Roy Schestowitz

• "Much travel recently. We were in Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Italy, all within the past few weeks. The whole journey was several roundtrips: for every location, after going there, we returned back home to beautiful bezauberndes Bayern. It was utterly inefficient and spectacularly beautiful and fun. It was worth it." gemini://thousand.naps.day/d/2026-05-11.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 01:54:54

• "I knew this would happen, and I was not looking forward to it. I’ve deleted a feed from Antenna today, because it doesn’t fit the purpose of Antenna: helping to discover Gemini content. The deleted feed’s content was daily posts with links to WWW content." gemini://michaelnordmeyer.com/transmissions/2026-05-11-welcome-and-unwelcome-content-on-antenna.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 01:56:08

• "I added support for Server Name Indication (SNI) to the Gemini Protocol server I am working on, Ground Control, so that multiple capsules can be served by the same server with their own certificates." gemini://jeffrey.cam/log/sni-multiplexing.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 01:57:04

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

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 01:58:09

• Candles in the dark gemini://sojuz.v-tr.org/whisper/candles.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 02:00:11

• "I can't find anything - but then search is borked these days. I have taken to wondering if anyone else is making the connection between Ukraine's refinement of the use of drones in warfare and the drones in Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future." gemini://tirohia.smol.pub/1778532070    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 02:01:16

• "We hold these truths to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: [...]" gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2026-05-11_Dissociated_Declaration_of_Independence.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 02:03:19

• "There was a time early in the AI usage increase that I struggled to find articles from writers who were speaking out against LLMs, so I collected as many as I could and saved them for the moments where I needed to share some of my reasoning for finding prolific AI use so troubling." gemini://dhepworth.smol.pub/ai-sentiment    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 02:04:23

• "It’s just NixOS that needs SystemD, not the packages I use. So if I switch, I get to keep all the cool stuff from Nix, keep on learning how that all works, and add in learning everything I can about Guix." gemini://thatit.be/2026-05-10-22-14-46.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 02:06:00

• Council Elections gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/stug/phlog/20260508.txt    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 02:07:48

• "I Use my GophHub service very regularly to browse GitHub repos, probably more than any other online service I've made. But keeping it online seems to be a game of annoying little breakages." gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2026-05-06Lost_My_Key.txt    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 02:10:03

• "Recently I got a MacBook Neo and so I took it along with me. I said last year that I didn't think I was going to buy anything Apple anymore, but I've been a Mac user for about 30 years now." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/nm03/2026/MAY2026/entry-1    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 02:12:03

• push up gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/pushup    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 02:13:25

• spring cleaning gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/springCleaning    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 02:14:29

• sick from the dust gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/sick    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 02:15:10

• "I've been disillusioned with Android since 11. It was the latest version I had on my N0k1a 7.2 and I believe the beginning OS on my newest phone. Maybe not. Regardless, I started using the 7.2 as a sort of tablet and backup phone (VoIP)." gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~np89/glog/20260508-android_nostalgia.txt    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 02:16:35

• At IBM "they survive with accounting gimmicks" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1krapms83#replies    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 02:47:29

• "no, it was your post, so aggressive and critical of my friends here, it made me feel awful. I just lost all motivation to do anything positive for this awful company. Now I don't like starbucks because they're like coffee IBM but here I am, sipping a latte, getting revenge" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kr4jq0y8    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 02:48:25

• Windows new low in Bolivia https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/bolivia/#monthly-200902-202605    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 04:37:38

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

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 04:51:49

• Ethiopia also https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/ethiopia/#monthly-200902-202605    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 04:53:50

• Cookie thieves caught stealing dev secrets via fake Claude Code installers https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/11/cookie-thieves-caught-stealing-dev-secrets/5238248    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 06:40:44

• "I guess I'm just wondering _*exactly*_ how vulnerable the normal user is to this exploit? Not saying it's not important, but what is the probability that a single user workstation can be affected by this?" https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=468626&start=20&sid=a978dd10a7610256409744185379c0e5    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 06:46:34

• Did this live up to the hype? "Dirty Frag is a vulnerability chain combining two page-cache write primitives in the Linux kernel: one in the xfrm-ESP (IPsec) subsystem" (which not many people use at all) and "AFS had a lot of file ACL commands to let any user create an AFS ACL and put 4 group project members in and give some people read..."    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 06:47:24

• For most people, with typical use cases, this does not pose a risk. They don't have "evil maid" accounts and use only simple software.    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 06:48:05

• "Also, please note, to be affected by this vulnerability, you need a malicious local user capable to access your computer. That quite a theoretical possibility for most of us." https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=468626&sid=55a36a53d4484bdaf4961c0eda8f2824    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 06:51:11

• downplaying those bugs, inc. slop-attributed ones, is not wise; but being privately practical about this (local priv esc. is not 10.0, not even 9.0) is probably OK    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 06:53:13

• Grow your own ISP https://cybershow.uk/content/episodes/isp/isp.html    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 07:01:39

• "I would like to invite contributors from the GNU/libre software community to participate in the development of my DHCP server project." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-05/msg00003.html    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 07:03:37

• "The project is a modern, extensible DHCP server written in C, designed with performance, flexibility, and hackability in mind. It includes a plugin system, allowing extensions to be written in both C and Lua, making it easy to add new features without modifying the core server." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-05/msg00003.html    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 07:03:57

• Jim Zemlin/Linux Foundation Selling Anthropic Slop After Getting Bribed for Slop Marketing ('Linux' Foundation is a Pay-to-Say For-Profit Marketing Company That Buys and Manipulates the Media Based on False Pretences) http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/12/Jim_Zemlin_Linux_Foundation_Selling_Anthropic_Slop_After_Gettin.shtml    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 07:41:19

• "You're applying to ghost listings they were never going to hire you they just need to reject you so they can hire rajesh in india" https://www.teamblind.com/post/google-hiring-process-is-so-broken-xcqgrbdr    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 08:51:43

• "Aylo asked a Washington federal court for an $84 million default judgment against the operator of pirate site Pornhits" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/court-awards-aylo-4-2-million-not-84-million-in-pornhits-piracy-case/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 09:32:31

• "A group of high-profile publishing companies is seeking a $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna's Archive." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/publishers-seek-19-5-million-and-domain-takedown-order-against-annas-archive/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 09:32:44

• "The four writers claim they submitted “One of a Kind” to NewJeans, but were told it was not selected." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/10/hybe-newjeans-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-how-sweet/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 09:33:05

• "Dua Lipa - Backstage at Austin ​City Limits, 2024" ☛ https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/dua-lipa-sues-samsung-15-million-allegedly-using-her-image-sell-tvs-2026-05-11/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 09:48:42

• "Dua Lipa sues Samsung" ☛ https://rightofpublicity.com/samsung-sued-by-dua-lipa-similarities-to-pele-lawsuit-against-samsung | Source: Jonathan Faber    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 09:49:03

• "Dua Lipa has filed a $15 million lawsuit against Samsung, claiming the company used her image to sell TVs without permission and without paying her." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/10/dua-lipa-samsung-likeness-lawsuit/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 09:49:23

• "If you ride a motorcycle, you know it is a bit of an art to manage the transmission on a typical bike." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/05/11/honda-wants-to-complicate-your-e-motorcycle/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 09:49:49

• "The link rot is a symptom of the larger rot that is taking place on the web." ☛ https://samsharp.ca/not-forever/ |    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 09:50:38

• "The internet as it stands is perfectly optimized for the needs of these platforms: engagement, advertising revenue, and rapid growth." ☛ https://werd.io/asking-platforms-to-do-better-wont-work-we-need-to-force-their-hands/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 09:50:50

• "COVID-19 pandemic has boosted the wealth of the" plutocrats ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/australias-dying-middle-class-and-the-rise-of-inherited-wealth/7fxfoew79 | Source: SBS    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 09:51:40

• "More certain than safety are profits." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/waymo-self-driving-cars/687119/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 09:52:16

• "More specifically, tech companies like Cisco and IBM were pushing Colorado lawmakers to sign off on SB26-090" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/11/tech-companies-fail-to-kill-colorados-right-to-repair-law/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 09:52:51

• "In its current formulation, No More 24 would eliminate 24-hour shifts, replace them with 12-hour shifts, and impose a maximum limit of 56 hours per week." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/no-more-24-hour-workday-care-mamdani/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 09:54:37

• "This future is being actively contested on multiple fronts." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/05/workers-ai-power-plants-south | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 09:54:49

• "Now a coalition of press groups, including Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) and Reporters Without Borders" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/11/share-owning-journalism-orgs-press-paramount-for-company-docs-on-corrupt-trump-merger-dealings/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:10:12

• "I would hope his lawyers are smarter than Patel appears to be, because going back to the same well so quickly following a libel lawsuit loss might add sanctions to the humiliation of another public loss in a federal court." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/11/kash-patels-leadership-is-pretty-much-just-libel-lawsuits-and-lie-detectors/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:10:36

• techdirt says "Lie Detectors", not "polygraphs" (pseudoscience). it's like calling homeopathy "medicine". polygraphs measures not truth but body signals (not really related). it's more like stress detector.    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:12:19

• "This is not the behavior of confident people" ☛ https://karlbode.com/the-billionaires-are-afraid/ | Source: Karl Bode    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:12:28

• "The reason became clear during the campaign." ☛ https://www.ipswich.co.uk/we-dont-need-you-reform-shuts-door-on-local-media-hours-after-taking-control-of-suffolk-county-council/ | Source: Ipswich News    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:12:45

• iophk: apropos "ai" there the opposite of compartmetalization going on and at some point one of the "models" is going to become the functional equivalent of a computer worm. We already have ones that mutate slightly but this sets the mutation capabilities to a whole new scale not just whole new level.    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:14:47

• "You compromising on your understanding of what’s right and wrong simply to appease others and not stand out is sad." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/choices/ | Source: Ava    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:17:04

• "Like every coalition, the two main groups that constitute "the progressives" do not agree on many important issues, though they do have common goals." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/11/postmortem/#house-divided | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:17:28

• "By European, British, Australian, Japanese, or South Korean standards, they are relatively moderate politicians pushing popular policies" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/on-the-far-left | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:17:59

• "The substantive expression of popular sovereignty, as the founders understood it, is the legislation Congress passes. Not the policy preferences of the president." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-candidate-i-want | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:18:29

• "I was surprised to see four pristine, like new, Curtis Sliwa lawn signs laying on a pile of trash bags." ☛ https://thenewleafjournal.com/sliwa-for-nyc-mayor-lawn-signs-seen-in-may-2026/ | Source: The New Leaf Journal    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:18:46

• "Every kitchen evolves around the habits of its cook." ☛ https://blog.vrypan.net/2026/05/11/the-cathedral-the-bazaar-and-the-kitchen/ | Source: Panagiotis Vryonis    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:19:15

• "The RIPE Chair Team reports on what to expect at RIPE 92, including the main programme and parallel events, WG chair selections and support for newcomers, as well as highlights from recent industry events." ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/mirjam_kuhne/the-ripe-chair-team-reports-may-2026/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:20:10

• "Departing employees will receive severance equivalent to their full base salary through the end of 2026. The company noted that US workers will continue to receive healthcare coverage through December 31." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/cloudflare-lays-off-1100-employees-in-ai-driven-restructuring/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:20:32

• "The decision modifies a March 2026 FCC ruling that prohibits foreign manufacturers from selling new consumer router models in the US, except for those the agency had already approved." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/fcc-softens-foreign-router-ban | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:20:50

• "The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday extended its deadline for a ban on software and firmware updates for foreign-made routers" ☛ https://therecord.media/fcc-pushes-ban-on-updates-to-foreign-routers-drones-2029 | Source: The Record    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:22:01

• "What is it then? Well, according to Staples, GitLab plans to use most of the money it saves by sacking staff to invest in its business." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/05/12/gitlab-promises-a-different-kind-of-layoff-as-biz-pivots-toward-ai/5238422 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:22:24

• "analysts say the Japanese company may be approaching the limit of what it can finance" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/softbanks-openai-related-debt-in-focus-as-another-strong-quarter-expected/articleshow/131027833.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:22:54

• "The contest has seven categories, including a new one this year that highlights biodiversity." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-15-stunning-images-that-won-the-german-society-for-nature-photographys-annual-contest-180988711/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:26:14

• "The case has now been handed over to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for federal review." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/seattle-tourist-attacks-hawaiian-monk-seal-1796253 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:26:29

• "The 1916 Detroit Electric Model 57 Brougham was a refined and luxurious electric automobile that epitomized quiet elegance in the early automotive era." ☛ https://www.vintag.es/2026/05/1916-detroit-electric-model-57-brougham.html | Source: Vintage Everyday    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:27:02

• "The Japan-based tech investment biz says it aims to deploy the battery systems it is developing at its own large-scale AI server farms initially" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/05/11/softbank-bets-on-battery-building-to-back-bit-barns/5237886 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:32:17

• "According to a SemiAnalysis post on X" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-data-center-developers-target-rural-territory-to-bypass-city-construction-bans-and-regulations-rural-locations-allow-sites-to-bypass-city-council-approvals-rezoning-votes-land-use-reviews-and-reduce-public-scrutiny | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:32:42

• "Data center projects have faced resistance from residents and communities over their impact on power prices" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/data-centers-face-increasing-infrasound-complaints-from-neighboring-communities-sounds-do-not-register-on-decibel-meters-but-irritate-local-citizens | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:33:18

• "So how does this all shake out? Your guess is as good as mine, but one thing is for sure: the temperature is rising, and, as we all know, cooling things down can get very expensive for data centers." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-business/energy-finance/those-damn-data-centers-factor-this-brief/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:33:40

• "We’re not saying you can’t sell oil" ☛ https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/11/ellison-eager-to-put-case-against-big-oil-in-front-of-a-jury-after-years-of-delay/ |    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:34:14

• "the state’s ongoing climate deception lawsuit against fossil fuel companies a “frivolous” delay tactic, adding that he is eager to begin discovery and get the case in front of a jury." ☛ https://www.minnpost.com/glean/2026/05/ellison-calls-trump-bid-to-block-climate-lawsuit-frivolous/ | Source: MinnPost    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:36:59

• "the 64-year-old organizer isn’t gatekeeping any of this, and hopes the successes her nearby town enjoyed will inspire others to take action wherever the next Cloverleaf development pops up." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/wisconsin-mom-ai-data-center | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:37:22

• "Jeffrey Epstein’s office set a rule for its special team inside American Express: spending on trips for young women and others had to be kept a secret" ☛ https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/epstein-s-black-amex-how-he-secretly-moved-women-around-with-invite-only-credit-cards-20260512-p5zvv6.html | Source: The Age AU    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:38:46

• "In other words, Collins isn’t being honest; but the local media amplified her framing anyway, too lazy (or cushy) to independently check." ☛ https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-is-susan-collins-shaking | Source: Ken Klippenstein    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:38:57

• "A new report from Palisade Research has found that AI models can self-replicate by copying themselves onto other machines" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/researchers-teach-ai-self-replicate | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:39:37

• "Palisade tested several AI models in a controlled environment of networked computers." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/07/no-one-has-done-this-in-the-wild-study-observes-ai-replicate-itself | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:39:59

• "China’s restraint should not be seen as a sign of weakness." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/05/china-trump-american-decline/687087/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:40:28

• "carrier strike groups deploy on three-year centers, meaning they cycle through training" ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2026/05/11/epic-fury-has-navy-rethinking-carrier-deployment-tempo/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:41:03

• "As the debt continues to grow, interest payments continue to soar." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-no-one-will-tell-you-about-the | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:41:32

• "The Europeans lack the capacity to bolster arms production over the short-term." ☛ https://protesilaos.com/politics/2026-05-11-western-strategic-constraints-iran-war/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:41:59

• "the stinginess of the superrich" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-our-hyper-gilded-age-usher-in | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:42:18

• "This was entirely a gift to Putin." ☛ https://emptywheel.net/2026/05/11/humiliation/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:42:42

• "As a noncommissioned officer, or NCO, with almost two decades in uniform, Gannon Van Dyke would have recited the NCO Creed many times." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/the-war-casino | Source: The Next Move    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:43:24

• "That was the end of our night, of course, Young said with a laugh, because we ate it, felt terrible and didnt go out after." https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/100-burger-in-n-out-22249526.php    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:46:30

• Anon: As we saw with the recent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, even vaccines can be made into a fraudulent scam, and not entirely due to the rush job either.    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:46:38

• "More than 50 years after Gödel’s theorem, cryptographers devised a radical new proof method in which unknowability played a very different role." ☛ https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-unknowable-math-can-help-hide-secrets-20260511/ | Source: Quanta Magazine    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:47:08

• "A meaningful text can be hidden inside another, completely different yet still coherent and plausible, text of the same length." ☛ https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20075 | Source: arXiv    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:47:23

• "The case centers on allegations that General Motors shared sensitive driver information, including geolocation data and driving behavior, with data brokers Verisk Analytics and LexisNexis Risk Solutions between 2020 and 2024." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/california-privacy-settlement-hits-gm/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:48:14

• "This tracking is also used to analyze kids’ profiles, the lawsuit said, and to pinpoint users’ locations." ☛ https://therecord.media/texas-sues-netflix-over-data-practices-surveillance | Source: The Record    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:48:29

• "In a lawsuit filed Monday morning, Paxton said Netflix misrepresented to consumers that it didn’t collect or share user data for years" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/texas-targets-netflix-over-data-collection-autoplay-feature/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:48:49

• "As with most sequels, Bill C-22 makes some tweaks to problematic elements, but largely retains the same problems." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/canadas-bill-c-22-repackaged-version-last-years-surveillance-nightmare | Source: EFF    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:49:08

• "In April 2026, EU lawmakers tried to achieve an incredibly fast deal to extend the interim ePrivacy derogation – sometimes known as “Chat Control 1.0” – for a second time." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/did-the-eu-parliament-really-vote-not-to-protect-children-online/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:50:05

• "On April 20, 2026, we detected unauthorized access to a subset of our GitHub repositories." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/sailpoint-discloses-github-repository-hack/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:51:06

• "Now, Reddit put the first part of the equation in the trash." ☛ https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/05/11/open-web-people.html | Source: Numeric Citizen    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:52:51

• "Every notification on our phone, trading platforms like Robinhood, the crypto craze, and now prediction markets, can be understood through the lens of slot machine design and Schüll work." ☛ https://www.404media.co/how-the-world-became-a-casino/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:53:19

• "California’s tech capital has turned its attention toward one of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/culture/california-meta-scam-advertising-lawsuit | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:54:03

• "That’s according to the latest POTRAZ figures." ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/05/whatsapp-now-equals-zimbabwe-2022-internet/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 10:54:23

• "29 million gallons of water" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/georgia-data-center-used-29-million-gallons-of-water | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 11:14:35

• "People are starting to be really, really aware that these projects tend to be very extractive and bring very little to local communities" ☛ https://www.consumerreports.org/data-centers/ai-data-centers-impact-on-electric-bills-water-and-more-a1040338678/ | Source: Consumer Reports    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 11:14:56

• "low water pressure" ☛ https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988 | Source: Politico LLC    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 11:15:22

• "This chart suggests an interesting security economy: to harden a system we need to spend more tokens discovering exploits than attackers spend exploiting them." ☛ https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/04/14/cybersecurity-is-proof-of-work-now.html | Source: Drew Breunig    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 11:15:47

• "This laziness is creating a generation of software that is fragile, invades your privacy, and fundamentally broken." ☛ https://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/ |    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 11:16:07

• "These hard-to-describe pre-cognified qualities will appear in our bots unevenly." ☛ https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-emergent-self-loop/ | Source: Kevin Kelly    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 11:17:07

• "The interesting question is not whether AI helped produce a zero-day. That was inevitable." ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1243 | Source: Unmitigated Risk    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 11:17:23

• "next industrial revolution" ☛ https://www.404media.co/ucf-ai-commencement-speaker-booed/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 11:18:31

• "Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are often presented as objective" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/ai-is-not-neutral-what-recent-research-says-about-bias-identity-and-power/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 11:19:54

• "Cybersecurity experts are sounding the alarm, yet AI companies continue racing to release increasingly powerful models with little regard for the societal consequences." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/ai-companies-are-recklessly-racing-toward-a-cybersecurity-crisis | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 11:20:17

• "The SPUR coalition addresses one of the key challenges facing our industry today: ensuring that quality journalism is used responsibly in the development of AI." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/mediahuis-joins-spur-news-ai/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 11:20:34

• "This is in stark contrast with Substack, which has been promoting social media style following relationships over true subscriptions, and only allows creators to export their subscribers should they choose to move" ☛ https://werd.io/to-maintain-their-independence-publishers-are-fleeing-substack/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 11:25:09

• "Why did the search from outside of Amazon do better than the search inside of Amazon?" ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/05/searches-are-weird-no-theyre-not-bad.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 11:43:22

• "As far as I know, this is the first time the Dogcow has even been shown with more than two legs. This feels wrong." ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/05/clarus-can-walk/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 11:43:38

• "According to Skoda, the attackers gained unauthorized access to systems connected to its online shop." ☛ https://sqmagazine.co.uk/skoda-cyberattack-online-store-users/ | Source: SQ Magazine    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 11:44:02

• "Sheela Zemlin, who previously chaired the Compensation and Talent Management Committee and was a member of the Market Development Committee, resigned from the Board of Directors effective January 1, 2022." https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1438231/000156459022012040/dmrc-def14a_20220513.htm    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 12:00:26

• "According to Skoda, password hashes were also accessed as part of the breach, but no credit card data was compromised" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/skoda-data-breach-hits-online-shop-customers/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 12:09:28

• Conflict of interest: wife (and boss) of Jim Zemlin works for a slop peddler now, SEW.ai, so he too will promote this Ponzi scheme    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 12:10:37

• "the company said Canvas — a central hub for K-12 and university coursework, exams, grades and communication — was back online and fully operational." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/canvas-instructure-data-theft-extortion-the-com/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 12:11:04

• Once again Sheela Zemlin (the boss of Jim) partnered with Microsoft and their site uses image/vnd.microsoft.icon    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 12:15:31

• LF is rotten to the core. Securities fraud, pyramid schemes, Microsoft funding...    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 12:16:08

• But 'at least' there are no "Epstein photos" of Zemlin    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 12:16:34

• "According to the Government of Canada, there are already more than 40 different types of ticks in Canada" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ticks-meat-allergy-lone-star-9.7193134 | Source: CBC    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 12:17:32

• "It's even claimed that listening to music tuned to this frequency can align your internal frequencies to those of the universe." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/432hz-brain-tuning-is-an-ancient-idea-does-it-actually-work | Source: Science Alert    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 12:17:41

• Has Harvard become a white collar crime category, Madame Zemlin?    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 12:19:14

• More conflicts of interest? https://ffnews.com/people/sheela-zemlin/ https://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/Pages/executive-fellows-2022.aspx https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/the-linux-foundation-and-harvards-lab-for-innovation-science-release-census-for-open-source-software-security    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 12:31:24

• "I acquired this at thrift for $21.95 on 2026-10-10 for Mother’s Day in immaculate condition!" ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2026/05/11/1977-olympia-report-de-luxe-electric-portable-typewriter-ske-model/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 12:32:59

• "The Konica MT-100 sits in an interesting moment of point-and-shoot history. Upon its 1989 introduction, point-and-shoot cameras had largely become fully automatic." ☛ https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/05/11/konica-mt-100/ | Source: Jim Grey    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 12:33:12

• "You normally think of fiber optic as something used in network cables." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/05/11/the-walls-dont-have-ears-but-fiber-optic-does/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 12:33:29

• Seems it cites Techrights regarding the illegal kangaroo 'court' https://thinkfide.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/The-Unitary-Patent-Package_WEB-26.04.pdf    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 12:36:01

• "What you see here is the visible part of a quiet revolution. In the last two decades, Jammu has made real, measurable progress in female education." ☛ https://thenorthlines.com/when-education-doesnt-lead-to-employment/ | Source: The North Lines IN    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 13:22:40

• "If Red Queen hiring actually worked, then we’d see that organizations that spend more time on it would outperform those that don’t." ☛ https://seths.blog/2026/05/the-shared-tragedy-of-red-queen-hiring/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 13:22:56

• "The goal is not to reproduce historical observations perfectly, but to construct models that remain useful when confronted with new data." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/05/learning-data-science-why-a-high-r2-can-be-misleading/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 13:23:34

• "It is a commonly held opinion that educational institutions could do more to improve the pedagogy of mathematics." ☛ https://susam.net/advanced-mathematics-pedagogy.html | Source: SusamPal    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 13:23:53

• "This morning I wrote a post about the probability that a random matrix over a finite field is invertible." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/05/11/euler-function/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 13:24:22

• "What is the inverse of shifting a sequence to the right? Shifting it to the left, obviously." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/05/11/inverse-shift/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 13:24:44

• "The two latest posts have involved invertible matrices with 0 and 1 entries. If you fill an n × n matrix with 0s and 1s randomly, how likely is it to be invertible?" ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/05/11/random-binary-matrices/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 13:25:04

• "I’m working on a paper about mounted rearing skeletons of sauropods" ☛ https://svpow.com/2026/05/11/looking-for-cc-by-photos-of-these-rearing-sauropod-mounts/ | Source: Matt Wedel    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 13:25:22

• "My first memories of using computers come from my preschool and kindergarden classrooms in around 2009 (for people who don’t know how school in the US works" ☛ https://lilysthings.org/blog/childhood-computing/ |    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 13:27:20

• "When I am reading someone's website, I am often moved to reach out to them." ☛ https://forkingmad.blog/hey-you-start-communicating/ | Source: David    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 13:28:13

• "Not long ago, a website that loaded quickly felt like a small victory." ☛ https://sqmagazine.co.uk/digital-experiences-shift-convenience-expectation/ | Source: SQ Magazine    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 13:28:38

• [Old] "I guess the reason for that is because I always worried that if I didn't keep this blog anonymous" ☛ https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/anonymity-is-fun/ |    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 13:29:02

• "Bloggers have written many words about the pros and cons of writing anonymously." ☛ https://sals.place/blog/pseudonym-as-an-escape/ | Source: Sal    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 13:29:45

• "'Very desperate': Frustrated Trump learns he doesn't have the cards on Iran - RTL Today" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/frustrated-trump-learns-he-doesnt-have-the-cards-on-iran-315999628    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 13:44:18

• "Trump Has Gone From Unpredictable to Unreliable - The Atlantic" https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/05/trump-has-gone-unpredictable-unreliable/687129/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 13:44:41

• "Trump already ‘bored’ with his own war and wants out-report - The Zambian Observer" https://zambianobserver.com/trump-already-bored-with-his-own-war-and-wants-out-report/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 13:44:55

• Was a free and open internet just a parenthesis? | "Var ett fritt och öppet internet bara en parentes?" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/05/11/var-ett-fritt-och-oppet-internet-bara-en-parentes/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 13:45:25

• All parties: More police! | "Alle partier: Mere politi! | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/alle-partier-mere-politi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 13:46:12

• "Seriously though, this is great to see start rolling out, and it will impact most folks here in the US since it works with Google Messages." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/encrypted-rcs-is-going-wide-starting-today/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:13:24

• "The baseline is libdeflate level 12, one of the strongest practical DEFLATE encoders. The level 13 implementation was contributed upstream as pull request." ☛ https://kirill.korins.ky/articles/hellishly-slow-level-13-deflate-compression/ | Source: Kirill A Korinsky    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:13:49

• "proxy is a single Go binary that speaks the wire protocols of npm, PyPI, RubyGems, Cargo, Go modules, Maven, NuGet, Composer, Hex, pub.dev, Conan, Conda, CRAN, Debian, RPM, and the OCI container registry." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/11/proxy.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:14:43

• "This article is about running a Java server application on Linux in a least-privileges way, without resorting to containers or virtual machines." ☛ https://kevinboone.me/java_chroot.html | Source: Kevin Boone    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:14:58

• "As engineers, we like to pretend that time.Now() returns an objective truth. It doesn’t" ☛ https://lorbic.com/just-about-go-time/ | Source: Vikash Patel    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:15:23

• Chaosium's QuestWorlds arrived today! gemini://consp.org/blog/2026/2026-05-11-chaosiums-questworlds-arrived-today.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:16:49

• "Are you looking for a free domain names?" gemini://balloon.fusen.nya.je/freedomain.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:17:53

• "For a long time, I've had a lot of thoughts about plant taxonomy. It's something I think about on a daily basis, given the amount of time I spend around plants, looking at them and pondering them." gemini://bouteloua.fyi/misc/apgramblings.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:18:36

• "For years, one of the hobbies that has really defined my life is astronomy and stargazing. I have a nice telescope and I love spending time alone in the dark, straining to see what is out there." gemini://bouteloua.fyi/misc/onstargazing.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:20:28

• "Back when I was at uni I was driving around a 1999 Holden Astra with no bluetooth, no aux, not even a tape player to use one of those 3.5mm to cassette adapters." gemini://frooplet.com/glog/2026-05-12-radio.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:21:24

• "Okay maybe this is platforming heresy but when I was little I hated the “coyote time” in platforming games. Still do. It’s there in order to make the game more welcoming and forgiving and I applaud that sentiment" gemini://idiomdrottning.org/coyote-time    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:22:29

• "Running a gemini capsule is fun, but manually creating a new post folder, writing the boilerplate and remembering to add the "Back to my blog" link is something I dislike. So I wrote a small bash script to automate the process." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/how-i-create-new-blog-posts/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:23:25

• "Here, you are not a passive user. You are the one who speaks — and the machine listens" ☛ https://kyrylo.org/2026/04/15/the-magic-of-typing-terminal-commands.html | Source: Kyrylo Silin    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:29:30

• "Here's the question: should you reindent 'some-statement' so that it's part of the 'if' block?" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/CodeFormattingBlockHeuristics | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:48:04

• "Zig 0.16 shipped last month with std.Io, a cross-platform interface for I/O and concurrency." ☛ https://lalinsky.com/2026/05/11/async-io-in-zig-016-today.html | Source: Lukáš Lalinský    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:48:42

• "The 90 day responsible disclosure window was built for a world where bug finders were rare and exploit development was slow. That world is gone." ☛ https://blog.himanshuanand.com/2026/05/the-90-day-disclosure-policy-is-dead/ |    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:48:55

• "Reminder: NYCBUG‘s next event is in two days. It’s “The Design of Unix Shell” with Stephen Bourne." ☛ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2026/05/11/29794/ | Source: DragonFly BSD Digest    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:49:49

• "Due to hardware failure, the machine hosting undeadly has gone down last week. Thanks to the kind and swift help from OpenBSD.amsterdam, we're now back online. We will source new hardware for the original machine and hopefully move back again soon." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260511202034 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:50:41

• "WordPress has the concept of "Featured Images". They are the images which show up when you share a blog post on social media or, on some themes, as the "hero" image." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/find-blog-posts-with-missing-featured-images-and-missing-alt-text-without-a-plugin/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:50:58

• "I’ve been posting about how you can make lots of HTML pages and leverage navigations over in-page, JS-dependent interactions." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/out-with-js-in-with-html/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:51:09

• "WordPress powers 47% of the web." ☛ https://werd.io/wordpress-powers-47-of-the-web-now-its-more-social-too/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:51:23

• "Years ago, dBase was the undisputed king of databases - every business, every person using IBM or IBM-compatible PCs had to get it installed." ☛ https://delphinightmares.substack.com/p/dbase-1979-2026 |    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:52:19

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:52:44

• "Microsoft says Edge loading saved passwords into plaintext memory is by design." ☛ https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/microsoft-says-its-by-design-edges-plaintext-password-behavior-is-still-a-security-problem/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:53:05

• "(It also makes it slightly harder to break by sending SYN packets, but it's not exactly hard to DDoS a server connected over what's effectively dial-up)" ☛ https://maurycyz.com/projects/mcusite/ | Source: Maury    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:53:48

• "yes, as in singular one." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:54:01

• "ln means link and is used to create “linked files” pointing to source files" ☛ https://www.readwriterachel.com/things-i-learned/2026/05/11/coreutils-ln.html | Source: Rachel Kaufman    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:54:26

• "Lots of posts for the Emacs Carnival theme of "May I recommend…", yay!" ☛ https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/05/2026-05-11-emacs-news/ | Source: Sacha Chua    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:54:40

• "That iris magic happens thanks to a pretty simple gear ring mechanism actuated by a small hobby servo motor." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/05/11/this-futuristic-looking-dustbin-features-a-motion-activated-iris-mechanism/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:55:18

• "Got myself a little downtime here. Not sure what’s going on but the system SSD threw IO errors and the LVM switched to read-only as a result." ☛ https://beko.famkos.net/2026/05/11/15631508/ |    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:55:48

• "It wasn’t the original idea– well, the bottles were the original concept, but flipping them was not." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/05/11/its-a-water-clock-jim-but-not-as-we-know-it-it-has-digits/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:56:08

• "The maker admits the Muxcard prototype is 1mm thick as it now stands." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/microcontrollers-projects/tiny-credit-card-computer-includes-eink-screen-and-is-just-1mm-thick-muxcard-is-powered-by-the-esp32-c3-microcontroller | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:56:25

• "The RP2350 microcontroller is the brains of Raspberry Pi Pico 2, along with a host of third-party boards. RP2350 features dual Arm Cortex-M33 processors running at 150MHz, 520KB of on-chip SRAM, and twelve PIO state machines." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/maker-monday-some-of-the-best-rp2350-based-boards/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:57:40

• "Why are such “simple” straight-to-the-point dashboards now synonymous with either brand boldness or retro design" ☛ https://thejollyteapot.com/2026/05/10/we-need-something-better-than-touchscreens-in-cars/ | Source: Nicolas Magand    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:58:11

• "The Debian project’s latest Bits from the release team newsletter has a goal which may not sound very big" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/11/debian-14-cracks-down-on-unreproducible-packages/5238094 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:58:48

• "This release is an emergency release to fix a critical security vulnerability in the Linux kernel" ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_7_3/ | Source: Tor    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:59:04

• "In this article I use release 5.3 ('Whinlatter'), which introduced the bitbake-setup helper tool." ☛ https://muxup.com/building-32-bit-risc-v-sysroots-and-images-with-yocto | Source: Muxup    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 14:59:47

• "This report covers hrev59570 through hrev59671." ☛ https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2026-05-11-haiku_activity_contract_report_april_2026/ | Source: HaikuOS    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:00:13

• "the best way to sell combat is by making it a video game" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/05/operation-epic-furious/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:00:53

• SteamOS 3.7.24 released along with a stable Steam Client update with more Steam Controller fixes | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/steamos-3-7-24-released-along-with-a-stable-steam-client-update-with-more-steam-controller-fixes/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:01:48

• The Jackbox Party Pack 12 announced for release later this year | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/the-jackbox-party-pack-12-announced-for-release-later-this-year/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:02:33

• "It looks like our local IBM shill stopped playing with his badges momentarily to continue his psyops here." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1krapms83    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:07:59

• "How is that Matt Loathsome's team - consisting of Jill Fourie and her direct reports - consistently deliver some of the worse AI on earth - AskIT, AskIBM and AskSales - yet are consistently passed over when it comes time to cull the herd?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kr24aeev#replies    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:09:02

• "Even Arvind reported how bad these solutions are yet they all have total job security? Why???" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kr24aeev#replies    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:09:12

• At one point or threshold does the Board (controlled by the CEO) sack the CEO? https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/12/IBM_Falls_to_One_year_Low.shtml    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:11:00

• Some fun VR game announcements from the Creature Feature 2026 event | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/some-fun-vr-game-announcements-from-the-creature-feature-2026-event/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:11:46

• Dusk is a reverse-engineered reimplementation of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/dusk-is-a-reverse-engineered-reimplementation-of-the-legend-of-zelda-twilight-princess/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:12:14

• Get some great bullet heaven survivor-likes in the Heavenly Bullets Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/get-some-great-bullet-heaven-survivor-likes-in-the-heavenly-bullets-humble-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:12:40

• RMS talk in Germany next month. Old: Stallman über unfreie Spiele auf Linux https://futurezone.at/digital-life/stallman-ueber-unfreie-spiele-auf-linux/24.583.721    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:13:50

• Crazy action game Killer Bean confirmed for launch on June 8 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/crazy-action-game-killer-bean-confirmed-for-launch-on-june-8/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/crazy-action-game-killer-bean-confirmed-for-launch-on-june-8/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:14:14

• Previously console-exclusive, Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Cursed Sands is finally on PC | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/previously-console-exclusive-return-to-castle-wolfenstein-cursed-sands-is-finally-on-pc/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:14:46

• "Firas has worked diligently to earn a variety of Red Hat Certifications, including up to Red Hat Certified Architect in both Enterprise Linux and OpenShift." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/announcing-2026-red-hat-certified-professional-year-firas-benbelgacem | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:15:24

• "These awards recognize partners who have demonstrated exceptional ingenuity using Red Hat’s open source portfolio to drive measurable, transformative results for our joint customers" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/announcing-winners-2026-red-hat-ecosystem-innovation-awards | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:15:37

• "The rpkispool format revolves around a data structure called Canonical Cache Representation (CCR)" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/05/12/repairing-the-rpkiviews-h1-2026-archives/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:17:06

• "I've wanted to reorganize the stylesheet's CSS layers for a while, and to no one's surprise, that turned into a major refactor." ☛ https://marijkeluttekes.dev/blog/articles/2026/05/11/blog-refresh-4x/ | Source: Marijke Luttekes    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:17:29

• "There are two common approaches to managing the encryption key for ZFS datasets, and neither one is fully satisfying." ☛ https://withblue.ink/2026/05/09/revaulter-encrypted-zfs-passkey.html |    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:18:10

• "In the above situation, ZFS is compressing the data on-the-fly. Then newsylog comes along and decompresses it at the file-contents level." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/05/10/newsyslog-telling-it-not-to-compress-for-anything/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:18:44

• "ZFS is a robust file system, in large part thanks to its copy-on-write design." ☛ https://oshogbo.com/blog/86/ |    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:19:35

• "The embargo was broken by external factors before patches existed, and the document was published at the request of the linux-distros maintainers." ☛ https://nflatrea.bearblog.dev/thoughts-on-dirty-frag/ | Source: Noë Flatreaud    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:19:57

• "The context is that of a new Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability: Dirty Frag." ☛ https://ludditus.com/2026/05/09/is-debian-the-answer-to-the-ultimate-question-of-life-the-universe-and-everything/ |    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:20:24

• "In the world of enterprise storage, few technologies have reshaped architectures and capabilities as profoundly as ZFS" ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/how-klara-and-truenas-collaborated-to-fix-one-of-zfss-longest-standing-limitations/ | Source: Klara    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:20:44

• "Recently I went on the Linux User Space show to talk about KDE Linux, business, and everyone’s favorite topic: SLOP" ☛ https://pointieststick.com/2026/05/11/interview-on-linux-user-space-show/ | Source: Nate Graham    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:21:21

• "Let's take the hardware side first." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/increasing-hardware-costs-get-more-your-vm-estate-red-hat-openshift-virtualization | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:22:24

• Selling slop on false premises of "sovereignty" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-and-netris-bring-multi-tenant-networking-sovereign-ai-clouds-and-neoclouds | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:23:38

• "This is not accidental. It is the result of a mutual dependency: [...]" ☛ https://puri.sm/posts/purisms-product-philosophy-in-an-age-of-government-big-tech-convergence/ | Source: Purism    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:25:08

• "The cp command does exactly one thing well: it copies files, but it gives you no progress indicator, no rate limiting, no resume support, and no built-in checksum verification." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/copy-large-files-faster-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:26:02

• IBM Red Hat peddling slop as usual ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/agentic-paradox-and-case-hybrid-ai | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:27:07

• Overselling and upselling the paper mill's "OpenShift" paper thing ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/validate-targeted-expertise-major-updates-red-hat-certification | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:27:49

• And acting as Microsoft reseller ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/your-guide-microsoft-azure-red-hat-openshift-red-hat-summit-2026 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:28:13

• Slop pretending to be "productivity" tool ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/why-building-fast-does-not-guarantee-success | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:28:50

• Peddling some more slop at IBM Red Hat ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/turning-complexity-confidence-red-hat-technical-supportability-review-ai | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:30:09

• National stadium costs will not increase, Vilnius mayor assures ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2925243/national-stadium-costs-will-not-increase-vilnius-mayor-assures    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:45:51

• A Single Infusion Could Suppress H.I.V. for Years, Study Suggests ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/health/hiv-infusion-immunotherapy.html    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:46:34

• What to Know About the Hantavirus Outbreak on an Atlantic Cruise Ship ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/article/hantavirus-cruise-ship-outbreak-hondius.html    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:46:59

• RFK Jr. Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into Vaccines, Despite His Public Silence ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/health/kennedy-vaccine-safety.html    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:47:15

• Opinion | We can prevent an oil spill in the Straits of Mackinac ☞ https://bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-we-can-prevent-an-oil-spill-in-the-straits-of-mackinac/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:47:34

• Reminder: boil your tap water this week in Rīga ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/11.05.2026-reminder-boil-your-tap-water-this-week-in-riga.a646520/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:48:42

• Michigan teen tobacco use ticks up as prevention funding lags ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-teen-tobacco-use-ticks-up-as-prevention-funding-lags/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:49:04

• South Korea exploring using Hyundai robots as army numbers fall ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-exploring-using-hyundai-robots-as-army-numbers-fall    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:49:31

• South Korea condemns attack on cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz, vows response ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korea-condemns-attack-on-cargo-ship-in-strait-of-hormuz-vows-response    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:49:49

• Lovebugs to swarm South Korea earlier and in large numbers in 2026; Seoul to test rose-scented traps ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/lovebugs-to-swarm-south-korea-earlier-and-in-large-numbers-in-2026-seoul-to-test-rose-scented-traps    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:50:24

• Farmers in Malaysia go high-tech to fight fake Penang durians ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/farmers-in-malaysia-go-high-tech-to-fight-fake-penang-durians   

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:52:12

• How rising diesel prices from Iran conflict have slowed down a once-booming sector in Malaysia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/how-rising-diesel-prices-from-the-iran-conflict-has-slowed-down-a-once-booming-sector-in-malaysia    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:52:30

• Humiliation ☞ https://emptywheel.net/2026/05/11/humiliation/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:53:03

• Taiwan confident in US ties but hopes for no ‘surprises’ from Convicted Felon’s China summit ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-confident-in-us-ties-ahead-of-trump-visit-to-china    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:53:18

• China says it won’t allow Taiwan to attend WHO’s annual assembly ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-says-it-wont-allow-taiwan-to-attend-whos-annual-assembly    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:53:41

• China’s marriages drop to decade low, deepening demographic concerns ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-marriages-drop-to-decade-low-deepening-demographic-concerns    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:54:15

• ‘Two husbands’ ad no joking matter for China’s authorities ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/two-husbands-ad-no-joking-matter-for-chinas-authorities    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:54:56

• Restriced by the West, Huawei's Open Source HarmonyOS Now Powers 55 Million Devices ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/harmony-os-rises-china/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:55:34

• Former CNN host Don Lemon on turning a profit with his five-person media network ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/don-lemon-independent-journalist/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:56:16

• Stardust Trapped in Antarctic Ice Reveals Earth's Journey Through The Cosmos ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/stardust-trapped-in-antarctic-ice-reveals-earths-journey-through-the-cosmos    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:56:56

• Surprise X-Ray Discovery May Explain Strange Red Dots in Early Universe ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/surprise-x-ray-discovery-may-explain-strange-red-dots-in-early-universe    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:58:45

• The World's First Nuclear Explosion Forged an 'Impossible' Crystal ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-first-nuclear-explosion-forged-an-impossible-crystal    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:59:00

• Common Sweetener May Harm Critical Brain Barrier, Risking Stroke ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/common-sweetener-may-harm-critical-brain-barrier-risking-stroke    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:59:15

• Emerging Osteoarthritis Treatment Involves Electrically Stimulating Muscles ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/emerging-osteoarthritis-treatment-involves-electrically-stimulating-muscles    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 15:59:30

• Stocks might be soaring, but US economy is feeling Iran war shocks ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2026/0511/economy-gas-inflation-iran-war    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:00:08

• China’s consumer prices rise on Iran war oil squeeze ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/05/11/chinas-consumer-prices-rise-on-iran-war-oil-squeeze/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:00:20

• IRGC-linked media outlines plan to tax and control undersea internet cables in the Hormuz Strait ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/irgc-linked-media-outlines-plan-to-tax-and-control-undersea-internet-cables-in-the-hormuz-strait-irans-mouthpiece-calls-for-a-cut-of-usd10-trillion-of-transactions-that-pulse-through-the-cables-daily    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:02:03

• WhatsApp Alone Now Equals Zimbabwe’s Entire 2022 Internet ☞ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/05/whatsapp-now-equals-zimbabwe-2022-internet/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:02:47

• New Data Center Equivalent to Setting Off 23 Nuclear Bombs Per Day, Professor Finds ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/data-center-atom-bombs    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:04:34

• Graduation Speaker Shocked When She’s Loudly Booed by Students for Saying Hey Hi (AI) Is the Future ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/graduation-speaker-booed-ai    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:05:10

• Warner Music and Suno Really, Really Don’t Want You to See Their Licensing Agreement — And They’re Fighting Tooth-and-Nail Against UMG and Sony to Keep It Private ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/11/suno-warner-music-discovery-contract-demand/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:05:48

• Lux Express sues Latvian transport authorities over delayed payments ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/11.05.2026-lux-express-sues-latvian-transport-authorities-over-delayed-payments.a646605/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:06:12

• Red Hat paid this site to publish spam about slop in relation to itself ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/11/ai-choice-power-open-ecosystems-rhsummit/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:07:31

• Hackers, Forklifts, and Other Things Manufacturers Blame on Repair ☞ https://www.repair.org/blog/2026/5/11/manufacturers-have-a-new-argument-against-repair-everyone-else-is-too-dangerous    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:08:30

• Hong Kong gov’t declines comment on wanted activist’s possible deportation from Thailand to China ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/05/11/hong-kong-govt-declines-comment-on-wanted-activists-possible-deportation-from-thailand-to-china/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:09:13

• Resurrected ‘Crimenetwork’ Marketplace Taken Down, Administrator Arrested ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/resurrected-crimenetwork-marketplace-taken-down-administrator-arrested/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:10:39

• Canvas System Is Online After a Cyberattack Disrupted Thousands of Schools ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/canvas-system-is-online-after-a-cyberattack-disrupted-thousands-of-schools/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:10:55

• Checkmarx Jenkins AST Plugin Compromised in Supply Chain Attack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/checkmarx-jenkins-ast-plugin-compromised-in-supply-chain-attack/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:11:19

• Build Application Firewalls Aim to Stop the Next Supply Chain Attack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/build-application-firewalls-aim-to-stop-the-next-supply-chain-attack/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:11:44

• “how does it make you feel” ☞ https://nuno-icons.com/2026/05/11/how-does-it-make-you-feel/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:18:59

• Tails 7.7.3 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tails    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:19:14

• Debian to require reproducible builds ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1072314/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:19:47

• Meta removes fake INTERPOL ads targeting Hong Kong scam victims ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/05/12/meta-removes-fake-interpol-ads-targeting-hong-kong-scam-victims/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:20:18

• Microsoft’s C.E.O. Intervened When Proprietary Chaffbot Company Fired Scam Altman, MElon’s Lawyer Claims ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/technology/satya-nadella-openai-sam-altman.html    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:21:13

• OpenAI Sued for Mass Shooting: “If Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Were a Person, It Would Be Facing Murder Charges” ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-sued-mass-shooting    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:21:43

• PgBouncer 1.25.2 released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgbouncer-1252-released-3292/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:23:34

• pgFormatter v5.10 has been released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgformatter-v510-has-been-released-3294/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:23:46

• pgAdmin 4 v9.15 Released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgadmin-4-v915-released-3295/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:24:29

• Samsung sued by Dua Lipa. Similarities to Pele’s lawsuit against Samsung? ☞ https://rightofpublicity.com/samsung-sued-by-dua-lipa-similarities-to-pele-lawsuit-against-samsung    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:24:57

• Jason Derulo, Sony Music Triumph in Heated ‘Savage Love’ Copyright Infringement Lawsuit ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/10/jason-derulo-sony-copyright-lawsuit-savage-love/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:25:29

• Ajqvue Version 3.6 Released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/ajqvue-version-36-released-3293/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:25:54

• "My personal conclusion can however not end up with anything else than that the big hype around this model so far was primarily marketing." ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1072325/ exactly what techrights said all along   

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:28:41

• Giant 11,000-Carat Ruby Found in Myanmar Could Be Worth a Fortune ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/giant-11000-carat-ruby-found-in-myanmar-could-be-worth-a-fortune    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:29:28

• Ruby 4.0.4 Released ☞ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/05/11/ruby-4-0-4-released/p;  

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:30:04

• Freexian Collaborators: Debusine workflow performance issues (by Colin Watson) ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-performance-issues/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:30:31

• Former Hostage Calls on All of Israel’s Government to Resign ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/world/middleeast/israel-hostage-demands-government-resign.html    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:31:15

• Java Code Isn’t the Problem – The Container Is ☞ https://cloudnativenow.com/contributed-content/java-code-isnt-the-problem-the-container-is/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:32:11

• The workers hate all of it; this is dogma from management drunk on hype and marketing kickbacks ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-kiro-coding    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:34:18

• Tekton joins the CNCF as an incubating project ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/05/11/tekton-joins-cncf-new-era-cloud-native-cicd    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:35:37

• RVA23-compliant K3 Pico-ITX SBC and K3-CoM260 SoM feature SpacemiT K3 octa-core RISC-V Hey Hi (AI) SoC, up to 32GB RAM, 256GB UFS ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/05/11/rva23-pico-itx-sbc-spacemit-k3-octa-core-risc-v-ai-soc-up-to-32gb-ram-256gb-ufs/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:36:08

• Pi Slate – A Raspberry Pi 5 handheld GNU/Linux cyberdeck with a 5-inch 1920×720 touchscreen display ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/05/11/pi-slate-a-raspberry-pi-5-handheld-linux-cyberdeck-with-a-5-inch-1920x720-touchscreen-display/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:36:49

• Putin Said the War ‘Is Coming to a Close,’ but That’s Not All He Said ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/world/europe/putin-russia-ukraine-war.html    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:37:16

• Ukraine ready for serious talks with Russia – Budanov in Vilnius ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2925249/ukraine-ready-for-serious-talks-with-russia-budanov-in-vilnius    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:37:29

• The Original vi Returns ☞ https://jxself.org/vi-returns.shtml    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:38:13

• Speech by President von der Leyen at the High-level Meeting of the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_26_1055    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:39:29

• EU, Ukraine, Canada and partners join efforts to return forcibly transferred and unlawfully deported Ukrainian children ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1062   

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:39:44

• Ukraine and Russia fight on despite US-mediated ceasefire ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260511-ukraine-and-russia-fight-on-despite-us-mediated-ceasefire    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:40:20

• Ukraine intelligence chief Budanov visits Lithuania for security meetings ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2925060/ukraine-intelligence-chief-budanov-visits-lithuania-for-security-meetings    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:40:37

• Former Head Of Zelenskyy's Office Under Suspicion In Major Ukrainian Investigation ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/yermak-zelenskyy-suspicion-ukraine-investigation/33754687.html    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:40:58

• As Russia pushes spring offensive, shift on battlefield buoys Ukrainians ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0511/russia-spring-offensive-ukraine-military-technology    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:41:28

• Ukraine Looks to Step Away From Convicted Felon and U.S. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/world/europe/ukraine-war-zelensky-us-trump-russia.html    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:41:43

• Former Top Zelensky Aide Is Accused in Corruption Inquiry ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/world/europe/ukraine-corruption-yermak-zelensky.html    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:41:59

• Kenya summit represents 'demarcation point': France 'wants to do business' with African continent ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260511-kenya-summit-represents-demarcation-point-france-wants-to-do-business-with-african-continent    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:42:31

• Buses dump fuel as Lithuania imposes border crossing limits ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2925184/buses-dump-fuel-as-lithuania-imposes-border-crossing-limits    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:42:59

• Lithuania says moving US troops closer to Russia border would strengthen deterrence ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2925150/lithuania-says-moving-us-troops-closer-to-russia-border-would-strengthen-deterrence    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:43:12

• Dev snapshot: Godot 4.7 beta 2 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-7-beta-2/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:43:43

• Debian GNU/Linux Goes Full Reproducible (And What That Means) ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/debian-linux-goes-full-reproducible    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:44:05

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

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:45:01

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

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:45:18

• Bash Check if File or Directory Exists ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/bash-check-if-file-or-directory-exists/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:45:48

• How to Install React.js on Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04 and 22.04 ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-react-js-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:46:03

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

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:46:21

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

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:46:39

• How to Fix Nginx 502 Bad Gateway ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-fix-nginx-502-bad-gateway/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:47:02

• How to Fix Nginx 404 Not Found ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-fix-nginx-404-not-found/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:47:19

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

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:48:01

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

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:48:30

• Berkeley Suffering Distribution | LINUX Unplugged 666 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/666/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:50:24

• Spain, Ireland, Slovenia will not broadcast Eurovision over Israel's participation ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20260511-spain-ireland-slovenia-will-not-broadcast-eurovision-to-protest-israel-s-inclusion    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:51:09

• Linux User Space Episode 6:14: Kernels of Truth with Nate Graham ☞ https://www.linuxuserspace.show/614    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:52:48

• Late Night Linux – Episode 385 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-385/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:53:07

• Introducing the QML Coding Skill for Agentic Workflows ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/introducing-the-qml-coding-skill-for-agentic-workflows    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:54:42

• Colin Watson: Free software activity in April 2026 ☞ https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/activity-2026-04.html    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:55:57

• Apple Patches Everything, (Mon, May 11th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32976    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:56:44

• New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Alabaster Dawn and Dead as Disco - 2026-05-09 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2026-05-09-edition/index.html    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:57:22

• Mozilla Privacy Blog: Six Million Selections Later: How the DMA Is Giving People Browser Choice ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/05/11/six-million-selections-later-how-the-dma-is-giving-people-br   

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:58:26

• Samsung holds desperate final talks with union over 18-day chip factory strike that could cost $20 billion — government-mediated summit seeks to avert industrial action that could hit HBM production ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/samsung-and-union-resume-talks-10-days-before-planned-18-day-chip-factory-strike    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 16:59:07

• Software Patents: Malikie video codec patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/5/7/malikie-video-codec-patent-challenged    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:00:13

• Codecs and Software Patents - Part VI - The European Patent Office, Nokia, Microsoft, Sisvel, and More (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/11/Codecs_and_Software_Patents_Part_VI_The_European_Patent_Office_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:00:27

• AMI fails to secure ban on Martin-Baker’s ejection seats for fighter jets ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/ami-fails-to-secure-ban-on-martin-bakers-ejection-seats-for-fighter-jets/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:00:45

• Netflix is spying on children and selling user data, Texas AG Ken Paxton alleges in lawsuit ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/05/11/business/netflix-is-spying-on-children-and-selling-user-data-texas-ag-lawsuit/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:01:36

• I'm really frustrated that GitLab is doing layoffs ☞ https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/gitlab-layoffs/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:02:21

• Nick Richards: Agile Rates After Launch ☞ https://www.nedrichards.com/2026/05/agile-rates-after-launch/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:03:51

• Docker on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://tecadmin.net/install-docker-on-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:04:15

• Audacious 4.6 Beta Released with File Browser & MPC Audio Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/05/audacious-4-6-beta-released-with-file-browser-mpc-audio-support/   

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:05:54

• Guru: Load A Varying-Dimension Array With One SQL Fetch ☞ https://www.itjungle.com/2026/05/11/guru-load-a-varying-dimension-array-with-one-sql-fetch/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:09:31

• Malaysia Airlines flight bursts tyre at Hong Kong airport; no injuries reported ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/05/11/malaysia-airlines-flight-bursts-tyre-at-hong-kong-airport-no-injuries-reported/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:10:39

• KLN Logistics-branded truck spotted refuelling at alleged illegal site despite crackdown ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/05/11/kln-logistics-branded-truck-spotted-refuelling-at-alleged-illegal-site-despite-crackdown/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:11:07

• Pressure on Starmer Mounts as Dozens of Labour Lawmakers Call on Him to Quit ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/world/europe/starmer-speech-uk-labour.html    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:11:31

• Michael Catanzaro: Flatpak Sandbox Escape via Yelp ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/05/11/flatpak-sandbox-escape-via-yelp/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:13:00

• Synex 260511 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/synex    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:13:36

• malcontent: Disk Space Exhaustion via Globally Accessible D-Bus API (CVE-2026-44931) ☞ https://security.opensuse.org/2026/05/11/malcontent-disk-space-dos.html    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:14:12

• Prior Art Rejection Rates in Design Patent Prosecution ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/05/prior-art-rejection-rates-in-design-patent-prosecution.html    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:15:22

• Rakudo Weekly 2026.19 Art of Failure ☞ https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/05/11/2026-19-art-of-failure/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:15:55

• kennyvn.com become a SLOPFARM! This is SLOP: https://kennyvn.com/cheatsheet-useful-bash-commands-linux/ 3 more like this on same day. DEAD site.    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:17:47

• Linux is Getting a Kill Switch! ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-killswitch-proposal/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:19:07

• In a Big Move to GNU/Linux Security, Debian Makes Reproducible Builds Mandatory ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/debian-makes-reproducible-builds-mandatory/   

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:20:03

• Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1072301/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:21:19

• Fix HEIC images not loading in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/fix-heic-images-not-loading-ubuntu-26-04    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:22:34

• Suicide rates in Latvia show bleak picture ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/11.05.2026-suicide-rates-in-latvia-show-bleak-picture.a646514/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:22:57

• Two stable kernels with Dirty Frag fixes ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1072311/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:24:01

• Ratty: A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics ☞ https://blog.orhun.dev/introducing-ratty/  

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:24:30

• Nginx Location Blocks: Match Rules and Priority ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/nginx-location-block/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:25:09

• New ‘Dirty Frag’ Linux Vulnerability Possibly Exploited in Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-dirty-frag-linux-vulnerability-possibly-exploited-in-attacks/   

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:26:21

• The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 268: Sara Grimes on the Moral Panic Behind Banning Kids from Social Media and Hey Hi (AI) Chatbots ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/05/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-268-sara-grimes-on-the-moral-panic-behind-banning-kids-from-social-media-and-ai-chatbots/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:27:15

• Michigan loaned $35M to mobility center. Debt could cripple it, boosters say ☞ https://bridgemi.com/business-watch/michigan-sank-35m-into-mobility-center-debt-could-cripple-it-boosters-say/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:27:42

• Philippine Senate goes on lockdown to protect former 'drugs war' enforcer ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/philippine-senate-goes-on-lockdown-to-protect-former-drugs-war-enforcer   

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:28:22

• Sparky 8.3 ☞ https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-8-3/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:28:59

• ‘Plandemic, Covid 2.0’: Fact-checking viral conspiracy theories about Hantavirus ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/fact-checking-viral-conspiracy-theories-about-hantavirus-1    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:29:31

• Scientists Destroy COVID And Flu Viruses in The Lab With Sound Waves ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-destroy-covid-and-flu-viruses-in-the-lab-with-sound-waves    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:29:47

• No plans for broad state aid related to Middle East crisis in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/11.05.2026-no-plans-for-broad-state-aid-related-to-middle-east-crisis-in-latvia.a646504/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 17:30:13

• MX GNU/Linux 25.2-beta1 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/mx    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:16:02

• Ultimate 2026.05.11 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ultimate    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:16:25

• Bluefin 44.20260511 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/bluefin   

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:16:38

• Manjaro 26.1 Preview Unveils New Features ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Manjaro-26.1-Preview-Unveils-New-Features    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:17:20

• Linus Torvalds declares massive AI-fueled code surges as the new normal for Linux ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/linus-torvalds-declares-massive-ai-fueled-code-surges-as-the-new-normal-for-linux/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:24:10

• 12 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Flashcard Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-terminal-based-flashcard-tools/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:25:24

• git-revise – Git subcommand and Python library ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/git-revise-git-subcommand-python-library/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:25:40

• 16 Best Free and Open Source RAW Processing Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rawtools/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:25:52

• deptry – check for dependency issues ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/deptry-check-dependency-issues/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:27:20

• 8 Best Free and Open Source Java Static Site Generators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-java-static-site-generators/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:27:39

• Picocrypt NG – lightweight file encryption tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/picocrypt-ng-lightweight-file-encryption-tool/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:27:56

• OpenAPI Validator – configurable and extensible validator/linter ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/openapi-validator-configurable-extensible-validator-linter/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:28:09

• neostandard – successor to the standardjs javascript style guide ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/neostandard-successor-standardjs-javascript-style-guide/   

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:29:05

• Insanely Small GNU/Linux – minimalist x86_64 GNU/Linux system ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/insanely-small-linux-minimalist-x86_64-linux-system/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:29:21

• Minisforum Hey Hi (AI) X1 Pro: Easy Diffusion ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/minisforum-ai-x1-pro-easy-diffusion/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:30:04

• IBM down to 219 dollars. Lowest in over a year.    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:31:40

• "Stock is now below 52 week low - so THINK was a bust. An expensive bust." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kqzn1a3g    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:33:28

• "The sad truth about advancement - I used to think working hard was the path to promotion, before I watched three people who barely do their jobs get ahead because they know the right people. Now I spend more time on politics than on actual work, and I feel no guilt. That's just how this place works." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1krem51md    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:35:24

• PamDOORa Linux Backdoor: How Malicious PAM Modules Steal SSH Credentials and Evade Detection in Enterprise Environments https://www.rescana.com/post/pamdoora-linux-backdoor-how-malicious-pam-modules-steal-ssh-credentials-and-evade-detection-in-enterprise-environments/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:38:25

• A killswitch has been pitched for the Linux kernel that could shut down vulnerable functions while users wait for patches https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/a-killswitch-has-been-pitched-for-the-linux-kernel-that-could-shut-down-vulnerable-functions-while-users-wait-for-patches/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:40:30

• Voyager and Red Hat Propel Red Hat Enterprise Linux into Orbit with Space Edge Micro Datacenters https://www.01net.it/voyager-and-red-hat-propel-red-hat-enterprise-linux-into-orbit-with-space-edge-micro-datacenters/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:41:17

• Response to criticism? https://www.opensourceforu.com/2026/05/linux-foundation-backs-open-drivers-to-improve-linux-hardware-compatibility/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:42:13

• Public Linux Code Commits Trigger Early Dirty Frag Disclosure https://www.opensourceforu.com/2026/05/public-linux-code-commits-trigger-early-dirty-frag-disclosure/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:42:42

• Red Hat deploys Linux system to space station datacenter https://ca.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/red-hat-deploys-linux-system-to-space-station-datacenter-93CH-4625765    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:46:02

• Why I just can't love Linux Mint https://www.howtogeek.com/i-just-cant-love-linux-mint/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:46:53

• I installed Linux on my gaming PC and stopped dual-booting Windows for good https://www.makeuseof.com/i-installed-linux-on-my-gaming-pc-and-stopped-dual-booting-windows-for-good/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:47:43

• "This release ships with Xfce, LXQt, MATE, KDE Plasma, MinimalGUI (Openbox), and MinimalCLI (text mode) editions." https://9to5linux.com/sparkylinux-8-3-released-with-support-for-linux-kernel-7-0-debian-13-4-base    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:51:48

• "You can now install MX Linux in a terminal emulator by running sudo minstall –tui or a text console by running minstall-launcher." https://9to5linux.com/mx-linux-25-2-enters-public-beta-testing-with-new-text-mode-installer    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:52:16

• New PamDOORa Linux backdoor sold on cybercrime forum https://www.scworld.com/brief/new-pamdoora-linux-backdoor-sold-on-cybercrime-forum    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:53:00

• Citing Microsoft as authority on Linux again? https://www.csoonline.com/article/4169399/new-dirty-frag-exploit-targets-linux-kernel-for-root-access.html    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:58:01

• Once again treating Microsoft as the go-to authrity that speaks for Linux https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/dirty-frag-exploit-blow-up-enterprise-linux-distros    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 21:59:15

• Linux developers weigh emergency “killswitch” for vulnerable kernel functions https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/11/linux-kernel-emergency-killswitch/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 22:01:04

• "We previously wrote about Carbon’s CyberT, a Blackberry-style Raspberry Pi CM4 handheld Linux cyberdeck designed for Kali Linux and penetration testing." https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/05/11/pi-slate-a-raspberry-pi-5-handheld-linux-cyberdeck-with-a-5-inch-1280x720-touchscreen-display/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 22:03:20

• Debian's next release just made it near-impossible for tampered binaries to sneak onto your PC https://www.xda-developers.com/debian-tampered-binaries/    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 22:04:22

• "Fran did you create this thread? where are our babbies ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kq58f53y#replies    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 22:43:57

• "Historically, it has been if you are at least 55, and have at least 15 years of service, all of your RSU grants would continue to vest that you had received vesting from. i.e. any grant received at your last review would be lost. Regardless of how you left the company. Rule of 70 is, I believe, a misinterpretation."    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 22:44:15

• "Since the initial setup, the project has moved past the point where it merely 'works' and into the phase where it starts to behave like an actual game. Thanks to some extensive train rides :-) No distractions, barely any internet and plenty of time." gemini://geopeedees.org/~enthusi/alice/alice_2026-05-12.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 22:46:20

• "So I am not an early adopter and a bit of a skeptic. But this reminded me a bit of the old Bone-Fones of the 80s, something I wanted to try as a teenager and seriously could not possibly afford..." gemini://spell.mywire.org:1960/~stack/0260.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 22:46:56

• "This reminded me that I'm still a little bit annoyed every time I write something, I have to choose a filename, put the link, datestamp and title into the index.gmi, check that it works, correct my typo in the link, correct it again, etc." gemini://sojuz.v-tr.org/mumble/another-gemlog-script.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 22:47:39

• night trains gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/night_trains    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 22:50:21

• "As you might have gathered from my gemlog, I am struggling a lot with mental health at the moment." gemini://sojuz.v-tr.org/mumble/keeping-house-while-drowning.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 22:51:17

• "The posts have been individual files in a flat /gemlog/ directory, but after six years things have gotten a tad cluttered. It made more sense to have year/month subdirectories that keep the files neatly organized. The topic indices were also moved to their own subdirectory." gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2026/05/spring-cleaning-part-2.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 22:52:07

• "I've held my current position for more than a decade. It's a great job really. Yet the workplace as a whole is so dysfunctional." gemini://nthcdr.eu/blog/2026-05-12-the-feedback-loop-that-wasn-t.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 22:53:28

• "The project has been on hiatus. I last worked on this code 5-8 years ago. It's amazing how much of it I've forgotten. Doomsday represents a solid 20 years of invested time, and it shows." gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2026/05/spring-cleaning.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 22:54:44

• Announcing md2gem 0.1 -- a cross-platform, best-effort converter for Markdown to Gemini Gemtext gemini://larsthebear.me/md2gem.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 22:55:57

• "AI models is itself creating new security risks." https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/12/frontier-ai-safety-tests-may-be-creating-the-very-risks-theyre-meant-to-stop/5238734    

posted Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 23:03:20

• Starbucks trims tech workforce as CEO Brian Niccol drives operational reset https://anz.peoplemattersglobal.com/news/strategic-hr/starbucks-trims-tech-workforce-as-ceo-brian-niccol-drives-operational-reset-49678    

posted Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 00:10:48

•   owser-choice/ &nbs