Roy Schestowitz

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:08:15

• Sol Cesto: Rescuing the Sun - Review ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/sol-cesto-review/index.html    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:08:55

• Openchip taps Baya Systems data-movement platform for RISC-V systems ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/11/openchip-taps-baya-systems-data-movement-platform-risc-v-systems/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:09:26

• Qubes OS User Survey 2026: Shape the future of Qubes! (10-20 minutes) ☞ https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/06/11/qubes-os-user-survey-2026/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:11:56

• 2026 Council Manifesto ☞ https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/06/11/2026-council-manifesto/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:12:29

• It’s Not You, It’s Your Claims: Disclosed but Unclaimed Embodiments at the Federal Circuit ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/06/its-not-you-its-your-claims-disclosed-but-unclaimed-embodiments-at-the-federal-circuit.html    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:13:15

• "It was one of the very first things my tutor alerted me to when I was a patent monopoly agent traineee. Beware, he counselled. It is ambiguous." http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/06/new-referral-on-claim-interpretation.html?showComment=1781174333036#c2966204361038944646    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:13:51

• One staff leaving is somehow newsworthy? ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/kather-augenstein-loses-prominent-patent-litigator/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:16:19

• Federal Judge Tees Up Possible Dismissal of Years-Old Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against BMG ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/10/bmg-patent-lawsuit-dismissal/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:16:39

• Slop versus ODF and real standards ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/doclang-new-open-document-standard-for-ai/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:17:51

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2036.jpg    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:26:22

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1680.jpg    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:26:32

• Microsoft front group speaks of "maturity" of things Microsoft is attacking ☞ https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/06/11/open-source-spectrum/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:27:48

• Bare-metal MSX2+ Emulator for ESP32-S3 offers custom LCD_CAM VGA implementation & Z80 optimizations ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/06/11/bare-metal-msx2-emulator-for-esp32-s3-offers-custom-lcd_cam-vga-implementation-z80-optimizations/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:28:21

• Data Reveals the Fragile Economics of Training Patent Attorneys in the Age of Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://blog.patentology.com.au/2026/06/data-reveals-fragile-economics-of.html    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:29:35

• Scientists Discover a Strange Global Pattern in The Way Humans Walk ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-a-strange-global-pattern-in-the-way-humans-walk    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:30:18

• Scientists Found a New Alzheimer's Trigger, And a Drug to Slow It in Mice ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-found-a-new-alzheimers-trigger-and-a-drug-to-slow-it-in-mice    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:30:43

• Earliest Flickering Quasar Ever Seen Could Explain Monster Black Holes ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/earliest-flickering-quasar-ever-seen-could-explain-monster-black-holes    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:31:03

• Model-as-a-Service: How to run your own private Hey Hi (AI) API ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/06/12/model-service-how-run-your-own-private-ai-api    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:31:53

• Fortior FU75xx dual-core motor control MCU family combines 32-bit RISC-V core with 2nd-gen Motor Engine (ME2) core ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/06/12/fortior-fu75xx-dual-core-motor-control-mcu-family-combines-32-bit-risc-v-core-with-2nd-generation-motor-engine-me2-core/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:33:06

• Qubes 4.3.1 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/qubes    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 05:33:29

• "I replaced another old halogen bulb with a GU5.3 LED that claims to have a lifespan of 15,000 hours. Since this light is on for about half an hour a day on average, it should last until about 2108, which is convenient for the Year 2108 bug: [...]" gemini://lab6.com/mlog/2026/06/13/bulb/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:03:13

• "Here I am 15 months later still playing around with the same things. I have a fairly brittle and rather anticohesive framework for managing frames of thought, some ideas for how to maintain coherent 'character consciousness' across the frames of thought" gemini://ieve.me/squall/25.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:04:33

• no words gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/no_words    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:05:15

• EFF sold to Microsoft? ‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/podcasts/hard-fork-live-part-1-satya-nadella.html    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:12:51

• Statement by President von der Leyen and President Costa on the agreement to open the first accession negotiation cluster with Ukraine and Moldova ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_26_1357    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:16:20

• Ukrainian vehicles will be parked by Freedom Monument in Rīga ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/12.06.2026-ukrainian-vehicles-will-be-parked-by-freedom-monument-in-riga.a651223/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:16:34

• Ukraine's EU accession bid gains traction as Hungary lifts veto ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260612-ukraine-s-eu-accession-bid-gains-traction-as-hungary-lifts-veto    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:16:49

• Iran, Ukraine, Belfast & Albania’s ‘Flamingo Revolution’ ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-world-this-week/20260612-iran-ukraine-belfast-albania-s-flamingo-revolution    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:17:07

• US plans to slash fighter jets, warships to NATO in Europe, NY Times reports ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260612-us-plans-to-slash-fighter-jets-warships-to-nato-in-europe-ny-times-reports    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:17:21

• EU Members Agree To Advance Accession Talks For Ukraine And Moldova ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-moldova-eu-membership/33779301.html    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:17:42

• US Releases Information On Biolabs In Over 30 Countries, Including Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-biolabs-ukraine-funding-evidence-gabbard-dni/33779274.html    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:17:59

• Bring the Kids and Grab Some Barbecue: A Day at the Ukrainian Drone Races ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/world/europe/ukraine-drone-races.html    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:18:15

• The Insurrectionist’s Imperial Birthday Spectacle ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/donald-trumps-imperial-birthday-spectacle    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:22:30

• Spotify Is Purging Tens of Thousands of Illegal Drug-Peddling Podcasts Amid Congressional Investigation ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/11/spotify-illegal-drug-peddling-podcasts/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:23:06

• Espressif ESP32-E22 WiFi 6E module gets Wi-Fi CERTIFIED certificate, open-source WiFi and Bluetooth GNU/Linux drivers ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/06/13/espressif-esp32-e22-wifi-6e-module-gets-wi-fi-certified-certificate-an-open-source-wifi-and-bluetooth-linux-drivers/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:23:45

• EU Open Source Strategy Plays Key Role in Tech Sovereignty Package ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/EU-Open-Source-Strategy-Plays-Key-Role-in-Tech-Sovereignty-Package    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:24:37

• XBOX Studio at Risk of Closure in Upcoming Layoff Round, Sources Say https://www.levelup.com/en/news/xbox-studio-at-risk-of-closure-in-upcoming-layoff-round-sources-say/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:27:56

• Microsoft Reportedly Considering Selling Xbox, Call of Duty Partly To Blame https://www.gamingbible.com/news/platform/xbox/microsoft-considering-selling-xbox-901669-20260613    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:28:40

• New malware campaign tricks Hey Hi (AI) scanners with fake nuclear weapon prompts — malicious code triggers safety failsafes so scanners skip the payload ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hades-malware-campaign-now-tricks-ai-bots-by-injecting-text-about-biological-and-nuclear-weapons-failsafe-mechanisms-triggered-by-prompts-for-weapon-creation-stop-scans-before-payload-is-seen    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:30:05

• Richard Meade moves to UK Court of Appeal ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/richard-meade-moves-to-uk-court-of-appeal/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:32:25

• Fails to point out UPC is illegal and unconstitutional; it's connected to EPO corruption, due to executives who do cocaine and worse ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/case-numbers-in-paris-fell-by-a-third-in-2025/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:32:57

• InterDigital is just a giant patent troll ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/amazon-and-interdigital-will-settle-their-frand-dispute-through-arbitration/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:33:39

• Republican lawmakers urge federal agency to block imports of infringing TSMC chips as patent monopoly ruling nears — five asserted U.S. patents come from United Microelectronics Corporation ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/republican-lawmakers-urge-itc-to-block-imports-of-infringing-tsmc-chips-as-patent-ruling-imminent    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:33:54

• M5Stack Capsule Kit v1.1- A Battery-powered ESP32-S3 IoT controller with IMU sensor, MEMS microphone, and IR transmitter ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/06/12/m5stack-capsule-kit-v1-1-a-battery-powered-esp32-s3-iot-controller-with-imu-sensor-mems-microphone-and-ir-transmitter/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:34:28

• $7.99 Seeed Studio Wio-S3 WiFi, Bluetooth LE, and LoRa IoT module combines ESP32-S3 and SX1262 RF transceiver ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/06/12/7-99-seeed-studio-wio-s3-wifi-bluetooth-le-and-lora-iot-module-combines-esp32-s3-and-sx1262-rf-transceiver/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:35:01

• A darker shade of Grey: Noctropolis is Ready for Testing! ☞ https://www.scummvm.org/news/20260612/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:35:29

• Arch Devs Scramble as 400 AUR Packages Infected With Malware ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/06/arch-devs-scramble-as-400-aur-packages-infected-with-malware/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:36:37

• Modular Framework 13 Pro Laptop Will Now Ship in July ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/06/modular-framework-13-pro-laptop-will-now-ship-in-july/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:37:27

• David Hockney Embraced Tech ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/arts/design/david-hockney-ipad-iphone-photocopier-fax.html    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:39:08

• Spot a bear? Tell everyone, Latvian nature agency asks ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/environment/12.06.2026-spot-a-bear-tell-everyone-latvian-nature-agency-asks.a651272/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:39:43

• Canada mother sues OpenAI, alleging Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot encouraged daughter’s suicide ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/06/canada-mother-sues-openai-alleging-chatgpt-encouraged-daughters-suicide/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:41:57

• Pluralistic: Google's new remote attestation scheme is every bit as terrible as its old remote attestation scheme (12 Jun 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/12/compelled-speech/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:42:16

• Extremely Unflattering Statue of MElon Appears in Times Square, Complete With Horrifying Slogan ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/unflattering-inflatable-elon-musk-times-square    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:44:10

• A Supplement For Joint Pain Could Accelerate Alzheimer's Memory Loss ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-supplement-for-joint-pain-could-accelerate-alzheimers-memory-loss    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:44:54

• Extraordinary Fossils Solve a 500-Million-Year Evolution Mystery ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/extraordinary-fossils-solve-a-500-million-year-evolution-mystery    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:45:15

• Japan, Indonesia eye closer ties via intel sharing, export of destroyers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/japan-indonesia-eye-closer-ties-via-intel-sharing-export-of-destroyers    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:45:38

• Bangladesh, India to coordinate patrols on border, share intelligence amid migrant tensions ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/bangladesh-india-to-coordinate-patrols-on-border-share-intelligence-amid-migrant-tensions    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:45:53

• AI Bro Convinced He Can Vibe Code GTA 6 Before the Real One Comes Out ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-bro-vibe-code-gta-6    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:46:52

• A lot of health Hey Hi (AI) isn’t where you think it is, and it’s not overseen the way you might expect ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/06/a-lot-of-health-ai-isnt-where-you-think-it-is-and-its-not-overseen-the-way-you-might-expect/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:47:15

• More people are using Hey Hi (AI) for medical advice. Here’s what to know ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/more-people-are-using-ai-for-medical-advice-heres-what-to-know/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 06:47:32

• The AFM’s Hey Hi (AI) Lawsuit Is Now Part of ‘A Global Fight’ — UK’s Musicians’ Union Urges Others to ‘Take on Major Corporations Who Intend to Exploit Their Rights Without Consent’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/12/uk-musicians-union-ai-comments/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 10:22:59

• Eastern Chad an Emerging Frontline in Sudan War ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2026/06/eastern-chad-an-emerging-frontline-in-sudan-war/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 10:24:04

• Anthropic Says It Has Taken Its Latest Hey Hi (AI) Models Offline to Comply With New Export Controls ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/anthropic-says-it-has-taken-its-latest-ai-models-offline-to-comply-with-new-export-controls/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 10:25:18

• Anthropic Blocks Foreigners From Using Mythos and Fable Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/technology/anthropic-mythos-fable5-blocked.html Tunisia Shows ‘Operational Superiority’ With Counterterror Raids ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2026/06/tunisia-shows-operational-superiority-with-counterterror-raids/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 10:26:16

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 10:27:36

• Social Security Is Going Broke. Where Is the Outrage? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/opinion/social-security-benefits-budget.html    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 10:27:59

• Several police officers arrested for using controversial Flock Hey Hi (AI) license plate reader system to stalk romantic partners, says report ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/security-software/several-police-officers-arrested-for-using-controversial-flock-ai-license-plate-reader-system-to-stalk-romantic-partners-says-report-investigators-have-unearthed-at-least-18-such-cases-in-the-us-over-recent-years    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:36:05

• AMD denies researcher a $10,000 bug bounty after fixing critical auto-updater vulnerability — security flaw took 124 days to patch ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/amd-denies-researcher-a-usd10-000-bug-bounty-after-fixing-critical-auto-updater-vulnerability-security-flaw-took-124-days-to-patch    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:36:48

• Kenya Law Society files contempt of court application against government ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/06/kenya-law-society-files-contempt-of-court-application-against-government/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:38:04

• China warns of ‘spy turtles’ fishing for sea secrets ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/06/12/china-warns-of-spy-turtles-fishing-for-sea-secrets/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:38:58

• Combating foreign digital interference: ‘France is among the top three in Europe’ ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260612-combating-foreign-digital-interference-france-among-top-three-europe-cybersecurity-elections    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:39:52

• Ivanti Sentry Exploitation Attempts Hitting Honeypots ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ivanti-sentry-exploitation-attempts-hitting-honeypots/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:40:27

• CISA revives push toward long-awaited cyber incident reporting rules ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/06/cisa-revives-push-toward-long-awaited-cyber-incident-reporting-rules/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:41:21

• Wider buffer zone planned along Latvian border ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/12.06.2026-wider-buffer-zone-planned-along-latvian-border.a651192/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:42:00

• Commission proposes €540 million in financial relief and other supports for farmers facing fertiliser crisis ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1348    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:42:45

• Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 319 released ☞ https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-319-released/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:44:15

• Spotify and Amazon Music’s Bundling Shenanigans Have Cost Music Publishers Nearly $500 Million Since 2024, NMPA Reveals ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/11/nmpa-spotify-amazon-music-bundling-publishers/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:50:35

• Mozhi update ☞ https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Mozhi    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:51:11

• Pkgit update ☞ https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Pkgit    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:51:39

• Japan PM Takaichi still enjoys support despite public’s anxieties about Iran war ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-pm-takaichi-enjoys-enduring-support-despite-iran-war-anxieties-leading-to-monochrome-packaging    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:52:50

• Chrome 149 Update Patches 28 Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-149-update-patches-28-vulnerabilities/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:53:29

• Men Can Lose Their Y Chromosome With Age, And We Finally Know The Cost ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/men-can-lose-their-y-chromosome-with-age-and-we-finally-know-the-cost    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:54:04

• FBI takes down massive China-based cybercrime network that caused $1.9B in losses ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/outsider-cybercrime-network-takedown-china-fbi-google-lumen/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:55:18

• Xbox will pay five times more for memory and storage in 2027 than it did two years ago — CEO Asha Sharma admits there's an unsustainable hardware gap that 'cannot continue' ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/xbox/xbox-will-pay-five-times-more-for-components-in-2027-than-it-did-two-years-ago-ceo-asha-sharma-admits-theres-an-unsustainable-hardware-gap-that-cannot-continue    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:56:00

• Microsoft's bug-hunting nemesis extends vendetta with more zero-day attacks — Nightmare Eclipse publishes RoguePlanet and GreatXML local privilege escalation exploits ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/microsofts-bug-hunting-nemesis-extends-vendetta-with-more-zero-day-attacks-nightmare-eclipse-publishes-rogueplanet-and-greatxml-local-privilege-escalation-exploits    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:56:32

• "Earlier this year, the affected companies sent the tech giant a cease-and-desist letter, according to the report." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/a-court-has-ruled-that-google-is-liable-for-false-statements-generated-by-ai-overviews/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:59:26

• "Datasets assembled through indiscriminate web scraping often reproduce the same limitations and biases found online, Lewis-Jong said." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/13/mozilla-data-collective-seeks-build-ais-data-economy-around-trust/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 11:59:54

• "A Pennsylvania federal court has handed down a $9 million default judgment against the operator of pirate IPTV services 'Shrugs' and 'Zing'." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/hollywood-secures-9-million-default-judgment-against-iptv-operator/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:00:13

• "For more than two years, a husband and wife in Vietnam allegedly ran a billion-visit-a-year operation serving Korean webtoons in unauthorized English translation" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/married-couple-behind-billion-visit-webtoon-piracy-network-caught-in-vietnam/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:00:42

• "Specifically, Tuskegee-born Richie moved to obtain four trademarks yesterday – joining the likes of Taylor Swift and Matthew McConaughey, both of whom have sought voice and likeness trademarks as of late." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/12/lionel-richie-trademarks/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:07:23

• "But once a company owns the market – once they've achieved dominance by buying out their rivals; by bribing potential competitors to stay out of their lane" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/12/compelled-speech/#quishing | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:08:24

• "I didn’t cry there. I waited until I got home, and I cried in front of my parents instead. I wasn’t rejecting who I was. I was just tired of defending it" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-person-hair-healing-9.7224039 | Source: CBC    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:09:09

• "But there’s a problem: Nearly all Americans depend on those commie pinko programs to some extent, including many Republican voters." ☛ https://www.salon.com/2026/06/13/gop-has-a-new-plan-to-kill-off-medicare-and-social-security/ | Source: Salon    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:09:42

• "digital entry authorization to Israel" ☛ https://thedissenter.org/israel-deports-and-smears-french-journalist-who-has-long-covered-the-west-bank/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:11:42

• "State attorneys general are our last best hope for stopping Trump cronies Larry and David Ellison from buying Warner Bros. — and with it, CNN." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/state-ags-must-stop-the-paramount | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:12:05

• "TV Rain said police at the Yerevan airport precinct confirmed that Verbitsky, who was on a wanted list in Russia, had been detained." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/06/13/armenia-detains-russian-mathematician-at-moscow-s-request | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:12:49

• "The “crypto wars” of the early 1990s were fuelled by this realisation – that computers were changing the global realpolitik in an historically unprecedented way." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/09/crypto-wars-redux-why-the-fbis-desire-to-unlock-your-private-life-must-be-resisted | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:15:57

• [Old] "Some government officials, however, disagree." ☛ https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-crypto-wars-are-here-again/ |    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:16:19

• [Old] "The act that truly launched the Crypto Wars was the White House’s introduction of the “Clipper Chip” in 1993." ☛ https://static.newamerica.org/attachments/3407-doomed-to-repeat-history-lessons-from-the-crypto-wars-of-the-1990s/Crypto%20Wars_ReDo.7cb491837ac541709797bdf868d37f52.pdf |    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:17:03

• [Old] "Since EFF’s founding, we’ve never stopped fighting for users’ right to strong, uncompromised encryption." ☛ https://www.eff.org/files/2025/08/19/the_crypto_wars.pdf | Source: EFF    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:17:31

• "As we’re all gearing up to fight the Second Crypto War over governments’ demands to be able to back-door any cryptographic system, it pays for us to remember the history of the First Crypto War." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/06/history_of_the_.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:18:30

• [Old] "Encryption is a method by which two parties can communicate securely." ☛ https://www.newamerica.org/insights/doomed-to-repeat-history-lessons-from-the-crypto-wars-of-the-1990s/ |    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:18:54

• "I understand the reaction, but I urge you to not entertain it for too long because it is a giant distraction." ☛ https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/13/americans-only/ | Source: Armin Ronacher    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:19:19

• "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/13/minority-shareholder-report/#psychic-damage | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:19:41

• "Anthropic and the Trump administration have been at odds for some time over the company’s refusal to allow its AI to be used for mass surveillance of Americans or to power lethal autonomous weapons." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/949601/amazon-anthropic-fablemythos-government-ban | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:20:02

• "To protest the IPO, one activist group inflated a giant effigy of Musk in New York’s Times Square this week." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-is-the-worlds-first-trillionaire-wow/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:20:25

• "The cuts were not limited to that unit, affecting others at Mandiant — a cybersecurity company bought by Google in 2022 — and within Google Cloud, the people added." ☛ https://www.businessinsider.com/google-clouds-quiet-layoffs-hit-cybersecurity-teams-2026-6 | Source: Business Insider    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:20:52

• "Beneath the spectacle of fighters beating each other bloody on the White House South Lawn, fight promoters, tech billionaires, and the Saudi government are working to concentrate wealth and power in fewer, richer hands." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/06/ufc-freedom-trump-white-saudis | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:26:09

• "There was a suppressed angst and frustration in the youth of India who are feeling cheated at every stage" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2026/0612/cockroach-party-india-gen-z-protests | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:26:31

• "Xbox has struggled in recent years as Microsoft's bet on subscriptions and cloud gaming failed to offset declining console sales and a shortage of blockbuster titles." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-has-considered-spinning-off-xbox-report/articleshow/131696607.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:26:55

• "It felt good to feel the breeze." ☛ https://chrisglass.com/2026/06/13/world-bicycle-day/ | Source: Chris Glass    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:36:04

• "The pilot, speaking anonymously to MeidasTouch as they were not authorised to speak publicly, said the lights struck during the final stages of landing, a critical phase of flight when pilots rely heavily on visual references." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/white-house-ufc-event-lighting-aviation-safety-concerns-1802574 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:36:21

• "Engineers reached these figures by introducing a high-loading cathode with an areal capacity of 8mAh/cm2 into the company’s proprietary Solid Composite Electrolyte." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/energy/solid-state-battery-cell-aerospace-defense | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:36:36

• "The water usage, we're told, is 75 percent of the way to Amazon's goal - announced in 2022 - of being "water positive" by 2030." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/06/12/amazon-owns-up-to-using-25bn-gallons-of-h2o-in-its-bit-barns-last-year/5254748 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:40:40

• "Underpinning all of it is a difficult inheritance from the most recent winter season." ☛ https://www.western-water.com/2026/06/13/drought-grips-the-west-as-heat-builds-across-the-basin/ | Source: Western Water    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:41:03

• "Research ships steam along oceanographic transects from surface to seafloor." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-06-ocean-europe-asia-sight-world.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:41:39

• "In all, nearly 500 nets were recovered over the four-day operation, officials said" ☛ https://news.err.ee/1610053445/nearly-500-abandoned-fishing-nets-pulled-from-estonian-side-of-lake-peipus | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:41:57

• "But the word had another meaning once, an older meaning, the meaning it carries in the constitutional oath. The oath is to the Constitution" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/loyalty | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:42:57

• "What’s needed for control of each chamber [...]" ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-midterms-in-a-nutshell | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:43:14

• "The state laws also typically require local jurisdictions to get state approval before changing their election maps and policies." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/as-federal-voting-rights-law-is-gutted-some-states-step-in-to-fill-the-gap/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:44:17

• "The collaborative does organizing and voter engagement. Haney said the people whom the FBI contacted were told it was in relation to a case of voter fraud." ☛ https://www.wvxu.org/2026-06-12/ohio-voting-rights-group-says-it-was-raided-by-the-fbi |    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:44:36

• "I mean there’s no reason for over 100 agents to be knocking on the doors of everyday Ohioans, demanding and accusing people of voter fraud as if it was a witch hunt." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/fbi-raids-ohio-voting-rights-organization/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:45:17

• "Should America be a democracy?" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/democracy-government-trump-maga/687535/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:45:53

• "Encryption systems are also at work in nearly every facet of modern technology, not just to hide information from criminals, enemies, and spies but also to verify and clarify basic, personal information" ☛ https://www.pcmag.com/news/crypto-wars-why-the-fight-to-encrypt-rages-on | Source: PC Mag    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:47:03

• [Old] "As it happens, I recently interviewed Signal president Meredith Whittaker about the challenges of protecting privacy at the Web Summit conference last fall." ☛ https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/01/07/back-into-the-trenches-of-the-crypto-wars | Source: The Markup    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:47:36

• "if the government wanted to violate the privacy of ordinary citizens, they had to expend a certain amount of expense and labor to intercept and steam open and read paper mail…." ☛ https://hiddenheroes.netguru.com/philip-zimmermann |    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:48:04

• "This past week in digital policy was dominated by Bill C-34" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/taking-stock-of-bill-c-34-five-things-to-know-about-the-governments-plan-for-a-kids-social-media-ban-mandated-age-verification-and-ai-chatbot-rules/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 12:59:39

• "There is the tiniest, faintest shred of hope in that some platforms implementing “adequate safeguards” will not actually need to verify ages at all." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/bill-c-34-2026/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:00:04

• "After limiting the release of its new Mythos-class AI model over concerns about its potential impacts on cybersecurity" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-the-fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:00:29

• "You’re in a room full of people who care!" ☛ https://www.404media.co/you-will-not-speak-on-flock-tonight-county-commissioner-refuses-to-let-residents-opposing-flock-speak-at-meeting/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:00:53

• "On the main opt-out mechanism, she said: "The National Data Opt-Out does not currently apply to products used in the NHS FDP." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/06/13/nhs-patients-cant-opt-out-of-palantirs-data-platform-but-their-hospital-can/5254766 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:01:27

• "Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act lets US intelligence agencies collect communications from foreigners abroad without a warrant" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/victory-702-has-expired | Source: EFF    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:01:51

• "less about trusting it to ever make money" ... Privatisation ☛ https://futurism.com/space/data-spacex-ipo-wincing | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:03:21

• "The cybersecurity firm says that Cal Water’s Chico District has been confirmed as the victim of the attack." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/iranian-cyber-group-handala-claims-cal-water-hack/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:04:21

• "Big Tech wins when they can move more ad money to support cheap slop and misinformation instead of more expensive content." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/facebook-slop-the-future-of-ad-supported-media/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:05:20

• "In football, wealth often creates an advantage. Bigger teams can afford huge analytics departments, expensive software, and experts who study opponents in detail." ☛ https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/ai-changes-world-largest-sports-event-fifa-world-cup-2026-138176773.html | Source: Bhaskar English    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:06:35

• "Krugman: Yeah. Let me ask sort of the dumbest question: what is this thing called AI?" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-with-azeem-azhar | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:06:50

• The Guardian took many bribes from Bill Epsteingate and the wife; now whitewashing the Gates https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/13/melinda-french-gates-interview-jeffrey-epstein-fighting-for-womens-health    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:11:01

• "Jaimoe on Being the Last Surviving Member of the Allman Brothers Band" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/last-original-alllman-brothers-band-member-jaimoe-interview-1235574691/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:11:21

• "The End of the Old Economic Order Is an Opening for the Left" https://jacobin.com/2026/06/chang-economics-development-industrial-policy    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:11:41

• "The Trump Administration Is Addicted to Violence | The Nation" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/newsletter-homan-ice-new-york/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:12:00

• "The Bald Eagle Perfectly Embodies America’s Flaws | The Nation" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bald-eagle-america-national-bird/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:12:24

• "American Diabetes Association Fucked Up Real Bad Trying To Placate Trump Administration | Techdirt" https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/12/american-diabetes-association-fucked-up-real-bad-trying-to-placate-trump-administration/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:12:48

• "Jane Fonda to Headline Protest Concert on Trump's Birthday" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-ufc-birthday-rise-up-sing-out-jane-fonda-1235576998/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:13:09

• "EDF intelligence: Russia has not achieved its strategic goals | News | ERR" https://news.err.ee/1610053735/edf-intelligence-russia-has-not-achieved-its-strategic-goals    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:13:28

• "It’s been about 5 weeks since I quit the news and it has been so good for my overall mental health." ☛ https://superdavey.com/posts/no-news-is-good-news | Source: Superdavey    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:15:27

• "I dug my old Samson Q2U out of my closet and bought a boom arm for it. Now I sound better than ever, albeit at the cost of some desk complexity." ☛ https://sals.place/blog/reorganized-the-desk/ | Source: Sal    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:15:55

• "Mid-June we organised our 4th annual Future Frontend conference in Dipoli, Espoo, Finland." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/future-frontend-2026-recap/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:17:00

• [Old] "At its core, we are still a developer conference with a slight bias on the web" ☛ https://futurefrontend.com/blog/ff26-themes/ |    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:17:18

• "I wanted a setup that works across all three without rebuilding anything when I switch. I’d rather grab my iPhone or iPad with a portable keyboard than lug a laptop everywhere." ☛ https://micro.webology.dev/2026/06/13/how-i-work-from-anywhere/ | Source: Jeff Triplett    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 13:17:56

• "Some of our recent (and some upcoming) projects are oriented to systems with serial consoles" ☛ https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/06/building-serial-and-vga-everything.html | Source: Old VCR    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 14:11:04

• "In 1980, Intel released the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor, a chip that could make math up to 100 times faster." ☛ https://www.righto.com/2026/06/intel-8087-adder-reverse-engineered.html | Source: Ken Shirriff    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 14:11:18

• "I always felt a little bad for the ghosts in Pac-Man." ☛ https://garrit.xyz/posts/2026-06-13-pac-man-but-you-re-the-ghost | Source: Garrit Franke    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 14:16:00

• "Here's a bit of perl code which implements RSA encryption and decryption and is small enough to use for a signature: [...]" ☛ http://www.cypherspace.org/rsa/org-post.html |    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 14:48:17

• "Back when the US government classified strong encryption as “munitions,” RSA public key cryptography was illegal to export." ☛ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/06/13/rsa-munitions-t-shirt/ | Source: John D Cook    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 14:48:42

• "This is also one of the reasons why the recent AI “revolution” doesn’t really resonate with me." ☛ https://noteflakes.com/articles/2026-06-13-syntropy | Source: Sharon Rosner    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 14:49:26

• "About a year ago I wrote on this blog about how coding with LLMs would not work for me, even if there were no ethical or environmental concerns preventing me to use them." ☛ https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/i-am-not-a-reverse-centaur | Source: Miguel Grinberg    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 14:49:45

• "Adopted this week in draft C++29: Complete catalog of all undefined behavior (UB) in C++." ☛ https://herbsutter.com/2026/06/13/brno-trip-report/ | Source: Herb Sutter    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 14:51:38

• "But third time I was armed with knowledge about Mekhitarist congregation and existence of stenography book by them. I was filled with determination." ☛ https://aartaka.me/arm-shorthand-1888.html | Source: Artyom Bologov    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 14:51:57

• "One is led to a new conception of undivided wholeness that denies the classical idea of the possibility of analyzing the world into separately and independently existing parts." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/virebent/44663    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 14:58:30

• "I was going through the entries in my password manager and I noticed that I used a relatively short password for this account, I am wondering if it is possible to change the password on the existing account?" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2834    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 14:59:41

• "Regarding my personal Blog, what I dislike, is that I have to find an image on the Web to create a post. I dislike using the Web, more and more, so this is a sharp, un-smooth, interaction that my Blogging creates." gemini://tilde.club/~keyboardan/gemlog/2026-06-14__Happy_0th_Year.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 15:00:31

• "There's been too many AI articles in Hacker News recently, and it's become so boring that I was thinking about removing Hacker News from my RSS reader, Newsboat. Then, I suddenly remembered something I had read in Newsboat's manual a long time ago: the possibility to filter out articles!" gemini://nader.pm/excluding-hacker-news-ai-articles-in-my-newsboat-rss/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 15:01:42

• "i should start throwing huge events to announce when i have no plans or ideas" gemini://melkat.me/2026-06-08-4f173aac.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 15:02:19

• "I recently updated all my geo-distributed web servers to run on Fedora CoreOS (yes, I still love it)." ☛ https://brandonrozek.com/blog/synchronizing-static-website-object-storage/ | Source: Brandon Rozek    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 15:16:58

• "When we call dired from Lisp, we can pass it a list of files instead of a directory." ☛ https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-06-13-emacs-flat-dired-for-regexp-since-days/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 15:18:36

• "hey you idiot, heres a hallucinated summary." ☛ https://akselmo.dev/posts/i-like-the-uruky-search-engine/ | Source: Akseli Lahtinen    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 15:20:31

• "I reran my cronjob. The cert renewed." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/06/13/lets-encrypt-please-refer-to-https-curl-haxx-se-libcurl-c-libcurl-errors-html-for-error-code-6/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 15:20:58

• "Not perfect—if a desktop RSS user switches clients or networks they get counted twice, but it does use the subscriber counts that services such as Feedbin and NewsBlur pass in the User-Agent header." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/sparkline-for-rss-subscribers/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 15:21:14

• "First, let’s see if it’s faster. My primary use case: building packages via poudriere." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/06/11/how-changes-to-poudriere-conf-affect-the-build-time/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 15:21:48

• "A different strategy is to make the backup client dumb but the storage system smart." ☛ https://nathangrigg.com/2026/06/zfs-network-backup/ | Source: Nathan Grigg    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 15:23:48

• [Old] "Hacking, security and encryption - the history of the war between governments and geeks to control computer cryptography." ☛ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01w7jzc | Source: BBC    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 15:24:27

• "Tens of thousands of people across the country sat glued to our screens watching a livestream that began early afternoon on the east coast and stretched deep into the night." ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kennedy-center-trump-name-letters-removed-livestream | Source: Marisa Kabas    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 15:24:40

• Sentencing the Innocent ☞ https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/06/sentencing-the-innocent/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 15:39:45

• Christian Hergert: Testing Keyboard Input Latency ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2026/06/13/testing-keyboard-input-latency/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 15:53:34

• This Week in GNOME: #253 Fellowships ☞ https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/06/twig-253/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 15:55:21

• Mozilla Data Collective seeks to build AI’s data economy around trust ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/13/mozilla-data-collective-seeks-build-ais-data-economy-around-trust/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 15:56:04

• AI costs spike as subscriptions hit pricing wall — firms turn towards Chinese LLMs, open-source models to extend budget ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-costs-spike-as-subscriptions-hit-pricing-wall-firms-turn-towards-chinese-llms-open-source-models-to-extend-budget    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 15:57:24

• Fedora Community Blog: F44 Election Results ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/f44-election-results/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:01:40

• What they carry: The unseen burdens of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/06/14/what-they-carry-the-unseen-burdens-of-migrant-domestic-workers-in-hong-kong/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:38:37

• Wine-Staging 11.11 Released    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:39:33

• Windows/Microsoft TCO ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/npm-12-will-change-script-execution-behavior-to-prevent-supply-chain-attacks/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:40:15

• Congress lets part of spy law lapse. What's next for counterterrorism efforts? ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026/0613/spy-law-fisa-section-702-expire    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:41:51

• Top Haitian Security Official Kidnapped ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/world/americas/top-haitian-security-official-kidnapped.html    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:42:13

• KDE Android News (June 2026) ☞ httpNebiOS 10.2.2 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/nebios e.eu/2026/06/13/kde-android-news-june-2026.html    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:44:42

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:46:06

• UK Defence spending under scrutiny as former minister warns "Putin will be watching this carefully" ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/spotlight/20260613-uk-defence-spending-under-scrutiny-as-former-minister-warns-putin-will-be-watching-this-carefully    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:46:32

• KOL492 | Menger Institute Podcast #6: Property Rights, Patents, Anarchy, Patents, Anarchy, Technology, Long-Term Hope for Freedom and the Technological Death of the State ☞ https://stephankinsella.com/as_paf_podcast/kol492-menger-institute-podcast-6-technological-death-of-the-state/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:47:24

• North Korea protests against Seoul-EU rebuke of Russia ties ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-protests-against-seoul-eu-rebuke-of-russia-ties    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:48:56

• NATO weighs options to defend Europe as the US plans for conflict elsewhere ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260613-nato-weighs-options-to-defend-europe-as-the-us-plans-for-conflict-elsewhere    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:49:20

• Vilnius yellow air alert lifted after radar contact identified as weather balloon ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2959035/vilnius-yellow-air-alert-lifted-after-radar-contact-identified-as-weather-balloon    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:49:38

• Russia Is Rich in Ballistic Missiles. Ukraine Is Short of Ways to Stop Them. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/world/europe/ukraine-russia-patriot-interceptors.html    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:50:26

• Ukraine used ten AI-controlled ‘Terminator’ ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/ukraine-used-10-ai-controlled-terminator-drones-to-kill-russian-soldiers-two-years-ago-marking-first-autonomous-killings-of-humans-senior-ukrainian-defense-industry-figure-confirms-this-autonomous-watershed-was-passed-in-2024    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:50:47

• Autonomous Robots Confirmed to Have Killed Human Soldiers ☞ https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/autonomous-robot-killed-human-soldiers-ukraine    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:51:10

• FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending June 12, 2026 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/06/foss-forces-top-five-articles-for-the-week-ending-june-12-2026/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:51:54

• Arch Says ‘All’s Clear’ After AUR Malware Incident Affects 1,500 Packages ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/06/arch-says-alls-clear-after-aur-malware-incident-affects-1500-packages/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:53:17

• Linux 7.1 https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi4BF4bMhZNZ1tqs+FFV4OuZRe3ZqdWB+LxRLmRweUzQw@mail.gmail.com/T/#u    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:54:59

• Fish Already Cooking Alive Across the US Ahead of Blistering Summer Heat ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/fish-kill-usa-summer-heat    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:56:57

• "NVIDIA users had a much smoother experience thanks to CUDA‘s straightforward installation process" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/install-amd-rocm-ubuntu-26-04/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:59:02

• Wine 11.11 brings more Wayland improvements | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/wine-11-11-brings-more-wayland-improvements/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/wine-11-11-brings-more-wayland-improvements/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 16:59:37

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

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:00:16

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

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:00:32

• How To Install GStreamer on Fedora 44 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-gstreamer-fedora-44/ "Fresh Fedora 44 installs play audio but show black screens for H.264 and H.265 video. This happens because Fedora excludes proprietary codecs due to patent monopoly..."    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:01:02

• Israel’s state-owned arms company IAI agrres with Berlin mayor for production in the capital ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2026/06/13/israels-state-owned-arms-company-iai-agrres-with-berlin-mayor-for-production-in-the-capital/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:02:12

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

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:03:41

• Linux Saloon 207 | LibreWolf Web Browser ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2026/06/13/linux-saloon-207-librewolf-web-browser/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:04:32

• Linux Saloon 206 | Early Edition ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2026/06/13/linux-saloon-206-early-edition/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:04:49

• Q83 13.12 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/q83    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:05:27

• Hylke Bons: Hello again, Planet GNOME! ☞ https://planetpeanut.studio/post/2026/06/13/hello-again-planet-gnome    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:06:18

• AnduinOS 2.0-beta2 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/anduin    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:06:37

• ROX-Filer image thumbnails size limit ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202606/rox-filer-image-thumbnails-size-limit.html    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:08:31

• VIDplay Chromium MP4 and WEBM video player ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202606/vidplay-chromium-mp4-and-webm-video-player.html    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:08:42

• Pluralistic: Shareholder supremacy and the precog CEO (13 Jun 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/13/minority-shareholder-report/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:17:08

• The El Niño Situation Is Looking Absolutely Brutal ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/el-nino-situation-noaa-brutal-climate    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:32:37

• Ebola Comes for Congo’s Most Vulnerable Children ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/africa/100000010952087/ebola-congo-orphanage-children.html    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:33:48

• Scientists Concerned Latest Gene Editing of Human Embryos Could “Open the Floodgates” ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/latest-gene-editing-human-embryos-open-floodgates    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:34:11

• Working From Home Has a Grim Effect on Your Brain, Surprise Research Finds ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/work-from-home-grim-effect-brain    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:34:47

• AI ‘ghost cases’ haunt South Korean courtrooms ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/ai-ghost-cases-haunt-south-korean-courtrooms    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:36:12

• North Korea says ‘denuclearisation’ is a matter terminated irreversibly ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-says-denuclearisation-is-a-matter-terminated-irreversibly    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:36:40

• Switzerland holds Brexit-style referendum on 10 million population cap ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260614-switzerland-holds-brexit-style-referendum-on-10-million-population-cap    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 17:39:56

• This Week in Science: World's Biggest Scorpion, a Whale Graveyard, And More! ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-week-in-science-worlds-biggest-scorpion-a-whale-graveyard-and-more    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:07:34

• Scientists Link a Single Gene to Rapid Growth, But It Comes With a Catch ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-link-a-single-gene-to-rapid-growth-but-it-comes-with-a-catch    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:07:56

• Brushing Your Teeth Could Help Prevent a Deadly Hospital Infection ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/brushing-your-teeth-could-help-prevent-a-deadly-hospital-infection    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:08:33

• Anon: I'm not a fan of the concept of MBA I suspect there is enough data from the dot-com era to prove an inverse relationship between MBAs and the viability of a given company. However, only business schools would study such a thing and they wouldn't because of the conflict of interest caused by selling the degree "MBA".    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:09:14

• Mysterious Predator That Butchered Ancient Birds Is Finally Unmasked ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-predator-that-butchered-ancient-birds-is-finally-unmasked    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:10:04

• What Is Alexithymia? The Hidden Experience of Millions Explained ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/what-is-alexithymia-the-hidden-experience-of-millions-explained    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:10:19

• Scientists Made Espresso Without Hot Water, And People Couldn't Tell ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-made-espresso-without-hot-water-and-people-couldnt-tell    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:10:36

• The Cartoon Carnival opens its gates! ☞ https://www.scummvm.org/news/20260613/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:17:26

• Decision making in hard situations ☞ https://blog.hayati.net/2026/06/decision-making-in-hard-situations/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:18:12

• Taiwan launches website for Chinese nationals to report intelligence ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-launches-website-for-chinese-nationals-to-report-intelligence    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:20:54

• More than 75 data center build-outs worth $130 billion have been successfully blocked in the first three months of 2026 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/more-than-75-data-center-build-outs-worth-usd130-billion-have-been-successfully-blocked-in-the-first-four-months-of-2026-bipartisan-opposition-mounts-nationwide-over-fears-of-soaring-power-and-water-costs    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:21:44

• Visa Officially Allowing Hey Hi (AI) Agents to Go Ham With Your Credit Card ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/visa-allowing-ai-use-credit-card    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:22:16

• Meta Employee Laid Off, Immediately Detained by ICE ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-employee-laid-off-detained-ice    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:22:51

• Nutrition grade label draws scepticism from consumers, business owners in Indonesia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/nutrition-grade-label-draws-scepticism-from-consumers-business-owners-in-indonesia    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:23:18

• Federal court blocks Texas AG lawsuit against Democratic fundraising platform ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/06/federal-court-blocks-texas-ag-lawsuit-against-democratic-fundraising-platform/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:23:51

• iophk: Many Microsoft data centers have only broken ground, destroying the land they are on but not advanced further. The 'investors' got their money from the scam and moved on, finishing the center or not turns out to be irrelevant.    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:25:28

• British Columbia judge rules Victoria municipal council can legislate to remove encampments ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/06/british-columbia-judge-rules-victoria-municipal-council-can-legislate-to-remove-encampments/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:26:44

• Canada privacy watchdog says Grok generates explicit deepfakes without users’ valid consent ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/06/canada-privacy-watchdog-says-grok-generates-explicit-deepfakes-without-users-valid-consent/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:28:38

• Lebanon reports Israeli strikes in south and east amid broad evacuation warnings ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260613-lebanon-reports-israeli-strikes-in-south-and-east-amid-broad-evacuation-warnings    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:29:15

• CachyOS Proton Can Now Download DLSS Files To Enable FSR 4 In More Linux Games https://wccftech.com/cachyos-proton-can-now-download-dlss-files-to-enable-fsr-4-in-more-linux-games/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:38:48

• Microsoft paid $20 million to protect one letter from Linux https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-paid-20-million-one-letter/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:41:33

• "The ESP32-E22 tri-band Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.4 module has received a Wi-Fi CERTIFIED certificate from the Wi-Fi Alliance, and Espressif has also released WiFi and Bluetooth Linux drivers for the chip." https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/06/13/espressif-esp32-e22-wifi-6e-module-gets-wi-fi-certified-certificate-an-open-source-wifi-and-bluetooth-linux-drivers/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:43:30

• "Experts recommend specialized backup suites, complex enterprise software, and cloud tools for data protection, and I've used my fair share of these. I'm done with all of them. Interestingly, what made me realize that none of these elaborate GUI backup tools are good enough for me is older than half of the engineers in Silicon Valley." https://www.makeuseof.com/this-linux-command-is-the-only-backup-tool-ill-ever-need/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:44:04

• "Shelly developer Zoey Bauer released Shelly 2.3.3 today as a new stable update to this open-source graphical package manager for Arch Linux-based distributions, adding more new features and improvements." https://9to5linux.com/shelly-2-3-3-package-manager-for-arch-linux-improves-flatpak-appimage-support    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:45:51

• 4 beginner Docker mistakes I made that took my homelab offline — and how I fixed each one https://www.makeuseof.com/beginner-docker-mistakes-made-took-homelab-offline-how-fixed/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:47:04

• "This is the tech that forms a major part of Valve's Proton, allowing tons of Windows games to run on Linux and Steam Deck. We're currently waiting on Valve releasing Proton 11 that's currently in Beta." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/wine-11-11-brings-more-wayland-improvements/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:48:16

• Garbage made using garbage is still (always) garbage https://itsfoss.com/news/yserver/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:48:58

• "Meet Antergos NeXT (now Pulsar Linux), a modern revival of the Antergos Linux distribution based on Arch Linux and featuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment by default." https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-antergos-next-a-modern-revival-of-antergos-linux-with-kde-plasma    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:49:45

• Totally looks like LLM slop for SEO https://solutionsreview.com/ai-news-for-the-week-of-june-12-updates-from-accenture-boomi-linux-foundation-more/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 18:50:42

• "EU and Brazil deepen ties through Digital Partnership" https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1350 what kind of patent trouble is involved, asks a cynic?    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 19:45:39

• Way to say it's just a bubble https://fortune.com/article/why-is-the-cost-of-ai-higher-than-human-workers-nvidia-executive/    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 20:14:15

• Life in the ancient Arctic: tiny teeth of newly discovered species suggest it was a cradle of mammalian evolution https://theconversation.com/life-in-the-ancient-arctic-tiny-teeth-of-newly-discovered-species-suggest-it-was-a-cradle-of-mammalian-evolution-284140    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 20:43:03

• "perfectly normal" https://theconversation.com/birds-masturbate-and-thats-perfectly-normal-284232    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 20:43:20

• two decades of research https://theconversation.com/great-apes-what-we-know-about-their-cognition-cooperation-and-curiosity-after-two-decades-of-research-284395    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 20:43:37

• The pigeon fanciers of the Bronze Age https://theconversation.com/the-pigeon-fanciers-of-the-bronze-age-283290    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 20:44:55

• "There are a bunch of rather large oak trees in a park nearby to my apartment, and I quite like to sit under them in the evenings on nice days, to read or listen to the radio or just relax." gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/dating-oaks.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 21:58:36

• "So, if you want more context (but you'll likely not get it) I've semi-flailed around exploring hobbies, and expecially tech related hobbies/interesting/programming langauges for the past I dunno how long." gemini://tilde.club/~moendopi/gemlog/elm.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 21:59:22

• "I just got back from a wonderful trip to the Midwest. It was very nearly a perfect journey for me: I got to see lots of friends I hadn't seen in ages, but, I also got to explore a vastly underappreciated region of the US: the corn belt." gemini://bouteloua.fyi/misc/midwestagriculture.gmi    

posted Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 22:00:18