Roy Schestowitz

• "A few days ago, I read a post about email: About Writing Other Bloggers Email[*]. It's a reflection on the joy of emailing other bloggers. Not so much as a way of commenting on their posts[*] (though not excluding that), but as a way of connecting with the people behind those posts." gemini://axxuy.com/blog/2026/emailing-about-blogging-and-blogging-about-emailing.gmi    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 04:37:23

• "My father was 32 when I was born. He turned 33 that year." gemini://robida.net/entries/2026/05/01/thinking-of-my-dad-today    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 04:41:09

• [japan] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2026-04-30.gmi    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 04:41:47

• "I took the train to Siebnen-Wangen, the bus to Reichenburg, and walked up to Stofel and then to Laui. The *Alpenbeizli Laui* was closed but you could take bottles from a crate and pay by phone (TWINT). Worked for me!" gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-04-30-laui    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 04:42:36

• twice as loud gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/twice_as_loud    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 04:43:29

• Three Poems About Love by Li Sing Wan gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-05-01_three_poems_about_love.gmi    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 04:44:14

• Swedish intelligence says Russia manipulates economic data https://www.thelocal.se/20260421/swedish-intelligence-says-russia-manipulates-economic-data    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 06:46:02

• Netherlands denies entry to Russian artist fleeing the Kremlin over asylum request fears https://nltimes.nl/2026/04/21/netherlands-denies-entry-russian-artist-fleeing-kremlin-asylum-request-fears    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 06:46:35

• RAMP Uncovered: Anatomy of Russia’s Ransomware Marketplace https://securityaffairs.com/191171/cyber-crime/ramp-uncovered-anatomy-of-russias-ransomware-marketplace.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 06:47:15

• Heineken still active in Russia despite claims of total withdrawal https://nltimes.nl/2026/04/24/heineken-still-active-russia-despite-claims-total-withdrawal    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 06:47:59

• killer robots https://theconversation.com/ukraines-killer-robots-show-how-war-is-changing-280936 https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7176908    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 06:49:33

• So-called 'FSFE' https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260420-01.en.html"    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 06:51:53

• Types of Board Game https://xkcd.com/3235/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 06:52:16

• Border Message https://xkcd.com/3236/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 06:53:17

• Husband and Wife https://xkcd.com/3237/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 06:53:36

• "Microsoft Pushes Out Experienced American Talent to Fuel [DEBT] Ambitions" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/04/30/0224241    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 11:59:35

• "I know, it is amazing how much hardware we can pack in to a portable device, yet make it such a useless , crap and (to user and general privacy) a danger." http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/04/30/0223202#1441195    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:00:17

• You are sitting way too time in front of a computer, say non-geeks to geeks despite spending 24/7 with a computer ("phone") even when they sleep and poop    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:01:34

• "The company said the badge confirms a profile has been reviewed and meets its standards for trust." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/spotify-adds-artist-verified-badge-tightens-rules-as-ai-music-floods-platform | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:04:35

• "As an independent European browser, Vivaldi needs access to platform controlled by vendors of competing browsers." ☛ https://brucelawson.co.uk/2026/a-trip-to-strasbourg-and-the-european-parliament/ | Source: Bruce Lawson    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:05:59

• "And in doing so, the alleged ticket scalpers are said to have scooped up a substantial number of passes to popular events" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/30/bots-act-case-continues/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:06:17

• "Unfortunately, these early wins are darkly overshadowed by massive cases of non-compliance and deliberate circumvention by almost all gatekeepers. Here are a few examples: [...]" ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/if-the-dma-is-fit-for-purpose-why-are-the-gatekeepers-winning/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:06:42

• "The Competition Commission of India has since 2024 sought Apple's financial information - typically needed to calculate penalties" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/apple-says-cci-overstepping-judicial-authority-as-spat-intensifies/articleshow/130641574.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:07:29

• "A new report from Financial Times revealed that the UK’s ticket tout ban is due to be shelved for a year" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/30/uk-ticket-scalping-ban-shelved-2026/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:08:15

• "Nevertheless, Music’s noticeably larger growth rate – only Deezer likewise achieved a double-digit YoY subscriber hike, and a significantly smaller hike at that, in the U.S. during 2025 – is telling." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/30/youtube-music-subscribers-q1-2026/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:08:30

• "When Showmax went live on 19 August 2015, it carried more than just a catalogue of TV series and films." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/goodbye-showmax/280812/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:13:14

• "A decree signed on April 29 prohibits importing radio-electronic devices designed to transmit and/or receive radio waves from foreign communications satellites" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/05/01/russia-bans-imports-of-foreign-satellite-terminals-including-starlink | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:14:56

• "The first quarter of 2026 saw a surge in severe and prolonged internet disruptions, from government shutdowns to power outages to the occasional mystery incident." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/autocrats_war_elections_caused_internet/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:15:14

• "When I listened to Arthur Brooks’ podcast episode Four Practical Ways to Live Like a Stoic with Ryan Holiday" ☛ https://piccalil.li/blog/three-stoic-principles-for-better-web-accessibility/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:17:07

• "To be a person of consequence is to matter." ☛ https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/notes-on-violence-and-voice/ | Source: Rebecca Solnit    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:17:43

• "Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is working with more than 1,000 police departments and sheriffs’ offices across the country to carry out the Trump administration’s immigration agenda." ☛ https://americanoversight.org/ice-287g-foia-transparency/ | Source: American Oversight    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:18:06

• "The lead plaintiff in the case is Phillip Callais, hence the case’s name. The New York Times reported last year that Callais is a veteran who lives near Baton Rouge" ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/04/30/repub/a-us-supreme-court-ruling-hammered-voting-rights-what-does-it-mean-and-what-happens-now/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:18:34

• "makes it much harder to challenge district maps over allegations that they dilute the voting power of minority groups — which is key to the tribes’ ongoing lawsuit against North Dakota" ☛ https://northdakotamonitor.com/2026/04/30/north-dakota-tribal-redistricting-case-still-in-limbo-after-voting-rights-act-decision/ | Source: North Dakota Monitor    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:18:54

• "makes it much harder to challenge district maps over allegations that they dilute the voting power of minority groups — which is key to the tribes’ ongoing lawsuit against North Dakota" ☛ https://northdakotamonitor.com/2026/04/30/north-dakota-tribal-redistricting-case-still-in-limbo-after-voting-rights-act-decision/ | Source: North Dakota Monitor    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:19:11

• "The court’s decision declared a Louisiana congressional map unconstitutional, in a ruling critics warn undermines core tenets of the Voting Rights Act." ☛ https://nevadacurrent.com/2026/04/29/moral-failure-courts-gutting-of-voting-rights-act-gets-slammed-by-nevadans/ | Source: Nevada Current    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:19:20

• "Across the United States, nearly 2.5 million people, more than the entire population of New Mexico, live on or near military bases." ☛ https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2026/04/30/medill-research-military-bases-news/index.html | Source: Northwestern University    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:23:01

• "For a long time, pirate site blocking was regarded as a topic most U.S. politicians would rather avoid." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/mpa-renews-push-for-u-s-site-blocking-legislation-citing-live-sports-piracy/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:23:35

• "But many critics of the move have inferred that the FCC’s request is a response to Kimmel’s jokes about the president and his wife" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/fcc-demands-review-of-all-abc-station-licenses-following-kimmel-joke-on-trump/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:23:57

• "More ordinary Russians are starting to speak out, in a rare chorus of dissent. VPN app downloads in the country increased 14-fold in March, a Russian business outlet reported." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/04/30/2026/backlash-swells-to-russia-web-crackdown | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:24:15

• "I didn’t think he was very interesting growing up" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/30/woody-guthrie-exhibit | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:24:43

• "polarization" ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/us-and-them | Source: The Next Move    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:25:52

• "Mission-driven founders often think the value of their work is product-shaped when it’s really movement-shaped" ☛ https://werd.io/product-shaped-or-movement-shaped/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:26:13

• "This initiative will establish the implementing arrangements for the Digital Product Passport Registry" ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/16052-Digital-Product-Passport-Registry_en | Source: European Commission    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:26:30

• "she said she ran out of financial resources." ☛ https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/voters-take-keys-away-from-elder | Source: Ken Klippenstein    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:27:01

• "Is our civic life becoming more brutish, or am I becoming angrier about it?" ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/please-tell-me-im-not-becoming-a | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:27:23

• "Whoever controls the agentic control plane controls enterprise AI. Google LLC just showed up to that fight with everything it has." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/30/agentic-control-plane-battle-enterprise-ai-googlecloudnext/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:27:46

• "Cameron Stanley said that avoiding dependence on a single vendor was a priority." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/security-software/google-signs-classified-pentagon-ai-deal-but-exits-100-million-drone-swarm-program | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:28:06

• "economists do not expect it to fall back below that threshold — marking the moment the national debt became, in all likelihood, permanently larger than the economy." ☛ https://www.notus.org/us-news/united-states-national-debt-trillion-president-donald-trump-rand-paul-crisis-point | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:28:33

• "That being the case, it’s already devolved into a circus just days into the case, with the erratic Musk emerging as a key liability in his own proceedings." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-openai-lawsuit | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:28:54

• "Technological sovereignty, according to the authors, resembles access to the gated garden of Musk and those like him, with the key to the gate held in Musk's hand." ☛ https://news.err.ee/1610011291/harri-tiido-on-muskism-and-the-reshaping-of-humanity | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:29:12

• "his own AI venture, xAI, uses OpenAI models." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/elon-musk-openai-lawsuit-sam-altman-nonprofit-b2968490.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:29:50

• "In US usage, the word “equity” appears everywhere: [...]" ☛ https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/23/equity-for-europeans/ | Source: Armin Ronacher    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:30:18

• "Every so often a story comes along that truly melts hearts and a news post from the Sumatran Orangutan Society has done just that." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/trail-cameras/camera-trap-footage-of-critically-endangered-orangutan-using-vital-road-crossing-is-a-world-first-and-a-huge-win-for-conservationists | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:30:56

• "They found that zinc is often concentrated right at the tip of the stinger, while manganese becomes the predominant metal further down the length." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/scorpions-reinforce-their-deadly-claws-and-stingers-with-heavy-metals | Source: Science Alert    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:31:14

• "Birdwatching no longer niche, old-fashioned pastime, says RSPB as research shows 47% increase in hobby since 2018" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/01/birdwatching-boom-britain-nature-gen-z-rspb-environment | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:31:33

• "I disavowed Trump after his clear betrayal of the American people" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/30/this-morning-i-met-the-qanon-shaman-and-here-are-ten-takeaways-from-our-conversation.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:32:13

• "A 500 MW data park will be developed near Hoskote in Bengaluru. Solar power generated at Pavagada will be directly supplied to the facility." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/karnataka-plans-1000-mw-data-park-capacity-across-bengaluru-mysuru-mangaluru/articleshow/130637940.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:33:40

• "The roughly $10 billion, 330-megawatt data center would require 750,000 gallons of water a day to operate, said developer Sebastian Rucci" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/ca-soon-may-have-over-300-data-centers-locals-worry-about-water-supply-threats/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:33:58

• "For the past several years, security experts have tracked a series of massive DDoS attacks originating from Brazil and solely targeting Brazilian ISPs." ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/anti-ddos-firm-heaped-attacks-on-brazilian-isps/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:49:40

• "Newly reviewed surveillance footage from the White House correspondents' dinner shows a Secret Service agent firing multiple shots at a fleeing suspect into a crowded hallway." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/30/new-footage-shows-only-one-source-of-gunfire-at-correspondents-dinner-and-its-not-the-suspect.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:50:00

• "For decades, the Office for Civil Rights has worked to uphold students’ constitutional rights against discrimination based on disability, race, national origin and gender." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-suing-department-of-education | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:50:20

• "The evidence was that a lot of the Twitter accounts and emails where we were getting death threats and abuse had been created the day before and had a string of numbers and letters as their handle" ☛ https://variety.com/2026/film/news/michael-jackson-jeffrey-epstein-photos-leaving-neverland-1236734561/ | Source: Variety    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:50:47

• "The note was eventually sealed by a federal judge as part of the cellmate’s own criminal case, according to documents and interviews." ☛ https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/epstein-s-possible-suicide-note-hidden-from-public-view-20260501-p5zss8.html | Source: The Age AU    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:51:04

• "This is the most dangerous kind of colonialism the kind that uses sick people as weapons!" ☛ https://zambianobserver.com/trump-has-given-zambia-a-deadline-of-today-april-30-2026-to-hand-over-access-to-their-copper-cobalt-and-lithium-mines-to-american-companies/ | Source: The Zambian Observer    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:51:29

• "These steps are intended to prevent reservoir levels from dropping to critically low elevations." ☛ https://www.western-water.com/2026/04/30/colorado-river-cuts-raise-water-power-concerns/ | Source: Western Water    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:52:16

• "Clark (2012) found that expensive housing markets are associated with a modest delay in age at first birth" ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/04/30/house-prices-and-fertility/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:52:37

• "Stripes reviewed identical WhatsApp messages sent to two service members stationed in Bahrain, which hosts U.S. Naval Forces Central Command" ☛ https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2026-04-28/handala-hack-iran-bahrain-navy-21510827.html | Source: Stars And Stripes    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:53:28

• "chilling WhatsApp threats" ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/iran-handala-hackers-leak-us-marines-data-chilling-whatsapp-threats | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:54:02

• "I argued against monarchy in Las Vegas on Tuesday." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-bell | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:54:26

• "There was "no meaningful shift" away from big tech platforms like TikTok and Instagram in the immediate wake of Australia's world-leading teen social media ban, government documents obtained by AFP show." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/no-meaningful-shift-from-social-media-sites-after-australia-teen-ban/articleshow/130624759.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:55:06

• "The war on terror did more than erode legal norms; it also reshaped the emotional and psychological terrain of American politics." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/04/trump-bush-obama-war-terror | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:55:23

• "imposing blockades on the supply of petrol and diesel being trucked in from Ivory Coast and Senegal in particular." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260430-jihadists-urge-united-front-against-mali-junta-as-bamako-blockade-begins | Source: France24    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:55:51

• "The ministers were due to discuss current regional security issues, support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia's aggression" ☛ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/diplomacy/30.04.2026-nordics-and-baltics-discuss-the-world-on-saaremaa.a644698/ | Source: Latvia    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:56:24

• "While there have been some instances in which this was true, it is far more often the case that there are blindingly obvious answers to tech problems" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/30/something-must-be-done/#there-ive-done-something | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:58:10

• "Klein told EFF's executive director Shari Steele that he could prove the NSA was tapping the [Internet] backbone at scale." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/30/how-a-retired-technician-handed-eff-the-proof-of-nsa-mass-spying.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:58:26

• "Spyware appears to have captured everything from intimate photos to private messages from the smartphone of European celebrity" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/exposed-data-illustrates-the-nightmare-scenario-for-a-stalkerware-victim/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:58:45

• Mythos = myth, BS. Hype.    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:59:28

• "These cameras record people and children in real time 24/7" ☛ https://jasonhunyar.substack.com/p/why-are-flock-employees-watching-720 |    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 12:59:52

• "The cameras accessed have included surveillance tech in a children’s gymnastics room, a playground, a school, a Jewish community center, and a pool." ☛ https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sales-pitch-demo-renews-contract-anyway/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:00:12

• "The move comes directly in response to 404 Media’s coverage about how the FBI was able to recover incoming Signal messages from an iPhone because the messages were saved in the device’s notification storage." ☛ https://www.404media.co/apple-fixes-bug-that-let-fbi-extract-deleted-signal-messages-after-404-media-coverage/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:00:27

• "Mythos is bluster, but functions well in regard to harvesting VC money. That is its _*only*_ deliverable. A lot of normal people however have gotten quite frighted by not knowing enough and actually believing the hype." -iophk    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:01:12

• "But those targets are sometimes communicating electronically with Americans, and intelligence officials can search the database using their identifying information, which has long given privacy groups and privacy-minded lawmakers heartburn" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/congress-extends-section-702-surveillance-45-days/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:01:30

• "The day after approving a three-year extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the House voted 261-111 to renew the program until June 21." ☛ https://therecord.media/congress-punts-fisa-renewal-to-june | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:01:50

• "Widespread concern over phone dependence has even helped start a “dumbphone” renaissance with people choosing minimalist handsets to escape our app-obsessed, brain-rotting culture." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/technology/personaltech/phone-addiction-remedies.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:02:08

• "Sen. Cotton is trying to keep his colleagues and Americans in the dark about how the government is violating the law to surveil us—the very same law some claim is never abused." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/wyden-to-force-declassification-of-secret-court-opinion-on-fisa-serious-abuses | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:02:34

• "urged his colleagues just hours before he posted the response to support a Trump administration–backed bill that would have extended the spying powers for another five years." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/04/himes-trump-surveillance-democrats-spying | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:03:09

• "Today, the Conseil d’État (the French Administrative Supreme Court) ruled in favour of La Quadrature du Net, French Data Network (FDN), Franciliens.net and Fédération FDN." ☛ https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2026/04/30/hadopi-2009-2026-2/ | Source: La Quadature Du Net    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:03:42

• "A group of detained immigrants have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration over a catch-22 biometric data policy that they allege has blocked them from obtaining legal status." ☛ https://www.notus.org/immigration/immigrants-detainees-class-action-lawsuit-trump-biometric-data-fingerprint-policy | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:03:59

• "Some countries have either implemented social media bans for children (Australia) or intend to do so (France, Spain, and more)." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-30-april-2026/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:04:21

• "Kyle Dausman, a resident of Cherry Hills Village on Denver’s south side, has been trapped in what must feel like a Kafkaesque loop after his truck was flagged by Flock Safety’s automatic license plate readers." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-ai-surveillance-colorado | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:04:36

• "Lockheed Martin has teamed up with AI giant NVIDIA since 2021 to use predictive modelling through the creation of an AI-driven ‘digital twin’" ☛ https://privacyinternational.org/report/5764/dual-use-tech-lockheed-martin-example | Source: Privacy International    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:05:02

• "AI giant NVIDIA"? It's a bloody GPU company. Just comes to show how "hey hi" became meaningless BS.    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:05:33

• "Today, noyb has filed a lawsuit against the Hamburg data protection authority (DPA)." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/no-action-taken-against-pimeyes-noyb-lawsuit-against-hamburg-dpa | Source: NYOB    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:05:57

• "Governor Bill Lee of Tennessee just signed into law a bill that bans cryptocurrency ATMs in the state starting July 1, 2026." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptocurrency/tennessee-bans-crypto-atms-that-have-become-payment-portal-of-choice-for-scammers-second-state-to-restrict-machines-after-indiana | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:06:23

• "My friend and I have a game where we talk about what we'd do if we were rich. Not rich like 'paid off the mortgage' rich." ☛ https://matduggan.com/if-i-could-make-my-own-github/ | Source: Mat Duggan    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:07:20

• "it's undeniable that Codeberg is your quickest" ☛ https://technomancy.us/204 |    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:07:34

• "Physical phone-blocking devices, powered by NFC wireless technology, are becoming a popular solution for doomscrolling." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/30/phone-addiction-cure-blocking-device | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:08:57

• "Though the company has a perfectly functional mobile website that lets you browse its communities and discussions on your phone’s browser" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/how-to-get-rid-of-reddit-app-popup | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:09:13

• "whether Meta may have breached" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/29/eu-investigators-say-meta-isnt-enough-keep-children-off-platforms/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:09:29

• "If you followed along with the recent joyful celebrations of the Artemis cruise around the moon [...] Here’s the TL;DR: [...]" ☛ https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/30/artemis-photos-flickr/ | Source: Anil Dash    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:10:00

• "agreed ⁠to better inform users about hallucination risks ​via their websites and apps" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/italy-closes-antitrust-probes-into-ai-firms-after-commitments-on-hallucination-risks/articleshow/130629203.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:13:30

• "Rajnath Singh highlighted what experts call the “dual-use dilemma” of AI." ☛ https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/defence-minister-rajnath-singh-ai-bhasmasur-warning-india-137822812.html | Source: Bhaskar English    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:19:15

• "classifying AI by risk level" ☛ https://sundial.csun.edu/213589/opinions/the-growing-ai-divide/ | Source: California State University Northridge    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:19:27

• "Amazon alleges that Perplexity has “purposely configured” Comet AI so that when the AI tool is deployed on behalf of an Amazon customer" ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/us-publishers-back-amazon-in-ai-agent-access-dispute-with-perplexity/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:19:36

• "grassroots resistance to artificial intelligence data centers that is springing up in communities across the country" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/04/data-center-ai-moratorium-bernie | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:19:51

• "The reason behind the price increase is pretty easy to understand." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/frameworks-new-rtx-5070-12gb-graphics-module-costs-a-whopping-usd1-199-72-percent-more-expensive-than-usd699-8gb-version-says-pricing-is-beyond-its-control | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:20:01

• "It's not that small – Google recommends having 22 GB of space available, though the Nano (v3Nano) model for desktop use is ~4.27 GB." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/30/mozilla_pushes_back_against_googles/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:20:24

• "On a Friday afternoon, Jer Crane sat down to work on a routine task at PocketOS, the car rental SaaS company he founded." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/ai-agent-deleted-production-database-in-9-secs/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:20:36

• "According to the IOCTA 2026 report, cybercrime is becoming more complex and interconnected, driven by rapid technological advancements." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/iocta-2026-report-flags-ai-cybercrime-rise/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:20:51

• "It is abhorrent yet common to treat essential contractors and employees as disposable." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-sama-contract-dispute/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:21:03

• "Meta is under pressure to explain why it cancelled a major contract with a company it was using to train AI" ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7yvgy0w6o | Source: BBC    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:21:17

• "Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded" ☛ https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everything |    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:29:42

• "Anti-AI Contribution Policy" ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/04/30/zigs-anti-ai-contribution-policy/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:29:57

• "Zig values contributors over their contributions." ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/ | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:30:16

• "Since then in the last couple of days the vibes around Claude continue to sour: [...]" ☛ https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/trying-out-opencode-to-avoid-claude-code-lock-in/ | Source: Matthew Brunelle    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:30:30

• "Since then, I’ve been regularly hearing reports across companies and industries about experiences with various AI agent products" ☛ https://herbsutter.com/2026/04/30/poll-ai-agents/ | Source: Herb Sutter    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:30:47

• "This framing also explains why the “Tokenmaxxing” meme started." ☛ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2026/04/30/Thoughts-on-Marginal-Token-Spend/ | Source: Ben Congdon    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:31:41

• "An AI model is not a person or even sentient. It has no long-term memory." ☛ https://jacobharr.is/personal/llm-not-junior-engineer |    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:32:22

• "I watched this unfold as a researcher in technology and a former lawyer, but also as a mother." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/30/i-took-an-algorithm-to-court-in-sweden-the-algorithm-won | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:33:25

• "The concern is that customers themselves, or those working with partners, might be restricted in how they deploy alternatives to SAP" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/new_sap_api_policy_provokes/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:33:37

• "The provisions were aimed at blocking “failure to warn” claims against pesticide manufacturers like Bayer" ☛ https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/04/in-a-maha-win-house-passes-farm-bill-stripped-of-language-that-would-have-protected-pesticide-companies/ | Source: The New Lede    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:34:13

• "This morning, the House voted to strip sections 10205, 10206, and 10207 from the Farm Bill" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/friends-of-the-earth-applauds-house-stripping-harmful-pesticide-language-from-farm-bill | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:34:28

• "Samsung expects the memory shortage to continue to worsen as the chipmaker has already begun receiving orders for 2027" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/memory-cards/sorry-photographers-the-worlds-biggest-chipmaker-says-the-memory-crisis-is-only-going-to-get-worse | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:44:21

• "One of the side effects of buying physical objects is the tactile ability to inspect what’s in the box." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/04/a-review-of-physical-nintendo-switch-publishers/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:44:37

• "We asked a few people from the Annual Meeting Planning Committee to share a few compelling reasons why you should attend the Highlights event." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/30/guest-post-ssp-annual-meeting-the-highlights-are-coming/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:45:24

• "Europe’s approach to governance for advancing technology in the digital age is under pressure, with “simplification” proposals hitting the heart of core digital protections." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/announcing-the-summit-fight-for-us-not-for-them-a-public-interest-vision-for-eu-tech-policy/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:46:02

• "This is an excerpt from my journal in which I comment on how I handle my everyday affairs in my land while respecting the greater magnitudes" ☛ https://protesilaos.com/commentary/2026-04-29-doing-what-i-must/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:47:01

• "When I left my full-time job a year ago and started seeking consulting clients, I had time on my hands that I had not had in years and years." ☛ https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/04/30/one-year-in-reflections-on-shifting-to-consulting-in-my-career/ | Source: Jim Grey    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:47:23

• "It was run by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (who later coined "flow") with Jacob Getzels, and Keith Sawyer recounts it in The MIT Press Reader." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/30/a-1964-art-school-study-predicted-who-would-still-be-painting-in-5-years.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:47:42

• "In 1965, the typical married father barely spent half an hour each day actively engaged in childcare, according to the best time-use data we have" ☛ https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-do-richer-dads-spend-more-time | Source: Derek Thompson    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:49:51

• "Universities are increasingly using collaborative learning pedagogies, which can benefit learners through deeper understanding of course content and teamwork skills." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/grouper-an-r-package-for-optimal-group-assignment/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:53:34

• "The ousters represent another severe blow to the NSF and the overall scientific enterprise in America." ☛ https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/national-science-board-eviscerated-trump-admin-fires-all-22-members/ | Source: Ars Technica    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:54:55

• "Just days before it was set to warn that the United States is losing ground to China in science and technology" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/29/days-before-warning-report-all-22-national-science-board-members-fired-in-two-sentence-email.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:55:15

• "In statistics and data analysis, coefficients are numerical measures that quantify relationships between variables or characteristics of data distributions." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/understanding-statistical-coefficients-from-regression-to-variation/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:55:31

• [Old] "This is just a hobby of mine, that I thought might be interesting to a lot of people. Some people collect stamps. Others collect coins. I collect dialects. - Rick Aschmann." ☛ https://aschmann.net/AmEng/ |    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:55:47

• "To get the most out of the map and its associated information, knowledge of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is helpful." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/30/this-dialect-map-covers-all-of-north-americas-english-accents.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:56:09

• "But according to a new study published in the journal Acta Astronautica, there might be a way to cut the journey down significantly." ☛ https://futurism.com/space/hidden-shortcut-mars | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 13:56:24

• "These might be just weird happenstance, but somehow that “adventure” framing makes it feel more dramatic." ☛ https://artlung.com/blog/2026/04/30/adventure/ | Source: Joe Crawford    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:11:04

• "Doing something hard yet pointless is foolish. But doing something hard yet valuable has a lot of benefits." ☛ https://allenpike.com/2026/we-can-do-hard-things/ | Source: Allen Pike    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:11:24

• "Jay Guarneri wrote a great article in the 2026 edition of Tenkara Angler about collecting zenmai from ferns and tying kebari with it." ☛ https://cagrimmett.com/2026/04/29/harvesting-and-tying-with-zenmai/ | Source: Chuck Grimmett    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:11:40

• "Yes, we are still alive. My last post was over 3 months ago." ☛ https://zitseng.com/archives/25256 | Source: Zit Seng    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:12:01

• "While writing yet another if block to check whether a map had a value, I asked myself a question: could Swift’s guard statement work in Go?" ☛ https://lmika.org/2026/04/30/could-swifts-guard-statement-work.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:12:27

• [Old] "Over the years I’ve tried to streamline and customize my command line experience to be more convenient, more fun to use or just to look rad." ☛ https://hamvocke.com/blog/a-quick-and-easy-guide-to-tmux/ |    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:15:32

• "GeneratedField brings database-generated columns to Django, but when should you use it?" ☛ https://www.paulox.net/2026/05/28/pycon-italia-2026/ | Source: Paolo Melchiorre    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:16:07

• "This is my response to The Weekly Challenge #371." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/missing-equilibrium.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:16:40

• "The describe() function from R’s psych package (Revelle, 2023) provides a comprehensive statistical summary of your dataset." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/understanding-rs-describe-function-a-complete-guide-to-summary-statistics/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:17:13

• "The GCC 16 release series differs from previous GCC releases in a number of ways." ☛ https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-16/porting_to.html | Source: GCC    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:17:54

• "One of my favourite Haskell papers is McIlroy’s wonderful “Power Series, Power Serious” (1999)." ☛ https://doisinkidney.com/posts/2026-04-28-poly-trie.html | Source: Donnacha Oisín Kidney    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:18:09

• "This page is a "brief" summary of some of the huge number of improvements in GCC 16. You may also want to check out our Porting to GCC 16 page and the full GCC documentation." ☛ https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-16/changes.html | Source: GCC    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:18:28

• "This week the article Wasm is not quite a stack machine has been making the rounds and has caught my eye." ☛ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/thoughts-on-webassembly-as-a-stack-machine/ | Source: Eli Bendersky    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:20:41

• "With these two in place, I built a very basic fuzzer for TUIs: it runs the command you give it, polls its output, and writes interleaved random input sequences (printable ASCII characters and ANSI escape sequences)." ☛ https://wickstrom.tech/2026-04-30-bombadil-terminal-experiment.html | Source: Oskar Wickström    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:21:01

• "The more bugs we fix, the fewer bugs remain in the code. Assuming the developers manage to fix problems at a decent enough pace." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/04/30/approaching-zero-bugs/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:21:25

• "Some projects are so huge and complicated that it requires a team to manage them. But this the exception, not the rule." ☛ https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/04/open-source-does-not-imply-open-community/ | Source: Feld    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:23:01

• "But for these more abstract ideas, “locked-open” enforcement becomes a matter for education, optimism, and hearts-and-minds." ☛ https://danq.me/2026/04/30/reply-to-locked-open/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:25:14

• "I’d like to share CougarStats, a free and open-source R Shiny web app I developed to support the teaching and learning of Statistics." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/cougarstats-a-free-and-open-source-statistics-web-app-for-teaching-and-learning/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:25:47

• "It presents a programmer’s point of view of R, for beginners (in fact for people with absolutely no programming experience) to advanced programmers." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/r-programming-book-in-greek-language/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:27:04

• "Last weekend I attended the 10th IndieWebCamp held in the city of Düsseldorf." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2026/04/30/indiewebcamp-dusseldorf-2026 | Source: James G    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:40:13

• "PyCon US is the largest and longest-running annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language." ☛ https://www.paulox.net/2026/05/15/pycon-us-2026/ | Source: Paolo Melchiorre    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:40:30

• "The Tor Project is deeply saddened by the last-minute cancellation of RightsCon 2026 in Lusaka, Zambia, and online." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/rightscon2026-statement-Tor-Project/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:40:50

• "The government only intends to postpone the event, Mutati said, but it is unclear whether the already financially strapped global human rights community or Access Now will be able or willing to travel to a rescheduled conference." ☛ https://therecord.media/zabia-cancels-global-digital-freedoms-conference-shortly-before-start | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:41:17

• "I am told I can leak that RightsCon has been canceled" ☛ https://www.404media.co/rightscon-human-rights-conference-suddenly-postponed/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:41:46

• "My questions were answered within minutes of the start of the training session in Tashkent." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why-localisation-matters-for-ai-literacy-lessons-from-uzbekistan/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:42:04

• "So here’s my controversial statement in 2026: on these points, Matt Mullenweg is completely right." ☛ https://werd.io/matt-mullenweg-thinks-wordpress-is-in-decline-he-may-be-right/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:42:34

• [Old] "Surprisingly many people don’t see the difference between a Query Builder and an ORM, so let’s clarify." ☛ https://hypha.pub/postgres-is-your-friend-orm-is-not | Source: Hypha    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:43:29

• "I was wrong; corfu does support as you type completion." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsSwitchingToOnlyCorfu | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:44:00

• "As I have written before, I first learned Emacs at a small firm in the late 1990s." ☛ https://macadie.info/2026/04/30/emacs-carnival-history-and-thoughts-on-start-kits/ | Source: Eric MacAdie    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:44:18

• "These are the basic settings for Emacs that I shared with Sacha Chua during our livestreamed meeting on 2026-04-30" ☛ https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-04-30-emacs-decent-default-sacha-chua/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:44:36

• "The development version of Emacs as of Feb 2026 includes a newcomers-presets theme that can be enabled from the splash screen or by using M-x load-theme RET newcomers-presets RET." ☛ https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/04/what-s-in-the-emacs-newcomers-presets-theme/ | Source: Sacha Chua    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:44:56

• "I found a couple of old documentaries online – one was a short Norwegian TV-show segment showing how a craftsman made wooden skis" ☛ https://erikjohannes.no/posts/20260430-making-wooden-skis/index.html | Source: Erik Johannes Husom    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:45:43

• "O-2 runs on a cesium-133 oscillator, the active element of any atomic clock, built into a surface-mount chip." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/30/a-hobbyist-mounted-a-cesium-atomic-clock-on-his-raspberry-pi.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:45:58

• "Once the output of the CSAC is initially disciplined against GPS, the board can maintain better than 0.3 parts per billion stability in the absence of a GPS signal." ☛ https://coverclock.blogspot.com/2017/05/my-stratum-0-atomic-clock_9.html |    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:46:12

• "Thank you for your support and your donations! Many thanks to everyone involved in helping Linux Mint." ☛ https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5022 | Source: Linux Mint    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:46:39

• "Since 2019, we recommend USB images to start Tails from a USB stick, which is by far the most common way of running Tails." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_7_1/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:47:14

• "Fedora doesn't have to worry about "stable" or "long-term support" releases." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/fedora_44_countless_versions/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:47:56

• "I’m excited to announce that Fedora Linux 44 is here! Keep reading to discover highlights of Fedora Linux 44, or if you are ready" ☛ https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-44/ | Source: Fedora Magazine    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 14:48:10

• "Total Microsoft headcount declined year-over-year during the company’s fiscal 2026 third quarter ended March 31" https://www.cfodive.com/news/microsoft-cfo-flags-workforce-cuts-ai-spending-surges-layoffs/819027/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 15:14:24

• "This is the list I have been able to put together so far: [...]" ☛ https://austinwhite.org/posts/operating-systems | Source: Austin White    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 15:16:15

• "Despite appearing to be a traditional RPG with stats like Health, Attack, Speed, and the ability to upgrade your equipment" ☛ https://sethmlarson.dev/the-frog-for-whom-the-bell-tolls | Source: Seth Michael Larson    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 15:17:23

• "For anyone joining fresh: you draft a roster of maintainers, you score points when their packages get downloaded" ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/04/30/open-source-fantasy-draft.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 15:17:36

• "It allows an unprivileged user to trigger a deterministic 4-byte write into the kernel’s shared page cache" ☛ https://ostechnix.com/copy-fail-cve-2026-31431-linux-kernel-root-exploit/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 15:19:23

• "The results were striking. Linux 7.0 delivered roughly half the throughput of Linux 6.x on the same hardware and workload: [...]" ☛ https://read.thecoder.cafe/p/linux-broke-postgresql |    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 15:19:44

• "On this episode, we discussed DjangoCon Europe, which Carlton had attended." ☛ https://micro.webology.dev/2026/04/30/djangochat-podcast-e/ | Source: Jeff Triplett    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 15:20:28

• "Breaking up Big Tech, Porting MacOS to the Nintendo Wii, OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250, Postgres is your friend and more..." ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/661 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 15:20:41

• Proton Experimental updated to get Crimson Desert working again on Linux / SteamOS | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/proton-experimental-updated-to-get-crimson-desert-working-again-on-linux-steamos/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 15:22:17

• Rocket League adds Easy Anti-Cheat with Steam Deck / Linux still supported | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/rocket-league-adds-easy-anti-cheat-with-steam-deck-linux-still-supported/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 15:22:43

• GameMaker is launching GMRT, a new modern runtime with source access | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/gamemaker-is-launching-gmrt-a-new-modern-runtime-with-source-access/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 15:23:23

• Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency launches Sovereign Tech Standards to support open standards | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/germanys-sovereign-tech-agency-launches-sovereign-tech-standards-to-support-open-standards/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 15:24:42

• "Canonical Is Adding AI to Ubuntu" https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/canonical-is-adding-ai-to-ubuntu:9    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 16:00:56

• "Warren Catches Hegseth Contradicting Himself on Alleged Military Stock Trading | Truthout" https://truthout.org/articles/warren-catches-hegseth-contradicting-himself-on-alleged-military-stock-trading/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 16:01:13

• "Judge Who Laid the Groundwork for Trump’s Supreme Court Battle Used to Work for Him - NOTUS — News of the United States" https://www.notus.org/courts/judge-steven-menashi-trump-supreme-court-white-house-lawyer-e-jean-carroll-defamation-lawsuit    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 16:01:41

• "Is Trump's viral ‘diaper photo’ real? Here's the truth behind BTS snap from ‘60 Minutes’ studio | Hindustan Times" https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/is-trumps-viral-diaper-photo-real-heres-the-truth-behind-bts-snap-from-60-minutes-studio-101777594020684.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 16:01:57

• "From NATO Partnership for Peace crisis to European Peace Facility delays: Orbán’s impact on Armenia - New Eastern Europe" https://neweasterneurope.eu/2026/04/30/from-nato-partnership-for-peace-crisis-to-european-peace-facility-delays-orbans-impact-on-armenia/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 16:02:14

• "Failure is always an option | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/failure-always-option   

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 16:02:31

• "USS Gerald R. Ford Heads Home After 309 Days in the Middle East - The Zambian Observer" https://zambianobserver.com/uss-gerald-r-ford-heads-home-after-309-days-in-the-middle-east/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 16:02:53

• Iconic Route 66 is turning 100. What can it still tell us about ourselves? ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2026/0430/route-66-100-years-summer-road-trip    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 16:09:39

• Zoo animals beat the Mexico City heat with personalized popsicles ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-citys-zoo-animals-popsicles-hydration-heat-wave/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 16:11:26

• Firefox Nightly: Import-ant Updates – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 201 ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/04/30/import-ant-updates-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-201/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 16:12:16

• The Servo Blog: March in Servo: keyboard navigation, better debugging, FreeBSD support, and more! ☞ https://servo.org/blog/2026/04/30/march-in-servo/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 16:14:26

• The rise of fake days out on social control media (and how to protect yourself) ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/the-rise-of-fake-days-out-on-social-media-and-how-to-protect-yourself-aedhk3Q9UeMN    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 16:15:20

• Approaching zero bugs? ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/04/30/approaching-zero-bugs/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 16:47:15

• Kubernetes v1.36: In-Place Vertical Scaling for Pod-Level Resources Graduates to Beta ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/04/30/kubernetes-v1-36-inplace-pod-level-resources-beta/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 17:55:17

• "We’re delighted that Abigail Besdin has joined Mozilla as our new Chief Operating Officer." ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/coo-abigail-besdin/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 18:24:51

• "You’ve probably been there: you paste a command with a password embedded, hit Enter, and immediately wonder how many places that string just landed." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/hide-commands-bash-history-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 18:26:11

• "Enterprises need to find a way to maintain strong isolation guarantees while preserving performance." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/designing-multitenant-gpu-infrastructure-isolation-across-virtualization-and-kubernetes-platforms | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 18:26:39

• The Document Foundation Releases LibreOffice 26.2.3 ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/30/the-document-foundation-releases-libreoffice-26-2-3/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 18:29:04

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

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 18:29:34

• How To Install LibreOffice on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-libreoffice-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 18:29:53

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

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 18:30:11

• How To Install ImageMagick on Fedora 44 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-imagemagick-fedora-44/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 18:30:25

• ‘Mentoring Mondays’ Is Otto Kekäläinen’s Way to Support New Debian Devs ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/04/mentoring-mondays-is-otto-kekalainens-way-to-support-new-debian-devs/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 18:31:37

• Seven new stable kernels for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1070641/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 18:33:18

• Kirigami forms and configurations ☞ https://notmart.org/blog/2026/04/kirigami-forms-and-configurations/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 18:35:22

• Iran war splits Asian diesel market into haves and have-nots ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/iran-war-splits-asian-diesel-market-into-haves-and-have-nots    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 18:48:52

• Manila landfill fire leaves Filipinos gasping for clean air ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/manila-landfill-fire-leaves-locals-gasping    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 18:49:11

• A Conversation with a Health-Care-Provider Support Bot ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/conversation-with-a-health-care-provider-support-bot    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 18:49:29

• New electric car support programme to start soon in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/30.04.2026-new-electric-car-support-programme-to-start-soon-in-latvia.a645159/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 18:49:56

• Korean Air Bans Roosters on U.S. Flights to the Philippines ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/world/asia/korean-air-cockfighting-roosters-philippines.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 18:50:15

• At least 358 executed under North Korean leader Kim Jong Un: Rights group ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/at-least-358-executed-under-north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-rights-group    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 18:52:01

• S. Korean Army eyes drones as personal weapons for future troops ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-korean-army-eyes-drones-as-personal-weapons-for-future-troops    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 18:52:14

• Military officer in Malaysia charged with murder over fatal drink driving crash ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/military-officer-in-malaysia-charged-with-murder-over-fatal-drink-driving-crash    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 18:59:38

• Civil servants among 69 Malaysians nabbed in international online child exploitation crackdown ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/civil-servants-among-69-malaysians-nabbed-in-international-online-child-exploitation-crackdown    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:00:09

• China, US economic chiefs raise complaints in ‘candid’ call ahead of Convicted Felon-Xi summit ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-us-trade-chiefs-had-candid-call-weeks-ahead-of-expected-trump-xi-summit    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:01:43

• Disinformation is Beijing’s weapon. Japan needs more than fact-checking to counter it ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/disinformation-is-beijings-weapon-japan-needs-more-than-fact-checking-to-counter-it/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:02:07

• How Convicted Felon’s Iran Blockade Is Complicating a High-Stakes Trip to China ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/politics/trump-china-iran.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:03:05

• China holds naval, air patrols near Scarborough Shoal as Philippines, US stage drills ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-holds-naval-air-patrols-near-scarborough-shoal-as-philippines-us-stage-drills    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:03:53

• S. Koreans’ meat-heavy diet carries bigger carbon cost than 10 return flights to Jeju, report finds ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-koreans-meat-heavy-diet-carries-bigger-carbon-cost-than-10-return-flights-to-jeju-report-finds    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:04:22

• Japanese travellers to China drastically decrease amid diplomatic row ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japanese-travelers-to-china-drastically-decrease-amid-diplomatic-row    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:04:45

• Paraguay president to visit Taiwan in May amid China pressure ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/paraguay-president-to-visit-taiwan-in-may-amid-china-pressure    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:05:03

• Scam alert: Fake gold that is hard to detect emerges in China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/scam-alert-fake-gold-that-is-hard-to-detect-emerges-in-china    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:05:47

• Australia foreign minister says China agrees to collaborate on jet fuel exports ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/30/australia-foreign-minister-says-china-agrees-to-collaborate-on-jet-fuel-exports/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:07:13

• Lack of food is poor man's problem. Lack of fuel is car owner's problem. Lack of jet fuel is is the oligarch's problem.    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:08:45

• China’s April factory activity expands despite Middle East war ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/30/chinas-april-factory-activity-expands-despite-middle-east-war/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:10:13

• Palantir Is Making a French Chore Coat. Yes, That Palantir. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/style/palantir-ai-coat-french-chore-coat.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:13:31

• Martin Lewis says Meta scam ads stealing his name are ‘worse than ever’ ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/martin-lewis-says-meta-scam-ads-stealing-his-name-are-worse-than-ever/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:14:07

• Five-star employee reviews for Pink News deleted after Hey Hi (AI) allegation ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/pinknews-glassdoor-reviews-removed/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:14:32

• Irish News ‘overstated’ audience plant allegations against Stephen Nolan show, says IPSO ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/newspaper-corrections-media-mistakes-errors-legal/irish-news-wrong-to-allege-serious-editorial-misconduct-on-stephen-nolan-show-ipso/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:14:54

• We Outlasted Neanderthals Thanks to One Key Difference, Study Suggests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/we-outlasted-neanderthals-thanks-to-one-key-difference-study-suggests    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:19:25

• UK Healthy Life Expectancy Has Fallen by More Than 2 Years, Study Warns ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/uk-healthy-life-expectancy-has-fallen-by-more-than-2-years-study-warns    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:19:53

• Africa Is Splitting Apart Faster Than We Thought, Forming a New Ocean ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/africa-is-splitting-apart-faster-than-we-thought-forming-a-new-ocean    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:20:17

• Yawning Does Something Unexpected in Your Brain, MRI Scans Reveal ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/yawning-does-something-unexpected-in-your-brain-mri-scans-reveal    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:20:30

• Most People Develop Diverticulosis in Their Gut by The Age of 80… So What Is It? ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/most-people-develop-diverticulosis-in-their-gut-by-the-age-of-80-so-what-is-it    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:20:43

• Qt Contributors Summit 2026: Oslo in October! ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-contributors-summit-2026-oslo-in-october    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:22:11

• Shame list for blackmail (to adopt US laws overseas) ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/us-names-vietnam-as-top-concern-country-in-intellectual-property-rights-report    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:22:55

• Victim of Hey Hi (AI) agent that deleted company's entire database gets their data back ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/victim-of-ai-agent-that-deleted-companys-entire-database-gets-their-data-back-cloud-provider-recovers-critical-files-and-broadens-its-48-hour-delayed-delete-policy    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:24:13

• Talent over tokens: Hey Hi (AI) models are becoming more expensive to run, and productivity gains are limited ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/talent-over-tokens-ai-models-are-becoming-more-expensive-to-run-and-productivity-gains-are-limited-efficient-workers-might-be-the-solution-to-strained-budgets    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:24:51

• US soldier pleads not guilty to using classified intel on Venezuela to win bet ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/us-soldier-pleads-not-guilty-to-using-classified-intel-on-venezuela-to-win-bet/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:25:20

• Taiwan economy grows at fastest pace since 1987 ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/05/01/taiwan-economy-grows-at-fastest-pace-since-1987/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:25:47

• Western Digital and Sandisk stocks fall ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/30/western-digital-sandisk-crush-wall-streets-expectations-soaring-ai-demand/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:29:03

• Mark Kapo-berg Just Got Shot Down by China, Again ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-shot-down-by-china    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:29:35

• OpenAI Strangely Concerned About Goblins ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-concerned-about-goblins    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:29:55

• "that doesn't stop it suggesting things for you to put in your mouth" ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/business/30.04.2026-ai-nutritionist-offers-eating-tips-for-a-healthier-lifestyle.a645192/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:30:27

• Epstein Victims’ Pursuit of Justice Finds a New Venue: Albany, N.Y. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/nyregion/new-york-sexual-assault-laws-epstein.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:33:36

• If Proprietary Chaffbot Company Loses This Trial, It Could Effectively Be Eliminated in Its Current Form ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/openai-collapse-weeks-elon-musk-lawsuit    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:34:21

• Get 32GB of RAM and 2TB SSD for $406 when paired with AMD's new 9950X3D2 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/get-32gb-of-ram-and-2tb-ssd-for-usd406-when-paired-with-amds-new-9950x3d2-asus-rog-x870e-apex-gets-you-a-monster-overclocking-am5-bundle-for-usd2-048-usd400-off    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:35:25

• Police in Australia Were Warned of Terror Risk Before Bondi Attack, Report Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/world/asia/australia-bondi-beach-attack-antisemitism.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:35:57

• House Passes DHS Funding Bill, Ending Shutdown ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/politics/house-homeland-security-funding-bill.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:36:45

• The Homeland Security Shutdown Ends ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/briefing/homeland-security-shutdown-ends.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:37:02

• Congress ends DHS shutdown amid flurry of action before taking a break ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026/0430/congress-shutdown-dhs-fisa-prediction-markets    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:37:18

• China threatens EU with retaliation if it bans Huawei gear ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-threatens-eu-with-retaliation-if-it-bans-huawei-gear    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:37:39

• Security advisory: QML Code Injection in VectorImage Component in Qt declarative module impacts Qt ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/security-advisory-qml-code-injection-in-vectorimage    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:38:40

• US troop withdrawal from Germany would be 'foolish', expert says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/us-troop-withdrawal-from-germany-would-be-foolish-expert-says    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:39:22

• Mali’s armed groups fill a government vacuum – addressing this is key to ending the violence ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/security/national-security/malis-armed-groups-fill-a-government-vacuum-addressing-this-is-key-to-ending-the-violence/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:39:58

• Everyone’s building Hey Hi (AI) agents. Almost nobody’s ready for what they do to identity. ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/ai-agent-identity-security-anthropic-mythos/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:40:54

• FCC tightens KYC rules for telecoms, closes loophole for banned foreign services ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/fcc-know-your-customer-supply-chain-security-rules/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:41:45

• Thoughts on Marginal Token Spend ☞ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2026/04/30/Thoughts-on-Marginal-Token-Spend/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:45:01

• Two Chinese ETRI video codec patents held invalid after appeals ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/4/30/two-chinese-etri-video-codec-patents-held-invalid-after-appeals    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:46:09

• Sculpt 26-04 is released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/sculpt    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:47:23

• Pakistan: The US 'was always banking on' Islamabad mediation ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260430-pakistan-the-us-was-always-banking-on-islamabad-mediation   

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:48:08

• New Banksy Statue Causes Stir in Central London ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/world/europe/banksy-london-statue.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:49:18

• Where in the World Is All That Gold Stored? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/central-banks-gold-storage.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:49:46

• Why Countries Are Stocking Up on Gold ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/central-banks-gold-buying.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:50:04

• UPC is illegal ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/upc-gives-frankfurt-court-priority-in-samsungs-frand-claim-but-revokes-ztes-patent/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:51:27

• Also illegal ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/german-manufacturer-free-to-supply-wound-care-products-to-german-armed-forces/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:52:18

• European Patent Office Management Mocked for Trying to 'Bribe' Staff With a Little Food (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/30/European_Patent_Office_Management_Mocked_for_Trying_to_Bribe_St.shtml    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:52:34

• The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part X - Deliberately Violate European Patent Convention (EPC), Tolerate Cocaine Use in Management, Hide That From Staff and Stakeholders (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/30/The_Corrupt_Lecture_the_Non_Corrupt_Part_X_Deliberately_Violate.shtml    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:52:48

• "another drawback to UPC litigation particular to the pharmaceutical sector is that its quick judgments may undermine a company’s ability to prolong market exclusivity by delaying an adverse judgment." ☞ http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/04/fordham-33-report-6-unified-patent-court.html?showComment=1777456471595#c5361840175170565509    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:53:46

• The Thin Margin Between “Generic Vascepa” and Active Inducement ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/04/the-thin-margin-between-generic-vascepa-and-active-inducement.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:54:37

• Sophie Herold: Testing Library Code in GNOME OS ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2026/04/30/testing-library-code-in-gnome-os/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:57:21

• Firefox Tooling Announcements: Firefox Profiler Deployment (April 28, 2026) ☞ https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/firefox-profiler-deployment-april-28-2026/148154    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:57:57

• Homebrew PlayStation DualSense controller adapter for PC can be built for just $20 with a Raspberry Pi Pico ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/controllers-gamepads/homebrew-playstation-dualsense-controller-adapter-for-pc-can-be-built-for-just-usd20-with-a-raspberry-pi-pico-wireless-dongle-delivers-adaptive-triggers-and-haptic-feedback-to-gamers    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:59:11

• M5Stack Cardputer goes off-grid with new Mesh Kit featuring LoRa, GNSS, and Meshtastic support ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/30/m5stack-cardputer-goes-off-grid-with-new-mesh-kit-featuring-lora-gnss-and-meshtastic-support/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 19:59:59

• Human Genome Pioneer J. Craig Venter Dies at 79 ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/human-genome-pioneer-j-craig-venter-dies-at-79    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:01:11

• Sergio Cipriano: My experience at MiniDebConf Campinas 2026 ☞ https://sergiocipriano.com/minidebconf-campinas-2026.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:02:09

• Bicom 5.1.0-build943 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/bicom   

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:03:24

• Critical cPanel & WHM Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day for Months ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-cpanel-whm-vulnerability-exploited-as-zero-day-for-months/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:03:50

• EnOcean SmartServer Flaws Expose Buildings to Remote Hacking ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/enocean-smartserver-flaws-expose-buildings-to-remote-hacking/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:04:09

• NVIDIA phases out several Jetson modules due to high LPDDR4 RAM prices and tight supplies ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/30/nvidia-phases-out-several-jetson-modules-due-to-high-lpddr4-ram-prices-and-tight-supplies/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:05:13

• $4,290+ Unitree R1-A5 and R2-A7 humanoid robots features grippers or dexterous hands, fixed or wheeled base ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/05/01/4290-unitree-r1-a5-and-r2-a7-humanoid-robots-features-gripper-or-dexterous-hands-fixed-or-wheeled-base/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:06:13

• Forlinx UP4 – A 40×40 mm LCC + LGA system-on-module family with Rockchip, NXP, and Allwinner CPU options ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/30/forlinx-up4-a-40x40-mm-lcc-lga-system-on-module-family-with-rockchip-nxp-and-allwinner-cpu-options/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:07:01

• running Hey Hi (AI) locally with a beautiful web interface: unsloth ☞ https://dwaves.de/2026/04/30/running-ai-locally-with-a-beautiful-web-interface-unsloth/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:07:44

• Apple 'has given up' on Vision Pro, report claims — costly price and weight behind purported failure, but the company continues to hire into its Vision Production Group ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/virtual-reality/apple-has-given-up-on-vision-pro-report-claims-costly-price-and-weight-behind-purported-failure-but-the-company-continues-to-hire-into-its-vision-production-group    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:08:26

• Musk vs Altman: Beyond battle of egos, who gets final say on AI? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20260430-musk-vs-altman-beyond-battle-of-egos-who-gets-final-say-on-ai    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:09:18

• D4vd Bought Chainsaws and Body Bag on Amazon After Murder, Prosecutors Say, in the Most Grisly Case of Internet Brain Rot We’ve Ever Heard ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/tesla-driver-d4vd-chainsaws-body-bag-amazon    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:11:00

• Tails 7.7.1 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tails    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:11:22

• Pyramid of the Capitalist System (1911) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pyramid-of-the-capitalist-system    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:11:48

• The Rust Programming Language Blog: Raising the baseline for the `nvptx64-nvidia-cuda` target ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/05/01/nvptx-baseline-update/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:12:51

• UGS passes bill supporting RA unionization effort ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/04/30/ugs-bill-ra-unionization-effort/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:13:15

• Sandhills Medical Says Ransomware Breach Affects 170,000 ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/sandhills-medical-says-ransomware-breach-affects-170000/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:14:58

• SAP NPM Packages Targeted in Supply Chain Attack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/sap-npm-packages-targeted-in-supply-chain-attack/    

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

• SonicWall Urges Immediate Patching of Firewall Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/sonicwall-urges-immediate-patching-of-firewall-vulnerabilities/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:15:26

• Inspired ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/04/30/inspired/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:16:24

• ReAct: Reflection attack mitigation for asymmetric routing ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/05/01/react-reflection-attack-mitigation-for-asymmetric-routing/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:16:43

• Google, Meta and Amazon took two thirds of £46bn UK 2025 adspend ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/uk-adspend-google-meta-amazon/ "Press Gazette analysis based on new AA/WARC data reveals extent three US tech giants dominate UK media."    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:17:35

• Two new extortion crews are speedrunning the Scattered Spider playbook ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/crowdstrike-cordial-spider-snarky-spider-extortion-attacks/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:18:57

• Fast16 Malware ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/fast16-malware.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:19:31

• A DPorts explanation ☞ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2026/04/30/a-dports-explanation/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:19:59

• Sony confirms PS4 and PS5 digital games don't require an online check-in every 30 days ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/sony-confirms-ps4-and-ps5-digital-games-dont-require-an-online-check-in-every-30-days-new-drm-policy-only-checks-once-for-license-to-combat-against-refund-scams    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:20:29

• KDE & Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2026 ☞ https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2026-04-30-gsoc-start/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:21:14

• Felipe Borges: Let’s Welcome Our Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2026 Contributors! ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/feborges/gsoc-2026-contributors-announcement/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:21:41

• 7 Features I Like in Ptyxis (The New Default Ubuntu Terminal) ☞ https://itsfoss.com/ptyxis-terminal-features/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:22:54

• GCC 16.1 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1070649/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:27:23

• ESP-FLY micro drone kit offers ESP32-S3-based flight control and ESP-NOW support ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/esp-fly-micro-drone-kit-offers-esp32-s3-based-flight-control-and-esp-now-support/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:28:30

• FOSS Weekly #26.18: Ubuntu's Hey Hi (AI) Move, New Entry in Home Directory, New Ubuntu Terminal, Fedora 44 Release and More GNU/Linux Stuff ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-18/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:29:58

• Someone got Ubuntu running on a PS5 – and played Steam ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ps5-linux-steam    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:30:40

• Linux Mint’s new HWE ISOs improve hardware support ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/linux-mint-hwe-isos-announced    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:31:46

• Linux App Release Roundup (April 2026) ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/linux-release-roundup-april-2026    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:32:30

• Unraid 7.2.5 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/unraid    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:33:47

• Evernight Vista 44 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/evernight    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:34:01

• Welcome to Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2026 contributors! ☞ https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_welcome_contributors    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:34:34

• Ludora 44_2026-04-30 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ludora    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:34:52

• Coyote 4.0.192 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/coyote    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:35:04

• Someone Turned a PS5 Into a GNU/Linux Gaming PC, and It Actually Works ☞ https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17328398/run-linux-on-ps5    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:35:38

• Obarun 2026.04.30 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/obarun    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:35:55

• Commodore 3.1 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/commodore    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:36:09

• CachyOS GNU/Linux Performance Leading Over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Fedora Workstation 44 ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-ubuntu-2604-fedora-44    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:36:39

• AerynOS 2026.05 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/aerynos    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:36:55

• Mabox 26.04 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/mabox    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:37:09

• "Created by the minds behind Atom, Zed 1.0 is officially ready for prime time." ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/popular-open-source-editor-zed-hits-10-with-deepseek-v4-support-and-major-fixes/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:38:10

• Nyarch GNU/Linux – anime-themed GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/nyarch-linux-anime-themed-linux-distribution/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:38:45

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

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:39:09

• 15 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Camera Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cameratools/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:39:36

• Visu – visualize algorithms step by step ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/?p=179104    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:40:18

• Step-by-Step Guide to Upgrade Ubuntu 24.04 to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://tecadmin.net/step-by-step-guide-to-upgrade-ubuntu-24-04-to-ubuntu-26-04-lts/   

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:41:01

• SUSE responds to the copy.fail vulnerability ☞ https://www.suse.com/c/suse-responds-to-the-copy-fail-vulnerability/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:41:26

• Grml 2026.04 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/grml    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:42:04

• The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2026 selected projects ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/04/30/gsoc-2026-selected-projects/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:42:40

• Mozilla Localization (L10N): L10n Report: April Edition 2026 ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2026/04/30/l10n-report-april-edition-2026/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:43:15

• Notes from April 2026 ☞ https://evanhahn.com/notes-from-april-2026/ "I dislike the Abusive Monopolist Microsoft subsidiary"    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:44:47

• Chilling Effects in the Digital Age ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/chilling-effects-in-the-digital-age/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:45:07

• Amazon’s New AI-Generated “Podcasts” Shilling Every Imaginable Products Are Already Backfiring Spectacularly ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-ai-generated-infomercials-backfiring    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:45:45

• How StatefulSet deployments tripled OpenShift Pipelines throughput ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/30/how-statefulset-deployments-tripled-openshift-pipelines-throughput    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:46:22

• Fedora 44 Brings GNOME 50, KDE 6.6, and Better Gaming (With Screenshots) ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/04/fedora-44-brings-gnome-50-kde-6-6-and-better-gaming-with-screenshots/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:47:07

• "I’m excited to announce that Fedora Linux 44 is here! Keep reading to discover highlights of Fedora Linux 44, or if you are ready, just jump right in and give Fedora Linux 44 a try!" https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-44/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:48:21

• "Fedora doesn't have to worry about "stable" or "long-term support" releases. It doesn't have them, because those things happen in other products: its downstream distributions." https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/fedora_44_countless_versions/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:48:46

• "There's a new Fedora version twice a year, and each version only gets a year of updates. You're supposed to upgrade to a new version at least annually – in other words, every alternate release."    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:49:08

• "This means the project is free to include newer versions of its tens of thousands of sub-components, and indeed, major components often get upgraded to new versions during each Fedora release's six months as the current version."    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:49:15

• IBM Red Hat pushing slop, not Free software https://www.itpro.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/uk-firms-accelerate-sovereign-ai-plans-amid-concerns-over-dependence-on-overseas-tech    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:50:18

• Slop, slop, slop https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/233-3-year-return-investment-and-13-months-payback-red-hat-ai?sc_cid=RHCTG0180000354765    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:51:09

• Slopdora https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/announcing-fedora-44    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:51:59

• MOAR and MOAR slop https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/28/red-hats-openclaw-maintainer-just-made-enterprise-claw-deployments-a-lot-safer/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:52:42

• PEAK developers support Make-A-Wish with a charity bundle through Digiphile | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/peak-developers-support-make-a-wish-with-a-charity-bundle-through-digiphile/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:53:38

• Nintendo 64 emulator gopher64 gets even easier to use | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/nintendo-64-emulator-gopher64-gets-even-easier-to-use/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/nintendo-64-emulator-gopher64-gets-even-easier-to-use/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:54:06

• Save on some epic games in the Capcom Masters Bundle at Fanatical | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/save-on-some-epic-games-in-the-capcom-masters-bundle-at-fanatical/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:54:28

• Ukraine Strikes Deep Inside Russia, Tuapse Hit Again ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-strikes-russia-oil-cease-fire-talks/33745974.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:55:08

• Ukraine Reacts With Shrug to Phone Call Between Convicted Felon and Putin ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/world/europe/trump-putin-ukraine-zelensky-peace-talks.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:55:25

• How North Korea is supporting Putin’s war in Ukraine ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/how-north-korea-is-supporting-putins-war-in-ukraine    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:55:36

• Jeffrey Epstein’s Possible Suicide Note Hidden From Public View ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-note-sealed.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:56:07

• Vessel carrying grain Ukraine says stolen by Russia will not unload in Israel, Kyiv says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/vessel-carrying-grain-ukraine-says-stolen-by-russia-will-not-unload-in-israel-kyiv-says    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:56:43

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Urges Merz To Prioritize Ukraine Over Iran ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-war-us-hormuz-oil-blockade-gulf-israel/33640284.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:56:59

• Ukraine sees path to Japanese arms after Tokyo eases export rules ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/ukraine-sees-path-to-japanese-arms-after-tokyo-eases-export-rules    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:57:16

• Ukrainian drones strike Russian oil facilities some 1,500 km away ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/ukrainian-drones-strike-russian-oil-facilities-some-1500-km-away    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:57:29

• This Ukrainian canine unit is finding the war’s victims – and a way through hardship ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0430/ukraine-rescue-dogs-canine-unit-lost-persons-remains    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:57:43

• Oil Companies’ Huge Profits Revive Calls for Temporary Windfall Taxes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/business/economy/iran-war-oil-profits-tax.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:58:00

• Hezbollah Using Fiber-Optic Drones Against Israeli Targets ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/world/middleeast/hezbollah-fiber-optic-drones.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:58:23

• Saeima moves forward weapons ban for dual Russian, Belarusian citizens ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/saeima/30.04.2026-saeima-moves-forward-weapons-ban-for-dual-russian-belarusian-citizens.a645254/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:58:44

• Latvian dual citizens find it hard to drop Russian, Belarusian citizenship ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/30.04.2026-latvian-dual-citizens-find-it-hard-to-drop-russian-belarusian-citizenship.a645173/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:59:02

• Jury of Italy's Venice Biennale resigns over Russia row ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/jury-of-italy-s-venice-biennale-resigns-over-russia-row    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:59:18

• 'Damage control mode': Reputations of Mali junta & Russian mercenaries 'hang in balance' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/damage-control-mode-reputations-of-mali-junta-russian-mercenaries-hang-in-balance    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:59:40

• A7, Company Implicated In Sanctions Evasion, Reportedly Linked To Russian Oligarchs ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-cryptocurrency-a7a5-ilan-shor-investigation-sanction-evasion/33746026.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 20:59:53

• Russia says OPEC+ will continue after UAE exit, no price war expected ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/russia-says-opec-will-continue-after-uae-exit-no-price-war-expected   

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:00:07

• Lithuania Says It Broke Up Russian Sabotage and Murder Plots ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/world/europe/russia-sabotage-lithuania.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:00:21

• How to Install Bitwarden on Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://linuxhostsupport.com/blog/how-to-install-bitwarden-on-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:01:55

• Critical Gemini CLI Flaw Enabled Host Code Execution, Supply Chain Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-gemini-cli-flaw-enabled-host-code-execution-supply-chain-attacks/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:02:25

• ‘Copy Fail’ Logic Flaw in Linux Kernel Enables System Takeover ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/copy-fail-logic-flaw-in-linux-kernel-enables-system-takeover/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:03:50

• Things to Do After Installing Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:04:15

• You Can Now Turn Your PS5 Into a Powerful GNU/Linux Gaming PC (But There’s a Catch) ☞ https://linuxstans.com/turn-your-ps5-into-a-powerful-linux-gaming-pc/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:04:49

• You can get some early STAR WARS Day deals with nice discounts on GOG | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/you-can-get-some-early-star-wars-day-deals-with-nice-discounts-on-gog ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:05:31

• NVIDIA GeForce NOW gets even more games and RTX 5080 power expands | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/nvidia-geforce-now-gets-even-more-games-and-rtx-5080-power-expands/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:05:41

• STAR WARS: Galactic Racer releases October 6 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/star-wars-galactic-racer-releases-october-6/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/star-wars-galactic-racer-releases-october-6/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:06:03

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1070640/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:06:43

• AI-Generated Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Kim Kardashian Scams Surge on Fentanylware (CheeTok) ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/30/ai-generated-scams-surge-on-tiktok/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:27:27

• Volla Phone Plinius is a rugged phone that ships with Ubuntu Touch or Google-free Android and mid-range specs https://liliputing.com/volla-phone-plinius-is-a-rugged-phone-that-ships-with-ubuntu-touch-or-google-free-android-and-mid-range-specs/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:29:11

• Ponzi scheme promotion https://www.techpowerup.com/348656/ubuntu-will-get-opt-in-thoughtful-ai-integration-in-upcoming-releases    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:29:51

• Nothing learned from Amazon in "Scopes"? https://www.ubergizmo.com/2026/04/ubuntu-ai-integration-canonical/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:30:54

• "The big news is that Linux distros are getting a standard Projects folder alongside Documents, Music, and Downloads." https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-18/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:31:38

• "Ptyxis is a modern terminal emulator built with GTK4 and libadwaita. It provides a cohesive look for the GNOME desktop, making it feel like a natural part of the system." https://itsfoss.com/ptyxis-terminal-features/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:32:09

• "Going forward, the Linux Mint team will publish HWE ISOs for the latest release whenever a newer kernel becomes available from upstream." https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-22-3-hwe-isos-now-available-for-download-with-linux-kernel-6-17    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:32:38

• community concerns https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/canonical-brings-ai-tools-to-ubuntu-amid-linux-community-concerns/tldr    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:33:22

• "Canonical is adding [SLOP] features to Ubuntu soon, but says users can remove any of the ones they don’t want." https://www.theverge.com/tech/920723/linux-ubuntu-ai-features-ai-kill-switch    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:34:08

• Seems to be a slopfarm of some kind... covering slop https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/ubuntu-s-ai-plans-have-linux-users-looking-for-a-8216-kill-switch-8217    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:35:06

• Slopfarms galore https://letsdatascience.com/news/ubuntu-introduces-opt-in-ai-features-no-global-kill-switch-2d2d6c2f    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:35:44

• "Fedora Linux 44 has arrived – in multiple formats and for several CPU families, including some new container formats and storage options." https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/fedora_44_countless_versions/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:36:15

• Step one is putting it there, it can worsen later https://www.xda-developers.com/ai-is-arriving-on-ubuntu-and-its-open-source-local-and-nothing-like-what-youre-worried-about/ the man who decided on this is a spy from the British Army    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:37:41

• How longtime Microsofters react https://www.thurrott.com/linux/335509/canonical-is-all-in-on-ai-in-ubuntu-linux    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:39:22

• Load Linux on your “phat” PS5 console https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/04/29/load-linux-on-your-phat-ps5-console/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:40:19

• "This release ships with GNOME 50.1 as the default desktop environment, as well as numerous updated components." https://9to5linux.com/aerynos-2026-05-released-with-linux-kernel-7-0-new-logo-and-more    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:40:46

• "Developers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability arising from a logic flaw." https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/30/linux_cryptographic_code_flaw/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:41:17

• "Psyonix have updated Rocket League to add in Epic's Easy Anti-Cheat, but thankfully they've enabled support for Linux / Steam Deck with SteamOS." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/rocket-league-adds-easy-anti-cheat-with-steam-deck-linux-still-supported/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:41:51

• "Linux gaming has been on a great trajectory these past few years." https://itsfoss.com/news/run-linux-on-ps5/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:43:38

• PS5 Linux Loader Gets Public Release, Allowing Users to Run Steam and PC Games on Console https://www.gadgets360.com/games/news/ps5-linux-loader-public-release-github-jailbreak-pc-gaming-steam-11431771    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:45:08

• PS5 Linux Port That Turns The Console Into A Fully Functional Steam Machine Is Now Publicly Available https://twistedvoxel.com/ps5-linux-port-turns-console-into-a-fully-functional-steam-machine-now-available/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:47:20

• You can now install Linux on your PS5 https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/operating-systems/joao-silva/you-can-now-install-linux-on-your-ps5/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:47:56

• Very new to Linux, celebrates lack of hardware support (due to slop) https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-cutting-out-legacy-support/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:50:09

• Valnet promoting Windows (WSL) in 'Linux' clothing in recent days. WHY? https://www.howtogeek.com/learning-python-on-windows-heres-why-you-should-do-it-in-wsl/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:52:30

• Linux Can Now Be Installed On PS5, But You’ll Need A Disc-Based Console Running Specific Firmwares - PlayStation Universe ⚓ https://www.psu.com/news/linux-can-now-be-installed-on-ps5-but-youll-need-a-disc-based-console-running-specific-firmwares/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:57:01

• Security researcher hacks PS5 to run Linux and Steam games, releases code publicly https://cybernews.com/security/public-hack-turns-ps5-into-linux-pc/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:57:49

• This PS5 Mod Installs Linux, Turning the Console into a Steam Machine ⚓ https://80.lv/articles/this-ps5-mod-runs-a-full-linux-desktop ䷉ Source: RIPE | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//80.lv/articles/this-ps5-mod-runs-a-full-linux-desktop    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:58:41

• "Crimson Desert should have Proton Experimental as the default Proton version, so you shouldn't need to do anything. But, you can also force a specific Proton version on a game in the Properties -> Compatibility menu in Steam." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/proton-experimental-updated-to-get-crimson-desert-working-again-on-linux-steamos/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 21:59:07

• AMD Halo Box surfaces in Linux driver patch ahead of Q2 2026 launch https://gagadget.com/en/707492-amds-halo-box-mini-pc-shows-up-in-linux-drivers-ahead-of-q2-launch/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 22:02:31

• AMD Halo Box gets Linux driver support, but only for its RGB light bar for now https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-halo-box-mini-pc-resurfaces-in-linux-rgb-driver-patch    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 22:03:27

• I finally tried Linux and realized every reason I avoided it was outdated https://www.makeuseof.com/reasons-people-avoid-linux-are-outdated/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 22:04:13

• Modder releases PS5-Linux project, turning some consoles into a Linux gaming machine https://www.tweaktown.com/news/111347/modder-releases-ps5-linux-project-turning-some-consoles-into-a-linux-gaming-machine/index.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 22:05:06

• Civil Infrastructure Platform Celebrates 10 Years of Supporting Industrial Grade Linux https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/civil-infrastructure-platform-celebrates-10-years-of-supporting-industrial-grade-linux-302757675.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 22:06:13

• I installed NixOS on my gaming handheld and immediately regretted it https://www.makeuseof.com/installed-nixos-on-gaming-handheld-immediately-regretted-it/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 22:08:13

• ‘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://shopping.yahoo.com/beauty/hair/articles/time-linux-phones-android-protests-070000740.html    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 22:09:10

• I started using Linux terminal on Android and now I can do things no app store tool allows https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-terminal-android-can-do-things-no-app-store-allows/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 22:10:21

• After testing this Linux laptop, I understand why MacBooks are the superior choice https://www.zdnet.com/article/tuxedo-infinitybook-max-15-review/    

posted Friday, May 01, 2026 at 22:11:03