Roy Schestowitz

• "The Google street view [4] of the address shows the office does exist, but with a different phone number. It could be the one advertised on the website and letter is an international number to call, but I am unwise in the ways of British phone numbers." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/05/14.1    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 04:36:54

• “Okay, we are gonna try to let everyone in later, we just need to get everything ready first and build up a good social safetynet robust enough to handle the influx safely so we can help everyone” gemini://idiomdrottning.org/immigration-motte-and-bailey    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 04:38:02

• "I was wondering if I would get a PR (Pull Request) from some LLM (Large Language Model) on one of my repositories [1] and lo! It has come to pass. I just received a notification that I have a PR [2] for my 6809 assembler [3]: [...]" gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/05/19.1    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 04:39:32

• "Go Team ! IBM YTD RETURN IS NEGATIVE 23% WHILE THE SP500 IS POSITIVE 8.58% - The 1 year return for IBM is negative 13.58% while the SP500 is positive 25% - Is this a joke ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ks3gtpwc#replies    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 05:15:30

• "IBM is a clown show. People hired, promoted by skin color and s-x and race. If white male do not apply and go right to Pass Go. Growth? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! I have seen people with 2 yrs at IBM and 3 at the Ulta Beauty counter become ATLs and go to customer mtgs and literally read Powerpoint speaker notes." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1krwn1ng7#replies    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 05:16:34

• IOW, XBox has no strategy anymore https://www.techtimes.com/articles/316925/20260520/xbox-appoints-matthew-ball-chief-strategy-officer-amid-major-leadership-restructuring.htm    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 05:49:38

• "CMA wants to hear from businesses, including challenger tech companies, customers and rivals about whether their choices may be limited - including due to bundling" ☛ https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-launches-strategic-market-status-investigation-into-microsofts-business-software-ecosystem | Source: The United Kingdom    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:10:43

• "This is A Good Thing. Doubtless vendors of video conferencing, email clients, and clown computing will have their own stories to tell of Microsoft’s self-preferencing" ☛ https://brucelawson.co.uk/2026/uk-competition-regulator-investigates-microsoft/ | Source: Bruce Lawson    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:10:56

• "The tribe claims crews ignored evidence of human remains, violated stop-work orders" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/native-american-tribe-sues-to-halt-broadband-work-at-sacred-burial-site/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:15:21

• "Below the fold I look at AI-enabled DDoS attacks against two other even more important areas; software security and political discourse (as shown in the overview image)." ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2026/05/flooded-zones-part-2.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:15:54

• "Anthropic scored a major hire today. Former Tesla senior director and OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy is joining the organization as a member of the company’s pre-training team." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/andrej-karpathy-anthropic-pretraining/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:16:56

• "Maybe after going public — as soon as next month — SpaceX could afford to restart that water treatment plant that xAI promised to build." ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/05/spacex-to-file-for-ipo/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:17:12

• "The company recorded a net loss in the latest quarter of $4.28 billion after losing $4.94 billion in 2025." ☛ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/spacex-ipo-live-updates.html | Source: CNBC    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:17:32

• The American way: losing money is "winning". Gulagboy: I "won". Reality: he lost money, is in debt.    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:18:38

• "Beale and Amazon have pulled every trick they can to keep all details of this plan out of the public eye, and even out of the awareness of the local governments." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/19/tucson-project-blue-data-centres-lie-about-water-again/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:18:50

• "As officials in Pima County and the City of Tucson discussed and planned one of the region’s largest development projects in history" ☛ https://azluminaria.org/2025/08/04/project-blue-nda-policy-secrecy/ |    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:19:11

• "This is the very same project where Jonathan Weil, of the Wall Street Journal, found “aggressive accounting” that “strains credibility”." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-hyperion-tax-breaks/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:19:26

• "DOJ has charged former prosecutor, Carmen Mercedes Lineburger, for attempting to liberate documents pertaining to Trump’s theft of government documents." ☛ https://emptywheel.net/2026/05/20/former-ausa-accused-of-being-marginally-as-criminal-as-trump-is/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:22:08

• "The best advertising I’ve seen alerting Americans is being done by the The Lincoln Project." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-whos-best-at-getting | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:24:54

• "Vote for our rich-get-richer policies and we’ll protect you from the muslims, Mexicans, and queers" ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/immigration-motte-and-bailey | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:25:20

• "Middle powers may appear to face a binary choice: pursue unattainable self-sufficiency or accept a performative sovereignty as satellites of a great power" ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/the-democratic-world-needs-a-d7 | Source: The Next Move    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:25:47

• "The collective economic, hard and soft power of the world's democracies remains formidable." ☛ https://files.gotocon.com/uploads/files/138/d7-formatted_1778445542.pdf |    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:26:11

• "My setup is KeepassXC to manage all my passwords in a database and Syncthing to sync all my passwords across my smartphone, laptop, and server." ☛ https://chuck.is/passwords/ | Source: Chuck Carroll    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:26:41

• "Critically analyse all data that you hold, especially if it identifies your customers. If you don't need it, purge it." ☛ https://johnnydecimal.com/blog/0200-three-things-about-data/ | Source: Johnny Decimal    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:28:56

• "Data is a risk. Every bit of data has to be managed/looked after/cared for. That costs time and money. And most of it is useless." ☛ https://www.undermanager.com/three-things-about-data/ |    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:29:07

• Windows TCO ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/05/the-ai-botnets-cannot-be-stopped/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:29:41

• "One thing I encountered when using Indigo was regular rate limit warnings." ☛ https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/lifting-mastodon-rate-limits | Source: Cory Dransfeldt    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:30:40

• "Yesterday I relapsed. Not alcohol, or drugs, or gambling, or anything of that sort. It was something worse: having an argument online." ☛ https://dergigi.com/2026/05/20/careful-icarus/ | Source: Gigi    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:30:55

• "Social media apps off my phone" ☛ https://ljpuk.net/2026/05/21/take-a-break-from-social-media-news-and-podcasts-for-a-week-see-what-happens/ | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:31:09

• "There are many open questions about the metaverse; most glaringly among them, whether it could actually become a thing for normal people." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/blog/metaverse-fever-dream/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:31:26

• "Everyone who runs wikis is dealing with the exact same problem." ☛ https://weirdgloop.org/blog/clankers |    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:33:14

• "I don’t use chatbots to write either texts or code for me." ☛ https://ludditus.com/2026/05/21/chatbots-are-increasingly-useless/ | Source: Homo Ludditus    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:33:43

• "This was the beginning of the end. Google somehow thinks it can keep being a huge ad agency without the reason it’s a huge ad agency." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/20/google-is-replacing-search-results-with-only-the-ai/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:33:57

• "On Tuesday, Google said the A.I. shift had inspired it to overhaul the dimensions of its search bar for the first time since 2001." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/google-seach-bar-ai-gemini.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:34:21

• "It’s Google I/O week and this year’s theme is performative slop." ☛ https://dbushell.com/2026/05/20/google-just-spat-in-my-face/ | Source: David Bushell    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:34:35

• "As if the world isn't on fire." ☛ https://karlbode.com/anger-at-ai-is-inextricably-fused-with-justified-loathing-of-the-extraction-class-deal-with-it/ | Source: Karl Bode    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:34:57

• "Today’s enterprise executives are navigating a complex landscape of AI-driven challenges, but none is more urgent than the rapid escalation of AI-generated fraud." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/ai-generated-fraud-identity-spoofing-defense-strategy/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:35:14

• "I find the trend of people posting about the way they use generative AI to be fascinating at an anthropological level." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/on-people-writing-about-their-use-of-ai | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:43:52

• "Lately I’ve felt myself rapidly radicalizing into what I can only call an anti-AI evangelist." ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/hating-ai-is-good-actually | Source: Marisa Kabas    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:45:08

• "But a power imbalance is playing out." ☛ https://sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/ | Source: Robinhood Europe UAB    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:45:26

• "My previous post documented what happens to people and teams when output is decoupled from understanding." ☛ https://nooneshappy.com/article/the-scale-the-plan-and-the-people/ | Source: No One's Happy    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:45:49

• "Walk into any engineering org right now and the slack threads around PRs have shifted." ☛ https://rishi.baldawa.com/posts/stop-bouncing-prs/ | Source: Rishi Baldawa    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:46:02

• "I was wondering if I would get a PR from some LLM on one of my repositories and lo! It has come to pass. I just received a notification that I have a PR for my 6809 assembler: [...]" ☛ https://boston.conman.org/2026/05/19.1 | Source: Sean Conner    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:46:17

• "Unix machines on demand" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/UnixChangingQuietly | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:52:02

• "The advisory doesn't say the platform that was hacked was Canvas, and that the company concerned was Instructure." ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/fbi-shinyhunters-canvas-breach | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:52:36

• "If that means I am not up to date on world events, so be it." ☛ https://www.amitgawande.com/blog/2026/slowing-down/ | Source: Amit Gawande    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:53:41

• "That’s the end of nvim-treesitter. At least, for now." ☛ https://vlad.website/nvim-treesitter-burnout/ | Source: Vlad-Stefan Harbuz    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:54:00

• "FDM 3D printing is fairly messy on a molecular scale" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/05/20/investigating-the-health-impacts-of-ufps-and-vocs-from-fdm-printers/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 08:57:44

• Links 21/05/2026: Facebook Rewarded With Tax Breaks to Destroy the Environment and Cause Global Warming, Shortages, Pollution; SpaceX (SPCX) Continues Losing Billions of Dollars https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/21/Links_21_05_2026_Facebook_Rewarded_With_Tax_Breaks_to_Destroy_t.shtml    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 09:03:09

• "I love the look of the KBDFans Agar, but I just noticed it's HHKB which I'm not a fan of. Just going to figure out my Duo40 instead. Programmers don't need numrows" ☛ https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/typing | Source: Jasper Tandy    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 13:22:41

• "I am not a software engineer. I believe in silly things." ☛ https://huronbikes.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-not-a-software-engineer/ |    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 13:23:10

• "I was honored to be selected to give the commencement address at Berkeley." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-i-said-at-berkeleys-commencement | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 13:23:38

• "Recently I got an invitation from an organization I respect, to a gathering of senior people, unconference format." ☛ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/19/Declining-America | Source: Tim Bray    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 13:23:53

• "That is a lot of fancy math symbols, but I hope by the end of this you will understand both what they mean and my answer to this question!" ☛ https://wolfgirl.dev/blog/2026-05-20-erasing-existentials/ | Source: PolyWolf    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 13:27:07

• "In some tests are stronger than others" ☛ https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/assumptions-weaken-properties/ | Source: Buttondown LLC    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 13:27:27

• "Markov numbers" ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/05/19/zagiers-equation/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 13:28:08

• "The device itself is made with a circular display, an ESP32-S3, and a simple 3D printed case." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/05/20/put-the-moon-on-your-desk/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 13:29:13

• "Instead of having back-to-back rhubarb days, I’m just going to throw everything here." ☛ https://chrisglass.com/2026/05/20/yall-its-rhubarb-season/ | Source: Chris Glass    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 13:32:22

• "We’re all reading a ton of Markdown. It’s been the lingua franca of software development since long before LLMs." ☛ https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 13:33:06

• "For that meeting I've created a work package – again, details to follow – but what's interesting here is that I've used the IDs of all of these things in the appointment title." ☛ https://johnnydecimal.com/blog/0203-ids-in-your-calendar/ | Source: Johnny Decimal    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 13:33:22

• "Institutions, even the ones we revere, will be consumed by forces greater than human understanding." ☛ https://www.jmduke.com/posts/network.html | Source: Justin Duke    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 13:33:39

• "The more you diverge from the defaults, the more you become responsible for your own ecosystem." ☛ https://kyrylo.org/2026/05/20/stick-with-defaults.html | Source: Kyrylo Silin    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 13:50:34

• "The jc-xfce-settings project provides the jc-xfce-settings.sh script, which holds James Cherti’s settings to customize the XFCE desktop environment, including window management" ☛ https://www.jamescherti.com/jc-xfce-settings/ | Source: James Cherti    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 13:55:10

• ">The jc-gnome-settings repository provides the jc-gnome-settings.sh script, which holds James Cherti’s settings to customize the GNOME desktop environment" ☛ https://www.jamescherti.com/jc-gnome-settings/ | Source: James Cherti    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 13:55:24

• "I have a long standing personal program to display MIME formatted email messages in the terminal in a sensible way" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/EmailPackagesNotes | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:02:05

• "A typical simple use of Perl would be for extracting information from a text file and printing out a report or for converting a text file into another form." ☛ https://jkorpela.fi/perl/course.html |    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:02:40

• "Those of you who follow me on Mastodon might have noticed that I recently ran into a compiler bug that was introduced in Xcode 26.5 (or more specifically, Swift 6.3.2)." ☛ https://macguru.dev/xcode-should-be-decoupled-from-swift-versions/ | Source: Max Seelemann    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:05:16

• "C++26 continues to fill the gaps in our type-erased callable wrapper story." ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/05/20/cpp26-copyable-function | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:05:30

• "Sixty-one RIPE Meetings on, RIPE 92 brings us back to Edinburgh - city of festivals, gothic skylines, and uphill walking." ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/ripe-ncc-commsies/ripe-92-daily-meeting-blog/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:07:25

• "du is short for disk usage, although some people say it is short for device usage1, and allows you to see the size of files on your system." ☛ https://www.readwriterachel.com/things-i-learned/2026/05/20/coreutils-du.html | Source: Rachel Kaufman    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:08:37

• "Denote aims to be a simple-to-use, focused-in-scope, and effective note-taking and file-naming tool for Emacs." ☛ https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-05-20-emacs-denote-4-2-0/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:14:49

• "Last week I announced Port, a small prepl client for Emacs." ☛ https://batsov.com/articles/2026/05/20/nrepl-forever/ | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:19:46

• "could CIDER work with my non-Clojure nREPL server?" ☛ https://batsov.com/articles/2026/05/20/neat-a-language-agnostic-nrepl-client-for-emacs/ | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:21:15

• "Well, now, with the exception of waiting for the standoffs to arrive (Digi-Key shipping is forever delayed and I fear McMaster Carr)" ☛ https://eyewoolinternational.bearblog.dev/some-things-i-learned-banging-my-head-against-the-linux-wall-while-making-a-silly-little-jukebox/ | nbsp;  

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:22:26

• "One thing that could be improved here is that the saturated warm air has nowhere to go." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/05/20/a-diy-3d-printing-filament-dryer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:22:46

• "What you’re looking at here is a very simple potentiometer that bares its function for all to see." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/05/20/diy-potentiometer-is-a-great-teaching-aid/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:23:13

• "The CrowdClock badges each feature a ring of 16 addressable RGB LEDs." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/05/20/building-festival-badges-that-sync-themselves-up/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:23:54

• "You can still install Thunderbird as additional software." ☛ https://tails.net/news/version_7.8/ | Source: Tails    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:24:35

• "This post is mostly notes for myself. There’s no real useful information here, apart from how to increase the disk space of your vm-bhyve instance." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/05/20/increasing-a-bhyve-vm-disk/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:25:16

• "I said I could "afford some space for it". Hugh had useful comments: [...]" ☛ http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/firefox.html | Source: Miod Vallat    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:26:15

• "Casuarina Linux is an experimental, in-development Linux distribution derived from Chimera Linux. It uses glibc instead of musl as libc." ☛ https://casuarina.org/news/introducing-casuarina-linux/ |    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:27:09

• "Problem is gone. Reduced capability, apparently, but I never use its more powerful components anyway." ☛ https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2026/05/20/xbindkeys-giving-jit-errors/ | Source: Darren Goossens    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:28:00

• "Components, Julia Evans explains, are the way she organises the bulk of her styles" ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/inspired-again-by-julia-evans | Source: Jeremy Cherfas    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:29:05

• "Technically, the risks from running Windows software on Linux or macOS are lesser than if you do that natively, but there could be some, after all." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/crossover-security.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:29:49

• "Meanwhile, owners of $4,000 robot lawnmowers are discovering that their gadget can be hijacked over the internet" ☛ https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-468/ | Source: Graham Cluley    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:30:26

• "This is a little bit of follow-up to my MiniBook X review" ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/til/2026/05/20/2240 | Source: Rui Carmo    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:31:41

• "Why Trump's Revenge Tour Will Come Back To Bite Him in the Butt" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-trumps-revenge-tour-will-come    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:35:02

• "From Dropping Bombs to Dropping Bonds - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/from-dropping-bombs-to-dropping-bonds    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:35:22

• "Thomas Massie kicked out of US congress; here's why I care" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/thomas-massie-kicked-out-of-us-congress:a    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:35:40

• "High school kid fights AI surveillance in his school & wins; you are a HERO son!" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/high-school-kid-fights-ai-surveillance:4    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:35:55

• "You Can't Opt Out: The Surveillance Accountability Act (Naomi Brockwell Interview)" https://odysee.com/@techlore:3/you-can't-opt-out-the-surveillance:4    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:36:14

• "You’ve Got Nothing to Hide? Good. Show Me Your ID." https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/nothing-to-hide-x:0    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:36:38

• "SFC is going after Bambu Labs & we're donating $15,000 to their fundraiser; HELP THEM OUT!" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/sfc-is-going-after-bambu-labs-we're:6    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:36:55

• "Column: Trump surrendered to China before he even landed there - Los Angeles Times" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-05-14/trump-china-weakness-economy-military    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:37:13

• The Great Perl Toolchain Summit CLI Throwdown 2026 ☞ https://www.olafalders.com/2026/05/21/the-great-pts-cli-throwdown-2026/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:40:15

• AI Shoulder Surf V2 ☞ https://www.olafalders.com/2026/05/20/ai-shoulder-surf-v2/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:42:08

• Qt shilling Microsoft, not only slop https://www.qt.io/blog/csharp-ui-framework-via-bridging-technology    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:43:22

• Qt loves Bill Epsteingate ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-bridges-public-beta-for-csharp    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:47:39

• Qt Creator 20: faster clangd ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-20-faster-clangd    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:51:47

• Michael Prokop: The mysterious XF86AudioPlay issue ☞ https://michael-prokop.at/blog/2026/05/20/the-mysterious-xf86audioplay-issue/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:52:49

• 1Password Teams With OpenAI to Stop Hey Hi (AI) Coding Agents From Leaking Credentials ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/1password-teams-with-openai-to-stop-ai-coding-agents-from-leaking-credentials/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:55:53

• 1Password extends Proprietary Chaffbot Company collaboration with Codex MCP server for just-in-time credential access ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/20/1password-extends-openai-collaboration-codex-mcp-server-just-time-credential-access/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:58:04

• US lifts sanctions against Francesca Albanese, UN rapporteur on Palestinians ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260520-us-lifts-sanctions-francesca-albanese-un-rapporteur-on-palestinians    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:58:31

• FRAND battle between Huawei and TP-Link now focused at UK High Court ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/frand-battle-between-huawei-and-tp-link-focused-at-uk-high-court/ "Huawei had sued TP-Link in summer 2025"    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 14:59:54

• PureOS Crimson Development Report: April 2026 – PureOS Crimson Released ☞ https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-development-report-april-2026-pureos-crimson-released/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:00:41

• Categorical Rules Cut Both Ways: Originalist Equity, NPE Status, and the Symmetry of eBay’s Four-Factor Test ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/05/categorical-rules-cut-both-ways-originalist-equity-npe-status-and-the-symmetry-of-ebays-four-factor-test.html    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:01:50

• The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XXIX - European Patent Office (EPO) Tells Staff "Speaking up" is Good, But Not When the "Brother-in-law" of EPO's President Does Cocaine ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/21/The_Corrupt_Lecture_the_Non_Corrupt_Part_XXIX_European_Patent_O.shtml    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:02:59

• ODROID-H5 – A $250 defective chip maker Intel Core i3-N300 SBC with 10GbE networking, four M.2 PCIe slots ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/05/20/odroid-h5-an-intel-core-i3-n300-sbc-with-10gbe-networking-four-m-2-pcie-slots/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:04:43

• Tianon Gravi: Containers Are a Security Boundary (some assembly required) ☞ https://ram.tianon.xyz/post/2026/05/20/container-security.html    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:05:33

• "No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens ☞ https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/CVE-2026-45584/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:14:43

• May 2026 Projects ☞ https://venam.net/blog/programming/2026/05/20/may_projects.html    

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

• Authoritative DNS over encrypted transport at OARC 45 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/05/20/authoritative-dns-over-encrypted-transport-at-oarc-45/   

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:15:35

• Red Bait is boating about and boosting slop under the guise of Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/bringing-claude-self-hosted-sandboxes-to-openshell-on-red-hat-ai    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:16:37

• "How sealed images extend OS integrity from boot to runtime" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-sealed-images-red-hat-enterprise-linux-extend-os-integrity-boot-runtime | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:17:37

• IBM Red Hat is upselling slop under the guise of "cutting-edge AI assistance" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/rhel-102-and-98-intelligent-evolution-enterprise-linux | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:18:10

• IBM Red Hat is not selling Linux, it is trying to sell slop using false marketing and false promises ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-ai-and-openshell-driving-security-enhanced-agent-execution-for-enterprise-ai | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:18:45

• Selling "sovereign AI" or slop disguised as some kind of autonomy ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/celebrating-2026-red-hat-ecosystem-innovation-awards-honorable-mentions | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:19:22

• IBM Red Hat peddling slop as some kind of "security" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/building-trust-through-ai-red-teaming-red-hats-approach-testing-model-safety | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:19:56

• What GPU kernels mean for your distributed inference ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/05/20/what-gpu-kernels-mean-your-distributed-inference    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:20:46

• "If you are responsible for distributed Hey Hi (AI) inference in production"... more slop    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:21:17

• Red Hat Enterprise GNU/Linux 10.2 and 9.8: Top features for developers ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/05/20/rhel-10-2-and-9-8-top-features-developers    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:22:11

• Microsoft Canonical as Azure reseller for back doors, surveillance, and proprietary vendor lockin ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-core-26-cloud-integration | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:26:43

• Darksiders Warmastered Edition gets Vulkan rendering, improved Steam Input support and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/darksiders-warmastered-edition-gets-vulkan-rendering-improved-steam-input-support-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:29:37

• Square Enix rolling out Steam Cloud support to various classics | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/square-enix-rolling-out-steam-cloud-support-to-various-classics/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/square-enix-rolling-out-steam-cloud-support-to-various-classics/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:35:16

• Paralives ready to take on The Sims with new footage ahead of release | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/paralives-ready-to-take-on-the-sims-with-new-footage-ahead-of-release/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:36:05

• Microsoft is dying too https://www.thehansindia.com/amp/news/international/tech-world-mourns-indian-origin-microsoft-veteran-soma-1077711    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:50:33

• The huge Test of Time update for Civilization VII is out now | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/the-huge-test-of-time-update-for-civilization-vii-is-out-now/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:50:51

• Embracer Group split again spinning off their biggest IP, along with plans for IP partnerships | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/embracer-group-split-again-spinning-off-their-biggest-ip-along-with-plans-for-ip-partnerships/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:51:56

• Yet Another Zombie Survivors crossed over 500K sold with plans for the 1.0 release revealed | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/yet-another-zombie-survivors-crossed-over-500k-sold-with-plans-for-the-1-0-release-revealed/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:54:33

• Factory-cooking automation game Snacktorio arrives in June | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/factory-cooking-automation-game-snacktorio-arrives-in-june/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/factory-cooking-automation-game-snacktorio-arrives-in-june/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 15:56:19

• "Joanne Wrong will never get it Right ! Get over it. LOL" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1krwn1ng7#replies    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 17:15:45

• D7VK 1.10 brings even more 2D upgrades for retro Direct3D games on Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/d7vk-1-10-brings-even-more-2d-upgrades-for-retro-direct3d-games-on-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 17:16:00

• Proton 11 Beta 5 released with more regression fixes | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/proton-11-beta-5-released-with-more-regression-fixes/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/proton-11-beta-5-released-with-more-regression-fixes/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 17:16:10

• "Hardkernel has introduced the ODROID-H5, a new x86 single-board computer based on Intel’s Core i3-N300 processor." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/odroid-h5-is-a-low-power-x86-sbc-with-10gbe-and-four-m-2-slots/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 17:20:07

• Announcing etcd 3.7.0-beta.0 ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/05/20/etcd-370-beta/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 17:22:35

• Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1073713/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 17:24:35

• Breathing Underwater ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1144/breathing-underwater    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 18:55:47

• GIMP on MS Store now requires backdoored Windows Build 20348 ☞ https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/05/20/gimp-msix-bump/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 18:56:23

• Apple Music Says AI-Generated Music Accounts for ‘Significantly Less Than 1%’ of Total Listening ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/20/apple-music-ai-generated-music-comments/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 18:57:24

• GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 internal repos after employee installs poisoned VS Code extension ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/20/github-confirms-breach-3800-internal-repos-employee-installs-poisoned-vs-code-extension/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:21:58

• GitHub says internal repositories were impacted in poisoned VS Code extension attack ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/github-internal-repositories-vs-code-extension-attack/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:22:45

• GitHub Confirms Hack Impacting 3,800 Internal Repositories ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/github-confirms-hack-impacting-3800-internal-repositories/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:23:36

• Microsoft Rolls Out Mitigations for ‘YellowKey’ BitLocker Bypass ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-rolls-out-mitigations-for-yellowkey-bitlocker-bypass/bsp; 

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:24:13

• Hacker group hits 3,800 internal Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub repositories via poisoned developer plugin ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hacker-group-hits-3-800-internal-github-repositories-via-poisoned-developer-plugin-teampcp-claims-source-code-theft-and-attempts-usd50-000-sale-employee-installed-malicious-vs-code-extension    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:25:05

• Digital bottleneck: How Iran wants to use internet access as leverage in the war ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260520-digital-bottleneck-how-iran-wants-to-use-internet-access-for-leverage-in-the-war    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:25:28

• Facebook restricts local newspaper for publishing drug-driver court report ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/local-news-facebook-restrictions-newbury-court-story/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:26:58

• He Was Jailed Over a Charlie Kirk Post. The Sheriff Now Owes Him $835,000. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/larry-bushart-charlie-kirk-facebook-settlement.html    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:27:30

• Tails 7.8 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tails    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:27:58

• Kirigami Adddons 1.12.1 ☞ https://carlschwan.eu/2026/05/20/kirigami-adddons-1.12.1/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:28:57

• Pride picnic blocked at Ege University ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/pride-picnic-blocked-at-ege-university-319783    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:33:54

• Anthropic Silently Patches Claude Code Sandbox Bypass ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/anthropic-silently-patches-claude-code-sandbox-bypass/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:40:08

• Over 320 NPM Packages Hit by Fresh Mini Shai-Hulud Supply Chain Attack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/over-320-npm-packages-hit-by-fresh-mini-shai-hulud-supply-chain-attack/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:40:44

• Far-right Israeli minister sparks outcry with video of bound and kneeling Gaza flotilla activists ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260520-israeli-minister-sparks-outcry-with-video-of-bound-and-kneeling-gaza-flotilla-activists    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:42:58

• Lithuanian lawmakers shelter, air traffic suspended over drone alert ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260520-lithuanian-lawmakers-shelter-air-traffic-suspended-over-drone-alert    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:51:17

• Hong Kong logs 40 online grooming cases targeting minors in first 4 months of 2026 – security chief ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/05/21/hong-kong-logs-40-online-grooming-cases-targeting-minors-in-first-4-months-of-2026-security-chief/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:51:46

• Rights group says global executions hit 44-year record high ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/05/rights-group-says-global-executions-hit-44-year-record-high/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:52:04

• State security chief says Lithuania security situation increasingly tense ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2934264/state-security-chief-says-lithuania-security-situation-increasingly-tense    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:54:25

• Video Shows Itamar Ben-Gvir Taunting Pro-Palestinian Activists ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/world/middleeast/israel-minister-taunts-pro-palestine-activists-video.html    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:54:51

• Probe launched after knife slips through Incheon airport security ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/probe-launched-after-knife-slips-through-incheon-airport-security    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:55:21

• Detecting Malicious Packages using the OSV API ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/05/20/detecting-malicious-packages-using-the-osv-api/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:56:10

• Similarities to Waits v. Frito-Lay, Midler v. Ford in Johnny Case estate lawsuit against Coca-Cola? ☞ https://rightofpublicity.com/similarities-to-waits-v-frito-lay-midler-v-ford-in-johnny-case-estate-lawsuit-against-coca-cola    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:58:46

• Saweetie, Jason Derulo Sued for Ditching Japan’s Afro Jam Fest and Pocketing the Advances ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/20/saweetie-jason-derulo-afro-jam-fest-lawsuit/nbsp;  

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:59:21

• Police sue to block Jan 6 rioters from payouts via Convicted Felon's 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260520-police-sue-block-jan-6-rioters-from-payouts-via-trump-anti-weaponization-fund    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 19:59:54

• Team Group agrees to $1.1 million DRAM settlement in another false advertising lawsuit — claimed advertised memory speeds required BIOS tweaks and overclocking settings ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/team-group-agrees-to-usd1-1-million-dram-settlement-in-another-false-advertising-lawsuit-claimed-advertised-memory-speeds-required-bios-tweaks-and-overclocking-settings    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:00:31

• Pizza Hut's Hey Hi (AI) delivery system cooks up $100 million franchisee lawsuit — deliveries allegedly shot from under 30 minutes to over 45 under new system ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/pizza-huts-ai-delivery-system-cooks-up-usd100-million-franchisee-lawsuit-deliveries-allegedly-shot-from-under-30-minutes-to-over-45-under-new-system    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:01:02

• A Beluga Whale Showed a Sign of Intelligence Once Thought Unique to Humans ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-beluga-whale-showed-a-sign-of-intelligence-once-thought-unique-to-humans    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:05:20

• Why Is Mark Kapo-berg Taunting His Employees Before Firing Them? ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/zuckerberg-meta-taunting-employees-firing    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:06:03

• Return to the Land, a Whites-Only Community, Is Sued for Discrimination ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/realestate/return-to-the-land-discrimination-lawsuit.htmlbsp;

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:06:15

• Time to Cut Off Streaming Revenue for Hey Hi (AI) Slop? Saregama MD Vikram Mehra Says Royalties Should ‘Be Distributed Only to Genuine IP’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/20/saregama-md-ai-slop/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:19:48

• Soundtrack to 8,000 Job Cuts: A Meta Worker’s Layoff-Themed Hey Hi (AI) Songs ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/technology/meta-layoffs-ai-song.html    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:20:34

• kirigami-app-components ☞ https://notmart.org/blog/2026/05/kirigami-app-components/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:23:19

• ‘Scamming’ landlord libel claim thrown out as Lammy promises legislation on SLAPPs ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/mill-media-libel-thrown-out-lammy-slapps/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:26:41

• An Early Clue to Alzheimer's May Appear as Young as 45, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/an-early-clue-to-alzheimers-may-appear-as-young-as-45-study-finds    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:27:25

• Will it be child-safe now? https://drewdevault.com/blog/New-design/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:27:50

• These Popular Supplements Are Sold With Anti-Aging Claims. Here's What Science Says. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/these-popular-supplements-are-sold-with-anti-aging-claims-heres-what-science-says    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:28:05

• WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong” ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2026/05/armstrong/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:28:49

• NOAA Issues Stark Warning About Upcoming El Niño ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/noaa-warning-el-nino    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:30:46

• Ebola Crisis Sparks Debate Over Global Health Double Standards ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/world/africa/ebola-virus-outbreak-africa.html    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:31:33

• The online pharmacies selling weight-loss jabs inappropriately ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/online-pharmacies-selling-weight-loss-jabs-inappropriately-adymV3c0LJ6x    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:31:53

• Born to hate broccoli: World-leading obesity expert on why your genes might be sabotaging your diet ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/why-your-genes-might-be-sabotaging-your-diet-axCT33e2UerH    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:32:08

• From the Community | How federal loan caps will limit your access to healthcare ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2026/05/19/copy-ss-how-federal-loan-caps-limit-access-to-healthcare/   

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:32:38

• Samsung Hey Hi (AI) bonus spat tests South Korea’s labour-friendly leader ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/samsung-ai-bonus-spat-tests-south-koreas-labor-friendly-leader    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:33:02

• S. Korean President urges ‘limit’ to labour action amid Samsung unrest ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-koreas-lee-urges-limit-to-labour-action-amid-samsung-unrest    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:33:27

• US charges three Malaysian state telecoms officials over multimillion-dollar fraud ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/us-charges-three-malaysian-state-telecoms-officials-for-multimillion-dollar-fraud    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:34:00

• Sky bridges, citizen science protect endangered Malaysia monkeys ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/sky-bridges-citizen-science-protect-endangered-malaysia-monkeys    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:34:22

• How China’s Housing Crisis Has Global Consequences ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000010700399/how-chinas-housing-crisis-has-global-consequences.html    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:34:52

• China’s Housing Slump Shows Signs of Bottoming Out. We’ve Been Here Before. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/business/china-housing-slump.html   

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:35:08

• Canadian lawmaker visits Taiwan to show ‘solidarity’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/canadian-lawmaker-visits-taiwan-to-show-solidarity    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:35:45

• If they speak, Taiwan President would tell Convicted Felon China is the one undermining peace in the Strait ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/if-they-speak-taiwan-president-says-he-would-tell-trump-that-china-was-the-one-undermining-peace-in    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:36:04

• Stellantis - Dongfeng Joint Venture will see Chinese maker's EVs built in France ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20260520-stellantis-dongfeng-joint-venture-will-see-chinese-maker-s-evs-built-in-france    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:36:45

• GM will move assembly of its Groove and Aveo models from China to Mexico ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/gm-assembling-groove-aveo-models-imexico/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:37:04

• Open Source ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.4 Brings Dark Spreadsheets, Smarter Forms, and a Licensing Cleanup ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/onlyoffice-docs-9-4-release/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:37:51

• cdrtools replaces cdrkit ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202605/cdrtools-replaces-cdrkit.html    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:39:28

• Pburn version 4.3.16 to 4.3.19 ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202605/pburn-version-4316-to-4319.html    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:39:44

• Six Sines – small synthesizer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/six-sines-small-synthesizer/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:40:40

• Daniel Baumann: Debian: Linux Vulnerability Mitigation (pintheft) ☞ https://blog.daniel-baumann.ch/posts/20260520-1.html    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:41:14

• B1ackOS GNU/Linux is a Debian-based operating system ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/b1ackos-linux-debian-based-operating-system/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:43:18

• Spidermonkey Development Blog: Saying goodbye to asm.js ☞ https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2026/05/20/saying-goodbye-to-asmjs.html    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:45:10

• Qt for Android Automotive 6.11.1 is released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-android-automotive-6.11.1-is-released    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:45:47

• Firefox Nightly: Settings Are Getting a New Look! ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/05/20/settings-are-getting-a-new-look/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:47:06

• Double trademark abuse? https://www.tradingview.com/news/coinpedia:8e5fbbc49094b:0-pi-network-news-protocol-23-upgrade-nears-final-rollout-after-most-complex-migration-in-project-history/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:48:50

• Bring Back That Aged Scanner, In Your Browser https://hackaday.com/2026/05/20/bring-back-that-aged-scanner-in-your-browser/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:50:05

• eGPU docks are the laptop upgrade more people should know about https://www.makeuseof.com/egpu-docks-laptop-upgrade-more-people-should-know-about/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:50:39

• "half a million users to switch from Windows." https://www.bgr.com/2172983/linux-vs-windows-which-better-pc/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:51:46

• This release adds support for multiple printers in the HP LaserJet Pro, OfficeJet Pro, and DeskJet Ink Advantage series. https://9to5linux.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing-hplip-3-26-4-drivers-add-support-for-new-printers    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:54:02

• "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.8 has also been released today as a new update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 users." https://9to5linux.com/red-hat-enterprise-linux-10-2-released-with-optional-command-line-ai-assistant   

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:54:33

• "HP is joining Dell and Lenovo as premier sponsors of the LVFS, as part of the project’s new sustainability effort." https://9to5linux.com/hp-is-the-latest-to-sponsor-the-linux-vendor-firmware-service-lvfs    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:55:04

• Quake II RTX hits 60 FPS path tracing on PlayStation 5 Linux https://videocardz.com/newz/playstation-5-runs-cyberpunk-2077-with-path-tracing-through-linux-at-34-fps    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:55:42

• OneXPlayer controller will arrive in Linux kernel 7.2 in June https://foro3d.com/en/2026/mayo/controlador-onexplayer-llegara-al-kernel-linux-72-en-junio.html    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:57:58

• Anbernic RG DS: How to Install GammaOS, Anbernic Linux, ROCKNIX, and KNULLI https://retrohandhelds.gg/anbernic-rg-ds-how-to-install-gammaos-anbernic-linux-rocknix-and-knulli/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 20:58:38

• Linux power users have been doing this for years—Windows just caught up https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-power-users-have-been-doing-this-for-yearswindows-just-caught-up/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 21:01:03

• Almost every service I self-host runs in a Linux container, and the math just doesn't favor a VM anymore https://www.xda-developers.com/almost-every-service-self-host-linux-container-math-vm/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 21:03:02

• I tested KDE Plasma 6.7 beta, and it's easily my new Linux desktop of choice https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-tested-kde-plasma-6-7-beta/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 21:03:54

• Exploit released for new PinTheft Arch Linux root escalation flaw https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/exploit-released-for-new-pintheft-arch-linux-root-escalation-flaw/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 21:04:24

• Crashes with consequences: Serial code-reuse attack SFOP breaks Intel CET in Linux https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-consequences-serial-code-reuse-sfop.html    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 21:04:53

• Deepin's security problems just cost it another major Linux distro https://www.xda-developers.com/deepins-security-problems-just-cost-it-another-major-linux-distro/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 21:05:21

• Yearslong fight over users’ right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/inside-the-fight-to-force-vizio-to-share-linux-based-source-code-for-its-tvs-os/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 21:06:10

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

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 21:08:23

• How To Install Kitty Terminal Emulator on Fedora 44 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-kitty-terminal-emulator-fedora-44/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 21:08:36

• How To Install Thunderbird Mail on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-thunderbird-mail-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 21:08:51

• How To Install Surveillance Giant Google Antigravity on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-google-antigravity-linux-mint-22/    

posted Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 21:09:13

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