Roy Schestowitz

• "I've been trying to switch from coffee to mate — which we call "chimarrão" in Brazil, or just "chimas"." gemini://robida.net/entries/2026/05/03/chimarrao    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 04:56:36

• "Definitely LiveJournal. It had a huge sense of community and I spent a lot of time on there. It felt like it was the future. But it got sold, and ended up as a cash cow run by awful people. I think it's still going, but I haven't been there for years." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2026-05-03_Christina_s_5_questions_for_May.gmi    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 04:57:30

• "It feels like some kind of cosmic joke that, now that I feel incredibly confident in myself and more attractive in my thirties than my twenties, my dating life has hit a wall." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2815    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 04:58:27

• "It is not the peaceful silence of a quiet afternoon, nor the comforting stillness of night. It is a heavy, stagnant silence—one that accumulates over days, weeks, sometimes years. A silence filled not with calm, but with absence." gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-05-03_the_dark_side_of_the_web.gmi    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 04:59:23

• chainsaws are magic gemini://thatit.be/2026-05-02-15-02-30.gmi    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 05:00:05

• ritual gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/ritual    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 05:00:49

• Windows down to 38% https://analytics.usa.gov/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 05:23:27

• GNU/Linux up in France https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/france/#monthly-200902-202605    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 05:24:24

• "The social network has implemented a ‘Shop the Look’ tool, still in the testing phase" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2026-04-30/theyre-using-my-images-to-sell-products-influencers-angry-with-instagram-over-the-new-feature.html | Source: El País    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 09:54:23

• "The Peach Blossom Hairpin" ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/05/02/clearly-me-chinese-ai-drama-accused-of-stealing-faces/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 09:54:46

• "Correcting Lapsed Enforcement in Antitrust Norms for Mergers (CLEAN Mergers) Act" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/02/denazification/#no-more-mx-nice-lib | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 09:55:27

• "Sound radical? Maybe it is. But shareholder capitalism doesn’t work — as illustrated by the Warner Bros." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/we-need-this-kind-of-capitalism | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 09:55:46

• "This conversation between Peter Linebaugh and Daniel Denvir was recorded for the Jacobin Radio podcast The Dig over the course of two episodes, edited and condensed here for brevity and clarity." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/05/commons-enclosure-working-class-history | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 09:56:11

• "This is quite different from the more challenging problem of running operating systems for different processors, such as Intel, on Apple silicon Macs." ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/29/virtualisation-on-apple-silicon-macs-is-different/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 09:56:45

• "Last week, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese court ruled that companies can’t use AI as an excuse to fire workers." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/china-legal-ai-automation | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 09:57:18

• "In Unions of Our Own, longtime labor organizer Daniel Gross suggests the type of power that can challenge the ruling class may emerge..." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/the-unions-we-need-will-be-built-by-workers-not-labor-officials/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 09:57:45

• "Jacobin columnist Chris Brooks spoke with Page about what it takes to successfully drive a reform agenda" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/05/page-massachusetts-teachers-association-unions | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 09:58:22

• "It seems like only yesterday that a Massachusetts beekeeper was charged with seven felonies for opening a bee box" ☛ https://www.loweringthebar.net/2026/05/six-month-sentence-in-bee-assault-case.html | Source: Kevin Underhill    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 09:58:40

• "What they found is that Kyrgyz-language searches for popular kid interests such as cartoons, fairy tales, and mermaids often did not yield content in Kyrgyz." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-promote-russian-language-kyrgyzstan/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 09:59:09

• "CopyFail Compromises The Last 9 Years Of Linux Distros" https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/copyfail-compromises-the-last-9-years-of:d    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 09:59:55

• "Jeffrey Epstein’s Possible Suicide Note Hidden From Public View" https://tiv.today/jeffrey-epsteins-possible-suicide-note-hidden-from-public-view/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:00:09

• iophk: the race to the bottom continues https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5807933    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:00:35

• "Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/04/30/0232227    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:00:51

• "Model Maria Kovalchuk left for dead after ‘Dubai Porta Potty’ party breaks silence | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site for latest headlines" https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/travel-stories/model-left-for-dead-after-dubai-porta-potty-party-breaks-silence/news-story/f994e026bea7ffe05185986a8994a5ea    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:01:16

• "Your Phone is About to Stop Being Yours. Keep Android Open! - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/04/30/0223202    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:01:33

• iophk: the focus is misguidedly on Canonical and its servers rather than the actual cause: Windows Botnets https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/canonical-under-sustained-ddos-attack-as-ubuntu-26-releases-iranian-group-313-team-claims-responsibility    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:02:15

• These are the contentious issues surrounding the Digital Euro | "Das sind die strittigen Fragen beim Digitalen Euro - netzpolitik.org" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2026/eu-ringt-um-einigung-das-sind-die-strittigen-fragen-beim-digitalen-euro/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:02:46

• "What the End of Saudi Arabia’s Big-Spending Era Means for the Kingdom and Beyond - The New York Times" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-spending-sports-liv-golf.html    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:03:03

• GAFAM and slopfarms "exploiting unions to spread disinformation promoting data centers" -iophk https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/in-the-pr-battle-for-ai-data-centers-tech-giants-got-a-blue-collar-ally/articleshow/130720114.cms    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:03:31

• "Even though journalists face physical and online threats that encourage self-censorship, they benefit from a protective legal and political environment" ☛ https://news.err.ee/1610011039/estonia-falls-to-3rd-place-on-world-press-freedom-index-2026 | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:04:54

• "Journalists are broadly treated as civilians under international law and international humanitarian law." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/if-killing-journalists-is-a-war-crime-why-isnt-anyone-stopping-it/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:05:16

• "On Wednesday, guests and speakers from across the planet headed to Zambia to attend RightsCon, the largest digital human rights conference in the world." ☛ https://www.404media.co/china-pressure-canceled-worlds-largest-digital-human-rights-conference/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:13:04

• "Bahrain and Kuwait are using the war as cover to crush what remains of civic space in their countries" ☛ https://dawnmena.org/dawn-statement-on-bahrain-and-kuwaits-revocation-of-citizenship-and-crackdown-on-free-expression/ | Source: Democracy for the Arab World Now    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:13:24

• "No further details about the circumstances of his detention have been made available." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/30/report-ice-detains-russian-buddhist-lama-who-spoke-out-against-war-in-ukraine-deportation-possible | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:13:45

• "Speaking on his podcast Friday, Rogan argued that prosecuting an ambiguous post risks expanding how the legal system defines threats, potentially undermining First Amendment protections." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/joe-rogan-trump-james-comey-indictment-b2969457.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:16:20

• "The Mulungushi Conference Center, which was to host the summit, was refurbished in 2020 with funding from the Chinese government at a reported cost of US$60 million." ☛ https://zambianobserver.com/zambia-worlds-larvest-summit-on-human-rights-technology-effectively-canceled/ | Source: The Zambian Observer    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:17:07

• "Following her arrest, she was given a new prison sentence of 7 ½ years, and is being held in Zanjan prison, some 330 kilometers west of the capital, Tehran." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iranian-nobel-laureate-narges-mohammadi-on-the-brink-of-death-health/33747642.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:20:52

• "Gonzalez Rogers then asked who’d passed the note, and all the lawyers just sat there like guilty children." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/921713/musk-v-altman-jared-birchall-screw-up-xai | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:21:52

• "The reality is that many people don’t like him" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/some-musk-v-altman-jurors-dont-like-elon-musk/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:22:08

• "I grew up not being great at giving compliments. This was because I often saw grown-ups around me deploy compliments in a fake, ritualistic way." ☛ https://atharvaraykar.com/notes-on-giving-compliments/ | Source: Atharva Raykar    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:22:32

• "It is entirely inappropriate for a government to be pro-business. The entire notion of a pro-business government is corrupt in the first instance. Business is a thing that happens inside government." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/no-government-should-not-be-pro-business | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:22:51

• "Also, you will note that, instead of citing academics or subject matter experts, Moynihan favourably quotes the executive director of Build America [sic] AI [sic]." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ai-proxy-battle/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:23:20

• "In 1963, pro-American sentiment in West Germany peaked at over 80% — not least thanks to the popularity of the young US president at the time, John F. Kennedy." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/how-widespread-is-global-fatigue-with-the-us/a-76869943 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:23:47

• "In the end, I rode 136 km, 60 of which on the return trip were almost entirely against a 10 km/h headwind." ☛ https://janlukas.blog/thoughts/2026/05/longest-bike-ride | Source: Jan-Lukas Else    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:24:35

• "The CEO, Dave Davis, named the cause of the failure in plain language." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-first-domino-e3d | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:24:58

• "It started out as just something to do — a challenge to try to see the familiar through fresh eyes. Soon it blossomed into a celebration of traveling at home." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/travel/sussex-bicycle-portraits.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:25:13

• "Sadly, testing revealed that despite having thermoelectric properties, the results were underwhelming." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/liquid-cooling/enthusiast-creates-peltier-thermoelectric-cooler-from-scratch-impressive-rig-uses-two-360mm-aios-homemade-dc-controllers-and-a-custom-loop | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:25:45

• "Spanning nearly 2,500 miles of the American West, the "Mother Road" is the quintessential road trip, linking Chicago to Santa Monica, California" ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/news/features/family/route-66-is-turning-100-heres-where-you-can-celebrate-it-this-year/51492246 | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:26:12

• "Out West, the story is more complicated. Periodic showers and cooler weather have brought short-term improvements, but they have not changed the broader outlook." ☛ https://www.western-water.com/2026/05/02/western-drought-holds-as-snowpack-fades/ | Source: Western Water    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:26:39

• "For some, the flooding was a reminder of our vulnerabilities in the face of extreme weather, which is expected to worsen as our climate continues to shift." ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2026/05/02/how-do-we-adapt-michigans-dams-to-climate-change/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:26:57

• "Infrasound is the term for sound at frequencies below 20 Hz. While this falls outside a human’s typical range of hearing" ☛ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/scientists-explain-ghosts | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:27:14

• "The First Nation points to the deaths of up to five million gizzard shad there in 2025 — a tally recorded by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) in a Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission regulatory report." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bruce-nuclear-power-shad-sturgeon-lake-huron-reactor-limits-9.7179212 | Source: CBC    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:27:34

• "Concerns over water access are poised to consume summer in the US, as crises in Corpus Christi and across the Colorado River threaten to boil over." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-summer-the-american-water-crisis-turned-real/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:35:43

• "City officials said this approach did not happen overnight. It reflects decades of planning, investment, and careful management." ☛ https://www.western-water.com/2026/05/02/phoenix-outlines-plan-for-long-term-water-security/ | Source: Western Water    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:35:59

• "The plan calls for reducing California’s use of Colorado River water by about 13% in 2027 and 2028. Arizona and Nevada agreed to larger cutbacks." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-05-02/california-new-colorado-river-plan | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:43:44

• "What once appeared to be isolated cases has since become a pattern. According to Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2026/0501/Nepal-Russia-fighters-Ukraine-war-POW | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:44:26

• "The Pentagon has increasingly been turning towards AI to bolster its capabilities, with the Department of War announcing deals with seven AI tech companies" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/us-navy-signs-deal-with-ai-firm-for-training-underwater-drones-to-detect-mines-in-strait-of-hormuz-usd100-million-would-allow-drone-minesweepers-to-update-their-detection-algorithms-in-days-instead-of-months | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:44:46

• "But there’s an easier and more straightforward reason." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-real-reason-why-trump-doesnt | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:45:14

• "Thousands of people have turned out for May Day demonstrations across the country on Friday, with organizers calling for a boycott of work" ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5805805 | Source: NPR    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:45:44

• "SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Reflection will integrate their AI capabilities into the department’s Impact Level 6" ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-news/2026/05/dod-strikes-deals-with-major-tech-firms-to-deploy-ai-on-classified-networks/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:46:26

• [Old] "Setting aside the surveillance aspects, the data siphoning, the impact to digital sovereignty efforts, and other countless downsides" ☛ https://nathandyer.me/2026/04/18/age-gates.html | Source: Nathan Dyer    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:47:07

• "I know my wife would love me to join her in producing some content, but, frankly, I’d rather be cancelled." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/relationships/marriage-diaries-no-social-media-wife-docucmenting-our-life/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:51:26

• "...their darn apps to consume content and off their web versions." ☛ https://0xsid.com/blog/wont-download-your-app |    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:52:25

• "That’s it. That’s the bill" ☛ https://nbtv.substack.com/p/the-government-already-has-a-warrant | Source: Ludlow Institute    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:52:39

• "This was all unsettling in its own right." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/chatgpt-images-deepfakes-fraud/687023/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:57:47

• "While Isaacman did not spell it out, there is a good chance the late 2027 target is driven by SpaceX's and Blue Origin's needs." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/artemis_iii_aims_for_late/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:58:43

• "If you decide to self-host Bitwarden, however, you will relatively quickly find yourself in what I would describe as enterprise software hell." ☛ https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/i-do-not-recommend-bitwarden/ | Source: マリウス    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 10:59:10

• Windows TCO: "The most obvious result is that Canonical's, er, canonical Ubuntu download and update mirrors worldwide are sluggish or down entirely" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/canonical-under-sustained-ddos-attack-as-ubuntu-26-releases-iranian-group-313-team-claims-responsibility | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:00:13

• Windows TCO: "Canonical promised to provide regular updates when it has new information to share." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/canonical_confirms_ubuntu_infrastructure_under/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:00:29

• "Beginning Monday, attorneys for Meta and New Mexico will return to a Santa Fe courthouse for a three-week public nuisance trial" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/922380/new-mexico-meta-public-nuisance-trial-kids-safety | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:01:02

• "This might start to sound "old man yells at cloud", but what I don't understand is people recording with/for fleeting stories or Snapchat" ☛ https://svenluijten.com/blog/yes-i-do-watch-back-those-videos-i-take-at-concerts | Source: Sven Luijten    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:01:24

• "But it has been going on with young men for about a decade, and it has been increasing considerably during this last decade" ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5795549 | Source: NPR    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:02:14

• "AI security expert" ☛ https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/ | Source: Michael Taggart    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:03:29

• "Seven trillion dollars is an insane amount of revenue." ☛ https://www.endnotes.net/pie-thieves/ |    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:04:18

• "The study compared attitudes towards AI use in music creation from May to November of 2025. It found that overall interest dropped from -13% to -20% during that time period." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5804489 | Source: NPR    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:05:01

• "While testifying on Thursday in federal court, Elon Musk seemed to indicate that his AI lab may have used OpenAI’s models to train xAI’s own." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-distill-openai-models-partly-xai/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:05:19

• "Blender is a tool for artists and creators, it’s made by humans for humans. No generative AI functionality is currently available or planned to be integrated in Blender." ☛ https://www.blender.org/news/upcoming-blender-development-fund-and-ai-policies/ | Source: Blender    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:05:41

• "Between this and growing concerns over how LLMs are used on Libera.Chat, we believe our policy is overdue for an update. Previously, we released a set of guidelines for LLM usage on Libera.Chat." ☛ https://libera.chat/news/bot-policy-update |    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:06:18

• "Doing tasks manually naturally builds up the context required for the decisions involved later because you have time to process everything along the way and construct your mental model of the project's structure." ☛ https://0xsid.com/blog/agentic-coding-fatigue |    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:06:58

• "Most production AI search applications use both." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/opensearch-ai-data-layer/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:07:15

• "I wrote a simple script that translates text at the command line, completely offline. Here’s an example of how it works on my computer: [...]" ☛ https://evanhahn.com/offline-cli-translation-with-translategemma-and-ollama/ | Source: Evan Hahn    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:08:15

• "Crane detailed the catastrophe in a lengthy post on X." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-ai-deletes-company-database | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:08:39

• "Its vast content library has also become a prized asset as AI companies hunt for data to train their large language models, the technology behind chatbots such as ChatGPT." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/reddit-rallies-as-aidriven-ad-growth-fuels-strong-revenue-outlook/articleshow/130674476.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:09:03

• "AI is now not only a market bubble, but a core anchor propping up the entire US economy. The US government will have no choice but to backstop it once the inevitable AI bubble pops." ☛ https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/05/data-centres-are-eating-the-economy/ | Source: Spectator AU    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:09:23

• "demonstrably performed by humans with their consent" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/new-oscars-rules-exclude-ai-performers-require-scripts-written-by-human/a-77016539 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:09:39

• "Home affairs has also committed to designing AI checks and declarations into its internal approval processes." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/schreiber-suspends-home-affairs-officials-over-fake-ai-references/280873/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:09:56

• "If you do a little poking around in Adobe’s application bundles, a key reason for the jankiness of these user interfaces becomes apparent" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/adobe-modern-user-interface/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:10:42

• "The MacBook Neo is not the most powerful Mac, and that is exactly why it feels so right for students and teens." ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/i-think-apple-finally-made-a-school-laptop-that-makes-sense/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:10:58

• "Smoking among Finnish young people has declined markedly since the turn of the millennium." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20223718 | Source: Yle    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:11:46

• "Offline Wellness Club" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/sauna-rave-calgary-toronto-9.7183746 | Source: CBC    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:12:07

• "The proposed $7.25 billion deal, which Bayer and a group of plaintiffs’ attorneys unveiled in February" ☛ https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/04/us-judge-calls-proposed-bayer-roundup-settlement-a-filthy-deal/ | Source: The New Lede    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:12:35

• "pretty stark: 60% of open source maintainers work unpaid, 60% have quit or considered quitting, and 44% cite burnout specifically." ☛ https://werd.io/open-source-maintainers-need-to-go-in-with-open-eyes/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:13:16

• "This report draws on a review of the academic literature and a qualitative analysis of OSS community discussion to explore the phenomenon of burnout" ☛ https://mirandaheath.website/static/oss_burnout_report_mh_25.pdf |    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:14:33

• "This report draws on a review of the academic literature and a qualitative analysis of OSS community discussion to explore the phenomenon of burnout" ☛ https://mirandaheath.website/static/oss_burnout_report_mh_25.pdf |    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:14:44

• "Apparently, in spite of what the manual says, getting the screen to absorb the 2880×2160 interlaced signal wasn’t the hard part, but generating it was." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/05/02/pushing-as-many-pixels-as-possible-to-a-crt-interlaced-4k/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:16:09

• "I’ve been actively working to move away from proprietary software and big tech as much as possible." ☛ https://nathandyer.me/2026/04/23/foss-mobile-2026.html | Source: Nathan Dyer    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:16:25

• "The SAVE plan arrived in 2023 as millions of student borrowers were emerging from a three-year pause in payments during the pandemic." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2026/0502/trump-student-loan-debt | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:17:06

• "I wanted to see if I could get anything interesting by turning the trick in the previous post into a technique." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/04/28/even-series-trick/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:17:50

• "This is a brief and simple [1] explanation of how to adjust the standard sinusoid to change its amplitude, frequency and phase shift. More precisely, given the general function: [...]" ☛ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/scaling-stretching-and-shifting-sinusoids/ | Source: Eli Bendersky    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:18:14

• "As a quick recap, for the purposes of this post, a priority queue (wikipedia) is a data structure that supports the following two operations" ☛ https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/quickheap/ | Source: Groot Koerkamp    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:18:36

• "In my previous post about Żmij, a high-performance binary-to-decimal floating-point conversion library, I drew a small diagram of a rounding interval around a single floating-point value." ☛ https://vitaut.net/posts/2026/every-float/ | Source: Victor Zverovich    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:18:53

• "This particular Foucault pendulum is one of many that were created by the California Academy of Sciences, with hundreds of them installed throughout the US and possibly elsewhere." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/05/02/debugging-a-stopped-foucault-pendulums-electronics/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:20:00

• "The first was a change in delivery. Gene therapies use engineered viruses to deliver restorative genes to a patient’s cells." ☛ https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/487590/gene-therapy-crispr-deafness-food-and-drug-administration | Source: Vox    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:20:19

• "the endless (and highly-marketable) quest for increased convenience in our lives has gained us free time, but we’ve lost something along the way." https://danq.me/2026/04/30/rejecting-convenience/   

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:22:52

• [Old] "A few weeks later, I'm crawling back out of the rabbit hole with an interactive map of the TTRPG blogverse, and I'd like to show you what I found." ☛ https://elmc.at/mapping-the-blogosphere/ |    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:23:19

• "That was the first thing I spent time on this month. The second was revisiting some elementary results in group theory concerning cosets." ☛ https://susam.net/26d.html | Source: SusamPal bsp; 

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:25:41

• "Although my site isn’t designed to fit into the academic world, occasionally an academic paper will cite one of my pages." ☛ https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-05-02-academic-citations/ | Source: Amit Patel    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:26:02

• "So over my (relatively) long blogging journey I’ve accumulated some crust of principles. Ensuring that what I’m doing is kind and useful to people." ☛ https://aartaka.me/principles.html | Source: Artyom Bologov    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:26:18

• "Just over three years ago, I wrote a post about blogging" ☛ https://bobbyhiltz.com/posts/2026/05/blogging-2026/ | Source: Bobby Hiltz    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:26:50

• "A lot of people were horrified, but I had some sympathies with the SaaS provider." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/BackupsDependOnGoals | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:27:29

• "After some feedback, I’m realizing that I need to do a better job of explaining what I get out of this method versus other methods." ☛ https://ratfactor.com/cards/text-files-as-ui | Source: Dave Gauer    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:27:52

• "It’s happened more than a few times that someone comes to talk to me in a pub or bar and tells me they enjoy reading my blog. I love it!" ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/i-tell-about-my-blog-to-anyone-willing-to-listen/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:28:21

• "The New Leaf Journal celebrated its sixth birthday on April 27, 2026. To celebrate our website’s sixth birthday" ☛ https://thenewleafjournal.com/some-benefits-of-blogging/ | Source: The New Leaf Journal    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:28:39

• "One of his most famous series from this period is a “Saturday Afternoon” in London, Ohio, where he photographed locals socializing, window shopping, and gathered around parked cars on the main thoroughfare." ☛ https://www.vintag.es/2026/05/ohio-by-ben-shahn.html | Source: Vintage Everyday    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:29:04

• "the drink is still made clandestinely and consumed inside Iran." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/raisin-moonshine-banned-in-iran-enjoys-resurgence-in-new-york-443728357 | Source: RTL    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:29:27

• "Both handlers run through the same five steps: [...]" ☛ https://rednafi.com/go/hoist-wire-plumb/ | Source: Redowan Delowar    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:38:54

• "Spoiler: the Kap solutions are shorter, but R has some nice defaults that has to be specified explicitly in Kap." ☛ https://blog.dhsdevelopments.com/a-little-comparison-between-r-and-kap?pk_campaign=rss-feed | Source: Elias Mårtenson    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:39:36

• "Terminal User Interfaces (TUIs) are making a comeback." ☛ https://wiki.alcidesfonseca.com/blog/why-tuis-are-back/ | Source: Alcides Fonseca    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:40:29

• "If you ever passed a user-supplied string into a shell command from PHP, you have probably written something like this: [...]" ☛ https://deployer.org/blog/quote-vs-escapeshellarg |    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:40:45

• "The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, in its simplest form, is the idea that the language you speak influences the thoughts you think." ☛ https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/inverse-sapir-whorf-and-programming-languages/ | Source: Luke Plant    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:42:04

• "A quick note for readers who don’t follow C3: it’s a systems language in the C tradition" ☛ https://c3-lang.org/blog/unsigned-sizes-a-five-year-mistake/ |    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:42:22

• "It’s probably not possible for it ever to be really fast, but the AMOP MOP does provide a way of making it, at least, less slow." ☛ https://www.tfeb.org/fragments/2026/05/01/making-clos-slot-access-less-slow/ | Source: Tim Bradshaw    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:42:38

• "When a dependency has a known vulnerability and no maintainer to release a fix, you have to fix it yourself." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/01/patching-and-forking-in-package-managers.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:45:49

• "The things I want from a forge are the things that can’t move to the client because they involve more than one party." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/02/a-github-for-maintainers.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:46:04

• "Fighting a compiler to craft a program that works on the first run feels terrific." ☛ https://mmapped.blog/posts/38-static-types-perfectionism | Source: Roman Kashitsyn    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:46:17

• "A research team around Dirk Helbing, Professor of Computational Social Science at ETH Zurich" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-04-eurovision-stays-unpredictable-years-copycats.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:50:02

• "We looked up from our work for freedom, and realized that it's May!" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-its-may-and-weve-been-keeping-busy | Source: FSF    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:50:41

• "This is something we first started talking about back in 2015, and attempted three times, but it was never finished until now." ☛ https://waxy.org/2026/04/launching-a-permanent-archive-for-xoxo/ | Source: Andy Baio    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:51:39

• [Old] "Regrettably, I was unable to take my own advice on the last part." ☛ https://taggart-tech.com/mozilla-cycle-pt3/ | Source: Michael Taggart    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:52:42

• [Old] "Mozilla moves away from Firefox, we respond with anger." ☛ https://taggart-tech.com/mozilla-cycle-pt2/ | Source: Michael Taggart    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:52:52

• [Old] "Before diving into details, let me state the thesis plainly: Mozilla is pursuing its primary objective, which is the survival of Mozilla." ☛ https://taggart-tech.com/mozilla-cycle-pt1/ | Source: Michael Taggart    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:53:09

• "3G/UMTS was a transitional tech, when it was worked on at the turn of the century" ☛ https://nickvsnetworking.com/adventures-not-building-3g-umts-rncs/ | Source: Nick    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:59:19

• "The concept is simple enough." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/05/02/let-twitch-chat-control-your-led-strings/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 11:59:56

• "Hardware wise it’s an ESP32 with a 3D printed keyboard using keyswitches." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/05/02/this-handy-synth-packs-an-esp32/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:00:23

• "To fix it on Ubuntu and its derivatives like Linux Mint, do the following: [...]" ☛ https://ostechnix.com/fix-copy-fail-cve-2026-31431-ubuntu-linux-mint/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:01:55

• "In order to assist with delivery of e-mail from @debian.org addresses" ☛ https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/04/msg00010.html | Source: Debian    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:02:57

• "This was a small annoyance, so I spent 30 minutes to fix it. Turns out it was easy!" ☛ https://www.ncartron.org/my-freebsd-laptop-finally-goes-to-sleep-when-closing-the-lid.html | Source: Nico Cartron    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:04:02

• "In this short video I demonstrate my new package for Emacs. It is called buffer-to-pdf." ☛ https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-05-02-emacs-buffer-to-pdf-new-package/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:05:20

• "We have a whole building" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/ServersSurpriseRevival | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:06:49

• "So I’ve got three nodes in my homelab k8s cluster (celebrated its 7’th birthday the other day 🎈 ) that are lovely little lenovo M75 boxes." ☛ https://www.growse.com/2026/05/02/screw-you-realtek.html |    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:08:33

• "This is a short PSA (Public Service Announcement) on how I dealt with the Copy Fail vulnerability. This will be updated as soon as the updated kernel packages are made available." ☛ https://jan.wildeboer.net/2026/05/PSA-CopyFail-CVE-2026-31431/ | Source: Jan Wildeboer    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:08:56

• "A local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel has been publicly disclosed on April 29, 2026." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/copy-fail-vulnerability-fixes-available | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:09:53

• "Philip Kaludercic wanted to continue the conversation from YE24: Sacha and Prot Talk Emacs - Newbies/Starter Kits." ☛ https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/05/may-14-sacha-prot-and-philip-kaludercic-talk-emacs-newcomer-experience/ | Source: Sacha Chua    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:13:36

• "I’m sort of on vacation, and didn’t do an interview this week. However, I talked with Greg Sargent of The New Republic from my hotel." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-trump-screwed-himself | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:14:30

• Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in April 2026 ☞ https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/2026/05/02/foss-activity-in-april-2026.html    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:24:22

• Bits from Debian: Debian welcomes the 2026 GSoC interns ☞ https://bits.debian.org/2026/05/welcome-gsoc2026-contributors.html    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:25:07

• Kernel 6.12.85 compiled ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202605/kernel-61285-compiled.html    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:26:23

• Fixes for version update ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202605/fixes-for-version-update.html    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:27:28

• netstat Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/netstat/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:27:53

• netstat Command in Linux: Network Connections and Statistics ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/netstat-command-in-linux/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:28:07

• Linux Saloon 199 | Ubuntu 26.04 ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2026/05/02/linux-saloon-199-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:29:05

• Kubernetes v1.36: Pod-Level Resource Managers (Alpha) ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/05/01/kubernetes-v1-36-feature-pod-level-resource-managers-alpha/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:31:30

• "Every sysadmin hits this situation at some point. You’re watching something (like disk usage or a process), and you keep running the same command again and again to see updates." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/watch-command-linux-run-commands-repeatedly/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:32:30

• Wine 11.8 brings updates for Mono, MSXML, VBScript and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/wine-11-8-brings-updates-for-mono-msxml-vbscript-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/wine-11-8-brings-updates-for-mono-msxml-vbscript-and-more/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:33:10

• Steam Survey for April 2026 shows Linux still trending well | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/steam-survey-for-april-2026-shows-linux-still-trending-well/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/steam-survey-for-april-2026-shows-linux-still-trending-well/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:35:29

• Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits last of april 2026 ☞ https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2026/05/02/misc-fedora-bits-last-of-april-2026/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:37:06

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s US Forest Service Spraying Deadly Toxins on America’s Woodlands ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/trump-forest-roundup-toxin    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:42:20

• Massive fire engulfs science lab at University of South Florida St. Petersburg: ‘Total devastation’ ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/05/02/us-news/massive-2-alarm-fire-engulfs-science-lab-at-university-of-south-florida-st-petersburg-total-devastation/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:42:36

• Abortion Providers Forced to Adapt After Court Ruling Blocks Pill Access by Mail ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/us/abortion-pill-mifepristone-5th-circuit-court-ruling.html    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:51:32

• Millions to see higher student loan payments atop rise in gas, food, healthcare costs ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2026/0502/trump-student-loan-debt    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:52:00

• Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What Causes “Ghosts” ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/scientists-explain-ghosts    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:55:49

• Korean Air bans roosters on US-Philippines routes amid cockfighting outcry ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/korean-air-bans-roosters-on-us-philippines-routes-amid-cockfighting-outcry    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:56:41

• Sweet dreams: Seoul holds ‘Power Nap Contest’ in sleep-deprived South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/sweet-dreams-seoul-holds-power-nap-contest-in-sleep-deprived-south-korea "the sleep competition underscores a chronic issue for South Koreans."    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:57:25

• North Korea calls US cyber threat claims a fabrication, warns of countermeasures ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-calls-us-cyber-threat-claims-a-fabrication-warns-of-countermeasures    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:58:08

• More young South Koreans turning away from religion: Poll ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/more-young-south-koreans-turning-away-from-religion-poll    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:58:37

• Not enough time to play for South Korean children, teens: Report ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/not-enough-time-to-play-for-south-korean-children-teens-report    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 12:58:54

• Linux Kernel Tainted by Software Patents That Make Linux Worse and the 'Linux' Foundation is Compiling Bribes to Enable This (Promotion of Monopolies and Tolerance of Software Patenting) https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/03/Linux_Kernel_Tainted_by_Software_Patents_That_Make_Linux_Worse_.shtml    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 14:07:07

• 2 deaths, 56 heat-related cases reported in Malaysia since start of 2026: Health Ministry ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/2-deaths-56-heat-related-cases-reported-in-malaysia-since-start-of-2026-health-ministry    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 14:07:43

• Monkey malaria cases rising in Sabah; 1 person dead: Malaysian health minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/monkey-malaria-cases-rising-in-sabah-1-person-dead-malaysian-health-minister    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 14:07:59

• Woman jumps out of moving car in Malaysia after allegedly feeling uncomfortable with driver ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/woman-jumps-out-of-moving-car-in-malaysia-after-allegedly-feeling-uncomfortable-with-driver    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 14:09:55

• Penang records first heat stroke death of 2026 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/penang-records-first-heat-stroke-death-of-2026    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 14:10:10

• Japan and Vietnam seek deeper energy, minerals ties amid geopolitical risks ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/japans-pm-takaichi-in-hanoi-to-meet-vietnamese-leaders    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 14:10:55

• China railway handles record 24.8m passengers on May Day ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinas-railway-hit-new-single-day-passenger-record-on-may-day    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 14:11:19

• US firm tests brain implant with patients in China in rare sign of cooperation between both sides ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-firm-tests-brain-implant-with-patients-in-china-in-rare-sign-of-cooperation-between-both-sides    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 14:12:44

• Windows cratering in Hungary https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/hungary/#monthly-200902-202605    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 14:42:24

• Same in Italy https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/italy//#monthly-200902-202605    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 14:44:26

• Belgium: Windows falls below iOS https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/belgium/#monthly-200902-202605    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 15:25:02

• "Well good for you. Most 23 year olds haven't even declared their gender and here you are professing your desire to be an executive. You do realize the most likely scenario is that you'll be RAed before you make Band 8. Right? But if (when) you're laid off, you can always come back here and join our little circlej--kOf course, if you actually become an exec, you'll continue to be at the center of it." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kqay796d#replies    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 15:59:15

• "Well good for you. Most 23 year olds haven't even declared their gender and here you are professing your desire to be an executive. You do realize the most likely scenario is that you'll be RAed before you make Band 8. Right? But if (when) you're laid off, you can always come back here and join our little circlej--kOf course, if you actually become an exec, you'll continue to be at the center of it."    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 15:59:28

• Sounds like IBM HR/PR troll: "I am learning more and will be getting a few more badges this week. I have way over 40 hours for Think 40. How am I going to get RA'd?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kqay796d#replies    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 15:59:52

• "sounds just like the garbage IBM pulled when bringing in Watson Healthcare ; that farce was initiated by former IBM CEO Gin 'N Tonic (Ginny). And it was in another Blue State and Democrat stronghold, Massachusetts. Not even Gin 'N Tonic's niece could turn a profit with Watson Healthcare. Which says something for the whoppers that she told and the money she stole from the company in the name of her growth Watson initiatives."    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 16:01:00

• "n short, Watson Healthcare went up and out in a fire sale. IBM couldn't put enough distance between Watson Healthcare and ABYSMAL failure to make a profit when other tech players were successful at the same game. But Gin "N Tonic got very rich for just sitting on her throne and doing nothing (as usual). Alvind is following in her footsteps and in due course, so will Robbie the Hood." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kqjactgp#replies    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 16:01:24

• "I expect some serious Quantum PowerPoints to be coming out of this new innovation lab." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kqkqbyc6#replies    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 16:02:01

• Taiwan president arrives in Eswatini after blaming China for cancellation of prior trip ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/taiwan-president-arrives-in-eswatini-after-blaming-china-for-cancellation-of-prior-trip    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 16:33:54

• Taiwan leader makes delayed visit to Eswatini after China objections ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/05/03/taiwan-leader-makes-delayed-visit-to-eswatini-after-china-objections/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 16:34:06

• China’s Commerce Ministry blocks US sanctions against five refineries ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-commerce-ministry-blocks-us-sanctions-against-five-refineries    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 16:34:18

• Claude Deleted a Company’s Entire Database, Illustrating a Danger Every CEO Should Be Aware of ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-ai-deletes-company-database    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 16:39:25

• Chinese Court Rules That a Worker Cannot Be Replaced by Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/china-legal-ai-automation    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 16:44:04

• Pluralistic: The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus (02 May 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/02/denazification/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 16:44:32

• Planning a World Cup Watch Party at a Bar? The ‘FIFA Police’ Are Lurking ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/world/canada/fifa-world-cup-copyright.html    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 16:45:25

• Linux Lite 8.0 RC1 Released! Based on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/05/linux-lite-8-0-rc1-released-based-on-ubuntu-26-04-lts/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 16:46:43

• This month in KDE Linux: April 2026 ☞ https://pointieststick.com/2026/05/02/this-month-in-kde-linu   

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 16:48:10

• LiaisonOS – distribution designed for amateur radio emergency communications ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/liaisonos-amateur-radio-emergency-communications/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 16:51:01

• Evernight Vista – Fedora-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/evernight-vista-fedora-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 16:51:47

• biodiff – terminal-based binary diff viewer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/?p=177186    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:01:39

• Lite XL – lightweight text editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lite-xl-lightweight-text-editor/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:01:56

• Dharma 26.1 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/dharma    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:03:35

• d77void 20260502 is also out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/d77void    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:03:50

• pgexporter 0.8 ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgexporter-08-3287/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:04:24

• pgmoneta 0.21 ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgmoneta-021-3288/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:04:39

• pgagroal 2.1 ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgagroal-21-3286/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:05:03

• ObsidianOS 2026.05.02 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/obsidianos    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:05:21

• ArchEZ 2026.05.02 is also out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/archezsp; 

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:05:43

• You Can't 'Reset' Your Nervous System, But Here's How to Lower Stress ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/you-cant-reset-your-nervous-system-but-heres-how-to-lower-stress    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:06:37

• Puppy 2601-260502 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/puppy    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:07:05

• BigLinux 2026-05-02 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/biglinux    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:07:23

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

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:08:15

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

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:08:31

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

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:08:52

• XIVA Studio 2026-05-01 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/xivastudio    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:09:27

• GNOME OS 1040424 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/gnomeos    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:09:45

• Microsoft backdoored Windows Falls Below 9% in South Africa ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/03/Microsoft_Windows_Falls_Below_9_in_South_Africa.shtml    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:10:20

• 20 Best Free and Open Source Terminal Session Recording ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-terminal-session-recording/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:10:34

• Future of Hey Hi (AI) in Ubuntu: Thoughtful Integration via Snap ☞ https://www.debugpoint.com/future-of-ai-in-ubuntu/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:11:15

• The power went out at midday ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/the-power-went-out-at-midday/ taste the future then? Wait till the shortages become more severe...    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:12:21

• i read in a book; that books work when the power is down; need to look into that...    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:13:19

• Forced “border partnership”: EU Commission wants to allow U.S. also to query political views and “ethnic origin” ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2026/05/02/forced-border-partnership-eu-commission-wants-to-allow-us-authorities-also-to-query-political-views-and-ethnic-origin/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:14:44

• Google Summer of Code 2026 – Let's welcome our new students ☞ https://www.scummvm.org/news/20260502/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:32:02

• Goals for GSOC 2026 and Mankala Engine ☞ https://sayandeep.bearblog.dev/goals-for-gsoc-2026-and-mankala-engine/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:32:26

• Oscars bans Hey Hi (AI) actors and writers ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/oscars-bans-ai-actors-and-writers    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:32:56

• Decimation: Ex Parte Reexamination Eclipses the IPR ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/05/decimation-ex-parte-reexamination-eclipses-the-ipr.html    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:33:21

• Six on the Bench: The Federal Circuit’s Pending En Banc Patent Petitions ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/05/six-on-the-bench-the-federal-circuits-pending-en-banc-patent-petitions.html    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:33:43

• North Korea’s Kim casts youth as vanguard of state goals amid Russia war ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-kim-casts-youth-as-vanguard-of-state-goals-amid-russia-war    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:34:20

• Russia’s Balancing Act Wobbling as Iran Crisis Deepens, Says Policy Analyst Katz ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-iran-mark-katz-strategic-ties/33747729.html    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:34:37

• Mali: Rebels take key Tessalit military camp ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/mali-rebels-take-key-tessalit-military-camp-1    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:35:20

• Mali probes soldiers working with rebels ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/mali-probes-soldiers-working-with-rebels    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:35:44

• Mali in crisis: Jihadist fighters and Tuareg separatists threaten Bamako ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/spotlight/20260502-mali-in-crisis-jihadist-fighters-and-tuareg-separatists-threaten-bamako    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:36:19

• Ukraine hits oil facilities in Russia ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/ukraine-hits-oil-facilities-in-russia    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:36:43

• Ukraine battlefield: Advanced Ukrainian drones raise concerns among Russian forces ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/spotlight/20260502-ukraine-battlefield-advanced-ukrainian-drones-raise-concerns-among-russian-forces    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:37:34

• Putin’s Stalin cosplay threatens Central Europe and the Baltics – opinion ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2912263/putin-s-stalin-cosplay-threatens-central-europe-and-the-baltics-opinion    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:37:58

• Fluff 2026.05.02 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/fluff    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:38:24

• Installing the 250466 in my “Aldi” Commodore 64 ☞ https://www.rubenerd.au/installing-the-250466-into-my-aldi-commodore-64/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:39:07

• Windows all-time low https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/israel/#monthly-200902-202605    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 17:40:21

• Canada high court allows Parliament to limit MP’s free speech in national security legislation ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/05/canada-high-court-allows-parliament-to-limit-mps-free-speech-in-national-security-legislation/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:34:08

• Imprisoned Iranian Nobel laureate Mohammadi rushed to hospital following cardiac 'crisis' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/imprisoned-iranian-nobel-laureate-mohammadi-rushed-hospital-following-severe-cardiac-crisis    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:34:41

• 10 Useful Free and Open Source Audio Effects, Mixers, and PipeWire Routing Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/audio-effects-mixers-pipewire-routing-tools/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:35:14

• New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Far Far West, Die in the Dungeon and a Lot More! 2026-05-02 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-05-02-edition/index.html    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:36:18

• UK Driving-Test Backlog Leaves Learners Waiting Months ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/world/europe/uk-driving-tests-backlog.html    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:37:16

• These 20-year-olds in Japan are finally planning their junior high school trips cancelled by Covid-19 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/these-20-year-olds-in-japan-are-finally-planning-their-junior-high-school-trips-cancelled-by-covid    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:38:14

• Prunt Board 3 3D printer control board offers smoother and quieter operation (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/05/02/prunt-board-3-3d-printer-control-board-offers-smoother-and-quieter-operation/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:41:03

• PgQue v0.1 - Zero-bloat Postgres queue ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgque-v01-zero-bloat-postgres-queue-3284/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:41:38

• Mathematicians Claim Significant Discovery Using Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mathematicians-claim-significant-discovery-using-chatgpt    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:49:12

• Pentagon bails out allies of fascism ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/pentagon-partners-with-seven-ai-firms    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:49:55

• Tails 7.7.2 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tails    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:50:18

• Timeline: Press freedom in Hong Kong under the national security law ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/05/03/explainer-the-decline-of-hong-kongs-press-freedom-under-the-national-security-law/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:51:22

• FCC votes to ban all Chinese labs from certifying electronics sold in the US due to national security concerns — ruling would affect 75 percent of US-bound devices ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/fcc-votes-to-ban-all-chinese-labs-from-certifying-electronics-sold-in-the-us    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:52:14

• Poverty rises across Lithuania, hitting rural areas hardest ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2908271/poverty-rises-across-lithuania-hitting-rural-areas-hardest    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:52:41

• nytimes keeps publishing SPAM for slop pushers; this is the latest example of fake journalism ttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/opinion/cybersecurity-mythos.html    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:54:13

• There’s Something Bizarre About the Offices of Hey Hi (AI) Startups ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-startup-offices-nyc    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:55:05

• Bank CEO Brags He Used Hey Hi (AI) Clone of Himself to Host Conference Call ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bank-ceo-ai-clone-call    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:55:38

• New Hey Hi (AI) Trained Only on Pre-1930 Data Speaks Like the Most Old-Timey Guy Imaginable ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/old-timey-ai-pre-1930    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:56:13

• AI-Powered High School Scrapped After Protests Erupt Against It ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-high-school-cancelled    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:56:32

• Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/05/idaho-transgender-residents-file-challenge-to-new-bathroom-law/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:57:35

• Two Supplements For Menopause May Actually Help, Expert Reveals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/two-supplements-for-menopause-may-actually-help-expert-reveals    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:58:19

• The Roots of Dementia Trace Back All The Way to Childhood, Experts Reveal ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-roots-of-dementia-trace-back-all-the-way-to-childhood-exper   

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:58:35

• Scientists Develop New Antibody For Virus That Infects 95% of People ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-develop-new-antibody-for-virus-that-infects-95-of-people    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:58:56

• Omega-3 Supplements May Increase Risk of Cognitive Decline, Scientists Warn ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/omega-3-supplements-may-increase-risk-of-cognitive-decline-scientists-warn    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:59:17

• Humans And Animals Are Facing a Hidden Fertility Crisis, Scientists Warn ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-and-animals-are-facing-a-hidden-fertility-crisis-scientists-warn    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:59:40

• Sudan's medicine crisis worsens ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/sudan-s-medicine-crisis-worsens    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 18:59:53

• It's FOSS: more choice is bad? https://itsfoss.com/opinion/ubuntu-official-flavours-shrinking/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 19:02:21

• Ubuntu hit by major cyberattack, services disrupted https://www.thedailystar.net/news/tech-startup/news/ubuntu-hit-major-cyberattack-services-disrupted-4166011    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 19:02:50

• Ubuntu and Canonical services disrupted by DDoS attack claimed by hacktivists https://www.scworld.com/brief/ubuntu-and-canonical-services-disrupted-by-ddos-attack-claimed-by-hacktivists    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 19:03:25

• Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel, used by millions of websites https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/30/hackers-are-actively-exploiting-a-bug-in-cpanel-used-by-millions-of-websites/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 19:04:13

• Microsoft trash-talking the competition while putting back doors in Windows https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/05/01/cve-2026-31431-copy-fail-vulnerability-enables-linux-root-privilege-escalation/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 19:09:08

• AMD Readies Full Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Support for Linux | TechPowerUp ⚓ https://www.techpowerup.com/348723/amd-readies-full-open-source-hdmi-2-1-support-for-linux ䷉ Source: TechPowerUp | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.techpowerup.com/348723/amd-readies-full-open-source-hdmi-2-1-support-for-linux    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 19:09:47

• Linux just made 8GB VRAM feel like enough for the Steam Machine https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-just-made-8gb-vram-feel-like-enough-for-the-steam-machine/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 19:10:32

• Raspberry Pi is still cheap, but it's no longer the smartest choice for a first Linux project https://www.makeuseof.com/raspberry-pi-cheap-no-longer-smartest-choice-linux-project/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 19:13:04

• "They're also added as actual labelled data sets, so on the main page they can be individually toggled." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/steam-survey-for-april-2026-shows-linux-still-trending-well/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 19:14:02

• AMD preps “full” HDMI 2.1 implementation for Linux https://overclock3d.net/news/gpu-displays/amd-preps-full-hdmi-2-1-implementation-for-linux/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 19:14:56

• AMD Finally Cracks HDMI 2.1 On Linux After Years Of Forum Lockout, Thanks To Valve’s Quiet Push https://wccftech.com/amd-finally-cracks-hdmi-2-1-on-linux-after-years-of-forum-lockout/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 19:15:41

• Microsoft is concern-trolling the thing it spent decades attacking https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-cisa-warn-on-flaw-affecting-miilions-of-systems-running-major-linux-distros/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 19:16:48

• 5 more lightweight Linux distros that go easy on your old Windows PC https://www.howtogeek.com/5-more-lightweight-linux-distros-that-go-easy-on-your-old-windows-pc/    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 19:17:12

• Advancing the Enterprise with the Latest eLxr Pro https://www.windriver.com/blog/Advancing-the-Enterprise-Latest-eLxr-Pro    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 19:18:21

• "This release updates grml-live, grml-debootstrap, grml2usb, and grml-terminalserver in-house built packages with new features and improvements." https://9to5linux.com/grml-2026-04-linux-distro-is-out-with-linux-kernel-6-19-based-on-debian-14-forky    

posted Sunday, May 03, 2026 at 19:20:01