Roy Schestowitz

• Rights group condemns forced labor in Sri Lanka ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/05/righs-group-condemns-forced-labor-in-sri-lanka/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:22:34

• California governor signs bill restricting law enforcement at polls ahead of June 2 primary ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/05/california-governor-signs-bill-restricting-law-enforcement-at-polls-ahead-of-june-2-primary/bsp;  

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:23:01

• South Africa President challenges independent panel corruption report in court following ‘Farmgate’ scandal ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/05/south-africa-president-challenges-independent-panel-corruption-report-in-court/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:23:23

• Israeli entities to be added to UN sexual violence list over alleged Palestinian detainee abuse ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260528-israeli-authorities-to-be-added-to-un-sexual-violence-list-over-alleged-palestinian-detainee-abuse    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:23:44

• US designates Brazilian crime groups as terrorist organisations ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260529-us-designates-brazilian-crime-groups-as-terrorist-organisations    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:24:00

• Gitea Vulnerability Exposed 30,000 Deployments to Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/gitea-vulnerability-exposed-30000-deployments-to-attacks/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:24:50

• Critical FortiClient EMS Vulnerability Exploited in Fresh Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-forticlient-ems-vulnerability-exploited-in-fresh-attacks/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:25:14

• Carnival Data Breach Exposed 6 Million People ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/carnival-data-breach-exposed-6-million-people/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:25:43

• ‘Detect, understand, respond’ driving OMB, CISA’s latest cyber efforts ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/05/detect-understand-respond-driving-omb-cisas-latest-cyber-efforts/   

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:26:10

• Animal, Vegetable, Lamb: The Zoophyte from Tartary ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/animal-vegetable-lamb    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:27:26

• Industrial-grade vision inspection, made accessible by the Arduino® UNO™ Q board ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/05/28/industrial-grade-vision-inspection-made-accessible-by-the-arduino-uno-q-board/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:28:31

• SPDX Cryptographic Algorithm List: Spring 2026 Update ☞ https://toscalix.com/2026/05/28/spdx-cryptographic-algorithm-list-spring-2026-update/   

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:29:37

• Telegraph, Sun and Mirror hoaxed by Hey Hi (AI) picture of Thai police in drag ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/thai-police-in-drag/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:38:25

• Australian watchdog sues Amazon unit over children’s backpack safety ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-watchdog-sues-amazon-unit-over-childrens-backpack-safety    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:38:47

• Brazil's Lula backs new oil, gas drilling in western Amazon ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260528-brazil-s-lula-backs-new-oil-gas-drilling-in-western-amazon    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:39:22

• Clashes between armed groups in Colombia kill at least 52 guerrillas on eve of election ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260528-clashes-between-armed-groups-in-colombia-kill-at-least-52-guerrillas-on-eve-of-election    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:39:39

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

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:41:58

• Grog learn big word - now grog eepy gemini://ieve.me/squall/22.gmi    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:44:00

• Taming Emacs Cache and Temporary Files gemini://gemini.rahuljuliato.com/posts/emacs-cache-paths.gmi    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:46:42

• "The server is now whitelisted!" gemini://chersbobers.smol.pub/mc-server    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:48:03

• "The good news—Bunny will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow. The neutral news—she's going to a rehabilitation center near to Chez Boca. The bad—it was a rough day with the physical therapist. Oh was it a rough day." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/05/29.1    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:48:48

• Working With Almost Anyone ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/05/28/coexisting/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:50:29

• Civil servants may get up to 4.12% pay rise as gov’t plans appraisal revamp in October ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/05/28/civil-servants-may-get-up-to-4-12-pay-rise-as-govt-plans-appraisal-revamp-in-october/   

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:50:59

• Dancing mad with sandboxing ☞ https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/dancing-mad-sandboxing/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:52:01

• Valve Takes Crazy Pills and Jacks Up Steam Deck Pricing ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/valve-takes-crazy-pills-and-jacks-up-steam-deck-pricing/index.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:52:26

• Gesture HW1 is a 10-DOF ESP32-S3 robotic hand with high-dexterity manipulation (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/05/28/gesture-hw1-10-dof-esp32-s3-robotic-hand-with-high-dexterity-manipulation/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:52:51

• Introducing Shared Canned Responses ☞ https://openbuildservice.org/2026/05/28/request-workflow-improvements//    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:54:05

• Crackdown on culture: Israel censoring Palestinian voices ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/middle-east-matters/20260528-crackdown-on-culture-israel-censoring-palestinian-voices    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:54:41

• Carney Says That Canada’s Distancing is Good for U.S. in New York Speech ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/world/canada/carney-united-states-canada-trump.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:55:13

• The Myth of Patent Growth ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/05/the-myth-of-patent-growth.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:55:43

• IBM - Much Like the European Patent Office (EPO) - Gives the President (Head of Board and CEO) All the Money While Staff Drowns in High Inflation Rates ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/28/IBM_Much_Like_the_European_Patent_Office_EPO_Gives_the_Presiden.shtml    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:55:59

• UPC is illegal; JUVE is paid to normalise a fake kangaroo court ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/battle-in-interdigital-vs-amazon-reaches-next-stage-at-court-of-appeal/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:56:58

• Illegal court; they continue to violate constitutions and the media refuses to talk about it ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/pirelli-wins-against-chinese-tyre-makers-sichuan-yuanxing-rubber-and-tianjin-kingtyre-at-upc/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:57:44

• Gretchen Whitmer on 2028 presidential aspirations: ‘Never say never’ ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/gretchen-whitmer-on-2028-presidential-aspirations-never-say-never/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 05:58:35

• Layoffs as "hard choices" http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/29/It_s_Friday_Night_Again_So_Microsoft_is_Again_Shelving_Under_We.shtml    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 06:47:58

• "Agreed, LLMs have no intent. Thus LLMs just plagiarize despite being automatons. But those who interface with LLMs can have intent. One can question the intent of those interfacing with LLMs because most people know, at least on some level, that the 'tokens' are slurped up verbatim from the WWW at large without attribution." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-05/msg00015.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 07:55:01

• "In the context of code, one recent example is the use of LLMs to try to strip the Chardet project of its license, among quite a few other similar attacks some more public some less public. Noticeably, the original code is in the training set so the stripped version can hardly be described as a cleanroom implementation." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-05/msg00015.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 07:55:27

• "LLMs Are Not Much More Than Plagiarism Engines" https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/28/LLMs_Are_Not_Much_More_Than_Plagiarism_Engines.shtml    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 07:56:35

• Amazon is Cutting Even More Jobs, Following the Mass Layoffs in January. Can It Maintain Its Cloud Dominance as Employees Exit? https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/05/29/amazon-is-cutting-even-more-jobs-following-the-mas/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 07:57:52

• Red Hat staff calling people "racist" is dumb https://techrights.org/o/2020/08/16/ibm-powered-purges/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 08:50:46

• "To consider how we arrived at the point where sales are seen as a definitive measure of quality, we have to examine the past." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/music-metrics/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:07:17

• "However, it is hard to imagine that Osbourne himself, an unreconstructed old rocker if ever there was one" ☛ https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/05/ai-ozzy-osbourne-is-a-terrible-idea/ | Source: Spectator AU    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:07:42

• [Old] "As I mentioned on Bluesky, I spent yesterday going back and forth to Springfield IL to support House Bill 5236—The Digital Library Protection Act." ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2026/03/becky-goes-to-springfield-il-to-support.html | Source: Becky Spratford    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:08:43

• "As I discussed in this post back in March, I have been actively involved in trying to get fair eBook pricing for libraries." ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2026/05/libraries-fighting-back-together-on.html | Source: Becky Spratford    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:08:56

• "As I discussed in this post back in March, I have been actively involved in trying to get fair eBook pricing for libraries." ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2026/05/libraries-fighting-back-together-on.html | Source: Becky Spratford    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:09:23

• "And here’s the meat of the bill’s language itself: [...]" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/28/stop-killing-games-gets-its-first-american-legislative-effort-out-of-committee-in-california/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:09:40

• "One concept I'm obsessed with is the general idea of whether things (art, money, anything) are getting worse" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/whos-getting-wealthier-in-america/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:12:09

• "This story on Vatican News further clarifies the significance of that decision: [...]" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/encyclical-on-ai/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:12:23

• "Shadows of bodies in darkened windows and phone calls are the only signs of life inside, with visitation shut down last weekend." ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/delaney-hall-hunger-strike-newark-new-jersey-ice-violence-protests | Source: Marisa Kabas    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:12:54

• "It is very infuriating that we let ICE and GEO do whatever the hell they want." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/ice-and-prison-guards-retaliate-against-detainees-and-protestors-at-delaney-hall/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:14:22

• "What’s the dispute? Multiple nonprofit groups, Democratic Party committees, and states sued Trump" ☛ https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/05/28/trump-executive-order-mail-ballots-midterm-elections-carl-nichols/ | Source: Votebeat    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:14:40

• "The U.S. Postal Service proposed new rules Friday that detail in part how the Trump administration intends to carry out its contested mail-ballot executive order" ☛ https://www.votebeat.org/national/2026/05/29/usps-mail-ballot-rules-trump-executive-order/ | Source: Votebeat    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:15:03

• "At many journalism outlets, editors wouldn’t green-light this labor-intensive story unless they have a clear idea of catching somebody doing something terrible" ☛ https://www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-from-trusted-elections-to-um-emails-systemic-journalism-makes-real-change/ | Source: Mississippi Journalism and Education Group    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:16:43

• "According to Yle's Elävä Arkisto archives, a radio programme called "News in English" began broadcasting in the summer of 1969, and it has continued in one form or another ever since." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20228391 | Source: Yle    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:17:46

• "you are willing to carry out the dirty and distasteful things to come." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-you-take-the-weasel-job-then-you | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:18:04

• "Preserving Press Freedom" ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-may-2026/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:18:49

• "Congress, now in the intelligence business, is responding by focusing on the threat of the American public rather than the threat to the American public." ☛ https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-new-intel-agency-eyes-ai | Source: Ken Klippenstein    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:19:09

• "My pain from the AI punch was exacerbated when an 83 old ecologist, named Abby Rockefeller (daughter of David Rockefeller)" ☛ https://avi-loeb.medium.com/junk-food-in-the-age-of-ai-727c787a401f?source=rss-adb0e108a94b------2 | Source: Avi Loeb    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:19:54

• "Now, they’re on their own again, and they make what they want." ☛ https://blast-o-rama.com/2026/05/29/last-fm-is-an-independent-company-once-more/ | Source: Marty Day    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:20:41

• "The one who reached down into the future and pulled the present forward by force of will." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/put-something-back | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:21:45

• "In December 2025, a law required DJI to pass a national security review by the deadline or face an automatic ban by the FCC." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/drones/the-us-never-conducted-its-promised-security-review-of-dji-so-this-us-company-just-tore-apart-two-drones-tried-to-hack-them-and-failed | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:22:03

• "After nearly a quarter century of AKP dominance" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/05/turkey-chp-opposition-virtue-defeat | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:22:41

• "The new schools are attracting big donors and growing their enrollment through a built-in base of believers" ☛ https://georgiarecorder.com/2026/05/29/repub/more-megachurches-want-to-be-your-alma-mater/ | Source: The Georgia Recorder    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:23:22

• "One by one, Democratic politicians have lined up to campaign with Platner or post messages of support." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/democrats-graham-platner-tattoo/687364/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:27:09

• "Then, in 2018, the animal-rights organization Nonhuman Rights Project took on Happy as a client" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/happy-an-asian-elephant-who-demonstrated-that-her-species-might-be-self-aware-dies-at-55-at-the-bronx-zoo-180988861/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:28:06

• "These machines don't seem to be putting much stress on their PSUs, to say the least (I think they all have 600 watt PSUs or better, ie bigger)." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/ServersLowMaxPowerConsumption | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:28:55

• "And can I say what remarkable value for money this journey was, being covered by a single Zone A fare for just $3.75." ☛ https://heliomass.com/posts/2609-take-me-out-to-the-west-island/ | Source: Heliomass    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:29:15

• "I live in Virginia, which means I have a front-row seat to the strangest tax increase in modern American life. Nobody voted for it." ☛ https://www.cringely.com/2026/05/29/the-nvidia-tax/ | Source: I Cringely    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:30:05

• "The red dashed vertical line near the right edge of this map snippet is the county line — this old alignment begins, barely, in La Porte County. It’s well marked if you want to follow it yourself." ☛ https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/05/29/the-1913-lincoln-highway-in-porter-county-indiana-part-1-a-rural-alignment/ | Source: Jim Grey    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:30:51

• "According to Andrus Nilisk, head of IIL, which organizes public transportation in four counties, the center has already cut €400,000 from its budget." ☛ https://news.err.ee/1610041522/public-transport-needs-4-million-in-additional-funding-in-wake-of-soaring-fuel-prices | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:31:14

• "The new electric TaxiBot is an addition to the two hybrid TaxiBots Schiphol has been using with KLM since 2022." ☛ https://nltimes.nl/2026/05/29/schiphol-tests-worlds-first-electric-taxibot-take-planes-runway-cut-fuel-use | Source: NL Times    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:32:52

• "While governors focused on drought response planning, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a series of Secretarial Disaster Designations across the Colorado River Basin." ☛ https://www.western-water.com/2026/05/29/drought-declarations-in-all-7-colorado-river-basin-states/ | Source: Western Water    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:33:42

• "What about water use?" ☛ https://kentuckylantern.com/2026/05/29/utilities-report-as-many-as-30-data-centers-under-discussion-in-kentucky/ | Source: Kentucky Lantern    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:33:55

• "The Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) doesn’t officially keep track of the statistics." ☛ https://www.theenergymix.com/hundreds-of-rural-albertans-line-up-to-battle-data-centre-goliath/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:34:30

• "The study found exposure to both air pollutants resulted in lower scores on both brain tests." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/air-pollution-and-cognition-9.7215486 | Source: CBC    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:35:12

• "The FBI affidavit accuses Rush of taking gold bars and currency" ☛ https://text.npr.org/2026/05/28/nx-s1-5837308/cia-officer-gold-bars | Source: NPR    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 13:37:31

• "This is a board about layoffs, not a cheerleading site. The reason people here are expressing negative feelings towards leadership is pretty simple. Leadership - especially this current crop with Arvind and the reprehensible Rob T - has failed and doesn't care about the employees or the families of employees that make IBM run." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ksthyjjv#replies    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:17:24

• "If you want to cheer for the failed leadership of this dying company, go be one of those brown-nosers who constantly leave glowing comments on executive leadership blogs. You'll be in your element there. We dont need you here. If we want to see people who are lying about IBM and its leaders, we'll go to an all-hands call. So in short...f-ck off." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ksthyjjv#replies    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:18:06

• "but wasn't it Dario who made the US Government cough up a Billion dollars for the non-existent Quantum chips ? Can he get us another couple of billions or even a few trillion dollars in investment dough for another IBM scam? We could all be set up for several lifetimes. Trump has lots of $$$ to give away."    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:18:49

• "internal agency operations, personnel matters, procurement processes, or any sensitive, pre-decisional or deliberative material that is not currently publicly available." ☛ https://thedissenter.org/trump-broadens-crackdown-on-media-sources-in-the-federal-government/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:20:33

• "Epstein’s former assistant Lesley Groff, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and private equity investor Leon Black." ☛ https://alabamareflector.com/2026/05/29/repub/bondi-testifies-before-us-house-panel-on-epstein-files-but-dems-blast-her-for-evasion/ | Source: Alabama Reflector    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:20:56

• "The Russian Federation bears direct responsibility for these grave and irresponsible actions" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-drone-strikes-ukraine-border-romania/33768083.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:22:10

• "The latest report does that and contains harrowing descriptions of abuses at the hands of Israeli and Russian armed and security forces." ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/un-places-israel-and-russia-on-sexual-violence-blacklist-1960062 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:22:25

• "American democracy is about to undergo a serious stress test [this was written January 1, 2025.] ... Over a decade as a high-profile journalist, I covered Turkey’s descent into illiberalism, having to engage in the daily push and pull with the government." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-survive-the-rest-of-trumps | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:23:04

• "Hybrid attacks against Europe are also continuing." ☛ https://news.err.ee/1610039944/experts-russia-does-not-have-the-strength-for-military-escalation | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:23:19

• The "worth" of Techrights coverage of EPO corruption alone is probably in the millions, but all we ever got for it is "thank-yous" and some legal bills. That's just how the world works (and probably always did).    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:24:47

• "The Prosecutor General’s Office is investigating the suspected theft of more than 600,000 Real Estate Register records, including personal identification codes." ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2944220/lithuania-confirms-intelligence-officers-among-victims-of-major-registry-data-breach | Source: LRT    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:25:20

• "What happened: NetAskari, a group that monitors Chinese security infrastructure" ☛ https://aspicts.substack.com/p/china-builds-a-secret-platform-to |    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:25:58

• "The phony phone book claim is not limited to cabinet ministers." ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/05/the-phony-phone-book-analogy-how-liberal-cabinet-ministers-and-mps-are-misleading-canadians-about-the-privacy-risks-of-bill-c-22/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:26:27

• "Yesterday, the RCMP appeared before the Public Safety and National Security committee and quickly contradicted the Minister" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/05/rcmp-confirms-bill-c-22-concerns-police-want-law-to-provide-access-to-encrypted-communications/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:27:19

• "an insurance-backed virtual therapy platform" ☛ https://aiweekly.co/alerts/headway-locks-patients-into-mandatory-facial-scans |    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:57:58

• "The mobile network is highly opaque and extremely complex" ☛ https://hpi.de/en/article/researchers-uncover-espionage-in-mobile-networks/ |    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:58:16

• "Citizen Lab doctoral fellow Swantje Lange spoke with the Hasso Plattner Institut (HPI) about sophisticated surveillance campaigns being used to exploit mobile networks" ☛ https://citizenlab.ca/researchers-uncover-espionage-in-mobile-networks/ | Source: Citizen Lab    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:58:36

• "This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems" ☛ https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/ | Source: Amnesty International    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:59:07

• "Amnesty International adopts a supply chain lens in its human rights analyses of AI systems" ☛ https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/POL4009962026ENGLISH.pdf | Source: Amnesty International    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:59:24

• "According to Likhita Banerji, head of the Algorithmic Accountability Lab at Amnesty International" ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/05/rights-group-raises-concerns-about-unlawful-data-collection-systems-to-train-generative-ai/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 14:59:58

• "Dial in on a couple of things. First, there’s the fact that former public servants are now running flack for Flock." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/29/city-lawmaker-responds-to-flock-camera-ban-by-demanding-a-cell-phone-ban/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:00:27

• "Age-Gatin" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/one-step-forward-two-steps-back-cas-ab-1856-exempts-open-source-expands-age-gating | Source: EFF    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:00:55

• "After a series of high-profile court defeats, the European Commission has tightened internal rules and guidance governing access to documents." ☛ https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5781/how-new-eu-access-documents-rules-can-reduce-transparency-and-shield-big-tech | Source: Privacy International    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:01:53

• Privatisation: "Instead, the rocket detonated, destroying a portion of the launch infrastructure. No deaths or injuries were reported." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/space/blue-origin-rocket-explosion-wreckage-debris-damage-b2986234.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:03:09

• "They believe that medicines and vaccines exist, but we don't want to give them" ☛ https://text.npr.org/g-s1-124359 | Source: NPR Privatisation in action: "These tests are designed to test the rocket’s fuel system and motors by firing them when the rocket is clamped down to the launchpad." ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/05/new-glenn-explodes/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:03:32

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:05:45

• "I’ve recently realized that AI slop makes those platforms pretty unpleasant. I never know if I’m talking to a bot." ☛ https://josh.blog/2026/05/social-media-is-broken | Source: Josh Betz    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:07:27

• "Ramanan Pathmanathan, 40, of Toronto, pleaded guilty in January to producing child sexual abuse material and coercing and enticing a minor." ☛ https://therecord.media/canadian-man-gets-33-years-social-media-luring-kids | Source: The Record    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:07:56

• "One of the problems with letting an “AI” write for you: If you aren’t reading it" ☛ https://journal.kvibber.com/2026/05/wall-of-text/ | Source: Kelson Vibber "Groups of school-aged youths in Estonia have increasingly been caught shoplifting and the reasons may include the influence of social media" ☛ https://news.err.ee/1610041336/estonian-shops-plagued-by-groups-of-young-serial-thieves | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:08:46

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:10:51

• "Thus, the center of gravity of the AI discourse has shifted from concerns about demand, to worries about supply, to a freakout over value." ☛ https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-great-ai-cost-panic-of-2026 | Source: Derek Thompson    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:11:32

• "In the last few days, several executives of Fortune 500 companies have confided to reporters that they’ve been out spending on AI tokens like drunk gambling addicts slumped over at the Bellagio craps table."    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:12:06

• "An AI consultant told Axios that one of its clients spent half a billion dollars in one month on Claude. That is roughly what the entire US population spends monthly on shampoo or contact lenses."    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:12:24

• "Uber and Microsoft have reportedly discontinued some of their Claude Code licenses, as costs became unmanageable and productivity proved elusive."    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:12:40

• "AI critics and bubble watchers are circling the news and claiming that this is the backlash that could take down the industry. Gary Marcus, the cognitive scientist who has been warning about AI since ChatGPT launched, wrote this week that “if enough other companies report the same [productivity disappointments], the bubble pops.”"    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:13:04

• "This is the traffic to All About Berlin, the website that I run since 2017, and live from since 2020. After 7 years of growth, it has lost 70% of its traffic to Google AI Overviews." ☛ https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/death-by-ai |    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:13:29

• "When you Googled something, you used to get a link to my website. Now you get a page of ads, then an AI-generated answer trained on my content, then finally a link to my website. This has a devastating impact on traffic."    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:13:45

• "A post I wrote in 2023, the closing of the canon, predicted that LLM answers would replace search results, dramatically lowering traffic to individual sites, thereby removing the incentives to even write along with building and maintaining websites." ☛ https://derekkedziora.com/notes/revisiting-the-closed-canon- | Source: Derek Kędziora    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:14:20

• Google "Answers" PREDATE LLMs. This is not about "HEY HI".    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:14:49

• "Several projects remove the watermark with reverse alpha blending. I’ve found them to be the easiest and most generally effective way of removing the watermark, subject to the following caveats: [...]" ☛ https://davidyat.es/2026/05/29/gemini-watermark-removal/ | Source: David Yates    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:15:05

• "The problem with autonomous weapons is that they’re intrinsically scalable" ☛ https://globalnews.ca/news/3880186/powerful-video-warns-of-the-danger-of-autonomous-slaughterbot-drone-swarms/ | Source: Global News CA    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:16:38

• "Over the past year or so, more and more people have looked at me with great pity." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/fact-checking-ai/ | Source: Wired    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:16:54

• "It's been a few years since I posted a blogpost. It's time to do so again, good ol' "screaming into the void" as they say." ☛ https://lpcvoid.com/blog/0018_why_i_am_against_genai/index.html |    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:17:10

• "After cryptocurrency and NFTs, AI is the next big thing pushed by people who don't have good intentions, but this time, it's a lot worse than previously, and it's very likely here to stay. So buckle up, buckaroos, it's a wild ride."    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:17:35

• "GenAI (generative AI) is a wide term. GenAI can mean LLMs which generate text, as well as models which generate media such as images or videos. When I rant about GenAI in this blogpost, I explicitely don't mean machine learning algorithms which have been used in countless industries in numerous settings to solve hard, real world problems"    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:17:56

• "SpaceX is doing a [cryptocurrency]-style fraud, but on the real stock market. The S-1 filing is the white paper. The IPO, lined up for mid-June, is the rug pull." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/28/the-spacex-ipo-works-like-a-crypto-fraud-but-with-ai/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:18:28

• "defense contracting with a solid line of government revenue, a lot of bad rockets that blow up, and a money-burning AI company that has a money-burning social network that’s all but unusable."    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:18:46

• "This intrigued me. What in the world was a signature doing in an LLM’s “thinking” block? Why would thinking blocks be signed in the first place?" ☛ https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/05/29/fooling-around-with-encrypted-reasoning-blobs/ | Source: Cryptography Engineering    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:19:08

• "No more. Things are escalating, and we need to look no further than jqwik, a library that brings property-based testing to the JVM. Hidden in its code is the following instruction, prepended to stdout whenever the test engine is invocated: [...]" ☛ https://www.osnews.com/story/145130/open-source-project-contains-hidden-instruction-for-ai-agents-delete-my-code/ | Source: OS News    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:19:33

• "But using AI for writing has a cost beyond turning off readers, it risks undermining the development of an important human task." ☛ https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/choosing-to-stay-human | Source: Prof Ethan Mollick    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:20:08

• "Dark patterns from chatbots can have serious consequences for users." ☛ https://www.404media.co/new-study-reveals-the-manipulative-dark-patterns-of-ai-chatbots/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:20:27

• it is widely known, all around the world for several centuries, that when people expose crimes the criminals they expose try to portray their exposers as "criminals"; if it's in some place like Mexico, they get killed; in civilised countries they use other means, including death threats    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:23:41

• "Bob says dont ruin my good name by changing IBM to Bob. Ibm is not Bob spelled backwards." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kstg9cbs    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:29:47

• "This suggests a different starting point for AI education." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/can-ai-support-creativity-what-educators-can-learn-from-creative-machine-learning/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:30:56

• [Old] "That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars." ☛ https://web.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html | Source: MIT    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:31:12

• "The attendees at the symposium, which took place at the New York Academy of Sciences last September" ☛ https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/489976/ai-successionism-transhumanism-posthumanism | Source: Vox    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:31:43

• "We are researchers who study the intersection of technology, law and public administration." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/29/how-ai-can-lead-to-false-arrests-wrongful-convictions/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:32:02

• "Tesla CEO Elon Musk says FSD will soon make all Teslas fully autonomous." ☛ https://www.reuters.com/investigations/why-teslas-ai-trainers-dont-trust-its-self-driving-tech-or-its-safety-stats-2026-05-28/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:32:20

• "We have all seen it fail" ☛ https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/tesla-insiders-self-driving-disaster | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:32:42

• "Now, Leo XIV has used his first major statement to the world to present a new Rerum Novarum for the age of AI." ☛ https://www.mississippifreepress.org/opinion-pope-leo-xiv-compares-ai-to-the-industrial-revolution/ | Source: Mississippi Journalism and Education Group    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:33:01

• "For students like my nephew, Apple offers up the base model Neo for $499." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/its-hard-to-justify-framework-12/ | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:36:01

• "I want to see app improvements, not AI" ☛ https://ljpuk.net/2026/05/29/wwdc-2026-i-want-to-see-app-improvements-not-ai/ | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:36:26

• "I’ve been using a VPN to access F1TV here in the UK for a few years but it wasn’t until the last year I really thought about using it all of the time." ☛ https://ljpuk.net/2026/05/29/leaving-a-vpn-on-all-of-the-time/ | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:36:56

• "The researcher has not publicly identified themselves." ☛ https://therecord.media/microsoft-calls-zero-day-releases-never-justifiable-as-researcher-threatens-more | Source: The Record    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:37:25

• "As the Army tries to move toward a future in which the new systems it buys are interoperable via well-documented interfaces" ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/army/2026/05/army-asks-its-vendors-to-jailbreak-their-own-systems/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:37:45

• "exploitation more likely" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/28/microsoft-0-day-feud-escalates-as-researcher-threatens-another-windows-exploit-dump/5248085 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:38:18

• "These are not always easy to source through a generic pilot network" ☛ https://www.thedronegirl.com/2026/05/29/sph-engineering-drone-marketplace/ | Source: The Drone Girl    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:39:15

• "Today we will pour one out for the vaunted technical interview process, which is on its last leg. And we’ll talk a little about what’s replacing it." ☛ https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-last-technical-interview-bc13ddcf4564 | Source: Steve Yegge    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:40:07

• "K-L divergence is non-negative, and it’s zero if and only if X and Y have the same distribution. But it is not a metric, for reasons explained here. For one thing, it’s not symmetric." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/05/27/jensen-shannon/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 15:43:21

• "The sample variance of a set of numbers is defined in terms of the sum of the squared distances from each point to the mean." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/05/29/online-one-pass-algorithms/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:00:12

• "The Fischer-Tropsch reaction was discovered back in 1925 in Germany by a couple of gents named Fischer and Tropsch." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/05/29/be-your-own-oil-company-with-desktop-fischer-tropsch-process/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:00:31

• "There are nine numbered regions on the visible disk." ☛ https://www.arrl.org/news/view/the-arrl-solar-update-31 | Source: ARRL    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:00:46

• "Two NSF employees told Federal News Network that almost all staff are currently teleworking until renovations of their new headquarters are complete." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/05/union-warns-nsfs-return-to-office-push-dismisses-disability-accommodations/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:01:06

• "engineers and managers" ☛ https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?8395 |    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:03:32

• "I caved and spent the $32 fucking dollars to have 24 hours of internet access in the middle of our 10 straight days at sea." ☛ https://gkeenan.co/avgb/i-am-publishing-this-from-the-middle-of-the-atlantic-ocean-technology-is-incredible-etc-etc/ | Source: Keenan    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:05:51

• "And "normal" seems to have been a lot of pyrotol." ☛ https://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-05-29 | Source: Dr Molly Tov    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:06:49

• "I don't have a convenient switched outlet, but remote-controlled outlets have gotten so cheap these days that it seemed worth setting one up." ☛ https://www.jefftk.com/p/wall-mounted-far-uvc | Source: Jeff Kaufman    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:07:06

• "To finish the night, I gave a short birthday speech, which roughly went like this: [...]" ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/happy-10th-birthday-turkusec/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:07:20

• "Degrowth is gaining scholarly attention as a means of transforming affluent societies" ☛ https://journals.plos.org/sustainabilitytransformation/article?id=10.1371/journal.pstr.0000245 | Source: PLOS    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:13:08

• "To achieve this, the authors propose communication strategies led by non-commercial actors that empower communities, rather than focusing solely on individual consumer behavior." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-05-citizens-political-actors-individual-consumers.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:13:37

• When People Start "New Chapters" "This article is the 3rd part of a series on writing BDD specifications for Shiny applications." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/05/behavior-driven-development-in-r-shiny-asserting-outcomes-with-then-steps/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:41:30

• "It’s helpful to understand why — why use the OpenTelemetry standard at all? Why use distributed tracing? Why care about vendor neutrality?" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/opentelemetry-vendor-neutrality-guide/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:43:34

• "For reasons outside the scope of this entry, I recently dug into how the Go runtime did (Unix) signal handling on 64-bit x86 Linux." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoLSPImpressiveCodeNavigation | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:44:00

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:52:55

• "Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing." ☛ https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/05/29/#rcpparmadillo_15.2.7-1 | Source: Dirk Eddelbuettel    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:54:26

• "But wait, there’s more. YouGov’s surveys subdivide Republicans into those who do and those who don’t support MAGA" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/whos-deranged-exactly | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:55:17

• "In May 2023, a federal jury in New York unanimously found that Trump was liable for sexually abusing Carroll." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-does-trump-do-after-he-rapes | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:56:20

• "Pairing subsidiarity with solidarity is smart. The former is the liberartian-esque idea we know: that a larger entity should not affect the freedom of a smaller entity." ☛ https://werd.io/the-protocol-world-has-been-trying-to-solve-the-problem-of-how-to-leave-and-the-next-step-is-working-on-how-we-can-stay-together/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:58:31

• "The same logic shows up again when the encyclical turns to data, where Leo places data under what Catholic doctrine calls the universal destination of goods" ☛ https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr164-the-pope-on-defederation/?ref=werd.io | Source: Connected Places    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 16:58:46

• "I had the opportunity to participate in yet another edition of the Internet Forum in Brazil (FIB16), this time in the Amazon forest region, in Belém, Pará." ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/brazilian-internet-forum-fib16-belem-pictures/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:01:59

• "Last week, we shipped WordPress 7 to the world." ☛ https://wordpress.org/news/2026/05/wp23/ | Source: WordPress    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:06:46

• "Every framework, CMS, and static-site generator reinvents the same list of defaults from scratch. Most get parts of it wrong. There is no shared target." ☛ https://joost.blog/fixing-the-plumbing/ | Source: Joost de Valk    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:07:12

• "And many netizens are seemingly ready to call it quits once and for all, with week over week US installs of search alternative DuckDuckGo soaring 30 percent." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/duckduckgo-installs-spike-google-search-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:07:57

• "At Startpage’s request, Startpage has been removed as a search provider and from the browser options completely." ☛ https://www.waterfox.com/releases/android/1.2.4/ | Source: Waterfox    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:08:13

• "In this livestream, I chatted with Prot about the May 2026 Emacs Carnival theme "May I recommend"." ☛ https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/05/may-28-sacha-and-prot-talk-emacs-may-i-recommend/ | Source: Sacha Chua    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:09:00

• "The idea is simple. You enter an ISBN and Bookpile shows you nearby independent bookshops, libraries, and book-tracking sites." ☛ https://bitboxer.de/2026/05/29/bookpile | Source: Bodo Tasche    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:09:16

• "Are you being treated fairly? Ha ha. Well, if you're a smarthpone user, the answer is probably most definitely not." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fairphone-6-report-1.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:10:43

• "USB-LTE4G-EU is Reliable 4G LTE USB Modem and delivers reliable, cost-effective, and energy-efficient cellular connectivity for IoT, M2M, industrial automation" ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/usb-lte4g-eu-for-reliable-4g-lte-connectivity-in-iot-and-industrial-applications-across-europe/ | Source: Olimex    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:11:40

• "Stop HA and back up the DB first — you're editing prod. Then: find the broken row, read its numbers, plug them into the fix." ☛ https://garrit.xyz/posts/2026-05-29-fixing-corrupted-home-assistant-energy-statistics | Source: Garrit Franke    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:12:16

• "I’m having a lot of fun with reverse engineering lately, so when I was looking over the service manual for my guitar amp, a Yamaha THR10c" ☛ https://mforney.org/blog/2026-05-28-patching-my-guitar-amps-firmware.html |    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:12:31

• "Stingray Release Schedule" ☛ https://documentation.ubuntu.com/release-notes/26.10/schedule/ | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:13:42

• "Aleksey Samoilov has announced the release of Ubuntu Sway Remix 26.04" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12856 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:13:56

• "SSH powered interfaces are wonderful for several reasons: [...]" ☛ https://blog.tangled.org/ssh/ | Source: Tangled Labs Oy    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:15:51

• "Normal escaping is simpler and more uniform." ☛ https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-05-11/avoid-using-cdata-in-rss |    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:16:07

• "First, telnet is bad, ok? Debian knows this. They don’t want you to use it." ☛ https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/telnet-to-debian/ | Source: Darren Goossens    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:16:24

• "Mark Pierce was a game designer at Atari and Bally Midway. We talk to him about the protracted development of Escape From The Planet of The Robot Monsters" ☛ https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/05/22/the-tde-podcast-ep-38-atari-and-bally-midway-game-designer-mark-pierce/ | Source: The Arcade Blogger    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:16:54

• Planet Zoo 2 announced to release in October with a deeper conservation focus | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/planet-zoo-2-announced-to-release-in-october-with-a-deeper-conservation-focus/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:18:34

• [And meanwhile IBM Red Hat is promoting this sort of garbage itself] Flathub moves to ban nearly all apps and submissions made with generative AI | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/flathub-moves-to-ban-nearly-all-apps-and-submissions-made-with-generative-ai/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:19:45

• "Teenage boys avoid jail after rape and sexual assault of girls in north-east England | Youth justice | The Guardian" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/29/teenage-boys-rape-sentencing-youth-courts    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:20:17

• World Environment Day: Save the Oslo Fjord – of course we can! | "Verdens miljødag: Redde Oslofjorden – klart vi kan! | Lars Egelands blogg" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://larsegeland.com/2026/05/29/verdens-miljodag-redde-oslofjorden-klart-vi-kan/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:20:31

• "UFC White House Event With Trump and Dana White: What to Know" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ufc-white-house-event-trump-dana-white-1235569199/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:20:51

• Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney throws shade at Valve / Gabe Newell for Steam Deck pricing | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/epic-games-ceo-tim-sweeney-throws-shade-at-valve-gabe-newell-for-steam-deck-pricing/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:21:24

• You can now dim the Steam Controller LED plus other Steam changes in a fresh Beta | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/you-can-now-dim-the-steam-controller-led-plus-other-steam-changes-in-a-fresh-beta/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:21:47

• "Taylor, Alawieh seek to unite Black and Arab-American voters in Michigan Senate bids • Michigan Advance" https://michiganadvance.com/2026/05/29/taylor-alawieh-seek-to-unite-black-and-arab-american-voters-in-michigan-senate-bids/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:22:05

• "Trump’s Violent Threats Can't Hide the Truth: He’s a Humiliated Bully | The Nation" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-oman-threats-allies/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:22:20

• "Tony Blair Is a Demon the British Left Needs to Exorcize" https://jacobin.com/2026/05/blair-british-politics-tech-billionaires    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:22:36

• Pilot a customizable hovercraft in SCAD, a post‑apocalyptic roguelite bullet heaven | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/pilot-a-customizable-hovercraft-in-scad-a-post-apocalyptic-roguelite-bullet-heaven/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:23:07

• Dusklight the reimplementation of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess gets a major update | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/dusklight-the-reimplementation-of-the-legend-of-zelda-twilight-princess-gets-a-major-update/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:23:35

• "His Physical and Mental Decline Are Linked" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/his-physical-and-mental-decline-are    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:23:52

• "Google Search is Becoming Something Fundamentally Different - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/05/29/0212218    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:24:08

• The owners of Fandom and Gamespot want to acquire Balatro publisher Playstack | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/the-owners-of-fandom-and-gamespot-want-to-acquire-balatro-publisher-playstack/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/the-owners-of-fandom-and-gamespot-want-to-acquire-balatro-publisher-playstack/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:25:18

• Microsoft's woodpecker problem | "Microsofts spætteproblem | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/microsofts-spaetteproblem    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:25:32

• The owners of Fandom and Gamespot want to acquire Balatro publisher Playstack | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/the-owners-of-fandom-and-gamespot-want-to-acquire-balatro-publisher-playstack/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:25:49

• Slop promotions from Red Hat, as usual ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/10-essential-reads-optimize-performance-security-and-roi-ai-era | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:31:39

• "It's tactical" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/beyond-vm-migration-what-comes-after-lift-and-shift | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:31:58

• "This begs the question, is viewing sovereignty through a purely legal lens a strategic mistake?" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/digital-sovereignty-illusory-without-open-source-and-trusted-supply-chain | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:32:17

• Get lots of great games across multiple recent Humble Bundles | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/get-lots-of-great-games-across-multiple-recent-humble-bundles/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/get-lots-of-great-games-across-multiple-recent-humble-bundles/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:34:28

• "The community blog aggregates a list of the featured highlights below from May 22 to 27." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2026/05/29/planet-roundup/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:36:41

• "Cloud-init is the initialization service used by most cloud platforms and virtual machine images" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/set-up-cloud-init-on-ubuntu-26-04/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:37:19

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

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:38:24

• How To Install Apache Subversion on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-apache-subversion-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:39:01

• ewww ☞ https://idroot.us/install-rust-ubuntu-26-04/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:39:39

• How to Allow or Block IP Addresses in Nginx ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-allow-or-block-ip-addresses-in-nginx/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:40:12

• Trusting Trust is an Old Issue, Predating Rust and LLM Slop by Over Half a Century ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/29/Trusting_Trust_is_an_Old_Issue_Predating_Rust_and_LLM_Slop_by_O.shtml    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:40:33

• Open Source Projects Banning AI, From QEMU to NetBSD ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/open-source-projects-banning-ai-from    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:40:53

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

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:41:24

• Rocky GNU/Linux 9.8 released with improved Image Builder ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/rocky-linux-98-released-with-improved-image-builder/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:43:16

• This Week in Plasma: 6.7 Beta 2 Released ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2026/05/30/this-week-in-plasma-6.7-beta-2-released/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:45:16

• Fairphone 6 long-term usage report 1 ☞ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fairphone-6-report-1.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:56:08

• Researchers Uncover Espionage in Mobile Networks ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/researchers-uncover-espionage-in-mobile-networks/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 17:59:47

• Lithuania confirms intelligence officers among victims of major registry data breach ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2944220/lithuania-confirms-intelligence-officers-among-victims-of-major-registry-data-breach    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:00:25

• This Week in GNOME: #251 Monitoring Resources ☞ https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/05/twig-251/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:02:34

• Lithuanian PM calls for greater pressure on Russia after drone strike in Romania ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2944064/lithuanian-pm-calls-for-greater-pressure-on-russia-after-drone-strike-in-romania    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:03:24

• What to Know About the Drones That Have Been Crossing Into Romania ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/world/europe/romania-drone-strike-what-to-know.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:03:37

• Romania hit by drone strike: Foreign Minister speaks to FRANCE 24 ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/spotlight/20260529-romania-hit-by-drone-strike-foreign-minister-speaks-to-france-24    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:04:04

• Romania: Russian drone hits apartment building ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260529-romania-russian-drone-hits-apartment-building    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:04:21

• Why Gentoo? ☞ https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/05/28/why-gentoo/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:05:02

• U.N. Adds Israeli and Russian Forces to Sexual Violence List ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/world/middleeast/israel-russia-un-sexual-violence.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:05:41

• Lithuania, Once Occupied by Germany, Is Glad German Troops Are Back ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/world/europe/germany-lithuania-military-deployment.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:05:59

• Romania Says It Could Invoke NATO’s Article 4. What Would That Do? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/world/europe/nato-article-4-romania-russia.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:06:32

• 'We need Operation Eastern Sentry': NATO's eastern flank 'facing Russian threat every week' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/spotlight/20260529-we-need-operation-eastern-sentry-nato-s-eastern-flank-facing-russian-threat-every-week    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:06:48

• Old Soil, New Clock: The DTSA Discovery Rule After Insulet v. EOFlow ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/05/old-soil-new-clock-the-dtsa-discovery-rule-after-insulet-v-eoflow.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:08:25

• Security updates for Friday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1075310/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:09:21

• Ravi Dwivedi: Budapest Travel ☞ https://ravidwivedi.in/posts/budapest-travel/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:10:30

• Arsenal ahead in Budapest https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/audioplayer/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:14:45

• "just a week ago IBM was on verge of collapse. IBM did what ibm does and used buzz and hype to bail itself" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ksthyjjv#replies    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:15:41

• Marknote 1.6.0 ☞ https://carlschwan.eu/2026/05/30/marknote-1.6.0/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:22:25

• Commission approves €9 billion Spanish capacity mechanism for security of electricity supply ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1163    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:23:14

• The same data that’s out there about you can also be used against you and now it is ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/05/the-same-data-thats-out-there-about-you-can-also-be-used-against-you-and-now-it-is/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:23:37

• In Other News: Convicted Felon Mobile Data Breach, FIFA World Cup Phishing, CISA Responds to Supply Chain Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-trump-mobile-data-breach-fifa-world-cup-phishing-cisa-responds-to-supply-chain-attacks/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:24:32

• Charter Communications Data Breach Could Impact Nearly 5 Million ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/charter-communications-data-breach-could-impact-nearly-5-million/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:24:52

• Gedit Technology: News, April-May 2026 ☞ https://gedit-text-editor.org/blog/2026-05-29-news.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:25:25

• Nesbitt: Protestware for coding agents ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1075315/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:26:48

• Petros CH32H417M Alef – A Raspberry Pi Pico-sized RISC-V USB 3.0 camera board ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/05/29/petros-ch32h417m-alef-a-raspberry-pi-pico-sized-risc-v-usb-3-0-camera-board/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:27:19

• iophk: :/ They should certainly know better than that. https://blog.apnic.net/2026/05/29/introducing-the-apnic-whatsapp-community/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:27:58

• iophk: :/ They should certainly know better than that. https://blog.apnic.net/2026/05/29/introducing-the-apnic-whatsapp-community/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:28:24

• Jon Chiappetta: Lessons Learned From Implementing Multi-Threaded VPNs! ☞ https://fossjon.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/lessons-learned-from-implementing-multi-threaded-vpns/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:29:02

• US-Iran deal: Tehran demands release of frozen assets ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260529-us-iran-deal-tehran-demands-release-of-frozen-assets    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:29:36

• Regional Court Munich issues ex parte PIs on SPC for parkinson drug Xadago ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/regional-court-munich-issues-ex-parte-pis-on-spc-for-parkinson-drug-xadago/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:30:20

• Portus security patent monopoly prior art found ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/5/29/portus-security-patent-prior-art-found    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:31:04

• Support for Istio 1.28 ends on the 28th of June, 2026 ☞ https://istio.io/latest/news/support/announcing-1.28-eol/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:31:21

• Shocking moment teen throws 30-pound chair from top floor of shopping mall ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/05/29/world-news/shocking-moment-teen-throws-30-pound-couch-from-top-floor-shopping-mall/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:32:34

• Fedora Community Blog: F44 Elections Interviews ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/f44-elections-interviews/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:33:03

• Linux prepares to axe legacy x32 hybrid mode — hybrid 32-bit/64-bit mode faces complete removal by 2027 due to low adoption ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-developers-are-looking-to-retire-x32-abi-a-hybrid-32-bit-64-bit-mode-that-was-built-to-speed-up-64-bit-applications    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:34:18

• White House Releases Results of Convicted Felon’s Latest Physical Exam ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/trump-health-medical-physical-exam.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:41:36

• The deadly Ebola outbreak is proving difficult to control ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/29/1138093/the-deadly-ebola-outbreak-is-proving-difficult-to-control/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:41:53

• UK rape ruling sparks nationwide outcry ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-51/20260529-uk-rape-ruling-sparks-nationwide-outcry    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:42:16

• Kids Are Flying Into Lunatic Rages When Their iPads Are Taken Away ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/kids-rages-ipads-taken-away    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:42:42

• How the Military Health System is reimagining health IT from the battlefield to the exam room ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-insights/2026/05/how-the-military-health-system-is-reimagining-health-it-from-the-battlefield-to-the-exam-room/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:43:01

• 17 people hospitalised after chemical leak at South Korean university lab ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/17-people-hospitalised-after-chemical-leak-at-south-korean-university-lab    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:43:38

• Foreign-owned homes in South Korea top 108,000; Chinese nationals hold more than half ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/foreign-owned-homes-in-south-korea-top-108000-chinese-nationals-hold-more-than-half    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:44:04

• Michigan State grows grass science for FIFA World Cup ☞ https://bridgemi.com/quality-life/michigan-state-grows-grass-science-for-fifa-world-cup/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:50:18

• Scientists Rush to Save One of the World’s Rarest Trees as It Literally Falls Off a Cliff ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/scientists-rush-save-trees-cliff    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:50:33

• Malaysia PM Anwar under pressure amid growing defections from his party ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-pm-anwar-under-pressure-amid-growing-defections-from-his-party    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:51:11

• Europe Is Edging Closer to a Trade War With China. Here’s Why. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/world/europe/europe-china-trade-war-electric-cars.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:51:56

• China’s Rise in Drug Development Looms Over U.S. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/business/china-lung-cancer-drugs-asco.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:52:25

• China opposes any country using freedom of navigation to undermine sovereignty ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/china-opposes-any-country-using-freedom-of-navigation-to-undermine-its-sovereignty    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:52:49

• Thermos recalls 4 million vacuum food jars in China over defective stoppers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/thermos-recalls-4-million-vacuum-food-jars-in-china-over-defective-stoppers    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:53:23

• Myanmar’s junta chief-turned-president heads to India, with an eye on China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmars-junta-chief-turned-president-heads-to-india-with-an-eye-on-china    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:54:23

• Quad’s Fiji port plan will challenge China’s Pacific supply-chain dominance ☞ https://rfa.org/english/pacific/2026/05/29/quad-port-fiji-supply-chain-us-japan-india/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:54:38

• Chinese leaders skip Asia defence summit headlined by US ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/05/29/chinese-leaders-skip-asia-defence-summit-headlined-by-us/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:55:20

• China blasts ‘illegal’ Japan-Philippines sea border talks ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/05/29/china-declares-japan-philippines-sea-border-talks-illegal/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 18:55:43

• A Common Blood Pressure Drug Boosts Lifespan And Slows Aging in Animals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-common-blood-pressure-drug-boosts-lifespan-and-slows-aging-in-animals    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:00:52

• New Wearable Ultrasound Device Could 'Transform' Pregnancy Care ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-wearable-ultrasound-device-could-transform-pregnancy-care    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:01:12

• Scientists Solved an 'Impossible' Quantum Puzzle With a Personal Computer ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-solved-an-impossible-quantum-puzzle-with-a-personal-computer    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:02:29

• Largest Ever Dinosaur Discovered in Southeast Asia Was a Real Doozy ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/largest-ever-dinosaur-discovered-in-southeast-asia-was-a-real-doozy    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:02:46

• Mysterious Stone in US Backyard Turns Out to Be an Archaeological Treasure ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-stone-in-us-backyard-turns-out-to-be-an-archaeological-treasure    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:02:59

• The Sun Just Let Out The Longest Radio Burst We've Ever Seen ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-sun-just-let-out-the-longest-radio-burst-weve-ever-seen    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:03:38

• ACLU: send women to die in wars ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/womens-rights/congress-must-preserve-military-womens-ability-to-serve-in-ground-combat-roles    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:04:29

• Locking in tax-free gains: The gold loophole to turn TSP profits into hard assets ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-insights/2026/05/locking-in-tax-free-gains-the-gold-loophole-to-turn-tsp-profits-into-hard-assets/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:05:02

• Qt Creator 20 - CMake Update ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-20-cmake-update    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:05:22

• Last.fm is Still Scrobbling More Than Twenty Years Later (Seriously) — But It’s No Longer Part of Paramount Skydance ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/28/last-fm-independent-again/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:06:02

• Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude Hey Hi (AI) in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/mystery-company-accidentally-blew-usd500-million-on-claude-in-a-single-month-failed-to-put-usage-limit-on-licenses-for-employees    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:06:41

• How the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas offers a template for individuals to meet the Hey Hi (AI) moment ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/29/1138107/how-the-popes-magnifica-humanitas-offers-a-template-for-individuals-to-meet-the-ai-moment/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:07:11

• UTTER STUPIDITY: trying to SHAME Europe into entering a Ponzi scheme! https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/talking-europe/20260529-europe-s-fight-to-stay-in-the-ai-race    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:08:06

• Corporations Reeling From Huge Hey Hi (AI) Costs With No Clear Benefits ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/corporations-ai-costs-no-benefits    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:11:00

• Fans Aghast as New York Jets Say They’re Switching to Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/nfl-new-york-jets-ai    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:11:18

• What We Know (and Don’t) About the E. Jean Carroll Lawsuits Inquiry ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/politics/carroll-hoffman-legal-explainer.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:11:55

• Who Is the Prosecutor Investigating E. Jean Carroll’s Lawsuits? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/chicago-prosecutor-andrew-boutros.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:12:09

• Judge Reopens Convicted Felon’s Lawsuit Demanding $10 Billion From IRS ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/politics/trump-irs-lawsuit-ruling.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:12:30

• Filing Frivolity Against Nelly? Judge Saddles Attorney Suing ‘Country Grammar’ Rapper With a Heavy Fine ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/28/nelly-lawsuit-attorney-fined-by-judge/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:13:19

• Live Nation Settles With Beyond Wonderland Shooting Victims Ahead of Broader Trial ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/29/live-nation-settles-beyond-wonderland-shooting-lawsuit/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:14:27

• Katy Perry Secures Nearly $5M in Legal Victory After Mansion Purchase Goes Sour ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/05/29/katy-perry-mansion-lawsuit-victory/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:14:42

• ‘Scamdemic’: Inside Southeast Asia's cyber fraud industry ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/access-asia/20260529-scamdemic-inside-southeast-asia-s-cyber-fraud-industry    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:15:37

• Colombia votes for its next president, weighing social support against security ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2026/0529/colombia-petro-election-president-security    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:16:12

• South Africa president challenges corruption report in court amid ‘Farmgate’ scandal ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/05/south-africa-president-challenges-independent-panel-corruption-report-in-court/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:16:39

• Dihydroxyacetone Man says he’s making final decision on Iran deal as Tehran slams ‘mixture of truth and lies’ ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260529-trump-says-he-s-making-final-decision-on-iran-deal-as-tehran-slams-mixture-of-truth-and-lies    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:17:10

• Federal audit reveals NIST’s NVD is plagued by poor planning and duplication ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/nist-nvd-audit-mismanagement-duplication/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:17:50

• Aligning on Machine-Readable Signals as the Foundation for Due Diligence ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2026/05/29/aligning-on-machine-readable-signals-as-the-foundation-for-due-diligence/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:18:44

• Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2026-05-29 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2026/05/29/gnome-foundation-update-2026-05-29/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:20:21

• 9 Best Free and Open Source Process Memory Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-process-memory-tools/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:21:15

• Codecs and Software Patents - Part XII - GNU's Web Site Will Soon Have Many Recent Talks by Chief GNUisance Richard Stallman (RMS) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/29/Codecs_and_Software_Patents_Part_XII_GNU_s_Web_Site_Will_Soon_H.shtml    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:21:26

• FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, May 29, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2026-05-29-irc    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:25:46

• gnutrition @ Savannah: GNUtrition 0.33.0rc4 ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10896    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:25:58

• Xubuntu 26.10-snapshot1 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/xubuntu    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:26:38

• Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 1 is now available to download ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/ubuntu-2610-snapshot-1    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:28:21

• unifont package removed ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202605/unifont-package-removed.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:29:23

• What's new in OpenShift Container Platform system management ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/05/29/whats-new-openshift-container-platform-system-management    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:30:25

• 1-1, 1-1 pen. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cj6ppx48pk2t    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 19:54:03

• EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.3.7 ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202605/easyos-excalibur-series-version-737.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:09:23

• Russell Coker: Zswap ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/05/29/zswap/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:10:17

• Sophie Herold: Updates from the Circle Committee ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2026/05/29/updates-from-the-circle-committee/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:11:04

• Fedora Community Blog: F44 EPEL Elections: Interview with Troy Dawson (tdawson) ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/f44-epel-elections-interview-with-troy-dawson/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:14:32

• Fedora Community Blog: F44 EPEL Elections: Interview with Carl George (carlwgeorge) ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/f44-epel-elections-interview-with-carl-george-carlwgeorge/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:14:44

• Fedora Community Blog: F44 EPEL Elections: Interview with Diego Herrera (dherrera) ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/f44-epel-elections-interview-with-diego-herrera-dherrera/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:14:56

• Fedora Community Blog: F44 EPEL Elections: Interview with Jonathan Wright (jonathanspw) ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/f44-epel-elections-interview-with-jonathan-wright-jonathanspw/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:15:08

• Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2026/22 ☞ https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2026/05/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2026-22/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:16:14

• How DreamWorks Uses GNU/Linux & Open Source to Create Blockbuster Movies ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/videos/how-dreamworks-uses-linux-open-source-to-create-blockbuster-movies/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:16:59

• False on all counts, just false marketing claims from two parties ☞ https://linuxstans.com/ai-found-3900-critical-open-source-bugs-ibm-is-paying-5-billion-to-fix-them/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:18:00

• What’s Next for Blue Origin After Rocket Explosion ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/technology/blue-origin-amazon-rocket-explosion.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:18:42

• Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket explodes on launchpad during test ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/29/blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-explodes-launchpad-test/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:19:05

• Chrome 148 Update Patches 151 Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-148-update-patches-151-vulnerabilities/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:19:41

• California Sues 23andMe, Alleging It Failed to Protect User Data in 2023 Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/california-sues-23andme-alleging-it-failed-to-protect-user-data-in-2023-breach/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:19:56

• Age-Related 'Unraveling' of DNA May Be Reversible, Study Suggests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/age-related-unraveling-of-dna-may-be-reversible-study-suggests    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:20:24

• No es solo tecnológica también es cultural gemini://deivisdiaz.flounder.online/brechadigital.gmi    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:23:01

• Grug's Most Excellent Interdimensional Temporal Adventure gemini://ieve.me/squall/23.gmi    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:24:25

• "Last year I started playing my electric guitar again. It had been years, probably close to 15 if I'm being honest. I picked up my Strat, started messing around with it instead of doing the stuff I'd been doing on classical guitar." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/5-30.gmi    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:25:11

• "There are lots of important philosophical questions that arise when we think about this effort. Human history is a series of pluralistic and conflicting "interests", so when we try to align AI with human interests, the obvious question is _whose_ interests?" gemini://spool-five.com/gemlog/2026-05-30-ai_alignment.gmi    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:26:08

• "Now that I've got nft set up to do rate limiting to ensure my pod is available to the broader public and also have a bit more insight into who my visitors are one thing stood out. Apparently my miscreants are mostly ips which when doing a reverse dns lookup resolve to something under googleusercontent.com." gemini://nthcdr.eu/blog/2026-05-30-and-i-took-that-personally.gmi    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:27:07

• "Although my last field trip to the FFH territory had to be canceled after seeing a bunch of tourists struggling to capture a plant with a phone, I've begun to review my own data spawning over four years." gemini://magda.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-05-30.gmi    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:27:50

• "Fresh off blocking GCP with my evil laughter still echoing throughout the lair it struck me that while GCP had been the most obvious nemesis of my pod there was still a rather large elephant still lingering in the room. All while banning GCP I had left AWS off the hook. That seemed entirely unfair to AWS and I set off to block them in the same manner." gemini://nthcdr.eu/blog/2026-05-30-the-even-fatter-cat.gmi    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:28:26

• "About 6 million people died in the Holocaust. When I was in school, our class was shown a movie about it all. This was in the late eighties. Nobody knew about content warnings. And so, without preparation, without introduction, I remember suddenly seeing those bulldozers shovelling mountains of dead people. What an incredible shame." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-05-30-shame    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:30:15

• Stop using Linux Mint—Fedora Atomic is safer https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-mint-great-use-an-immutable-fedora-distro-instead/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:35:19

• Thanks to Flatpak, Linux app stores are actually exciting now https://www.howtogeek.com/thanks-to-flatpak-linux-app-stores-are-actually-exciting-now/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:35:59

• Slop hype https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/141681/canonical-and-google-simplify-ai-workloads-on-tpus/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:39:53

• Dell releases new 14-inch laptop globally with 64 GB LPCAMM2 RAM, Intel Panther Lake and Ubuntu Linux - Notebookcheck News ⚓ https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-releases-new-14-inch-laptop-globally-with-64-GB-LPCAMM2-RAM-Intel-Panther-Lake-and-Ubuntu-Linux.1310528.0.html ䷉ Source: Notebook Check    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:42:10

• "The final release of Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) is expected on October 15th, 2026." https://9to5linux.com/first-ubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray-snapshot-is-now-available-for-download    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:42:37

• Installing Out-of-the-Box Ubuntu LTS on Xsight Labs E1 64-Core Arm 800G DPU https://www.servethehome.com/installing-out-of-the-box-ubuntu-lts-on-xsight-labs-e1-64-core-arm-800g-dpu/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:43:20

• "I recently covered Linux distros that were once hugely popular but have since faded into obscurity, and one thing stood out in the comments" https://www.makeuseof.com/these-linux-distros-were-popular-until-their-developers-disappeared/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:44:45

• "As floppy disks gave way to LiveCDs, each new distro carried the promise of a better, freer operating system." https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-distros-that-were-huge-once-but-barely-matter-now/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:45:59

• Linux Supply Chain How-To – PSW #928 https://www.scworld.com/podcast-segment/14956-linux-supply-chain-how-to-psw-928    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:47:35

• Both SPAM and a SCAM... carrying the name "LINUX" https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linux-foundation-announces-dns-aid-project-to-advance-decentralized-ai-agent-discovery-302782807.html http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/29/Linux_Foundation_Gets_Paid_by_Slop_and_Plagiarism_Companies_Lin.shtml    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:49:04

• Guess What? Streaming-Only Gaming Handhelds Are Still a Thing https://gizmodo.com/guess-what-streaming-only-gaming-handhelds-are-still-a-thing-2000764829    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:51:24

• "What’s more, the Nitro Blaze Link runs Linux, specifically the Debian distro. It’s only packing 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage, so it’s practically useless for anything but streaming."    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:52:10

• Rocky Linux 9.8 launches with improved security and multiple package updates https://www.notebookcheck.net/Rocky-Linux-9-8-launches-with-improved-security-and-multiple-package-updates.1310026.0.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:52:39

• "Rocky Linux 9.8 Image Builder now supports advanced disk partitioning for custom images and Kickstart injection during ISO builds." https://www.neowin.net/news/rocky-linux-98-released-with-improved-image-builder/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:53:09

• Privacy-focused, AI-infused Gnoppix Linux 26.6 now available https://www.notebookcheck.net/Privacy-focused-AI-infused-Gnoppix-Linux-26-6-now-available.1310027.0.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:55:04

• "This release also adds a libcrypto-based JCat implementation for Android and support for NixOS to the quickstart script." https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-2-1-4-linux-firmware-updater-adds-intel-arc-pro-b65-and-arc-pro-b70-support    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:55:37

• "This release switches to Flatpaks as the default delivery method for Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird." https://9to5linux.com/rocky-linux-10-2-released-with-post-quantum-cryptography-improvements    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:56:04

• Fedora Atomic is what Linux looks like when it stops trying to impress Linux users https://www.xda-developers.com/fedora-atomic-is-what-linux-looks-like-when-it-stops-trying-to-impress-linux-users/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:56:27

• very false https://thenewstack.io/torvalds-ai-programming-productivity/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:56:47

• Stenography and spam https://www.infoworld.com/article/4178820/dns-aid-will-make-ai-agents-easier-to-discover-says-linux-foundation.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:57:34

• x32 ABI is designed to reduce the memory footprint of 64-bit applications https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-developers-are-looking-to-retire-x32-abi-a-hybrid-32-bit-64-bit-mode-that-was-built-to-speed-up-64-bit-applications    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:59:16

• Acer’s launching a Linux handheld for streaming your PC games https://www.theverge.com/games/940091/acer-nitro-blaze-link-linux-handheld    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 20:59:47

• CNN latest to sue Perplexity ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/news-publisher-ai-deals-lawsuits-openai-google/ Perplexity hired this monster: https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_48_Out_of_200_Brett_Wilson_LLP_and_5RB_Co.shtml    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 21:03:41

• Microchip dsPIC33CK low-cost motor control MCU sells for $0.51 and up ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/05/29/microchip-dspic33ck-low-cost-motor-control-mcu/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 21:34:07

• War in Lebanon: Cultural heritage at risk ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-observers/20260529-war-in-lebanon-cultural-heritage-at-risk    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 21:34:48

• Gogs Zero-Day Exposes Servers to Remote Code Execution ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/gogs-zero-day-exposes-servers-to-remote-code-execution/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 21:35:19

• Maybe undersupply to fake sellout? ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/steam-deck-oled-stock-out/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 21:37:59

• No, Not That Georgia. Hey Hi (AI) Compounds a Nation’s Identity Woes. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/world/europe/georgia-name-confusion.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 21:38:26

• Ambernic's retro gaming handhelds are quietly losing RAM capacity and being downgraded to older LPDDR3 memory — company says 1GB capacity is still the standard, 512MB models 'an unexpected error' ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/gaming-handhelds-are-quietly-losing-ram-vendors-aggressively-trim-memory-specs-as-supply-dries-up    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 21:39:25

• Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney slams Valve over Steam Deck price hikes — mocks founder Gabe Newell over rising costs of megayachts ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/epic-games-tim-sweeney-slams-valve-over-steam-deck-price-hikes-mocks-founder-gabe-newell-over-rising-costs-of-megayachts    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 21:39:52

• Vietnam’s Leader Warns Asia About the Risks of Superpower Conflict ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/world/asia/vietnam-to-lam-shangri-la-dialogue.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 21:40:28

• Chilling Effects ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/05/chilling-effects.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 21:41:13

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Boat Strikes Have Failed to Curb Cocaine Flow to U.S., Experts Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/world/americas/us-boat-strikes-cocaine-trump-south-america.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 22:10:26

• China is building launch pads near its nuclear missile silos ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-is-building-launch-pads-near-its-nuclear-missile-silos    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 22:10:50

• Palestinians mourn 10 killed in Eid strikes as Netanyahu vows wider control of Gaza ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260529-palestinians-mourn-10-killed-in-eid-strikes-as-netanyahu-vows-wider-control-of-gaza    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 22:11:19

• Independent cyber audit finds zero malware or backdoors in DJI drones — U.S. firm's hardware analysis challenges FCC ban amid ongoing $1.56 billion legal battle ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/dji-commissioned-security-audit-finds-no-major-vulnerabilities-in-two-drone-models-as-fcc-lawsuit-continues    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 22:11:54

• Canonical takes over Flutter desktop maintenance ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/flutter-desktop-canonical-maintained    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 22:12:37

• Coyote 4.0.194 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/coyote    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 22:12:54

• Rocky 10.2 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/rocky    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 22:13:35

• Oreon 10-2606 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/oreon    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 22:13:52

• PCMFlow722 library enables two-way real-time HD voice over ESP-NOW with G.722 audio codec ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/05/30/pcmflow722-library-enables-two-way-real-time-hd-voice-over-esp-now-with-g-722-audio-codec/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 22:17:17

• Russian Drone Hits Romanian Apartment Building, Officials Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/world/europe/romania-drone-russia-ukraine.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 22:17:41

• Does Convicted Felon Want to Lose the Midterms? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-liam-donovan.html    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 22:19:43

• Canadian Man Pleads Guilty to Aiding 14 Suicides ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/world/canada/kenneth-law-canada-poison.html "shipped toxic salt to customers in 40 countries"    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 22:20:31

• Teen nearly dies after attempting dangerous ‘couch surfing’ Fentanylware (CheeTok) trend ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/05/29/us-news/teen-nearly-dies-after-attempting-dangerous-couch-surfing-tiktok-trend/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 22:21:01

• Sick new Fentanylware (CheeTok) challenge sends kids to hospital for Benadryl overdose ☞ https://nypost.com/2026/05/29/us-news/dangerous-tiktok-challenge-associated-with-rise-in-benadryl-overdoses/    

posted Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 22:21:22