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Pressure Points: China’s expanding presence in the Pacific and Indian oceans ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/pressure-points-chinas-expanding-presence-in-the-pacific-and-indian-oceans/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 03:42:40

  • Cambodia scam centre leader extradited to China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/cambodia-scam-centre-leader-extradited-to-china    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 03:43:45

  • Taiwan hopes new US arms sale package can be approved soon, president says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-hopes-new-us-arms-sale-package-can-be-approved-soon-president-says    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 03:44:10

  • 3 Recently Patched Fortinet FortiSandbox Vulnerabilities in Hacker Crosshairs ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/3-recently-patched-fortinet-fortisandbox-vulnerabilities-in-hacker-crosshairs/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 03:45:23

  • Oracle’s Second Monthly Security Updates Deliver 245 Patches ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/oracles-second-monthly-security-updates-deliver-245-patches/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 03:46:41

  • Rockwell Automation Patches Vulnerabilities in ICS Controllers and Software ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/rockwell-automation-patches-vulnerabilities-in-ics-controllers-and-software/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 03:47:19

  • The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/art-of-kite-flying    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 03:48:25

  • Louis Pope Gratacap, A Curator in Lost Worlds ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/gratacap-curator-in-lost-worlds    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 03:48:49

  • Jakub Steiner: Things That Last ☞ https://blog.jimmac.eu/posts/things-that-last/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 03:50:07

  • The First Offer Accepted: First-Action Allowances and the Track 1 Premium ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/06/the-first-offer-accepted-first-action-allowances-and-the-track-1-premium.html    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 03:50:45

  • Slop in patents ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/after-120-years-plasseraud-opens-door-to-investor/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 03:52:00

  • I hate compilers ☞ https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/anubis-wasm-vendor-binary/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 03:52:34

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

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 03:53:09

  • "It's crazy how time flies when one have fun! Since I got the shop opened here, I got busy busy busy!. I even had to close it two days after the grand opening, that was crazy!" gemini://orbitaloutpost.club/~kaze/gemlog/2026-06-18-busytime.gmi    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 03:56:25

  • "Many things are happening in the food forest this spring/early summer. Things are fruiting, growing, I've planted tons of things, started many seeds, attempted grafts and other methods of propagation. Let's get into it." gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/gemlog/2026-06-18-foodforestupdate10.gmi    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 03:57:17

  • "This is my first post on smol.pub" gemini://orson.smol.pub/first    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 03:57:52

  • "a bit of everything in this one. this is the first week i'm having some trouble with the supportive habits + new planner layout combo." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/20260618    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 03:58:51

  • Dreams (haiku) gemini://rymden.no/tx/2026-06-18.gmi    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 03:59:48

  • "On Tuesday, the "Oklahoma Standard" presented by the voters carried a stark contrast to the initiative's propaganda" gemini://dhepworth.smol.pub/oklahoma-embarrassment    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 04:00:55

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

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 04:01:46

  • Re: Born and Raised by the Internet: How I Became Terminally Online gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/06/18/online.gmi    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 04:02:24

  • "What I like about both gopher and gemini, is that their experience reminds me of the way the internet used to be, just without the gaudy graphics and animated gifs. It's like textual geocities. Or maybe personalised teletext." gemini://theunixzoo.co.uk/gemlog/2026/2026-06-14-hello_gemini.gmi    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 04:03:45

  • "It’s a long weekend in Germany (for me) again. Thursday was the “Feast of Corpus Christi” (sarcastically translated as “Happy Cadaver Day” sometimes), and I took Friday as a vacation day. Plenty of time for “projects”. This is an attempt to write up a digest of the thoughts I…" gemini://uvokchee.de/migration-time-again.gmi    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 04:05:54

  • Portable dumb terminal: bootable LoRa dongle gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2026-06-18-lora.txt    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 04:07:06

  • "This gopherhole is fifteen years old today, just wow!" gopher://i-logout.cz:70/0/phlog/posts/2026-06-18_fifteen_years.txt    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 04:08:09

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1685.jpg    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 04:08:51

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2041.jpg    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 04:09:03

  • The Party gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/dragon    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 04:10:17

  • "Well Apple actually solved that one last problem by introducing their lightweight containerization subsystem." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/canfood/phlog/2026-06-17    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 04:11:15

  • "Parent(s) putting children in a school system, only says to the child that parent(s) don't care about how the child will grow up. It is in the hand of others, it is in the hands of the school system's teachers..." gemini://tilde.club/~keyboardan/gemlog/2026-06-18__Education.gmi    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 04:12:26

  • "basement dwelling IBM troll learn how to spell and spell check or IBM will take back those 70 worthless badges you brag about in every post and knock you down to band 6 where you will troll for eternity. Gersner did not exist. It was Gerstner who forever tore IBM apart and left with over $400,000,000." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kva8y54s    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 05:03:55

  • "H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office, and not in a good way." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/18/congress-just-rushed-through-a-disastrous-copyright-office-overhaul/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 06:09:38

  • "Whether or not Strike 3 has a legitimate claim for copyright infringement, it doesn’t deserve your sympathy." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-06-18/a-porn-firm-that-judge-called-copyright-troll-now-has-meta-in-its-sights-and-it-may-win | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 06:09:55

  • "Despite this long history, our understanding of how content is connected to other content in a vast network of interconnected research outputs is being challenged by technological developments." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/06/17/attribution-provenance-reference-citation-and-ai-for-research-applications-understanding-the-differences/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 06:17:24

  • "Less than a month after a New York court issued a default judgment against shadow library Anna's Archive, thirteen major publishers have sued WeLib." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/major-publishers-sue-welib-a-pirate-site-built-on-annas-archive-code/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 06:17:47

  • "While living, creators would be able to essentially license their likeness and image to others, over 10-year contracts for adults and 5 years for minors." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/congress-tees-up-no-fakes-act-aiming-at-ai-generated-deepfakes/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 06:18:28

  • "create evidence" ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8wppwdxl6o | Source: BBC    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 06:19:56

  • "The yet-unnamed officer has not been arrested, but has been suspended from duty pending the outcome of the investigation" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/cop-ai-fake-evidence-uk | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 06:20:16

  • "FDR began with an extended review of the war effort, with an emphasis on what still needed to be done to defeat Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Then, however, he looked ahead to the postwar moment." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/fdr-economic-bill-rights-social-democracy/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 06:20:36

  • "Copper theft is a growing threat in Eastern Kentucky, and AT&T is responding with stronger action" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/att-offers-reward-for-copper-theft-tips/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 06:21:10

  • "MS NOW reported that FBI agents assigned to the matter were afraid of the “professional risk” to their careers if they searched for Fitzpatrick’s name in FBI databases and examined her social media." ☛ https://thedissenter.org/when-the-fbi-comes-knocking/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 06:21:57

  • "In sum, the publisher of one of the world’s most influential newspapers has accused some of the richest, most powerful companies on Earth of being criminals, of building their vast fortunes on a foundation of lies and theft at grand scale." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/why-arnt-newsrooms-covering-this-ai-speech/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 06:22:28

  • "On June 16, three National Criminal Investigation Service (SERNIC) agents went to Valoi’s home in Pemba" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/06/mozambiques-estacio-valoi-faces-clear-intimidation-over-environmental-reporting/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 06:23:45

  • "Not only does Israel continue to prevent foreign journalists from independently entering Gaza" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/06/these-6-foreign-journalists-have-been-denied-entry-by-israel/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 06:26:00

  • "That’s what coercion looks like. And despite what MAGA folks (including Ted Cruz) insist, none of that was present in the Biden admin requests regarding social media." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/18/wyden-and-cruz-team-up-on-a-bill-to-stop-government-jawboning-its-actually-pretty-good/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 06:37:06

  • "whose real name is Robert Kuzovkov." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/06/17/dissident-russian-artists-shooting-in-poland-likely-political-murder-pm-tusk-a93039 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 06:42:01

  • "Sentenced For Virtual Concert" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-singer-sentence-flogging-morality-police-ban-women-life-freedom-hijab-concert-youtube/33783873.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 06:42:25

  • "On June 10th — one week after the hearing, and one day after the City Council passed a milestone moratorium on data centers — Patrick Schloesser" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/952180/amazon-seattle-data-center-moratorium-aecj-disciplinary-action | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 06:43:21

  • "A central theme this year is this growing ‘platformisation’ of news consumption." ☛ https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2026/dnr-executive-summary?ref=werd.io | Source: uni Oxford    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 07:36:33

  • "For the first time, social media is the primary platform for news globally." ☛ https://werd.io/more-people-get-their-news-from-social-media-than-anywhere-else-globally-the-platforms-we-use-matter/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 07:36:52

  • "For years, people have used social media to seed disinformation in order to swing elections. Now, the answers our search engines and expert systems produce have become more vulnerable." ☛ https://werd.io/by-the-pricking-of-my-corpus-something-wicked-answers-for-us/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 07:37:12

  • "The rise of a transnational oligarchy centred in the US is one of the most striking political features of the post-socialist digital age in which we have been living since the 1990s." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/tdf5-207-the-tech-oligarchy-s-attack-on-humanity-analysis-and-call-to-action | Source: CCC    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 07:39:08

  • "This talk is more impressionistic than scientific." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/tdf5-180-social-consequences-of-ai | Source: CCC    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 07:39:34

  • "If you handed an economics undergraduate a description of how open source libraries are produced" ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/18/open-source-vs-the-invisible-hand.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 07:39:58

  • "Major backers like Andreessen Horowitz now own stakes north of $10 billion. If they sell early, it’ll guarantee massive profits." ☛ https://futurism.com/space/wall-street-terrified-spacex-dump | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 07:40:22

  • "jaq is an interpreter for the jq programming language." ☛ https://gedenkt.at/jaq/manual/ | Source: Michael Färber    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 07:40:44

  • "You MBAs who think you are saving money with a vendor management system better think again." ☛ https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/technical-recruiters/ | Source: Logikal Solutions    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 07:41:09

  • "For two decades, Meta had a unique, high-performance engineering org; right up until around April of this year." ☛ https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering | Source: The Pragmatic Engineer    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 07:43:47

  • "On September 6, 2025, an arch-Zionist centi-millionaire named Robert Shillman denounced Kirk from the dais at a private gala in Los Angeles" ☛ https://thegrayzone.com/2026/06/18/israeli-foreign-agent-charlie-kirk-show/ | Source: The Gray Zone    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 07:44:08

  • "The acquisitions are not Accenture’s first move in OT security. The company acquired Cimation in 2015 and Revolutionary Security in 2020, along with several other OT-focused firms." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/accenture-industrial-cybersecurity-acquisition-dragos-netrise-runzero/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 07:44:34

  • "In that same year SpaceX lost $4 billion on $19 billion in revenue." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/hype-and-glory | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 07:53:58

  • "Older dynamic pricing prices the situation: the off-season room, the matinee that costs less than the same film at night" ☛ https://nooneshappy.com/article/data-brokers-surveillance-pricing/ | Source: No One's Happy    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 07:56:33

  • "A reverse-engineering effort targeted at the EBC-A20 served as the basis for the work." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/06/18/battery-tester-gets-an-app-upgrade/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 07:57:37

  • "The latest move leaves only three offshore wind leases intact off the coast of California — one off Morro Bay and two off the coast of Humboldt Bay." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-06-17/trump-pays-765m-to-kill-offshore-wind-projects-some-in-california | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 07:58:02

  • "It is rare for such fires to occur as early as June, and it is reasonable to think that overall climate change, particularly the warming of the Arctic" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-06-greenland-wildfires-earlier-year.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 07:59:15

  • "Crypto.com paid out the fight bonuses in its CRO [cryptocurrency] token." ☛ https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-106/ | Source: Molly White    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:07:54

  • "With that established: here’s what he gave away to get it." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/18/trump-surrenders-to-iran-on-virtually-every-point/ | Source: Techdirt &n "At a hearing Thursday on Hausman’s request for a preliminary injunction compelling ICE to release the records" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/berkeley-professor-seeks-expedited-release-of-ice-data/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:08:15

  • "Until now, that is. On Tuesday, Wired magazine published a trove of leaked Dialog documents and information about the group’s membership." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/peter-thiel-dialog-leak-wired/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:08:39

  • "Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/how-peter-thiels-private-dialog-club-secretly-ranks-its-members/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:08:56

  • bsp;  

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:11:11

  • "In a complaint to the Federal Election Commission" ☛ https://www.notus.org/money/michigan-democrats-dark-money-mike-rogers | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:11:42

  • "biggest attack" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/06/18/in-photos-moscow-hit-by-the-biggest-attack-since-the-start-of-the-full-scale-war-airports-close-an-oil-refinery-burns-and-black-smoke-rises-over-the-city | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:12:11

  • "But if a foreign company simply leases a plot of land and builds a new data centre on it, it may fall completely off the radar of security authorities" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20232314 | Source: Yle    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:12:43

  • "Autocracy Is Not a Relic of the Past." ☛ https://dawnmena.org/autocracy-is-not-a-relic-of-the-past-it-is-increasingly-a-governing-model-of-the-present/ | Source: Democracy for the Arab World Now    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:13:12

  • "Cybersecurity Reserve For Cyber Support" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/ukraine-joins-eu-cybersecurity-reserve/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:13:54

  • "The reserve, managed by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)" ☛ https://therecord.media/ukraine-access-eu-cybersecurity-reserve | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:14:12

  • "My apologies" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-silently-removes-memory-encryption-from-consumer-ryzen-cpus-leaving-users-unaware-that-they-may-be-vulnerable-security-feature-vanishes-after-newer-agesa-firmware-amd-engineers-go-radio-silent-when-pressed-about-the-change | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:18:19

  • "In a deep analysis of the bill, Citizen Lab and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association detail every one of flaws of this proposal, concluding that most elements are unsalvageable." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/canada-forging-ahead-its-dangerous-surveillance-bill | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:19:57

  • "Bro, I hear you. I share the road (and see it not equally shared) with assholes." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/18/surveillance-is-good-because-i-want-drivers-i-dont-like-to-be-punished-cleveland-columnist/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:20:15

  • "In theory, these rules exist to empower people. In practice, the experience often feels very different." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/cookies-and-consent-why-eprivacy-matters-for-our-browsing-life/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:20:37

  • "Canada’s private sector privacy law is more than 25 years old and there is broad consensus that a modernization is long overdue." ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/billc36/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:21:03

  • "Many of those countries have long records for crushing dissent and some have used spyware to snoop on dissidents and journalists in the past." ☛ https://therecord.media/bulgaria-allowed-surveillance-tech-firm-to-sell-to-repressive-regimes-report | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:21:31

  • "Your ID isn't for you; it's for the bouncer and the system that put the bouncer in place. Put another way, the shadow of an ID is the permission and exclusion it represents." ☛ https://rebeccawilliams.info/classification-deservedness-gatekeeping/ | Source: Rebecca Williams    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:22:29

  • Windows TCO ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/kodak-admits-data-breach-after-shinyhunters-hack-claims/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:23:08

  • "In late March, Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) unveiled an initiative to recruit and pay high school students to post positive accounts of their time at DPSCD institutions." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/social-media-influencers-public-schools-private-charter/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:25:00

  • "And the answer is: because none of them are interested in accomplishing anything of substance, their aims revolve entirely around being acceptable to one another." ☛ https://berjon.com/rt/ | Source: Robin Berjon    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:25:17

  • "Algorithmic predictions are used to allocate social goods such as healthcare, job training, and education." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/tdf5-125-computer-says-no-troubles-with-fixing-algorithmic-decision-making- | Source: CCC    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:26:06

  • "These are my notes as I tried to figure out if it’s OK to assume that a multiplication of two signed integers results in something repeatable." ☛ https://billauer.se/blog/2026/06/c-unsigned-int/ | Source: Eli Billauer    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:26:27

  • "But you’d be wrong! While I believe that CVEs are an important, even foundational, component of any modern security program" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/no-exploits-required/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:26:49

  • "RAM is up 400%. CPUs cost 15% more. The free hardware lunch is finally over. Welcome back to the 80s, where every byte counts." ☛ https://lorbic.com/so-we-are-writing-efficient-software-again/ | Source: Vikash Patel    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:27:12

  • "Odin offers the native performance of C with syntax that reads closer to Go." ☛ https://pmbanugo.me/blog/learn-odin-series-00-getting-started | Source: Peter Mbanugo    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:27:30

  • "I recently found a way to represent sheaves in Haskell. It was a fun couple of weeks of head-scratching." ☛ https://www.tweag.io/blog/2026-06-18-sheaves-in-haskell/ | Source: Modus Create LLC    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 08:27:49

  • Progress https://www.jimcarrollsblog.com/blog/2017/1/4/all-progress-depends-on-the-unreasonable-man-george-bernard-shaws-lessons-on-change    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:04:18

  • iophk: celebrating the decline in water quality: https://yle.fi/a/74-20232471 decades ago, they all had safe water quality. not any more    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:04:37

  • "It's less the software which is entrenched than the terrible problem, at least in Europe, than the problem that as good as all the IT departments have been replaced with microsoft resellers embedded on the payroll." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/06/17/1140258#1445629    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:05:11

  • "They added a simple flight simulator mode to Google Earth" ☛ https://gilest.org/notes/2026/chock/ | Source: Giles Turnbull    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:06:49

  • "The Onion’s InfoWars officially has a launch date: On July 2nd, the conspiracy network previously run by Alex Jones will return as a comedy and media platform." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/952264/the-onion-infowars-takeover-alex-jones-relaunch | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:08:36

  • "a metaphor for our over-digitization and the increasingly human need to step away from it." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/instant-cameras/the-simple-act-of-existing-is-already-an-act-of-rebellion-polaroid-just-built-a-massive-billboard-on-a-beach-in-a-rebellious-anti-ai-stunt | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:11:38

  • "Publishing is different from writing—it’s the hard work of creating the conditions to help people get in sync" ☛ https://seths.blog/2026/06/promotion-activation-conversation/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:12:01

  • "At least I’m not hunting and pecking, but good lord. Time to start retraining 40 years of muscle memory." ☛ https://sals.place/blog/pointer-finger/ | Source: Sal    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:12:28

  • "The real genius of the pattern is at the corners. I’ve highlighted one in blue." ☛ https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202606/dodecahedron_with_stars | Source: Ned Batchelder    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:12:45

  • "Junited is a project started in 2024 by Robert Birming, a fellow blogger from Sweden." ☛ https://burgeonlab.com/junited-2026/ | Source: Naty S    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:13:06

  • "In this talk I want to convince you that the barrier to entry is much lower than you think." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/tdf5-152-the-stars-are-at-your-fingertips | Source: CCC    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:15:07

  • "The pattern is not confined to cosmology." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/copernicus-of-the-insufficient-scale | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:15:22

  • "If confirmed, the finding could rewrite what we know about moss biology and even offer clues about how plants first colonized land roughly 470 million years ago." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-06-hidden-fungus-moss-rewrite-million.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:15:52

  • "The eagle-eyed first grader had stumbled upon a well-preserved artifact: a roughly 1,200-year-old iron sword. Per a statement, the weapon is a single-edged blade known as an enegget" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-6-year-old-boy-spotted-something-sticking-out-of-the-ground-in-a-field-it-turned-out-to-be-a-viking-sword-180988989/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:16:24

  • "The visualizer runs right in the browser, and displays a cluster of GPS satellites in a 3D view around the Earth." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/06/18/an-in-browser-visualizer-for-gps-satellites/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:16:58

  • "At this point there hasn’t been any official word from either agency, but sources that wish to remain anonymous have been dropping hints, and that’s got the rumors swirling." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/06/18/what-happens-if-russia-shuts-the-door-on-their-leaky-iss-module/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:17:26

  • "Spend enough years in security and you notice that the people whose judgment you actually trust are rarely the ones with the cleanest credentials" ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1268 | Source: Unmitigated Risk    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:18:42

  • "What we live through, what we experience, how we navigate a life that is one unknown after another, how we keep breathing in the midst of pain, how we learn to carry suffering" ☛ https://anniemueller.com/posts/this-is-it | Source: Annie Mueller    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:18:58

  • "Such a framework would provide a comprehensive overview of young people's health and make it possible to take concrete follow-up steps rather than remain at the level of ideas." ☛ https://news.err.ee/1610057131/estonia-will-not-be-testing-physical-aptitude-of-young-people-for-several-more-years | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:21:57

  • "I’m tired of that. Which is why I’m wondering if it’s possible to completely decouple from the web." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/decoupling-from-the-web | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:22:16

  • "Forty-one percent are “cost insecure” — meaning either they don’t have access to good, affordable care or were recently unable to pay for care or medicine they needed." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/06/18/2026/americans-increasingly-struggle-with-healthcare-costs-survey-finds | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:22:46

  • "But for many everyday health goals, the basic advice still works: eat a little better, move a little more, and do it consistently." ☛ https://rohitfarmer.com/posts/2026/why-we-resist-simple-wisdom/ | Source: Rohit Farmer    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:23:09

  • "These were not small experiments. They were heavily funded, well-publicized companies with sophisticated technology. They still could not make the math work." ☛ https://hermez.prose.sh/the-rise-of-vertical-farming-and-global-food-security | Source: Hermez    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:23:33

  • "That is, basically, what Democrats can and should try to achieve if they have unified control of the government after the 2028 election." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/unlocked-repost-curing-us-healthcare | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:25:52

  • "The bug report, however, is still marked high-priority and accepted." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/06/18/google-told-researcher-nice-catch-then-denied-bug-bounty-for-flaw-it-still-hasnt-fixed/5258076 | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:29:26

  • "The activity follows the same third-party OAuth-abuse playbook behind the Salesloft Drift and Gainsight compromises that rattled Salesforce ecosystems throughout 2025 and 2026" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/salesforce-data-thefts-klue-app-compromise | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:48:54

  • "Tracked as CVE-2026-20181 (CVSS score of 9.1), the issue exists because user-supplied input is improperly validated" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-command-execution-vulnerability-patched-in-cisco-ise/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:53:13

  • "That show of respect for its customers may change with iOS/macOS 27. Reports suggest that, at least in the first beta, Apple Intelligence is mandatory: [...]" ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/apple-intelligence-mandatory-ios-macos-27/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:53:39

  • "This talk will address the often overlooked topic of how and when people get comfy with diving into movements of hate and how to stop a white supremicy future where we will be sorted by machines" ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/tdf5-185-all-sorted-by-machines-of-loving-grace-ai-cybernetics-and-fascism-and-how-to-intervene | Source: CCC    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:54:27

  • "In the talk I want to list many problems of LLMs from different perspectives ( Waste of Ressources, Job loss, ties to military, ties to the attention industry ) to formulate a solution at the end of the slides." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/tdf5-168-how-to-democratize-tech-starting-with-ai- | Source: CCC    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:56:57

  • "The principle of "the human in the loop" is often touted as a control mechanism for AI agents, and is also used to quell fears of unemployment." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/tdf5-147--the-human-in-the-loop-ai-induced-skill-atrophy | Source: CCC    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:57:24

  • "Those targets included civilian buildings like Tehran’s Azadi Sport Complex" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/us-military-elon-musk-grok-bomb-iran | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 13:59:38

  • "If: digital sovereignty + AI = digital sovereignty – AI Then: AI = 0" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/their-trillions-our-billions/#eyes-on-the-prize | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:00:09

  • "Framing good faith opposition to unregulated corporate predation as unhinged, inauthentic, or unAmerican is a U.S. tradition as old as baseball." ☛ https://karlbode.com/big-tech-and-the-trump-admin-want-to-make-ai-data-center-opposition-a-chinese-criminal-conspiracy/ | Source: Karl Bode    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:00:34

  • "Anthropic still can’t distribute Claude Mythos or Fable 5 after running afoul of the Trump administration. But no one can say exactly what the company did wrong." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-mythos-export-controls-ai-regulations/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:01:10

  • "This is where a reality of flag design comes into conflict with the need web designers have to group things into convenient, uniform shapes. Flags have different ratios." ☛ https://www.rubenerd.au/psa-for-web-designers-flags-have-ratios/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:01:55

  • "Despite the Commission's apparent clarity of thought on several points, it misses the opportunity to establish a normative principle of priority for free software" ☛ https://www.april.org/en/despite-its-good-intentions-european-commission-missing-opportunity-champion-free-software-a-genuine | Source: April    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:05:37

  • "This talk will introduce to the four software freedoms that govern free software, why they are important, and their practical limitations." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/tdf5-136-practical-software-freedom-with-gnu-guix | Source: CCC    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:06:26

  • "In that post I describe what I do now to make sure no extra -- unneeded -- images are created." ☛ https://j11g.com/auditing-and-cleaning-my-wordpress-wpcontent-direcory | Source: Jan van den Berg    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:07:07

  • "However, some of the most important innovations in the Postgres ecosystem today have little to do with storing data." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/postgres-data-movement-interoperability/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:08:09

  • "According to Mozilla, the settings pages have become increasingly difficult to navigate over time" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3169719/mozilla-is-making-it-easier-to-customise-settings-in-firefox.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:08:38

  • "In our view, the answer is lack of competition" ☛ https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/28-percent-faster--the-blink-prototype-that-shows-why-apples-ios-browser-engine-ban-must-end/ | Source: Open Web Advocacy    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:09:12

  • "In 2019, I started using DOOM emacs as my main emacs “distribution”. A decision which I figured I’d stick with for many years to come." ☛ https://joshblais.com/blog/studium-emacs/ | Source: Joshua Blais    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:09:47

  • "I can’t speak to the patch’s effectiveness, but dang, I love that someone is out there keeping these things running." ☛ https://512pixels.net/2026/06/timecapsulesmb/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:10:09

  • "The doric-themes are the minimalist counterpart of my modus-themes and ef-themes. They define few colours and exercise restraint in how they customise faces." ☛ https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-06-17-emacs-testing-doric-themes-common-colour-values/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:10:28

  • "The official reveal trailer, which you can watch below, can only be described as weaponized nostalgia for the late 90s" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/06/18/commodore-unveils-linux-powered-flip-phone/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:11:17

  • "The issue appears to be limited to Pixel phones" ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/pixel-users-cant-reply-emails-gmail-nobody-knows-why/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:13:20

  • "limited to validating a small number of things at a time, and has a non-zero fraction of false positive failures due to unmodeled effects." ☛ https://blog.mjbots.com/2026/06/18/host-side-spmsm-simulation-for-regression-tests/ | Source: Robotic Systems LLC    

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

  • "If you are someone who actually does something, avoid the entire HP Z series line." ☛ https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/hp-z-series/ | Source: Logikal Solutions    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:14:36

  • "Running the show is a Wemos D1 devboard equipped with the ESP8266 microcontroller." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/06/18/building-a-2-way-holographic-display/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:15:07

  • "The build began with a 48 x 29mm enclosure grabbed from an off-the-shelf power panel meter." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/06/18/building-a-panel-mount-oled-display/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:15:28

  • "Popa is a massive botnet, but by all accounts it is unlike traditional botnets that enlist compromised systems" ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/popa-botnet-linked-to-publicly-traded-israeli-firm/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:16:13

  • "Popa is a massive botnet, but by all accounts it is unlike traditional botnets that enlist compromised systems" ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/popa-botnet-linked-to-publicly-traded-israeli-firm/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:17:43

  • "Update Tor Browser to 15.0.16. " ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_9/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:18:30

  • "Yesterday I wrote an entry about why servers running Ubuntu can stall on boot for two minutes" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/UbuntuNetplanWaitForCarrierII | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:19:36

  • "This post is more self-documentation than anything else. The links in this post might be useful than the content." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/06/18/victorialogs-adding-syslog-ng-to-a-host-and-ingesting-nginx-log-from-jails/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:19:56

  • "Port knocking is mostly a bad idea. But people keep wanting to do it, for some false sense of security." ☛ https://dgl.cx/2026/06/ssh-port-knocking-with-openbsd | Source: David Mead    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:20:24

  • "All of the below was done using Raspberry Pi OS Lite Trixie (Debian 13)." ☛ https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2026-06-18-static-ipv6-config-with-cloud-init-on-raspberry-pi-os/ | Source: Alex Haydock    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:20:54

  • "Distributed storage introduces operational and performance trade-offs." ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-vs-ceph-do-you-actually-need-ceph/ | Source: Klara    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:22:06

  • "FreeBSD to OpenBSD Wireguard, Object storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS, a zfs script for labeling drives, and more..." ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/668 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:22:49

  • Valve give more detail on Steam Controller reservations - you'll be waiting a while | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/valve-give-more-detail-on-steam-controller-reservations-youll-be-waiting-a-while/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:24:18

  • EMPULSE is basically Titanfall but from the devs of Splitgate | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/empulse-is-basically-titanfall-but-from-the-devs-of-splitgate/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:24:49

  • Sludgineers is an oddly satisfying active incremental game about cleaning up pollution | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/sludgineers-is-an-oddly-satisfying-active-incremental-game-about-cleaning-up-pollution/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:26:30

  • "Iran Has Humiliated Trump - The Atlantic" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/iran-trump-war-defeat-deal/687595/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:27:28

  • "StopKillingGames is "dead" ? Tf it is, now GET BACK TO WORK!" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/stopkillinggames-is-dead-tf-it-is,-now:2    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:27:48

  • "France's Digital Sovereignty Push is Struggling to Escape the Microsoft Gravity Well - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/06/17/1140258    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:28:16

  • "Trump Is Making Vance Take the Fall for Iran - The Atlantic" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/vance-surrender-iran-trump/687597/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:28:37

  • Canonical reveal Myna, a speech to text system for Ubuntu Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/canonical-reveal-myna-a-speech-to-text-system-for-ubuntu-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/canonical-reveal-myna-a-speech-to-text-system-for-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:29:54

  • Prepare for the Steam Frame with the Upload VR Summer 2026 Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/prepare-for-the-steam-frame-with-the-upload-vr-summer-2026-humble-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:33:09

  • GOG Summer Sale 2026 is live now with thousands of discounts | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/gog-summer-sale-2026-is-live-now-with-thousands-of-discounts/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:33:23

  • CONTROL Resonant will have Steam Deck support at launch | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/control-resonant-will-have-steam-deck-support-at-launch/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:58:42

  • Valve update Proton Hotfix for ARC Raiders compatibility on Linux / SteamOS | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/valve-update-proton-hotfix-for-arc-raiders-compatibility-on-linux-steamos/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 14:59:12

  • SteamOS 3.8 is out with initial Steam Machine support, Desktop Mode upgrades, new Graphics Drivers | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/steamos-3-8-is-out-with-initial-steam-machine-support-desktop-mode-upgrades-new-graphics-drivers/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 15:01:08

  • "Matthew Skiba's Secret Reliance on the Trump Train - emptywheel" https://emptywheel.net/2026/06/18/matthew-skibas-secret-ride-on-the-trump-train/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 15:06:10

  • "After Achieving an Unconditional Surrender, Donald Trump Promised, There'd Be a New Leader - emptywheel" https://emptywheel.net/2026/06/18/after-achieving-an-unconditional-surrender-donald-trump-promised-thered-be-a-new-leader/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 15:06:43

  • "Handing Gary Stevenson The Microphone - by Mike Brock" https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/handing-gary-stevenson-the-microphone    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 15:07:17

  • "Senators Suspect Trump Shifted Secret Service Funds to Build His Ballroom - NOTUS — News of the United States" https://www.notus.org/congress/white-house-secret-service-funding-congress-ballroom-construction    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 15:07:42

  • "Hegseth Under Fire as Lackland Flu Outbreak Infects 160 Air Force Trainees Weeks After Vaccine Rule Change | IBTimes UK" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/flu-outbreak-lackland-air-force-base-vaccine-policy-reversal-1803652    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 15:08:11

  • iophk: more 'arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic' ... https://www.pcworld.com/article/3169719/mozilla-is-making-it-easier-to-customise-settings-in-firefox.html    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 15:08:42

  • "Power and Geopolitics After Trump - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/power-and-geopolitics-after-trump    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 15:09:08

  • London Hospital Worker Tried to Sell Princess Catherine’s Medical Records, Reports Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/world/europe/princess-kate-medical-records-sale-uk.html    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 15:28:30

  • "The problem is that it’s easy to forget. Production issues happen, priorities change, and before you know it, that temporary firewall rule is still sitting there long after it should have been removed." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/at-command-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 15:29:25

  • "More about Golioth PouchPouch is Golioth’s transport-agnostic application layer protocol that enables secure and efficient transmission of data between intermittently offline nodes across multiple network hops." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/microcontrollers-ubuntu-core-golioth | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 15:30:47

  • Pluralistic: Hey Hi (AI) digital sovereignty risk doesn't exist (18 Jun 2026) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/their-trillions-our-billions/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 15:48:05

  • Sparky 2026.06 ☞ https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-2026-06/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 15:55:08

  • Help… My browser cannot connect to Mageia’s website https://blog.mageia.org/en/2026/06/18/help-my-browser-cannot-connect-to-mageias-website/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 15:55:53

  • Preserve OpenShift Pipelines logs with OpenTelemetry ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/06/18/preserve-openshift-pipelines-logs-opentelemetry    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:25:06

  • Ubuntu flavours now need a beta release to ship ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/ubuntu-flavours-mandatory-beta-release    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:29:48

  • Ubuntu 26.10 is Expected to Have Speech To Text Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/06/ubuntu-26-10-speech-to-text/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:30:47

  • FunOS 24.04.4 LTS (Build 20260618) ☞ https://funos.org/funos-24-04-4-build-2026-06-18/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:31:21

  • FunOS 24.04.4 LTS (Build 20260618)
    Release Date: June 19, 2026Base: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS (Noble Numbat) The FunOS team is pleased to announce the release of FunOS 24.04.4 LTS (Build 20260618). This update delivers an updated package base, Firefox ESR updates, and significant quality-of-life improvements to the JWM desktop environment, including fully automated menus and persistent display settings.
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posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:32:24

  • AI in Asylum Decisions: Transparency and Accountability Failures ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/ai-in-asylum-decisions-transparency-and-accountability-failures/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:34:17

  • Preparing for GSoC: My First Contributions to Autogits ☞ https://mmarhin.github.io/gsoc2026blog/gsoc/opensuse/autogits/2026/06/18/pre-gsoc-contributions.html    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:35:20

  • date Command in Linux: Format, Parse, and Convert Timestamps ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/date-command-in-linux-with-examples/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:40:46

  • cp Command in Linux: Copy Files and Directories Safely ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/cp-command-in-linux-with-examples/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:41:06

  • blkid Command in Linux: Find UUIDs, Labels, and Filesystem Types ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/blkid-command-in-linux-with-examples/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:41:22

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

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:41:52

  • cut Command in Linux: Extract Fields, Characters, and Bytes ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/cut-command-in-linux-with-examples/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:42:04

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

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:43:42

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

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:44:02

  • How to Install and Use Ollama on Ubuntu: Run LLMs Locally ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-and-use-ollama-on-ubuntu/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:44:40

  • TrueNAS 26.0.0-beta2 ☞ https://distrowNetBSD 11.0-RC5 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/netbsd  atch.com/truenas    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:47:10

  • ;  

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:48:12

  • How to Fetch a Moving Target with Poudriere ☞ https://oshogbo.com/blog/91/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:49:45

  • IBM Red Hat cannot help promoting slop ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/06/18/manage-llm-evaluation-workloads-scale-evalhub-and-kueue    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:52:46

  • Troubleshoot application misbehavior after an OpenShift upgrade ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/06/18/troubleshoot-application-misbehavior-after-openshift-upgrade    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:53:02

  • Red Hat as slop maximalist https://www.mavenir.com/press-releases/mavenir-collaborates-with-red-hat-to-launch-integrated-ai-platform-to-turn-operators-into-ai-service-providers/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 16:59:04

  • SLOP SLOP SLOP SLOPPY SLOP SLOP https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/turning-complexity-confidence-red-hat-technical-supportability-review-ai    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:01:19

  • probably planted in the press by Red Hat's marketing, the cited in https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/friday-five-june-19-2026-red-hat    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:03:15

  • alongside the official PR stunts with extraordinary claims and phony sums https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/securing-enterprise-software-fabric-blueprint-open-source    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:05:02

  • Building a soft real-time vPAC with Red Bait Enterprise Linux, KVM, and Podman ☞ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/building-soft-real-time-vpac-red-hat-enterprise-linux-kvm-and-podman-0    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:06:23

  • Michigan universities can’t study dispensary pot on campus. MSU went mobile ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/michigan-public-universities-cant-study-cannabis-on-campus-msu-went-mobile/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:28:32

  • Canberra and Seoul can learn from each other’s nuclear submarine plans ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/canberra-and-seoul-can-learn-from-each-others-nuclear-submarine-plans/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:29:29

  • Hospital in South Korea says amputated leg found in recycling waste was discarded by mistake ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hospital-in-south-korea-says-amputated-leg-found-in-recycling-waste-was-discarded-by-mistake    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:31:00

  • South Korea’s hair-loss insurance proposal sparks backlash ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-hair-loss-insurance-proposal-sparks-backlash    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:31:22

  • North Korea's Kim Yo Jong condemns G7 call for denuclearisation as violation of sovereignty ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/north-koreas-kim-yo-jong-condemns-g7-call-for-denuclearisation-as-violation-of-sovereignty    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:32:45

  • Mexican military takes down drone apparently surveilling South Korean soccer team in Guadalajara ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexican-military-takes-down-drone-over-south-korean-soccer-team/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:33:46

  • ‘A bow to China’: Lithuania allows Beijing to open charge d’affaires office ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2964141/a-bow-to-china-lithuania-allows-beijing-to-open-charge-d-affaires-office    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:34:35

  • UK jails Chinese-Brits for spying on Hong Kong dissidents for Beijing ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/06/19/uk-jails-chinese-brits-for-spying-on-hong-kong-dissidents-for-beijing/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:35:22

  • Wave of Persian Gulf oil set to swamp Asian refiners when ships sail out of Strait of Hormuz ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/wave-of-persian-gulf-oil-set-to-leave-asian-refiners-swamped    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:36:35

  • China defends critical minerals export controls, calls for end to ‘small cliques’ after G-7 statement ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-defends-critical-minerals-export-controls-after-g-7-statement    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:41:31

  • Epic Games Built Its Own Git Alternative For Handling Large Files ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/lore-launched/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:45:43

  • What Young Men Thought of Convicted Felon’s U.F.C. Fight ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/style/trump-ufc-white-house-young-men.html    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:46:59

  • Stephen Colbert Nods to Obama’s Tan Suit at Presidential Center Opening ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/style/obama-tan-suit-stephen-colbert.html    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:48:29

  • Publishers versus bots: How Trusted Reviews is fighting back against LLMs ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/publishers-versus-bots-trusted-reviews-ceo-on-a-fight-for-survival-with-llms/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:49:18

  • Premium video has boosted subscriber retention for The Economist ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/economist-insider-retention/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:50:20

  • DMG Media becomes Daily Mail with Vere Harmsworth as exec chairman ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news/dmg-media-becomes-daily-mail-with-vere-harmsworth-as-exec-chairman/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:52:10

  • No UMG-Style Coal-Raking Here: The BMG+Concord Merger Is Rapidly Getting Cleared by Global Regulators ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/17/bmg-concord-merger-getting-regulator-clearance/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:53:56

  • Dangerous Fault Lines in California at Highest Pressure in 1,000 Years, Scientists Warn ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dangerous-fault-lines-in-california-at-highest-pressure-in-1000-years-scientists-warn    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:56:10

  • Rethinking vulnerability management in the age of Hey Hi (AI) and CI/CD ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/06/19/rethinking-vulnerability-management-in-the-age-of-ai-and-ci-cd/ &n Scientists Cracked Open a Mars Meteorite And Found a Big Surprise ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-cracked-open-a-mars-meteorite-and-found-a-big-surprise    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:56:48

  • Hundreds of Mysterious Quakes Have Been Detected Deep Under Antarctica ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/hundreds-of-mysterious-quakes-have-been-detected-deep-under-antarctica    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:57:07

  • pgAdmin 4 v9.16 Released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgadmin-4-v916-released-3324/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 17:57:56

  • Michael Calabrese: Pitivi Timeline Ruler | Standalone Beta Progress ☞ https://mccalabrese.github.io/gnome-blog/posts/second-post/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:00:10

  • bsp;  

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:03:04

  • Samsung’s former head of European IP affairs joins Fish & Richardson ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/samsungs-former-head-of-european-ip-affairs-joins-fish-richardson/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:04:38

  • SLAPP Censorship - Part 110 Out of 200: Anti-SLAPP Reform Formally Advanced in the United Kingdom (UK) the Same Week the Serial Strangler From Abusive Monopolist Microsoft (US) Does Forum-Shopping in the UK ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/18/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_110_Out_of_200_Anti_SLAPP_Reform_Formally.shtml    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:05:15

  • Canada rights groups calls for privacy legislation regulating federal political parties ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/06/canada-rights-groups-calls-for-privacy-legislation-regulating-federal-political-parties/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:05:59

  • Time to address the human rights implications of Hey Hi (AI) in the military domain ☞ http://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/5787/time-address-human-rights-implications-ai-military-domain    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:06:33

  • Anthropic Sued for Allegedly Ripping Off Its Highest-Paying Customers ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-sued-ripping-off-customers    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:10:17

  • Gutting the right to strike: the latest item on Carney’s corporate checklist ☞ https://breachmedia.ca/gutting-the-right-to-strike-the-latest-item-on-carneys-corporate-checklist/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:11:04

  • UN Secretary-General raises alarm on abuse of freedom of expression ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/06/un-secretary-general-raises-alarm-on-abuse-of-freedom-of-expression/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:14:28

  • International Investigative Journalism Festival 2026 kicks off in Vilnius – photos ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2964184/international-investigative-journalism-festival-2026-kicks-off-in-vilnius-photos    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:24:45

  • NVIDIA 595.84 Linux Driver Released with Fixes for Many Games ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/06/nvidia-595-84-linux-driver-released-with-fixes-for-many-games/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:25:29

  • Monthly production report 2026-05: KDE NEON install guide, a long making-of and Italy. ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1153/monthly-production-report-2026-05-kde-neon-install-guide-a-long-making-of-and-italy    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:26:30

  • Majority of Internet-Accessible REDCap Servers Outdated ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/majority-of-internet-accessible-redcap-servers-outdated/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:27:39

  • UP WCL – A credit card-sized Wildcat Lake SBC with up to 24GB LPDDR5, 256GB UFS ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/06/18/up-wcl-a-credit-card-sized-wildcat-lake-sbc-with-up-to-24gb-lpddr5-256gb-ufs/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:28:28

  • World's Richest 10% Are Costing Earth Trillions, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-richest-10-are-costing-earth-trillions-study-finds    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:29:42

  • A Giant Seismic Wave Bounced Off Earth's Core And May Have Shifted Japan ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-giant-seismic-wave-bounced-off-earths-core-and-may-have-shifted-japan    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:30:06

  • Traces of Alien Technology Could Be Hidden in Moon Dust, Study Says ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/traces-of-alien-technology-could-be-hidden-in-moon-dust-study-says    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:30:23

  • Moon Impact 3.5 Billion Years Ago Hints at Hidden Era of Solar System ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/moon-impact-3-5-billion-years-ago-hints-at-hidden-era-of-solar-system    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:30:44

  • My Stellar Unicorn needed a stand! So I designed and 3D printed one in an afternoon. ☞ https://blog.pimoroni.com/my-stellar-unicorn-needed-a-stand-so-i-designed-and-3d-printed-one-in-an-afternoon/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:31:48

  • The Road to Post-Quantum Readiness Part 1 of 2: Understanding the Risk ☞ https://blog.nviso.eu/2026/06/18/the-road-to-post-quantum-readiness-part-1/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:32:25

  • The Fed’s higher road to lower prices ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0618/The-Fed-s-higher-road-to-lower-prices    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:33:41

  • Mastodon 4.6 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1078466/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:34:38

  • The World Cup of Internet Resilience ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/06/the-world-cup-of-internet-resilience/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:35:10

  • Tech Workers Maxed Out Their Hey Hi (AI) Use. Now They’re Trying to Minimize It. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/technology/ai-token-minimizing.html    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:35:48

  • Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) jumps the shark https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20260618-vivatech-2026-can-ai-become-the-next-beauty-advisor-l-or%C3%A9al-thinks-so    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:43:36

  • Dana Nessel: ICE to offload Romulus warehouse eyed as future detention center ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/dana-nessel-ice-to-offload-romulus-warehouse-eyed-as-future-detention-center/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:44:26

  • Gulf States Are Frustrated by Failure to Tackle Iran’s Missiles, Analysts Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/world/middleeast/gulf-states-us-iran-deal.html    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:54:13

  • Frontier Airlines site leaks all personal info with just a glance at a boarding pass, researcher claims ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/frontier-airlines-site-leaks-all-personal-info-with-just-a-glance-at-a-boarding-pass-researcher-claims-booking-number-and-last-name-nets-you-every-passengers-personal-info-including-address-passport-tsa-precheck-and-most-credit-card-info    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:55:33

  • F5 Patches Critical, High-Severity NGINX Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/f5-patches-critical-high-severity-nginx-vulnerabilities/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:56:52

  • Atlassian, Splunk Patch Critical Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/atlassian-splunk-patch-critical-vulnerabilities/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 18:57:23

  • Digital entrepreneur creates humorous 'physical NFT minting device' using a Raspberry Pi in quest for 'infinite money machine' ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptocurrency/digital-entrepreneur-creates-humorous-physical-nft-minting-device-using-a-raspberry-pi-in-quest-for-infinite-money-machine-contraption-trained-on-m3-macbook-can-generate-an-nft-in-3-seconds-has-so-far-sold-one-for-usd9-92    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:02:11

  • Running local LLMs on the Arduino® UNO™ Q board: a practical guide ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/06/18/running-local-llms-on-the-arduino-uno-q-board-a-practical-guide/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:02:59

  • Tails 7.9 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tails    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:03:18

  • Amazon Retaliated Against Workers Who Supported Regulating Data Centers, Complaint Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/technology/amazon-worker-retaliation-data-center-complaints.html    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:22:23

  • Google’s Hey Hi (AI) Overviews Feature Is Telling Users That SCP Horror Fiction Entities Are Real ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overview-scp-horror-fiction-real    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:23:08

  • Sports Journalists Asked Microsoft’s Copilot to Predict World Cup Matches, and the Results May Surprise You ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sports-journalists-microsoft-copilot-world-cup-predictions    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:23:39

  • Up to 90% of Lithuanian apple trees lost to unprecedented winter ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2964212/up-to-90-of-lithuanian-apple-trees-lost-to-unprecedented-winter    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:24:34

  • pgfmt 2.1: in-place formatting and pg_dump-compatible output ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgfmt-21-in-place-formatting-and-pg_dump-compatible-output-3321/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:26:41

  • Broadcom unveils fully-integrated quad-core Wi-Fi 8 access point SoCs, 5G FWA router reference platform ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/06/18/broadcom-fully-integrated-quad-core-wi-fi-8-access-point-socs-5g-fwa-router-reference-platform/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:27:31

  • Qualcomm promises a major reset with upstream-first, Qualcomm Linux 2.0 for Dragonwing IoT platforms ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/06/19/qualcomm-promises-a-major-reset-with-upstream-first-qualcomm-linux-2-0-for-dragonwing-iot-platforms/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:28:40

  • Sam Thursfield: Status update, 17th June 2026 ☞ https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2026/06/18/status-update-17th-june-2026/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:30:18

  • "Commodore's New Flip Phone Skips Android for Linux-Based Sailfish OS" https://itsfoss.com/news/commodore-callback-8020-launch/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:31:10

  • DietPi 10.5 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/dietpi    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:31:26

  • pearOS 26.6 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/pearos    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:31:43

  • Ultimate 2026.06.18 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ultimate    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:32:07

  • SparkyLinux 2026.06 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/sparky    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:34:16

  • HAOS 18.0 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/haos    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:34:35

  • eBPF at LSFMMBPF 2026 ☞ https://bootlin.com/blog/ebpf-at-lsfmmbpf-2026/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:38:29

  • {talib}: Interactive financial charts ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/06/talib-interactive-financial-charts/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:40:29

  • Mike Gabriel: Commenting on the recent Ubuntu Touch review done by @SwitchandClickOfficial on Youtube ☞ https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/159    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:41:16

  • Openwashing front group ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/engaging-on-age-attestation-policy-in-brazil    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:42:34

  • Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1078465/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:43:30

  • bubble trouble http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/06/ai-in-patent-industry-bubble-trouble.html    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:44:22

  • Openwashing ☞ https://entropicthoughts.com/glm-5-2-playing-text-adventures    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:45:41

  • Godot 4.7 – Lights, Camera, Action! ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-7-lights-camera-action/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:46:29

  • Retro ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/retro-pirate-gets-two-year-suspended-jail-sentence-for-being-stuck-in-the-past-burning-and-selling-remix-cds-of-famous-artists-four-year-investigation-into-copyright-infringement-on-40-year-old-medium-began-in-2018    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:48:10

  • MElon’s X Smells Victory Against Music Publishers, with Cox v. Sony Dramatically Shifting the Momentum ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/18/elon-musk-x-music-publishers-lawsuit/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:48:49

  • Major Labels and BMG Urge the Supreme Court to ‘Step in and Reverse’ the Landmark Vetter v. Resnik Copyright Termination Decision ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/18/bmg-v-vetter-supreme-court-petition/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:49:14

  • Lithuania ups security at critical energy infrastructure amid Russia concerns ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2964059/lithuania-ups-security-at-critical-energy-infrastructure-amid-russia-concerns    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:50:12

  • Critics of Russia Say This Critic Isn’t Critical Enough ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/world/europe/alexander-sokurov-russia-director.html    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:50:31

  • Tension Flared on Space Station as Russia Threatened to Drill and Saw Into Wall, Prompting NASA Astronauts to Take Shelter ☞ https://futurism.com/space/tension-flares-russia-nasa-international-space-station-leak    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:51:05

  • Ukraine Strikes Moscow Refinery in Large-Scale Drone Attack ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/world/europe/moscow-ukraine-drone-attack-fire.html    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:51:42

  • Second Strike In Days Hits Key Moscow Oil Refinery; EU Sanctions Renewed ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/moscow-oil-refinery-ukraine-drones-strikes-sobyanin/33783593.html    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:52:25

  • Economic hardship drives Kenyans onto Russia’s brutal frontline ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/land/land-land/economic-hardship-drives-kenyans-onto-russias-brutal-frontline/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:52:48

  • MAC Owl certified as best protected armoured vehicle by Ukraine’s MoD ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/industry/industry-industry/mac-owl-certified-as-best-protected-armoured-vehicle-by-ukraines-mod/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:53:17

  • Prison sentence for ethnic hate motivated assault in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/18.06.2026-prison-sentence-for-ethnic-hate-motivated-assault-in-latvia.a651991/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:54:01

  • Both Convicted Felon and Putin chose to start wars that have proved difficult to stop ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Perspectives/Essays/2026/0618/trump-putin-iran-ukraine-g7-war    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:54:24

  • Is Putin Finally Feeling Pressure? ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/is-putin-finally-feeling-pressure    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:55:09

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posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:55:44

  • Mighty is the paintbrush: Semyon Skrepetsky, the Russian dissident artist shot and killed in Poland ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260618-mighty-the-paintbrush-semyon-skrepetsky-the-russian-dissident-artist-shot-and-killed-poland    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:56:09

  • JUVE and Microsoft patent trolls ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/intellectual-ventures-case-in-france-comes-to-an-end/ https://techrights.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:57:52

  • Afghanistan Issues Ban on Smartphones for Civil Servants and Military ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-smartphone-ban.html    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:58:26

  • Smartphone catches fire on flight leaving Tokyo’s Haneda airport; no injuries ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/smartphone-catches-fire-on-flight-leaving-japans-haneda-airport-no-injuries    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:58:50

  • New CRAN Package for sparse PCA – msPCA ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/06/new-cran-package-for-sparse-pca-mspca/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 19:59:41

  • These 4 alien Linux concepts confused me when I switched from Windows https://www.howtogeek.com/these-4-alien-linux-concepts-confused-me-when-i-switched-from-windows/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:01:13

  • Rebranding voice dictation, which existed in the 1990s, as "hey hi" https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/06/18/canonical-unveils-myna-speech-to-text-app-for-ubuntu-2610/5258376    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:02:12

  • "Another free to play anime game from COGNOSPHERE arrived on Steam - with Zenless Zone Zero officially out now and it appears to work well on Linux / SteamOS." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/zenless-zone-zero-has-arrived-on-steam-and-works-on-linux-steamos/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:04:09

  • "NVIDIA driver 595.84 was released today bringing a number of nice sounding fixes, especially for those of you gaming on Linux. That's why you're here right?" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/nvidia-595-84-released-as-the-new-recommended-driver-for-linux/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:04:41

  • "NVIDIA released today the production-ready NVIDIA 595.84 graphics driver for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems to address various bugs and regressions for an improved gaming experience." https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-595-84-linux-driver-improves-support-for-007-first-light-and-other-games    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:05:11

  • "Subleq+ is a Linux distro designed to preserve software so it can run a millennium from now." https://www.xda-developers.com/this-linux-distro-wants-to-keep-running-software-1000-years-from-now/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:05:48

  • I left tiling window managers for KDE, and my Linux desktop finally feels complete https://www.makeuseof.com/left-tiling-window-managers-for-kde-linux-desktop-feels-complete/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:06:16

  • Homebrew 6.0 released with new security mechanism, Linux sandbox and more https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/06/17/homebrew-60-released-with-new-security-mechanism-linux-sandbox-and-more/5257570    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:06:55

  • "Like chilled-out games? How about incrementals where you keep upgrading through a vast tech-tree and get to clean up various location? Sludgineers is for you. There's a demo available with Linux support for Steam Next Fest and it is really weirdly satisfying." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/sludgineers-is-an-oddly-satisfying-active-incremental-game-about-cleaning-up-pollution/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:07:35

  • "Valve did update the bleeding-edge opt-in Beta of Proton Experimental for it, but that's a bit of a nuisance workaround (and now everyone knows about it)." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/valve-update-proton-hotfix-for-arc-raiders-compatibility-on-linux-steamos/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:09:08

  • commodore-unveils-linux-powered-flip-phone/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:09:46

  • "Whatever happens with the new incarnation of the Commodore corporation, we’ll always remember the old one fondly." https://hackaday.com/2026/06/18/commodore-unveils-linux-powered-flip-phone/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:10:00

  • "Now, they have announced a return to the phone market, and not in the doomscrolling glass-slab avatar we are all used to, but in a retro, very equippable flip phone format." https://itsfoss.com/news/commodore-callback-8020-launch/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:10:28

  • 5 things that are surprisingly easier on Linux than Windows https://www.howtogeek.com/x-things-that-are-surprisingly-easier-on-linux-than-windows/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:10:57

  • I found one Linux app that replaced my entire toolkit — and now I can't imagine going back https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-app-that-replaced-entire-toolkit-cant-imagine-going-back/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:12:42

  • When it doesn't work, blame Hulk Hogan https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/windows-and-linux-users-the-deadline-to-update-secure-boot-keys-is-near/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/12/The_Mind_of_the_Hulk_Hogan_of_UEFI.shtml    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:14:40

  • "We spoke to founder and CEO Carl Richell about where System76 began and where it's going." https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/17/system76-boss-reckons-he-can-liberate-the-entire-pc-stack-just-give-him-another-15-years/5255258    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:15:05

  • Openwashing of lop plagiarism by misusing the brand "Linux" https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linux-foundation-launches-appia-foundation-to-establish-standardized-conformity-specifications-across-the-ai-value-chain-302803298.html    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:16:04

  • "Those demanding distros will boot, but that doesn't mean your PC that lags with Windows 11 is going to miraculously become a zippy, modern PC once you install Linux. These are 5 distros I'd recommend you avoid if you're running older hardware and want to get the best performance." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-distros-bad-for-low-power-pcs/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:16:48

  • Linux 7.2 finally drops support for a 44-year-old graphics card https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-72-finally-drops-support-for-a-44-year-old-graphics-card/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:18:02

  • Arch Linux's largest software repo is blocking sign-ups due to a malware crisis https://www.howtogeek.com/why-arearch-linux-aur-repository-registrations-blocked/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:18:51

  • Stupid puff piece relaying false figures for a PR stunt of IBM https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article316054479.html    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:20:41

  • "Check out these distros, which make moving to Linux easier than ever, and demonstrate how bright the future is for Linux at home." https://www.howtogeek.com/distros-that-prove-linux-is-the-future-of-desktop-pcs/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:22:45

  • 4 reasons CLI apps are better than GUI alternatives on Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-cli-apps-are-better-than-gui-alternatives-on-linux/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:23:28

  • ARC Raiders' Switch to Denuvo Anti-Cheat is Breaking the Game for Linux Users Right Now https://steamdeckhq.com/news/arc-raiders-denuvo-linux-compatibility/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:27:14

  • 10ZiG Expands Strategic Partnership with ThinPrint to Advance Printing Flexibility Across 10ZiG Linux OS https://www.prweb.com/releases/10zig-expands-strategic-partnership-with-thinprint-to-advance-printing-flexibility-across-10zig-linux-os-302804176.html    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:29:15

  • Edge Applications are Exploding – How developers can best prepare with Holistic Security, Hardened Operating Systems and more https://www.eetimes.com/linux-for-the-intelligent-edge-demands-holistic-security-hardened-os-and-so-much-more/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:30:55

  • I keep Linux on a USB for Windows emergencies — and it's saved me more than once https://www.makeuseof.com/i-use-windows-all-the-time-but-still-keep-linux-on-a-usb-for-this-reason/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:32:08

  • Heroic Games Launcher Setup 2026: Play Epic & GOG on Linux in 12 Steps https://tech-insider.org/heroic-games-launcher-setup-2026/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:34:25

  • Linux Memory Compaction: Internals and Debugging — Part 2: Observing and Interpreting Compaction Data https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/https-blogs-oracle-com-linux-linux-memory-compaction-part-2    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:35:41

  • This is not about security, it is about control, or Microsoft remotely controlling billions of computers https://www.zdnet.com/article/aspirin-for-linuxs-microsofts-secure-boot-headache/    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:40:42

  • Software Preservation Breakthrough: IOCCC-Winning VM Runs Linux on a Single Instruction https://www.techtimes.com/articles/318667/20260618/software-preservation-breakthrough-ioccc-winning-vm-runs-linux-single-instruction.htm    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:42:17

  • "This release completely removes support for the Lumina desktop environment." https://9to5linux.com/debian-based-sparkylinux-2026-06-rolling-brings-linux-kernel-7-1-support    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 20:42:55

  • "Sometimes you meet an inspirational person who changes how you see life." https://cybershow.uk/content/blog/wilco/wilco.html    

posted Friday, June 19, 2026 at 21:39:39

  • Anon: FWIW, Happy Midsummer! Tomorrow is even solstice.    

posted Saturday, June 20, 2026 at 05:29:26

  • ...The Julia programming community is all-in on proprietary options: https://julialang.org/community/otherchannels/ So there is no way to contact them to let them know that their article aggregator feed is broken, blocking apparently by user agent: https://www.juliabloggers.com/feed/    

posted Saturday, June 20, 2026 at 05:29:58
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