Roy Schestowitz

• "Ok. So, I played perfect vermin in its entirety now, and I realized how ItsTheMaceo’s other games are related, by their theme themes. More specifically, three games in particular, Swallow the sea, Pit of babel, and Perfect Vermin." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2810    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:05:04

• "I always have a notebook going. It's always a single-subject, college-ruled spiral notebook. I fill about one a month. I buy them in July during back to school sales, when I can get them in bulk." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-04-24-02    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:06:18

• barely touching gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/barely_touching    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:07:16

• "I've been here for 2 weeks now, in an RV park in Kissimmee, FL. Kim came with me on the first weekend, flew back home for some medical appointments, and came back this week." gemini://robida.net/entries/2026/04/24/back-in-the-rv    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:08:08

• "Points for the relentless and ingenious animal puns in the background. The foreground was much less interesting. The fox has permanent Dreamworks Face. The snake is Short Round and Wang and Wang!" gemini://lab6.com/mlog/2026/04/24/zoo/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:09:11

• "My social role as the somewhat older and more experienced in life woman in hte scene is mostly a care role. And I like to be in this role. I have learned to keep my boundaries and not burn myself out in the process but still I want to have something to offer for the young people. Some alternative to the inevidable burnout." gemini://sojuz.v-tr.org/mumble/existential-dread.gmi    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:09:53

• The Internet Is Sad and Lonely gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-04-25_sad_and_loneky_is_the_internet.gmi    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:10:40

• A Call for Nuclear Disarmament in the Middle East and the Entire World gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-04-25_denuclear_the_middle_east.gmi    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:11:42

• "The most popular name for girls in families who speak other languages was Sofia, while for boys it was Muhammad." https://yle.fi/a/74-20222560    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:22:27

• iophk: There is a risk that Clownflare will glom onto this age verification fad and make it permanent by injecting itself further between the public and the world's web sites. Norway, for example, is piggybacking surveillance onto social control media bans for underage targets    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:23:00

• "The Straits Times reports Singaporean police have arrested a 26-year-old man who is alleged to have uploaded the new Avatar movie" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/918250/avatar-aang-the-last-airbender-leaks-arrest-paramount-plus | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:24:46

• "The major record labels have walked away from two of the largest remaining ISP piracy liability cases." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-drop-piracy-lawsuits-against-altice-and-verizon-in-wake-of-cox-ruling/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:25:17

• "A Spanish content creator who ran a film preservation website together with more than a dozen others" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/spanish-film-archivist-faces-prison-and-e870000-fine-over-non-commercial-movie-site/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:25:44

• "YouTube is offering Hollywood celebrities and entertainers a free detection tool to help combat their deepfakes, expanding the Google-owned video platform's efforts to guard against AI-driven impersonations." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/youtube-offers-deepfake-detection-to-hollywood/articleshow/130487642.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:26:27

• Software Patents ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-challenges-secrecy-eastern-district-texas-patent-case | Source: EFF    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:34:41

• "That is exactly where QZ changes everything." ☛ https://robertoviola.cloud/2026/04/23/bkool-bikes-are-no-longer-locked-in-full-compatibility-with-qz/ | Source: Roberto Viola    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:44:15

• "Under President Trump, ICE and CBP have killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in cold blood, and shot, beat, harassed, arrested, or locked up countless more innocent people" ☛ https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/042326_ice_shootings_congress/us-citizens-shot-by-ice-beg-congress-rein-federal-immigration-agents/ | Source: Tuscon Sentinel    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:48:10

• "An armed, masked agent of the federal government killed Becca’s partner at a moment when Renee posed no meaningful threat to him" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-yet-to-return-vehicle-renee-good-was-shot-and-killed-in/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:48:31

• "The ruling allows a former soldier to use state injury laws to sue a U.S. business whose Afghan employee gravely wounded him in a 2016 suicide bombing." ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/supreme-court-bagram-military-contractors/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:49:00

• "This image shows the inconsolable grief of children losing their father in a place built for justice" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/awards-and-competitions/photojournalists-were-limited-to-public-hallways-this-photographer-kept-showing-up-anyway-and-earned-her-this-major-award-emotional-ice-image-wins-world-press-photo-of-the-year | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:49:24

• "Bingo. This is exactly why he wants to stir up racism and bigotry now." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-real-purpose-behind-trumps-bigotry | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:49:38

• "Australian unions are flawed — affiliated to the political parties, biased toward incumbents, institutionally tired." ☛ https://danmackinlay.name/post/so_youve_joined_a_union.html | Source: Dan MacKinlay    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:50:00

• "Every year, RSF scores and ranks 180 countries and territories based on their level of press freedom." ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/american-press-freedom-on-the-brink/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:51:39

• "She said she is “convinced that press freedom and journalism are under threat more than at any time in my almost four decades of reporting”." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/christina-lamb-journalists-targeted-war-israel-gaza-lebanon/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:52:04

• "Faraj believes that the journalists were deliberately targeted." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/israeli-hezbollah-beirut-committee-to-protect-journalists-unifil-b2964655.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:52:19

• "the reason why I use ‘cynicism’ is because nobody believes that Harvard’s funding drive is designed to create intellectual pluralism at the disciplinary or methodological level where groupthink may be lurking." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2026/04/24/on-reinforcing-cynicism-in-the-academy/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:54:01

• "People detained in connection with what the FSB has described as a planned terrorist attack against Roskomnadzor leadership may belong to Alyi lebed" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/24/report-detainees-in-alleged-plot-against-russia-s-internet-regulator-may-belong-to-anti-censorship-movement | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:54:16

• "digital iron curtain." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/04/23/putin-defends-mobile-internet-outages-as-necessary-measure-in-fight-against-terrorism-a92592 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 05:54:34

• "Health Fears: Some critics say large solar farms are a public health threat. While there is little reputable evidence for this, their claims have helped power a backlash." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-solar-farms-health-concerns-st-clair-county | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:14:26

• "In an era with an unprecedented volume of mis- and disinformation flooding our communication channels" ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/24/evidence-isnt-just-for-research/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:14:41

• "Studies show that this low-carbon technology is up to three times more efficient than gas boilers, and, when properly installed, can halve households’ heating bills." ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/23/french-pr-executive-behind-facebook-network-spreading-heat-pump-hate/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:14:58

• "A fake BBC news report claims that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is displaying a stolen painting by artist Paul Cézanne in his office." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260424-fake-bbc-report-spreads-false-claim-volodymyr-zelensky-stolen-painting | Source: France24    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:15:12

• "Name the ugliest human quality, and Trump will demonstrate it and glory in it. [...]" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/24/donald-trump-pope-leo-xiv-catholics-christianity | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:19:25

• "The chipmaker’s valuation stood at about $5.08 trillion, ahead of Alphabet at $4.1 trillion and Apple at $3.97 trillion." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/nvidia-crosses-5-trillion-market-value/articleshow/130500492.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:21:17

• "Talarico has made it his mission to confront what he describes as the unbiblical, un-Christian brand of right-wing Christian nationalism rampant in the MAGA movement." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/progressive-christianity-texas-talarico/686914/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:21:34

• "The FCC's crackdown on foreign-made routers is in full swing, though one of the US' biggest companies just got conditional approval to keep its hardware on shelves, all while bringing in new ones." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/conditional-approval-for-amazons-routers/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:24:43

• "Hear me. Your entire world is about to come crumbling down, and ours along with it." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/catastrophe-has-come | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:25:01

• "Oh dear, how sad. Hope the elephants didn't hurt their feet." ☛ https://futurism.com/science-energy/millionaire-big-game-hunter-trampled-death-elephants | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:25:59

• "Charlie’s school had an Earth Day event today and I set up a table on conserving brook trout, New York’s state fish, and the only trout native to the eastern US." ☛ https://cagrimmett.com/2026/04/23/brook-trout-conservation-on-earth-day/ | Source: Chuck Grimmett    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:26:24

• "I applaud Matt Birchler who did real testing on this (2024)." ☛ https://chriscoyier.net/2026/04/24/its-an-assumed-truth-that-safari-is-better-for-battery-life-without-data-to-support-it/ | Source: Chris Coyier    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:32:57

• "Since it’s our first station on Merseyrail, we should take a step back and have a quick look at the network as a whole." ☛ https://heliomass.com/posts/2606-station-stories-green-lane/ | Source: Heliomass    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:33:10

• "Donald J. Trump, the serially failed businessman whose addiction to being rescued means he has little incentive to act responsibly, has opined once before that an airline’s aircraft and assets are good." ☛ https://emptywheel.net/2026/04/24/spirit-airlines-is-the-canary-in-trumps-fossil-fuel-mine/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:33:34

• "What this means is that the age of cheap, underpriced AI appears to be ending" ☛ https://www.404media.co/the-ai-compute-crunch-is-here-and-its-affecting-the-entire-economy/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:33:55

• "Volatile fuel prices because of the war in Iran are straining airlines around the globe, but perhaps nowhere as much as in Europe, where jet fuel supplies could run low by mid-May." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/travel/flight-cancellations-europe-summer-vacation.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:34:10

• "Among the targets in the war between Iran and the US have been data centers. AWS was hit by drones, and Iran has threatened to target US tech." ☛ https://werd.io/in-wartime-megascale-data-centers-may-make-way-for-distributed-architectures/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:39:05

• "Pullen and her colleagues at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater, Maryland, are building a 22-acre forest." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/the-planet-needs-prosperous-forests-these-scientists-are-planting-more-than-33000-trees-to-find-the-perfect-species-blends-180988618/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:39:18

• "The magazine examined emissions estimates provided by gas power projects that are being built to supply energy to the data centers." ☛ https://futurism.com/science-energy/data-centers-emit-more-than-countries | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:40:33

• "We were there in Tulsa to pass the moratorium last month, and we were there this morning in Oklahoma City to show that the community does not want these data centers" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/data-centers-tribal-communities | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:42:30

• "Google Cloud is building a massive AI-ready data centre in Vishakhapatnam." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/googles-15-billion-data-centre-in-vizag-to-host-5-gw-capacity/articleshow/130502692.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:42:53

• "On 13 April, terrorists from Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) attacked a military base in the Borno State community of Monguno." ☛ https://defenceweb.co.za/land/land-land/boko-haram-iswap-target-military-bases/ | Source: Defence Web    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:46:39

• "We don’t base our decisions on emails; we base them on official documents and government ⁠positions, in this case of the United States." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-24/pentagon-email-raises-the-possibility-of-suspending-spain-from-nato-due-to-iran-disagreements.html | Source: El País    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:47:23

• "NATO's Founding Treaty does not foresee any provision for suspension of NATO membership, or expulsion" ☛ https://kyivindependent.com/spain-safe-from-nato-suspension/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:47:54

• "Cyprus President ⁠Nikos Christodoulides said EU leaders agreed at a summit in ⁠his country on Thursday evening that it was time to flesh out the pact, set out in Article 42.7" ☛ https://www.ekathimerini.com/politics/foreign-policy/1301834/eu-to-prepare-blueprint-for-mutual-assistance-pact-amid-nato-doubts/ | Source: Greece    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:48:16

• "The parliament passed an omnibus law on Apr 22 that includes provisions prohibiting social media providers from offering services to children who have not completed the age of 15." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-bans-social-media-for-children-under-15-319023 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:49:00

• "Under the proposed legislation, children would be allowed to use social media from Jan. 1 of the year they turn 16." ☛ https://www.telesurenglish.net/norway-to-propose-social-media-age-limit-for-children/ | Source: teleSUR    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:50:08

• "Norway said on Friday it would present a bill in parliament by year-end to ban children from using social media until they ‌turn 16" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/norway-plans-to-ban-social-media-use-by-children-under-16/articleshow/130487521.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:50:27

• "The manifesto published by Palantir Technologies last week is neither a technical document nor an economic vision. It is an explicit political document announcing a new phase" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/palantir-just-unmasked-itself-to-the-world/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:51:09

• "We measure the real-world deployment of encrypted resolver-to-authoritative DNS (ADoX)" ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/yevheniya-nosyk/adox-deployment-in-the-wild/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:51:46

• "JetBlue faces a proposed class-action lawsuit, alleging it uses customers' personal data to set ticket prices." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jetblue-lawsuit-ticket-price-surge-data-tracking-b2963718.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:52:24

• [Old] "Peek inside your grocery cart, your fast-food bag, or your favorite ride-hailing app, and there’s a good chance that your online and offline activity played a role in determining how much you paid" ☛ https://hls.harvard.edu/today/how-delta-airlines-and-other-companies-use-dynamic-pricing-to-determine-how-much-you-pay/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:52:59

• "It was used to track a Dutch naval ship: [...]" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/hiding-bluetooth-trackers-in-mail.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:53:23

• "By monitoring viewers’ pulses, brain waves, body heat, skin responses and eye movements, researchers say they can more accurately capture in-the-moment, knee-jerk reactions that may be lost or forgotten after the credits roll." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-new-smart-movie-theatre-is-tracking-audiences-brain-waves-and-heart-rates-to-create-more-engaging-films-180988614/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:53:52

• "If Scam Altman has his way, this could be sort of how it works in real life." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/04/sam-altman-bots-world-id/686950/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:54:34

• "It’s been directly involved in the administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, an effort that’s been implicated in numerous deaths." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/palantirs-employees-crisis | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:55:01

• "Last week, the Peter Thiel-cofounded company poured fuel on the fire with a 22-point summary of CEO Alex Karp’s 2025 book “The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West,” an ominous corporate manifesto that critics called a “hideous ideology” and “example of technofascism.”"    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:55:28

• "A PKI normally uses X.509 public key certificates, which are digital objects that contain: [...]" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/04/24/revocation-of-x-509-certificates/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:55:59

• Social Control Media ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/04/how-short-form-clips-took-over-the-internet/686922/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:56:58

• In many "Open Source" companies like Red Hat, the issue is not that "Open Source" got abandoned; technology in general was abandoned. Those companies are run by people who have zero about clue but trained themselves in uttering buzzwords.    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:58:01

• "Early reports from Mythos preview users including AWS and Mozilla indicate that while the model is very good and very fast at finding vulnerabilities" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/anthropic_mythos_hype_nothingburger/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:58:33

• "Every aspect of how we adopt artificial intelligence must be human-centric." ☛ https://blakemoore.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-blake-moore-introduces-bill-to-ban-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-in-childrens-toys | Source: US House Of Representatives    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:59:27

• "Beginning on the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, no person may manufacture for sale, import into the United States" ☛ https://blakemoore.house.gov/imo/media/doc/ai_childrens_toy_safety_act.pdf | Source: US House Of Representatives    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 06:59:44

• "frequently veered into adult themes, vulgar language, and discussion of explicit content when used consistently." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/23/congressman-wants-ai-out-of-kids-toys-after-chatbots-got-weird-with-children.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:00:52

• Slop "bad for the environment, due to their excessive electrical power requirements." ☛ https://frederikbraun.de/feels-and-llms.html | Source: Frederik Braun    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:01:23

• "I wrote it off as a new form of the regular Internet background noise, and carried on working on the site in the evenings; Life moved on." ☛ https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/04/19/sloppy-copies/ | Source: Mark Dastmalchi-Round    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:01:47

• "While vectors are aces at turning information into numerical strings, their inherent flatness is limiting." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/vectors-tensors-ai-search-explained/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:02:28

• "In vibe engineering, the agent acts upon infrastructure (S3 buckets, DynamoDB tables, EC2 instances, K8s deployments…). Large-scale infrastructure is not forgiving." ☛ https://maheshba.bitbucket.io/blog/2026/04/24/agentfailures.html | Source: Mahesh Balakrishnan    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:31:42

• "The news is awash with headlines making claims about AI." ☛ https://bobbyhiltz.com/posts/2026/04/dissecting-ai/ | Source: Bobby Hiltz    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:34:41

• "“Vibe coding” has become the catch-all phrase for building software mostly through prompts, iterations, and AI-assisted generation instead of line-by-line engineering." ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/vibe-coding-has-a-security-problem-and-shipping-code-you-do-not-understand-is-not-a-strategy/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:34:58

• "Here is a bit of his argument, after he outlines just how unpopular AI has become in the real world: [...]" ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/04/patel-decoder-ai-software-brain/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:35:15

• "Firstly, all your Open Source code has already been slurped up." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/does-mythos-mean-you-need-to-shut-down-your-open-source-repos/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:35:32

• "As a computer scientist I am saddened." ☛ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/akittendies/ | Source: The Cyber Show    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:36:01

• Slop "AI data centers are gobbling up memory manufacturing capacity." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3116546/investigation-ram-prices-are-falling-dont-fall-for-it.html | Source: PC World    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:39:26

• "For companies selling these chatbots, engagement is money, and encouraging users to close the app is antithetical to that engagement." ☛ https://www.404media.co/delusion-using-chatgpt-gemini-claude-grok-safety-ai-psychosis-study/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:39:50

• "In his talk, he attributed this to "supralinear scaling": where researchers assumed LLM capability would improve linearly" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/24/ai_bugfinding_futures/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:40:11

• "the basic definition of ‘thinking’ and the essential skills we teach the next generation are being called into question." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/what-does-thinking-mean-now/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:40:26

• "Perhaps more startlingly, Pichai said the workflow was now “truly agentic” — rather than engineers giving prompts which AI completes, engineers now supervise autonomous digital teams." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/04/24/2026/google-ceo-says-75-of-companys-new-code-is-ai-generated | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:42:41

• "Torous and his co-authors created their typology based on AI’s role in a patient’s delusions as either the catalyst, the amplifier, the co-author, or the object." ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/04/what-to-make-of-ai-psychosis/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:44:30

• "New official guidance states that passwords should not be used where passkeys are available, overturning decades of conventional advice." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/ncsc_passkey_tech_now_reliable/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:45:08

• "The standout capability is offline maps. You can download entire countries or continents ahead of time and navigate without any [Internet] connection." ☛ https://greycoder.com/here-wego-a-free-privacy-respecting-navigation-app/ | Source: GreyCoder    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:45:29

• "Spoiler: they're the ones shipping the badness" ☛ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/04/24/unas/ | Source: Rachel    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:45:48

• "For months, HomeKit controls will be missing after an iOS update or device restart. In this case, I am missing controls for my garage door, my thermostats, and a couple of scenes." ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/04/homekit-control-center-missing/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:46:10

• "But while everyone knows about the headline triumphs – the iPhone X, the Apple Watch, AirPods, MacBook Neo – Cook has had a hand in a vast array of more understated achievements." ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/3123189/9-tim-cook-bets-that-paid-off-and-2-big-flops-that-didnt.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:46:30

• "The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has called time on the password – from now on, you should use a passkey." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/24/what-is-a-passkey-how-does-it-work-and-why-is-it-better-than-a-password | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:46:47

• "According to the announcement, Blanche also ordered that a hearing be held in June as part of a rule-making process to reclassify all marijuana more broadly." ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxd0xxp0jko | Source: BBC    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:53:00

• "This makes it a grounding and nourishing antitode to a lot of everyday stressors." ☛ https://www.benkuhn.net/contra/ | Source: Ben Kuhn    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:53:17

• "Anyway, the point of this post wasn’t to get gross" ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/melanomas-get-yourself-checked/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:53:33

• "According to my guesstimated morbid math, I now have somewhere around 39% of my time left on the planet. Simple math: 55 divided by 90 puts me at roughly 61% done." ☛ https://makoism.com/55-for-55/ | Source: Makoism    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:55:40

• "One of the important roles these oral bacteria have is converting the nitrate in our food (typically from sources such as leafy greens) into nitrite." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/does-mouthwash-really-damage-your-heart-heres-what-we-know | Source: Science Alert    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:56:04

• "Yesterday I had the idea that it would be cool if I turned a Nintendo Switch (will be referred to as NX to avoid confusion as NX is the code name for the Nintendo Switch) console into an actual network switch." ☛ https://blog.cynthia.re/post/nintendo-switch-ethernet-switch | Source: Cynthias Blog    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:56:46

• "Acquired via thrift on April 10, 2026. It finally fills my itch to have an italic typeface for use in personal correspondence." ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2026/04/24/1962-olympia-sm7-portable-typewriter/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:57:14

• "For years, the best way to get 10 gigabit networking on laptops was to buy an expensive, large, and hot 10 GbE Thunderbolt adapter." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/ | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:57:31

• "There wasn't. They told me that the LED pattern I was seeing when powered on was indicative of a communication error with the board, so it's dead and needed to be replaced." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/update-on-my-coffee-ridden-framework-13 | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 07:57:49

• "The following projects have been completed, and their deliverables have been accepted by the grant committee." ☛ https://www.ruby.or.jp/en/news/20260416 | Source: Ruby Association    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 08:04:11

• "Weeell, okay, here we go... The process most teams use to hire engineers doesn't give the signal it was built for anymore." ☛ https://dbarabashh.com/thoughts-and-experience/hire-for-the-conversation-not-the-code | Source: Dmytro Barabash    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 08:04:28

• "Library Journal is turning 150 this year and they have been celebrating with special coverage." ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2026/04/library-journals-150th-anniversary.html | Source: Becky Spratford    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 08:04:45

• "This week the school district in the progressive college town that I live in announced that they would be cutting all middle school librarian positions in a misguided attempt to try and staunch the bleeding from years of budget mismanagement." ☛ https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-04-24-library/ | Source: Dan Sinker    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 08:05:10

• "But it’s not the lengthy sentences that makes this prose work for me. It’s the rhythm." ☛ https://interconnected.org/home/2026/04/24/willows | Source: Matt Webb    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 08:05:32

• "I don’t think there’s compelling evidence that using AI makes you less intelligent overall." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/software-engineering-may-no-longer-be-a-lifetime-career/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 08:06:51

• "So, that’s what he does, he proposes, and then we look at it and make our own decisions" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trumps-budget-guts-local-libraries-and-museums/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 08:07:10

• "Our talk videos finally have a proper home on the XOXO website, filterable by year and topic, with each video page now including a talk description, relevant tags, and links to other related videos from our full archive of conference talks." ☛ https://xoxofest.com/blog/2026-launching-xoxo-explore/ | Source: XOXO    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 08:07:38

• "Behind these shifts is public concern over declining literacy and reading comprehension." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0424/Scandinavia-s-U-turn-on-book-reading | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 08:07:55

• "The equation of motion for a pendulum is the differential equation" ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/04/24/nonlinear-pendulum/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 08:08:31

• "The previous post gave a simple and accurate approximation for the smaller angle of a right triangle. Given a right triangle with sides a, b, and c, where a is the shortest side and c is the hypotenuse, the angle opposite side a is approximately" ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/04/23/solve-an-oblique-triangle/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 08:08:52

• "Suppose you have a right triangle with sides a, b, and c, where a is the shortest side and c is the hypotenuse. Then the following approximation from [1] for the angle A opposite side a seems too simple and too accurate to be true." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/04/23/solve-a-right-triangle/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 08:09:10

• "This interview has been lightly edited for clarity." ☛ https://organizingmythoughts.org/we-dont-know-most-things-chanda-prescod-weinstein-on-curiosity-and-the-cosmos/ | Source: Kelly Hayes    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 08:09:29

• "I did tear down my notebooks once - the pile I had from about 1996 to 2009. I regret this." ☛ https://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-04-24-02 | Source: Dr Molly Tov nbsp;  

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 08:10:03

• "Learning those systems — their quirks, their limitations, and their vulnerabilities — makes you a better hacker. Stay curious, friends." ☛ https://blog.talosintelligence.com/it-pays-to-be-a-forever-student/ | Source: Threat Source    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 08:10:20

• "Last November, Operation 85 announced that they had reached the required 60% threshold for the Arizona, meaning 643 families." ☛ https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/veterans/military-history/2026/04/24/remains-of-uss-arizona-crew-buried-as-unknowns-after-pearl-harbor-to-be-identified/ | Source: USMC    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 08:10:37

• "The Tallinn site earned its name after Tarkovsky's sci-fi masterpiece, which included a key scene where the eponymous Stalker and several other characters pause before entering the film's fictional Zone." ☛ https://news.err.ee/1610004505/stalker-filming-location-in-tallinn-makes-european-film-heritage-list | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 08:11:22

• "Bill will sneak in a fix, don’t worry." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kmbx3wwy#replies Bill spreads viruses http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/The_Epstein_Files_Don_t_Say_the_Ages_of_Those_Russian_Girls_Bil.shtml    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 08:52:21

• "There are at least three ways that x86 machines can try to boot from the network; BIOS PXE boot, UEFI PXE boot, and UEFI HTTP boot." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/ISCDHCPServerPickNetbootOption | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:46:04

• "After a few months of running AS201379 on the public internet, the obvious next experiment was DN42" ☛ https://blog.hofstede.it/joining-dn42-a-mikrotik-border-three-wireguard-peerings-and-a-freebsd-jail-in-the-hobbyist-internet/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:46:54

• "Unfortunately, Gigaclear haven’t yet managed to fulfil their promise to reassign our static IP address to our new line" ☛ https://danq.me/2026/04/24/moving-the-internet/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:48:17

• "If you remember the older post about Cafe Beef, you’ll appreciate the file format we explore in this post which uses using the Hex values “BE DEAD”." ☛ https://preservation.tylerthorsted.com/2026/04/24/be-dead/ | Source: Tyler Thorsted    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:49:02

• "despite my love for the hardware, I do not like Android as a gaming platform." ☛ https://overkill.wtf/posts/odin2-mini-rocknix | Source: Kevin Wammer    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:49:40

• "So I did some very unscientific memory usage tests. I did them on a box running current Debian, even though they are really more relevant to retro machines with limited resources." ☛ https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2026/04/25/whatitsaysonthetin/ | Source: Darren Goossens    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:51:01

• "All you have to do is connect via SSH and type the command installtointernal." ☛ https://overkill.wtf/notes/installing-rocknix-on-internal-storage | Source: Kevin Wammer    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:51:44

• "Fedora 44 is officially a "GO" for release, with the final launch confirmed for Tuesday, April 28, 2026." ☛ https://ostechnix.com/fedora-44-release-date-confirmed/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:52:21

• "Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, code-named "Resolute Raccoon", officially released on April 23, 2026." ☛ https://ostechnix.com/ubuntu-26-04-lts-resolute-raccoon-features-release-notes/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:53:25

• "This release is based on kernel 7.0, uses GNOME 50, and comes with Firefox 150. These are a pleasingly round set of version numbers, but over Resolute's support lifetime, its Firefox versions will keep climbing, and as interim releases follow, the LTS Enablement Stack will also make newer kernels available. (systemd 260 arrived a little too late, so Resolute comes with systemd 259.) As the newest LTS version, Resolute will get free updates for the next five years, until 2031, and a further decade of security updates is available via Canonical's "Ubuntu Pro" service, which became free for up to five machines in 2022." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/24/ubuntu_resolute_raccoon/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:54:13

• "This release is based on kernel 7.0, uses GNOME 50, and comes with Firefox 150. These are a pleasingly round set of version numbers, but over Resolute's support lifetime, its Firefox versions will keep climbing, and as interim releases follow, the LTS Enablement Stack will also make newer kernels available. (systemd 260 arrived a little too late, so Resolute comes with systemd 259.)"    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:54:39

• "As the newest LTS version, Resolute will get free updates for the next five years, until 2031, and a further decade of security updates is available via Canonical's "Ubuntu Pro" service, which became free for up to five machines in 2022." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/24/ubuntu_resolute_raccoon/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:54:50

• "With an Ubuntu Pro subscription, access to ESM (Expanded Security Maintenance) updates will be available for ten years" ☛ https://documentation.ubuntu.com/release-notes/26.04/ | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:55:17

• "The Ubuntu Unity project has published a new release, Ubuntu Unity 26.04. Unlike other members of the Ubuntu community editions, which made 26.04 a long-term support release" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12808 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:55:39

• "Edubuntu is a community flavour of Ubuntu designed for classroom use. The project's latest version, 26.04, includes entirely new administrative tools. The release announcement shares: [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12807 | Source: Distro Watch p;  

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:56:07

• "Xubuntu, an Ubuntu variant featuring the Xfce desktop and many popular GNOME and MATE applications, has been updated to version 26.04: [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12806 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:56:37

• "The Ubuntu Kylin project has announced the release of version 26.04 of its community edition of Ubuntu which is configured for Chinese-speaking users" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12805 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:57:11

• "While I find GrapheneOS very enticing, I need to use Google Wallet on a near-daily basis, and I already travel with too many devices anyway. I am not about to carry a second phone." ☛ https://overkill.wtf/notes/grapheneos-privacy-setup | Source: Kevin Wammer    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:58:23

• "As it turns out, the Apple Watch has no killer app. Instead, it’s really a motley basket of featurettes." ☛ https://pogueman.substack.com/p/what-do-you-do-with-the-apple-watch | Source: David Pogue    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:58:42

• "The Emacs Carnival theme for April 2026 is newbies/starter kits. I'd like to chat with Prot about not only helping people get into Emacs but also supporting lifelong learning." ☛ https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/04/yay-emacs-sacha-and-prot-talk-emacs-newbies-starter-kits/ | Source: Sacha Chua    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 12:59:12

• "Let’s break down what incognito mode actually does and where its limits begin." ☛ https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/incognito-mode-myths-browsing-privacy-truth-revealed-137776517.html | Source: Bhaskar English    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:00:08

• "For Android, we’ve chosen the items on our roadmap because we think these will be the highest-impact features and bring the most value to everyone. Our focus this year is to simplify and modernize the Android codebase. This means reworking some of the architecture. This will be super helpful for us to move more quickly and will reduce complex bugs. The app has an older codebase, and like many older ones, it has its challenges."    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:00:52

• "We have three full-time Android engineers and several community contributors, and we hope to better position ourselves to move quickly. At a high level, Android is focusing on the rearchitecture, a better Message List experience, and Message Reader screens. We are also simplifying how users can connect to Thunder Mail as we open it up." ☛ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/04/mobile-progress-report-april-2026/ | Source: Thunderbird    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:01:03

• "This is the bare minimum necessary to configure Firefox so that it behaves in a reasonable manner." ☛ https://sciops.net/information/technology/firefox/ | Source: KHM    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:02:05

• "We’ve teamed up with Humble Bundle once again to let you name your own price for a bundle of Raspberry Pi Press e-books." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/pay-what-you-want-for-a-bundle-of-books-and-support-the-raspberry-pi-foundation/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:03:48

• "his enshittification poop emoji" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/24/poop-emoji-plus-plus/#devin-washburn | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:04:24

• "For querying the data, I use the excellent sqlc.dev. It is a tool that gives me full control of the queries I want to run and takes care of the boilerplate through code generation." ☛ https://atproto.com/blog/serving-the-for-you-feed | Source: Bluesky Social PBC bsp;  

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:05:12

• "very simple, just call the standard library function" ☛ https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/ | Source: Sebastian Wick    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:05:43

• "Infrastructure engineers develop paranoia around change." ☛ https://www.cambra.dev/blog/announcement/ | Source: Cambra    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:06:04

• "There is a new “Secure Coding Guidelines” document in Design Principles describing how to write secure Erlang code." ☛ https://www.erlang.org/news/187 | Source: Erlang    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:06:19

• "This is my response to The Weekly Challenge #370." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/popular-scramble.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:08:34

• "Java 17 introduced sealed classes, which allow you to explicitly list the allowed sub-types of an interface or base class." ☛ https://neilmadden.blog/2026/04/24/java-sealed-classes-and-exhaustive-pattern-matching/ | Source: Niel Madden    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:09:35

• "So I was looking for a good shorthand / stenography system. Preferably multi-lingual, so that I can write both English and Russian / Interslavic." ☛ https://aartaka.me/gess.html | Source: Artyom Bologov    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:10:08

• "What are you talking about, Dedo, you be asking? Well, I be answering." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-ntfs-driver-reliability.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:11:45

• "Beginning with release 19.2.0 (codenamed “Squid”), the Ceph Object Gateway, Ceph’s S3-workalike feature" ☛ https://www.madboa.com/blog/2026/04/24/ceph-account/ | Source: Paul Heinlein    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:12:15

• "As a result, I’ve built a new “Six Colors Audio Newsletter” podcast feed." ☛ https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/04/introducing-the-six-colors-audio-newsletter/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:13:19

• "Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway give a great summary" ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2026/04/24/the-other-reasons-why-podcasting-is-hot/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:13:57

• iophk: that explains why the output is garbage nowadays https://www.semafor.com/article/04/24/2026/google-ceo-says-75-of-companys-new-code-is-ai-generated    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:14:40

• "White House Correspondents’ Dinner: Donald Trump is no laughing matter | Vox" https://www.vox.com/politics/486490/trump-whcd-correspondents-dinner-nobody-laughing    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:14:58

• "Kash Patel's University Arrest for Public Intoxication and Urination Resurfaces After He Denied Ever Being Drunk on the Job | IBTimes UK" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/kash-patel-controversy-past-arrests-1793573    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:15:19

• iophk: EFF "carrying water for their funders, Big Tech" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/act-now-stop-californias-paternalistic-and-privacy-destroying-social-media-ban https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/31/Google_Bribes_EFF_EFF_Promotes_LLM_Slop_as_Fair_Use_To_GAFAM_It.shtml    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:15:53

• "Ministry reminds Muslim community of law on religious slaughter of livestock | News | ERR" https://news.err.ee/1610004811/ministry-reminds-muslim-community-of-law-on-religious-slaughter-of-livestock    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:16:15

• The government wants to introduce an age limit for smartphones | "Regeringen vill införa åldersgräns för smarta mobiler - M3" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://www.m3.se/article/3123567/regeringen-vill-infora-aldersgrans-for-smarta-mobiler.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:17:11

• "Today I learned that Bluesky’s technical advisor… ⁄ Manual do Usuário" https://manualdousuario.net/en/today-i-found-out-that-blueskys-technical-advisor/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:17:49

• "....a partner at one of the firms that invested millions in the social network, is an AI enthusiast, subscribes to a blocklist of anti-AI activists with over 300,000 profiles, and thought it was a good idea to throw his overheated phone into the pool to cool it down. (The phone broke.)"    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:18:10

• "Uppdrag till Folkhälsomyndigheten om när barn som tidigast bör få en egen smart telefon - Regeringen.se" https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2026/04/uppdrag-till-folkhalsomyndigheten-om-nar-barn-som-tidigast-bor-fa-en-egen-smart-telefon/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:18:46

• "Christian pastor is arrested for 'criticising Islam' while preaching in Watford town centre - as police officer tells him 'in the name of Jesus, get in the car' | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15762131/Christian-pastor-arrested-criticising-Islam-Watford.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:19:07

• "The 'Muslim only' flats advertised by homeowners in parts of East London in breach of equality laws | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15758107/Muslim-flats-rent-London-landlord-advertising.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:19:26

• "Why gen Z can't find jobs, study finds noncompetes very harmful" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/why-gen-z-can't-find-jobs,-study-finds:8    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:19:44

• Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced officially announced with Steam Deck support | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-officially-announced-with-steam-deck-support/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-officially-announced-with-steam-deck-support/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:29:03

• Ubuntu 26.04 ('Resolute Raccoon') LTS is out now | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/ubuntu-26-04-resolute-raccoon-lts-is-out-now/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/ubuntu-26-04-resolute-raccoon-lts-is-out-now/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:29:58

• Toei Company established Toei Games and revealed the first titles | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/toei-company-established-toei-games-and-revealed-the-first-titles/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:30:21

• Classic 90s platformer Moon Child gets the source code released and a modern port | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/classic-90s-platformer-moon-child-gets-the-source-code-released-and-a-modern-port/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:32:01

• Get some big games in the Fanatical Legendary Bundle like The Alters and Frostpunk 2 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/get-some-big-games-in-the-fanatical-legendary-bundle-like-the-alters-and-frostpunk-2/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:40:11

• Inspired by classic Hong Kong action comedies and action games - Knuckle Paradise looks fun | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/inspired-by-classic-hong-kong-action-comedies-and-action-games-knuckle-paradise-looks-fun/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux |    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:40:45

• Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is getting a free Endless Mode, optimizations and a big expansion | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/deep-rock-galactic-survivor-is-getting-a-free-endless-mode-optimizations-and-a-big-expansion/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:41:48

• Second Wind Games Showcase presented lots of games - here's 12 world premieres | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/second-wind-games-showcase-presented-lots-of-games-heres-12-world-premieres/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:45:34

• MangoHud 0.8.3 brings new features and fixes to the popular Linux gaming performance monitor | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/mangohud-0-8-3-brings-new-features-and-fixes-to-the-popular-linux-gaming-performance-monitor/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:46:02

• "You’ve been timing commands with time for years, and it’s been lying to you, not because time is broken, but because a single run captures one data point that can spike or dip based on cache state, CPU load, or kernel scheduling" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/hyperfine-find-command-execution-time-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:49:10

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

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:50:27

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

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:51:52

• Znew Command in GNU/Linux with Examples ☞ https://idroot.us/znew-command-linux/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:52:13

• How To Install Uptime Kuma on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-uptime-kuma-debian-13/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:52:59

• How To Install PhpStorm on openSUSE ☞ https://idroot.us/install-phpstorm-opensuse/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:53:15

• How To Install osTicket on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-osticket-almalinux-10/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:53:36

• How to Install Node.js and npm on Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-node-js-on-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:54:33

• Security updates for Friday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1069549/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 13:58:46

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 648 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/04/22/this-week-in-rust-648/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:00:33

• Drink-spiking in Vilnius: how to protect yourself ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2897199/drink-spiking-in-vilnius-how-to-protect-yourself    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:01:10

• Krita Monthly Report - April 2026 ☞ https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/monthly-report-2604/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:03:12

• FunOS 26.04 LTS ☞ https://funos.org/funos-26-04/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:04:23

• Kubernetes v1.36: User Namespaces in Kubernetes are finally GA ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/04/23/kubernetes-v1-36-userns-ga/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:07:42

• Kubernetes v1.36: Fine-Grained Kubelet API Authorization Graduates to GA ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/04/24/kubernetes-v1-36-fine-grained-kubelet-authorization-ga/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:08:27

• IBM Red Hat is selling Microsoft, proprietary software, surveillance and back doors as "confidential". Utter disgrace for Red Hat. ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/confidential-clusters-red-hat-openshift-developer-preview-now-available-microsoft-azure-amd-sev-snp | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:14:35

• Confidential? No. Illusion of it. IBM Red Hat selling lies for an empire of bug doors. ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/confidential-guest-reset-qemu-hypervisor-design-choices-and-approach | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:15:12

• "The early conversations were almost entirely about migration: how to move virtual machines (VMs) safely, how to avoid downtime, and how to get off the renewal clock." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/openshift-virtualization-sessions-red-hat-summit-2026 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:15:51

• IBM Red Hat pushing slop instead of trying to promote GNU/Linux; Wall Street likes the Ponzi scheme more.   

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:17:00

• IBM Red Hat pushing slop instead of trying to promote GNU/Linux; Wall Street likes the Ponzi scheme more. ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/when-less-more-why-less-precision-and-fewer-parameters-carry-enterprise-ai | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:17:14

• Shifting the Trap ☞ https://jxself.org/shifting-the-trap.shtml    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:20:18

• Dev snapshot: Godot 4.7 beta 1 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-7-beta-1/bsp;  

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:21:19

• Canonical put a SPY in charge of Ubuntu, now he attacks security ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ubuntu-hired-security-research-firm http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/19/Is_Ubuntu_Compromised_Push_Away_From_GNU_and_GPL_Led_by_Army_Of.shtml iophk: 'Research' == Marketeering, I would expect    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:22:47

• 'We are the first university to be branded extremist' – interview with EHU Vilnius rector ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2907175/we-are-the-first-university-to-be-branded-extremist-interview-with-ehu-vilnius-rector    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:25:16

• Venice Biennale Bars Awards for Countries Facing Crimes Against Humanity Charges ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/arts/venice-biennale-russia-israel.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:25:49

• A New Idea to Save the AMOC? Dam the Bering Strait. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/climate/amoc-bering-strait-dam.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:26:07

• Beijing Targets 7 European Firms As EU Russia Sanctions Hit Chinese Companies ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/china-eu-export-controls-russia-sanctions-taiwan-april-24-2026/33741631.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:26:27

• Lithuanian MPs call for UN action over destruction of victims' memorials in Russia ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2908184/lithuanian-mps-call-for-un-action-over-destruction-of-victims-memorials-in-russia    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:26:52

• TP-Link router vulnerabilities found in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/24.04.2026-tp-link-router-vulnerabilities-found-in-latvia.a644358/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:27:16

• A drip, drip of dissent in Russia: 'minor symptoms' or something more serious? ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2908078/a-drip-drip-of-dissent-in-russia-minor-symptoms-or-something-more-serious    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:27:39

• This Week in GNOME: #246 Offline Dictionaries ☞ https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/04/twig-246/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:28:36

• DESERT 5.0_26.04 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/desert    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 14:29:00

• Slop in journalism: Live tracker of scandals and mistakes ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/ai-journalism-mistakes/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:09:21

• One Common Habit Can Make Your Insomnia Worse, Expert Explains ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-common-habit-can-make-your-insomnia-worse-expert-explains    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:09:54

• The World's Most Mysterious Volcano Can Finally Be Explained ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-most-mysterious-volcano-can-finally-be-explained    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:10:16

• Scientists Discover an Amazing New Use For Your Leftover Coffee Grounds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-an-amazing-new-use-for-your-leftover-coffee-grounds    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:11:40

• ACLU Joins Coalition Calling For FIFA to Uphold Human Rights Ahead 2026 World Cup ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/aclu-joins-coalition-calling-for-fifa-to-uphold-human-rights-ahead-2026-world-cup    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:12:15

• Fed Chair nominee Warsh ’92 criticizes Fed overreach in Senate hearing ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/04/24/fed-chair-nominee-warsh-92-criticizes-fed-overreach-in-senate-hearing/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:12:51

• Breakthrough to Restore Aging Joints Could Help Treat Osteoarthritis ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/breakthrough-to-restore-aging-joints-could-help-treat-osteoarthritis    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:13:19

• Essex Police press statements were defamatory of Allison Pearson, judge says ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/allison-pearson-police-essex-libel-defamatory-meaning-judgment/ win for lawyer who represented Techrights    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:14:27

• Anatomy of a Scam ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/04/anatomy-of-a-scam/    

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

• Online e-book buying not particularly popular in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/literature/24.04.2026-online-e-book-buying-not-particularly-popular-in-latvia.a644367/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:15:40

• 'Information leakage to our adversaries': When prediction markets spiral out of control ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/economy/20260424-information-leakage-to-our-adversaries-when-prediction-markets-spiral-out-of-control    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:17:23

• Mexico gears up to regulate [Slop], with prison sentences for wrongful uses ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/ai-regulation-in-mexico-senate-bill/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:19:39

• The Horrible Economics of Hey Hi (AI) Are Starting to Come Crashing Down ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economics-ai-tokens-crashing-down    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:20:22

• Three Years Ago Today, “Avengers” Director Joe Russo Predicted There Would Be a Fully AI-Generated Movie Within Two Years ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/russo-predicted-ai-movie-two-years    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:20:53

• Will You Pay $119 For This Open Source KVM Built on Rust and Buildroot? ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/leafkvm-crowdfunding/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:22:06

• Duff GNU/Linux – opinionated distro based on Void ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/duff-linux-opinionated-distro-void/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:33:23

• Megacubo – IPTV streaming app ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/megacubo-iptv-streaming-app/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:34:03

• Detect It Easy – file inspection utility ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/detect-it-easy-file-inspection-utility/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:34:18

• Another IPTV Player – IPTV streaming solution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/another-iptv-player-streaming-solution/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:34:52

• 16 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Digital Forensics Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/digitalforensics/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:35:19

• capa – command line malware analysis tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/capa-command-line-malware-analysis-tool/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:35:46

• Slop cartel killing linux features by DDOSing bug report queues ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Removes-Old-Net    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:36:32

• 14 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux IPTV Players ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-linux-iptv-players/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:37:40

• Minisforum MS-R1 ARM Mini Workstation running Linux: Power Consumption ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/minisforum-ms-r1-arm-mini-workstation-running-linux-power-consumption/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:37:57

• NetTool – web-based network diagnostic console ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/nettool-web-based-network-diagnostic-console/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:38:27

• FLOSS – malware analysis utility ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/floss-malware-analysis-utility/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:38:53

• hashdeep – generate and verify file hashes ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hashdeep-generate-verify-file-hashes/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:39:08

• 9 Best Free and Open Source Graphical SSH Frontends ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-graphical-ssh-frontends/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:39:37

• unblob – extraction suite for working with unknown binary blobs ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/unblob-extraction-suite/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:40:04

• SilverDict – web-based alternative to GoldenDict ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/silverdict-web-based-alternative-goldendict/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:40:20

• xuniq – line deduplicator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/xuniq-line-deduplicator/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:40:56

• uniqs – alternative to uniq ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/uniqs-alternative-uniq/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:41:11

• Cutter – graphical reverse engineering platform ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cutter-graphical-reverse-engineering-platform/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:41:33

• Bobby Borisov still being a lazy slob (slobbisov?) who uses LLM slop to make fake articles that are made partly by bots at linuxiac    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:42:48

• Talos 1.12.7 is release ☞ https://distrowatch.com/talos    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:43:05

• Ufficio Zero Duplica-1_4_5 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ufficiozero    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:43:29

• Asmi 26.04 is released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/asmi    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:44:01

• FunOS 26.04 is released as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/funos    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:44:16

• Microsoft-sponsored attack on Linux. Linus T asleep at the wheel. ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-PR-Remove-Old-Net    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:44:52

• "a GNU/Linux Desktop (instead of backdoored Windows 11) talk" ☞ https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2026-04-22.htmlbsp;  

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:45:27

• Jim and Sheela Zemlin clearly working for fraud and technofascists: take 12.5 million in bribes from Microsoft and others, 134k lines of code get killed. Not because they're bad lines of code.    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:52:50

• FSF Events: LibreLocal meetup in San Carlos de Bariloche, Provincia de Río Negro, Argentina ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/meetup-2026-05-30-san-carlos-de-bariloche-provincia-de-rio-negro-argentina    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:53:14

• GnuPG 2.5.19 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1069552/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:54:27

• Rizin – UNIX-like reverse engineering framework ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rizin-unix-like-reverse-engineering-framework/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:54:57

• Kubuntu Resolute Raccoon 26.04 release with bonus snaps ☞ https://scarlettgatelymoore.dev/blog/kubuntu-26-04-release-bonus-snaps/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:55:45

• Canonical finally gives Launchpad (a bit of) a glow-up ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ubuntu-launchpad-website-revamp    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:56:11

• Finding a Commodore 64 250466 motherboard ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/finding-a-commodore-64-250466-motherboard/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:56:59

• What does a professional calligrapher do? ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/what-does-a-professional-calligrapher-do/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:57:37

• Jonathan Blandford: Goblint Notes ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/jrb/2026/04/24/goblint-notes/    

sted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:58:45

• Remi Collet: 🎲 PHP version 8.4.21RC1 and 8.5.6RC1 ☞ https://blog.remirepo.net/post/2026/04/24/PHP-version-8.4.21RC1-and-8.5.6RC1    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 15:59:29

• Fedora Community Blog: Community Update – Week 17 2026 ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/community-update-week-17-2026/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:00:34

• Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/17 ☞ https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2026/04/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2026-17/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:01:01

• More fixes for Xorg Wizard ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202604/more-fixes-for-xorg-wizard.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:02:55

• Chinese DRM spreader Netflix Competitor Opens Floodgates to Hey Hi (AI) Slop ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chinese-netflix-competitor-ai-slop    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:03:27

• Automatic brightness in Plasma ☞ https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland,display/2026/04/24/automatic-brightness.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:04:45

• EU Pulls Funding For Venice Biennale After Russia's Inclusion ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-venice-biennale-art-war/33741489.html    

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

• Zelenskyy In Saudi Arabia For Defense Talks As Russia Continues To Pound Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-war-saudi-arabia-iran-drone-attacks-odesa/33741811.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:05:54

• 'Museums' To Ukraine Invasion Open In Schools Across Moscow ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-invasion-moscow-school-war-museums/33741672.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:06:19

• Nausėda urges swift start to Ukraine's EU accession talks ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2908072/nauseda-urges-swift-start-to-ukraine-s-eu-accession-talks    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:06:38

• Lithuanian court hears terrorism case over arson plot targeting Ukraine-bound equipment ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2908146/lithuanian-court-hears-terrorism-case-over-arson-plot-targeting-ukraine-bound-equipment    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:06:55

• Russia kills elderly couple in their home ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/russia-kills-two-prisoners-in-their-home    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:07:10

• Iran: Neither war nor Peace, Ukraine’s Lifeline, Starmer: “Just a Scratch”? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-world-this-week/20260424-iran-neither-war-nor-peace-ukraine-s-lifeline-starmer-just-a-scratch    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:07:24

• As Putin Orders That the Economy Be Fixed, Russia Grasps for Solutions ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/world/europe/russia-economy.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:07:40

• Were Neanderthals Able to Hunt Elephants? The Proof Is in an Ancient Bone ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/science/lehringen-lakebed-elephant-neanderthals.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:29:42

• Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What That Golden Orb Found at the Bottom of the Pacific Ocean Actually Was ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/scientists-solve-golden-orb    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:30:08

• Chips today, fog tomorrow? Study links processed foods to waning focus ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/chips-today-fog-tomorrow-study-links-processed-foods-to-waning-focus    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:30:34

• Opinion | What Michigan is about to lose ☞ https://bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-what-michigan-is-about-to-lose/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:31:13

• Stanford team takes home first prize at National Bioethics Bowl ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/04/24/stanford-team-takes-home-first-prize-at-national-bioethics-bowl/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:32:23

• South Korea says US alliance not in crisis despite Coupang-linked friction, media reports ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-says-us-alliance-not-in-crisis-despite-coupang-linked-friction-media-reports    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:32:48

• South Korea arrests man for spreading [Computer]-generated image of escaped wolf ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-korea-arrests-man-for-spreading-ai-generated-image-of-escaped-wolf    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:33:22

• "If you spend any time writing in Gemtext, you quickly run into a familiar limitation: there are no native tables. That's part of the charm - Gemtext is intentionally minimal - but it also means that anything resembling structured data needs a bit of creativity. One surprisingly effective workaround is to lean on Unicode box-drawing characters." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/SavaRocks/42065    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:41:30

• "The result isn't just functional - it's pleasantly retro, highly portable, and fits perfectly within the constraints of plain text. Below are a few examples you can copy, tweak, and reuse in your own Gemtext pages." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/gemtext-tables-no-html-required/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:42:25

• "Offpunk, the cli browser, is one of the reasons I enjoy exploring and writing on geminispace the way I do. In the past I often worked offline. Before mobile data plans became affordable enough to not care about data use I would often sit outside with my laptop, working on software projects or writings completely offline." gemini://sojuz.v-tr.org/mumble/offpunk-workflow.gmi    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:46:23

• "Weekly Echoes #16: IT news, round-up, week 16; from 13 to 19/04; year 2026" gemini://huc.fr.eu.org/en/news/week-16-2026.gmi    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:47:56

• Malaysia picks a former judge to lead its anti-graft agency ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-picks-high-court-judge-as-its-new-anti-graft-chief    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:49:28

• ‘Corporate mafia’: The scandal that Malaysia can no longer ignore ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/corporate-mafia-the-scandal-that-malaysia-can-no-longer-ignore    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:49:43

• China holds live-fire drills in waters near Luzon as US, the Philippines stage war games ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-holds-live-fire-drills-in-waters-near-philippines-luzon-island    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:50:35

• China bans dual-use item exports to seven European entities over Taiwan arms sales ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-bans-dual-use-items-exports-to-7-european-entities-over-taiwan-arms-sales    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:50:54

• ASEAN, China unlikely to finalize South China Sea Code of Conduct at upcoming summit ☞ https://rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2026/04/24/asean-south-china-sea-code-of-conduct-philippines/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:51:20

• Judge Tosses Smokey Robinson’s $500 Million Defamation Countersuit Against Jane Doe Accusers ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/23/smokey-robinson-defamation-suit-dismissed/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:52:05

• Judge Dismisses Diddy’s $100 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against NBC Over ‘Making of a Bad Boy’ Documentary ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/23/diddy-nbc-lawsuit-dismissed/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:52:33

• Universal Music and Sony Music Aggressively Push to Obtain Warner Music’s Suno Agreement Terms Amid Discovery Dispute — As Another ‘Rolling Cipher’ Decision Comes Down ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/24/suno-universal-music-lawsuit/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:53:41

• As ‘Michael’ Premieres, the Jackson Estate Moves to Compel Arbitration Against the Cascio Family Under 2020 Agreement ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/24/michael-jackson-estate-lawsuit-arbitration/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:54:14

• New Lawsuit Is Not Looking Good for MrBeast ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/new-lawsuit-harassment-not-good-mr-beast    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:54:37

• How a cavalcade of blunders gave unauthorized users access to Claude Mythos — restricted model accessed by third parties, thanks to knowledge from data breach ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/how-a-cavalcade-of-blunders-gave-unauthorized-users-access-to-claude-mythos-restricted-model-accessed-by-third-parties-thanks-to-knowledge-from-data-breach    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:55:26

• Baltic states, Poland seek more EU funding for eastern border security ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2908214/baltic-states-poland-seek-more-eu-funding-for-eastern-border-security    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:55:57

• Are Hong Kong’s new national security rules for restaurants clear enough? ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/25/are-hong-kongs-new-national-security-rules-for-restaurants-clear-enough/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:56:47

• Approval of President Sheinbaum holds strong in March with over 60% support ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/politics/president-sheinbaum-approval-march-2026/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:57:21

• NPM, so this is Microsoft distributing malware ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/bitwarden-npm-package-hit-in-supply-chain-attack/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:58:19

• Locked Shields 2026: 41 Nations Strengthen Cyber Resilience in World’s Biggest Exercise ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/locked-shields-2026-41-nations-strengthen-cyber-resilience-in-worlds-biggest-exercise/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:58:59

• Social Security plans ‘limited’ rollout of systems to manage its workload ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/it-modernization/2026/04/social-security-plans-limited-rollout-of-systems-to-manage-its-workload/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 16:59:37

• Speaking at Chennai FOSS: GUI Design, QT, SOK and a lot more ☞ https://sayandeep.bearblog.dev/speaking-at-chennai-foss-gui-design-qt-sok-and-a-lot-more/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:00:37

• Logisim updated ☞ https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Logisim    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:01:24

• Argon Industria HMI 5C – An industrial aluminum enclosure for the 5-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/24/argon-industria-hmi-5c-an-industrial-aluminum-enclosure-for-the-5-inch-raspberry-pi-touch-display-2/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:02:37

• LLM slop is not information or even "vibes" of news. It's something to be avoided, period.    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:05:52

• Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-ships-brave-adblock-engine/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:06:34

• One useful way to make important news: follow topics of interest, research them, report. NOT: see what "the Web" says, then be reactionary about it. The latter typically adds no real value.    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:11:01

• On RMS: Non sequitor. He was right about what companies would do if allowed, and that's the most important thing to keep in mind. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743559    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:12:06

• "Current big tech is based on Stallman-inspired people using their free time to make software. But they are putting MIT lisence because ”someone” had convinced them that GPL is not really free and not socially acceptable!"    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:12:52

• Axiomtek PICO570 – An defective chip maker Intel Core Ultra Meteor Lake Pico-ITX SBC with DDR5-5600 SO-DIMM memory, HDMI 2.1 up to 4Kp120 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/24/axiomtek-pico570-an-intel-core-ultra-meteor-lake-pico-itx-sbc-with-ddr5-5600-so-dimm-memory-hdmi-2-1-up-to-4kp120/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:16:27

• Amazon now does PR stunts with AWS to say "HEY HI" in relation to fake "deals" with money that does not exist. Anything for the bubble!    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:17:50

• China says US export bills risk disrupting chip supply chains ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-says-us-export-bills-risk-disrupting-chip-supply-chains    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:18:14

• Kash Patel Just Invited SPLC To Demonstrate Their Importance (and His Negligence) ☞ https://emptywheel.net/2026/04/24/kash-patel-just-invited-splc-to-demonstrate-their-importance-and-his-negligence/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:19:03

• Secondary ticketing market could con fans out of £24m this summer ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/secondary-ticketing-market-could-con-fans-out-of-24m-this-summer-ae0E26Y7vr2G    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:19:35

• GSC passes free speech and student dignity resolutions ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/04/24/gsc-passes-free-speech-and-student-dignity-resolutions/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:20:00

• Keynote speech by Commissioner Kubilius at the Conference "Strengthening Resilience of the EU Eastern Border" ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_26_870    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:20:38

• Michael Catanzaro: git config am.threeWay ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/04/24/git-config-am-threeway/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:21:23

• $8,000 for Gaea data storage patents prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/4/24/8000-for-gaea-data-storage-patents-prior-art    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:22:04

• Illegal and unconstitutional court where judges are Nokia staff. European corruption. ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/nokia-wins-anti-suit-injunction-against-geelys-interim-licence-application/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:23:01

• Qt No Contextless Connect ☞ https://blog.broulik.de/2026/04/qt-no-contextless-connect/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:23:47

• NL Giken video streaming patent monopoly challenge granted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/4/24/nl-giken-video-streaming-patent-challenge-granted    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:24:49

• From 200 lines to 15: How Helion is rewriting the rules of GPU programming ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/24/200-lines-15-how-helion-rewriting-rules-gpu-programming    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:26:27

• Tadej Janež: Modernize your Bash prompt colors ☞ https://tadej.ja.nez.si/bash-prompt-coloring.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:27:41

• Google Exec Says Your Favorite Video Games Are Secretly Made With Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-exec-video-games-secretly-ai    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:29:19

• In Other News: Unauthorized Mythos Access, Plankey CISA Nomination Ends, New Display Security Device ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-unauthorized-mythos-access-plankey-cisa-nomination-ends-new-display-security-device/   

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:29:53

• Turkey Passes Legislation to Bar Children Under 15 From Social Media ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/world/europe/turkey-ban-children-social-media.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:30:24

• Kenyan Court Strikes Down Ruling Protecting Right to Abortion ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/world/africa/kenya-court-abortion-ruling.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:30:52

• EPO Cocainegate Escalates - Part VI - The Strikes Go On and On (Major Strike Today) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/24/EPO_Cocainegate_Escalates_Part_VI_The_Strikes_Go_on_and_On.shtml    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:31:13

• 'I wasn't in politics before and I'm not going to be after': Macron to quit politics in 2027 ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260424-i-wasn-t-in-politics-before-and-i-m-not-going-to-be-after-macron-says-will-quit-politics-in-2027    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:31:49

• Vulnerabilities Patched in CrowdStrike, Tenable Products ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/vulnerabilities-patched-in-crowdstrike-tenable-products/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:32:22

• US Federal Agency’s Cisco Firewall Infected With ‘Firestarter’ Backdoor ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/us-federal-agencys-cisco-firewall-infected-with-firestarter-backdoor/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:32:50

• Pre-Stuxnet Sabotage Malware ‘Fast16’ Linked to US-Iran Cyber Tensions ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/pre-stuxnet-sabotage-malware-fast16-linked-to-us-iran-cyber-tensions/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:33:06

• Bedrock IP entity, Magma Scientific, deep neural network patent monopoly campaign - invalidity charts coming soon ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/4/24/bedrock-ip-entity-magma-scientific-deep-neural-network-patent-campaign-invalidity-charts-coming-soon    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:33:40

• “Approximating evidence via bounded harmonic means” is out! [in Statistics and Computing] ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/approximating-evidence-via-bounded-harmonic-means-is-out-in-statistics-and-computing/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:34:26

• The Insurrectionist’s Economic Warfare Abroad Comes Home ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/donald-trumps-economic-warfare-abroad-comes-home   

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:35:36

• No US-Iran peace talks in sight, but Islamabad maintains security lockdown ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/no-us-iran-peace-talks-in-sight-but-islamabad-maintains-security-lockdown    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:36:15

• From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social control media access ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/from-australia-to-europe-countries-move-to-curb-childrens-social-media-access1    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:37:09

• Convicted Felon's unconventional diplomacy on display ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260424-iran-peace-talks-trump-s-unconventional-diplomacy-on-display wrong focus. 1) this war is illegal! 2) war crimes committed. 3) pedophilia is illegal. Go back to the Epstein files he is distracting from.    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 17:40:26

• Canonical releases Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with a focus on enterprise https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/140780/canonical-releases-ubuntu-26-04-lts-with-a-focus-on-enterprise/   

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:04:47

• Framework 13 Pro sells out through August as Ubuntu sales lead Windows https://www.tweaktown.com/news/111263/framework-13-pro-sells-out-through-august-as-ubuntu-sales-lead-windows/index.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:05:32

• Canonical Launches Ubuntu 26.04 LTS "Resolute Raccoon," Its Latest Long-Term Support Linux Distro https://www.hackster.io/news/canonical-launches-ubuntu-26-04-lts-resolute-raccoon-its-latest-long-term-support-linux-distro-60bb7ff5e086    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:06:20

• This seems like slop https://letsdatascience.com/news/ubuntu-resolute-raccoon-drops-xorg-keeps-x11-apps-d88e821a    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:07:45

• "Ubuntu 26.04 also brings native support for AI/ML toolkits such as NVIDIA CUDA and AMD ROCm." https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/24/ubuntu-26-04-lts-resolute-raccoon-released-with-linux-7-0/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:08:19

• "App replacements aside, there are quite a few interface upgrades worth knowing about too!" https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-26-04-lts/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:08:49

• Ubuntu is winning against Windows as Framework's bestselling laptop https://www.xda-developers.com/ubuntu-is-winning-against-windows-as-frameworks-bestselling-laptop/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:09:20

• Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon secures your future with powerful AI and memory safety https://www.technetbooks.com/2026/04/ubuntu-2604-lts-resolute-raccoon.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:12:04

• Maybe it really is the year of Linux, as Framework claims more people are buying Ubuntu versions of its new laptop than Windows options https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-laptops/maybe-it-really-is-the-year-of-linux-as-framework-claims-more-people-are-buying-ubuntu-versions-of-its-new-laptop-than-windows-options/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:12:27

• Framework’s new Linux laptop is selling faster than its Windows one https://www.pcworld.com/article/3123900/framework-new-linux-laptop-is-selling-faster-than-its-windows-one.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:14:35

• "This release also brings new features like an HSI check for the AMD SB-7033 (a.k.a. EntrySign) security vulnerability." https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-2-1-2-linux-firmware-updater-adds-support-for-new-devices    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:15:01

• "This release ships with the latest Tor Browser 15.0.10 anonymous web browser and makes the /root folder only readable by the root user." https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-7-anonymous-distro-adds-detection-of-outdated-secure-boot-certificates    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:15:29

• IBMisms https://itsfoss.com/news/kubuntu-26-04-lts/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:15:55

• An attack on the GPL and many other things https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-Coreutils-Audit comments say it all https://www.phoronix.com/forums/node/1629059    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:16:40

• "The lightweight Ubuntu flavor hits the 30 release mark with a refreshed app stack and Wayland support still in the works." https://itsfoss.com/news/lubuntu-26-04-lts/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:17:19

• Framework says it’s selling more Linux laptops than Windows as new Laptop 13 Pro sells out first 7 batches https://www.pcguide.com/news/framework-says-its-selling-more-linux-laptops-than-windows-as-new-laptop-13-pro-sells-out-first-7-batches/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:17:43

• Framework: Our Linux Laptop 13 Pro Is Outselling the Windows Model https://au.pcmag.com/linux/117293/framework-our-linux-laptop-13-pro-is-outselling-the-windows-model    

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

• Framework: Our Linux Laptop 13 Pro Is Outselling the Windows Model https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/framework-linux-laptop-13-pro-200810333.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:19:35

• Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon is now available with Linux 7.0 and native CUDA https://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-2604-lts-resolute-raccoon-is-now-available-with-linux-70-and-native-cuda/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:20:03

• "Should you skip this new release or jump on the bandwagon and upgrade to 26.04? Let me help you with that." https://itsfoss.com/opinion/ubuntu-26-04-upgrade-or-not/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:20:33

• "further decade of security updates is available via Canonical's "Ubuntu Pro" service, which became free for up to five machines in 2022." https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/24/ubuntu_resolute_raccoon/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:21:17

• Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" Launches With Gnome 50 and Linux 7.0 https://www.techpowerup.com/348494/ubuntu-26-04-resolute-raccoon-launches-with-gnome-50-and-linux-7-0    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:21:52

• Framework: Our Linux Laptop 13 Pro Is Outselling the Windows Model https://uk.pcmag.com/linux/164580/framework-our-linux-laptop-13-pro-is-outselling-the-windows-model    

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

• Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux Brings Your Linux Software to Microsoft's Peak-'90s Operating Systems https://www.hackster.io/news/windows-9x-subsystem-for-linux-brings-your-linux-software-to-microsoft-s-peak-90s-operating-systems-cc9160604082    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:29:58

• You can now run Linux on your ancient Windows 95 desktop with a new tool — very old Windows PCs, back to Intel 486, can cooperatively run very modern Linux kernels with WSL9x https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/now-run-linux-ancient-windows-122839785.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:30:31

• System76 Pangolin Pro is a 3.6 pound Linux laptop with a 16 inch screen and Ryzen AI 7 350 https://liliputing.com/system76-pangolin-pro-is-a-3-6-pound-linux-laptop-with-a-16-inch-screen-and-ryzen-ai-7-350/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:32:14

• "Here's how it looks with the horizontal setting in Death Stranding 2 on Linux: [...]" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/mangohud-0-8-3-brings-new-features-and-fixes-to-the-popular-linux-gaming-performance-monitor/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:33:50

• Linux may drop legacy network drivers amid surge in AI-generated bug reports https://www.techspot.com/news/112166-linux-may-drop-legacy-network-drivers-amid-surge.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:34:31

• Quality thrown out the window https://www.xda-developers.com/ai-coding-is-now-a-core-part-of-linuxs-development-but-im-not-worried/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:35:20

• Microsoft paid for this https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/24/ancient_linux_drivers_going/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:36:27

• thankfully Liam Proven deliberately avoids using the term "AI"    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:37:35

• Framework Laptop 13 Pro is the repairable MacBook Pro killer Linux users have been waiting for https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/framework-laptop-13-pro-repairable-181600575.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:38:34

• Linux and Windows 95 running side by side? This dev made it happen. https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/linux-windows-95-running-side-170350478.html    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:39:28

• "Linux Mint is a great place to start—but at some point, it stops being enough. Maybe you want newer packages, or maybe you want more control over your system." https://www.howtogeek.com/distros-perfect-for-intermediate-users/   

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:41:12

• 3 essential Linux apps to try this weekend (April 17 - 19) https://www.howtogeek.com/essential-linux-apps-to-try-april-third-weekend/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:44:13

• "A new vulnerability dubbed Pack2TheRoot could be exploited in the PackageKit daemon to allow local Linux users to install or remove system packages and gain root permissions." https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-pack2theroot-flaw-gives-hackers-root-linux-access/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:45:01

• Linux enthusiasts swear by these old business laptops (and you should too) https://www.howtogeek.com/stop-buying-new-laptops-why-linux-users-are-hunting-thinkpads-instead/p; 

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:45:41

• AxCrypt expands to Linux, bringing trusted encryption to the open-source ecosystem https://www.openpr.com/news/4487033/axcrypt-expands-to-linux-bringing-trusted-encryption-to    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:46:32

• Many people claim to be experts in things they are not. They have no qualifications or track record. They are imposters. The only thing they are good at is viciously attacking those who dare point out they're imposters, as they're seen as "threat".    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:47:32

• Apropos https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/07/Microsofters_SLAPP_Censorship_Part_5_Out_of_200_Clearly_Not_a_S.shtml    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:47:57

• "I hope you can forget what happened to you. It should not occupy your mind, but that of the rapist." Referring to M Garrett as "the rapist" hours ago. https://x.com/isislovecruft/status/2047935648460677396    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:49:41

• Android's Linux Terminal now lets you max out performance, but at a cost https://www.androidauthority.com/androids-linux-terminal-performance-vs-quality-3660716/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:50:17

• CachyOS is great, but you should also try these 4 other gaming-focused Linux distros https://www.makeuseof.com/you-should-also-try-these-4-other-gaming-focused-linux-distros/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:50:44

• "Recent Android Canary releases brought along a modern UI to Android’s Linux Terminal app. Google is extending the blessings to Android 17 QPR1 Beta 1, released this week, as it brings theme support for the Terminal app." https://www.androidauthority.com/android-17-linux-terminal-themes-3660672/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:51:43

• A Linux-Like OS for the Arduino UNO - Hackster.io ⚓ https://www.hackster.io/news/a-linux-like-os-for-the-arduino-uno-c61fafab248b ䷉ Source: Hackster | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.hackster.io/news/a-linux-like-os-for-the-arduino-uno-c61fafab248b    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:53:51

• Slop companies paid LF to participate in what now culls a lot of Linux. Microsoft led those companies. https://www.opensourceforu.com/2026/04/linux-maintainers-target-old-drivers-as-ai-reports-rise/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:54:44

• Opera GX finally on Flathub and Snap Store - Linux just got easier https://ppc.land/opera-gx-finally-on-flathub-and-snap-store-linux-just-got-easier/    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 18:55:33

• Links 25/04/2026: Nokia Wins Embargo in Kangaroo Court Where Judges Are Salaried Nokia Staff (UPC), Allison Pearson Defamation Case (UK) Succeeds, Smokey Robinson and "Puff Daddy" (US) Fail https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/25/Links_25_04_2026_Nokia_Wins_Embargo_in_Kangaroo_Court_Where_Jud.shtml    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 19:35:36

• "A single witness shall not rise up against a person regarding any wrongdoing or any sin that he commits; on the testimony of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed." (Deuteronomy 19-21) https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/25/A_single_witness_shall_not_rise_up_against_a_person_regarding_a.shtml    

posted Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 21:46:17

• &n &n &n & &n     &   &nbs & & &nbs & & #replies &nbs &nbs & &n &nbs