Roy Schestowitz

• "So my salary is increasing 10x? Ha! Of course no!" gemini://robida.net/entries/2026/04/09/ai-will-improve-your-productivity-by-10x    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 03:39:21

• "I have a lot of photos that I have been carrying since a long time, this is certainly my oldest files that I was able to not lost over 20 years. It has been stored as a hierarchy since then, and it had very poor metadata information, and poor ability to be browsed. It was time to improve on this." gemini://perso.pw/blog/articles/photo-library-management.gmi    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 03:40:19

• "He just writes some notes and gets co-pilot to write the message. I pointed out that the recipient might not be reading it, but getting co-pilot to summarise it instead." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2026-04-10_Not_yet__but_soon__why_bother_.gmi    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 03:41:39

• "A few days ago I set a new personal record for the farthest distance traveled by bicycle in one day. My previous record was just under 26 miles over the course of about seven hours, and on Tuesday I rode just under 42 miles in about five and a half hours." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202604/20260409-42-miles.gmi    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 03:42:21

• "So EFF stepped in as May First’s counsel and explained why AFP and Higbee had no valid claim. After receiving our response, Higbee backed down." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/09/a-baseless-copyright-claim-against-a-web-host-and-why-it-failed/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:26:46

• "The suit alleged unauthorised use of the song ‘Tirchi Topiwale’ from the film Tridev in the track “Rang De Lal – Oye Oye”." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/delhi-news/copyright-row-delhi-hc-refers-dispute-over-oye-oye-song-in-dhurandhar-2-to-mediation-101775728002998.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:27:07

• "Idrassi publicized his experience on March 30, saying: "Microsoft did not send me any emails or prior warnings." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/09/microsoft_dev_account_deactivations/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:27:55

• "Live Nation’s fate will soon be with a jury as closing arguments in the blockbuster antitrust case begin today, April 9." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/live-nation-trial-closing-arguments-1235543669/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:28:12

• "Just after rebranding itself as a multi-content platform, Spotify is rolling out new controls to stop video from playing alongside music and podcasts." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/09/how-to-turn-off-spotify-video-content/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:28:44

• "Agile is just hacking on the fly until the money runs out. Starlink is proof." ☛ https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/starlink-2/ | Source: Logikal Solutions    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:29:23

• "This initiative is a direct reflection of our unwavering commitment to the well-being of our sailors" ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2026/04/09/us-navy-introduces-free-wi-fi-to-barracks-in-greece-italy/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:29:37

• "Starlink has recently seen several satellites blow up in orbit and has been very murky about the reasons for it. Tens of thousands more LEO satellites are slated for launch in the next few years." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/09/musk-bezos-both-cry-to-trumps-fcc-in-bid-to-dominate-satellite-broadband/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:29:54

• "The FCC on Thursday said it is considering a new rule meant to combat robocalls that would force originating providers to gather more information from customers before they allow calls" ☛ https://therecord.media/fcc-proposes-new-rule-robocall-crackdown | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:30:13

• "Longer answer: The “lifetime equivalent hourly wage” that I calculated in my book was assuming Musk would never take holidays, work 50 hours a week and work until 65." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2026/04/09/extreme-wealth-concentration-as-strong-as-ever/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:30:48

• "When Putin invaded Ukraine, he raised murder to the level of national policy. I felt guilt by association." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/09/i-had-poked-the-bear-right-in-the-eye-my-fight-to-renounce-my-russian-citizenship | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:31:11

• "Under a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement program, federal authorities had detained Serigne, a Senegalese asylum seeker and the brother of dishwasher Abdoul Mbengue." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/how-meta-cafeteria-workers-rallied-to-take-on-ice/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:31:26

• "On March 25, the Trump administration informed a federal court that it has deported about 6,000 Cubans to Mexico under an “unwritten” deal in which Mexico agreed to receive them." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-us-is-dumping-elderly-migrants-in-mexico-without-id-money-or-phones/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:52:55

• Amazon Pulls Support for Perfectly Fine Older Kindles | WIRED ⚓ https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-pulls-support-for-perfectly-fine-older-kindles/ Amazon wants to phase out old Kindles    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:53:45

• Amazon Is Pulling Support for Kindles From 2012 or Earlier. What to Do Now - CNET ⚓ https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/amazon-pulls-the-plug-on-older-kindle-models/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:54:12

• "According to court documents, Williams, who served with Delta Force, provided Harp with sensitive tactics and procedures that are considered classified at the SECRET level." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-army-veteran-charged-leaking-classified-info-1790873 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:57:19

• "Resul Tamur recalled that, as in every hearing, their requests to lift the travel ban were also rejected at the last hearing held on 20 January and noted that the court has so far provided no justification for this decision." ☛ https://english.anf-news.com/freedom-of-the-press/journalists-travel-ban-appeals-rejected-without-grounds-84827 | Source: ANF News    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:57:35

• "definitions of “false or misleading information” (Section 44) and “undesirable content” (Section 42) leave journalists and other citizens in a dangerous position of “legal uncertainty” as these terms can be interpreted subjectively by authorities" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/04/south-sudans-new-cybercrime-law-ramps-up-threat-of-jail-for-journalists/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:58:05

• "Two other people were also detained around the same time, the outlet said." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-fsb-freelancer-rferl-detained-treason/33728421.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:58:24

• "The search of Novaya Gazeta’s office in Moscow and the detention of journalist Oleg Roldugin mark the latest escalation in years of pressure exerted by Russian authorities on the media outlet" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/04/moscow-police-raid-novaya-gazeta-detain-journalist-oleg-roldugin/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:58:44

• "The government holds a stick in its hand like the sword of Damocles and constantly swings it over journalists’ heads." ☛ https://english.anf-news.com/freedom-of-the-press/dedeoglu-journalism-bodies-must-be-more-courageous-84792 | Source: ANF News    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:59:01

• "He required the immediate restoration of reporters' access." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/us-pentagon-must-restore-journalists-access-judge-says/a-76729492 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 04:59:15

• "x86 is on the decline and ARM is on the rise, both in consumer space and cloud infrastructure at hyperscalers, due to its efficiency, scalability, performance per watt, and the ability of customers to license and customize designs for their unique requirements. It won't save IBM, but partnering with ARM is a necessary reality in today's IT world, and once again, IBM is years late to the party." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kn73vh31    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:04:20

• "x86 is on the decline and ARM is on the rise, both in consumer space and cloud infrastructure at hyperscalers, due to its efficiency, scalability, performance per watt, and the ability of customers to license and customize designs for their unique requirements."    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:04:38

• It won't save IBM, but partnering with ARM is a necessary reality in today's IT world, and once again, IBM is years late to the party." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kn73vh31    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:04:48

• "KIRK: Because he was laid-off. [...] [Voyager's] ILIA PROBE: Kirk unit, disclose the information. Why has the Creator not responded?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kn8mbcxz    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:05:32

• "IBM has ZERO AI strategy. IBM has a bunch of incompetent id--ts spewing smoke off their as--s. The Indian id--t at the top is leading the bullsh-t talk." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kns92kzv    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:09:08

• "sigh, 'science' or 'engineering' in the US now - is mostly propaganda or fraud - this won't end well" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kns92kzv    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:09:16

• "Hyneman said he was frustrated by feelings that he cannot freely comment about things back home in the US" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20219588 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:23:10

• "Western governments are tightening export controls to safeguard military and industrial advantages amid rising geostrategic uncertainty." ☛ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/from-lecture-halls-to-jail-cells-the-rising-risks-of-university-research/ | Source: The Strategist    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:23:24

• "The image of Jesús del Triunfo was unable to take to the streets, Palm Sunday processions were held inside churches under surveillance by plainclothes police" ☛ https://www.laprensani.com/2026/03/30/english/3664773-nicaragua-holy-week-begins-under-government-repression-church-processions-restricted | Source: La Prensa    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:23:38

• "The detention of the Cherkessk resident, whose name has not been disclosed, was carried out by officers of the Interior Ministry’s Centre for Combating Extremism " ☛ https://oc-media.org/cherkessk-resident-charged-with-extremism-over-anti-russian-statements/ | Source: Open Caucasus Media    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:25:37

• "In December 2025, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that mass searches and the freezing of bank accounts belonging to Navalny supporters constituted political persecution." ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/murmansk-activist-violetta-grudina-faces-charges-for-discrediting-the-army/447507 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:25:54

• "Websites belonging to the Governor of Svalbard and the newspaper Svalbardposten have become inaccessible from within Russia." ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/collateral-damagenbspsvalbard-governors-website-blocked-in-russia/448192 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:26:15

• "Victor Olevich, a political analyst who appears as an American affairs expert on a propaganda show on NTV, a Russian state-controlled television channel, said he has left Russia after coming under pressure from the Federal Security Service (FSB)." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/09/ntv-pundit-says-he-left-russia-after-fsb-agents-threatened-him-at-home | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:26:39

• "In a statement to state-owned media, the FSB said the suspect joined a Telegram channel controlled by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and passed information about a local print publication covering Russia’s war in Ukraine" ☛ https://therecord.media/russia-accuses-radio-free-europe-journalist-aiding-ukraine-cyberattack | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:26:56

• "Security forces had earlier searched Novaya Gazeta’s Moscow offices. The Russian state news agency TASS said the search was connected to the case against Roldugin." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/09/novaya-gazeta-journalist-detained-in-moscow-on-suspicion-of-illegally-using-personal-data | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:32:59

• "Since its ban inside Russia, Memorial has been operating mainly from abroad to support hundreds of political prisoners still inside the country." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/nobel-memorial-extremist-russia/33728508.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:33:23

• [Old] "The day after the meeting Claremore police posted a statement saying in part, "He was ordered removed by the City Manager, but refused to do so." ☛ https://ktul.com/news/local/data-center-opponent-pleads-not-guilty-to-trespassing-charge | Source: Sinclair Inc    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:33:49

• "Hegseth’s anti-comics viewpoint is part of a global trend." ☛ https://fair.org/home/uss-erosion-of-the-right-to-cartoon-is-no-laughing-matter/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:34:08

• "a threat to use military force against the Holy See." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/pentagon-reportedly-threatened-first-american-pope-for-criticizing-trump/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:34:45

• "We’ve talked for years about how the DMCA’s notice-and-takedown system is ripe for abuse." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/09/someone-filed-a-bogus-dmca-notice-to-kill-a-story-about-a-sketchy-seo-firm-it-worked-briefly/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:40:36

• "They just turn them on and see if they work." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/10/russia-s-internet-regulator-bans-site-that-tracks-which-vpns-still-work-in-the-country | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:40:52

• "He was also given a one-year probationary period." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/08/russian-man-who-joked-his-way-onto-foreign-agent-list-gets-suspended-sentence | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:41:10

• "Here is how the claim went from a single post to a global audience of millions in 69 minutes." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/09/business/iran-war-online-influence-propaganda.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:45:09

• "The methods deployed by Kremlin disinformation have included spreading fake content posing as established media — including the Kyiv Independent." ☛ https://kyivindependent.com/fact-check-from-bots-to-maidan-claims-kremlin-tactics-flood-hungarys-election/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:45:21

• [Old] "In recent months, for example, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Morgan Stanley & Co. and Alex. Brown & Sons have separately showered the Gates accounts with thousands of shares of red-hot stock offerings" ☛ https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19930307/1689167/convicted-felons-handle-gates-fortune |    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:46:27

• "The Chinese navy is enhancing its guided-missile frigate, the Qinzhou, with an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm designed to illuminate blind spots during air defense engagements, an official military website said." ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/global/asia-pacific/2026/04/07/outpaced-by-the-us-chinas-military-places-selective-bets-on-artificial-intelligence/ | Source: C4ISRNET    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:46:49

• "Maheshwari brings more than twenty years of experience across technology, [Internet] platforms, and startups. He has held senior roles at Twitter, Flipkart, and Intuit, and has also founded ventures such as Fanory. ai." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/stripe-appoints-manish-maheshwari-as-india-head-of-revenue-and-growth/articleshow/130133461.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:47:08

• "There’s just the minor issue that when you do an IPO, your SEC S-1 filing needs to be an audited document that’s not a tyre fire. OpenAI’s own Chief Financial Officer, Sarah Friar, says the company is not ready at all: [...]" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/08/openai-ipo-proceeds-even-as-cfo-says-the-company-is-not-ready/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:47:35

• "It's so weird that this keeps happening." ☛ https://karlbode.com/whoops-the-tech-press-mythologized-another-unethical-asshole/ | Source: Karl Bode    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:47:51

• "There’s a meaningful push afoot to implement statewide “right to repair” laws that try to make it cheaper, easier, and environmentally friendlier for you to repair the technology you own." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/08/tech-lobbyists-are-trying-to-kill-colorados-popular-right-to-repair-law/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:48:14

• "Writing a law is not something for which there is a technological solution." ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/technology/2026/04/the-silent-coup | Source: New Statesman    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:48:31

• "The effort seems to mark a shift in OpenAI’s legislative strategy. Until now, OpenAI has largely played defense, opposing bills that could have made AI labs liable for their technology’s harms." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/openai-backs-bill-exempt-ai-firms-model-harm-lawsuits/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:49:09

• "The disagreement began earlier in the year during failed negotiations over a $200 million contract." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/08/appeals-court-rejects-anthropics-bid-block-pentagon-blacklisting/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:49:24

• "Liuson is part of Microsoft's CoreAI division, introduced by CEO Satya Nadella in January 2025 and headed by EVP Jay Parikh, former head of engineering at Meta, who joined the company in October 2024." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/09/microsoft_devdiv/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:49:49

• "Recently, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has emerged as a major point of contention in Democratic midterms, as candidates have moved to distance themselves from the deeply unpopular pro-Israel lobbying group." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-are-facing-new-political-litmus-test-military-aid-to-israel/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:50:12

• "‘Grandpapa’" ☛ https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/04/09/They-Cut-Down-Grandpapa/ | Source: The Tyee    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:51:14

• "Mr Allan is credited with capturing extraordinary and often never-before-seen wildlife behaviour, helping to shape how global audiences understand and connect with some of the planet’s most remote and fragile environments" ☛ https://www.scotsman.com/news/pioneering-wildlife-cameraman-doug-allan-dies-in-nepal-6568057 | Source: The Scotsman    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:51:52

• "Who would have believed it without being close enough to check, and document it with photographic and film material, that indeed some fish are able to ​climb waterfalls?" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/watch-these-rock-climbing-fish-scale-a-50-foot-waterfall-in-the-congo-basin-the-first-known-evidence-of-this-behavior-in-africa-180988502/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:52:38

• "The FAA logged 97 air incidents involving lithium batteries in the year prior to the rule, up from previous years" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/08/southwest-limits-passengers-to-one-portable-charger.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:54:28

• "simple analog solution" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/08/bicycle-bell-designed-to-defeat-noise-cancelling-headphones.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:54:47

• "Ascendant DC think tank Searchlight Institute, pushing Democrats to the center, has ties to megadonor Simone Coxe, whose Nvidia-linked money could boost AI-backed efforts to defend data center build-outs and limit AI regulation." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/04/democrats-coxe-ai-searchlight-nvidia/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:55:01

• "These listings are not only sobering for two iconic animals; they reflect what is happening to penguins and seals globally" ☛ https://iucn.org/press-release/202604/emperor-penguin-and-antarctic-fur-seal-now-endangered-due-climate-change-iucn |    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:59:38

• "Sea ice is their primary habitat" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/as-their-antarctic-habitat-melts-away-emperor-penguins-are-now-considered-an-endangered-species-180988520/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 05:59:56

• "The number of chicks and other non-breeding penguins is not known, partly because the remote Antarctic region is so difficult to monitor." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/emperor-penguins-endangered-climate-9.7158057 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:00:14

• [Old] "They found the underlying rate of warming was about 0.06 °C back in the 80s, but that’s now increased to 0.27 °C per decade. The team notes this is not a linear increase but an accelerating one." ☛ https://en.neritam.com/2026/04/09/the-ocean-surface-is-warming-over-400-faster-than-in-the-1980s/ | Source: Neritam    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:00:56

• "Leakage of caesium-137 and strontium-90 from the nuclear reactor has been confirmed, but there is no evidence that these isotopes are accumulating in the marine environment." ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/37-years-on-no-signs-of-leakage-from-plutonium-warheads/447938 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:01:16

• "Massive drone attacks this week on the major Baltic terminals of Primorsk and Ust-Luga have left Russia with few remaining routes for exporting oil, increasing reliance on the Kola Peninsula." ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/worries-grow-in-norway-as-murmansk-becomes-russias-main-oil-export-hub/447460 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:01:33

• "Last week, in Claremore, Oklahoma, a man named Darren Blanchard was arrested during a heated public hearing over a proposed data center." ☛ https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/europe-to-big-tech-we-dont-want-you |    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:01:53

• "Blanchard agrees with those in Montana who raised concerns about the extensive amounts of water that would be needed." ☛ https://www.okenergytoday.com/2026/03/reputation-grows-for-oklahoma-data-center-opponent/ |    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:02:27

• "At Onkalo, that solution lies hundreds of meters underground. Waste will be sealed in copper canisters and buried in tunnels carved into stable bedrock, where multiple layers of protection are designed to prevent leaks." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/energy/finland-onkalo-nuclear-waste-repository | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:03:02

• "Tech, data policy expert says concerns legitimate over rising power rates, water use, environmental issues amid mushrooming growth" ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/04/why-are-communities-pushing-back-against-data-centers/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:03:19

• "Gates' scheduled appearance was first reported by MSNOW." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5777585 | Source: BillPR https://techrights.org/o/2020/09/28/non-denying-and-false-denials/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:05:19

• "The case against Williams is the second Espionage Act prosecution against a media source during President Donald Trump's second term." ☛ https://thedissenter.org/doj-targets-fort-bragg-whistleblower-with-espionage-act-prosecution/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:05:35

• "Read that sequence again. Trump fires Bondi on April 2. The DOJ uses the firing as the legal mechanism to dodge the subpoena on April 8. The firing and the dodge are not separate events. They are one operation." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-walls-are-closing-in | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:05:54

• "A federal grand jury today charged Courtney Williams, 40, of Wagram, North Carolina, on a charge of willful transmission of national defense information, a violation of the Espionage Act." ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/04/09/former-army-employee-charged-with-leaking-classified-information-to-journalist/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:06:09

• "Disagreements like this are repeated to varying degrees across Africa’s 63 major river basins as countries jostle to secure future water and energy supplies, turning water security into a geopolitical flashpoint." ☛ https://adf-magazine.com/2026/04/a-rising-tide-of-water-wars/ | Source: ADF    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:06:47

• "A group of U.S. Senators led by California Senator Alex Padilla. raised strong concerns yesterday about a proposed rule from the Environmental Protection Agency. The rule would change how Section 401 of the Clean Water Act." ☛ https://www.western-water.com/2026/04/09/senators-push-back-on-epa-water-rule/ | Source: Western Water    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:07:12

• "Researchers at Princeton University and the University of Arizona took data from about 800,000 wells and applied a machine-learning model to estimate the depth of the water table nationwide." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2026-04-09/mapping-groundwater | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:07:48

• "Jihadists in northeast Nigeria killed several troops including a brigadier general in an assault on a military base" ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260409-jihadists-kill-18-nigerian-troops-including-senior-brigadier-general | Source: France24    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:08:28

• "The 25th Amendment was enacted shortly after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963" ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/485167/25th-amendment-donald-trump-removal | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:09:58

• "I thought I was signing a basketball contract" ☛ https://adf-magazine.com/2026/04/survivors-of-russias-war-bear-hidden-costs/ | Source: ADF    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:10:29

• "He is also charged with three counts of attending an Al-Shabaab commando training camp in Kismayu in Somali" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/jermaine-grant-terror-charge-alshabaab-somalia-b2954312.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:10:57

• "The new rules come amid wider scrutiny over social media’s impact on young people" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/04/08/2026/greece-plans-to-ban-social-media-for-kids | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:11:24

• "A Finnair aircraft experienced some difficulty landing in Kirkenes on Monday, 6 April. Finnair has confirmed that this was due to GPS spoofing." ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/finnair-captain-gps-spoofing-and-jamming-are-a-daily-nuisance/448174 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:11:48

• "Food is running out. Farms are decreasing in number and the harvests aren't improving so much that food is sufficient in stores and many other places" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20219697 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:12:19

• "This is the kind moral leadership that the world is starving for right now" ☛ https://zambianobserver.com/pope-leo-slams-trumps-threat-to-wipe-out-irans-civilization-as-truly-unacceptable-and-urges-americans-to-call-their-senators-and-representatives-to-end-this-madness-now/ | Source: The Zambian Observer    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:12:43

• "A proposed ban on children younger than 15 using social media platforms will stop access to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat as of January 1, 2027" ☛ https://www.ekathimerini.com/economy/1300504/social-media-ban-to-affect-facebook-instagram-tiktok-and-snapchat/ | Source: Greece    

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

• "Upon hearing these words emerge from my radio as I was driving to work, I was reminded of the words of two Epically Furious theologians" ☛ https://emptywheel.net/2026/04/08/hegseth-the-holy-hand-grenade-of-antioch-and-mark-twain/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:13:45

• "Only Bitwarden offers self‑hosting, which is valuable if you want full control over your data and infrastructure." ☛ https://greycoder.com/comparing-bitwarden-proton-pass-lastpass-1password/ | Source: GreyCoder    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:14:19

• "Our family has used 1Password for many years. Most recently 1Password 7, now at least three years out of date." ☛ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/04/09/Password-Manager-Angst | Source: Tim Bray    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:14:38

• "We analyzed a 2025 sample of the Spyrtacus spyware, version 8.71." ☛ https://osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2026/04/italian-spyware-maker-sio-still-developing-and-distributing-spyrtacus/ | Source: Osservatorio Nessuno    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:15:45

• "The incident was initially disclosed in January, when the company warned that customers who were issued a Eurail pass might have been affected." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/300000-people-impacted-by-eurail-data-breach/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:17:17

• "The trial covered the entire passenger journey, from booking tickets and managing travel plans to moving through the airport, using biometric technology only" ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/bengaluru-news/face-as-passport-bengaluru-airport-trials-paperless-biometric-travel-system-all-you-need-to-know-101775717975093.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:17:28

• "A shadowy industry is thriving alongside Africa’s digital boom: mass-surveillance systems powered by artificial intelligence." ☛ https://adf-magazine.com/2026/04/invasive-surveillance-tech-violates-africans-freedoms/ | Source: ADF    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:17:58

• "best in remote, low-clutter environments" ☛ https://www.newsweek.com/ghost-murmur-secretive-cia-tool-iran-airman-rescue-11797688 | Source: Newsweek    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:18:27

• "The CIA deployed a classified technology called Ghost Murmur, developed by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works division." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/08/cia-located-a-downed-airman-from-40-miles-away-by-detecting-his-heartbeat.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:19:30

• "A Swedish non-profit has filed a class action lawsuit against Norway's Telenor, accusing it of endangering customers in Myanmar by sharing their data with the junta. The company said it had no real choice." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/norways-telenor-faces-lawsuit-for-giving-junta-data-from-its-customers-in-myanmar/a-76710104 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:19:58

• "More and more Dutch municipalities are using camera scanning cars to check parked cars, and then use an AI algorithm to determine whether they are parked illegally or without paying." ☛ https://nltimes.nl/2026/04/09/camera-scanning-cars-issue-500000-unjustified-parking-fines-per-year-regulator-says | Source: NL Times    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:20:23

• "Thursday, the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) and American Oversight filed suit against the Trump administration for failing to release records related to a sweeping federal policy enabling the sharing of Medicaid enrollee data with immigration enforcement agencies." ☛ https://americanoversight.org/medicaid-ice-data-sharing-lawsuit/ | Source: American Oversight    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:20:50

• "Police identified the 30-year-old suspect as an employee of a systems maintenance contractor hired by the Hospital Authority." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/09/hong-kong-police-arrest-man-suspected-of-stealing-56000-hospital-authority-patients-personal-data/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:21:06

• Windows TCO: "This apparent lack of patience with Microsoft comes as no surprise to Dustin Childs, head of threat awareness at Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI)" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/bluehammer-windows-exploit-microsoft-bug-disclosure-issues | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:21:53

• Windows TCO: "Ransomware was a slower evolution for me to realize that's who is stealing from us today, that's the threat facing us today" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/08/cynthia_kaiser_interview/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:22:12

• Old: Red Hat layoffs spark calls to unionize https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/28/red_hat_layoffs_union/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:24:42

• "The young woman described to a jury what it was like to lose control of her life to social media." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/04/09/social-media-detox/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:26:46

• "Mastodon is preparing to roll out “Collections” in the next few weeks, a feature that allows you to find and create lists of accounts worth following, according to an announcement on Thursday." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/909308/mastodon-collections-bluesky-starter-packs | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:36:08

• "We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million impressions per month." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:36:42

• "By 2024, our 2,500 X posts generated around 2 million impressions each month. Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:37:01

• So EFF quits MElon hate hub NOT based on principles, based on "traffic" alone. No principles then.    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:38:07

• "The digital privacy non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation will no longer be posting on X as of Thursday, largely due to a sharp decline in views on the platform over the past several years." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/909550/eff-electronic-frontier-foundation-leaving-x-twitter | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:39:14

• "As a product. OpenAI is trapped between a far cheaper Gemini offering from Google, with its rising popularity" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/08/as-sam-altman-pushes-for-ipo-the-wheels-are-coming-off-openai.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:48:26

• "my previous two articles The Coming AI Compute Crunch and Is the AI Compute Crunch Here?" ☛ https://martinalderson.com/posts/what-next-for-the-compute-crunch/ | Source: Martin Alderson    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:49:04

• "It also has to be mentioned that I find the development process of LLMs morally wrong, although it seems to have fallen out of fashion to discuss it in some circles." ☛ https://erikjohannes.no/posts/20260408-on-the-usefulness-of-ai-agents/index.html | Source: Erik Johannes Husom    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 06:49:32

• "No contributions built with, or assisted by, LLMs or any kind of "generative AI" tools will be considered. If you didn't bother writing it, I'm not going to bother reading it. XScreenSaver is art by humans for humans." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/04/important-xscreensaver-policy-update/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:12:41

• "I think you should be listening to what all those whitepapers and reports and studies are actually telling you, and working on fundamentals." ☛ https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2026/apr/09/llms/ | Source: James Bennett    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:12:59

• "The pattern is consistent: maintainers spend a disproportionate share of their time evaluating code that should never have been submitted, crowding out genuine contributions and accelerating burnout." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/ai-generated-code-crisis/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:14:12

• "There are a few people I recommend following to understand what is going on with software development: [...]" ☛ https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/the-impact-of-llms-on-the-software-economy/ | Source: Alcides Fonseca    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:14:47

• "ML models are chaotic, both in isolation and when embedded in other systems. Their outputs are difficult to predict, and they exhibit surprising sensitivity to initial conditions" ☛ https://aphyr.com/posts/412-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-dynamics | Source: Kyle Kingsbury    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:15:28

• "ML models are cultural artifacts: they encode and reproduce textual, audio, and visual media; they participate in human conversations and spaces, and their interfaces make them easy to anthropomorphize." ☛ https://aphyr.com/posts/413-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-culture | Source: Kyle Kingsbury    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:18:17

• "Artificial intelligence is a hungry species. It is designed to steal people’s livelihoods, hoard personal data, and devour enough energy and land to remake and ruin entire towns." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/04/bernie-aoc-artificial-intelligence-regulation/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:18:54

• "The infrastructure I have described in earlier articles — Knowledge Priming, Design-First Collaboration, Context Anchoring, and Encoding Team Standards — is not a collection of static artifacts. They are surfaces that can absorb learning." ☛ https://martinfowler.com/articles/reduce-friction-ai/feedback-flywheel.html | Source: Martin Fowler    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:19:36

• "The "AI" bubble will soon burst. That is a good thing. It's a necessary correction of a mass hysteria that's gripped the world for many years now." ☛ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/fakewords/ | Source: The Cyber Show    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:19:55

• "Uthmeier also says that OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been “linked to criminal behavior” related to child sexual abuse material and the “encouragement” of self-harm." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/909557/openai-florida-investigation | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:36:43

• iophk: Fuzzy logic could work in practice and only slowed programs down a little.    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:37:11

• "It primarily processes tasks directly on Apple silicon via a compact on-device LLM." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/apple-intelligence-ai-guardrails-bypassed-in-new-attack/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:37:24

• With limited resources, people think practically and not lose sight of the problem to piggyback brute force    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:38:32

• "Security researchers at RSAC estimate there are at least 200 million Apple Intelligence-capable devices in use as of December 2025, and up to 1 million apps on the Apple App Store that employ it." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/09/security_researchers_tricked_apple_intelligence/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:38:45

• "The findings mirror broader concerns among Americans over AI, despite rising adoption rates." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/04/09/2026/gen-zers-grow-more-uneasy-about-ai | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:39:11

• "Increasingly it would seem that we’re looking at the Car-as-a-Service (CaaS) model being implemented." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/04/08/nissan-shuts-down-nissanconnect-app-for-older-leaf-evs/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:39:42

• "lack of confidence in assessing the system’s overall security posture" ☛ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/03/federal-cyber-experts-called-microsofts-cloud-a-pile-of-shit-approved-it-anyway/ | Source: Ars Technica    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:39:58

• "On Microsoft's Lousy Cloud Security" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/on-microsofts-lousy-cloud-security.html | Source: Bruce Schneier https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/08/Microsoft_Azure_is_Now_Perpetually_on_Life_Support_Even_Microso.shtml    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:40:26

• "American consumers deserve better." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/banning-new-foreign-routers-mistargets-products-fix-real-problem | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:40:47

• "Honda has taken a feature that used to be a single dumb button press: open garage, go inside, live your life" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/09/honda-paywalls-its-garage-door-opener.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:41:03

• "The volume control on my Apple TV remote recently stopped working." ☛ https://svenluijten.com/blog/volume-control-not-working-on-apple-tv-remote | Source: Sven Luijten p;  

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:56:28

• "Of the programmable logic controllers manufactured by Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley that Censys identified as potentially exposed to Iranian government attackers, nearly 3,900" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/iran-attackers-industrial-ot-government-energy-water-censys/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:56:45

• "The late psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was troubled by a paradox of progress. People alive today have more sophisticated machines, medicines, and systems for organizing the world." ☛ https://www.derekthompson.org/p/how-zombie-flow-took-over-culture | Source: Derek Thompson    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:57:10

• "But that officer, Maj. William Norgard, is arguing his business ventures outside of the Army are not in violation of military regulations, and he’s gearing up to challenge the service — a fight that his lawyer says is likely to end up in court." ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-marijuana-dispensary/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:57:22

• "For Paul Stacho, who lives in Stoney Creek, access to conservation areas has been life changing." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/nature-prescription-hamilton-9.7156573 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:57:35

• "Effectively, eight CPUs run the flight software in parallel. The engineering philosophy hinges on a “fail-silent” design." ☛ https://cacm.acm.org/news/how-nasa-built-artemis-iis-fault-tolerant-computer/ | Source: ACM    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:58:19

• "Google’s C4 instances use a specific variant of Xeon 6 called Granite Rapids." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/09/intel-inks-multiyear-data-center-chip-partnership-google/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:58:33

• "This is the bad news from market watcher IDC, which says that the remainder of the year will see further declines in PC shipments as system prices continue to go up." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/09/middle_east_madness_to_hike/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:58:45

• Want to help garden birds? Don't feed them in warmer months, says RSPB - BBC News ⚓ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2lwvz1pl1no ䷉ Source: BBC | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2lwvz1pl1no    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 07:59:48

• "you can look, but you can’t touch." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/hackable-history-clay-interactive-and-raspberry-pi-at-the-young-va/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 08:00:38

• "The Scholarly Kitchen (TSK) hosted a panel of librarian guest authors and Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) volunteers on stage at the 2025 Charleston Library Conference." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/09/ask-the-librarians-recapping-a-scholarly-kitchen-roundtable-at-the-2025-charleston-library-conference/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 08:00:50

• "She recently popped into the Overcommitted community (a great group, btw), and we couldn’t resist asking her our usual writerly questions." ☛ https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/cassidy-williams-on-technical-blogging | Source: Cynthia Dunlop    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 08:01:06

• "I’ve always felt uncomfortable at the thought of advising others." ☛ https://billglover.me/2026/04/10/why-you-cant-change-anyone/ |    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 08:01:31

• "I am tired of wanting things I don't even respect." ☛ https://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-04-09 | Source: Dr Molly Tov    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 08:07:06

• "CNI is pleased to once again serve as a cooperating organization for the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL), taking place September 22–25, 2026, in Faro, Portugal." ☛ https://www.cni.org/news/theory-and-practice-of-digital-libraries-september-2026 | Source: Coalition for Networked Information    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 08:07:23

• "A bell-to-bell cellphone ban and an early literacy plan were among the governor’s priorities this year, while other new laws may help take students’ attention away from social media" ☛ https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/04/09/fewer-phones-more-books-gov-spencer-cox-new-education-laws/ | Source: Utah News Dispatch    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 08:09:16

• iophk: Stenography in place of exposing baldfaced lies: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/04/09/melania-trump-denies-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein/ Stenography is epidemic. Telegraph is owned by German billionaires now.    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 08:10:22

• sedated media for illusion of press apparatus still in effect; not a single article on IBM layoffs.    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 08:11:16

• iophk: Yes, pretty much everything is owned by oligarchs and the policy across the board is one of (nearly) pure stenography, for various reasons. Yes, one reason is to keep the media sedated and provide an illusion of a live 4th estate. Nor even a single article on the EPO AFAIK.    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 08:11:51

• Thankfully not a million dollars get spent trying to kill what's left of real tech journalism http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/03/30/How_Third_Party_Funding_and_Former_Microsoft_Staff_Spent_About_.shtml    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 08:12:51

• "And here's the moon in total eclipse. Humans are seeing it from this perspective for the very first time." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/07/dark-side-of-the-moon-as-seen-from-artemis.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 08:15:43

• "The five hours of observations were made using cameras and the naked eye. All four astronauts gave detailed descriptions of what they were seeing." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/artemisii-eyes-lunar-observations-9.7156482 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 08:15:56

• "I’ve posted about publication lag times previously. The “lag” refers to the time from submitting a paper and it appearing in a journal." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/hold-on-hope-publication-lag-times-at-cell-biology-journals/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 08:16:15

• "New research led by the University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, in close partnership with mana whenua, is shedding new light on Māori diet and burial practices in Aotearoa New Zealand prior to European colonization." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-04-ancient-mori-largely-based-diets.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 08:16:42

• London firm faces £35,000 SRA costs bill on top of £3,000 fines https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/london-firm-faces-35000-sra-costs-bill-on-top-of-3000-fines/5126442.article    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 08:19:05

• [Old] "Sometimes we discover unpleasant truths. Whenever we do so, we are in difficulties: suppressing them is scientifically dishonest, so we must tell them, but telling them, however, will fire back on us." ☛ https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html | Source: University of Virginia    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 08:19:15

• "Specifically they have to be ‘neutron stars’, which sounds like a star wearing a Superman cape, but is just the ultra-dense remnants left over when a star dies." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2026/04/10/cosmic-alchemy/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 08:19:24

• "For the second year in a row, the Trump administration wants to slash NASA’s budget." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-09/the-trump-paradox-boasting-about-the-artemis-mission-while-demanding-deep-cuts-to-nasas-budget.html | Source: El País    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 08:19:32

• "An online presence feels so at odds with being a private person in some ways, or being picky about people, and being intentionally harder to access in real life." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/thepublic/ | Source: Ava    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 09:36:22

• "This is the American project. Not the easiest version. The correct one." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/techs-liberal-economist-really-isnt | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 09:36:44

• "Your body is going to remain in that refrigerated unit for a long time. Typically it will be weeks or months; sometimes bodies can stay refrigerated for an entire year" ☛ https://davidoks.blog/p/how-funerals-keep-africa-poor | Source: David Oks    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 09:37:03

• "Unfortunately, Amazon is trying to block these helpful new tools, which can steer shoppers towards competitors." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/comparison-shopping-not-computer-crime | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 09:37:26

• "In our testing, Polymarket bets are also showing up on the Google News home page." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/google-news-polymarket | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 09:37:43

• "The ministry stated that the submarines had been engaged in activity above critical underwater infrastructure but did not specify what that activity involved." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/09/uk-defense-ministry-says-3-russian-submarines-conducted-suspicious-activity-near-undersea-cables-in-north-atlantic | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 09:55:23

• "As a cybersecurity researcher studying critical infrastructure and maritime systems, I investigate how digital threats affect ships and the people who operate them." ☛ https://defenceweb.co.za/sea/sea-sea/when-gps-lies-at-sea-how-electronic-warfare-is-threatening-ships-and-their-crews/ | Source: Defence Web    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 09:55:45

• "In Zsh, we can avoid copying such generated filenames by using glob qualifiers, which are extra syntax you can add to filename globs in Zsh." ☛ https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/01/27/zsh-om1-glob-qualifiers/ |    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 09:56:18

• "Together, these projects provide vendor-neutral infrastructure for the entire AI lifecycle, from training through inference" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/pytorch-ai-stack-expand/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 09:56:50

• "If you have read our blogs previously then you will be aware that Jumping Rivers is a consultancy and training provider in all things data science." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/using-r-to-teach-r-lessons-for-software-development/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 09:57:56

• "Initially, we had languages like Fortran (1957), Pascal (1970), and C (1972). Fortran was designed for number crunching and scientific computing." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/09/a-brief-history-of-c-c-programming-languages/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 09:58:22

• "Since 1984, a music fan named Aadam Jacobs has been recording audio of sets from up-and-coming bands, predominantly in Chicago" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/08/fans-concert-recordings-online-archive/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 09:58:54

• "The Microsoft and ValueLicensing legal tussle will enter an appeals phase this month, attracting the attention of a multibillion-pound class action against the Windows giant." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/09/microsoft_valuelicensing_appeal/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:01:28

• "While hundreds of Arduino Days celebrations took place simultaneously in over 100 countries worldwide" ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/04/09/arduino-days-2026-empowers-students-across-vietnam-through-hands-on-technology-experiences/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:02:41

• "I've known EFF executive director Cindy Cohn for 27 years." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/09/bernstein-2/#win-some-lose-some | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:02:58

• "Your choice of CMS is not a tooling decision. It is a constraint system." ☛ https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/four-ways-to-build-a-website/ | Source: Jono Alderson    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:15:23

• "I’ll mostly only be writing HTML (via Astro components) here" ☛ https://piccalil.li/projects/personal-site/4/ | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:15:56

• "This is the fourth chapter of my SQLAlchemy 2 in Practice book. If you'd like to support my work, I encourage you to buy this book, either directly from my store or on Amazon. Thank you!" ☛ https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/sqlalchemy-2-in-practice---chapter-4---many-to-many-relationships | Source: Miguel Grinberg    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:23:24

• "In case you are wondering “what is full-text search?” for our purposes we are going to be looking at a search where we want to find any message that contains all the words the user has typed, in any order" ☛ https://blog.jmp.chat/b/2026-full-text-search-indexeddb | Source: JMP    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:23:43

• "I write stuff here. Sometimes the stuff is good." ☛ https://matduggan.com/you-can-absolutely-have-an-rss-dependent-website-in-2026/ | Source: Mat Duggan    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:26:00

• "Simply put, Mirtillo is a digital agenda. It keeps track of what you're doing, your open tasks, events, it suggests you a schedule to follow, and it keeps track of your budgets. Its code is open-source and, well, I wrote it." ☛ https://thelibre.news/i-made-the-ultimate-productivity-device/ | Source: LibreNews    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:26:52

• "If antivirus for a given platform is “free” and not Open-Source, you are the product." ☛ https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/aura/ | Source: Logikal Solutions    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:27:15

• "So I took a very long pause from my other project kiln (CMake compatiable alternative) to work on tarnet." ☛ https://clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2026/04-10-tarnet-reimplementing-the-internets-archicture.gmi | Source: Martin Chang    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:27:33

• "I tried multiple solutions, each with pros and cons, here is an overview of my findings." ☛ https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2026-04-09-photo-library-management.html | Source: Data Swamp    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:27:47

• "Judging by statements from Rostelecom — Russia’s largest telecommunications company — the situation may be long-term." ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/democracy-and-media/russians-urged-to-return-to-landline-phones/447689 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:28:32

• "I also had to implement adaptive gain control almost immediately. If you set a fixed volume threshold, the visualizer either saturates in a loud room or barely flickers in a quiet one." ☛ https://scottlawsonbc.com/post/audio-led |    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:29:16

• "At the start of 2026, we released three new wearable boards under the heading of Badgeware! This squad of Raspberry Pi RP2350 powered wearable tech is made up of..." ☛ https://blog.pimoroni.com/tiny-screens-big-ideas-show-us-your-badgeware-projects/ | Source: Pimoroni    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:29:40

• "SiFive was founded in 2015 by the creators of RISC-V, a popular open-source ISA" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/09/risc-v-chip-design-startup-sifive-nabs-400m-investment/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:29:53

• "Like the ESP32-S3 before it, the ESP32-P4 includes SIMD instructions - Espressif calls them 'PIE' - processor instruction extensions." ☛ https://bitbanksoftware.blogspot.com/2026/04/esp32-p4-simd-explained.html | Source: Larry Bank    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:30:45

• "Let us discuss some notable highlights in TrueNAS 26-BETA1." ☛ https://ostechnix.com/truenas-26-beta-released/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:31:50

• "Recent political events have pushed governments and organizations to seriously question their dependence on foreign-controlled software." ☛ https://obdev.at/blog/little-snitch-for-linux/ |    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:32:43

• [Old] "The GNU/Hurd is the Sagrada Família of the Software World: having started to develop in 1990, the GNU/Hurd has yet to reach version 1.0." ☛ https://mhatta.medium.com/gnu-hurd-strikes-back-4021433d506d | Source: Masayuki Hatta    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:32:55

• "Since I'm on KDE Linux, I use flatpak apps for pretty much everything, such as Kontact suite." ☛ https://akselmo.dev/notes/flatpak-kdeplatform-ci/ | Source: Akseli Lahtinen    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:34:40

• "In the case I was debugging it was neither. The [Internet] connectivity between CloudFlare and origin was perfect. No packet loss, flat latency. So why did we see a 522 error?" ☛ https://blog.cloudflare.com/this-is-strictly-a-violation-of-the-tcp-specification/ | Source: Cloudflare    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:35:31

• "Today is the CSS Naked Day, a day dedicated to showcasing the raw, unstyled version of websites." ☛ https://victor.kropp.name/blog/2026/css-naked-day/ | Source: Victor Kropp    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:35:58

• "In systemd v258, systemctl gained a new feature to help with this, systemctl -v." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdVerboseRestartNotes | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:36:17

• "Nftables is the current generation Linux firewall rule system, supplanting iptables (which supplanted ipchains)." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/NftablesSymbolicVariables | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:36:43

• "FreeBSD and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence, Reviews make you 10x slower, OpenBSD on a Motorola 88000, Jailrun, and more." ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/658 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:37:09

• "Tom the Dancing Bug: Give Dementia Donnie his pudding, you crazy bastards!" https://boingboing.net/2026/04/07/tom-the-dancing-bug-give-dementia-donnie-his-pudding-you-crazy-bastards.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:48:05

• "Sweden Goes Back to Basics, Swapping Screens for Books in the Classroom" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/04/06/234206    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:48:21

• "'Look, the Epstein Files comes out - we go to war with Iran. It's a good way to get people to stop talking about certain things,' Rogan said." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15717097/Joe-Rogan-Trump-Epstein-Iran.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:48:51

• "Congressional Democrats Are Out of Step With Their Base" https://jacobin.com/2026/04/congress-democrats-ndc-centrism-voters/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:49:07

• "Strait Of Hormuz 'Toll' Could Breach Maritime Law, Industry Insiders Say" https://www.rferl.org/a/strait-of-hormuz-tolls-maritime-law/33727801.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:49:24

• "Pam Bondi Attempts to Duck Congressional Epstein Testimony" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/pam-bondi-congressional-epstein-testimony-1235543795/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:50:44

• "The Mouth of Moron reading directly from "Dear Leader" playbook" https://boingboing.net/2026/04/08/the-mouth-of-moron-reading-directly-from-dear-leader-playbook.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:51:01

• Does the obvious go unsaid (in MSM) until Rogan says it out loud?    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:51:52

• "Trump is burning every bridge America had left" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-04-07/trump-allies-burning-bridges    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:52:10

• "Social Media is Virtually Useless for Publishers to Attract Readers" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/04/08/197218    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:52:51

• CNSA https://media.defense.gov/2025/May/30/2003728741/-1/-1/0/CSA_CNSA_2.0_ALGORITHMS.PDF    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:53:14

• "Can we Trust SLOP? No – But Eventually We Must" https://www.securityweek.com/can-we-trust-ai-no-but-eventually-we-must/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:53:44

• "Reenacting Normalcy While Trump Threatens to Kill Civilizations Is Wrecking Us | Truthout" https://truthout.org/articles/reenacting-normalcy-while-trump-threatens-to-kill-civilizations-is-wrecking-us/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:55:06

• "Calls to invoke the 25th Amendment after Trump's Iran threats 'useless' - France 24" https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260409-calls-to-invoke-the-25th-amendment-after-trump-iran-threats-useless    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:55:23

• Visa-free travel to the USA and your personal data | "Visumfria USA-resor och din persondata" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/04/09/visumfria-usa-resor-och-din-persondata/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:56:17

• "The Cowboy in the White House" https://www.danielpipes.org/22762/the-cowboy-in-the-white-house    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:57:48

• "Living through Trump's time bomb" https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-iran-civilization-will-die    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 10:59:40

• "Man arrested at data center forum calls trespassing charge 'retaliatory' | News | claremoreprogress.com" https://www.claremoreprogress.com/news/man-arrested-at-data-center-forum-calls-trespassing-charge-retaliatory/article_6c98a272-fcb6-493d-bc86-e56fcd6c2e0f.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 11:00:06

• "On Iran, Trump and the American Empire Blinked" https://jacobin.com/2026/04/iran-war-trump-threat-ceasefire/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 11:00:38

• "How Trump’s Incompetence and Looming Global Catastrophes May Intersect" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/how-trumps-incompetence-and-looming-global-catastrophes-may-intersect/bsp;  

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 11:02:16

• "Democrats Are Badly Failing to Hold Trump Accountable Over Iran" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-iran-war-trump-response/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 11:02:46

• "Debate over US war crimes, illegal military orders returns with Trump threats against Iran" https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/04/09/repub/debate-over-us-war-crimes-illegal-military-orders-returns-with-trump-threats-against-iran/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 11:03:09

• "What China Just Learned From the Iran War" https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/04/china-taiwan-trump-iran-war/686738/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 11:03:40

• "Japan’s combat role in Philippines war games signals shift in regional strategy – Radio Free Asia" https://www.rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2026/04/08/japan-philippines-military-exercise-balikatan/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 11:03:59

• "To what extent was the Norwegian target movement influenced by Germanistic traits in the interwar period?" | "Orsak, Halldis – Biblioteket tar saka #librarycase" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://bibliotekettarsaka.com/2026/04/09/orsak-halldis/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 11:04:59

• "'Trump abandoned us': ceasefire sparks anger, fear, division among Iranians - France 24" https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260409-iran-ceasefire-reactions-trump-anger-division-war-regime-change-debate    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 11:05:13

• #064 | S7 | GNU Health | Dr. Luis Falcon in the chair https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=64    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 13:04:24

• New Charter Allows RFK Jr. to Reclaim Vaccine Policy Despite Court Ruling ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/health/cdc-rfk-jr-vaccine-committee-ruling.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 13:09:59

• Wayland 1.25 Documentation Update ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/wayland-1.25-documentation-update.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 13:16:50

• Old habits die hard: Abusive Monopolist Microsoft tries to limit our options, this time with Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ai/microsoft-copilot-ai-user-choice/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 13:19:11

• And yet, Mozilla outsourced Firefox to Microsoft (GitHub) and added Microsoft chatbots to Firefox. Great judgement!    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 13:20:08

• Openwashing slop some more. Mozilla disgraces its brand (and Firefox's). ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla-new-products/0din-ai-security-scanner/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 13:21:33

• "Config files may need editing between export and import formats" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/planning-your-upgrade-path-ansible-automation-platform-26 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 13:22:38

• But hiring from Microsoft is OK? "My colleague, Maksim Beliaev, recently wrote about our hiring principles." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/intentional-leadership-at-canonical | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 13:24:10

• "local computation to support secure biometric authentication without relying on cloud-based processing" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/realsense-id-pro-f500-combines-depth-sensing-and-on-device-biometrics/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 13:25:01

• OpenShot 3.5.1 Added Preview & UI Scaling for Better UI/UX Experience ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/04/openshot-3-5-1-preview-scaling/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 13:27:55

• Rust API and a new plugin system added to Miracle-WM ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/miracle-wm-rust-plugins    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 13:29:42

• Community jigsaw puzzles ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/community-jigsaw-puzzles/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 13:32:30

• Audiophile feedback ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/audiophile-feedback/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 13:32:51

• Your old Kindle won’t stop working on 20 May – but it could ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/older-kindles-amazon-support    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 13:34:34

• 658: It’s the vibe of it ☞ https://www.bsdnow.tv/658    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 14:25:36

• RISC-V chip design startup SiFive nabs $400M investment ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/09/risc-v-chip-design-startup-sifive-nabs-400m-investment/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 14:26:17

• Software to keep photos organized ☞ https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2026-04-09-photo-library-management.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 14:26:41

• Arduino Days 2026 empowers students across Vietnam through hands-on technology experiences ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/04/09/arduino-days-2026-empowers-students-across-vietnam-through-hands-on-technology-experiences/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 14:27:13

• Pluralistic: Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (09 Apr 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/09/bernstein-2/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 14:28:05

• A brief history of C/C++ programming languages ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/09/a-brief-history-of-c-c-programming-languages/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 14:28:51

• Using R to Teach R: Lessons for Software Development ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/using-r-to-teach-r-lessons-for-software-development/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 14:29:08

• Google News Now Prominently Featuring Polymarket Bets ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/google-news-polymarket    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 14:29:34

• Hold On Hope: publication lag times at cell biology journals ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/hold-on-hope-publication-lag-times-at-cell-biology-journals/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 15:16:49

• Intel inks multiyear data center chip partnership with Surveillance Giant Google ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/09/intel-inks-multiyear-data-center-chip-partnership-google/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 15:17:39

• On Microsoft’s Lousy Cloud Security ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/on-microsofts-lousy-cloud-security.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 15:18:30

• Apple Intelligence Hey Hi (AI) Guardrails Bypassed in New Attack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/apple-intelligence-ai-guardrails-bypassed-in-new-attack/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 15:18:54

• Groups Sue Convicted Felon Admin for Records on Medicaid Data Sharing with Immigration Enforcement ☞ https://americanoversight.org/medicaid-ice-data-sharing-lawsuit/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 15:19:48

• 300,000 People Impacted by Eurail Data Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/300000-people-impacted-by-eurail-data-breach/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 15:20:17

• Russia's FSB Detains, Accuses Former RFE/RL Freelancer Of Treason ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-fsb-freelancer-rferl-detained-treason/33728421.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 15:22:48

• Now You Can Turn Off All of Spotify’s Video Content ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/09/how-to-turn-off-spotify-video-content/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 15:23:19

• Andy Wingo: wastrel milestone: full hoot support, with generational gc as a treat ☞ https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/04/09/wastrel-milestone-full-hoot-support-with-generational-gc-as-a-treat    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 15:24:29

• Testing org.kde.Platform flatpak built in CI ☞ https://akselmo.dev/notes/flatpak-kdeplatform-ci/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 15:24:52

• Can Garuda GNU/Linux Mokka Take Manjaro’s Arch-Based Crown? ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/04/can-garuda-linux-mokka-take-manjaros-arch-based-crown/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 15:32:36

• Tighter KDE Connect Integration ☞ https://blog.broulik.de/2026/04/kde-connect-solid-back-end/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 15:33:08

• Open-source hardware DAB+ receiver combines ESP32 SoC with Skyworks SI4684 digital radio chip ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/09/open-source-hardware-dab-receiver-combines-esp32-soc-with-skyworks-si4684-chip/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 15:56:56

• Raspberry Pi SBC gets (analog and) digital radio HAT with AM, FM, DAB, DAB+, HD radio ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/10/raspberry-pi-sbc-gets-digital-radio-hat-with-am-fm-dab-dab-hd-radio/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 15:57:27

• Akademy 2026: Registration Now Open ☞ https://akademy.kde.org/news/2026-04_akademy-2026-registration/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 15:58:35

• Setting up Akvorado: A NetFlow analyser for your IPv6-first network ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/04/09/setting-up-akvorado-a-netflow-analyser-for-your-ipv6-first-network/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:00:06

• Andreas Farre: BuildCache now works with mach ☞ https://blog.farre.se/posts/2026/04/09/buildcache-with-mach/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:00:42

• What the Verdict Against Meta and Surveillance Giant Google Says About the Way We Live Now ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-the-verdict-against-meta-and-google-says-about-the-way-we-live-now    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:01:16

• Google Warns of New Campaign Targeting BPOs to Steal Corporate Data ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/google-warns-of-new-campaign-targeting-bpos-to-steal-corporate-data/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:02:05

• Social media ID verification plan raises mass surveillance concerns ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/social-media-id-verification-plan-raises-mass-surveillance-concerns-318494    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:02:28

• Still Not a Privacy Law: Bill C-25’s Political Party Privacy Provisions Fall Short Again ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/still-not-a-privacy-law-bill-c-25s-political-party-privacy-provisions-fall-short-again/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:03:08

• The Symmetry Problem: Printed Matter, Nexus, and the Federal Circuit’s One-Way Ratchet ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/04/the-symmetry-problem-printed-matter-nexus-and-the-federal-circuits-one-way-ratchet.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:07:47

• The Dark Matter of Patent Law: Nearly 25% of Office Actions Now Cite Secret Prior Art ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/04/the-dark-matter-of-patent-law-nearly-25-of-office-actions-now-cite-secret-prior-art.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:08:15

• Embargo first, justice later? ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/new-patent-owner-silimed-lands-pi-against-polytech-at-munich-court/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:08:59

• The Hit Erotica Writers Outwitting Nigeria’s Religious Censors ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/africa/nigeria-erotica-writers-censors.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:09:24

• Lebanon Mourns After Israeli Onslaught Kills More Than 300 People ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/middleeast/lebanon-israel-iran-war-airstrikes.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:09:48

• What to Know About Israel’s Strikes on Lebanon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/middleeast/what-to-know-israel-strikes-lebanon.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:10:05

• European Leaders Demand That U.S. Cease-Fire With Iran Include Lebanon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/middleeast/european-demands-iran-us-cease-fire-lebanon.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:10:23

• Thibault Martin: TIL that Helix and Typst are a match made in heaven ☞ https://ergaster.org/til/helix-typst-match-in-heaven/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:11:19

• High fuel prices spur interest in EVs ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/high-fuel-prices-spur-interest-in-evs    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:13:35

• Microsoft's ongoing legacy ... "HS: Nokia plans to cut 121 jobs in Finland" https://yle.fi/a/74-20219930 https://techrights.org/wiki/Nokia/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:27:13

• 'Dihydroxyacetone Man abandoned us': ceasefire sparks anger, fear, division among Iranians ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260409-iran-ceasefire-reactions-trump-anger-division-war-regime-change-debate    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:29:40

• Scientists May Have Found a New Cause of High Blood Pressure, And a Way to Treat It ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-may-have-found-a-new-cause-of-high-blood-pressure-and-a-way-to-treat-it    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:30:04

• Florida AG opens probe into Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot alleging connection to FSU shooting ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/09/florida-ag-opens-probe-chatgpt-alleging-connection-fsu-shooting/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:30:57

• Florida Attorney General Investigates Proprietary Chaffbot Company and Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Over F.S.U. Shooting ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/florida-openai-chatgpt-fsu-shooting-investigation.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:31:23

• Hong Kong student whistleblower denounces ‘intimidation’ as pro-Beijing petition calls for expulsion ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/09/hong-kong-student-whistleblower-denounces-intimidation-as-pro-beijing-petition-calls-for-expulsion/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:32:39

• Skrooge 26.4.0 released ☞ https://skrooge.org/news/2026-04-09-skrooge_26.4.0_released/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:33:40

• Tiny Screens, Big Ideas! Show Us Your Badgeware Projects. ☞ https://blog.pimoroni.com/tiny-screens-big-ideas-show-us-your-badgeware-projects/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:34:03

• MinIO Client – work with object storage ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/minio-client-work-with-object-storage/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:34:58

• 25 Essential Free and Open Source LaTeX Tools – typeset beautifully ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/latextools/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:35:10

• Super Lite GNU/Linux – lightweight distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/super-lite-linux-lightweight-distribution/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:35:34

• SafeScript – code snippet manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/safescript-code-snippet-manager/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:35:48

• cal – the console calendar generator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cal-console-calendar-generator/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:36:01

• Debian vs Ubuntu Server: Which One Should You Use? ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/debian-vs-ubuntu-server/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:37:57

• Natalie Vock: Fixing AMDGPU’s VRAM management for low-end GPUs ☞ https://pixelcluster.github.io/VRAM-Mgmt-fixed/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:39:08

• Openwashing, reputation laundering, and promotion of slop plagiarism - in short dirty money ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/04/apache-spins-anthropics-1-5m-into-responsible-ai-initiative/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:41:24

• Russell Coker: HP Z640 and E5-2696 v4 ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/04/10/hp-z640-e5-2696-v4/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:43:07

• Master C and C++ with our new Testing Handbook chapter ☞ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/04/09/master-c-and-c-with-our-new-testing-handbook-chapter/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:43:32

• Fewer Computers, Fewer Problems: Going Local With Builds & Deployments ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/fewer-computers-fewer-problems/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:44:24

• 3 Russian Submarines Detected Near Britain Were Spying, U.K. Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/europe/uk-russia-submarines-cables.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:44:52

• Putin Announces Orthodox Easter Cease-Fire, but Ukraine Is Skeptical ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/europe/russia-ukraine-cease-fire.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:45:06

• 10 petabytes of sensitive data stolen from China's National Supercomputing Center, hackers claim ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/10-petabytes-of-sensitive-data-stolen-from-chinas-national-supercomputing-center-hackers-claim-daring-heist-would-be-largest-ever-china-hack-covering-6-000-clients-across-science-defense-and-beyond    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:45:36

• UK navy tracked three Russian submarines near undersea cables, damage would 'have serious consequences,' Putin warned — US and allies expand seabed protection efforts ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/uk-navy-tracked-russian-submarines-near-undersea-cables    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:46:00

• Ukraine, Russia Agree To 32-Hour Truce For Orthodox Easter ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-orthdox-easter-ceasefire-zelenskyy-putin/33728799.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:46:20

• Putin announces Orthodox Easter ceasefire in Ukraine after Kyiv proposes same ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260409-putin-announces-orthodox-easter-ceasefire-in-ukraine    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:46:42

• Zelensky Sees Small Window for Peace ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-peace-talks.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:47:03

• A Maker of Pet Toys in Ukraine Turns to Killer Drones ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/europe/ukraine-defense-technology-companies.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:47:32

• North Korea Tests New Weapons, Drawing Lessons from Iran War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/asia/north-korea-weapons-iran.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:48:02

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

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:49:10

• How to Upgrade to Fedora 44 from Fedora 43 or 42 ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-upgrade-fedora-linux-release/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:55:41

• How To Install Grub Customizer on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-grub-customizer-debian-13/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:55:56

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

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:56:34

• How To Install Apache Kafka on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-apache-kafka-fedora-43/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:56:45

• The Case for 486 Support in GNU/Linux (And Everywhere Else) ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-case-for-486-support-in-linux    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:57:09

• LibreOffice State of the Project (April 2025 – March 2026) ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/09/libreoffice-state-of-the-project/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:57:40

• Dev snapshot: Godot 4.7 dev 4 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-7-dev-4/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:58:14

• Google API Keys in Android Apps Expose Gemini Endpoints to Unauthorized Access ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/google-api-keys-in-android-apps-expose-gemini-endpoints-to-unauthorized-access/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:58:59

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1066972/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 16:59:20

• IBM Red Hat is promoting slop bros while sacking hundreds of Linux engineers ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/09/build-resilient-guardrails-openclaw-ai-agents-kubernetes    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:01:41

• RadioGoGo – surf global radio waves ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/radiogogo-surf-global-radio-waves/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:02:25

• Siggy – terminal-based client for the Signal messaging service ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/siggy-terminal-based-client-signal-messaging-service/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:02:57

• lazyjira – terminal user interface for Jira ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lazyjira-terminal-user-interface/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:03:26

• FEX 2604 Released    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:04:23

• "Primarily we have now enabled our Dynamic L1 lookup cache and disabled our L2 lookup caches by default. We talked about this more in the FEX-2511 release post, but this can save hundreds of megabytes by changing these default options." https://fex-emu.com/FEX-2604/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:05:18

• uncover – quickly discover exposed hosts on the internet ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/uncover-quickly-discover-exposed-hosts/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:05:49

• 21 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Astronomy Apps ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/astronomy/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:06:12

• ShredOS – disk eraser operating system ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/shredos-disk-eraser-operating-system/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:06:37

• Federal Judge Slaps Down Temu’s Attempt to Dismiss Twenty One Pilots Trademark Infringement Complaint ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/09/temu-twenty-one-pilots-lawsuit-dismissal-rejected/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:07:50

• Prince Estate Settles With Apollonia — Trademark Lawsuit Voluntarily Dismissed Without Prejudice ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/09/apollonia-prince-estate-lawsuit-settled/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:08:29

• Relicensing versus license compatibility (FSF Blog) ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1066926/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:10:40

• FOSS Weekly #26.15: Rollback in apt, bad USB detection, Glass UI in KDE, GNU/Linux Kernel dropping older processor support and more ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-15/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:11:44

• StartOS 0.4.0-beta3 is ready☞ https://distrowatch.com/startos    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:12:26

• openmamba 20260409 out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/openmamba    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:12:39

• MODOS 13 out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/modos    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:12:55

• A Newspaper Is Raided and a Rights Group Outlawed Amid Kremlin Crackdown ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/europe/russia-newspaper-rights-group-crackdown.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:13:19

• NATO Chief Warns Of Deepening Russia–Iran Cooperation ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protests-live-blog-trump-khamenei/33640284.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:13:40

• Nobel-Winners Memorial Labeled 'Extremist' By Russian Court ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/nobel-memorial-extremist-russia/33728508.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:14:00

• An Audacious Cyber Hack By Russian Military Intelligence Sets Off Global Alarms. Again. ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-hacker-routers-gru-military-intelligence-forest-blizzard/33728527.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:14:38

• London Says It Tracked Three Russian Submarines Near Critical Undersea Infrastructure ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/britain-russia-submarines-healey-undersea-infrastructure-tension/33728781.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:15:03

• Lithuania says it took part in operation targeting Russia-linked APT28 network ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2893115/lithuania-says-it-took-part-in-operation-targeting-russia-linked-apt28-network    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:15:22

• Lithuania to raise reports on Hungarian FM at EU level ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2893321/lithuania-to-raise-reports-on-hungarian-fm-at-eu-level    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:15:50

• German Bundestag president says Lithuania has been right about Russia threat ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2893383/german-bundestag-president-says-lithuania-has-been-right-about-russia-threat    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:16:06

• Inside the FBI’s router takedown that cut off APT28’s ‘tremendous access’ ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/fbi-operation-masquerade-russian-gru-router-takedown-brett-leatherman/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:16:30

• The place for maintaining AFVs is where they’re based: Townsville ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-place-for-maintaining-afvs-is-where-theyre-based-townsville/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:17:06

• How DNS name tracking enhances network observability ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/09/how-dns-name-tracking-enhances-network-observability    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:17:43

• Enable Firewall-as-a-Service in OpenStack Services on OpenShift ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/09/enable-firewall-service-openstack-services-openshift    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:18:27

• These Chimps Began the Bloodiest ‘War’ on Record. No One Knows Why. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/science/chimpanzees-war-ngogo-uganda.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:20:04

• For Artemis II, Returning to Earth May Be the Most Dangerous Part of the Mission ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/science/nasa-artemis-ii-earth-return-heat-shield.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:20:22

• As Astronauts Visit the Moon, NASA Insider Says Agency Is in Shambles Behind the Scenes ☞ https://futurism.com/space/nasa-insider-science-shambles    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:20:47

• Plaintiffs settle with Convicted Felon administration, halting cuts to agency that funds US libraries ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2026/04/plaintiffs-settle-with-trump-administration-halting-cuts-to-agency-that-funds-us-libraries/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:21:11

• Rīga Stradiņš University establishes new microbiology laboratory ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/09.04.2026-riga-stradins-university-establishes-new-microbiology-laboratory.a642188/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:21:28

• Pay to pee? Debate in South Korea over cafes charging toilet fee ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/pay-to-pee-debate-in-south-korea-over-cafes-charging-toilet-fee    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:22:06

• South Korean man makes over 100 prank calls to police to be sent to jail but gets huge bill instead ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/man-in-south-korea-makes-108-prank-calls-to-police-to-go-to-jail-gets-huge-bill-instead    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:22:43

• South Korea to send envoy to Iran as Hormuz remains blocked ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-to-send-envoy-to-iran-as-hormuz-remains-blocked    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:23:10

• Indonesia deports alleged Scottish crime boss Steven Lyons arrested in Bali ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesia-deports-alleged-scottish-crime-boss-steven-lyons-arrested-in-bali    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:23:57

• Trolley thieves in Malaysia take a toll on grocers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/trolley-thieves-in-malaysia-take-a-toll-on-grocers    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:24:16

• China’s top diplomat Wang Yi says N. Korea is making strides despite US ‘oppression’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-foreign-minister-tells-north-korean-minister-pyongyang-is-making-strides-despite-us    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:26:26

• People on both sides of the strait are Chinese, Pooh-tin tells Taiwan opposition leader ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/people-on-both-sides-of-the-strait-are-chinese-xi-tells-taiwan-opposition-leader    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:26:44

• As Artemis II hurtles home, a global space race accelerates ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2026/0409/artemis-II-china-space-race    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:27:06

• Taiwan opposition leader touts peace in China as her party skips defence budget talks in Taipei ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/birds-not-missiles-should-fly-in-the-skies-taiwan-opposition-leader-says-in-china    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:27:35

• Vietnam’s top leader scheduled to visit China as ties warm ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/as-ties-warm-vietnams-top-leader-scheduled-to-visit-china    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:27:49

• Philippines unveils new coast guard command in disputed South China Sea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-unveils-new-coast-guard-command-in-disputed-south-china-sea    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:28:40

• iophk: put this in the context of the multiple waves of layoffs ... https://www.ndtv.com/feature/oracle-appoints-hilary-maxson-as-cfo-with-29-7-million-package-after-firing-30-000-employees-11323707 ("Oracle Appoints Hilary Maxson As CFO With $29.7 Million Package After Firing 30,000 Employees")    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:29:10

• Booking over 20 flights: Some Chinese travellers stockpiled air tickets before fuel surcharge hike ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/he-booked-over-20-flights-some-chinese-travellers-stockpile-air-tickets-before-fuel-surcharge-hike    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:29:50

• Chinese foreign minister visits Pyongyang to advance relations ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-foreign-minister-visits-pyongyang-to-advance-relations    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:30:19

• Panama president seeks to calm China tensions ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/panama-president-seeks-to-calm-china-tensions    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:30:32

• Japan downgrades description of China in annual diplomatic report ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-downgrades-description-of-china-in-annual-diplomatic-report    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:30:47

• ONE OK ROCK’s Hong Kong gigs axed, after a string of Japanese artists see Chinese concerts cancelled ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/09/one-ok-rocks-hong-kong-gigs-axed-after-a-string-of-japanese-artists-see-chinese-concerts-cancelled/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:31:06

• Vietnam confirms top leader’s China visit in mid-April ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/09/vietnam-confirms-top-leaders-china-visit-in-mid-april/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:31:30

• I Tried Apt Command's New Rollback Feature — Here’s How It Went ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/apt-3-2-release/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:32:05

• Strange Microbes Found in Shark Bay Could Reveal How Complex Life Began ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/strange-microbes-found-in-shark-bay-could-reveal-how-complex-life-began    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:32:30

• In Maine, Senate primary puts Democrats’ generational tensions on display ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026/0409/maine-senate-primary-platner-mills    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:33:06

• San Luis Potosí’s David Olvera rewrites the record books by swimming nonstop from Cozumel to Cancún ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/lifestyle/san-luis-potosis-david-olvera-rewrites-the-record-books-by-swimming-nonstop-from-cozumel-to-cancun/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:33:59

• NASA's Artemis II Crew Saw Meteorites Striking The Moon in Real Time ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/nasas-artemis-ii-crew-saw-meteorites-striking-the-moon-in-real-time    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:35:46

• Woman With 3 Autoimmune Diseases Enters Remission After Immune 'Reset' ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/woman-with-3-autoimmune-diseases-enters-remission-after-immune-reset    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:36:16

• Injectable Peptides Are a New Anti-Aging Trend. Are They Safe? ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/injectable-peptides-are-a-new-anti-aging-trend-are-they-safe    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:36:31

• Scientists Announce The First Clear Evidence of a Chimpanzee 'Civil War' ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-announce-the-first-clear-evidence-of-a-chimpanzee-civil-war    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:36:50

• Artemis II Astronauts Reflect on 'Surreal' Moon Voyage Ahead of Return ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/artemis-ii-astronauts-reflect-on-surreal-moon-voyage-ahead-of-return    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:37:13

• I.M.F. Says Iran War Will Drag Global Growth Lower ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/middleeast/imf-iran-war-global-growth.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:37:37

• NASA's Artemis II: conspiracy theories take off about ‘staged’ green screen ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20260409-nasa-s-artemis-ii-conspiracy-theories-take-off-about-staged-green-screen    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:38:07

• Korean government to take action over soaring DRAM costs, including monitoring markets and pricing ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/korean-government-to-take-action-over-soaring-dram-costs-including-monitoring-markets-and-pricing-internet-data-plans-to-be-restructured-and-recycled-pcs-to-be-distributed-to-vulnerable-groups    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:39:19

• Final Results of the 2026 Internet Society Board of Trustees Elections and IETF Selections ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/04/final-results-of-the-2026-internet-society-board-of-trustees-elections-and-ietf-selections/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:39:51

• College Students Losing Ability to Participate in Class Discussions Because Due to Offloading Their Thinking to Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-college-students-homogenized    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:43:18

• We Talked to a Writer Accused of Publishing An AI-Generated Essay in The New York Times ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/kate-gilgan-ai-new-york-times    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:43:53

• AI-Powered Drug Marketer Medvi Responds After Allegations About Fake Doctors and Patients ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-drug-marketer-medvi-responds    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:51:09

• Appeals court rebuffs Anthropic in latest round of its Hey Hi (AI) battle with the Convicted Felon administration ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/04/appeals-court-rebuffs-anthropic-in-latest-round-of-its-ai-battle-with-the-trump-administration/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:51:50

• Indonesia names Pertamina officials, oil tycoon as suspects in oil procurement probe ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesia-names-pertamina-officials-oil-tycoon-as-suspects-in-oil-procurement-probe    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:52:24

• Universal Music, Sony Music, and Suno Reportedly Hit Hard Impasse in Settlement Discussions — As Warner Music’s Suno Partnership Takes Shape ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/09/suno-universal-music-lawsuit-settlement-impasse/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:52:56

• South Korea President Lee to hold summit with Polish PM Tusk on April 13, media reports say ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korea-president-lee-to-hold-summit-with-polish-pm-tusk-on-april-13-media-reports-say    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:53:36

• $21 billion stolen from more than 1 million Americans due to cybercrime in 2025 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/usd21-billion-stolen-from-more-than-1-million-americans-due-to-cybercrime-in-2025-usd11-billion-come-from-stolen-crypto-usd8-6-billion-taken-from-investment-scams-while-ai-related-attacks-cost-usd893-million    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:54:23

• You can pen test OT networks without breaking them ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/you-can-pen-test-ot-networks-without-breaking-them/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:55:02

• Nigeria begins trial of 500 terrorism suspects ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/nigeria-begins-trial-of-500-terrorism-suspects    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:55:37

• Former Kanye West Security Guard Sues for Unpaid Wages Totaling Nearly $900,000 ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/09/former-kanye-west-security-guard-sues-for-unpaid-wages/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:56:12

• Scammers get scammed ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/3-6-million-stolen-in-bitcoin-depot-hack/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:57:06

• Adobe Reader Zero-Day Exploited for Months: Researcher ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/adobe-reader-zero-day-exploited-for-months-researcher/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:57:33

• Much fewer SPAMvertisement in The Register MS lately - probably due to a lack of demand, not integrity growing    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 17:58:24

• Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fall-of-the-house-of-usher    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:09:42

• Palo Alto Networks, SonicWall Patch High-Severity Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/palo-alto-networks-sonicwall-patch-high-severity-vulnerabilities/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:11:15

• techrights sort of bears the brunt of fourth estate collapsing, as that means to suppress some topics the oppressor need not attack many separate "branches" but just one (and not well-funded at that)    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:12:47

• Saeima hosts conference on future of European security ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/saeima/09.04.2026-saeima-hosts-conference-on-future-of-european-security.a642244/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:15:20

• The Chardet Controversy: Open Source and the Hey Hi (AI) Clean Room ☞ https://heathermeeker.com/2026/04/09/the-chardet-controversy-open-source-and-the-ai-clean-room/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:16:05

• Sipeed T256s – A USB thermal camera with 256×192 LWIR sensor, 640×480 Hey Hi (AI) super resolution ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/09/sipeed-t256s-a-usb-thermal-camera-with-256x192-lwir-sensor-up-to-640x480-super-ai-resolution/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:16:45

• Is Crossing Your Legs Actually Bad For You? Here's What The Evidence Says ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/is-crossing-your-legs-actually-bad-for-you-heres-what-the-evidence-says    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:17:09

• Indonesia sends letter of reprimand to YouTube over breach of social control media curbs, minister says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesia-sends-letter-of-reprimand-to-youtube-over-breach-of-social-media-curbs-minister-says    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:17:29

• Talk about bad timing — even Linux is asking for more RAM now, despite global shortages hitting PC users hard https://www.techradar.com/pro/talk-about-bad-timing-even-linux-is-asking-for-more-ram-now-despite-global-shortages-hitting-pc-fans-hard    

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

• “Wait, Windows uses less?”: I break down the surprising requirement that flips the Linux vs. Windows script https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-now-requires-less-ram-and-cpu-than-linux-ubuntu-26-04-lts    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:21:11

• Ubuntu is still the only Linux distro I recommend to beginners—here are 3 reasons why https://www.howtogeek.com/ubuntu-is-still-the-only-linux-distro-i-recommend-to-beginnersheres-why/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:23:00

• More honest? https://wccftech.com/ubuntu-26-04-linux-os-heavier-pc-requirements-vs-microsoft-windows-11/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/07/Ubuntu_More_Honest_Than_Microsoft_Windows.shtml    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:24:04

• Why Ubuntu 26.04 will thrill gamers - and it's not just the performance bump https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-26-04-performance/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:24:39

• "This release also avoids crashes in RTP streams because of concurrent event emission and MIDI conversions to and from UMP." https://9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-6-3-improves-raop-compatibility-to-make-it-work-on-more-devices    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:27:59

• 5 open-source projects that secretly power the world https://www.howtogeek.com/open-source-tools-quietly-power-entire-internet/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:28:18

• FSR 4 Upscaler Works on RDNA 3 in Linux-Based Games https://en.gamegpu.com/news/zhelezo/apskejler-fsr-4-zarabotal-na-rdna-3-v-igrakh   

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:29:20

• I tried Flatpak, AppImage, and Snap — this one made Linux easier https://www.makeuseof.com/flatpak-vs-appimage-vs-snap-debate-is-finally-settled/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:30:14

• European firm endorses Linux, releases free spy-blocking tool to cut reliance on foreign tech https://cybernews.com/privacy/free-littlesnitch-version-released-for-linux/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:31:40

• Stop believing these 4 myths about Linux—they're all outdated now https://www.howtogeek.com/things-windows-users-still-get-wrong-about-linux/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:32:59

• This Linux distro will give your old Windows 10 PC a new lease on life https://www.howtogeek.com/this-mid-weight-linux-distro-will-give-your-old-windows-10-pc-a-new-lease-on-life/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:34:07

• Linux does these 3 things better than Windows, and the gap is widening https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-has-always-done-these-3-things-better-than-windows-and-the-gap-is-widening/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:35:42

• I ditched Windows for SteamOS on my PC, and gaming is way better now https://www.makeuseof.com/using-steam-os-on-desktop-for-gaming/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:36:15

• I ditched Windows for SteamOS on my PC, and gaming is way better now https://www.makeuseof.com/using-steam-os-on-desktop-for-gaming/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:37:14

• "up to $100 million in AI usage credits." = classic pyramid scheme. These are scammers. https://news.bitcoin.com/claude-mythos-preview-anthropics-unreleased-ai-cracked-linux-and-openbsd-bugs-humans-missed-for-decades/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:39:24

• Rethinking Linux security operations https://www.scworld.com/perspective/rethinking-linux-security-operations    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:42:17

• "I've spent decades testing nearly every Linux desktop. Which one should you try today? I've narrowed your options down to five." https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-linux-desktops-2026/bsp;  

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 18:43:12

• Red Hat is pretending that IBM (US) is somehow 'freedom' from US https://www.raconteur.net/technology/digital-sovereignty-breaking-the-cloud-vendor-trap    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:06:03

• IBM marketing stunt https://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/red-hat-2026-cloud-native-security-execution-gap/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:06:44

• Slop hype and false marketing ("sovereign") https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/ai/sovereign-ai    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:07:53

• SLOPPY SLOP SLOP! https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-ai-tops-mlperf-inference-v60-vllm-qwen3-vl-whisper-and-gpt-oss-120b    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:08:12

• IBM clothing (all blue) from Red Hat CEO https://www.redhat.com/en/summit    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:08:36

• All icons below... are MICROSOFT (GitHub and LinkedIn). Red Hat is a headless chicken. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/friday-five-april-10-2026-red-hat    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:09:10

• Ne rien avoir à penser gemini://ploum.net/2026-04-10-rien-a-penser.gmi    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:38:50

• "OR ... fire more people! Yea, that's it -- reduce expenses. Growth? Nah ... nobody looks at growth for a 115 year old company. मुझे पैसे दिखाओ ("Show me the money" in Hindi)" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1knv96t8q#replies    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:39:59

• "I’m sure Alvind and the Pipmunks will sacrifice their millions in compensation for the good of the company, right? You know…since it’s their fault." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1knv96t8q#replies    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:40:26

• "It's headed under $200, probably down to the $160s which is where it was when Arvind adopted his "eat the seed corn, burn the furniture, achieve $300 even if it destroys the company" strategy. If he was smart he would have retired at the end of last year, but it's too late now." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1knv96t8q#replies    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:40:59

• "This is going to have consequences. Gone are the days when they could sc--w over workers and have them later feel proud of having worked there. When I hear the name I want to sp-t. I absolutely loath IBM now and its a--hole executives. We gave more than we got and got sc--wed for it. What goes around comes around bi--hes." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1knv96t8q#replies    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:41:56

• "What Arvind and his short-sighted minions fail to appreciate is these mass layoffs from the past three years have created tens of thousands of former IBM members who now hate the company passionately." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1knv96t8q#replies    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:42:05

• "It's that magical time of year when chocolate is totally acceptable for breakfast and a mysterious rabbit somehow has a better delivery system than most couriers." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/happy-easter-2026/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:50:42

• Some comments about my being called out by an LLM and other random links about LLMs gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/04/09.1    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:51:39

• "I hate that we have to do prompt injections now just to protect ourselves from AI, but hopefully we can find a way to do them so that it's not so disruptive to the reading experience." gemini://auragem.ddns.net/techlog/20260410.gmi    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:52:44

• Old: "You probably heard about the Wall Street Journal story where they had a snack-vending machine run by a chatbot created by Anthropic." gemini://ploum.net/2025-12-19-prepare-for-that-world.gmi    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:53:16

• Dear reader, I hate you gemini://detritus.smol.pub/1775843903    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:54:11

• dream girl gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/dream_girl    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:54:55

• "I have become vegetarian years ago. It had been a long time before that, that eating meat bothered me. Granted, it tastes good. But is it worth it?" gemini://studios-lalla.fr/gemlog/im-a-flexivegan.gmi    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:55:40

• i am a bee landlord now gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-04-10    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:56:16

• "The terrain is not just land. It also contains water. Islands need coastlines, valleys suggest rivers, and once those are present, structures like dams become relevant." gemini://geopeedees.org/~enthusi/blog/voxel_2026-04-10.gmi    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:56:57

• "It’s a pet peeve of mine when people still call it Twitter (or variants like Xitter). The exact phrasing “Twitter (I refuse to call it X)” isn’t even a callout to a specific person since I’ve seen that exact text string multiple times by multiple geminauts." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/fail-whale-forever    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:57:40

• "Hey, it's me again. I don't typically write but I really should. Writing is fun. I think I'm gonna write more often starting with this one." gemini://breebee.smol.pub/another_post_by_bones_04_10_2026    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:58:22

• "The problem appears once the renderer is no longer strictly uniform. To stay fast, it advances in depth spans. Parts of the map are skipped, others sampled more densely. As a result, there is no strict relation between a screen position and a single world position anymore." gemini://geopeedees.org/~enthusi/blog/voxel_2026-04-09.gmi    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:58:59

• "This strikes me as extremely odd. The arctangent of 1 is simply π/4, but arctan(2) and arctan(3) don't seem to be special; they don't even have closed-form expressions. What's special about these numbers, such that their arctangents sum to π, of all things?" gemini://jsreed5.org/math/20260409-an-elegant-arctangent-formula/index.gmi    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 19:59:42

• "small device with a 1-bit display and limited resolution. No grayscale, no soft transitions. Everything has to work within that." gemini://geopeedees.org/~enthusi/blog/voxel_2026-04-07.gmi    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 20:00:24

• "The reference version of this renderer is mathematically clean. It uses floating point, recomputes values per sample, and does not worry too much about where the time goes." gemini://geopeedees.org/~enthusi/blog/voxel_2026-04-06.gmi    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 20:01:01

• "This engine starts from a classic voxel-space terrain renderer: a heightmap, a colormap, and a screen filled column by column. Each map position stores one terrain height and one color. That is restrictive compared to full 3D, but also the source of its efficiency." gemini://geopeedees.org/~enthusi/blog/voxel_2026-04-04.gmi    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 20:02:07

• The only way for the world to know what goes on inside the EPO is for messages from the staff reps to be seen externally :)    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 20:41:04

• EPO expose to resume very shortly    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 20:41:54

• "Amazon layoff rumours denied; employees anxious"    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 22:09:02

• Even the French government is switching to Linux now in a bid for 'digital sovereignty' | PC Gamer ⚓ https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/even-the-french-government-is-switching-to-linux-now-in-a-bid-for-digital-sovereignty/ ䷉ Source: PC Gamer    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 22:24:32

• France Dumps Windows for Linux in Push for Tech Independence | The Tech Buzz ⚓ https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/france-dumps-windows-for-linux-in-push-for-tech-independence | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.techbuzz.ai/articles/france-dumps-windows-for-linux-in-push-for-tech-independence    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 22:25:09

• France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech ⚓ https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/france-ditch-windows-linux-reduce-143932178.html ䷉ Source: Yahoo News | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.yahoo.com/news/articles/france-ditch-windows-linux-reduce-143932178.html    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 22:25:33

• France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech | TechCrunch ⚓ https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-to-reduce-reliance-on-us-tech/ ䷉ Source: TechCrunch | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/france-to-ditch-windows-for-linux-to-reduce-reliance-on-us-tech/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 22:25:59

• Good News! France Starts Plan to Replace Windows With Linux on Government Desktops ⚓ https://itsfoss.com/news/france-government-linux-switch/ ䷉ Source: It's FOSS | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//itsfoss.com/news/france-government-linux-switch/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 22:26:27

• French government abandons Windows: state-owned PCs are switched to Linux • Межа ⚓ https://mezha.ua/en/news/uryad-franciji-vidmovivsya-vid-windows-310220/ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//mezha.ua/en/news/uryad-franciji-vidmovivsya-vid-windows-310220/    

posted Friday, April 10, 2026 at 22:26:56

• &n -na-baze-linux &n &nbs