Roy Schestowitz

• iophk: keep in mind there is neither treatment nor cure for malignant narcissism    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 05:10:28

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-03-20.gmi    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 05:11:13

• "Last week I finally stopped hemming and hawing, and did some recording with the intention of sending it out. Set up my pedals, my amp, my mic, my laptop. Wrote down my plan for the recording. Practiced it a few times." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/3-19.gmi    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 05:12:09

• "I want to establish an online presence in these smolnet circles. I think about whether I want to do so on Gopher or Gemini, whether it's enough to simply write within the Tilde.team server, whether I ought to have my own domain and perhaps purchase a VPS or figure out how to run a local server on a spare device..." gemini://tilde.team/~nyoki/gemlog/2026-03-18-people-over-technology.gmi    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 05:12:52

• "It's 7:00pm and I'm having a blast computing in Emacs. I started by looking at the source code of Elpher, the client I'm using to read Gopher and Gemini (mainly Gemini because truth be told I still find Gopher somewhat scary and confusing)." gemini://tilde.team/~nyoki/gemlog/2026-03-18-digital-identity-bifurcation.gmi    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 05:13:28

• "Today John Gruber shared Shubham Bose's The 49MB Web Page blog post, which I have mirrored here to Gemini. Bose's work is published under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license." gemini://tilde.team/~nyoki/gemlog/2026-03-18-your-frustration-is-the-product.gmi    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 05:14:13

• "In the most stupid of ways I have injured myself while eating lunch today. I had a fortune cookie and the way I bit into it made a piece of the cookie stab the inside of my lower gums. I started bleeding and I now type this with gauze in my mouth, unable to speak, salivating like crazy, annoyed at my clumsiness." gemini://tilde.team/~nyoki/gemlog/2026-03-18-fortune-cookie-injury.gmi    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 05:15:06

• "Today I learned how to use IRC within Emacs. Over on a separate buffer I've got a chat going. And here I am learning how to once again write in this capsule. For some time this capsule (hosted on tilde.team) was down. Not sure if it was my computer or something on the server... but things seem to be working now and I want to take advantage of that." gemini://tilde.team/~nyoki/gemlog/2026-03-17-return-to-gemini.gmi    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 05:15:52

• "What customer is going to pay $$$$$$$!!! for Z services anymore- any cfo would either shoot their cio or make the squeeze the service provider." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kkmbhpt2#replies    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 05:27:00

• "I will copy this email to GNU Webmasters." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-03/msg00001.html GAFAM killing Ogg http://techrights.org/n/2026/03/17/GAFAM_Deprecating_Old_Videos_Content_by_Removing_the_Support_fo.shtml    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 06:19:51

• "On this page, we’ve already discussed how to choose a license for free and open-source software. But it’s far more interesting to hear what Richard M. Stallman himself has to say about it." https://www.instagram.com/p/DWD6DLICOYY/?img_index=3    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 06:22:07

• Microsoft systemd starting to store birthDate https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=62715 https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/18/systemd_Increasingly_Microsoft_Project_Controlled_by_Microsoft_.shtml    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 06:23:20

• Cheeto: we started a war to help fund Putin's war https://www.dw.com/en/us-allows-india-s-russian-oil-purchases-again/a-76250096    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 06:34:07

• Internet Freedom Protection Day https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/12/russia-digital-iron-curtain-falls-on-internet-freedom-protection-day    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 06:34:30

• 'Shameless Corruption' https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-tiktok-deal-controversy-1785538    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 06:36:14

• Insta, TikTok and Co.: Is Australia's Social Media Ban for Children Actually Working? https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/insta-tiktok-and-co-is-australias-social-media-ban-for-children-actually-working-a-e546c2d9-d7e1-4d88-a0c3-ff888c071276    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 06:36:39

• Home Remedies https://xkcd.com/3217/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 06:36:59

• Subduction Retrieval https://xkcd.com/3218/    

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

• Planets and Bright Stars https://xkcd.com/3219/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 06:37:34

• Did Nexi realise 'FSFE' imitates another org? https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260316-01.en.html https://techrights.org/o/2020/08/22/fsf-fsfe-dispute/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 06:40:15

• Companies like these are not "community" https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202603.en.html https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/13/Microsoft_Sponsored_FSFE_is_Exploiting_the_Success_of_Jean_Bapt.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/30/Almost_Half_of_the_FSFE_s_Money_the_Fake_FSF_Misusing_the_Brand.shtml    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 06:41:30

• attestation https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/2026/episode-48.en.html https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/25/They_Try_to_Ruin_Linux_Too_Attestation_in_GNU_Linux.shtml    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 06:41:52

• "New SparkyLinux 2026.03 'Tiamat' ISO images are available. This release is based on the Debian 'Forky'" https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-2026-03/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 06:42:33

• Distribution Release: GLF OS 25.11 https://framagit.org/gaming-linux-fr/glf-os/glf-os/-/releases/Phoenix_Pulsar    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 06:43:17

• "After the news dropped, the OSI, FSF, and Linux Foundation must have realised their mistake in not reacting in time and hopefully will come into action for the many distributions and other FOSS projects, like us, that don’t have Californian or US legal representation." https://endeavouros.com/news/whats-new-in-endeavouros-titan-release/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 06:44:10

• UCS 5.2-5 Released https://www.univention.com/blog-en/2026/03/ucs-5-2-5-released/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 06:45:12

• LinuxHub Prime 2026.03.10 https://linuxhub.link/changelog.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 06:46:12

• GNU/Linux 8% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/nauru/#monthly-200902-202603 http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/21/GNU_Linux_Measured_at_Almost_10_This_Year_in_Nauru_a_Pacific_Is.shtml    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:08:10

• Slop, not "AI" http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/03/are-ai-generated-materials-legally.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:22:11

• Making a mockery of the legal system http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/03/is-authorship-inherently.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:22:44

• Guest Post - From Belgian Speculoos biscuits to one of the world’s most popular brands http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/03/guest-post-from-belgian-speculoos.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:23:12

• We are in a digital version of the enclosures https://theconversation.com/we-are-in-a-digital-version-of-the-enclosures-like-the-landowners-big-tech-has-power-without-responsibility-276926    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:26:38

• Scandinavians cycle to work even on snowy days, here’s why that makes sense https://theconversation.com/scandinavians-cycle-to-work-even-on-snowy-days-heres-why-that-makes-sense-276567    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:27:00

• EUIPO is a source of corruption, cocaine, and nepotism, nothing with authority in the area of feminism http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/03/breitling-for-women-more-like-bad-faith.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:32:37

• A twist too functional: General Court rejects hand-grip corkscrew trade mark http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-twist-too-functional-general-court.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:33:00

• Dancer 2.1.0 Released https://blogs.perl.org/users/jason_a_crome/2026/03/dancer-210-released.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:33:32

• Foswiki 2.1.11 is released https://blogs.perl.org/users/nuddlegg/2026/03/foswiki-2111-is-released.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:34:08

• SIPRI https://www.dw.com/en/europe-tops-global-arms-imports-sipri-reports/a-76261906    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:35:01

• Volkswagen https://www.dw.com/en/volkswagen-group-profits-take-big-hit-on-porsche-shift/a-76287744    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:36:27

• The Easiest Way to Run WhatsApp as a Native App on Linux https://www.maketecheasier.com/whatsie-unofficial-whatsapp-desktop-client-linux/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:37:24

• Fedora Magazine: JSFX on Fedora Linux: an ultra-fast audio prototyping engine https://fedoramagazine.org/jsfx-on-fedora-linux-an-ultra-fast-audio-prototyping-engine/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:38:52

• Fedora Magazine: Customize Fedora Linux Workstation with Extension Manager https://fedoramagazine.org/customize-fedora-linux-workstation-with-extension-manager/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:39:14

• Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (11/2026): Input, Budgets and Widgets https://linmob.net/weekly-update-11-2026/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:39:58

• Happy spring Equinox    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:51:47

• "In a lawsuit filed in federal court in California, BMG claims Anthropic used lyrics from artists including Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars, Ariana Grande, and the Rolling Stones to train its Claude chatbot without authorization." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bmg-anthropic-copyright-lawsuit-justin-bieber-bruno-mars-1235533474/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:56:00

• "The government has published a report on copyright and AI and a separate impact assessment [PDF] that points to an estimate from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/19/uk_ai_copyright/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:56:19

• "It found AI models to be quite knowledgeable about current news stories. But in queries involving web searches, they provided no source attribution in 82% of the responses." ☛ https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2026/03/19/local-journalism-crisis-AI-theft/index.html | Source: Northwestern University    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:56:32

• "U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer sat down with their respective teams" ☛ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/usmca-negotiations-canada-united-states-mexico/ | Source: Mexico News Daily http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Software_Patents_and_USMCA_or_NAFTA.shtml    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:58:01

• Patents ☛ https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2026-03-18/mexicos-economy-secretary-our-vision-in-the-usmca-is-to-reduce-dependence-on-other-regions.html | Source: El País    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:58:18

• "Lobbying group Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe on Thursday urged EU antitrust regulators to temporarily stop Broadcom from ending its VMware Cloud Service Provider programme in Europe" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/broadcom-hit-with-eu-antitrust-complaint-and-request-for-interim-measure/articleshow/129685034.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:59:08

• "interim measures blocking Broadcom" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/19/cispe_eu_complaint_vmware_vcsp_closure/ | Source: The Register UK https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Debt_of_Broadcom_Grew_by_More_Than_50_Broadcom_is_Deeper_in_Deb.shtml    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:59:20

• "French state owned contractor" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/work-on-internet-cable-project-in-persian-gulf-paused-due-to-iran-war/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 07:59:52

• "The New York Times has started blocking the Internet Archive's web crawlers, going beyond standard robots.txt rules to cut off access" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/03/18/the-nyt-is-blocking-the-internet-archive-thats-a-mistake.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:00:10

• "A Yazidi woman who was held as a sex slave by the Islamic State group testified Thursday before a French court" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/yazidi-woman-tells-french-court-of-rape-slavery-and-escape-from-is-1809625136 | Source: RTL    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:00:42

• "A Yazidi woman held as a sex slave by the Islamic State (IS) group recounted her harrowing ordeal before a French court Thursday" ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260319-yazidi-woman-recounts-rape-slavery-and-escape-from-is-in-french-court | Source: France24    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:01:00

• "Justice Elena Kagan refused on Thursday to pause a massive copper mining project" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/last-hope-to-save-apache-sacred-land-fizzles-out-at-supreme-court/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:01:28

• "The media won’t admit it, but the anti-ICE protesters in cities across the country like Minneapolis, Chicago and Los Angeles, won big." ☛ https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/kristi-noems-replacement-bows-to | Source: Ken Klippenstein    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:01:45

• "Afroman found not liable in bizarre Ohio defamation case" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/03/today-in-acab-afroman-defeats-officer-lemon-pound-cake/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:02:15

• "Following the debacle, Afroman turned lemons into lemonade, transforming footage of the botched raid into a series of music videos" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/afroman-trial-lemon-pound-cake-video-1235533623/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:02:42

• "the defamation trial brought by seven Adams County, Ohio deputies against rapper Afroman" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/19/afroman-wins-jury-rules-mocking-cops-who-raided-your-home-is-protected-speech/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:02:58

• "On Wednesday, an Ohio jury sided with rapper Afroman in a lawsuit filed against him by sheriff’s deputies who took issue with the artist" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/03/18/afroman-wins-lawsuit-vs-cops/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:03:18

• "Kevin Baron, another Stars and Stripes reporter, was similarly shocked by the development and noted that the publication was set up to have editorial independence, not to be a mouthpiece for the Pentagon." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pentagon-bans-stars-and-stripes-pete-hegseth-b2942143.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:04:19

• "Israeli authorities must end the use of violence against journalists on assignment who are clearly identifying themselves as press" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/03/at-least-3-journalists-assaulted-by-israeli-police-in-jerusalem/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:04:43

• "The second phase of the study is based on focus groups with citizens, influential individuals, and media professionals. The research aims to analyze regional perspectives on the current situation regarding media and democracy." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/future-of-media-research-results-to-be-presented-in-online-event-317837 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:04:56

• "The mystery deepened further on March 19 with reports that Remeslo had been admitted to a St. Petersburg psychiatric hospital" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-blogger-putin-criticism-remeslo-hospital/33710904.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:07:26

• "Mobile [Internet] outages across Russia are leading to needless deaths from Ukrainian attacks" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/03/19/internet-outages-costing-russian-lives-belgorod-governor-warns-a92271 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:07:47

• "criminal defamation" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/03/uganda-declares-criminal-defamation-unconstitutional-strikes-down-cybercrime-law/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:08:00

• two sw patents: "Walmart wins patents to give algorithms more sway over prices" https://www.ft.com/content/8c2338dc-9e2e-4561-955a-c2a6a6c4d28e ^ paywall    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:27:50

• "The problem is that, not matter how much you and I say we would want that sort of thing, there is no incentive for companies to actually do it." ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/posts/stable-products-that-just-work | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:28:20

• "Look a little closer, though, and the numbers tell a different story." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ceo-investor-bullshit/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:28:33

• "Until recently, the philosophical zombie was a concept closely associated with Australian philosopher David Chalmers" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tldr/897566/marc-andreessen-is-a-philosophical-zombie | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:28:57

• "The company’s flagship tool, uv, is a Python package manager. It enables developers to download open-source Python code components, or packages, and integrate them into their software projects." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/03/19/openai-acquires-open-source-python-tooling-startup-astral/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:29:13

• "In other words, people have come to believe that the capitalist system will not tolerate any greater interventions into its operation. The good news is that we have not found any good evidence that this is true" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/03/capitalism-wealth-redistribution-political-economy/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:29:40

• "Then, the landmark ruling came. The Supreme Court in February demolished many of Trump’s tariffs as illegal, including the ones that led to my $45 penguin bill." ☛ https://www.vox.com/policy/482933/trump-tariffs-refunds-argentine-penguin | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:29:51

• "The Wall Street Journal suggests his payout could top $800 million, though I think they’re double counting potential tax reimbursement." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/19/david-zaslav-will-soon-get-550-million-for-disastrous-warner-bros-reign/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:30:06

• "The Russian Orthodox Church is slowly but surely gaining a foothold in Africa. Experts say Russia is using its expansion as a form of ideological soft power." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/russian-orthodox-church-makes-inroads-in-africa/a-76383940 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:30:31

• "Virve uses the same telecom radio towers as commercial customers." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20216117 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:39:09

• "The e-scooters' apps feature live maps, which among other things show where the no-parking zones are." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20216155 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:39:21

• "There has been quite a bit of news recently about the Battle Born LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries and how they are dying in droves if not outright melting their plastic enclosures." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/03/19/studying-a-battle-born-lfp-batterys-death-under-controlled-conditions/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:39:35

• "The company plans to install a massive ground-mounted solar array alongside its upcoming LEGO Manufacturing Virginia site, signaling a broader push to align industrial operations with renewable energy targets in the United States." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/energy/lego-virginia-factory-solar-energy-plan | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:40:00

• "The climate crisis is exacerbating the problem, according to a new report from the UN." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/19/women-and-girls-bearing-brunt-of-water-shortages-globally-un-warns | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:40:26

• "For a century, oil companies dredged canals through coastal wetlands, dissecting marshes to get to and from wells" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/big-oil-knew-it-was-wrecking-louisianas-coast-records-show/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:40:47

• "As the paleontology community reckons with the fallout of these revelations" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/radio/epstein-sciences-paleontology-9.7128103 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:41:16

• Overpopulation ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/03/18/health-ministry-advises-psychological-consultations-for-women-without-pregnancy-plans-a92255 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:41:48

• "As Beijing has been ramping up influence in the Pacific" ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/pacific/2026/03/18/pacific-region-china-influence-belt-and-road-graeme-smith/ | Source: RFA    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:44:13

• "The version that advanced to the governor, House Bill 2299, applies to both public and private schools." ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2026/03/19/kansas-joins-states-that-ban-students-from-using-their-phones-in-school/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:44:26

• "Trump has achieved in only one year what other countries with similar trends have taken a decade to achieve, the report says." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/trump-is-destroying-us-democracy-at-unprecedented-rate-global-watchdog-finds/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:44:42

• "You are, in some ways, the most powerful people who have ever lived in the history of human civilization." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/an-open-letter-to-members-of-the | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:45:13

• "The world you are leaving for them right now is on fire." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-letter-to-the-american-people | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:45:23

• "These are people who aren't even bright enough to know what they're upset about" ☛ https://karlbode.com/trump-goons-demand-unwavering-media-support-for-their-shitty-unpopular-war/ | Source: Karl Bode    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:45:32

• "As a NATO member" ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/if-russia-wins | Source: The Next Move    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:45:42

• "I Love Hitler" ☛ https://www.jezebel.com/college-republicans-cry-free-speech-after-chapter-gets-shut-down-for-nazi-salutes | Source: Paste Media Group    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 08:45:56

• "Why this matters: Municipalities across the US are quietly adopting surveillance technologies in rapidly growing numbers with over 80,000 cameras already out on the streets." ☛ https://alpr.watch/ |    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:00:56

• "In a feature the dating app says is set to roll out in the U.S. later this spring, Tinder plans to access users' camera rolls to pick photos and determine what they're into." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/03/tinder-to-ai-your-dick-pix/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:01:15

• "North Oaks has managed to largely stay unmapped on Street View because of the way the city handles its streets." ☛ https://www.404media.co/mapping-googles-unmappable-city/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:01:32

• "North Oaks, Minnesota is the only city in the United States that is not on Google Maps Street View." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/03/the-best-privacy-money-can-buy/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:01:48

• "Of course Apple isn’t at fault here – it’s the ridiculously overstepping UK Online Safety Bill so it’s just us in the UK that will be dealing with this (for now)." ☛ https://ljpuk.net/2026/03/19/begun-the-uk-age-verification-wars-have/ | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:02:53

• "Since the Supreme Court decision in Spencer in 2014" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/03/the-hidden-lawful-access-tradeoff-how-bill-c-22-lowers-the-evidentiary-standards-for-police-access-to-subscriber-information/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:10:00

• "The authority will expire on April 20 without congressional action." ☛ https://therecord.media/us-intel-chiefs-urge-lawmakers-to-extend-section-702 | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:10:12

• "So in the end I restored all the auths I needed to, but not before I had a fun 20 minutes of mild panic." ☛ https://gilest.org/notes/2026/codes/ | Source: Giles Turnbull    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:18:11

• "This isn't the only Musk-related legal battle playing out right now. He's facing scrutiny on multiple fronts, from Tesla shareholder disputes to his role in government." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/03/18/closing-arguments-begin-in-twitter-shareholder-trial-over-musks-stock-manipulation.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:18:49

• "Now, contrary to the fools at Digg, I know how the web works" ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/social-media-reimagined | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:19:36

• "Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company." ☛ https://www.404media.co/rip-metaverse-an-80-billion-dumpster-fire-nobody-wanted/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:20:02

• "Reality Labs, the division behind Horizon Worlds, Quest hardware, and related tech, has been a financial black hole for Meta." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/03/19/zuckerberg-meta-horizon-worlds/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:20:32

• "The popular online gaming platform Fortnite is hiking the price of its in-game currency starting Thursday" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/fortnite-hiking-prices-lawsuits-google-apple-9.7132225 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:20:49

• "Microsoft will gladly pay you tomorrow for a token today." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/19/companies-go-full-ai-then-the-bill-comes-due/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:22:29

• "The reason comprehension debt is so dangerous is that nothing in your current measurement system captures it." ☛ https://bentsai.org/posts/performative | Source: Ben Tsai    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:22:49

• "You’re reducing a massive human workload of tens of thousands of hours into seconds and minutes. You’re reducing workflows, and you’re automating human-made targeting decisions in ways which open up all kinds of problematic legal, ethical and political question" ☛ https://truthout.org/video/the-pentagon-is-using-palantir-ai-to-bomb-thousands-of-targets-in-iran/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:23:05

• "Ransomware crims are among those abusing this critical flaw, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/18/amazon_cisco_firewall_0_day_ransomware/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:29:21

• "CISO of Amazon Integrated Security" ☛ https://therecord.media/cisco-ransomware-interlock-firewalls | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:29:59

• [Old] "With Windows, at least for me, the real lock-in was never the Start Menu." ☛ https://thatshubham.com/blog/windows10 | Source: Shubham Bose    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:30:12

• "The World Happiness Report 2026 has once again raised a red flag about social media, especially how it affects teenagers." ☛ https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/world-happiness-report-social-media-teens-unhappy-137479034.html |    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:30:45

• "my biggest game-changer was, whether it be a habit, way of thinking, purchase, or change" ☛ https://herman.bearblog.dev/becoming-a-day-person/ | Source: Herman Martinus    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:30:55

• "when everyone is building extremely smart software, which solves complex problems in a blink of an eye, there is a company that announces a new luxury calculator." ☛ https://victor.kropp.name/blog/2026/casio-s100x/ | Source: Victor Kropp    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:49:12

• "Manufactured in Sweden in the 1960s (not mine, obviously) and visible on virtually everyone on the commute, this hardy rucksack is big enough for everything I need without being overly big." ☛ https://thomasrigby.com/posts/review-fj%C3%A4llraven-k%C3%A5nken-backpack-mustard/ | Source: Thomas Rigby    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:49:28

• "The drive’s connector is a pattern of pads on a flexible PCB, one he couldn’t help noticing had a striking resemblance to an obscure SD card variant." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/03/19/reading-the-worlds-smallest-hard-drive/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:49:40

• "I just finished grading my second final exam, so I am done with the winter quarter (other than filing grades with the university)." ☛ https://ambersettle.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/the-bright-lights/ | Source: Amber Settle    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:51:38

• "Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/19/jargon-watch/#corporate-bullshit-receptivity-scale | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:52:00

• "A lot of people in power view knowledge as dangerous" ☛ https://organizingmythoughts.org/why-libraries-matter-in-a-fascist-moment/ | Source: Kelly Hayes    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:52:16

• "This a rush transcript and has been lightly edited for clarity. Copy may not be in its final form." ☛ https://truthout.org/audio/why-libraries-matter-in-a-fascist-moment/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:52:50

• "The 14th Annual South Wireless Summit, beginning this Sunday, will host a wide representation of the infrastructure industry’s thought leaders and technology experts in Nashville, TN" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/the-14th-annual-south-wireless-summit-gets-underway-march-22-in-nashville/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:53:14

• "The Education Department is handing off its trillion-dollar portfolio of federal student aid programs to the Treasury Department." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2026/03/education-dept-hands-federal-student-loan-portfolio-to-treasury-in-latest-step-to-dismantle-agency/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:54:04

• "We can see that the orbit has remained the same, and there have been no manoeuvres during this period." ☛ https://destevez.net/2026/03/tianwen-1-received-again-by-amsat-dl/ | Source: Daniel Estévez    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:54:40

• "NASA’s SLS rocket program has been a mess for a long, long time." ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/03/nasa-step-away-sls/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:54:54

• "steady stream of information about the mission through their official site and social media channels to get the public excited about the agency’s long-awaited return to the Moon." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/03/19/artemis-ii-agenda-keeps-moon-bound-crew-busy/ | Source: Hackaday    

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

• "It was no coincidence that Bennett and Brassard found themselves on the same Puerto Rican beach on that day nearly 50 years ago." ☛ https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-cryptography-pioneers-win-turing-award-20260318/ | Source: Quanta Magazine    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:55:34

• "It is not uncommon for space missions to be delayed." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-03-nasa-artemis-missions-moon.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:56:03

• "It is the same story across top publishers today." ☛ https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit | Source: Shubham Bose    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:56:38

• "The general view is that comments on your blog is a bad thing, most tend not to use them." ☛ https://mark.hysted.com/ive-turned-comments-back-on/ | Source: Mark Hysted    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:58:14

• "Having sufficiently gaslit myself about a tiny logo, let’s interrogate the Internet’s memory, also known as the Wayback Machine: [...]" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/stack-exchange-is-no-longer-a-stack/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:58:30

• "This activity was found and reported by BACS student Adam Thorman as part of one of his assignments which I posted his final paper [1] last week." ☛ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32810 | Source: SANS    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:59:02

• "a data analyst contractor for a D.C.-based international technology company, the Justice Department said Thursday" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/cameron-curry-insider-attack-washington-tech-company/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:59:35

• "It takes up the most space of all the punctuation marks. In the cyberworld of excess, it draws the eye and commands attention." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/i-love-the-em-dash-too-bad-if-ai-does-too/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 12:59:50

• "Data is Code" ☛ https://haskellforall.com/2016/04/data-is-code | Source: Haskell For All    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:02:43

• "It is becoming more common for this kind of data processing to be handled by a Reproducible Analytical Pipeline (RAP)." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/03/reproducible-analytical-pipelines/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:02:59

• "I found about forty tools that make automated policy decisions about dependencies, and every single one has its own format." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/03/19/the-fragmented-world-of-dependency-policy.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:03:18

• "As more and more Open-Source projects get developed by for-profit companies run by MBAs we get the dual mortal sins of Agile and movement." ☛ https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/movement/ | Source: Logikal Solutions    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:03:54

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:04:12

• "least privilege access" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/ai-zero-trust-security-federal-agencies-elastic-public-sector/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:04:19

• "This is a big one!" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/03/major-update-for-revss-package-for-r-v3-1-0/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:05:06

• "In the previous post, I worked my way through some key elements of TMLE theory as I try to understand how it all works." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/03/getting-to-the-bottom-of-tmle-targeting-in-action/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:05:37

• "Without checking, and without reading ahead, what's your answer to this question: [...]" ☛ https://www.mostlypython.com/how-many-digits-are-there-in-pi/ | Source: Eric Matthes    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:06:18

• "But there was an issue: aeon is written in Python and relies on the z3 bindings that contain C++ code." ☛ https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/z3-python-in-the-browser-in-10-minutes/ | Source: Alcides Fonseca    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:06:59

• "When I wrote about documenting my Django forms, I said that I knew I didn't want to put my documentation in docstrings, because I'd written some in the past and then not read it this time around." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/DocstringsAreLocal | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:07:33

• "One of the most optimized algorithms in any standard library is sorting. It is used everywhere so it must be fast." ☛ https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/03/simple-sort-implementations-vs.html | Source: Jussi Pakkanen    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:08:04

• "Java 26 is here! Six months ago, we welcomed Java 25 into our hearts" ☛ https://hanno.codes/2026/03/17/java-26-is-here/ |    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:08:45

• "Bottom line: Debian installs fine and runs well, as does X11 and PekWM." ☛ https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/debian-12-on-very-old-compaq-armada-e500-pentium-iii/ | Source: Darren Goossens    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:10:40

• "orientation angles start being calculated for the missile's canards to use (the movable wings that jut out of the missile to orient it)" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/tech-hobbyist-makes-shoulder-mounted-guided-missile-prototype-with-usd96-in-parts-and-a-3d-printer-diy-manpads-includes-wi-fi-guidance-ballistics-calculations-optional-camera-for-tracking | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:11:55

• "The only hardware you need other than the Arduino UNO R4 is a rotary encoder, a breadboard, and some jumper wires." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/03/19/use-an-arduino-uno-r4s-dac-as-a-signal-generator/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:12:29

• "The build runs on a MegaWiFi cartridge, which uses an ESP8266 or ESP32 microcontroller to add WiFi communication to the Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive)." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/03/19/sega-genesis-finally-gets-long-awaited-stock-ticker-app-37-years-after-launch/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:12:43

• "At Thunderbird, we firmly believe in the strength of listening to our community’s needs and wants" ☛ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/03/introducing-our-public-roadmaps/ | Source: Thunderbird    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:24:53

• "This is the first chapter of my SQLAlchemy 2 in Practice book." ☛ https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/sqlalchemy-2-in-practice---chapter-1---database-setup | Source: Miguel Grinberg    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:25:17

• "Why this blog “wastes” so much “horizontal space” is a common complaint I get about its “design”." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/why-this-blog-wastes-horizontal-space/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:26:22

• "The Consensus is built from a static site generator written in a mix of Python and Go." ☛ https://theconsensus.dev/blog/2026/03/19/a-static-site-generator.html | Source: Consensus Labs LLC    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:26:33

• "This is my annual list of DjangoCon US talks I’d like to see." ☛ https://micro.webology.dev/2026/03/19/djangocon-us-talks-id-like/ | Source: Jeff Triplett    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:26:55

• "I should already have a Google account? Should I? Since f-cking when should I have a Google account?" ☛ https://bobbyhiltz.com/posts/2026/03/google-account/ | Source: Bobby Hiltz    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:27:36

• Open Data ☛ https://mandarismoore.com/2026/03/17/first-public-working-draft-yamlld/ | Source: Mandaris Moore    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:28:19

• "The idea is that if you're using home automation your PC that you're in front of has a lot of important information" ☛ https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/ | Source: David Edmundson    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:29:06

• "The U.S. Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure" ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/feds-disrupt-iot-botnets-behind-huge-ddos-attacks/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:29:17

• "With 10G, 25G, and 100G network interfaces now commonplace, OpenBSD devs making huge progress unlocking the kernel for SMP" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260319125859 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:49:34

• "Your window manager is extremely involved in the decisions about where all of those input events go" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/WaylandAndBuiltinWindowManagers | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:50:04

• "I understand that these changes have provoked strong feelings in the community" ☛ https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/03/19/steam-changes-update | Source: OpenTTD    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:52:20

• "Setting up my camera was a pain because I couldn’t pull in settings (or even see them) from my older camera, so I had to do it all from scratch." ☛ https://cassidoo.co/post/set-up-a6400/ | Source: Cassidy Williams    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:52:39

• "To simplify, DMARC is based on the domain in the 'From:' header, and what policy (if any) that domain specifies." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/spam/DMARCAlignmentAndInheritance | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:52:50

• "chillingly clever account takeover attempt targeting WordPress co-founder" ☛ https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-459/ | Source: Graham Cluley    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:53:21

• "Jails for NetBSD, ARC and L2ARC sizing for Proxmox, Anatomy of bsd.rd, Docker Containers on FreeBSD" ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/655 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:53:35

• "Chat Control – vad händer nu?" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/03/19/chat-control-vad-hander-nu/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:54:23

• Why would Virve become mute? | "Sähkökatko voisi mykistää suuren osan viranomaisverkosta tunneissa – Ruotsissa verkko toimii viikon - Suomenkuvalehti.fi" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&u=https://suomenkuvalehti.fi/uutisviikko/sahkokatko-voisi-mykistaa-suuren-osan-viranomaisverkosta-tunneissa-ruotsissa-verkko-toimii-viikon/?shared=1349866-41a2c712-1    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:55:00

• "The FBI has been aware of Ayman Ghazali's terrorist connections for at least seven years, the New York Post reported." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15659093/Michigan-synagogue-shooter-Ayman-Mohamad-Ghazali.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:55:28

• Democrats don’t need to trade away revenue required for meaningful policy. They need to tax the rich https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/affordability-crisis-cant-be-solved-another-tax-cut-1235533831/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:55:49

• "Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-iran-war-allies/686423/?gift=aQyUJR7AIw1mJWdQ6Ed6yGfvOucd9Oa8W54yMDTtr2I    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:56:03

• "A Whiff of Stagflation - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-whiff-of-stagflation    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:56:17

• "You Can Just Do Things | Online Only | n+1 | Patrick Blanchfield" https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/you-can-just-do-things/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:56:31

• Foolish fluff from Microsoft-controlled publisher https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/18/linux_foundation_ai_slop_defense/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:57:10

• "Trump is Illegally Undermining Oversight of His Social Security Sabotage" https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/trump-is-illegally-undermining-oversight-of-his-social-security-sabotage    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 13:57:47

• "A-10 Warthogs target Iranian fast-attack craft in Strait of Hormuz" https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2026/03/19/a-10-warthogs-target-iranian-fast-attack-craft-in-strait-of-hormuz/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 14:04:42

• "The arrest illustrates the complex and fraught nature of Georgia’s controversial law, known as the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act, which makes abortion illegal after cardiac activity is detected in a fetus, normally at about six weeks." https://georgiarecorder.com/2026/03/18/woman-charged-with-attempted-murder-under-georgia-abortion-law/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 14:05:21

• "Trump Is Betraying Iran’s Pro-Democracy Protesters" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-iran-democracy-protest/686442/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 14:05:34

• "The history of Moscow was one of extreme violence from the start | The Spectator Australia" https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/03/the-history-of-moscow-was-one-of-extreme-violence-from-the-start/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 14:05:49

• "EU Vows To Get $90 Billion Loan To Kyiv Despite Hungary’s Opposition" https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-eu-hungary-slovakia-loan-druzhba/33711395.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 14:06:02

• "Canonical announces that it has certified Advantech’s latest modular fanless edge IPC system, MIC-770 V3W, on Ubuntu 24.04LTS." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/advantech-mic-770-v3w-now-certified-on-ubuntu-24-04-lts | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 14:08:31

• "In a standard OpenShift deployment, the ingress controller (HAProxy) and various system operators generate a continuous stream of metadata." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/optimizing-cluster-observability-strategic-approach-selective-log-routing-red-hat-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 14:08:57

• GE-Proton 10-33 brings fixes for VR outside of Steam, FSR upgrades and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/ge-proton-10-33-brings-fixes-for-vr-outside-of-steam-fsr-upgrades-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 14:09:49

• "It is not a real security threat, you know that, but it is annoying, and more importantly, it creates a problem when you need to test features that browsers restrict to secure origins" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/setup-https-local-domain-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 14:10:18

• Counter-Strike 2 gets a major update with reload changes, custom game modes | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/counter-strike-2-gets-a-major-update-with-reload-changes-custom-game-modes/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 14:11:24

• The nostalgic helicopter shooter Cleared Hot gets Linux support with a performance update | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/the-nostalgic-helicopter-shooter-cleared-hot-gets-linux-support-with-a-performance-update/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 14:47:19

• The hilarious Lucky Tower Ultimate releases 1.0 on April 16 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/the-hilarious-lucky-tower-ultimate-releases-1-0-on-april-16/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 14:48:04

• Opera GX is now available for Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/opera-gx-is-now-available-for-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/opera-gx-is-now-available-for-linux/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:14:34

• Firefox v149 is getting a free built-in VPN and other new features | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/firefox-v149-is-getting-a-free-built-in-vpn-and-other-new-features/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:14:45

• Thrilling retro-inspired shooter Nightmare Reaper adds 2-4 player co-op | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/thrilling-retro-inspired-shooter-nightmare-reaper-adds-2-4-player-co-op/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:15:47

• "Goldman Sachs eyes April layoffs of underperformers as performance scrutiny rises"    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:16:52

• GNOME 50 released with much improved Parental Controls and lots more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/gnome-50-released-with-much-improved-parental-controls/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:20:10

• DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH is now available on PC | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/death-stranding-2-on-the-beach-is-now-available-on-pc/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:21:43

• Fourteen measles cases confirmed in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/20.03.2026-fourteen-measles-cases-confirmed-in-latvia.a639665/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:23:20

• Michigan boosts bed capacity in ‘horribly underserved’ mental health system ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/michigan-boosts-bed-capacity-in-horribly-underserved-mental-health-system/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:23:39

• Flu still at epidemic levels in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/19.03.2026-flu-still-at-epidemic-levels-in-latvia.a639486/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:23:51

• Some 50 hurt in fire at car parts factory in South Korea, Yonhap says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/some-50-hurt-in-fire-at-car-parts-factory-in-south-korea-yonhap-says    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:24:11

• North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and daughter unveil new anti-drone battle tank ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-and-daughter-unveil-new-tank-to-repel-drones    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:24:28

• North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s teenage daughter drives tank in latest public appearance ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/03/20/world-news/kim-jong-uns-teenage-daughter-drives-tank-in-latest-public-appearance/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:24:43

• E-hailing drivers in Malaysia brace themselves for fewer airport trips amid Middle East crisis ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/e-hailing-drivers-in-malaysia-brace-themselves-for-fewer-airport-trips-amid-middle-east-crisis    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:25:19

• gitv – terminal-based viewer for Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub issues ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/gitv-terminal-based-viewer-github-issues/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:36:46

• Write – application for handwritten notes ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/write-application-handwritten-notes/    

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

• AutoSubs – subtitles made simple ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/autosubs-subtitles-made-simple/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:37:47

• 30 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux General Purpose GUI Note Apps ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-linux-general-purpose-gui-note-apps/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:38:02

• Subtitle Forge – desktop application for working with subtitles across the full workflow ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/subtitle-forge-desktop-application/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:38:12

• Beaver Notes – notes app that respects your privacy ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/beaver-notes-notes-app-respects-privacy/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:40:26

• Zerobyte – backup automation for your remote storage ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/zerobyte-backup-automation-remote-storage/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:40:36

• inori – terminal-based client for the Music Player Daemon ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/inori-terminal-based-client-music-player-daemon/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:41:03

• Hobbits – bit-based analysis, processing, and visualization ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hobbits-bit-based-analysis-processing-visualization/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:41:13

• Zarumet – Rust mpd client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/zarumet-rust-mpd-client/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:41:23

• hashcards – plain text-based spaced repetition system for flashcards ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hashcards-plain-text-based-spaced-repetition-system-flashcards/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:41:43

• rgx – terminal regex tester ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rgx-terminal-regex-tester/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:41:53

• PrismLinux: A No‑Drama, Sane Approach to Arch-Based GNU/Linux ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/03/prismlinux-a-no-drama-sane-approach-to-arch-based-linux/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:42:21

• Pluralistic: Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment (19 Mar 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/19/jargon-watch/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:45:12

• 655: No Reboot Required ☞ https://www.bsdnow.tv/655    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:52:17

• Update on KDE Home Automation (KIOT) https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/update-on-kde-home-automation-kiot/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:53:08

• Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks ☞ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/feds-disrupt-iot-botnets-behind-huge-ddos-attacks/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:53:32

• Use an Arduino UNO R4’s DAC as a signal generator ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/03/19/use-an-arduino-uno-r4s-dac-as-a-signal-generator/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:53:59

• Thunderbird Blog: Introducing our Public Roadmaps ☞ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/03/introducing-our-public-roadmaps/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:54:27

• Can Zero Trust survive the Hey Hi (AI) era? ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/ai-zero-trust-security-federal-agencies-elastic-public-sector/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:55:07

• Reproducible Analytical Pipelines ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/03/reproducible-analytical-pipelines/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:55:32

• Major Update for revss Package for R – v3.1.0 ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/03/major-update-for-revss-package-for-r-v3-1-0/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:55:48

• Getting to the bottom of TMLE: targeting in action ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/03/getting-to-the-bottom-of-tmle-targeting-in-action/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:56:09

• Jussi Pakkanen: Simple sort implementations vs production quality ones ☞ https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/03/simple-sort-implementations-vs.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:56:34

• The Hidden Lawful Access Tradeoff: How Bill C-22 Lowers the Evidentiary Standards for Police Access to Subscriber Information ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/03/the-hidden-lawful-access-tradeoff-how-bill-c-22-lowers-the-evidentiary-standards-for-police-access-to-subscriber-information/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 15:58:23

• Some migratory birds arrive record-early in Finland – but may have to retreat if winter returns | Yle News | Yle ⚓ https://yle.fi/a/74-20216484 ䷉ Source: YLE | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//yle.fi/a/74-20216484    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:21:21

• iophk: Chuck Norris kicked off yesterday    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:29:32

• "Having an ingenious timeline and a clever solution and an eccentric detective and a very video-gamey setup are all plusses in my book. The meta-stuff “let us admit we are characters in a novel and not make excuses” is tired now but perhaps wasn’t when this book came out in the thirties." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/hollow-man    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:30:19

• "Many news and current-events outlets have a section focusing on culture. The articles contained therein often feature cuisine, art, movies, dance, fashion, and sometimes even national sports." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202603/20260320-depictions-of-culture.gmi    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:30:58

• "It might have been an email thread. Or a lobste.rs comment. It was a discussion about yet another attempt at a new decentralized social protocol. And we reached the conclusion that with blogs and email, we already had a decentralized social network. We only needed to use it." gemini://ploum.net/2026-03-20-social-smolnet.gmi    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:32:01

• Norris matters only is showbiz counts for anything; being "widely known" alone is not a badge of honour. Stalin was widely known and he still is. Same for Putin.    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:33:02

• "I have been reading about utopias/dystopias recently. Started with The Republic, then Brave New World, Looking Backward, Fahrenheit 451 and some others. Yesterday I finished The Dispossessed by U. Le Guin." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2800    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:33:40

• "The sublime form of the Web is when complete nerds geek out in minute detail over their obsession in a manner specifically designed to let any random surfer-by understand and geek out over it as well." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-03-20    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:34:42

• Antarctic allies: Australia and New Zealand at the end of the earth ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/antarctic-allies-australia-and-new-zealand-at-the-end-of-the-earth/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:39:45

• China calls killing of Iran’s Larijani, leaders ‘unacceptable’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-calls-killing-of-irans-larijani-leaders-unacceptable    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:39:58

• China cracks down on fentanyl networks in move long sought by Washington ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-cracks-down-on-fentanyl-networks-in-move-long-sought-by-washington    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:40:17

• But EVs need energy... WHERE does it COME from? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/byd-showrooms-are-bustling-across-asia-after-iran-oil-shock    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:40:52

• China poses pressing threat; deterrence needed to avert invasion, Taiwan says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-poses-pressing-threat-deterrence-needed-to-avert-invasion-taiwan-says    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:41:10

• Meningitis Outbreak Exposes UK's Decade-Long Gap in Protection ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/meningitis-outbreak-exposes-uks-decade-long-gap-in-protection    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:41:45

• Ozempic-Like Drugs May Help Prevent Damage After a Heart Attack ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ozempic-like-drugs-may-help-prevent-damage-after-a-heart-attack    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:41:59

• Your Gut-Brain Link May Offer a New Way to Fight Cognitive Decline ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-gut-brain-link-may-offer-a-new-way-to-fight-cognitive-decline    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:42:23

• Scientists Uncover The Nerve Pathway That Makes Stress Worsen Eczema ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-uncover-the-nerve-pathway-that-makes-stress-worsen-eczema    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:43:23

• Study Reveals a Turning Point When Your Body's Aging Accelerates ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/study-reveals-a-turning-point-when-your-bodys-aging-accelerates    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:43:44

• FDA Approves New High-Dose Wegovy in US For Boosted Weight Loss ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/fda-approves-new-high-dose-wegovy-in-us-for-boosted-weight-loss    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:43:59

• 'Unprecedented' Meningitis Outbreak in UK Spreads to 27 Cases ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/unprecedented-meningitis-outbreak-in-uk-spreads-to-27-cases    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:44:15

• This Infamous Radioactive 'Tomb' Is Leaking, And Experts Are Worried ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-infamous-radioactive-tomb-is-leaking-and-experts-are-worried    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:44:29

• Radicle 1.7.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1063712/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:45:03

• Baby monkey Punch acclimatising, making new friends at Japan zoo ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/baby-monkey-punch-acclimatising-making-new-friends-at-japan-zoo    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:45:25

• The NDSS Symposium 2026 Had a New Vibe—But Why? ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/03/the-ndss-symposium-2026-had-a-new-vibe-but-why/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:45:58

• AI is revolutionising journalism. Intelligence is next ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/ai-is-revolutionising-journalism-intelligence-is-next/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:50:59

• Lithuanian parliament debates criminalising involvement in hostile conflicts, sabotage ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2872344/lithuanian-parliament-debates-criminalising-involvement-in-hostile-conflicts-sabotage    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:51:30

• Venezuela interim president replaces top military commanders in sweeping reforms ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260320-venezuela-interim-president-military-commanders-reforms    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:51:47

• UC Berkeley to pay $1M, overhaul policies after antisemitism lawsuit settlement ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/03/19/us-news/uc-berkeley-to-pay-1m-overhaul-policies-after-antisemitism-lawsuit-settlement/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:52:49

• Encyclopedia Britannica Hits Proprietary Chaffbot Company With Scary Lawsuit ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/encyclopedia-britannica-sues-openai    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:53:29

• Amnesty International accuses Georgian authorities of ‘witch-hunt’ following critical OSCE report ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/03/rights-group-accuses-georgian-authorities-of-witch-hunt-following-critical-osce-report/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 16:59:39

• Toward balanced immigration enforcement ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0319/Toward-balanced-immigration-enforcement    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:00:04

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

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:02:19

• China-ruled Macau approves national security law allowing closed-door trials ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-ruled-macau-approves-national-security-law-allowing-closed-door-trials    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:02:47

• New Macau security law allows for trials behind closed doors ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/new-macau-security-law-allows-for-trials-behind-closed-doors    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:03:05

• North Korean fake IT army of 100,000 nets Kim Jong-Un a cool $500 million a year — NK-aligned workers infiltrated in IT companies worldwide, feeding the nation's revenue generation ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/north-korean-fake-it-army-of-100-000-nets-kim-jong-un-a-cool-usd500-million-a-year-nk-aligned-workers-infiltrated-in-it-companies-worldwide-feeding-the-nations-revenue-generation    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:03:32

• Rights group criticizes new China cybercrime bill as threat to free expression and information access ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/03/rights-group-criticizes-new-china-cybercrime-bill-as-threat-to-free-expression-and-information-access/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:04:18

• Macau’s new security law allows for trials behind closed doors ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/03/19/macaus-new-security-law-allows-for-trials-behind-closed-doors/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:04:46

• Gas prices soar as energy infrastructure is attacked in Gulf ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/gas-prices-soar-as-energy-infrastructure-is-attacked-in-gulf    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:05:50

• Security Firm Aura Discloses Data Breach Impacting 900,000 Records ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/security-firm-aura-discloses-data-breach-impacting-900000-records/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:07:12

• Marquis Data Breach Affects 672,000 Individuals ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/marquis-data-breach-affects-672000-individuals/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:07:29

• Bind QML Values across an Arbitrary Number of Elements ☞ https://www.kdab.com/bind-qml-values-across-an-arbitrary-number-of-elements/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:09:12

• 115: Both Sides of a Mirror Have Errors ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24604 " OpenZFS uses hashes almost everywhere."    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:09:42

• Talking at NYCBUG 1 April 2026 ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24606    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:10:12

• Latest Improvements to the Request Page ☞ https://openbuildservice.org/2026/03/19/request-workflow-improvements//    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:11:12

• 8-inch ESP32-P4 touch display offers WiFi 6, BLE, 802.15.4 connectivity, optional 4G LTE and LoRaWAN ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/03/20/8-inch-esp32-p4-touch-display-offers-wifi-6-ble-802-15-4-connectivity-optional-4g-lte-and-lorawan/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:11:46

• Deadly Wang Fuk Court fire ‘most likely’ caused by smoking, public inquiry hears ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/03/19/deadly-wang-fuk-court-fire-most-likely-caused-by-smoking-public-inquiry-hears/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:12:15

• North Korean leader's teenage daughter drives tank in latest public appearance ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/north-korean-leaders-teenage-daughter-drives-tank-in-latest-public-appearance    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:12:42

• Freytra Peaks making of ☞ https://blog.supertuxkart.net/2026/03/freytra-peaks-making-of.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:13:43

• Automate test and failure analysis via streams for Apache Kafka ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/03/19/automate-test-and-failure-analysis-streams-apache-kafka    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:14:46

• massive demand for chips from Asia outpaces domestic production, fueling a 60% increase in imports in 12 months ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/manufacturing/us-trade-deficit-hits-a-record-usd1-2-trillion-as-ai-hardware-imports-surge-under-the-trump-administration-massive-demand-for-chips-from-asia-outpaces-domestic-production-fueling-a-60-percent-increase-in-imports-in-12-months    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:15:29

• Fluff 2026.03.18 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/fluff    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:15:53

• Exton 260319 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/exton    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:16:04

• Russian APT Exploits Zimbra Vulnerability Against Ukraine ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/russian-apt-exploits-zimbra-vulnerability-against-ukraine/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:16:29

• Orbán blocks €90bn loan, threatening vital EU support for Ukraine’s energy system & overall survival ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/spotlight/20260319-orb%C3%A1n-blocks-%E2%82%AC90bn-loan-threatening-vital-eu-support-for-ukraine-s-energy-system-overall-survival    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:16:42

• EU Vows To Get $90 Billion Loan To Kyiv Despite Hungary’s Opposition ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-eu-hungary-slovakia-loan-druzhba/33711395.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:16:59

• The Soldier Who Came Back From the Dead ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/world/europe/ukraine-soldier-dna-mistake-back-from-dead.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:17:10

• A Crucial Loan for Ukraine Becomes Election Leverage for Orban ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/world/europe/ukraine-hungary-orban-elections.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:17:22

• Croatian cellist cancels concert in Vilnius following Russian video controversy ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2872371/croatian-cellist-cancels-concert-in-vilnius-following-russian-video-controversy    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:18:15

• Is Russian Fuel Headed for Cuba, Testing the U.S. Blockade? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/world/americas/cuba-russia-oil-blockade.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:18:30

• Critical ScreenConnect Vulnerability Exposes Machine Keys ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-screenconnect-vulnerability-exposes-machine-keys/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:44:12

• Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/fear-and-fragility-the-glass-delusion-and-its-history    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:45:35

• Wayland 1.25 Released    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:45:52

• Slopfest: At India Hey Hi (AI) Impact Summit, “AI for All” and student innovation take center stage ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/03/19/at-india-ai-impact-summit-ai-for-all-and-student-innovation-take-center-stage/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:46:42

• Rights group warns Meta moderation policies fuel violence in Bangladesh ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/03/rights-group-warns-meta-moderation-policies-fuel-violence-in-bangladesh/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Social_Control_Media_is_Just_a_Digital_Weapon.shtml    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:47:24

• Children’s headphones on Temu, Amazon found with chemicals exceeding safety limits in South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/childrens-headphones-sold-on-temu-amazon-found-to-exceed-safety-limits-in-south-korea    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:47:56

• price tag explodes 4X in just four months ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/16tb-m-2-ssd-hits-retail-if-youre-ready-to-drop-usd16-000-for-the-ultimate-storage-upgrade-price-tag-explodes-4x-in-just-four-months    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:48:27

• Grab Your Betrayal-Themed Popcorn Buckets, Because Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Is Threatening to Sue Proprietary Chaffbot Company ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/betrayal-microsoft-openai    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:49:17

• U.S. Says 3 Tied to Silicon Valley Server Maker Broke Export Laws ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/technology/super-micro-servers-china-indicted.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:49:41

• Hacking a Robot Vacuum ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/hacking-a-robot-vacuum.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:50:07

• FCC Formally Approves Illegal Nexstar Media Group/Tegna Merger in $6.2 Billion Deal Risking Local News, Free Speech ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/fcc-formally-approves-illegal-nexstar-media-group-tegna-merger-in-6-2-billion-deal-risking-local-news-free-speech/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:50:49

• Pentagon seeks $200 billion in additional funds for the Iran war, AP source says ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2026/03/pentagon-seeks-200-billion-in-additional-funds-for-the-iran-war-ap-source-says/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:51:50

• Jakub Steiner: Friday Sketches (part 2) ☞ https://blog.jimmac.eu/posts/friday-sketches/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:52:12

• Two new stable kernels ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1063723/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:52:40

• Seems like marketing spam in "news" clothing (they sponsor the publisher) ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/pentarc-grows-team-with-partner-from-taylor-wessing/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:53:44

• Local division Mannheim flirts with setting FRAND rate ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/legal-commentary/local-division-mannheim-flirts-with-setting-frand-rate/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:54:12

• A Grim Truth Is Emerging in Employers’ Hey Hi (AI) Experiments ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-coding-error-debt    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:54:48

• Embedded World 2026: Open Source Everywhere, and Two New Topics Dominating the Conversation ☞ https://toscalix.com/2026/03/19/embedded-world-2026-open-source-everywhere-and-two-new-topics-dominating-the-conversation/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:55:10

• Vykar is a New Open Source Backup Tool That's Faster Than Borg, Restic, and Kopia ☞ https://itsfoss.com/vykar-open-source-backup-tool/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:56:04

• Firefox UX: Designing beyond the checklist ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2026/03/designing-beyond-the-checklist/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:57:30

• Red Hat pushing slop: Hybrid loan-decisioning with OpenShift Hey Hi (AI) and Vertex Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/03/19/hybrid-loan-decisioning-openshift-ai-and-vertex-ai    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:59:16

• Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps (Ars Technica) ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1063735/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 17:59:39

• Otto Kekäläinen: Automated security validation: How 7,000+ tests shaped MariaDB's new AppArmor profile ☞ https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/new-apparmor-profile-for-mariadb/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:00:58

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1063659/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:01:04

• My new toy: FreeBSD on the HP Z2 mini revisited ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/new-toy-freebsd-on-the-hp-z2-mini-revisited/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:02:04

• GNOME 50 Released : Updates OrCA with Global Settings & Stronger App Support ☞ https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/gnome-50-fractional-scaling/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:02:17

• NetStats Baseball – simulation of Major League Baseball ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/netstats-baseball-simulation-major-league-baseball/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:03:48

• 10 Best Free and Open Source Console MPD Clients ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-console-mpd-clients/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:04:05

• GNUnet News: GNUnet 0.27.0 ☞ https://gnunet.org/en/news/2026-03-0.27.0.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:04:49

• libredwg @ Savannah: libredwg-0.13.4 released ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10868    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:05:00

• Rebalance hub workloads with managed cluster migration ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/03/19/rebalance-hub-workloads-managed-cluster-migration    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:06:05

• How to operate OpenShift in air-gapped environments ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/03/19/how-operate-openshift-air-gapped-environments    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:06:49

• Adam Young: iced Hello World ☞ https://adam.younglogic.com/2026/03/iced-hello-world/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:07:53

• Industrial RS-485/Modbus Raspberry Pi HAT works with OpenPLC, supports 7V-32V DC input ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/03/19/industrial-rs485-modbus-raspberry-pi-hat-works-with-openplc-supports-7v-32v-dc-input/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:10:25

• Avaota F2 – Allwinner V861 RISC-V SBC targets Hey Hi (AI) cameras with PTZ and audio support ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/03/19/avaota-f2-allwinner-v861-risc-v-sbc-targets-ai-cameras-with-ptz-and-audio-support/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:10:42

• Clintech Pico – The first Raspberry Pi RP2354B board offers 48 GPIOs in Raspberry Pi Pico form factor ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/03/19/clintech-pico-raspberry-pi-rp2354b-board-raspberry-pi-pico-form-factor/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:11:18

• Fedora Asahi Remix 43 Arrives with Mac Pro Support and Beats Fedora to a Key Upgrade ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/fedora-asahi-remix-43-release/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:11:48

• 2 Men Charged With Spying for Iran on Jewish Institutions in UK ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/world/europe/iran-spy-charged-uk-jewish-london.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:12:41

• Privacy Platform Cloaked Raises $375M to Expand Enterprise Reach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/privacy-platform-cloaked-raises-375m-to-expand-consumer-tools-and-enterprise-reach/    

posted FFriday, March 20, 2026 at 18:55:42

• Father of a Palestinian woman killed with three others during a missile attack expresses shock. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/19/world/iran-war-news-trump-oil/palestinian-women-killed-salon-missile-strike    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:57:08

• EU Calls For 'Moratorium' On Strikes Against Energy, Water Sites ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protests-live-blog-trump-khamenei/33640284.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:57:49

• Video of Iranian soldier being targeted in a Tehran strike is Hey Hi (AI) generated ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20260319-video-of-iranian-soldier-being-targeted-in-a-tehran-strike-is-ai-generated    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:58:54

• Fighting for fragile freedoms, online and off ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/fighting-for-fragile-freedoms-online-and-off/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 18:59:30

• The EPO's Local Staff Committee Munich (LSCMN) Explains to the Administrative Council (AC) How Bad Things Have Become at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, Biggest Patent Office, and Corruption/Cocaine Hub (Jobs Sold to Friends) https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/20/The_EPO_s_Local_Staff_Committee_Munich_LSCMN_Explains_to_the_Ad.shtml    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:34:55

• CHILDREN’S WELLBEING AND SCHOOLS BILL: ORG ANALYSIS OF AMENDMENT 38 B ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/childrens-wellbeing-and-schools-bill-org-analysis-of-amendment-38-b/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:36:47

• Ubuntu 26.04 has a new boot animation (blink and you’ll miss it) ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/ubuntu-26-04-boot-spinner    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:37:36

• GNOME 50 Released to Be Default in Ubuntu 26.04 & Fedora 44 ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/03/gnome-50-released/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:38:11

• 8 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Handwritten GUI Notes Apps ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-linux-handwritten-gui-notes-apps/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:38:59

• AICore DX-M1M Module Provides 25 TOPS Edge Hey Hi (AI) Acceleration in M.2 Form Factor ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/aicore-dx-m1m-module-provides-25-tops-edge-ai-acceleration-in-m-2-form-factor/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:39:45

• Luckfox Lume Board Features Allwinner T153 SoC with Dual Gigabit Ethernet and MIPI Interfaces ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/luckfox-lume-board-features-allwinner-t153-soc-with-dual-gigabit-ethernet-and-mipi-interfaces/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:39:52

• FOSS Weekly #26.12: GNOME 50 Release, Fedora for Apple, New Ageless Linux, Manjaro Drama and More ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-12/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:40:46

• Opera GX, a web browser for gamers, arrives on GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/opera-gx-linux-released    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:41:10

• SmartOS 20260319 released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/smartos    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:41:32

• ENux 5.1.1 released as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/enux    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:41:42

• Opera GX finally arrives on GNU/Linux by popular demand ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/browsers/opera-gx-finally-arrives-on-linux-by-popular-demand-offers-gamers-and-developers-a-highly-customizable-browser-with-advanced-resource-management    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:42:22

• RapidRAW – This photo app is getting better and better ☞ https://www.reallinuxuser.com/rapidraw-this-photo-app-is-getting-better-and-better/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:42:56

• Opera GX, the browser for gamers, has finally landed on GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/opera-gx-the-browser-for-gamers-has-finally-landed-on-linux/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:43:31

• SteamOS gets massive 3.8 preview update, here's what is new ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/steamos-gets-massive-38-preview-update-heres-what-is-new/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:44:00

• 15 Best Free and Open Source Accountancy Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-accountancy-software/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:44:32

• 9 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based MPD Clients ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-web-based-mpd-clients/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:44:53

• Warp – modern terminal with an IDE-like interface and Hey Hi (AI) assistance ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/warp-terminal-emulator-ide-ai/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:45:28

• jobs Command in Linux: List and Manage Background Jobs ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/jobs-command-in-linux/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:46:39

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

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:46:49

• “Educational” YouTube Hey Hi (AI) Slop Encourages Kids to Play in Traffic ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/educational-youtube-ai-slop-play-in-traffic    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:47:52

• How to Change Default Desktop Environment on Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-change-default-desktop-environment-on-ubuntu-26-04    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:49:38

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

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:50:06

• How To Install Floorp Browser on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-floorp-browser-almalinux-10/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:50:15

• How To Setup APT Proxy on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/setup-apt-proxy-debian-13/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:50:23

• Systemd Adds Age Verification & r/Linux Censors Age Verification Posts ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/systemd-adds-age-verification-and    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:51:38

• Germany’s Sovereign Digital Stack Mandates ODF: a Landmark Validation of Open Document Standards ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/19/germanys-sovereign-digital-stack-mandates-odf/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:52:17

• Maintenance release: Godot 4.5.2 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/maintenance-release-godot-4-5-2/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:52:35

• Deputy Leader Rachel Millward welcomes government retreat over Hey Hi (AI) copyright monopoly reforms ☞ https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/03/19/deputy-leader-rachel-millward-welcomes-government-retreat-over-ai-copyright-reforms/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:53:26

• U.S. Lifts Fertilizer Sanctions on Belarus as Iran War Causes Price Surge ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/world/europe/belarus-prisoners-fertilizer-potash-sanctions.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:54:05

• Washington Eases Sanctions On Minsk As Belarus Releases 250 Prisoners ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/washington-sanctions-minsk-belarus-prisoners-release/33710939.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:54:16

• PM dismissive of Lithuanian carriers’ meeting with Belarus officials ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2872194/pm-dismissive-of-lithuanian-carriers-meeting-with-belarus-officials    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:54:25

• US special envoy meets with Lithuanian far-right politicians ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2872222/us-special-envoy-meets-with-lithuanian-far-right-politicians    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:54:54

• Dihydroxyacetone Man envoy says US seeks improved Belarus-Lithuania ties as Minsk releases more prisoners ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2872355/trump-envoy-says-us-seeks-improved-belarus-lithuania-ties-as-minsk-releases-more-prisoners    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:55:05

• Moldovan citizen handed prison service for migrant smuggling in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/19.03.2026-moldovan-citizen-handed-prison-service-for-migrant-smuggling-in-latvia.a639579/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:55:15

• wewbo – search and watch anime episodes ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/wewbo-search-watch-anime-episodes/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 19:55:50

• Going GNU/Linux #477 · CachyOS ☞ https://goinglinux.com/episode-477-cachyos/index.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:04:25

• World Food Programme warns of mass food insecurity if Middle East conflict continues ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/03/world-food-programme-warns-of-mass-food-insecurity-if-middle-east-conflict-continues/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:05:21

• United States CP fingerprint authentication patent monopoly prior art found ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/3/19/united-states-cp-fingerprint-authentication-patent-prior-art-found    

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

• #062 | S7 | Cyberwar | Midnight in the war room ☞ https://cybershow.uk/media/episodes/cyberwar-1.mp3    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:07:22

• "Most Ubuntu desktop users will be looking at this until at least 2028" https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/19/gnome_50/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:09:01

• Canonical brings Microsoft Defender to Ubuntu to tighten Linux security https://betanews.com/article/canonical-brings-microsoft-defender-to-ubuntu-to-tighten-linux-security/ see http://techrights.org/n/2026/03/19/People_Who_Decided_to_Boycott_Novell_Over_Its_Microsoft_Allianc.shtml    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:09:51

• "While the main target for the performance upgrades were the Steam Deck, it should perform better everywhere thanks to all the improvements throughout the game. On the Steam Deck now, it should even hit 90FPS in areas of lower-action which is a big boost." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/the-nostalgic-helicopter-shooter-cleared-hot-gets-linux-support-with-a-performance-update/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:11:55

• Opera GX Gaming Browser launches on Linux https://overclock3d.net/news/software/opera-gx-gaming-browser-launches-on-linux/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:15:54

• GNOME 50 is Now Available https://www.thurrott.com/linux/333954/gnome-50-is-now-available    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:21:52

• Openwashing of garbage and slop by circular financing scam firm https://www.fierce-network.com/broadband/nvidia-gtc-openclaw-new-linux-and-every-company-needs-strategy-says-jensen-huang    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:23:47

• 'How Old Are You?' Linux Grapples With New Age Check Rules https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/how-old-are-you-linux-grapples-new-age-check-rules-a-31071    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:24:25

• Tuxedo Gemini 17 Gen 4 gets Ryzen 9 9955HX and up to RTX 5060 graphics https://videocardz.com/newz/tuxedo-launches-gemini-17-gen-4-linux-gaming-laptop-with-ryzen-9-9955hx-and-rtx-5060-starts-at-e1764    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:29:07

• I thought my Linux system was broken until I checked this one setting https://www.makeuseof.com/i-thought-my-linux-system-was-broken-until-i-checked-this-one-setting/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:30:05

• Linux Debian vulnerability analysis and mitigation https://www.wiz.io/vulnerability-database/cve/cve-2026-23241    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:32:00

• I switched to a Linux-based webOS TV and liked it way more than I expected https://www.makeuseof.com/i-switched-to-a-linux-based-webos-tv/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:32:21

• Gnome gets Nvidia performance boost, offering 'smoother window animations and general desktop fluidity' for Linux gamers https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/gnome-gets-nvidia-performance-boost-offering-smoother-window-animations-and-general-desktop-fluidity-for-linux-gamers/    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:32:43

• "SLOP" https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/open-source-summit-north-america-130000356.html?pl2=qsp-recent-news_All    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:33:45

• Your Linux OS has a Chaos Engine - and Nobody Told You https://hackernoon.com/your-linux-os-has-a-chaos-engine-and-nobody-told-you    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:34:32

• The End of 10: How Linux could help Windows 10 PCs live on https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterprisedesktop/feature/End-of-10-How-Linux-could-help-Windows-10-PCs-live-on    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:35:27

• Rabbit threatens to revive the legendary Sony Vaio P netbook as a $500 dedicated Linux https://www.techradar.com/pro/rabbit-threatens-to-revive-the-legendary-sony-vaio-p-netbook-as-a-usd500-dedicated-linux-vibe-coding-machine-to-take-on-apples-uber-popular-macbook-neo-but-it-wont-be-fast-forget-about-that    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:36:13

• Cites slopfarm as its source https://www.scworld.com/brief/new-malware-targets-linux-network-devices-for-ddos-crypto-mining    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:37:02

• Linux is less intimidating when you know what a "distro" actually is https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/linux-less-intimidating-know-distro-153016072.html    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:37:31

• Red Hat selling slop, as usual under IBM https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/operationalizing-bring-your-own-agent-red-hat-ai-openclaw-edition?sc_cid=RHCTG0180000354765    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:44:42

• Red Hat made a shrine to slop https://www.redhat.com/en/about/red-hat-nvidia-gtc-newsroom    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 20:46:33

• "Does anyone use the Pub for hosting their websites? I think it's pretty simple for static sites. I'm curious to see what everyone else has going on.." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2801    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 21:02:37

• SLAPP Censorship - Part 17 Out of 200: A Long Track Record of Online Abuse, Then Choosing a Low-Cost Law Firm to Muzzle People Who Have Illuminated This Abuse for Over a Decade https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/20/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_17_Out_of_200_A_Long_Track_Record_of_Onli.shtml    

posted Friday, March 20, 2026 at 22:02:30