Roy Schestowitz

• "two disputes between (i) the Stichting Onderhandelingen Thuiskopievergoeding (‘SONT’)" ☛ https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:62024CJ0496 | Source: EU    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 05:49:15

• "The Spanish-speaking manga community was in disarray last month when TuMangaOnline, also known as ZonaTMO, suddenly disappeared." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/korean-rights-holders-behind-takedown-of-manga-piracy-giant-tumangaonline/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 05:49:43

• "It's not a joke. Now that any patents that Lego might have had have expired, there's been an explosion of alternative brick systems to Lego. [...]" ☛ https://boston.conman.org/2026/04/11.2 | Source: Sean Conner    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 05:50:29

• "Price calls the App Store “rotten” — is there any other word? — and says Apple should “give iPhone users the freedom to install from other places" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/macworld-app-store-own-risk/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 05:51:41

• "Interestingly, however, a few of the AGs, in red and blue states alike, are zeroing in on states’ relief – with some touching on the possibility of a Live Nation-Ticketmaster breakup." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/16/live-nation-breakup-attorneys-general-demand/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 05:52:01

• "This week, a coalition of more than 30 state attorneys general won a landmark monopolization case against Live Nation, the owner of Ticketmaster." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/gail-slater-doj-live-nation-trial-1235548172/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 05:52:16

• "Live Nation will have to face the antitrust music, a federal jury in New York ruled this week, declaring that America’s preeminent concert middleman is an illegal monopoly." ☛ https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/485946/live-nation-monopoly-verdict-tickets | Source: Vox    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 05:52:33

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/microsoftoriginal-windows-secure-boot-certificates-expire | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 05:53:06

• "Google has a decent view of the [Internet] because its main domain and YouTube are the world’s two most-trafficked websites." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/17/ipv6_50_percent_google/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 05:53:52

• "I think [Lurie] is basically making art into a consumable" ☛ https://www.coyotemedia.org/how-could-you-be-against-joy-bay-area-artists-are-turning-on-the-civic-joy-fund/ |    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 05:54:36

• "parties" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/04/joy-which-they-have-rebranded-as-economic-impact/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 05:54:50

• "Disenfranchisement - the deprivation of the right to vote - erodes election integrity. The increasingly prominent role of data and tech in elections can lead to a chilling of political participation as well as raising privacy concerns, particularly for minoritised groups." ☛ https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5762/voter-disenfranchisement-privacy-issue | Source: Privacy International    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 05:55:04

• "transforms the way we identify, locate, and map illegal migrants." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/04/ice-contract-ai-surveillance-immigrants/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 05:55:21

• "Aliya Rahman was on her way to a doctor’s appointment when her route was blocked by ICE vehicles." ☛ https://truthout.org/video/minneapolis-woman-violently-dragged-from-car-by-ice-files-claim-against-dhs/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 05:56:53

• "Sayyid Mohammad al-Musawwi, a Bahraini citizen who previously spent more than a decade in prison, died in custody after being detained over allegations linked to the Israeli and U.S. war with Iran." ☛ https://dawnmena.org/the-arab-monarchies-crackdown-on-speech-is-a-sign-of-political-fear-not-stability/ | Source: Democracy for the Arab World Now    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 05:57:31

• "According to IRNA, the Gilan Police Information Center claimed that these individuals were affiliated with foreign media outlets and had been disturbing public opinion by publishing content and images on social media." ☛ https://www.en-hrana.org/seven-citizens-arrested-on-accusations-of-connections-with-foreign-media-and-disturbing-public-opinion/ | Source: Human rights Activists News Agency    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 05:57:43

• "In fact, the U.S. military benefits from this kind of repression because it bolsters secrecy around cooperation between the U.S. and Kuwait. That includes friendly-fire incidents that may seem embarrassing." ☛ https://thedissenter.org/us-military-partners-in-the-gulf-crack-down-on-journalism-during-iran-war/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 05:58:05

• "Averina was detained on February 5 in Ivangorod, a city in the Leningrad region on the border with Estonia, where she had traveled to visit her 71-year-old mother, Tatyana, according to sources who spoke to the outlet." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/16/russia-charges-journalist-and-former-tv-producer-with-inciting-terrorism-over-social-media-comments | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 05:58:19

• "Schools and young people have been targeted -- curricula and textbooks changed to include Russia’s justification for its invasion and soldiers despatched to whip up pro-war enthusiasm in the classroom." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/russia-trains-teenage-influencers-to-churn-out-pro-war-content-1574164949 | Source: RTL    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:08:57

• "But in recent months, as tensions between the United States and Iran have escalated, the side taking the greatest advantage of this technology has been the Islamic Republic." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-16/ai-infiltrates-the-iran-war-memes-puns-and-fake-images.html | Source: El País    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:09:14

• "Steve wasn’t a geek. That was Steve Wozniak. People say he was the sales guy. But that’s not right. He was the guy who understood that technology is a tool for humans." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/i-hate-the-internet | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:09:44

• "So maybe “unemployment” rates are low and the stock market is going up, but none of that makes anyone feel any less desperate. I have no sympathy for the rich, but even they don’t seem to feel safe or stable." ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/posts/people-think-the-economy-sucks-because-they-feel-theyre-on-their-own | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:09:57

• "Meta plans to cut about 10% of its global workforce from May, with around 8,000 jobs expected to go in an initial wave of layoffs as Mark Zuckerberg pushes the company deeper into artificial intelligence, according to people quoted by Reuters." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/meta-ai-layoffs-2024-1792375 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:10:31

• "For years, Phillips has studied how animals react to “anthropogenic noise,” or the racket created by human activity." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1135179/anthropogenic-noise-hurting-animals/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:11:53

• "Den stora älgvandringen" ☛ https://www.svtplay.se/den-stora-algvandringen |    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:12:44

• "Den stora älgvandringen" ☛ https://arenan.yle.fi/1-50798587 |    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:13:01

• "The elusive “cloud jaguar” was pictured in the highest reaches of the Merendón Mountain range – the first time a big cat has been seen in the Honduran wild for over a decade" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/nature-and-wildlife-photography/a-rare-jaguar-was-spotted-in-honduras-for-the-first-time-in-a-decade-thanks-to-a-remote-camera-trap | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:13:19

• "Then, they retraced their steps and released each frog precisely where it had been found" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2026-04-17/the-spanish-woman-who-spent-a-year-on-a-philippine-island-and-discovered-another-way-frogs-reproduce.html | Source: El País    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:13:41

• "Pedestrians will be allowed onto the bridge from 2pm, while cyclists will gain access from 5pm. Tram services across the bridge are expected to begin in early 2027. Other vehicles will not be permitted on the bridge." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20221164 | Source: YLE    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:14:42

• "Another proposal that didn’t make it to the governor’s desk was sponsored by Rep. Josh Bray, R-Mount Vernon, seeking to ensure the costs of infrastructure and service to meet the demands of power-intensive data centers would not be borne by other ratepayers." ☛ https://kentuckylantern.com/2026/04/16/housing-data-center-legislation-dies-on-final-day-of-2026-session/ | Source: Kentucky Lantern    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:15:06

• "A year ago, I sold 50 fatbikes for every one skinnybike. That ratio is now almost two to one." ☛ https://nltimes.nl/2026/04/17/skinnybikes-circumventing-first-fatbike-bans | Source: NL Times    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:15:31

• "Several bills were introduced to regulate the sector, with some successfully passing, reports the Virginia Mercury." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/data-center-bills-led-2026-virginia-general-assembly/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:15:57

• "This recall was actually announced in April 2025, after multiple fires were reported. This followed a tragic incident in August 2024 where a Casely power bank exploded in the lap of a 75-year-old woman from New Jersey." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/big-brand-recalls-popular-power-banks-from-sale/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:16:21

• "Researchers from the University of Seville (US) and the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) have demonstrated that it is possible to grow tomatoes and generate solar energy simultaneously, a key strategy for tackling global water scarcity." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-04-agrovoltaic-generating-energy-tomato-cultivation.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:16:44

• "The new state-ordered ferry, expected to be completed by the end of 2028, will be powered primarily by electricity and switch to biodiesel only in emergencies." ☛ https://news.err.ee/1609997380/new-electric-ferry-shore-charging-system-to-cost-10-million | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:17:24

• "Baltic prime ministers agreed at a meeting to complete the Rail Baltica route by 2030, while Latvian Prime Minister Evika Siliņa acknowledged Latvia's ongoing funding shortages and pressure to reduce costs." ☛ https://news.err.ee/1609999438/estonian-pm-course-set-to-complete-rail-baltica-by-2030 | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:17:37

• "Someone appears to have intentionally introduced an invasive rodent to California, decades after the creatures were eradicated from the state." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/large-invasive-rodents-are-wreaking-havoc-in-california-new-research-suggests-someone-deliberately-introduced-them-180988554/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:21:00

• "The measure would block the creation of new data centers that draw more than 20 megawatts of power until the fall of 2027 and establish a mechanism to study their impact on the electrical grid" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/maine-legislature-passes-first-in-nation-pause-on-large-data-centers/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:21:17

• "Developing initiatives and solutions are often ignored by the corporate press, despite their importance." ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/educate-students-climate-change-curriculum/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:24:34

• "The Ypsilanti Township Board of Trustees approved a resolution Wednesday that could prevent the University of Michigan from drawing the 500,000 gallons of water needed to operate the $1.25 billion data center it plans to construct in partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/news-briefs/ypsilanti-township-proposes-water-moratorium-that-could-block-planned-umich-data-center/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:25:31

• [Old] "Inspired by the Look illustration, 16-year-old Betsy Bose (nee Vogel) of Shreveport, La., stitched a homemade fabric version of the flag illustration to hang on her high school’s flagpole. " ☛ https://northeastnews.net/pages/remember-this-ecology-flag/ |    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:26:16

• [Old] "Inspired by the Look illustration, 16-year-old Betsy Bose (nee Vogel) of Shreveport, La., stitched a homemade fabric version of the flag illustration to hang on her high school’s flagpole. " ☛ https://northeastnews.net/pages/remember-this-ecology-flag/ |    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:26:55

• "Over the past year, another environmentally-focused symbol has emerged to represent a new generation of climate protests around the world." ☛ https://www.fastcompany.com/90414932/how-the-extinction-rebellion-got-its-powerful-unsettling-logo | Source: Fast Company    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:27:15

• "Until recently, Iceland was the only Arctic nation without mosquitoes. This was a rare exception in a region where mosquitoes emerge in vast numbers each summer, tormenting wildlife and people alike. That distinction is now gone." ☛ https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeh9505 | Source: AAAS    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:27:34

• "In this new study, researchers discovered that these large molecular methylsiloxanes are commonly present in the atmosphere, not only in areas close to traffic, but across diverse environments, including urban, coastal, rural, and forest sites." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-04-newly-pollutant-widely-atmosphere.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:28:11

• "Current legislation states that a daily commute of up to one and a half hours can be considered acceptable. However, the law does not clearly specify whether that travel time should be measured using public transport or a private car." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20221247 | Source: YLE    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:28:50

• "Leading news outlets play a central role in shaping how political leaders and the public understand the causes, impacts, and solutions to climate change." ☛ https://jonashaslbeck.com//GuardianClimateReporting/ | Source: Jonas Haslbeck    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:29:07

• "The CRA technically gives Congress 60 days to overturn a rule after it’s passed. The Boundary Waters protections were passed over three years ago during the Biden administration, and not as a rule, but rather as what is known as a public land order." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/republicans-deployed-a-little-known-law-to-open-minnesota-wilderness-to-mining/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:30:36

• "As a consequence, information on the precise impact of individual data centres is kept from the public even if demanded through freedom of information requests -- in a possible breach of EU transparency rules, the report said." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/eu-denies-bowing-to-tech-lobby-on-data-centre-green-impact/articleshow/130337436.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:30:54

• "The case stems from the September 2025 killing of Kirk and has already produced sharply competing accounts from prosecutors and Robinson's defence team." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ballistics-evidence-tyler-robinson-charlie-kirk-killing-1792318 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:33:11

• "The new Fellowship crypto PAC has filed its first fundraising disclosure, reporting a $10 million contribution from Cantor Fitzgerald and $1 million from Anchorage Digital." ☛ https://www.citationneeded.news/commerce-secretary-howard-lutnicks-old-firm-pumps-10-million-into-super-pac-led-by-tether-executive/ | Source: Molly White    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:33:31

• "Epstein’s primary function was not blackmail. His primary function was connection." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-access-node | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:33:48

• "Back in January, we covered Trump’s audacious lawsuit demanding $10 billion from his own IRS over the 2019-2020 leak of his tax returns by IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn (who is currently serving a five-year prison sentence for the leak" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/17/trump-is-literally-negotiating-with-himself-over-how-much-taxpayer-money-he-gets-because-his-taxes-were-leaked/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:34:02

• "Water reuse is not a new idea, but federal officials say the need has grown." ☛ https://www.western-water.com/2026/04/17/epa-pushes-water-recycling-for-u-s-growth/ | Source: Western Water    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:36:18

• "The mission will also focus on developing strategies to counter hybrid threats, including foreign information manipulation and interference" ☛ https://oc-media.org/eu-to-send-anti-russian-destabilisation-mission-to-armenia/ | Source: Open Caucasus Media    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:36:58

• "Democracy is a practice as much as it is a system." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-practice | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:37:13

• "A seed phrase (also known as a recovery phrase) is the sequence of 12 or 24 words that are generated when you set up a cryptocurrency wallet." ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/singer-loses-life-savings-fake-wallet | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:37:54

• "I, like many other folks out there, use a small USB drive to store personal documents and other files." ☛ https://iagoleal.com/posts/usb-crypt/ |    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:38:09

• "Germany has reclaimed its position as a primary focus for cyber extortion in Europe." ☛ https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/europe-data-leak-landscape/ | Source: Google    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:38:42

• "Today, Rockstar is under threat of a similar leak. The company has acknowledged that hacking group ShinyHunters gained access to Rockstar information through a third-party data breach" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/16/rockstar-on-latest-potential-hack-information-leak-meh-we-dont-care/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:38:58

• "Unable to open the app ‘Telega’ because it contains malicious code. Delete this app from your device." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/17/report-apple-warns-russian-iphone-users-that-unofficial-telegram-client-telega-contains-malicious-code | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:39:14

• "Beat for beat, this all corresponds to the business machinations of Peloton’s third CEO, Peter Stern, a former Ford executive and one of the cofounders behind Apple Fitness Plus." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/column/913766/optimizer-peloton-fitness-business-column | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:39:29

• "In preliminary findings under the Digital Markets Act, the European Commission outlined proposed measures that would force Google to hand over key search data – including rankings" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/16/brussels_tells_google_to_open/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:39:46

• "This happened to him despite living in a sanctuary city within a sanctuary county and state." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/palabra/2026/04/license-plate-readers-are-helping-ice-bypass-portlands-sanctuary-laws.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:40:04

• "That technique is called digital fingerprinting. This explainer will cover what fingerprinting is, how it works, and why it matters." ☛ https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/5761/what-digital-fingerprinting-my-device-ever-truly-anonymous | Source: Privacy International    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:40:21

• "Uploading a passport or national ID card. Getting verification from trusted institutions like banks or schools." ☛ https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/eu-launches-free-age-verification-app-protect-kids-social-media-137712043.html | Source: Bhaskar English    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:40:41

• "Tinder users who prove they’re a real person by visiting an identity-verifying orb will soon be able to get five free boosts in the app — and it’s just the latest service to embrace the orb." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/914385/world-id-tinder-identity-verifying-orb | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:41:01

• "The program allows the intelligence community to collect the communications of foreign targets without a warrant. It also picks up the personal data of an unknown number of Americans." ☛ https://therecord.media/fisa--trump-congress-extension-surveillance | Source: The Record    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:41:17

• "If you are fortunate enough to tour the Fort Worth campus of the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing" ☛ https://hudlow.org/2026/practical-antiforgery |    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:44:08

• "A report from Acronis this week documented a cyberattack campaign that seems to have benefitted from fishing in a smaller pond." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/6-year-ransomware-campaign-turkish-homes-smbs | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:47:08

• "An FBI agent said they purchased a Mythical Stress plan that offered a month of DDoS attacks for $45." ☛ https://therecord.media/ddos-hire-europol-doj-crackdown | Source: The Record    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:47:22

• "The attack by the Qilin ransomware group also involved the theft and publication of sensitive patient data." ☛ https://therecord.media/ransomware-nhs-cyberattack-disruption | Source: The Record    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:47:37

• "You’ll still be able to watch any Clips that you’ve already made." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/streaming/913611/youtube-mobile-app-share-at-timestamp-clips | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:49:55

• "This was initially written in May 2025 for the WordCamp Canada 2025 website." ☛ https://gregoryhammond.ca/blog/why-i-use-fediverse/ | Source: Gregory Hammond    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:50:06

• "Mark Zuckerberg has a problem with your friends: they're the reason you signed up to use his platform, but they stubbornly refuse to organize your socialization to "maximize engagement." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/17/for-youze/#forever | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:50:16

• "Heard about some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/04/ai-vegan/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:50:52

• "What for years was a communication tool between people has become a digital infrastructure dominated by automation" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-04-15/only-13-of-emails-are-written-by-people-and-more-than-half-end-up-in-the-spam-folder-this-isnt-a-technical-detail-its-a-structural-change.html | Source: El País    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:51:09

• "It’s been nice seeing other talented folk raise this, and the backlash has begun. I’ve even begun to switch off reading some prolific bloggers that use AI for the feature images" ☛ https://www.rhyswynne.co.uk/your-crap-is-more-memorable-than-your-slop/ |    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:51:25

• "The first is that AI is the future. Large language models are the most significant advance in the history of software, and the industry has not yet absorbed what that means." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-capital-is-misaligned-and-the | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:51:44

• "In other words, possibly ketamine-crazed Wall Street bros realized the morning after that a struggling shoe company may not be able to prop up a trillion-dollar industry with its promises of buying up impossible-to-get AI chips." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/allbirds-stock-now-crashing | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:52:09

• "More than 230 different models of Cisco Wi-Fi access points may be writing 5MB a day of nonessential data, filling their onboard flash memory to the point at which they lack space for future software updates." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/17/cisco_wifi_ap_useless_data/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:53:22

• "A new report from researchers at Proofpoint reveals that approximately one in ten Microsoft 365 accounts compromised in Q4 2025 had malicious mailbox rules created shortly after the attacker gained access" ☛ https://www.fortra.com/blog/sometimes-changing-password-your-email-mailbox-isnt-enough | Source: Fortra LLC    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:53:37

• "There’s more. Since Apple designed and commissioned the A18 Pro itself, it can save money on each individual chip." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3116622/why-microsoft-is-raising-laptop-prices-as-apple-makes-productivity-cheaper.html | Source: PC World    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:53:50

• "To help with that, I compiled a list of ridiculously simple and mindless things to do that don’t involve your phone." ☛ https://www.vox.com/advice/485809/mindless-activities-phone-free-avoid-instagram | Source: Vox    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:54:35

• "To me, a non-lawyer, much of the actual text of the ruling (PDF) explaining why this lawsuit was not immediately turfed on Section 230 grounds seems pretty reasonable." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-massachusetts-lawsuit/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:55:24

• "The most meaningful state level wealth tax in America may soon be on the ballot in California." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/in-california-its-either-tax-the | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:55:38

• "The Office of the Chief of Naval Operations has issued a statement denying reports of food shortages aboard US warships deployed near Iran" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-navy-denies-food-shortage-rumors-1792382 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:58:08

• "Patients will not only receive care at any health center but will also have the option of remaining there for the duration of care, eliminating situations where forced transferals lead to truncated treatments." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/04/mexico-universal-health-care-sheinbaum/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 06:58:37

• "No, I place the responsibility squarely on the architects, and the firm in which they work." ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/an-office-bathroom-sink-review/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:00:33

• "That boiling water is a contentious topic of discussion is clear, but what about hot air?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/04/16/comparing-12-vdc-air-fryers-with-regular-240-vac-ones/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:00:47

• "My FOMO around books (most of my ways to get books are time-limited" ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/book-vow | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:01:51

• "Helsinki University is not alone in lowering language requirements." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20221229 | Source: YLE    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:02:12

• "Lõiv said he plans to take what he learns at the aviation school back to the classroom and help develop something new at the school." ☛ https://news.err.ee/1609998982/tech-teachers-learn-to-build-and-fly-drones-at-tartu-aviation-school | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:02:38

• "Last summer, I had the opportunity to give the keynote at HIPS 2025—the 30th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments." ☛ https://chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/30years/ | Source: The Chapel Parallel Programming Language    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:03:17

• "Solar activity was at very low levels with only isolated B-class flaring, mostly from Region 4416." ☛ https://www.arrl.org/news/view/the-arrl-solar-update-27 | Source: ARRL    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:03:42

• "But if the US wants to have the same technological success for another 250 years, it needs to be okay with funding the “wrong” scientific research." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/04/17/2026/why-it-pays-to-fund-the-wrong-research | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:03:58

• "The powerful image, titled Saving History from the Flames, shows two emergency responders carrying a large framed painting through the street as fire crews worked to contain a fire at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm on June 7, 2025." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/awards-and-competitions/17-year-old-photographer-wins-top-prize-at-world-renowned-photography-awards-with-history-saving-moment-before-century-old-painting-went-up-in-flames | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:04:30

• "The powerful image, titled Saving History from the Flames, shows two emergency responders carrying a large framed painting through the street as fire crews worked to contain a fire at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/awards-and-competitions/17-year-old-photographer-wins-top-prize-at-world-renowned-photography-awards-with-history-saving-moment-before-century-old-painting-went-up-in-flames | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:04:50

• "The powerful image, titled Saving History from the Flames, shows two emergency responders carrying a large framed painting through the street as fire crews worked to contain a fire" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/awards-and-competitions/17-year-old-photographer-wins-top-prize-at-world-renowned-photography-awards-with-history-saving-moment-before-century-old-painting-went-up-in-flames | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:05:11

• "The powerful image, titled Saving History from the Flames" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/awards-and-competitions/17-year-old-photographer-wins-top-prize-at-world-renowned-photography-awards-with-history-saving-moment-before-century-old-painting-went-up-in-flames | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:05:33

• "Here is in action in my rack - even the sticker on it is outdated, I don't have this OVH ADSL connection anymore ;)" ☛ https://www.ncartron.org/my-first-atlas-probe-is-12-years-old.html | Source: Nico Cartron    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:05:49

• "Michael discussed updates to Python bindings for Tesseract using NanoBind, noting improvements over the previous Swig implementation and plans for code reorganization." ☛ https://rosindustrial.org/news/2026/4/17/tesseract-amp-ros-i-developer-monthly-meeting-revisit | Source: ROS Industrial    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:06:04

• "I want to make it easier to add chapter markers to my YouTube video descriptions and hyperlinks to specific times in videos in my blog posts" ☛ https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/04/make-chapter-markers-and-video-time-hyperlinks-easier-to-note-while-i-livestream/ | Source: Sacha Chua    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:06:25

• "What follows is as old as human society itself: the stressed group selects a victim, to which the guilt is assigned, and finally, the victim is destroyed. Through its destruction, social cohesion is restored" ☛ https://marcosmagueta.com/blog/casus-belli-engineering/ | Source: Marcos Magueta    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:06:34

• "I found a nice little website, where one can choose between 28 coding typefaces in a knockout tournament. While single-elimination systems have their drawbacks, it’s still quite entertaining to find the typeface you like most from all the choices. The names of the knocked-out typefaces will be revealed at the end." gemini://michaelnordmeyer.com/transmissions/2026-04-17-the-codingfont-game.gmi    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:23:56

• "As the chained updates go through, we've managed to update this project to use the new options-based format of mfgames-project-setup-flake[1]." gemini://mfgames.com/blog/2026/04/16/breaking-changes/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:24:35

• PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 can now auto-configure games for you | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/playstation-3-emulator-rpcs3-can-now-auto-configure-games-for-you/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/playstation-3-emulator-rpcs3-can-now-auto-configure-games-for-you/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:27:14

• Proton 11 Beta arrives to bring enhanced gaming compatibility to Linux / SteamOS | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/proton-11-beta-arrives-to-bring-enhanced-gaming-compatibility-to-linux-steamos/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/proton-11-beta-arrives-to-bring-enhanced-gaming-compatibility-to-linux-steamos/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:33:59

• METRO 2039 gets revealed for release this Winter | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/metro-2039-gets-revealed-for-release-this-winter/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/metro-2039-gets-revealed-for-release-this-winter/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:34:26

• Nintendo 64 emulator Gopher64 adds RetroAchievements support | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/nintendo-64-emulator-gopher64-adds-retroachievements-support/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/nintendo-64-emulator-gopher64-adds-retroachievements-support/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:35:50

• Properly funny chaotic dungeon crawler Lucky Tower Ultimate 1.0 has launched | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/properly-funny-chaotic-dungeon-crawler-lucky-tower-ultimate-1-0-has-launched/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/properly-funny-chaotic-dungeon-crawler-lucky-tower-ultimate-1-0-has-launched/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:36:33

• "Asda is drawing up proposals to put perfume and batteries into vending machines to stop criminals stealing them from shelves as Britain grapples with a shoplifting epidemic. The supermarket is holding talks about installing vending machines across its stores for products that are regularly targeted by criminals." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/04/12/asda-considers-vending-machines-to-fight-shoplifting/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:47:04

• Death Stranding 2 patch 1.4 should make it look better on lower settings | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/death-stranding-2-patch-1-4-should-make-it-look-better-on-lower-settings/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/death-stranding-2-patch-1-4-should-make-it-look-better-on-lower-settings/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:49:13

• The first major update for Slay the Spire 2 is out now | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/the-first-major-update-for-slay-the-spire-2-is-out-now/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/the-first-major-update-for-slay-the-spire-2-is-out-now/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:54:03

• "Zelazny Wins Infinity Award - Locus Online" https://locusmag.com/2026/04/zelazny-wins-infinity-award/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:56:01

• "Hungary election points to Trump’s waning influence in Europe" https://www.csmonitor.com/Perspectives/Essays/2026/0416/orban-trump-europe-far-right    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:56:22

• "America’s Orange Jesus" https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/americas-orange-jesus    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:56:37

• "Pope James David Vance the First" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/pope-jd-vance-iran/686826/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:56:55

• "Pope Leo excoriates 'tyrants' waging war instead of peace" https://www.dw.com/en/pope-leo-excoriates-tyrants-waging-war-instead-of-peace/a-76813305    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:57:16

• "UN Experts Warn of Ethnic Cleansing Patterns in Lebanon" https://www.telesurenglish.net/un-experts-ethnic-cleansingin-lebanon/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:57:42

• "Lies, Damned Lies and Economic Vibes - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lies-damned-lies-and-economic-vibes    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:58:00

• "I was able to install OpenBSD to the M2 nvme drive, the issue is my BIOS, on a relatively new MoBO will not boot it. It's mainly a problem with the MSI bios on a relatively new motherboard and that MSI supports begs off by saying they only support Windows." https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=177645834406123&w=2    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 07:58:37

• In tech, like in most things, there are specialisations. A "computer expert" may be very very good at particular areas but would gladly admit, even upfront, I am no expert but know only the basics in this other area (e.g. performance, hardware design) and cannot even follow the acronyms. Being sincere about NOT knowing something is a strength. Computing as a discipline is VERY broad.    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:00:51

• IDG marketing spam; probably paid to publish this crap for hype/FOMO https://www.pcworld.com/article/3117811/i-tried-claude-design-for-half-an-hour-im-already-locked-out-for-a-week.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:01:30

• EU Court: No to cassette tax | "EU-domstolen: Nej till kassettskatt" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/04/17/eu-domstolen-nej-till-kassettskatt/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:02:41

• "Those who have worked on a hobby operating system for x86 will have interacted with its rather complex and confusing interrupt model" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/04/17/fred-comes-to-hobby-operating-systems-and-linux/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:03:36

• "I was aware that Gmail now requires all senders to specify both SPF and DKIM records for your domain. They didn’t require DMARC but I set this up on my main email domain." ☛ https://billglover.me/2026/04/17/your-email-is-not-secure-enough/ | Source: Bill Glover    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:03:50

• "That changed over time by force of necessity, and Google's tracking graph shows that for a brief moment in time on March 28, 50% of worldwide users accessed the service over an IPv6 connection, marking a historic first." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/ipv6-usage-reaches-historic-50-percent-across-google-services-matching-ipv4-increased-usage-eases-pressure-on-the-ipv4-address-market-as-new-protocol-designed-in-1998-finally-hits-its-stride | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:04:00

• "In my advanced compilers class, we cover a range of intermediate and target languages." ☛ https://matt.might.net/articles/compiling-to-java/ | Source: Matt Might    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:22:52

• "That changed over time by force of necessity, and Google's tracking graph shows that for a brief moment in time on March 28, 50% of worldwide users accessed the service over an IPv6 connection" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/ipv6-usage-reaches-historic-50-percent-across-google-services-matching-ipv4-increased-usage-eases-pressure-on-the-ipv4-address-market-as-new-protocol-designed-in-1998-finally-hits-its-stride | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:25:14

• "In my advanced compilers class, we cover a range of intermediate and target languages." ☛ https://matt.might.net/articles/compiling-to-java/ | Source: Matt Might    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:25:38

• "That changed over time by force of necessity, and Google's tracking graph shows that for a brief moment in time on March 28" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/ipv6-usage-reaches-historic-50-percent-across-google-services-matching-ipv4-increased-usage-eases-pressure-on-the-ipv4-address-market-as-new-protocol-designed-in-1998-finally-hits-its-stride | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:26:34

• "That changed over time by force of necessity, and Google's tracking graph shows that for a brief moment in time on March 28" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/ipv6-usage-reaches-historic-50-percent-across-google-services-matching-ipv4-increased-usage-eases-pressure-on-the-ipv4-address-market-as-new-protocol-designed-in-1998-finally-hits-its-stride | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:27:21

• [Old] "BSTJ 57: 6. July-August 1978: UNIX Time-Sharing System: The UNIX Shell." ☛ https://archive.org/details/bstj57-6-1971 | Source: Internet Archive    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:28:17

• "A little bit less than two years ago, building on work by Jim Hester and Kevin Ushey, Davis Vaughan completed a very impactful JavaScript file for the R community: an R grammar for the Tree-sitter parsing generator." ☛ https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/04/02/tree-sitter-overview/ | Source: rOpenSci    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:30:11

• "Translating things between languages reveals how each language approaches different design trade-offs, and I believe it’s a useful exercise." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/schotter-plots-in-r/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:30:25

• "R 4.6.0 (“Because it was There”) is set for release on April 24th 2026. Here we summarise some of the more interesting changes that have been introduced." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/whats-new-in-r-4-6-0/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:30:48

• "I found many online tutorials on recreating it, mostly using Processing or its successor, p5.js" ☛ https://zellyn.com/2024/06/schotter-1/ |    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:32:39

• The bullying continues, as the Two Lunatics from America try to drag us into courts in another city. As stated before, we do not speak to the bullies unless required to do so by some legal processes/protocols. So they are baiting.    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:33:48

• "What’s missing from this ALGOL code is the seeds needed to reproduce the plot" ☛ https://jcarroll.com.au/2026/04/17/schotter-plots-in-r/ | Source: Dr Jonathan Carroll    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:34:15

• "Operator precedence is nice and there are all sorts of cool algorithms for implementing it without tearing your hair out." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/LittleLanguagesVsOpPrecedence | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:34:56

• "I should probably write docs" ☛ https://www.tweag.io/blog/2026-04-16-doc-it-like-its-hot/ | Source: Modus Create LLC    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:35:15

• "Say I have ParentDataSource which holds a strong reference to ChildDataSource, which has a callback method that ParentDataSource implements: [...]" ☛ https://aplus.rs/2026/concurrency-unowned-crash/ | Source: Aleksandar Vacić    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:35:33

• "The snare drum knew, before I did, that you can know something without being able to say it. I spent a long time after that learning to say things. The saying only really works when it is still, underneath, in contact with the drum." ☛ https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-04-17-what_the_snare_drum_knew_before_i_did | Source: Kenneth Reitz    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:35:48

• "In our previous episode we wrote a merge sort implementation that runs a bit faster than the one in stdlibc++." ☛ https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/04/multi-merge-sort-or-when-optimizations.html | Source: Jussi Pakkanen    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:36:08

• "I do not agree with the decision that closing source is the solution to the security storm that is upon us." ☛ https://blog.discourse.org/2026/04/discourse-is-not-going-closed-source/ |    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:38:25

• "Carrera, born Jessica Steinhauser, revealed this week that she has passed the Texas bar exam, a two-day test widely regarded as one of the toughest in the US." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/asia-carrera-passes-texas-bar-exam-1792259 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:39:31

• "Recent rulings and settlements dumped ice-cold reality on me." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3116637/the-real-threat-to-the-pc-isnt-death-its-losing-control.html | Source: PC World    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:47:28

• "We’re looking at having a “fireside chat” with Stephen R. Bourne, covering everything from shell to its design decisions, and the relevance today." ☛ https://www.nycbug.org/media/2026-05-13_Bourne_Flyer.pdf | Source: NYC BUG    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:54:53

• "NYCBUG‘s next event, on 2026/05/13, is “The Design of Unix Shell” with Stephen Bourne. If you aren’t familiar with that name, you are probably using his software or something derived from it right now." ☛ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2026/04/16/nycbug-the-design-of-unix-shell-on-may-13th/ | Source: DragonFly BSD Digest    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:55:06

• "I was fortunate to receive travel sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation to attend the AsiaBSDCon 2026 conference and the FreeBSD Developer Summit in Taipei." ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/asiabsdcon-2026-trip-report-saikeo/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:59:09

• "So: I switched to 11ty. Or, as it is about to be called Build Awesome." ☛ https://macwright.com/2026/04/17/eleventy.html | Source: Tom MacWright    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 08:59:45

• "Have you ever clicked the back button on a website but still couldn’t leave the page? That frustrating experience is known as back button hijacking" ☛ https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/google-punish-back-button-hijacking-sites-june-2026-137719798.html | Source: Bhaskar English    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 09:00:21

• "The headline, if I had to pick one, is two mtr traces. First, from a nettest jail on my home LAN to Hetzner’s network: [...]" ☛ https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-direct-hetzner-peering-a-fourth-edge-and-bringing-the-home-lan-into-the-fabric/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:36:22

• [Old] "If you're the sort of person who reads blogs, I assume you need no introduction to DOSBox." ☛ https://datagirl.xyz/posts/dos_inside_the_box.html |    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:36:56

• "“Chilling effects” is a term people hear all the time: in court rulings" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-264-jon-penney-on-chilling-effects-in-the-digital-age/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:37:25

• "The new Zorin OS 18.1 version adds more polish and makes your computer feel faster and easier to use." ☛ https://ostechnix.com/zorin-os-18-1-released/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:38:18

• "I have a soft spot for tiny Macintosh projects, and this one pushes all the right buttons–an ESP32 Cheap Yellow Display board running a Mac Plus emulator inside a 3D-printed case." ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2026/04/15/0718 | Source: Rui Carmo    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:39:28

• "His custom scanning station addresses that first part of the problem: getting consistent shots." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/04/16/desktop-digitizer-makes-note-capture-a-breeze/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:39:51

• "It’s fair to say that there are a lot of development board form factors for MCUs, with [Tech Dregs] over on yonder YouTube on the verge of adding another one to the pile, but not before he was having some serious thoughts on the implications of such a decision." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/04/16/do-we-really-need-another-development-board/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:40:01

• "This color mixing feature is similar to the halftoning technique used in printing" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/bambu-updates-its-3d-printers-to-print-unique-hues-or-gradients-using-two-or-three-filaments-company-acknowledges-orcaslicer-fullspectrum-fork-as-the-basis-for-the-color-prediction-part-of-the-new-feature | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:40:58

• "The build started with a classic hacker favorite—a bunch of old hoverboard motors." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/04/16/building-a-big-rc-mini-truck/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:41:06

• Connie Ballmer not just a CEO's wife but also from the PR agency of Microsoft. This is a bribe and corruption of the media.    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:45:24

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/npr-113-million-connie-ballmer-donation/ Waggener Edstrom buys the media along with Bill Espteingate. https://techrights.org/wiki/Waggener_Edstrom/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:47:04

• New PEPFAR Data Show Worrying Declines in Testing and Treatment for H.I.V. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/health/hiv-testing-treatment-data-pepfar.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:49:33

• With Vaccines Widely Popular, Kennedy Changes Tone, but Maybe Not His Plans ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/us/politics/vaccines-kennedy-cdc.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:49:56

• Is my wood burner damaging my health? I tracked pollution in my home to find out ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/is-my-wood-burner-damaging-my-health-aVW8x2v9GQKL    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:50:19

• Mental health advocates optimistic about Michigan reforms ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/mental-health-advocates-optimistic-about-reforms-in-michigan/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:50:36

• After a Mexico City suburb euthanized 11,000 street dogs, Sheinbaum demands a review ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/street-dogs-killed-mexico-state-sheinbaum/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:52:03

• Hospital services will likely become costlier in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/17.04.2026-hospital-services-will-likely-become-costlier-in-latvia.a643380/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:52:50

• Australian former soldier gets bail on Afghanistan war crime charges ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australian-former-soldier-gets-bail-on-afghanistan-war-crime-charges    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:55:20

• First South Korean tanker transits alternative Red Sea route ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/first-south-korean-tanker-transits-alternative-red-sea-route    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:55:50

• Elusive wolf in South Korea recaptured after nine days on the run ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260417-elusive-wolf-in-south-korea-recaptured-after-nine-days-on-the-run    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:56:10

• Ex-bus driver in Malaysia jailed, fined after video of girlfriend seated on his lap goes viral ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/ex-bus-driver-in-malaysia-jailed-fined-after-viral-clip-of-girlfriend-seated-on-his-lap    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 12:56:41

• Iran Resisted a Powerful Attacker. Taiwan Can, Too. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/world/middleeast/iran-america-taiwan-china.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:02:13

• China offers Vietnam railway loans, technology; shows off high-speed rail ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-offers-loans-technology-for-vietnam-railways    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:02:27

• China turns Taiwan’s own voices against it in information war ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-turns-taiwans-own-voices-against-it-in-information-war    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:02:42

• China says its military activities around Taiwan are ‘reasonable, justified’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-says-its-military-activities-around-taiwan-are-reasonable-justified    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:03:04

• China hits food delivery platforms with $671 million fine for ‘ghost’ deliveries ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-hits-food-delivery-platforms-with-671-million-fine-for-ghost-deliveries    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:04:10

• China says Japan stirs ‘trouble’ with vessel in Taiwan Strait ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-calls-passage-of-japanese-warship-through-taiwan-strait-a-provocation    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:04:45

• Is this singer real? Why China wants to regulate AI-generated humans ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/is-this-singer-real-why-china-wants-to-regulate-ai-generated-humans    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:05:22

• Now they call CG (computer-generated) "AI-generated"; just comes to show how much BS there is out there    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:06:22

• Amnesty International condemns Kazakhstan conviction of human rights protestors ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/rights-group-condemns-kazakhstan-conviction-of-human-rights-protestors/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:07:18

• Cal.com Goes Close Source Because "AI Can Easily Exploit Open Source Software" ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/cal-com-goes-proprietary/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:07:54

• Bauer unveils major digital restructure hitting jobs in Germany and UK ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/bauer-unveils-major-digital-restructure-hitting-jobs-in-germany-and-uk/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:08:54

• Getting Stuck in a 'Boring' Conversation Could Have a Surprising Benefit ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/getting-stuck-in-a-boring-conversation-could-have-a-surprising-benefit    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:10:36

• A Simple Calculation May Predict High Blood Pressure Better Than BMI Can ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-simple-calculation-may-predict-high-blood-pressure-better-than-bmi-can    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:12:02

• Artemis II Astronauts Say Returning Home Was Glorious, But One Part Was Scary ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/artemis-ii-astronauts-say-returning-home-was-glorious-but-one-part-was-scary    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:12:20

• Nature Might Pulse to a Universal Rhythm – 2 Beats Per Second ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/nature-might-pulse-to-a-universal-rhythm-2-beats-per-second    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:12:51

• Misophonia Has Genetic Links to Anxiety And Depression, Study Says ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/misophonia-has-genetic-links-to-anxiety-and-depression-study-says    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:13:20

• emacs gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/organizzazione-configurazione-emacs.gminbsp;  

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:16:22

• Scientists Found 5.5 Million Bees Living Beneath a New York Cemetery ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-found-5-5-million-bees-living-beneath-a-new-york-cemetery    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:18:32

• It's Official: Antarctica's Iconic Emperor Penguins Are Endangered ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/its-official-antarcticas-iconic-emperor-penguins-are-endangered    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:18:48

• Why Lebanon’s Government Has Struggled to Contain Hezbollah ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/world/middleeast/lebanon-hezbollah-ceasefire.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:19:24

• The wages are subminimum. But is the offer of something more? (video) ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2026/0417/The-wages-are-subminimum.-But-is-the-offer-of-something-more-video    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:20:09

• How women’s digital lives change China ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0417/How-women-s-digital-lives-change-China    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:20:26

• "Some people keep journals. I remember things like a terminal history. Not everything. Just the commands that mattered." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/command-history-of-my-life/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:21:21

• "Recently my wife and I, on her insistence, switched to using Discord for messages. I'm not thrilled about it, but we switched to it from Facebook Messenger, and the change gives me one more reason to eventually close my Facebook account entirely." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202604/20260417-discord-issues.gmi    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:22:19

• "After all, the extraordinary cost of space exploration rankles, in a world where many lack for food, healthcare, and education. Rockets are, some reasonably suggest, wasteful and decadent." gemini://larsthebear.me/dogs.gmi    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:23:24

• "Around the middle of December 2024, as i was about to head down a flight of stairs, i slipped, and fell forward. i managed to grab the handrail to stop myself falling more than a couple of steps; i ended up grazing my leg to the point of bleeding, but didn't think anything more of it. A week or two later, i developed a permanent headache." gemini://flexibeast.space/gemlog/2026-04-18.gmi    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:24:45

• Analytics group signals possible delays at 40% of Hey Hi (AI) data center construction sites ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/analytics-group-signals-possible-delays-at-40-percent-of-ai-data-center-construction-sites-companies-deny-schedule-holdups-but-satellite-imagery-indicates-otherwise    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:34:17

• This Week in Plasma: Per-Screen Virtual Desktops and Wayland Session Restore ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2026/04/18/this-week-in-plasma-per-screen-virtual-desktops-and-wayland-session-restore/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 13:57:29

• Another DraftKings Hacker Sentenced to Prison ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/another-draftkings-hacker-sentenced-to-prison/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:00:39

• Two North Korean IT Worker Scheme Facilitators Jailed in the US ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/two-north-korean-it-worker-scheme-facilitators-jailed-in-the-us/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:01:12

• Cursor Hey Hi (AI) Vulnerability Exposed Developer Devices ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cursor-ai-vulnerability-exposed-developer-devices/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:01:23

• 53 DDoS Domains Taken Down by Law Enforcement ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/53-ddos-domains-taken-down-by-law-enforcement/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:01:50

• FBI Director Kash Patel threatens to sue The Atlantic over ‘categorically false’ report alleging excessive drinking ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/04/18/us-news/fbi-director-kash-patel-threatens-to-sue-the-atlantic-over-categorically-false-report-alleging-excessive-drinking/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:02:14

• Regional drug routes shift as domestic impact grows, Mozambican authorities say ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/border-security-2/regional-drug-routes-shift-as-domestic-impact-grows-mozambican-authorities-say/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:03:06

• 'Wake-up call for Europeans to step up: There’s been a lack of investment' in defence ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260417-wake-up-call-for-europeans-to-step-up-there-s-been-a-lack-of-investment-in-defence    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:03:44

• Former pro-democracy lawmaker struck off Hong Kong medical register over national security conviction ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/17/former-pro-democracy-lawmaker-struck-off-hong-kong-medical-register-over-national-security-conviction/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:04:12

• Lithuanian diaspora reps say dual citizenship should be national security matter ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2901287/lithuanian-diaspora-reps-say-dual-citizenship-should-be-national-security-matter    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:04:39

• Andrea Veri: GNOME GitLab Git traffic caching ☞ https://www.dragonsreach.it/2026/04/17/gnome-gitlab-git-pulls-caching-improvements/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:06:40

• Bringing BitNet to ExecuTorch via Vulkan ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2026/04/17/bringing-bitnet-to-executorch-via-vulkan/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:07:14

• Jeffrey M. Gross entity, TurboCode, cellular decoding patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/4/15/jeffrey-m-gross-entity-turbocode-cellular-decoding-patent-challenged   

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:07:44

• PureOS Crimson Development Report: March 2026 https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-development-report-march-2026/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:09:23

• Kdenlive 26.04 is Out with Animated Transition Preview & Screen Mirroring ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/04/kdenlive-26-04-is-out-with-animated-transition-preview-screen-mirroring/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:10:52

• Bougie – terminal browser for the smolweb ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bougie-terminal-browser-smolweb/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:11:23

• icd – makes changing directories quicker ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/icd-makes-changing-directories-quicker/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:12:05

• PangoTerm – modern cross-platform SSH client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pangoterm-modern-cross-platform-ssh-client/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:12:15

• IChingDiviner – desktop I-Ching divination application ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ichingdiviner-desktop-i-ching-divination-application/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:12:35

• Sheets – terminal-based spreadsheet application ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sheets-terminal-based-spreadsheet-application/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:13:06

• arTui – keep up with recent arXiv submissions ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/artui-keep-up-with-recent-arxiv-submissions/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:13:33

• 19 Best Free and Open Source CLI Data Hashing Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-cli-data-hashing-tools/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:13:56

• swege – static website generator written in C ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/swege-static-website-generator/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:14:22

• OpenRDAP – command line client for the Registration Data Access Protocol ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/openrdap-command-line-client-registration-data-access-protocol/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:14:33

• bloggy – lightweight static blog generator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bloggy-lightweight-static-blog-generator/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:14:45

• OpenTripPlanner – multi-modal trip planner ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/opentripplanner-multi-modal-trip-planner/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:14:56

• Puzzled – GNOME desktop application for solving daily tile-placement puzzles ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/puzzled-solving-daily-tile-placement-puzzles/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:15:22

• Standard website transfers to Independent with more than 30 staff leaving ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/standard-website-transfers-to-independent-with-around-30-staff-leaving/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:16:01

• Friend Drop founder posed as Stanford student, accuses Date Drop of intellectual property infringement ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/04/17/friend-drop-founder-posed-as-stanford-student-accuses-date-drop-of-intellectual-property-infringement/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:25:11

• Fury Erupts as Val Kilmer’s Estate Announces Starring Role in Hey Hi (AI) Film Made From Beyond the Grave ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/fury-val-kilmer-role-ai-film    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:26:06

• A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/national-today-ai-plagiarizing    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:26:44

• There Are Signs of a Massive Hey Hi (AI) Backlash ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/signs-massive-ai-backlash    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:27:13

• Millions of Americans Are Talking to Hey Hi (AI) Instead of Going to the Doctor, and It’s Giving Them Horrendously Flawed Medical Advice ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/millions-americans-ai-instead-doctor-bad-advice    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:27:34

• Supreme Court Sides With Oil Companies in Louisiana Coastal Lawsuits ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/us/politics/supreme-court-oil-louisiana.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:28:00

• Prosecutor Withdraws From Convicted Felon Team’s Investigation of Ex-CIA Director John O. Brennan ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/us/justice-dept-trump-investigation-cia-brennan.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:28:28

• Saving a Lost Generation of Young Men—with Chop Saws ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/saving-a-lost-generation-of-young-men-with-chop-saws    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:44:35

• Why Third-Party Notices Are Breaking at Scale: What the Ecosystem Needs Next ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/04/17/why-third-party-notices-are-breaking-at-scale-what-the-ecosystem-needs-next/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:45:15

• Starmer Fires Senior U.K. Civil Servant Over Mandelson Revelations ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/world/europe/uk-starmer-mandelson-foreign-office-robbins-fired.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:45:49

• New Zealand defends military patrol flight near China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/new-zealand-defends-military-patrol-flight-near-china    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:46:13

• In Other News: Satellite Cybersecurity Act, $90K Chrome Flaw, Teen Hacker Arrested ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-satellite-cybersecurity-act-90k-chrome-flaw-teen-hacker-arrested/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:46:39

• PGDay Armenia 2026 Schedule & Registration! ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgday-armenia-2026-schedule-registration-3275/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:47:05

• Microsoft's April patch puts backdoored Windows domain controllers into reboot loops — third known issue from KB5082063 is affecting backdoored Windows Server 2016 through 2025 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsofts-april-patch-puts-windows-domain-controllers-into-reboot-loops    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:47:27

• Hong Kong’s data centre boom: Powering innovation or jeopardising climate goals? ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/18/hong-kongs-data-centre-boom-powering-innovation-or-jeopardising-climate-goals/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:47:53

• WiQwiic-32 – A compact USB-C IoT board with eight Qwiic connectors (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/17/wiqwiic-32-a-compact-usb-c-iot-board-with-eight-qwiic-connectors/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 14:57:31

• "Aren’t they in Japan right now for the MCMs? I hear Rapidus decided not to renew most of those projects and thus is effectively the end for them." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1knc3tpsb#replies    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:07:40

• IBM just settled a major anti-DEI case for $17 million https://www.fastcompany.com/91528241/ibm-just-settled-a-major-anti-dei-case-for-17-million    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:09:42

• Same Problem, Same Solution: Reading Trade Secrets Across Fields ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/04/same-problem-same-solution-reading-trade-secrets-across-fields.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:11:12

• Empire IP entity, Fleet Connect, Wi-Fi patent monopoly found invalid ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/4/15/empire-ip-entity-fleet-connect-wi-fi-patent-found-invalid    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:11:57

• Vision Works vehicle anti-rollover patent monopoly challenge instituted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/4/15/vision-works-vehicle-anti-rollover-patent-challenge-instituted    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:12:24

• reBot Arm B601-DM – An open-source 6+1 DoF robotic arm for embodied Hey Hi (AI) and teleoperation applications ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/17/rebot-arm-b601-dm-an-open-source-61-dof-robotic-arm-for-embodied-ai-and-teleoperation-applications/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:13:08

• Boardcon Tiny1126B is a smaller and lighter Rockchip RV1126B system-on-module, yet with more I/Os ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/17/boardcon-tiny1126b-smaller-lighter-rockchip-rv1126b-system-on-module-yet-with-more-ios/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:15:03

• Slop MCP security: Containerization and Red Bait OpenShift integration ☞ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/mcp-security-containerization-and-red-hat-openshift-integration    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:16:54

• The zero touch future: Enabling Telstra’s path to a fully autonomous, self-healing network ☞ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/zero-touch-future-enabling-telstras-path-fully-autonomous-self-healing-network    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:17:10

• This Week in GNOME: #245 Infinite Ranges ☞ https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/04/twig-245/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:19:03

• The surveillance law Congress can’t quit — and can’t explain ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/section-702-fisa-surveillance-law-renewal-congress-debate/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:19:58

• Why the surveillance powers in FISA roil Congress – across party lines ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026/0417/fisa-congress-surveillance-privacy-security    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:21:09

• More Surveillance Demands to Come?: Government Admits Bill C-22’s Lawful Access Provisions Could Be Expanded ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/more-surveillance-demands-to-come-government-admits-bill-c-22s-lawful-access-provisions-could-be-expanded/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:22:27

• 5-magnitude earthquake strikes off mountainous Nagano in Japan: NHK ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/5-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-off-mountainous-nagano-in-japan-nhk    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:23:33

• European Patent Office (EPO) Strikes and Other Industrial Actions Are Working: Patent Application Grants Have Collapsed ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/European_Patent_Office_EPO_Strikes_and_Other_Industrial_Actions.shtml    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:23:55

• Mythos and Cybersecurity ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/mythos-and-cybersecurity.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:24:34

• Press association denounces Israel’s use of altered image to depict slain journalist ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260417-press-association-israeli-army-use-ai-doctored-image-slain-journalist    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:25:23

• No signs Lufthansa changes will impact airBaltic, says senior official ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/17.04.2026-no-signs-lufthansa-changes-will-impact-airbaltic-says-senior-official.a643449/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:26:17

• ZionSiphon Malware Targets ICS in Water Facilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/zionsiphon-malware-targets-ics-in-water-facilities/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:27:03

• Recent Apache ActiveMQ Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/recent-apache-activemq-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:27:35

• Yifei Zhan: CommBank hardware MFA token ☞ https://segments.zhan.science/posts/physical-netcode-token/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:28:14

• Russell Coker: Home Battery ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/04/17/home-battery/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:28:42

• Our FLAC Navidrome has begun! ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/our-flac-navidrome-has-begun/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:30:15

• We beat Google’s zero-knowledge proof of quantum cryptanalysis ☞ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/04/17/we-beat-googles-zero-knowledge-proof-of-quantum-cryptanalysis/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:32:39

• Integrate Red Bait Enterprise GNU/Linux VMs into OpenShift Service Mesh ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/17/integrate-red-hat-enterprise-linux-vms-openshift-service-mesh    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:33:30

• "The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from April 10 to 16." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/04/17/planet-roundup/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:35:41

• "The Orange Pi Zero 3W is a new single-board computer in a 65 × 32 mm form factor built around the Allwinner A733 processor. The design integrates an octa-core CPU, LPDDR5 memory, and wireless connectivity in a compact layout" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/orange-pi-zero-3w-expands-lineup-with-a733-based-compact-sbc/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:36:07

• Fedora Community Blog: Community Update – Week 16 ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/community-update-week-16/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:36:51

• Corruption Toppled Viktor Orbán. Could The Insurrectionist Be Next? ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/corruption-toppled-viktor-orban-could-donald-trump-be-next    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:37:37

• AI Pushes Cal.com to Shutter Open and Go Nonfree ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/04/ai-pushes-cal-com-to-shutter-open-and-go-nonfree/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:38:45

• Our Tax System Should Make You Furious ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ray-madoff.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:42:20

• A.I. Backlash Turns Violent + Kara Swisher on Healthmaxxing + The Zuck Bot Is Coming ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/podcasts/hardfork-ai-backlash.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:43:08

• EU moves to tighten rules on harmful pollutants: The invisible danger of 'forever chemicals' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/talking-europe/20260417-eu-moves-to-tighten-rules-on-harmful-pollutants-the-invisible-danger-of-forever-chemicals    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:45:22

• Skin boosters made from cadavers raise ethical concerns in South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/skin-boosters-made-from-cadavers-raise-ethical-concerns-in-south-korea    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:46:42

• Conclusive Engineering KSTR-SAMA5D27 is an ultra-compact, low-power SBC based on Microchip SAMA5D27 SiP ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/16/conclusive-engineering-kstr-sama5d27-ultra-compact-sbc-microchip-sama5d27-sip/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:47:32

• In Europe, More People Turn to Russia for Answers, Not Abusive Monopolist Microsoft ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/In_Europe_More_People_Turn_to_Russia_for_Answers_Not_Microsoft.shtml    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:48:14

• Russian Lawyer Who Lashed Out At Putin Released From Mental Hospital ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-putin-criticism-remeslo-released-psychiatric/33734732.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:48:29

• China, Russia ties driving North Korean economic recovery, Seoul says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/17/china-russia-ties-driving-north-korean-economic-recovery-seoul-says/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:48:56

• US Lawmaker Wilson Flags Western Chips Still Flowing Into Russian, Iranian Drones ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-lawmaker-wilson-flags-western-chips-russian-iranian-drones/33734451.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:49:18

• Commodore fans split over C64 Ultimate FPGA firmware lockdown — firm says it wants to protect its hardware and reduce support fallout ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/commodore-fans-split-over-c64-ultimate-fpga-firmware-lockdown-firm-says-it-wants-to-protect-its-hardware-and-reduce-support-fallout    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:49:51

• Sovereign resilience starts in the north ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/sovereign-resilience-starts-in-the-north/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:50:33

• ActBlue former IT boss disappearance: Decklin Foster & Debian, Harvard suicide lab, Chris Gleason is wife, whistleblower or both? ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/ActBlue_former_IT_boss_disappearance_Decklin_Foster_Debian_Harv.shtml    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:50:53

• Hundreds of Fake Pro-Dihydroxyacetone Man Avatars Emerge on Social Media ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/business/media/artificial-intelligence-trump-social-media.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:51:31

• Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2026-04-17 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2026/04/17/gnome-foundation-update-2026-04-17/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:52:57

• sha256sum and md5sum Commands: Verify File Integrity in GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/sha256sum-and-md5sum-commands/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:55:44

• ROX-Filer back and forward buttons ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202604/rox-filer-back-and-forward-buttons.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:56:23

• ROX-Filer copy leak fixed ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202604/rox-filer-copy-leak-fixed.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:56:42

• 21-year-old Polish Woman Fixed a 20-year-old GNU/Linux Bug! ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/kamila-enlightenment-e16-bug/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:57:42

• 4 Best Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Office Alternatives for GNU/Linux Users ☞ https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/best-linux-microsoft-office-alternatives/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:59:10

• Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/16 ☞ https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2026/04/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2026-16/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 15:59:40

• Steam shown running on Nintendo Switch thanks to latest Proton Beta ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/steam-shown-running-on-nintendo-switch-thanks-to-latest-proton-beta-fex-2604-translates-x86-to-arm-friendly-instructions-on-linux    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:00:23

• ZimaOS 1.6.0 is released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/zimaos    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:05:04

• Q83 13.09 is released as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/q83    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:05:21

• Orange Pi Zero 3W arrives with A733 SoC in 65 × 32 mm design ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/orange-pi-zero-3w-expands-lineup-with-a733-based-compact-sbc/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:05:50

• health @ Savannah: Thalamus 0.9.18 released ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10882    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:06:30

• Nixpilled - A rather nice solution for home labbing ☞ http://kn100.me/nixpilled/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:07:14

• Security updates for Friday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1068400/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:08:03

• On Hey Hi (AI) Images and Feature Images in General ☞ https://kevquirk.com/on-ai-images-and-feature-images-in-general    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:10:12

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

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:10:43

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

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:10:57

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

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:11:12

• Red Hat Devs Forced to Use Hey Hi (AI) or "Find Another Job" ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/red-hat-devs-forced-to-use-ai-or    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:11:30

• The Foundation Is Strong: What TDF Is, Why It Matters, and Where It Is Going ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/17/the-foundation-is-strong/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:12:03

• Dev snapshot: Godot 4.7 dev 5 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-7-dev-5/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:12:29

• Swiss PGDay 2026: Open for registration ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/swiss-pgday-2026-open-for-registration-3273/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:13:02

• Seems to be marketing spam for litigation fanatics who pay this site ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/former-august-debouzy-aramis-litigators-join-forces-for-new-french-boutique/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:14:12

• Lithuanian carriers have recovered over half of trucks detained in Belarus ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2901108/lithuanian-carriers-have-recovered-over-half-of-trucks-detained-in-belarus    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:14:47

• HRW backs communities affected by contaminated Zambia mining site ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/rights-group-backs-those-affected-by-contaminated-zambia-mining-site/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:15:31

• Iran War Forces America’s Friends in Asia to Court Its Rivals ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/world/asia/iran-war-us-asia-russia.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:15:54

• Russian Baikal CPUs Are Losing Their Place in the Linux Kernel ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-kernel-baikal-cpu-support-removal/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:16:43

• US Quietly Renews Russian Oil Waiver Amid Market Turmoil, Policy Confusion ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-oil-sanctions-waiver-treasury-iran/33735009.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:17:03

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Extends Sanctions Exemption on Some Russian Oil as High Gas Prices Persist ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/world/middleeast/russia-us-oil-sanctions.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:17:17

• "She wasn't hunting for bugs. She was doing something mundane when she discovered the issue and made the fix. We need more such positive stories." https://itsfoss.com/news/kamila-enlightenment-e16-bug/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:19:59

• "They also appear to have released the ARM64 build of Proton too with FEX, which is now available to install in your Steam Library which is no doubt work towards the Steam Frame. But, it should work on any ARM64 machine." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/proton-11-beta-arrives-to-bring-enhanced-gaming-compatibility-to-linux-steamos/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:20:24

• Linux promises freedom from Windows, but it demands something harder in return https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-promises-freedom-from-windows-but-it-demands-something-harder-in-return/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:21:05

• "After sanctions, bankruptcy and removal of kernel maintainers, Baikal's unfinished kernel code is being removed." https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-kernel-baikal-cpu-support-removal/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:21:38

• Tux Manager is the perfect Linux Task Manager replacement for Windows refugees https://www.xda-developers.com/tux-manager-perfect-linux-task-manager-replacement-windows-refugees/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:22:34

• I've used Linux for 18 years, but these 5 terminal tricks still surprise me https://www.howtogeek.com/used-linux-forever-but-terminal-tricks-still-surprise-me/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:23:37

• Zorin OS 18.1 adds guided migrations, stronger app compatibility and wider hardware support, making switching from Windows far more practical for millions [clone] https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/zorin-os-18-1-adds-guided-migrations-stronger-app-compatibility-and-wider-hardware-support-making-switching-from-windows-far-more-practical    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:24:19

• Linux Foundation Networking Welcomes O-RAN Software Community in Major Open RAN Integration Move https://www.thefastmode.com/technology-solutions/48127-linux-foundation-networking-welcomes-o-ran-software-community-in-major-open-ran-integration-move    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:25:05

• Denuvo blocks Pragmata Steam Deck and Linux players, as reviews slam anti-piracy DRM https://www.notebookcheck.net/Denuvo-blocks-Pragmata-Steam-Deck-and-Linux-players-as-reviews-slam-anti-piracy-DRM.1276439.0.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:26:20

• Proton 11.0 ARM64 appears as Steam Linux ARM64 beta is shown on Nintendo Switch https://videocardz.com/newz/nintendo-switch-spotted-running-steam-linux-arm64-beta-as-proton-11-0-arm64-surfaces    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:26:51

• The end of the Windows monopoly? Gamers will choose Linux en masse in 2026 https://root-nation.com/en/games-en/game-news-en/en-gamers-will-choose-linux/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:28:39

• "Future Linux Mint versions will use the same installer as LMDE (Linux Mind Debian Edition)." https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-will-adopt-a-longer-development-cycle-starting-with-linux-mint-23    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:29:34

• This is not a drill https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/this-is-not-a-drill-all-timer-weirdo-game-deadly-premonition-now-playable-on-linux-as-of-valves-most-recent-proton-beta-plus-17-others-and-your-ea-library-until-ea-breaks-it-again/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:30:09

• This Linux shell revives the worst version of Windows, and it's glorious https://www.howtogeek.com/this-linux-shell-revives-the-worst-version-of-windows/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:34:52

• CIQ Delivers the First Enterprise Linux Compliance Platform for Federal Cryptographic Validation and Post-Quantum Readiness https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ciq-delivers-the-first-enterprise-linux-compliance-platform-for-federal-cryptographic-validation-and-post-quantum-readiness-302744974.html    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:35:32

• France is ditching Windows for Linux on 2.5 million government PCs. Is it a bold move to escape foreign digital dependency https://www.facebook.com/deutschewellenews/videos/france-is-ditching-windows-for-linux-on-25-million-government-pcs-is-it-a-bold-m/946361694806115/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:36:02

• "In a new blog post Linux Mint lead Clement Lefebvre noted they've come to a few main decisions for the health of the project overall" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/linux-mint-confirm-longer-release-cycles-the-next-release-is-planned-for-christmas-2026/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:36:32

• The 15 terminal commands that made me forget about Linux file managers https://www.howtogeek.com/the-terminal-commands-that-made-me-forget-about-linux-file-managers/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:37:04

• Steam's Proton Gets Wine 11 Gaming Performance Improvements, Valve Launches Arm64 Compatibility Layer https://www.techpowerup.com/348297/steams-proton-gets-wine-11-gaming-performance-improvements-valve-launches-arm64-compatibility-layer    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:37:40

• "You don't have to get left behind with gaming on Linux if you have an older GPU, thanks to projects like DXVK-Sarek keeping them alive." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/gaming-on-linux-with-an-older-gpu-levels-up-with-dxvk-sarek-v1-12-bringing-major-new-features/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 16:38:19

• "a case reverse immigration perhaps ? Back To The Motherland ! And yet more worthless medals pinned on Alvind's chest from Modi. LOL." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kpg7z4sc    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 17:18:55

• Will media cover EPO corruption again? No? Why not?    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 20:13:45

• "The work-to-rule is having effect," the reader said, "However, the post is still for 'insiders'. A general audience introduction is still needed. That's a lot of work to write though."    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 20:13:54

• "Today I sustained an embarrassing injury. Not embarrassing because it involves private parts, or the kind of bedroom activity where you need a safe-word; embarrassing because I really should know better at my age." gemini://larsthebear.me/embarassing_injuries.gmi    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 20:35:17

• "Guix home configuration involves a .scm file full of Scheme that describes a home-config containing a home-environment where the home-environment contains (among other details) the packages that the user wants in addition to what’s defined to exist in the system configuration." gemini://thatit.be/2026-04-17-22-37-31.gmi    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 20:36:01

• "I'm on a bit of a quest to get as many posts in that category out the door as I can in the coming months, I'm gunning for one each weekend at least." gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/the-wikireader.gmi    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 20:36:48

• "All of these fall under "privatizing profits, socializing losses" as someone else profits (a new server to hack, selling metadata, selling compute time, etc.)" gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/04/18/in-peace.gmi    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 20:40:44

• The F in GAFAM https://cybernews.com/ai-news/meta-plans-may-20th-layoffs-affecting-about-10-of-staff-more-cuts-to-follow/    

posted Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 21:36:07

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