Roy Schestowitz

• "Finland lägre ner än någonsin på färsk lista om pressfrihet i världen" https://yle.fi/a/7-10097690    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:38:54

• "DNS4EU, an EU-funded initiative that aims to offer a secure and privacy-focused DNS resolver for Europeans, is the latest intermediary to get caught up in the French anti-piracy crackdown." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/eu-funded-dns-provider-must-block-pirate-sites-french-court-rules/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:39:46

• "In other words, the vision here is of a potentially unlimited number of AI agents hunting down alleged copyright infringement across the Internet" ☛ https://walledculture.org/welcome-to-the-future-where-ai-agents-hunt-down-alleged-online-copyright-infringement/ | Source: Walled Culture    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:39:59

• "Owners of the estates of former Jimi Hendrix bandmates, bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, filed a lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment UK (SMEUK)." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/28/jimi-hendrix-bandmates-copyright-shares/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:40:19

• "The applications were filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office on Friday and list Swift’s TAS Rights Management as being the owner of the audio clips and image." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/taylor-swift-trademarks-her-voice-to-fight-ai-fakes/280695/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:41:35

• "Something is happening with data usage. Some of the data that might previously have gone through local providers now appears to be happening on Starlink." ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/04/starlink-vs-fibre-zimbabwe-data/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:41:59

• "Over 25 years of coordinating Pacific telecommunications, Fred Christopher has seen the region repeatedly pull together around common goals with broad benefits." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/04/29/pacific-routing-security-sets-a-deadline/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:42:15

• "It’s exactly those edge cases of [...]" ☛ https://blog.avas.space/misogyny/ | Source: Ava    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:42:55

• "SLSCO, a Texas company based in Galveston, has a $95 million contract to build a 1.3-mile wall on Mount Cristo Rey and two other barriers near El Paso." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/palabra/2026/04/blasting-begins-for-border-wall-on-cherished-new-mexico-mountain.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:43:08

• "Oops, my bad. Australia has a specialised federally funded office that investigates war crimes committed by Australians abroad." ☛ https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/05/once-a-jolly-jihadist/ | Source: Spectator AU    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:43:20

• "The U.K. tobacco and vapes bill, proposed almost 18 months ago, is set to receive royal assent this week and will come into effect on Jan. 1, 2027." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tobacco-generation-smoking-ban-uk-canada-9.7180845 | Source: CBC    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:43:34

• "Sayed Baqer Al-Kamel’s 10-year sentence and confiscation of his equipment for documenting events" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/04/bahrain-sentences-photographer-sayed-baqer-al-kamel-to-10-years-in-prison/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:44:03

• "The Correspondents’ Dinner has been criticized for exactly this kind of chummy fraternization for years." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/white-house-correspondents-dinner-media-war-story-1235554388/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:44:20

• "In September, FCC Chair Brendan Carr dangled a simple threat: Either ABC would “take action” against Jimmy Kimmel, or there would be consequences." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/04/trump-fcc-attack-abc-kimmel/687002/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:48:41

• "Despite the dramatic arrest, she was ultimately cleared of producing pornographic material." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bonnie-blue-public-decency-case-dropped-1794396 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:49:01

• "Ever since, Carr and Trump have been desperately trying to "investigate" ABC in all manner of empty ways in the hopes of forcing Kimmel's ouster." ☛ https://karlbode.com/mickey-mouse-versus-the-fascists/ | Source: Karl Bode    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:49:39

• "Desert Warrior, a Saudi-backed movie that reportedly cost about $150 million to make, only brought in $472,000 in its opening weekend." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/04/29/2026/saudi-backed-epic-flops-at-box-office-in-the-us | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:58:17

• "Earlier this month, Helsingin Sanomat reported that Helsinki had paid more than 45,000 euros in employment subsidies to Sun Ray" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20223377 | Source: Yle    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:58:31

• Further Microsoft-IBM ties: https://itsfoss.com/news/azure-linux-fedora-rebase-speculation/ Microsoft will certainly plan further infiltration upstream, more than already -iophk    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:59:03

• Techrights covered the Fedora-Microsoft thing some days ago    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 05:59:34

• "Radio Free Asia (RFA), a private nonprofit, today announced the additions of Olivia Enos and Mira Rapp-Hooper to its corporate board of directors." ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/releases/2026/04/29/olivia-enos-and-mira-rapp-hooper-join-rfas-board-of-directors/ | Source: RFA    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:05:48

• "As part of this process, the Commission launched a call for evidence to gather feedback from stakeholders." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-responds-to-european-commissions-consultation-call-on-the-digital-omnibus/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:06:06

• "Information technology spending is not explicitly authorized" ☛ https://www.minnpost.com/state-government/2026/04/yes-it-systems-for-delivering-public-benefits-are-outdated-but-can-the-legislature-agree-on-a-fix/ | Source: MinnPost    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:06:26

• "LibAFL is all the rage in the fuzzing community these days, especially with LLVM’s libFuzzer being placed in maintenance mode." ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/04/29/extending-ruzzy-with-libafl/ | Source: Trail of Bits    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:06:43

• "Immediately afterward, Savitt baited him into being petty, irritating, and generally hard to deal with." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/921022/elon-musk-cross-openai-altman | Source: The Verge    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:07:23

• "researcher Ilya Sutskever discussing the formation" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/model-behavior-elon-musk-cross-examined-sam-altman/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:08:12

• "California’s BASED Act Defeated" ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/04/29/californias-based-act-defeated/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:08:43

• [Old] "Federal law has proven incapable of reining in most anticompetitive behavior in the technology industry." ☛ https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-wiener-announces-landmark-legislation-crack-down-big-techs-anticompetitive-behavior |    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:09:06

• "The tech giants are frequently the target of legislators and regulators, trying to prevent them from being too dominant." ☛ https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/04/27/apples-massive-lobbying-effort-saves-it-from-new-app-store-rules | Source: AppleInsider    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:09:22

• "This is not the move of a romantic." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/i-dont-believe-him | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:09:56

• "This is not the first time I’ve seen Musk in court. During his defamation suit, he turned on the charm and the jury responded by finding him not guilty." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/920191/elon-musk-sam-altman-trial-day-one | Source: The Verge    

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

• "In addition, this move signals a broader inflection point in how enterprise software is built." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/anaconda-ai-outerbounds-python-metaflow/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:10:59

• "If you write systems code in Rust, this is the most concentrated look at where Rust’s safety ends that you’ll likely find anywhere right now." ☛ https://corrode.dev/blog/bugs-rust-wont-catch/ | Source: Corrode.dev    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:11:34

• "The review should also assess whether there is a need to take further measures to ensure the effectiveness of the Digital Markets Act." ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14831-Review-of-the-Digital-Markets-Act_en | Source: European Commission    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:11:48

• "Compared with a lot of credit cards today, this really feels like a time capsule" ☛ https://schwarztech.net/articles/the-1994-apple-card | Source: SchwarzTech    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:13:00

• "Public interest media has a stronger funding stack: donors and foundations with fixed theses." ☛ https://werd.io/building-with-love-and-paying-for-it/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:13:24

• On IBM CEO: "Well, he’s probably moving closer to Armonk. This is a long commute in traffic. That’s also an ugly house in a not a great town. $2.3 millions is not a lot of money for his salary." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kq9y3dtj    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:15:59

• Using LLMs to find Python C-extension bugs https://lwn.net/Articles/1067234/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:18:29

• The 7.0 scheduler regression that wasn't [LWN] ⚓ https://lwn.net/Articles/1067029/ ䷉ Source: LWN | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//lwn.net/Articles/1067029/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:19:11

• "For the average rider, inner tubes have been one of the most enduring and unchanging parts of bicycle design over the decades." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/04/29/bicycle-tubes-arent-just-made-of-rubber-anymore/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:23:00

• "The University of Utah is preparing an unusual nuclear experiment this summer." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/utah-triga-reactor-ai-power-test | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:23:14

• "Drivers appear ignorant of the concept of physical space." ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2026/04/28/cars-are-objects-streets-are-places-but-in-my-kansas-hometown-drivers-forget-these-simple-facts/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:23:39

• "The law was initially passed by lawmakers and signed as HB381, requiring riders of e-bikes and e-motorcycles under the age of 21 to wear a helmet while traveling on public roads." ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51490633/police-enforce-new-e-bike-regulations-as-new-utah-law-takes-effect-may-6 | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:25:40

• "The Public Service Commission (PSC) of Wisconsin has approved significant modifications to a proposed data center tariff from We Energies (Wisconsin Electrical Power Company, part of WEC Energy Group)." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/wi-vote-signals-new-data-center-regulatory-model/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:30:48

• "This week, the database giant announced an expanded collaboration with Bloom Energy to deploy 2.45 gigawatts — the equivalent of two or three nuclear reactors — of fuel cell generators alongside the datacenter complex." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/28/oracle_new_mexico_power_fuel_cell_farm/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:34:11

• "In the report, Brazil is the sole country-level case study explored in detail" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-world-is-getting-too-hot-to-feed-itself/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:34:28

• "Under the existing system, a developer must show that water will be available for at least 100 years for a specific project." ☛ https://www.western-water.com/2026/04/28/arizona-court-halts-key-groundwater-rule-on-housing-projects/ | Source: Western Water    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:36:19

• "At least 95 percent of Europe had above-average annual temperatures in 2025, according to the report." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/world/europe/europe-climate-2025-report.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:36:52

• "EU standards were mostly met in most regions across Europe for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and for nitrogen dioxide (NO2)" ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/environment/20260429-europe-air-quality-improves-falls-short-eu-2030-targets-eea-report | Source: France24    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:37:24

• "But considering the company’s latest gaffe, Scam Altman appears to have failed to ponder the orb long enough." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/sam-altman-caught-lie-bruno-mars | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:38:37

• "That is obviously in direct contradiction to what you said from the Pentagon podium the next day." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/hegseth-dismisses-testimony-of-us-soldiers-who-said-they-were-put-in-danger/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:38:53

• "Communities are being called on to reduce indoor and outdoor water use by 10% to help protect the current water supply" ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51490295/midvale-among-utah-cities-urging-water-conservation-increased-fees-added-for-heavy-users | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:41:31

• "Up to 60–70% of wells may miss 2040 goals under higher use." ☛ https://www.western-water.com/2026/04/28/california-groundwater-goals-at-risk-study-finds/ | Source: Western Water    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:41:45

• "Few details have been released so far about the man detained over the stabbing in Golders Green, which is usual for this early in an investigation." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3ve2nr60xzt    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 06:55:54

• "Finnish President Alexander Stubb told ERR in an interview that Finland was too lenient toward Russia before 2022." ☛ https://news.err.ee/1610009929/finnish-president-stubb-we-were-too-soft-on-russia-before-2022 | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:00:52

• "Hurst did not detail what that cost estimate included and whether it took into account the projected costs of rebuilding and repairing base infrastructure" ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-iran-israel-war-us-has-spent-25-billion-so-far-in-war-with-iran-pentagon-official-11428006 | Source: NDTV    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:01:06

• "The protection of young people from online harms remains high on the political agenda" ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/youth-organisations-demand-social-media-change-not-bans/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:02:33

• "Scam Altman Apologizes" ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/04/sam-altman-apologizes-to-british-columbia-community-wonders-who-could-have-stopped-such-violence/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:03:02

• "[...] Among her conclusions: totalitarianism must be named as such as soon as it appears, as soon as our dreams know of it." ☛ https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/third-reich-of-dreams | Source: Mandy Brown    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:03:23

• 'We will kill you and burn your house': Council staff under attack from High Street gangs https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxplq92rx1o    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:15:25

• "So on Friday, April 17, RDI kicked off our semiquincentennial celebration at our fourth annual Heroes of Democracy Gala in New York City." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/no-one-fights-alone | Source: The Next Move    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:15:51

• "Officials revealed in 2024 that they had prevented the attack" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-vienna-shows-man-pleads-guilty-terror-attack-1235554666/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:16:06

• "U.S. states issued $3.45 billion in privacy-related fines to companies in 2025, a total larger than the last five years combined, according to research and advisory firm Gartner." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/privacy-companies-hit-with-record-fines-2025-gartner/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:18:05

• "Our research is cited in a detailed report by Khari Johnson and Wendy Fry of CalMatters (syndicated statewide)" ☛ https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/04/29/uploading-california-drivers-license-data-to-the-spexs-national-id-database/ | Source: Papers Please    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:21:17

• "Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert recently spoke with NPR’s Rob Schmitz on All Things Considered about the Lab’s new investigation of Webloc, a geolocation surveillance system that uses ad-based data to monitor people across the globe." ☛ https://citizenlab.ca/a-new-study-shows-how-ad-based-technology-is-used-for-surveillance/ | Source: Citizen Lab    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:21:29

• "Spyware, an extremely potent technology that turns a personal device into a constant surveillance instrument, was used by the Greek secret services to target dozens of people, including journalists, politicians and business executives." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/its-not-just-spyware-scandals-eu-is-funding-the-industry-that-spies-on-europeans/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:31:45

• "EDRi members and ethical hackers from the German nonprofit Chaos Computer Club were the first to draw attention to this breach." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/czech-big-brother-awards-2025-volkswagen-meta-and-the-czech-authorities-noted-as-snoopers-of-the-year/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:32:10

• "The system was presented by authorities as a tool to increase efficiency in identity checks, particularly by avoiding the need to transfer individuals without documents to police stations." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/greeces-ai-smart-policing-system-ruled-unlawful-after-e4-million-public-spending/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:32:28

• "There’s a specter haunting the United States." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-cameras-surveillance-usa | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:32:49

• "When signatures are part of a build artifact, reproducible builds get tricky." ☛ https://katexochen.aro.bz/posts/reproducible-secure-signatures/ |    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:33:48

• "All desktop versions of Scratch available on https://scratch.mit.edu/download or https://www.scratchfoundation.org/tools are vulnerable" ☛ https://muffin.ink/blog/scratch-vulnerability-disclosure/ | Source: Thomas Weber    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:34:02

• Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub): "GitHub is racing towards the mythical zero nines of uptime. Users are starting to notice that GitHub is now a Microsoft product. Eww!" ☛ https://dbushell.com/2026/04/29/github-is-sinking/ | Source: David Bushell    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:35:48

• Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub): "Code collaboration has always made use of two protocols, one for code transfer and one for communication: [...]" ☛ https://blog.tangled.org/federation/ | Source: Tangled Labs Oy    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:36:18

• Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub): "Get off Github" ☛ https://blog.hellbeast.eu.org/Github%20banned%20me%20for%20no%20understandable%20reason |    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:36:35

• Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub): "AI. AI AI AI. Artificial "Intelligence". Large Language Models. Well, they sure are large, I'll give them that." ☛ https://lonami.dev/blog/ditching-github/ |    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:36:51

• "Jackson officials filed a motion in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi" ☛ https://www.mississippifreepress.org/jackson-asks-court-to-halt-water-system-takeover-that-would-leave-city-without-majority-control/ | Source: Mississippi Journalism and Education Group    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:43:20

• Windows TCO: "Once the attacker gets inside, they do not always need to bring a big toolbox with them. They can use the tools we already gave them." ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/living-off-the-land-attacks-are-a-reminder-that-trust-is-an-attack-surface/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:44:45

• Windows TCO: "My line of defense until now had been to block: [...]" ☛ https://vulpinecitrus.info/blog/one-in-every-2000-ipv4-visualizing-ddos-ai-web-scrapers/ |    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:44:59

• "Earlier today I had the opportunity to attend FediForum and talk about Mycelium during one of the sessions" ☛ https://lqdev.me/posts/mycelium-fediforum-ai-agents-open-social-infrastructure-04-2026/ | Source: Luis Quintanilla    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:45:23

• "The EU said on Wednesday Meta is failing to prevent children under 13 using Facebook and Instagram" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/eu-finds-meta-failing-to-keep-under-13s-off-facebook-instagram/articleshow/130601862.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:45:40

• "Criminal gangs [sic] active in Sweden increasingly use social media to recruit people to commit murders and other violent acts amid a surge in "crime as a service"" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/sweden-to-fine-social-media-sites-over-murder-adverts/articleshow/130610912.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:45:55

• "We are living through something unprecedented in the history of human perception." ☛ https://aestheticsofphotography.com/collapse-of-photographic-truth-in-the-age-of-ai/ | Source: Aesthetics of Photography    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:47:58

• "Tokenmaxxing is not The Way. Plainly, it’s a textbook instance of Goodharting. Token leaderboards come from an understandable short-term instinct to shift habits" ☛ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2026/04/29/Tokenmaxxing-is-Goodharting/ | Source: Ben Congdon    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:48:23

• "In this case, the robot arm reacts to seeing a person’s face by picking up a pen and handing it to them." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/04/29/a-robot-arm-that-recognizes-your-face/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:48:58

• "I’m now on the handmade, artisanal, craftsperson end of the spectrum." ☛ https://nazhamid.com/journal/the-drawing-hand/ | Source: Naz Hamid    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:49:26

• "The reality differs." ☛ https://www.provos.org/p/finding-zero-days-with-any-model/ | Source: Niels Provos    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:49:44

• "There is a persistent belief in the ‘AI’ community that large language models (LLMs) have the ability to learn and self-improve by tweaking the weights in their vector space." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/04/29/why-model-collapse-in-llms-is-inevitable-with-self-learning/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:50:07

• "Unlike search engines that let you judge competing sources, search-backed AI chatbots can turn shaky web material into confident answers." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/poisoning_large_language_models_6nimmt/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:50:33

• "The truth is, these mainstream AI products are getting subsidized, and users are addicted to the subsidy." ☛ https://tedium.co/2026/04/28/openai-anthropic-ai-tools-expensive-alternatives/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:50:53

• "The Advisory Forum is a new body that will advise the AI Office and AI Board on how the EU AI Act is implemented and applied." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-ai-office-must-prioritise-setting-up-the-advisory-forum/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:51:19

• "In the current research ecosystem, AI is no longer limited to technical assistance." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/29/guest-post-when-thinking-is-outsourced-a-warning-from-a-scientist-trained-before-ai/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:51:47

• "That suggestion is bizarre, though, because the reality is that OpenAI’s flagship chatbot has already been linked to a wide range of real-world violence." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-just-published-an-absolutely-bizarre-blog-post | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:52:05

• "AI companies have swept customers onto the bandwagon by offering cheap and even free access to their AI models. But the bill is finally coming due, and the results could be ugly." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/dark-cloud-bill-comes-due-ai-industry | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:53:22

• "It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company’s entire production database and its backups, according to its founder." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/claude-ai-deletes-firm-database | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:56:51

• "You may remember the story about the bug in Apple’s on-device notifications database that allowed the FBI to retrieve the content of Signal messages." ☛ https://werd.io/that-terrible-signal-exploit-has-been-fixed-we-have-journalism-to-thank-for-it/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:57:31

• "I don't have any Windows PCs I need to remote control, but my Dad does, because he has a bunch of broadcast software that only runs in Windows." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/raspberry-pi-connect-may-control-windows-soon/ | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 07:57:50

• "That preference ran into a wall when we installed a HomePod. Since Siri doesn’t support Catalan, my wife and I settled on Spanish as the household language for it." ☛ https://jeroensangers.com/2026/04/28/the-day-siri-stopped-arguing.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 08:07:58

• "But first, it is my fault as a writer that it seems I did not differentiate clearly enough the two related issues I have experienced with iCloud Photos." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/blog/icloud-photos-followup/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 08:08:13

• "In theory, there’s no way to simply replace RAM with something else." ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/3121948/apple-ram-crisis-silicon-unified-memory-macbook-neo.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 08:08:24

• "The U.S. Department of Justice intervened in the case in favor of Monsanto" ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2026/04/27/repub/us-supreme-court-hears-arguments-on-cancer-warning-labels-for-roundup-weedkiller/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 08:12:24

• "All modern terminals are (roughly) emulations of a single terminal released in 1978: the Digital Equipment Corporation VT-100." ☛ https://nikhiljha.com/posts/vt100/ |    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 08:13:24

• "Pagers used to be all the rage in the late 80s, 90s and early 2000s." ☛ https://vulpinecitrus.info/blog/rf-pocsag-alphapage-gnuradio/ |    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 08:13:38

• "The Ware for March 2026 is a Elecom DST C30SV 6 in 1 USB “docking station”." ☛ https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2026/winner-name-that-ware-march-2026/ | Source: Bunnie Huang    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 08:35:46

• "Since chip reading isn’t a widely spread skill, we’ll start with a gentle introduction." ☛ https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2026/name-that-ware-april-2026/ | Source: Bunnie Huang    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 08:35:58

• "My Titan is a Linux-only system designed for serious work and gaming." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/slimbook-titan-report-9.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 08:42:41

• "You may not know what a ADM-3, a TV910, or a H1420 are, but you probably have at least heard of a VT-100." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/04/29/using-a-vt-100-today/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 08:43:21

• "To keep this sustainable I’m doing it under a company: en.dev. Right now that means one person — me — working full time on mise and the rest of the portfolio" ☛ https://jdx.dev/posts/2026-04-17-going-full-time-on-open-source/ |    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 08:44:43

• "Have you noticed that bomb disposal people are always "experts"? We never hear on the news about a suspicious device being dealt with by bomb disposal enthusiasts, amateurs from the part-time TA weekenders B-team." ☛ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/moralcompetence/ | Source: The Cyber Show    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:16:11

• "With the rapid advancement and uncertainty of AI, we are constantly worried about our jobs and the possibility of being replaced by new technology." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/28/guest-post-develop-to-delegate-how-investing-in-early-career-professionals-strengthens-organizations/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:16:25

• "In 2006, the International Astronomical Union formally defined what a planet was using three primary criteria: a planet must orbit the Sun" ☛ https://futurism.com/space/head-nasa-pluto-planet | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:17:25

• "Alright, we’ve done molecular dynamic simulation and then the post-processing part where we used PBSA/GBSA." ☛ https://www.kenkoonwong.com/blog/qc1/ | Source: Ken Koon Wong    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:17:37

• "The early movie industry found out, that 24 images per second is just barely enough to trick the human brain into perceiving continuous motion." ☛ https://hooby.blog/posts/how-many-frames-per-second-do-you-need/ |    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:22:41

• "we can see the whole of the universe, up to quantum fluctuations, by stepping our perfect simulator forward in time. There are no decisions to be made, merely consequences to be observed." ☛ https://danmackinlay.name/notebook/agency_bounded_compute.html | Source: Dan MacKinlay    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:22:55

• "I know there are a couple of friends who read what I write regularly, and I'm not sure how they came across my blog - like I said, I don't advertise it." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/who-knows-that-you-blog | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:23:10

• "That unlocks the first creative act of the day, and the rest flow as easily as the walk itself." ☛ https://lithub.com/craig-mod-on-the-creative-power-of-walking/ | Source: Literary Hub    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:24:23

• "The IHR BGP monitoring tool is a simple web-based application that leverages the RIS Live and BGPlay APIs to monitor your prefixes and their RPKI status." ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/romain_fontugne/from-bgp-data-to-insight-simplifying-real-time-routing-analysis/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:28:16

• "To the people of medieval Europe, Vikings and Byzantines seemed profoundly different." ☛ https://www.medievalists.net/2026/04/byzantine-viking-varangian-guard/ | Source: Medievalists.net    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:28:34

• "Developed by Australian programmer Damien George, MicroPython is a version of Python 3 for microcontrollers." ☛ https://blog.pimoroni.com/grab-a-micropython-birthday-discount/ | Source: Pimoroni    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:29:20

• "R’s dplyr pipelines are silent. logrittr fills that gap with %>=%, a drop-in pipe that logs row counts, column counts, added/dropped columns" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/logrittr-a-verbose-pipe-operator-for-logging-dplyr-pipelines-2/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:29:49

• "So I'd like to begin with a big thank you to the Vienna team: [...]" ☛ https://blogs.perl.org/users/book/2026/04/welcome-to-the-perl-toolchain-summit-2026.html | Source: Perl    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:30:21

• "Technical debt should excite you." ☛ https://blog.happyfellow.dev/the-subprime-technical-debt-crisis/ | Source: One Happy Fellow    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:30:54

• "I discussed the conundrum with a friend of mine, and was told to put my money where my mouth is, and just go with carrot disclosure that I usually advocate for in this kind of situation: [...]" ☛ https://dustri.org/b/carrot-disclosure-forgejo.html | Source: Julien Voisin    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:31:17

• [Old] "Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-Month." ☛ https://archive.org/details/MythicalManMonth | Source: Internet Archive    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:31:42

• [Old] "Put another way, a reduction of 2.7 seconds in system response saves 10.3 seconds of the user's time (Figure 3). This seemingly insignificant time saving is the springboard for sizable increases in productivity." ☛ https://jlelliotton.blogspot.com/p/the-economic-value-of-rapid-response.html |    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:32:21

• "Two exploratory experiments were conducted at Systems Development Corporation to compare debugging performance of programmers working under conditions of online and offline access to a computer" ☛ https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~weimerw/2018-481/readings/productivity-performance.pdf | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:32:46

• "There is a persistent tension in software engineering between the beautiful, mathematically pure ideal of a program, and the messy, pragmatic reality of just getting things done." ☛ https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/why-i-still-reach-for-scheme-instead-of-haskell/index.html |    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:33:04

• "Just testing out the forgejo instance I set up." ☛ https://akselmo.dev/posts/set-up-my-own-forgejo-instance/ | Source: Akseli Lahtinen    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:33:27

• "For example, when we clone a repository, a remote named origin is automatically created and its URL is set to the location of the upstream repository." ☛ https://susam.net/multiple-urls-in-git-remote.html | Source: SusamPal    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:33:42

• "C++ is accelerating, and C++26 is built for what developers need now." ☛ https://herbsutter.com/2026/04/29/london-meetup/ | Source: Herb Sutter    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:34:03

• "Create a file with name hello.c and write the following code." ☛ https://chauhankiran.blogspot.com/2026/03/til-puts-is-faster-than-printf.html | Source: Kiran Chauhan    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:34:17

• "During my tenure at the Zig Software Foundation I’m having the opportunity to learn many interesting things about software." ☛ https://kristoff.it/blog/contributor-poker-and-ai/ | Source: Loris Cro    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:34:32

• "Let’s continue our exploration of C++26 improvements. Today we focus on string_view." ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/04/29/cpp26-string-string_view-improvements | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:34:48

• "Usually exploits like CopyFail tend to have PoCs or exploits that are architecture-specific." ☛ https://www.talospace.com/2026/04/copyfail-works-on-ppc64le.html | Source: Talospace    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:35:02

• "Most people think an email address is just a username and a domain. It is a lot more than that." ☛ https://lasans.blog/articles/misc/email-addresses-deep-dive/ |    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:42:05

• "This means that all new laptops sold in the European Union are now required by law to feature at least one USB-C port for charging." ☛ https://www.gsmarena.com/laptops_sold_in_the_eu_now_required_to_ship_with_usbc_charging-news-72609.php | Source: GSM Arena    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:42:20

• "Two amendments of the Radio Equipment Directive 2014/53/EU introduce the ‘common charging’ solution: [...]" ☛ https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/sectors/electrical-and-electronic-engineering-industries-eei/radio-equipment-directive-red/one-common-charging-solution-all_en |    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:42:42

• "The EU said that discarded and unused chargers accounted for about 11,000 tonnes of e-waste annually." ☛ https://www.rte.ie/news/europe/2026/0428/1570471-eu-common-charger-rules/ | Source: RTE    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:42:57

• "High Performance Git: PDF Edition" ☛ https://gitperf.com/pdf.html | Source: Ted Nyman    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:56:35

• "The imagery shows new buildings and plumes of steam in previously inactive areas of the complex" ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/korea/2026/04/28/north-korea-satellite-yongbyon-nuclear/ | Source: RFA    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:57:23

• "I think I’m done trying to self-host things for now." ☛ https://blog.pcora.eu/posts/on-self-hosting   

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 09:59:19

• "Welcome to Emacs! Thank you for considering this strange and wonderful text editor. Here are some resources that can help you on your journey." ☛ https://sachachua.com/blog/2014/04/emacs-beginner-resources/ | Source: Sacha Chua    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:01:26

• "On May 11th 2026, Professor Frank Harrell with lead a workshop, Introduction to R, Regression, and the rms Package, covering foundational R and RStudio skills" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/introduction-to-r-regression-and-the-rms-package-short-course-by-frank-harrell/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:01:42

• "For years now, I have been teaching, writing, recording, testing, breaking, fixing, and sharing what I have learned from working with WordPress." ☛ https://remkusdevries.com/announcing-the-guild/ | Source: Remkus de Vries    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:02:22

• "In terms of the flow of the posting interface, what WordPress has done here is pretty interesting." ☛ https://www.manton.org/2026/04/29/wordpress-shortform-interface.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:02:35

• "They’re right. Assuming the defenders can patch, and push those patches out to users quickly, this technology favors the defenders." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/claude-mythos-has-found-271-zero-days-in-firefox.html | Source: Bruce Schneier https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/anthropic_mythos_hype_nothingburger/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:03:54

• "early access to Mythos Preview" ☛ https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/mozilla-anthropics-mythos-found-271-zero-day-vulnerabilities-in-firefox-150/ | Source: Ars Technica https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/28/Anthropic_and_Claude_Are_National_Security_Risks_Not_Because_of.shtml    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:04:07

• "You always find the new curl releases on the curl site!" ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/04/29/curl-8-20-0/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:04:45

• "Superhero fans have debated for decades which character has the most compelling cast of antagonists. Batman? Spider-Man?" ☛ https://tylersticka.com/journal/wicked-websites-a-rogues-gallery/ | Source: Tyler Sticka    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:05:02

• "Owning every layer of our stack lets us take Zed places that no one building on borrowed foundations can go, but we knew from the beginning that it wasn't going to be an easy path" ☛ https://zed.dev/blog/zed-1-0 | Source: Zed    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:13:09

• "It’s a networking suite for DOS, including FreeDOS. It includes, but is not limited to: [...]" ☛ https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/mtcp/ | Source: Darren Goossens    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:13:21

• "If you want to dabble in audio digital signal processing, you would probably think of grabbing a dedicated DSP chip." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/04/29/digital-signal-processing-on-the-pi-pico/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:13:47

• "An often overlooked section in the datasheets for popular humidity sensors like the BME280 and DHT22 is the ‘non-condensing humidity’ bit" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/04/29/how-to-kill-humidity-sensors-with-humidity/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:14:00

• "The response to our Framework Laptop 13 Pro launch last week was bigger than we ever could have imagined." ☛ https://frame.work/fi/en/blog/framework-laptop-16-now-with-rtx-5070-12gb-and-launch-event-re-cap | Source: Framework Computer BV    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:14:25

• "People who don't want it" ☛ https://ostechnix.com/ubuntu-ai-llm-features-roadmap/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:14:58

• "a version of Ubuntu that does not include these features" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/920723/linux-ubuntu-ai-features-ai-kill-switch | Source: The Verge    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:15:41

• "a major update of the project's Fedora-based immutable distribution with atomic updates" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12817 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:16:25

• "Fedora Linux 44 is officially released with better software and hardware support among other improvements." ☛ https://ostechnix.com/fedora-linux-44-released/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:16:38

• "Around the year 2000, OpenBSD/i386 was still using the pcvt virtual terminal code" ☛ http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/sparcfb.html | Source: Miod Vallat    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:17:26

• "Thank your lucky stars, then, that open source can, as usual, come to the rescue when proprietary software vendors do what they always do and screw over" ☛ https://www.osnews.com/story/144845/apple-wants-to-kill-your-time-capsule-but-they-run-netbsd-so-they-cant/ | Source: OS News    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:17:51

• "Most of our funds (70%!) come from private end users just like you." ☛ https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/ | Source: KDE    

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

• "I like Pop!_OS, but Cosmic should have continued as a beta option" ☛ https://initialcharge.net/2026/04/avoid-popos-with-cosmic-beta/ | Source: Mike Rockwell    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:20:21

• "If you are looking for a Linux distro that is stable, predictable, and easy to recommend to normal people, Pop!_OS 24.04 is not it." ☛ https://christitus.com/stop-using-pop-os-cosmic/ | Source: Chris Titus    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:20:36

• Stefano Maffulli, who was paid by Microsoft to attack the GPL using slop apologism, is now doing this (he's in OIN, which protects software patents) https://allthingsopen.org/articles/ai-final-frontier-copyleft-second-liberation    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:24:08

• British spy participating in the Ponzi scheme https://fossforce.com/2026/04/from-copilot-to-canonical-how-ubuntu-plans-to-add-ai-without-taking-over-your-pc/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/19/Is_Ubuntu_Compromised_Push_Away_From_GNU_and_GPL_Led_by_Army_Of.shtml    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:25:39

• Fedora 44 is out – countless versions of it https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/fedora_44_countless_versions/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:26:50

• "Hundreds of police raid Islamic sect based at former orphanage over allegations of rape, modern slavery and forced marriage | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15775033/Hundreds-police-raid-Islamic-sect-allegations-rape-forced-marriage.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:28:50

• "Crewe religious group raided by police investigating allegations of serious sexual offences | UK news | The Guardian" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/29/crewe-police-raid-ahmadi-religion-peace-light    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:29:05

• "Trump Family Business Ventures Cashing in on the Presidency" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-family-business-ventures-cashing-in-1235553989/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:30:01

• "President Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin is preparing to launch a “Coin Club” membership scheme" https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-coin-club/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:30:19

• "Useful idiot" of Bill Epsteingate https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/118/i-am-not-leaving-github-any-time-soon/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:30:42

• "Grindr — yes, Grindr — won the WHCD party circuit | The Verge" https://www.theverge.com/column/920845/grindr-whcd-party-2026    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:30:58

• iophk: claims are that there is a Linux variant, but nothing backing those claims https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/vect-ransomware-wiper-design-error    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:31:25

• "Donald Trump Allegedly 'Rotting From The Inside' As Hand Makeup Fails To Conceal Dark Marks | IBTimes UK" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/donald-trump-bruised-hand-royal-visit-1794381    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:31:46

• "“That’s Murder”: Democrat Grills Hegseth on Order to Commit War Crimes | Truthout" https://truthout.org/articles/thats-murder-democrat-grills-hegseth-on-order-to-commit-war-crimes/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:32:03

• "‘Leaving Neverland’ Director Calls MJ ‘Worse Than Jeffrey Epstein'" https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/28/leaving-neverland-director-michael-comments/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/The_Epstein_Files_Don_t_Say_the_Ages_of_Those_Russian_Girls_Bil.shtml    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:32:33

• "Donald Trump’s Disturbing Welcome for King Charles - The Atlantic" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/trump-king-charles-speech-white-house/686996/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:32:49

• "Another Military UFO Guy Just Died" https://futurism.com/space/another-military-ufo-guy-died    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:33:46

• "Hegseth Grilled in Congress Over $25 Billion Iran War" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/americas/hegseth-grilled-in-congress-over-25b-iran-war-1953694    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:34:15

• "Secretary Hegseth, you have been lying to the American public about this war from day one and so has the president," said Rep. John Garamendi of California, who called the war "a geopolitical calamity," a "strategic blunder" and a "self-inflicted wound to America." https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/pete-hegseth-under-fire-in-congress-over-iran-war-11428585    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:35:26

• "Trump threatens US troop cuts in Germany" https://www.dw.com/en/trump-cuts-troops-germany/a-76987910    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:35:44

• "Finland's Eurovision favourite brings flames and a frantic violin to Vienna - RTL Today" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/finlands-eurovision-favourite-brings-flames-and-a-frantic-violin-to-vienna-672342858    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:36:11

• iophk: blocked by gratuitous javascript, malicious incompetence in web design https://www.uu.se/en/library/news/archive/2025-04-11-the-clock-at-carolina-is-counting-down-to-the-donning-of-the-caps    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:38:41

• Unclear about taking down online content https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/04/29/oklart-om-nedtagning-av-innehall-online/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:40:16

• "The $25 billion estimate that a top Pentagon official gave to lawmakers on Wednesday for the total cost to date of the Iran war is a lowball figure that does not include the cost of repairing extensive damage suffered by US bases in the region, three people familiar with the matter told CNN." https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/29/politics/us-iran-war-25-billion-cost-estimate-low    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:40:50

• "Believing the best way to learn programming is by doing it, author Sean McManus penned this tutorial showing you how to build a simple quiz" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/build-a-simple-quiz-game-in-python/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:42:09

• "Elsa and I went to get some tacos down the street because we realized we had $16 of rewards in the Toast app." ☛ https://json.blog/2026/04/28/after-avoiding-trivia-for-a | Source: Jason Becker    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:42:45

• "With slowmo+tapping, yes, I can beat it pretty consistenly. With only slomo or only tapping, I can’t." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/tetris-plus | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:42:58

• "I recently ran into an annoying problem on one of my FreeBSD machines: resizing a gmirror." ☛ https://www.oshogbo.com/blog/85/ |    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:44:55

• "JSON is a perfectly good format for your internal configuration data store" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/JSONNotConfigurationFile | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:45:09

• "Modern storage growth isn’t just about adding disks anymore." ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/fast-dedup-economics-when-deduplication-beats-buying-new-disks/ | Source: Klara    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:45:47

• "The kernel reads the page cache when it loads a binary" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/30/linux_cryptographic_code_flaw/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:46:27

• "Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) was introduced in the 1990s to replace the original fixed‑size network model defined in RFC 791." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/04/30/podcast-cidr-inside/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:47:19

• "This week Jonathan chats with Andrei, Mahir, and Praneeth, live on location at Texas Instruments!" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/04/29/floss-weekly-episode-869-linux-on-your-toaster/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:47:32

• Windows issues https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/somalia//#monthly-200902-202604    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 10:47:46

• Kubernetes v1.36: Tiered Memory Protection with Memory QoS ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/04/29/kubernetes-v1-36-memory-qos-tiered-protection/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 11:14:49

• SELinux: Policy Packaging Migration to support Snapshots and Rollbacks ☞ https://security.opensuse.org/2026/04/29/selinux-modules-move-to-etc.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 11:15:54

• Boosting speed: Use eBPF and netstacklat to troubleshoot latency ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/29/boosting-speed-use-ebpf-and-netstacklat-troubleshoot-latency    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 11:17:31

• Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1070428/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 11:19:14

• A security bug in AEAD sockets ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1070454/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 11:19:31

• "Crowd Supply recently featured the MiciMike Home Mini Drop-In PCB, an open hardware replacement for the first-generation Google Home Mini that enables fully local Home Assistant voice control" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/micimike-board-converts-google-home-mini-into-local-home-assistant-voice-device/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 11:20:13

• "Geniatech has shared information about the AIM-M-K and AIM-B2 AI accelerator modules based on the NXP Ara240 NPU." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/geniatech-aim-m-k-and-aim-b2-integrate-ara240-for-local-ai-inference/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 11:20:26

• Slop promotions which benefits a circular financing pyramid scheme ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/using-nvidia-aerial-cuda-accelerated-ran-red-hat-openshift-accelerate-development-ai-native-5g-and-6g-ran-solutions | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 11:21:58

• "That’s why at Red Hat Summit 2026 (May 11–14 in Atlanta), we’re showcasing automation that is more accessible, intelligent, and impactful" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/definitive-automation-guide-red-hat-summit-2026-must-attend-red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-sessions-talks-and-labs | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 11:22:09

• "OpenShift" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/one-new-zealands-strategic-shift-red-hat-openshift-virtualization | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 11:22:28

• Steam update adds battery indicator for wireless gamepads, quick chat, remote downloads management and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/steam-update-adds-battery-indicator-for-wireless-gamepads-quick-chat-remote-downloads-management-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 11:24:06

• Proton Hotfix updated to fix HELLDIVERS 2 on Linux / SteamOS systems | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/proton-hotfix-updated-to-fix-helldivers-2-on-linux-steamos-systems/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 11:24:57

• Fedora Linux 44 is out now as one of the best Linux distributions | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/fedora-linux-44-is-out-now-as-one-of-the-best-linux-distributions/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/fedora-linux-44-is-out-now-as-one-of-the-best-linux-distributions/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 11:25:34

• "Bazzite Linux 44 has landed now that Fedora 44 has been released, and with it plenty of nice changes for gamers wanting a good Linux distribution." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/bazzite-linux-44-lands-for-desktop-gamers-and-its-a-big-release/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 11:26:33

• dbrand of course already have Steam Controller skins | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/dbrand-of-course-already-have-steam-controller-skins/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/dbrand-of-course-already-have-steam-controller-skins/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 11:46:26

• The ps5-linux project can turn some PlayStation 5 consoles into a Linux gaming machine | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/the-ps5-linux-project-can-turn-some-playstation-5-consoles-into-a-linux-gaming-machine/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 11:46:47

• Denuvo DRM reportedly fully cracked open, 2K apparently fights back with online checks | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/denuvo-drm-reportedly-fully-cracked-open-2k-apparently-fights-back-with-online-checks/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 11:50:56

• NVIDIA 580.159.03 driver released for Linux with some essential fixes | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/nvidia-580-159-03-driver-released-for-linux-with-some-essential-fixes/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

POSTED tHURSDAY, aPRIL 30, 2026 AT 11:51:53

• Cache arrives in Counter-Strike 2 while Valve continue working on ANIMGRAPH 2 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/cache-arrives-in-counter-strike-2-while-valve-continue-working-on-animgraph-2/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 11:54:41

• "Most Linux users know their shell saves command history, but the way they use it isn’t very efficient." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/stop-retyping-long-commands/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 12:07:21

• Headup: server being upgraded. There will soon be a reboot and post-reboot work.    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 12:08:12

• IRC will be back online, likely with a new version of the irdc, this time maintained/upgraded not manually    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 12:08:49

• (ircd)    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 12:09:07

• How To Upgrade from Fedora 43 To Fedora 44 ☞ https://idroot.us/upgrade-from-fedora-43-to-fedora-44/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 12:14:26

• Headsup: upgrade process first round successful. Now doing another round. Fingers crossed.    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 12:15:09

• Slimbook Titan report 9 - Major developments, lots of news ☞ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/slimbook-titan-report-9.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 12:16:08

• ToaruOS – independent, from-scratch hobby operating system ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/toaruos-independent-from-scratch-hobby-operating-system/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 12:16:58

• Sites upgrade: police investigator called minutes ago regarding threats we had received. This is progressing. Not to be elaborated upon at this point though.    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 12:17:53

• Second round of upgrade at 60% now. Reboot will follow soon.    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 12:18:20

• AetherSDR – Linux-native client for FlexRadio Systems transceivers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/?p=175066    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 12:23:07

• rebooting in a bit    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 12:25:28

• Looks like minimal downtime, except for IRC    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 13:10:38

• Printing while tent-camping ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202604/printing-while-tent-camping.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 13:36:35

• Otto Kekäläinen: Mentoring Mondays for aspiring Debian contributors ☞ https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/debian-mentoring-mondays/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 13:42:05

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 649 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/04/29/this-week-in-rust-649/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 13:43:13

• iophk: These are stealing from Gen Z's future: https://yle.fi/a/74-20223606    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 15:05:17

• Putin, in call with Convicted Felon, put forward ideas on Iran, Kremlin says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/putin-in-call-with-trump-put-forward-ideas-on-iran-kremlin-says    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 15:07:36

• Dihydroxyacetone Man, Putin Discuss Temporary Cease-Fire In Ukraine War ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-putin-temporary-cease-fire-u   

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 15:07:53

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Tells Putin To Focus On Ending Ukraine War After Russian President Offers Help On Iran's Uranium ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-war-us-hormuz-oil-blockade-gulf-israel/33640284.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 15:08:21

• Nyarch 26.04 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/nyarch    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 15:08:44

• Dihydroxyacetone Man and Putin Call for a Brief Cease-Fire in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/world/europe/ukraine-russia-ceasefire-trump-putin.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 15:09:07

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Tells Putin To Focus On Ending Ukraine War After Russia Offers Help On Iran's Uranium ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-war-us-hormuz-oil-blockade-gulf-israel/33640284.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 15:09:24

• Latvia to donate more armoured vehicles to Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/28.04.2026-latvia-to-donate-more-armoured-vehicles-to-ukraine.a644939/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 15:09:50

• Shelter situation in Latvia still not great ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/28.04.2026-shelter-situation-in-latvia-still-not-great.a644819/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 15:10:44

• Russia scales down WW2 victory parade due to Ukrainian threat ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260429-russia-scales-down-ww2-victory-parade-due-to-ukrainian-threat    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 15:11:08

• Russia-Iran Axis Expanding The Battlefield, US Senator Thom Tillis Warns ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-senator-thom-tillis-russia-iran-axis-war/33745497.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 15:11:24

• Russia Scales Back Victory Day Parade, Citing Ukrainian Drone Attacks ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-victory-day-red-square-military-parade/33744971.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 15:11:49

• Russia’s Victory Day Parade Will Be Missing Tanks and Other Heavy Military Armor ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/world/europe/russia-victory-day-parade-tanks.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 15:12:04

• SSE Rīga lecture to outline impact of sanctions on Russia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/29.04.2026-sse-riga-lecture-to-outline-impact-of-sanctions-on-russia.a645050/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 15:12:21

• Iran crisis, World Cup tensions overshadow FIFA Congress in Vancouver ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/sport/20260430-iran-world-cup-fifa-congress-vancouver    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 15:13:26

• Tuareg rebels urge Russian forces to leave Mali ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tuareg-rebels-urge-russian-forces-to-leave-mali    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 15:13:56

• Men Accused in Fires Targeting Starmer Received Orders in Russian, Prosecutors Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/world/europe/arson-keir-starmer-homes.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 15:14:10

• Reports Uncover Russian Efforts to Swing African Elections ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2026/04/reports-uncover-russian-efforts-to-swing-african-elections/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 15:14:38

• Insights from the InstallFest 2026 Conference in Prague ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/29/insights-from-the-installfest-2026-conference-in-prague/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:00:52

• QNAP how to display custom text LCD display ☞ https://dwaves.de/2026/04/29/qnap-how-to-display-custom-text-lcd-display/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:02:12

• [R] How to change legend key size in ggplot2 ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/r-how-to-change-legend-key-size-in-ggplot2/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:03:43

• How to Install Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:04:05

• Sergio Cipriano: How to build reverse dependencies using Salsa CI ☞ https://sergiocipriano.com/salsaci-build-rdeps.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:04:38

• How to Add Custom Startup Program in Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/04/how-to-add-custom-startup-program-in-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:06:03

• Major comics piracy hubs in South Korea are shutting down. Here’s how it happened ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/major-comics-piracy-hubs-in-south-korea-are-shutting-down-heres-how-it-happened    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:06:38

• Testing the Commodore 64 250466 board ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/testing-the-commodore-64-250466-board/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:07:29

• Looking at human.json ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/looking-at-human-json/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:18:50

• iohpk: If the site were starting over, Caddy might be better than Apache2 but there are so many tweaks that it would be annoying to try to migrate now.    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:22:57

• Run backdoored Windows Apps on GNU/Linux with WinBoat ☞ https://www.linux.org/threads/run-windows-apps-on-linux-with-winboat.60069/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:32:45

• Windows 10 gets a funeral in France as furious activists parade a coffin, blasting Abusive Monopolist Microsoft ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-gets-a-funeral-in-france-as-furious-activists-parade-a-coffin-blasting-microsoft/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:33:31

• PS5 GNU/Linux loader goes public, turning ‘Phat’ consoles into full GNU/Linux PCs — build script includes bootable Ubuntu 24.04 image, can output 4K games at 60 FPS ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/ps5-linux-loadr-goes-public-turning-phat-consoles-into-full-linux-pcs    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:34:12

• Is Hey Hi (AI) Coming to Your Ubuntu Desktop? ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Is-AI-Coming-to-Your-Ubuntu-Desktop    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:35:34

• You can run Ubuntu on your PS5 (and play Steam games) ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ps5-linux-steam    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:38:38

• 14 Best Free and Open Source Unified Modeling Language Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-unified-modeling-software/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:39:06

• NVIDIA 595.71.05 Released with Only A Single Bug-Fix ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/04/nvidia-595-71-05-released-with-only-a-single-bug-fix/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:39:55

• Bazzite 44.20260429 is released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/bazzite   

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:41:24

• Proxmox 4.2-1 "Backup Server" is released as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/proxmox    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:41:56

• What is Binomial Expansion? The Secret Behind (a + b)ⁿ Explained ☞ https://tecadmin.net/what-is-binomial-expansion/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:42:41

• Vitalinux 3.5-2026.04.27 is released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/vitalinux    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:43:07

• Helwan 4.0 is released as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/helwan    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:43:23

• Canonical is Selling You, Ubuntu is a Data-Collecting Platform ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/29/Canonical_is_Selling_You_Ubuntu_is_a_Data_Collecting_Platform.shtml    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:43:40

• Xubuntu 26.04 LTS: Best New Features ☞ https://www.debugpoint.com/xubuntu-26-04-features/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:44:07

• Enabling Ubuntu Pro in Security Center is super easy ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/enable-ubuntu-pro-security-center    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:44:51

• 4MLinux 51.1 is released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/4mlinux    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:45:05

• SONOFF NSPanel Pro Gen2 – A 86-Type Smart Home control panel with two relays, dual-band WiFi, Zigbee 3.0, Matter support ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/29/sonoff-nspanel-pro-gen2-a-86-type-smart-home-control-panel-two-relays-dual-band-wifi-zigbee-3-0-matter-support/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:47:25

• Ransomware accidentally destroys all files larger than 128KB ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/ransomware-accidentally-destroys-all-files-larger-than-128kb-preventing-decryption-vect-code-likely-partly-vibe-coded-with-ai-or-used-an-old-code-base-security-researchers-suggest    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:48:24

• Miners end hunger strike in Ankara after ministries step in as guarantors ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/miners-end-hunger-strike-in-ankara-after-ministries-step-in-as-guarantors-319162    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:48:56

• Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Map, Another Blow to Voting Rights Act ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/politics/supreme-court-voting-rights-act.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:49:34

• Nuba Mountains Emerge as New Front in Sudan’s Civil War ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2026/04/nuba-mountains-emerge-as-new-front-in-sudans-civil-war/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:50:24

• Kill Bill C-22: Says Civil Society to Parliament ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/kill-bill-c-22-says-civil-society-to-parliament/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:51:38

• AAUP: Academic Freedom On The Line | Removing Flock cameras is about much more than license plates ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/04/29/aaup-removing-flock-cameras/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:52:05

• New Orleans Police Continuing to Use Live Face Recognition Despite City Law ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/new-orleans-face-recognition    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:52:22

• MiciMike’s open-source drop-in PCB converts Surveillance Giant Google Home Mini into a local voice assistant (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/29/micimike-open-source-drop-in-pcb-converts-google-home-mini-into-a-local-voice-assistant/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:52:53

• Gunnar Wolf: Heads we win, tails you lose — Hey Hi (AI) detectors in education ☞ https://gwolf.org/2026/04/heads-we-win-tails-you-lose-ai-detectors-in-education.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:53:13

• Man Trapped in Dystopian Nightmare Thanks to Hey Hi (AI) Surveillance Cameras Flagging His Every Move ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-ai-surveillance-colorado    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 17:53:49

• UN rights experts concerned over increasing use of intrusive surveillance technologies ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/un-rights-experts-concerned-over-increasing-use-of-intrusive-surveillance-technologies/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:18:33

• Surveillance Law Is in Limbo After House Approval ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/politics/congress-house-fisa-surveillance-law.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:19:00

• Attacks against national human rights institutes hinder protection of essential rights: UN ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/attacks-against-national-human-rights-institutes-hinder-protection-of-essential-human-rights-un/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:19:45

• Jonathan Blandford: Remembering Seth ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/jrb/2026/04/29/remembering-seth/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:20:51

• Red Hat is promoting slop ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/29/how-we-turned-storybook-behavioral-verification-engine    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:23:37

• New Zealand mosque shooter loses bid to overturn convictions ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/new-zealand-mosque-killer-loses-bid-to-overturn-convictions    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:24:29

• Good News? If finally on Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub and it promotes slop, is this a good thing? ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/warp-goes-open-source/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:25:25

• $2,000 awarded for Radiant Patents optical patent monopoly prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/4/29/2000-awarded-for-radiant-patents-optical-patent-prior-art    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:26:47

• Latvian central bank to run financial literacy campaign ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/banks/29.04.2026-latvian-central-bank-to-run-financial-literacy-campaign.a645074/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:27:46

• UPC is illegal and unconstitutional; it remains connected to a corrupt regime at the EO and the lobby of the litigation industry, not justice ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/merz-and-ao-overturn-pi-decision-in-fampyra-case-in-second-instance-at-the-upc/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:32:39

• SCOTUS: IP Cases in the Pipeline ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/04/scotus-ip-cases-in-the-pipeline.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:33:30

• Defense Attorney Todd Blanche Didn’t Use to Believe Vituperative Speech Was a Threat ☞ https://emptywheel.net/2026/04/29/defense-attorney-todd-blanche-didnt-use-to-believe-vituperative-speech-was-a-threat/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:35:11

• Security review of Plasma Login Manager (SUSE Security Team Blog) ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1070434/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:37:26

• Notifications: Improved Token and Role Transparency ☞ https://openbuildservice.org/2026/04/29/notifications_tokens_and_global_roles//    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:37:53

• Philippine vice-president Duterte faces impeachment vote in Congress after panel find probable cause ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippine-house-panel-finds-probable-cause-to-impeach-vice-president-sara-duterte    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:38:14

• Firefox Tooling Announcements: MozPhab 2.14.0 Released ☞ https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozphab-2-14-0-released/148130    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:38:41

• Chrome 147, Firefox 150 Security Updates Rolling Out ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-147-firefox-150-security-updates-rolling-out/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:40:46

• The New Steam Controller Launches in May 2026 ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/the-new-steam-controller-launches-in-may-2026/index.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:41:19

• WordPress Student Clubs Build Momentum ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2026/04/student-clubs-build-momentum/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:41:45

• Assad regime trials are 'integral for Syria to move on' from civil war, atrocities ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20260429-assad-regime-trials-are-integral-for-syria-to-move-on-from-civil-war-atrocities    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:42:09

• Grab a MicroPython Birthday Discount! ☞ https://blog.pimoroni.com/grab-a-micropython-birthday-discount/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:42:33

• Today's Odd Web Requests, (Wed, Apr 29th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32934    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:43:49

• Weight-Loss Drugs May Reduce Buildup of Alzheimer's Proteins, Major Review Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/weight-loss-drugs-may-reduce-buildup-of-alzheimers-proteins-major-review-finds    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:44:38

• Fast Travel ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1141/fast-travel    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:45:22

• Hundreds of Internet-Facing VNC Servers Expose ICS/OT ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/hundreds-of-internet-facing-vnc-servers-expose-ics-ot/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:47:03

• Critical Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Vulnerability Exposed Millions of Repositories ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-github-vulnerability-exposed-millions-of-repositories/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:47:26

• STMicro VD65G4 and VD55G4 0.56MP global shutter image sensors enable ultra-low-power always-on event-driven vision ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/30/stmicro-vd65g4-and-vd55g4-0-56mp-global-shutter-image-sensors-enable-ultra-low-power-always-on-event-driven-vision/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:47:58

• Hong Kong remains at 140th on global press freedom index as NGO highlights Jimmy Lai’s 20-year jail term ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/30/hong-kong-remains-at-140th-on-global-press-freedom-index-as-ngo-highlights-jimmy-lais-20-year-jail-term/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:48:23

• Checkmarx Confirms Data Stolen in Supply Chain Attack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/checkmarx-confirms-data-stolen-in-supply-chain-attack/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:48:56

• Uninstalls of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Are Spiking at the Worst Time Imaginable for Proprietary Chaffbot Company ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/downloads-chatgpt-slowing-worst-time-openai    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:49:39

• MSFT shares fell about $20    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:51:00

• US approves $95 million next phase of Tunisian border security project ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/security/border-security/us-approves-95-million-next-phase-of-tunisian-border-security-project/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:55:35

• Microsoft expects headcount to decrease in coming quarters    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:56:11

• Suspended EPA employees allege retaliation, whistleblower violations ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce-rightsgovernance/2026/04/suspended-epa-employees-allege-retaliation-whistleblower-violations/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:56:48

• KDE 6_26.04 for Slackware-current (almost free of Qt5) ☞ https://blog.slackware.nl/kde-6_26-04-for-slackware-current-almost-free-of-qt5/ "But I got restless, Pat is otherwise occupied for a few days so I took the plunge. What I am talking about is of course packaging KDE Gear 26.04.0 for Slackware."    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 18:57:40

• Meta Charged With Failing to Keep Children Off Instagram and Facebook (Farcebook) in Europe ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/business/meta-instagram-facebook-children.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:00:11

• Arduino® App Lab 0.7: Custom Bricks are here! ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/04/29/arduino-app-lab-0-7-custom-bricks-are-here/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:00:38

• Liepāja airport will not get regular flights anytime soon ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/28.04.2026-liepaja-airport-will-not-get-regular-flights-anytime-soon.a644824/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:02:37

• CISA cyber partnerships face ‘standstill’ amid cuts ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/04/cisa-cyber-partnerships-face-standstill-amid-cuts/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:03:04

• White House says funds to pay TSA and other Homeland Security workers will ‘soon run out’ ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2026/04/white-house-says-funds-to-pay-tsa-and-other-homeland-security-workers-will-soon-run-out/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:03:33

• Fresh LiteLLM Vulnerability Exploited Shortly After Disclosure ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/fresh-litellm-vulnerability-exploited-shortly-after-disclosure/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:04:18

• Iranian Cyber Group Handala Targets US Troops in Bahrain ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/iranian-cyber-group-handala-targets-us-troops-in-bahrain/   

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:04:55

• 38 Vulnerabilities Found in OpenEMR Medical Software ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/38-vulnerabilities-found-in-openemr-medical-software/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:05:21

• Congress, industry ponder government posture for protecting data centers ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/congress-industry-ponder-government-posture-for-protecting-data-centers/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:06:13

• Home Affairs deportations surge nearly 50% in two years as SA tightens border security ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/border-security-2/home-affairs-deportations-surge-nearly-50-to-in-two-years-as-sa-tightens-border-security/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:06:45

• China to ban drone sales in capital over security fears ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/29/china-to-ban-drone-sales-in-capital-over-security-fears/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:07:19

• GAFAM has a new name for DEBT: "hey hi SPENDINGS!" BS. The media is paid to repeat this LIE.    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:08:32

• Madagascar detains French former serviceman over alleged mutiny plot ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/madagascar-detains-french-former-serviceman-over-alleged-mutiny-plot    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:09:06

• China to ban drone sales in Beijing over security fears ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-to-ban-drone-sales-in-beijing-over-security-fears    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:09:23

• Australian Jewish group warned of ‘attack’ before Bondi mass shooting: Inquiry ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/bondi-shooting-inquiry-urges-counter-terror-review-more-security-for-jews    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:09:42

• New York's Mamdani calls on King Charles to 'return' Koh-i-Noor diamond taken from India ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260430-new-york-s-mamdani-calls-on-king-charles-to-return-koh-i-noor-diamond    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:10:40

• Mamdani’s Advice to Royals: Give That Priceless Diamond Back to India ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/mamdani-diamond-king-charles.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:10:57

• New York Mayor Mamdani encourages King Charles to return Koh-i-Noor Diamond ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/new-york-mayor-mamdani-encourages-king-charles-to-return-koh-i-noor-diamond    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:11:11

• OpenAI Hit With Barrage of Lawsuits Over Failure to Report School Shooter Before Massacre ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-school-shooter-tumbler-ridge-lawsuits    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:11:41

• Lawsuit Seeks Records on IRS Implementation of Convicted Felon Executive Orders Purportedly Targeting “Antifa” ☞ https://americanoversight.org/irs-antifa-foia-lawsuit/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:12:11

• New Lawsuit Claims Drake and Streamer Adin Ross Misled Fans in Gambling Promos ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/29/drake-adin-ross-gambling-lawsuit/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:12:46

• In France, American Universities Lose Their Allure in the Convicted Felon Era ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/world/europe/france-american-universities-trump-sciences-po.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:13:38

• The Murky Ethics of Swimming With Killer Whales ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/science/tourism-killer-whales-orcas.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:13:59

• J. Craig Venter, Scientist Who Decoded the Human Genome, Dies at 79 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/science/j-craig-venter-dead.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:14:24

• 'Capture Study' hopes to help new medicines reach the market faster ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/business/28.04.2026-capture-study-hopes-to-help-new-medicines-reach-the-market-faster.a644921/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:14:39

• UNICEF warns Afghanistan restrictions on women’s education deprive nation of skilled professionals ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/unicef-warns-afghanistan-restrictions-on-womens-education-deprive-nation-of-skilled-professionals/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:15:23

• Michigan community colleges boost virtual, in-person mental health services ☞ https://bridgemi.com/talent-education/michigan-community-colleges-boost-virtual-in-person-mental-health-services/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:15:44

• Medicare for All divides Democrats in Michigan’s US Senate race ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/medicare-for-all-divides-democrats-in-michigans-us-senate-race/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:15:58

• They sought help for son with mental illness. He ended up in jail ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/they-sought-help-for-son-with-mental-illness-he-ended-up-in-jail/    

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

• Startup Says It Can Read Your Brain Signals Using a Pair of Headphones ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/neurable-startup-brain-signals-headphones    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:17:08

• Mother in South Korea arrested after beating 8-month-old son to death with TV remote ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/mother-in-south-korea-arrested-after-beating-8-month-old-son-to-death-with-tv-remote    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:17:58

• After wolf escape, South Korea moves to tighten zoo oversight ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/after-wolf-escape-south-korea-moves-to-tighten-zoo-oversight    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:18:20

• North Korea faces severe drought: State media ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-faces-severe-drought-state-media    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:18:48

• S. Korea to remove ‘out-of-wedlock child’ term from welfare forms ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-korea-to-remove-out-of-wedlock-child-term-from-welfare-forms    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:19:13

• Malaysia to slash federal operating budgets due to Iran war costs ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/update-2-malaysia-to-slash-2026-federal-operating-spend-over-iran-war-costs    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:19:52

• Woman in Malaysia gets 2 years’ jail for throwing newborn from 38th-floor condo ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/woman-in-malaysia-gets-2-years-jail-for-throwing-her-newborn-from-38th-floor-condo-unit    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:20:35

• Malaysia civil servants’ sick days drop by 30% after work-from-home policy rolls out ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-civil-servants-sick-days-drop-by-30-after-work-from-home-policy-rolls-out    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:21:09

• Vehicle workshops in Malaysia steering into scams ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-vehicle-workshops-steering-into-scams    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:21:35

• Expanding frontiers: how China normalises its presence ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/expanding-frontiers-how-china-normalises-its-presence/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:22:02

• Expanding frontiers: how China’s outward push could cause friction ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/expanding-frontiers-how-chinas-outward-push-could-cause-friction/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:22:29

• Paraguay Says It’s Not Abandoning Taiwan. China Has Other Plans. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/world/paraguay-taiwan-china-pena.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:22:45

• Explainer: What is ‘Taiwan independence’ and is Taiwan already independent? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/explainer-what-is-taiwan-independence-and-is-taiwan-already-independent    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:23:13

• US leads new call condemning China’s actions in Panama Canal dispute ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/29/us-leads-new-call-condemning-chinas-actions-in-panama-canal-dispute/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:23:53

• Sovereign Tech Agency Opens Paid Standards Program for Open Source Maintainers ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/sovereign-tech-standards-program/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:24:17

• The Ankler ditches Substack to fly solo ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/b2b/the-ankler-leaves-substack/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:25:06

• Press Gazette Reality Wars investigation recognised by Paul Foot Awards ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/press-gazette-reality-wars-investigation-recognised-by-paul-foot-awards/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:25:31

• Viral LEGO-style Hey Hi (AI) videos blur line between entertainment and propaganda ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/viral-lego-style-ai-videos-blur-line-between-entertainment-and-propaganda    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:25:50

• World First: Orangutan Filmed Using a Human-Made Bridge ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/world-first-orangutan-filmed-using-a-human-made-bridge    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:26:33

• 'Extinct' Volcanoes May Be Silently Building Magma For Future Eruptions ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/extinct-volcanoes-may-not-be-extinct-after-all-scientists-say    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:26:47

• Popular Supplement May Have an Unexpected Downside, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/popular-supplement-may-have-an-unexpected-downside-study-finds    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:27:10

• Here's Why Your Brain Shuts Down During Arguments, And What Helps ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/heres-why-your-brain-shuts-down-during-arguments-and-what-helps    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:27:35

• Exercise Alone May Not Offset Damage From Sitting All Day, Expert Warns ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/exercise-alone-may-not-offset-damage-from-sitting-all-day-expert-warns    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:27:49

• Scientists Reveal Why Breast Cancer Risk Rises With Age ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reveal-why-breast-cancer-risk-rises-with-age    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:28:06

• Astronomers Think They've Finally Found The Edge of The Milky Way ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-think-theyve-finally-found-the-edge-of-the-milky-way    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:28:29

• Figma to Qt 1.0 Is Here: The Most Reliable Way to Bring Your Design From Figma to Device ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/figma-to-qt-1.0    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:29:12

• Growing US-South Korea tensions spill over into intelligence, business fronts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/growing-us-s-korea-tensions-spill-over-into-intelligence-business-fronts    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:29:49

• OpenAI has effectively abandoned first-party Stargate data centers ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-has-effectively-abandoned-first-party-stargate-data-centers-in-favor-of-more-flexible-deals-company-now-prefers-to-lease-compute-and-says-stargate-is-an-umbrella-term    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:30:50

• John Oliver Just Took the Hey Hi (AI) Industry Behind a Shed and Beat It With a Pipe Wrench ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/john-oliver-ai-industry    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:31:54

• Christian Rock Band Newsboys and Founder Wes Campbell Sue Fellow Group MercyMe, Christian Tour Promoters, Journalists, More ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/29/newsboys-wes-campbell-lawsuit/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:32:32

• Colombia hosts climate talks in bid to lead global transition away from fossil fuels ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260429-colombia-hosts-climate-talks-in-bid-to-lead-global-transition-away-from-fossil-fuels    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:33:32

• Printing out lunacy. WHY? https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/meta-will-beam-sunlight-from-space-to-power-ai-data-centers-solar-collecting-satellites-will-orbit-22-000-miles-above-earth-firm-reserves-1-gigawatt-of-orbital-solar-energy-and-100-gigawatt-hours-of-long-duration-storage    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:34:28

• US stops exports of tools to China’s number two chip maker — Hua Hong and Huali Microelectronics reportedly on the cusp of starting a 7-nm fab in Shanghai ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/us-stops-exports-of-chip-making-tools-to-chinas-number-two-chip-maker-hua-hong-and-huali-microelectronics-reportedly-on-the-cusp-of-starting-a-7-nm-fab-in-shanghai    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:35:29

• Despite tariffs, global trade keeps growing – just with new partners ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2026/0429/trade-tariffs-trump-brazil-china-canada    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:35:45

• Not enough Sony DRM and rootkits? https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/ps5-linux-loadr-goes-public-turning-phat-consoles-into-full-linux-pcs    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:37:28

• This PS5 Linux Tool Turns Sony's Console Into a Linux-Powered Gaming PC https://hothardware.com/news/this-ps5-linux-tool-turns-sonys-console-into-a-linux-powered-gaming-pc    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:38:19

• Your PS5 can now transform into a Linux PC https://www.theverge.com/news/920322/ps5-linux-project-exploit-install    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:38:46

• Really bad https://www.itpro.com/software/ubuntu-ai-roadmap-canonical-agentic-workflows    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:39:13

• That should not be there at all https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-ai-approach-thoughtful-microsoft-should-take-note/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:41:14

• Slopfest https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/ubuntus-ai-roadmap-revealed-universal-ai-kill-switch-and-forced-ai-integration-are-not-part-of-the-plan-cloud-tracking-local-inference-and-agentic-system-tools-take-center-stage    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:41:43

• Linux now Officially Available for PlayStation 5 https://www.techpowerup.com/348624/linux-now-officially-available-for-playstation-5    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:44:51

• "Fedora Linux 44 is officially here and with it tons of new features across different spins, continuing to be one of the best Linux distributions. For now, I still stand by recommendation of Fedora KDE as the best Linux distribution for gaming in 2026." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/fedora-linux-44-is-out-now-as-one-of-the-best-linux-distributions/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:46:51

• "Bazzite is my top recommendation for gaming handhelds and TV PCs, as it makes a lot of the setup really simple. It stays out of the way and gets you gaming quickly - exactly what you want." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/bazzite-linux-44-lands-for-desktop-gamers-and-its-a-big-release/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:47:15

• "Part of the problem of relying on a translation layer like Proton to run Windows games, is that at times live-service type games will just break with it. Although, that's partly a problem of the game developer not testing updates on Linux / SteamOS to ensure they work." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/proton-hotfix-updated-to-fix-helldivers-2-on-linux-steamos-systems/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:47:39

• "They say that older firmware 1.xx and 2.xx may be added in future but it's not a priority, and firmware 5.xx may also come in future but there's an limitations that would require Linux to run inside a virtual machine and have access to less features." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/the-ps5-linux-project-can-turn-some-playstation-5-consoles-into-a-linux-gaming-machine/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:48:11

• Modder releases PS5-Linux that turns the console into a fully functional Linux gaming PC https://www.notebookcheck.net/Modder-releases-PS5-Linux-that-turns-the-console-into-a-fully-functional-Linux-gaming-PC.1284961.0.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:49:50

• PS5 Linux project released to unlock PlayStation 5’s PC potential https://overclock3d.net/news/misc/ps5-linux-project-released-to-unlock-playstation-5s-pc-potential/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:50:37

• PS5 Linux loader released for older firmware 3.xx and 4.xx consoles https://videocardz.com/newz/ps5-linux-project-released-turning-some-playstation-5-consoles-into-linux-pcs    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:51:18

• A New Open Source Project Can Boot Linux on Original PS5 Hardware With Full Steam Support PS5 Linux loader released for older firmware 3.xx and 4.xx consoles https://videocardz.com/newz/ps5-linux-project-released-turning-some-playstation-5-consoles-into-linux-pcs    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:52:01

• Nope, copying the crap https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/meta-ai/articles/canonical-plans-responsible-ai-ubuntu-174236240.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:52:43

• "An open source project called ps5-linux has just dropped on GitHub, and it does exactly what it says on the tin: it turns a PlayStation 5 into a Linux gaming machine." https://retrohandhelds.gg/a-new-open-source-project-can-boot-linux-on-original-ps5-hardware-with-full-steam-support/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:53:41

• Someone figured out how to run Windows 9x inside Linux and it's surprisingly useful https://www.makeuseof.com/someone-figured-out-run-windows-9x-inside-linux-surprisingly-useful/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:55:29

• Ubitium Becomes the World's First CGRA to Execute Linux ⚓ https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/04/28/3282246/0/en/ubitium-becomes-the-world-s-first-cgra-to-execute-linux-without-a-host.html ䷉ Source: Globe Newswire    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:57:13

• After years of Linux, I tried GhostBSD and found it incredibly stable - and nearly unbreakable https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-tried-ghostbsd-found-it-incredibly-stable-nearly-unbreakable/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 19:59:36

• Surrendering to Windows under the illusion that a backdoored toy is "Linux" https://www.makeuseof.com/i-stopped-picking-between-windows-and-linux-and-started-running-both-on-the-same-machine/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 20:00:28

• "SUSECON was an otherwise impressive outing for the Linux veteran, keen to show off its sovereignty credentials, edge computing chops, and AI proficiency. But it was a pair of unfortunate borks that proved equally memorable." ttps://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/never_anger_the_keynote_demo/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 20:01:19

• "The next sovereignty crisis may not begin at the border. It may begin inside the stack." https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/04/29/the-stack-as-a-strategic-frontier-what-frances-linux-turn-means-for-the-global-south/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 20:02:32

• ‘Time for Linux phones’: Android protests against major Google app change in September grow as developers warn ‘your phone is about to stop being yours’ https://tech.yahoo.com/phones/articles/time-linux-phones-android-protests-105320964.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 20:03:02

• Why do they keep shilling WINDOWS in the name of "Linux" twice in the same day? https://www.makeuseof.com/switched-linux-without-losing-windows-workflow-wsl-possible/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 20:04:08

• Proprietary games: Devs respond after Helldivers 2 starts crashing on Steam Deck and Linux with latest update https://www.pcguide.com/news/devs-respond-after-helldivers-2-starts-crashing-on-steam-deck-and-linux-with-latest-update/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 20:05:08

• You can turn your PS5 into a Linux-powered gaming PC now, but there are big trade-offs https://www.xda-developers.com/you-can-turn-your-ps5-into-linux-powered-gaming-pc-but-there-are-trade-offs/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 20:05:54

• My Old Laptop Was Collecting Dust. Here's How I Turned it Into a Chromebook https://uk.pcmag.com/laptops/164658/my-old-laptop-was-collecting-dust-heres-how-i-turned-it-into-a-chromebook    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 20:07:04

• VECT: Ransomware by design, Wiper by accident https://research.checkpoint.com/2026/vect-ransomware-by-design-wiper-by-accident/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 20:07:59

• Fedora Linux 44 Launches With Gnome 50, KDE Plasma 6.6 https://www.techpowerup.com/348619/fedora-linux-44-launches-with-gnome-50-kde-plasma-6-6    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 20:08:29

• Debt has exploded to hundreds of billions https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar25/index.html    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 21:27:38

• "A classical UNIX tool now has an online-only privacy policy that I have to proactively check periodically?" gemini://lab6.com/mlog/2026/04/30/alpine/    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 21:38:41

• "It’s a lovely April afternoon at the Parador Del Golf in Malaga, sitting on the bar patio. The old Spanish guy sitting next to me threw one of his snacks to the birds." gemini://ieve.me/hallow/symbi_1.gmi    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 21:39:40

• "This is not exactly nvim specific but is definitely related. I've started using Neovide in Windows to help it behave a bit better as a Sublime Text replacement." gemini://frooplet.com/glog/2026-04-30-daily-neovide.gmi    

posted Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 21:40:41

• John Kiriakou writes! https://jacobin.com/2026/04/trump-bush-obama-war-terror    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 04:24:19