on new Bangladesh government to prioritize human rights ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/03/rights-groups-call-on-new-bangladesh-government-to-prioritize-human-rights/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:10:42

• Dihydroxyacetone Man's dire strait: No strategy, no endgame, no allied support? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20260318-trump-s-dire-strait-no-strategy-no-endgame-no-allied-support    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:14:08

• 'Not a one-person regime': Why Iran's Islamic Republic is so hard to topple ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260318-iran-regime-change-khamenei-decapitation-strategy-islamic-republic    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:14:18

• US seeks to curb soaring petrol prices ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/us-seeks-to-curb-soaring-petrol-prices    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:15:07

• Iranian Hackers Likely Used Malware-Stolen Credentials in Stryker Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/iranian-hackers-likely-used-malware-stolen-credentials-in-stryker-breach/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:19:26

• Central log collection - more than just compliance ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/other/syslog-ng-central-log-collection-more-than-just-compliance/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:20:31

• ‘DarkSword’ iOS Exploit Kit Used by State-Sponsored Hackers, Spyware Vendors ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/darksword-ios-exploit-kit-used-by-state-sponsored-hackers-spyware-vendors/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:22:50

• Italian Prosecutors Confirm Journalist Was Hacked with Paragon Spyware ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/italian-prosecutors-confirm-journalist-was-hacked-with-paragon-spyware/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:23:24

• is out    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:23:55

• CentOS 10-20260316 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/centos    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:24:09

• GParted 1.8.1-1 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/gparted    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:24:18

• Misleading BS from Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/12.5M-Better-OSS-Security    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:25:10

• Remi Collet: 📝 Valkey version 9.1 🎲 ☞ https://blog.remirepo.net/post/2026/03/18/Valkey-version-9.1    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:26:17

• How to Install GNOME Extensions on Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-gnome-extensions-on-ubuntu-26-04    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:27:20

• GNU/Linux Debian 13 (vm) how to install airllm, openclaw.ai what is picoclaw.io ? the cyber security implications of Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://dwaves.de/2026/03/18/gnu-linux-debian-13-vm-how-to-install-airllm-openclaw-ai-what-is-picoclaw-io-the-cyber-security-implications-of-ai/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:27:38

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

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:28:11

• How To Install Realtek Wifi Drivers on openSUSE ☞ https://idroot.us/install-realtek-wifi-drivers-opensuse/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:28:26

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

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:28:40

• Debian Project Leader Election Underway: Only 1 Candidate, & She's Anti "(Cis)Male" ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/debian-project-leader-election-underway    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:29:01

• Student representation at Berlin’s private Hertie School narrowly voted out of office – but BDS resolution remains in force ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2026/03/18/student-representation-at-berlins-private-hertie-school-narrowly-voted-out-of-office-but-bds-resolution-remains-in-force/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:29:34

• Germany’s largest arms fair approaching: DSEI Germany to be held regularly from next year ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2026/03/18/germanys-largest-arms-fair-approaching-dsei-germany-to-be-held-regularly-from-next-year/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:30:01

• UK Government backs down on plan to weaken copyright monopoly in favour of Hey Hi (AI) firms ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/uk-government-backs-down-on-plan-to-water-down-copyright-in-favour-of-ai-firms/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:30:39

• BMG Files Massive Copyright Suit Against Anthropic — 45-Page Complaint Alleges Training Infringement, Piracy, Unlawful Copying, CMI Removals, and More ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/03/18/bmg-anthropic-lawsuit/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:31:21

• Lithuanian Orthodox Church declares aim for greater independence from Moscow ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2871158/lithuanian-orthodox-church-declares-aim-for-greater-independence-from-moscow    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:43:10

• US federal judge orders Voice of America broadcasting restored ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/03/us-federal-judge-orders-voice-of-america-broadcasting-restored/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:43:43

• Lithuanian PM meets with US envoy on Belarus ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2871407/lithuanian-pm-meets-with-us-envoy-on-belarus    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:44:00

• Belarusian opposition members call for dialogue with Minsk. What’s Lithuania’s move? ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2871332/belarusian-opposition-members-call-for-dialogue-with-minsk-what-s-lithuania-s-move    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:44:13

• Data show marked improvement in Latvia's energy independence ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/18.03.2026-data-show-marked-improvement-in-latvias-energy-independence.a639389/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:44:23

• Under Roman Abramovich, Chelsea Broke Rules for Years, Premier League Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/world/europe/chelsea-soccer-abramovich-premier-league.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:44:37

• Despite Moscow’s Threats, Poland Rules to Extradite Archaeologist ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/world/europe/alexander-butyagin-archaeologist-poland-extradite.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:44:51

• An Abandoned Russian Tanker Is Drifting at Sea. Will Anyone Stop It? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/world/europe/abandoned-russian-tanker-mediterranean-sea.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:53:03

• Ending the deceit that lures Africans into Russia’s war ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0317/Ending-the-deceit-that-lures-Africans-into-Russia-s-war    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:53:23

• Second iOS exploit kit now in use by suspected Russian hackers ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/second-ios-exploit-kit-emerges-from-suspected-russian-hackers-using-possible-u-s-government-developed-tools/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 17:57:43

• This ended up being about the history of Airfix ☞ https://rubenerd.com/this-ended-up-being-about-the-history-of-airfix/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:02:13

• Data shows marked improvement in Latvia's energy independence ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/18.03.2026-data-shows-marked-improvement-in-latvias-energy-independence.a639389/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:05:13

• With Russia Focused on War, China Increases Arms Sales to Africa ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2026/03/with-russia-focused-on-war-china-increases-arms-sales-to-africa/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:06:10

• African Governments Fight to Save Citizens From Russian War Machine ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2026/03/african-governments-fight-to-save-citizens-from-russian-war-machine/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:06:48

• Over 200 Ukrainian Experts in Middle East to Help Fight Drones, Zelensky Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/world/middleeast/ukrainian-experts-in-middle-east-fight-drones.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:07:05

• He Lost a Leg for Russia. Then, He Says, His Country Betrayed Him. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/world/europe/russia-ukraine-prisoner-benefits.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:07:24

• Ukraine seeks release of citizens arrested in India over alleged Myanmar drone activity ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/ukraine-seeks-release-of-citizens-arrested-in-india-over-alleged-myanmar-drone-activity    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:07:34

• Polish Court Approves Extradition Of Russian Archaeologist To Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/poland-court-approval-extradition-russia-archaeologist-butyagin-ukraine-crimea-heritage/33709812.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:08:03

• Lithuanian foreign minister: No return to normal ties with Russia ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2871073/lithuanian-foreign-minister-no-return-to-normal-ties-with-russia    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:08:40

• Kharkiv's opera and ballet theatre performances continue despite war ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/kharkiv-s-opera-and-ballet-theatre-performances-continue-despite-war    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:09:14

• Why Hungary's Viktor Orban is vilifying Ukraine before crucial elections ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260318-why-viktor-orban-is-vilifying-ukraine-before-crucial-parliamentary-elections    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:09:39

• European leaders seek breakthrough on €90bn Ukraine loan blocked by Viktor Orban ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260319-european-leaders-seek-breakthrough-on-%E2%82%AC90bn-ukraine-loan-blocked-by-viktor-orban    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:09:55

• "Current IBMer here. Thank you for letting us know that the grass can be greener on the other side of Big Blue." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kkygjcqz    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:11:13

• "He just posted a picture for St. Patrick’s Day, and look who’s in the background! You really can’t make this up, no? Come on—this is pretty blatant favoritism at this point, and he’s not even trying to hide it anymore." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg3ctq05    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:14:05

• IBM plunder. "WTF does Gary Cohn even do? Has anyone seen this guy at an IBM office or client site over the last 3 years?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1km0rz1w4    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:15:08

• "IBM has a geriatric Board of Directors with an average age close to 70. Arvind has these people wheeled out of their nursing home, drooling all over themselves, so they can rubber stamp his decisions and sign off on the compensation package."    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:15:33

• thelayoff.com casually and nonchalantly deleting entire on-topic and vibrant threads for no apparent reason and without prior notice (page just zapped)... hence we need copies/backups and sometimes screenshots    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:19:30

• Advantech MIC-770 V3W now certified on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/advantech-mic-770-v3w-now-certified-on-ubuntu-24-04-lts    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:29:02

• [Podcast] bgproutes.io: A next-generation BGP data collection platform ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/03/19/podcast-bgproutes-io-a-next-generation-bgp-data-collection-platform/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:31:27

• The mission problem: northern universities need to serve their communities ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-mission-problem-who-are-northern-universities-here-to-serve/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:32:01

• Tiktok ‘Lion Cubs’ Lure Children to War ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2026/03/tiktok-lion-cubs-lure-children-to-war/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:33:10

• DSA vs. Reality: Are children safer online? ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/dsa-vs-reality-are-children-safer-online/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:33:49

• snapd https://securityaffairs.com/189614/security/cve-2026-3888-ubuntu-desktop-24-04-vulnerable-to-root-exploit.html    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:38:08

• 4 obscure Linux apps I use all the time https://www.howtogeek.com/4-obscure-linux-apps-i-use-all-the-time/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:41:14

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:41:59

• "COSMIC has evolved into a completely new desktop environment built from scratch. Not a theme, not a fork, but an entirely new stack, largely written in Rust and designed around modern Linux workflows. Naturally, my curiosity won." https://www.makeuseof.com/replaced-gnome-with-cosmic-on-ubuntu-feels-like-future-of-linux/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:42:05

• Slop about slop googlebombing "Linux" https://www.techradar.com/pro/this-is-as-big-of-a-deal-as-html-as-big-of-a-deal-as-linux-nvidia-nemoclaw-looks-to-make-openclaw-safer-and-more-effective-for-business-use    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:43:30

• Linux phones could get even better with postmarketOS ‘Duranium’ https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-phones-could-get-even-better-with-postmarketos-duranium/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:44:51

• The System76 Thelio Mira is the new Linux desktop workstation to beat https://www.howtogeek.com/the-system76-thelio-mira-is-the-new-linux-desktop-workstation-to-beat/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:45:21

• This classic chat app was way ahead of its time, and it's still alive 25 years later https://www.howtogeek.com/this-classic-chat-app-was-way-ahead-of-its-time-and-its-still-alive-years-later/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:47:02

• "The X11 session has been completely removed as GNOME goes Wayland-only, but running X11 apps and other X11 sessions is still supported." https://9to5linux.com/gnome-50-tokyo-desktop-environment-officially-released-this-is-whats-new    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:47:48

• "This release introduce support for the Mac Pro and support for microphones in M2 Pro/Max MacBooks." https://9to5linux.com/fedora-asahi-remix-43-released-for-apple-silicon-macs-with-kde-plasma-6-6    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:48:13

• Vadzo Imaging Demonstrates Production-Ready 13MP MIPI CSI-2 Camera Integration on Raspberry Pi 5 https://www.newswire.com/news/vadzo-imaging-demonstrates-production-ready-13mp-mipi-csi-2-camera-integration    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:48:42

• Nope, they do the opposite https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/18/linux-foundation-open-source-security-12-5-million-funding/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:49:32

• This Linux feature is why I’m not scared of updates anymore (and Windows should copy it) https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-feature-why-not-scared-of-updates-anymore-windows-should-copy/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:50:14

• 4 ways to run a full Linux desktop on your Android phone https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-run-a-full-linux-desktop-on-your-android-phone/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:51:05

• "Modern Mac computers have a heavily-customized ARM architecture called Apple Silicon, instead of a standard x86 PC platform, and the Asahi Linux project has spent countless hours on porting desktop Linux to that hardware. Now, the flagship Linux distribution based on Asahi’s work has just been updated with some helpful improvements." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-on-apple-silicon-mac-computers-gets-better-with-fedora-asahi-remix-43/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:51:39

• Misleads about the real purpose and root cause https://pulse2.com/linux-foundation-12-5-million-raised-for-open-source-security-initiative/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:53:01

• Mastering the Linux file system: My go-to commands and tips https://www.howtogeek.com/mastering-the-linux-file-system-go-to-commands-and-tips/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:53:21

• Taking bribes from the culprits to shift attention (PR) https://www.opensourceforu.com/2026/03/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-defence-against-ai-bug-surge/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:54:06

• Linux Foundation reputation laundering for Microsoft et al: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/18/linux_foundation_ai_slop_defense/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:55:49

• Fork = Freedom https://itsfoss.com/news/manjaro-team-strike/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:56:21

• Mesa 26.1-devel adds PS5 GPU support as AMDGPU patches follow https://videocardz.com/newz/ps5-linux-hack-leads-to-first-mesa-update-for-sony-gpu    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:57:01

• My Linux setup kept breaking after updates — until I realized updates weren't the problem at all https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-kept-breaking-after-updates-until-realized-updates-werent-problem/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:58:01

• """When the best theory is that sailors tried to burn their way off the mission, maybe the problem isn't the sailors.""" https://boingboing.net/2026/03/19/navy-probes-whether-exhausted-sailors-set-fire-to-13b-warship-to-go-home.html ("Navy probes whether exhausted sailors set fire to $13B warship to go home")    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 18:59:28

• Linux gives users too much choice, and that its biggest weakness https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-gives-users-too-much-choice-and-that-its-biggest-weakness/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 19:01:52

• "Think Arch Linux is too hard? 5 myths that are officially dead in 2026" https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-gatekeeping-arch-myths-that-belong-in-the-past/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 19:03:57

• "I recently expanded my website beyond the traditional internet and brought it onto two alternative networks: Yggdrasil and I2P." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/SavaRocks/39962 gemini://station.martinrue.com/sava/9a3b95d5c93c4f46a93a42f0cce7682e    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 19:05:35

• "Yggdrasil is a peer-to-peer IPv6 mesh network. Each node connects directly to others and participates in routing traffic across the network. There are no central servers and no traditional DNS. Instead, every node has a stable IPv6 address derived from its cryptographic key." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/joining-the-invisible-web/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 19:11:18

• 🖼️ xkcd: Landscape Features #3221 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3221.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 19:11:54

• "Presumably each parent knows the PID of its direct children as those PID are returned by the fork(2) call. Each parent must handle a signal and in turn raise a signal with its children." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/03/19/kad.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 19:12:37

• 2025 Week 49-2026 Week 11: Photos gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202603/20260319-2025-week-49-2026-week-11-photos.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 19:13:12

• "I failed the intelligence quiz. They think it is simple, but for me it's impossible. If It focuses on a specific pattern, specific “words” they said. The test starts easy, however, as more time passes and the more questions I complete, the more incomprehensible the questions are." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2799    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 19:15:04

• MS Lunduke: "SystemD has added birth date storage in order to comply with Brazil and California Age Verification laws. Let that sink in. A Linux init system now handles Age Verification." SystemD = Microsoft https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/18/systemd_Increasingly_Microsoft_Project_Controlled_by_Microsoft_.shtml    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 20:48:44

• "Moderators of the r/Linux subreddit are now censoring posts which talk about Age Verification. Not only are posts being removed, but I’ve heard from multiple Reddit users who have been banned from r/Linux for expressing opposition to Age Verification."    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 20:49:44

• GNU/Linux up https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/saudi-arabia/#monthly-200902-202603    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 20:53:11

• Windows down by a lot https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/zambia/#monthly-200902-202603    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 20:54:04

• Crystal Dynamics Cuts 20 Workers in Yet Another Round of Layoffs https://www.techpowerup.com/347547/crystal-dynamics-cuts-20-workers-in-yet-another-round-of-layoffs?amp    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 20:55:44

• Ubisoft pulls the plug on Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon creator studio, begins mass layoffs https://www.neowin.net/news/ubisoft-pulls-the-plug-on-rainbow-six-and-ghost-recon-creator-studio-begins-mass-layoffs/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 20:56:17

• Ubisoft announces layoffs and the cease of game development at Red Storm Entertainment https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ubisoft-announces-layoffs-and-the-cease-of-game-development-at-red-storm-entertainment    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 20:56:44

• Ubisoft lays off 105 devs from Tom Clancy studio after canceling two of its games — development of new titles is ending completely https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/ubisoft-lays-off-105-devs-from-tom-clancy-studio-after-canceling-two-of-its-games    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 20:57:12

• Blame "hey hi", as usual https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/crypto-com-cuts-12-of-staff-as-ai-reshapes-crypto-industry    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 20:58:21

• "Ultimately, the internet needs a place where we can trust the content and the people behind it. We're going to figure out how to build it." Slop and spam. Site deleted. https://digg.com/    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 21:01:17

• In a Fidelious Land of Pilferage gemini://ardea.smol.pub/2026-03-19-inafideliouslandofpilferage    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 22:34:16

• after dinner gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/after_dinner    

posted Thursday, March 19, 2026 at 22:35:07