Roy Schestowitz

• How to Make Climate-Friendly and Sustainable Choices When Shopping Online https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2025-08-20/how-to-make-climate-friendly-and-sustainable-choices-when-shopping-online    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 01:47:29

• Vibrio Vulnificus https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-08-20/how-to-protect-yourself-from-vibrio-vulnificus-the-bacteria-found-in-some-coastal-waters    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 01:48:33

• Google Settles YouTube Children's Privacy Lawsuit https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-08-19/google-settles-youtube-childrens-privacy-lawsuit    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 01:49:42

• Social Security Has Existed for 90 Years. Why It May Be More Threatened Than Ever https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-08-14/social-securitys-90th-anniversary-is-marked-by-funding-threats-and-privatization-talk    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 01:51:05

• Sanders Announces Legislation to Reverse Cheeto Mussolini Cuts to Social Security https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-announces-legislation-to-reverse-trump-cuts-to-social-security/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 01:51:40

• Sri Lanka: UN Rights Report Details Security Force Abuses https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/08/15/sri-lanka-un-rights-report-details-security-force-abuses    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 01:52:45

• Cheeto Mussolini Wants to Take Your Social Security to Give Even More Money to Wall Street https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/15/trump-wants-to-take-your-social-security-to-give-even-more-money-to-wall-street/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 01:53:27

• NYDFS Secures $2 Million Cybersecurity Settlement with Healthplex, Inc. https://www.dfs.ny.gov/reports_and_publications/press_releases/pr20250814    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 01:54:35

• Aggression toward Dutch hospital staff https://nltimes.nl/2025/08/17/aggression-toward-dutch-hospital-staff-triples-despite-tighter-security-training    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 01:55:23

• Social Security: The Gem of American Economic Policy https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/18/social-security-the-gem-of-american-economic-policy/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 01:56:55

• HHS OCR Settles HIPAA Ransomware Security Rule Investigation https://databreaches.net/2025/08/19/hhs-ocr-settles-hipaa-ransomware-security-rule-investigation-with-bst-co-cpas-llp/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 01:58:11

• Tvheadend 4.3 https://libreelec.tv/2025/08/15/libreelec-omega-12-2-0/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 01:59:11

• Grml - new stable release 2025.08 available https://blog.grml.org/archives/424-Grml-new-stable-release-2025.08-available.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:02:43

• Parch 2025-08-18 and TUXEDO 20250818 released    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:04:07

• LinuxHub Prime v3.0.7 Available Now! https://linuxhub.link/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:05:16

• Last build yesterday https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxhub-prime/files/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:06:00

• Gnuinos 2025.08.20 is out https://www.gnuinos.org/ https://www.gnuinos.org/mirror/daedalus/installer-iso/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:08:38

• "Besgnulinux JWM 3-0 release based on Debian 'Trixie' is ready for release" https://besgnulinux.blogspot.com/2025/08/besgnulinux-jwm-3-0-is-ready-to-use.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:09:34

• Somaliland journalist detained for days without charge over Facebook post https://cpj.org/2025/08/somaliland-journalist-detained-for-days-without-charge-over-facebook-post/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:10:45

• African Union Urges Adoption of World Map Showing Continent's True Size https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-08-14/african-union-urges-adoption-of-world-map-showing-continents-true-size    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:11:53

• South Africa Starts a Soul-Searching 'National Dialogue' About Poverty, Inequality and Other Issues https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-08-14/south-africa-starts-a-soul-searching-national-dialogue-about-poverty-inequality-and-other-issues    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:12:28

• Gag orders against journalists raise South Africa press freedom concerns https://cpj.org/2025/08/gag-orders-against-journalists-raise-south-africa-press-freedom-concerns/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:13:18

• smuggling scandal https://www.dw.com/en/south-african-rhino-breeder-detained-amid-smuggling-scandal/a-73710341    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:14:18

• Canada Post, union holding 2 days of talks after meeting with mediators https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cupw-canada-post-talks-1.7608046    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:15:34

• China's grip on rare earths https://www.dw.com/en/a-german-town-s-bid-to-break-china-s-grip-on-rare-earths/a-73424082    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:16:21

• cured meat does not belong on the grill https://www.dw.com/en/why-cured-meat-does-not-belong-on-the-grill/a-73639814    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:19:51

• US steel tariffs leave Indian foundries gasping https://www.dw.com/en/us-steel-tariffs-leave-indian-foundries-gasping/a-73691340    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:20:07

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:26:24

• Canada's Wildfires Could Continue Into Fall, Says Government https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-08-18/canadas-wildfires-could-continue-into-fall-says-government    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:28:12

• Canada imported more vehicles from Mexico than the US in June https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/canada-imported-more-vehicles-mexico-us-june/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:29:34

• Flight Attendants Won’t Let Air Canada Profit From Unpaid Labor https://jacobin.com/2025/08/air-canada-strike-unpaid-labor/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:30:03

• higher wages https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-post-union-offer-1.7613838    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:30:51

• greenwashing https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/group-files-greenwashing-complaint-with-securities-watchdog-against-enbridge-cenovus-1.7613686    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:31:20

• UK: HMRC sacks dozens of staff for snooping on taxpayers https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/hmrc-staff-spying-taxpayers-accessing-32287458    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:34:42

• Thousands more Afghans affected by second data breach, ministers say https://news.sky.com/story/thousands-more-afghans-affected-by-second-data-breach-ministers-say-13412464    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:35:31

• Cholera https://www.dw.com/en/cholera-a-resurgent-potentially-deadly-gut-bacteria/a-73692613    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:36:42

• German top politicians' cars exceed CO2 targets: study https://www.dw.com/en/german-top-politicians-cars-exceed-co2-targets-study/a-73694922    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:37:26

• Kokomo24/7, provider of telehealth services for LAUSD students, reports data breach https://edsource.org/updates/lausd-tech-vendor-kokomo-solutions-falls-prey-to-data-breach    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:38:31

• Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:39:31

• Data breach at Fundamental Administrative Services affected 56,235 patients at long-term care facilities https://databreaches.net/2025/08/16/data-breach-at-fundamental-administrative-services-affected-56235-patients-at-long-term-care-facilities/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:40:19

• 18 Arrested as Gurugram Call Centre Data Leak Fuels Massive SBI Credit Card Scam https://the420.in/sbi-credit-card-fraud-delhi-police-teleperformance-data-leak/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:41:10

• luxury sales slide https://www.dw.com/en/gucci-dior-louis-vuitton-face-crisis-as-luxury-sales-slide/a-73640638    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:42:13

• When a deal is not a done deal: Nova demands higher payment from Clinical Diagnostics https://databreaches.net/2025/08/19/when-a-deal-is-not-a-done-deal-nova-demands-higher-payment-from-clinical-diagnostics/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:43:40

• Two agencies in one state investigated and fined Healthplex. Was that one too many? https://databreaches.net/2025/08/19/two-agencies-in-one-state-investigated-and-fined-healthplex-was-that-one-too-many/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:45:17

• Nigeria vows to mirror US visa social media rule https://www.dw.com/en/nigeria-vows-to-mirror-us-visa-social-media-rule/a-73694703    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:45:55

• UK Cannabis Clinic CB1 Medical Investigating As Patients Affected By Major Data Leak https://cannabishealthnews.co.uk/2025/08/20/uk-cannabis-clinic-investigating-patients-affected-by-data-breach/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:47:02

• "Pharmaceutical company Inotiv has notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that its business operations took a hit after hackers compromised and encrypted its internal systems." https://www.securityweek.com/pharmaceutical-company-inotiv-confirms-ransomware-attack/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:47:43

• Orange Belgium informs its customers about a cyberattack https://corporate.orange.be/en/node/57971    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:48:28

• My Conversation with a Ukrainian Soldier https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/24/2339922/-My-Conversation-with-a-Ukrainian-Soldier    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 02:57:05

• CPC rewriting language https://www.dw.com/en/skibidi-delulu-and-tradwife-make-their-way-into-cambridge-dictionary/a-73674319    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 03:01:27

• tax revolution https://www.dw.com/en/is-vietnam-going-too-far-with-its-tax-revolution/a-73679554    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 03:02:23

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-08-25.gmi    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 03:03:38

• "(Also post writing Memer here, this post reads a lot more like looking into someone's mind rather than a blog post so, if that's not your thing, also be wary ♥)" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2693    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 03:05:39

• "We build, we code, we contribute — but always in isolation" gopher://fatelectron.net:70/0/phlog/20250819.org    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 03:06:34

• "It's Saturday night here in Bogotá, and I'm deep into a re-watch of The X-Files. I'm on my 40s, and something about seeing this show again in 2025 is hitting me hard." gopher://fatelectron.net:70/0/phlog/20250823.org    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 03:07:19

• "The cancer known as Mein Drumpf was supposed to save the American worker." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k2g33g1d    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 03:13:52

• "One thing to add: HR departments are a joke and complicit, HR people are one of the most hypocritical in the corproate world, because they talk one talk, but they always walk another walk. Yes, I know why, but how do they sleep at night? CHROs are glorified and overpaid i_d_i_o_t_s" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k3c1bhhm    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 03:14:45

• "if it looks like a moh ron, thinks like a moh ron, speaks like a moh ron and acts like a moh ron, then it must be Alvind the moh ron!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k3c1bhhm    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 03:15:09

• All time low now https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/montenegro//#monthly-200902-202508 https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Microsoft_Windows_Fell_to_19_Market_Share_in_Montenegro.shtml    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 03:33:41

• In Macedonia also https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/macedonia//#monthly-200902-202508    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 03:34:46

• windows down to 18.8% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/mauritius/#monthly-200902-202508    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 03:59:10

• It's not "AI", censorship algorithms are nothing new either https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/159708/tiktok-lays-off-hundreds-more-content-moderators-in-ai-push    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 04:14:03

• "Las Vegas casino announces it is closing"    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 04:14:53

• "Las Vegas casino set to CLOSE as Sin City's rip-off prices trigger devastating tourist slump"    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 04:15:17

• TCS layoffs: Microsoft proxy in India getting smaller again    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 04:16:20

• Still all-time lows for Windows https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/algeria/#monthly-200902-202508 https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/03/Microsoft_Windows_Falls_to_All_Time_Lows_in_Morocco_and_Algeria.shtml    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 04:44:13

• Sad to see the Assange family pandering to ponzi scheme or fake currencies https://blockworks.co/podcast/supplyshock/e59ec588-7de0-11f0-bddc-1b6fc456c734    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 05:34:14

• "mart city" just means lots of surveillance https://www.dw.com/en/how-smart-city-planning-helps-to-avoid-accidents/a-73616778    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 06:27:42

• Sounds like purely made up BS https://www.dw.com/en/how-helsinki-cut-traffic-deaths-to-zero-with-help-of-smart-city-planning/a-73616778    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 06:28:34

• South Korea, US begin joint military exercises https://www.dw.com/en/south-korea-us-begin-joint-military-exercises/a-73674925    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 06:29:53

• Germany, Japan partner to face down 'aggressive' China https://www.dw.com/en/germany-japan-partner-to-face-down-aggressive-china/a-73675161    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 06:30:31

• Berlin to change racist street name after legal battle https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-to-change-racist-street-name-after-legal-battle/a-73280857    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 06:36:05

• Washington legal chief sues Cheeto Mussolini over police takeover https://www.dw.com/en/washington-legal-chief-sues-trump-over-police-takeover/a-73658221    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 06:37:15

• plastic pollution https://www.dw.com/en/un-talks-on-plastic-pollution-fail-to-reach-deal/a-73648025    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 06:37:46

• cholera https://www.dw.com/en/sudan-40-deaths-from-darfur-cholera-outbreak-in-one-week/a-73655788    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 06:38:16

• 'self-reliance' https://www.dw.com/en/india-s-modi-seeks-self-reliance-on-independence-day/a-73649451    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 06:39:09

• solar-powered cold storage https://www.dw.com/en/india-can-solar-powered-cold-storage-save-crops-in-bihar/a-73654982    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 06:40:01

• Flooding https://www.dw.com/en/flooding-kills-over-250-people-in-pakistan-india/a-73656252    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 07:09:02

• Family separation: pygmy hippo https://www.dw.com/en/bon-voyage-toni-berlin-readies-pygmy-hippo-for-france/a-73648330    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 07:10:42

• Wildfires https://www.dw.com/en/spain-wildfires-rage-as-heatwave-enters-3rd-week/a-73673207    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 07:14:20

• asylum https://www.dw.com/en/australia-grants-asylum-to-pro-democracy-hong-kong-activist/a-73670488    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 07:15:15

• Full-scale crackpottery on display https://blog.mozilla.ai/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 07:59:21

• Killing off your battery (GOODBYE, PLANET!) while destroying your privacy https://blog.mozilla.ai/wasm-agents-ai-agents-running-in-your-browser/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:00:36

• Of course everything is already outsourced to Microsoft PROPRIETARY software https://blog.mozilla.ai/meet-mcpd-requirements-txt-for-agentic-systems/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:01:54

• Instead of promoting RSS feeds Mozilla.ai tells you to sign up by E-mail and those signups are MANAGED BY MICROSOFT PROPRIETARY SPYWARE.    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:03:34

• So Mozilla.ai is like another Microsoft portal    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:03:53

• Virtually everything in that site is Microsoft GitHub. Dead-end site. http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/07/Mozilla_Had_No_Good_Reason_to_Outsource_Firefox_Development_to_.shtml    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:05:38

• Mozilla is researching new ways to irritate users of Firefox while wasting the remaining funds even faster. It does help prop up the bubble or pyramid scheme of Mozilla's Sugar Daddy.    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:06:36

• "John Bolton and the MIHOP Gambit" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/23/john-bolton-and-the-mihop-gambit/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:10:55

• "Gaming in a post-Xbox Era? | As in guillotine..." https://loudpoet.com/2025/08/23/gaming-in-a-post-xbox-era/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:11:21

• "The Economics of Stagflation, Part II - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-economics-of-stagflation-part-10f    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:11:33

• iophk: only some ads are reduced https://www.pcworld.com/article/2545435/stop-windows-11s-most-intrusive-ads-with-these-9-simple-tweaks.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:12:05

• iophk: Microsoft is going to be boosting the anniversary of the W95 marketing campaign to distract from the anti-trust aspects of illegally bundling a web browser with that GUI-on-top-of-DOS system; see also the AARD links http://techrights.org/wiki/AARD/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:12:37

• "After Trump’s Threat to Send National Guard to Chicago, Democrats Push Back" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/us/politics/trump-national-guard-chicago-crime.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:12:53

• "Creative Commons Becomes an Official UNESCO NGO Partner" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/08/23/2218218    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:13:11

• "TikTok ban: TikTok ban not lifted, clarifies government sources amid reports of website being accessible" https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/tiktok-ban-not-lifted-clarifies-government-sources-amid-reports-of-website-being-accessible/article69973821.ece blocked by gratuitous javascript    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:13:31

• True to the homophobia (punishable by death) of Hamas and its sponsors https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/pride-parade-cancelled-after-being-halted-by-pro-palestinian-protesters-1.5554689    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:14:08

• "How Estonians are managing the threat of a Russian invasion" https://www.dw.com/en/how-estonians-are-managing-the-threat-of-a-russian-invasion/a-73724598    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:14:23

• "As Europe's fear of war grows, French join military reserves" https://www.dw.com/en/as-europes-fear-of-war-grows-french-join-military-reserves/a-73693860    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:14:46

• "Prince Andrew's sex abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre to publish bombshell tell-all autobiography from beyond the grave | The Sun" https://www.thesun.co.uk/royals/36420608/prince-andrews-sex-abuse-accuser-virginia-giuffre-autobiography/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/15/Meme_Well_He_s_Dead_So_Bill_Gates_Tells_the_Media_Which_He_Pays.shtml    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:15:08

• Online age verification – UK vs. EU | "Ålderskontroll online – UK vs. EU" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/08/24/alderskontroll-online-uk-vs-eu/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:15:39

• More words about enphase ☞ https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/2025-envoy/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:34:32

• Meanderer trike steering and leaning design ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202508/meanderer-trike-steering-and-leaning-design.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:35:35

• Peace Talks in Ukraine All Lead to the Donbas ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/world/europe/russia-ukraine-donbas-peace-talks-putin-trump-zelensky.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:36:43

• Russia’s Top Diplomat Says There Is No Plan for Putin-Zelensky Meeting ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/us/politics/lavrov-seems-to-erase-the-notion-that-a-putin-zelensky-meeting-is-in-the-works.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:36:56

• "U.S. archbishop who met with Putin in Alaska apologizes for not asking him to end the war" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/25/u-s-archbishop-who-met-with-putin-in-alaska-apologizes-for-not-asking-him-to-end-the-war | Source: Meduza    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:37:13

• Speech by Commissioner Kubilius During the Celebration of Ukraine's Independence Day ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_1984    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:37:53

• 'Low key atmosphere' as Ukraine celebrates independence day ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250824-low-key-atmosphere-as-ukraine-celebrates-independence-day    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:38:13

• Ukraine's security guarantees top the agenda on its independence day ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250824-ukraine-s-security-gurantees-top-the-agenda-on-its-independence-day    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:38:41

• Taiwan to invest in military drones, drawing 'major lesson' from war in Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20250824-taiwan-military-drone-investment-ukraine-china-taipei-war    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:39:05

• Canadian PM Carney attends celebrations on 34th Ukrainian Independence day ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250824-canadian-pm-carney-attends-celebrations-on-34th-ukrainian-independence-day    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:39:24

• Ukraine marks its independence day as peace push shows little sign of progress ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250824-ukraine-marks-its-independence-day-as-peace-push-shows-little-sign-of-progress    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:49:48

• 34 years ago, the making of an independent Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250824-34-years-ago-the-making-of-an-independent-ukraine    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:50:07

• Ukraine celebrates its 34th Independence Day amid the ongoing war with Russia ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250824-ukraine-celebrates-its-34th-independence-day-amid-the-ongoing-war-with-russia    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:50:29

• Is Convicted Felon’s Ukraine gambit 'sending a signal to the world that America does not stand by its allies'? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250824-is-trump-s-ukraine-gambit-sending-a-signal-to-the-world-that-america-does-not-stand-by-its-allies    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:50:59

• Ukraine celebrates its 34th Independence Day from Soviet Union ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250824-ukraine-celebrates-its-34th-independence-day-from-soviet-union    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:51:16

• Ukraine celebrates its 34th Independence Day from Soviet Union, after National Flag Day ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250824-ukraine-celebrates-its-34th-independence-day-from-soviet-union-after-national-flag-day    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:51:36

• With GNU/Linux, one can hope... ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2648723/it-specialists-from-prienai-refurbish-donated-computers-and-send-them-to-ukraine    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:52:02

• Why the Donbas Is the Key to the Ukraine War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000010350283/why-the-donbas-is-the-key-to-the-ukraine-war.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:52:18

• Zelensky Marks Ukraine’s Independence Day With Diplomacy in Kyiv and a Plea for Peace ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/world/europe/zelensky-ukraine-independence-day.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:52:33

• "‘undesirable’" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/25/russia-declares-international-baccalaureate-an-undesirable-organization | Source: Meduza    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:52:56

• How Will Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Solve Their Intifada Problem? ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/how-will-microsoft-solve-their-intifada    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:53:20

• Ladybird Gains Surveillance Giant Google Sheets Support ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ladybird-gains-google-sheets-support    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:53:34

• "It is debatable whether this was the beginning of bloat." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsofts-windows-95-release-was-30-years-ago-today-the-first-time-software-was-a-pop-culture-smash | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 08:54:54

• "IPv6 removes that ceiling. Its vast address space allows every device to be directly and uniquely addressed, removing the need for large-scale address sharing." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/08/25/the-ipv6-divide/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:03:37

• End of support for backdoored Windows 10, backdoored Windows 8.1 and backdoored Windows 7 ☞ http://www.goodbyemicrosoft.net/news.php?item.841.3    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:04:54

• Scam Altman and UK government minister reportedly discussed giving Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Plus to all Brits for free ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-and-uk-government-minister-reportedly-discussed-giving-chatgpt-plus-to-all-brits-for-free    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:05:09

• "If anyone is on a Green Card, you need to talk to an attorney before you travel ... but based off my experience, I don’t think you should be traveling" ☛ https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ice-released-mass-mom-no-144711395.html | Source: Yahoo News    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:06:39

• "We’re told that it is a question of logistics, sometimes it often appears that these transfers may be retaliatory in nature" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-ice-coast-guard-planes-immigrants-detention-1235414267/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:07:10

• "Guiducci was stuck between the publicists who ruled the celebrity fashion world he’d long inhabited" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/08/24/2025/vanity-fairs-new-cruise-director-will-have-to-choose-between-his-reporters-and-his-friends | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:07:47

• "My new ISP provided router does not allow me to change the advertised DNS server IP." ☛ https://blog.balthazar-rouberol.com/blackholing-tracking-domains-by-running-pihole-as-a-dhcp-server | Source: Balthazar Rouberol    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:08:21

• "4Chan’s lawyers have called for a “diplomatic and legal” solution for their potential £18 million fine for violating the Online Safety Act. But how far would Trump go for them?" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/politics/764653/4chan-uk-online-safety-act-trump | Source: The Verge    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:08:45

• "In light of increasing pressure on free speech in the UK, new site blocking powers under the Online Safety Act are a cause for concern." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/uk-govt-finds-ideal-pirate-bay-poster-boy-to-sell-blocking-of-non-pirate-sites-250824/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:09:12

• "Twenty-five titles — including a work by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy — have been banned in Kashmir" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/08/censorship-kashmir-memory-literature-nationalism/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:09:30

• "on behalf of Stanford’s student newspaper and two unnamed students" ☛ https://thedissenter.org/fighting-the-trump-administrations-unchecked-power-to-deport-noncitizen-students/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:10:49

• "Between the TikTok propaganda pipeline and the fact that young Americans’ experience with politics so far is, well, really bad, it’s hard to blame them." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/how-to-teach-the-tiktok-generation | Source: Garry Kasparov    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:11:23

• "Without attending the bidding, Chiu was allocated the licence plate “US 8964” after it remained unsold at the auction." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/08/24/driven-out-why-the-owner-of-us-8964-licence-plate-faced-police-scrutiny-and-a-year-of-harassment/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:11:49

• "High-speed trains are not as romantic as steam engines, sleepers or old diesel units that chug along coasts or up mountains. But they say a lot about a country’s aspirations." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/advice/countries-with-the-fastest-trains/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:12:31

• "Revolution Wind is located in federal waters 15 miles south of Rhode Island." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5513919 | Source: NPR    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:12:44

• "And to be honest the actual ‘energy’ price part of it is only about 65-70% of what you get paid anyway." ☛ https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2025/08/24/new-power-purchase-agreement-signed/ | Source: Positech Games    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:13:05

• "Last week, I wrote bout my experience getting a solar power system installed" ☛ https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/2025-envoy/ | Source: James Brown    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:13:28

• "City Hall has a plan to make the presence of cruise ships more bearable: electrify them and connect them to the grid" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-08-24/data-centers-are-drying-up-the-port-of-marseille-they-consume-enormous-amounts-of-electricity.html | Source: El País    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:14:05

• "Sixty Chinese nationals were arrested, and equipment worth US$37 million was seized. Think about that for a second. That’s a serious investment in hardware." ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/08/interpol-angola-crypto-mining-raid-zimbabwe-power-grid/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:20:31

• "distracting from the pain he is causing working families." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/abuse-power-trumps-chicago-military-takeover-slammed-illinois-governorother-states-could-1742061 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:21:08

• "who are the “real” Americans in this moment?" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/who-are-the-real-americans-here | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:21:27

• "I started this series by identifying the major causes of the problems we face with the MAGA movement spawned by Trump and glommed onto like leeches by fascists" ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/23/the-economic-myths-supporting-the-existence-of-billionaires/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:21:59

• Surveillance ☛ https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-08-24/ai-devours-your-information-it-knows-what-you-search-for-do-and-upload-and-uses-that-data.html | Source: El País    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:22:34

• Openwashing: "it doesn’t fully address the fundamental challenge" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/nathan-lamberts-atom-project-seeks-american-open-source-ai-models/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:23:17

• "You don’t have to comment on everything you see online. Some may say that makes you anti-social, as they never see you online." ☛ https://gregoryhammond.ca/blog/anti-social/ | Source: Gregory Hammond    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:23:46

• "The bank is also hiring similar roles with messaging duties at CBA India." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/24/commonwealth-bank-fires-un-fires-call-centre-over-ai/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:24:12

• "The database was published by the Leopoldina Academy of Sciences and the Max Planck Society." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/nazi-human-experiments-still-influence-medicine-today/a-73742634 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:25:17

• "Unfortunately, her new one didn't last as long as the original one, and I still use the original one to this day" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whatonearth/stuff-not-lasting-1.7614547 | Source: CBC    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:25:58

• "Earlier this year I bought a MV4-V4S471/472P motherboard from eBay or Gumtree for a steep discount, mostly due to Varta battery damage." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/my-vl-bus-i486-board-lives-im-incredibly-happy/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:26:10

• "As a child, I had read more or less continuously to myself, with breaks only here and there: for dinner, for math class, for college graduation." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/08/reading-aloud-children-baby-parents/683971/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:26:42

• "An expert has filled a book with information and I’ve seen every word of it. That builds confidence" ☛ https://ratfactor.com/b/technical-books | Source: Dave Gauer    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:26:55

• "Absence of evidence is evidence of absence" ☛ https://svpow.com/2025/08/24/absence-of-evidence-is-evidence-of-absence-it-just-isnt-proof/ | Source: Matt Wedel    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:27:24

• "Joints at the root of the character are much more sensitive to rotational errors compared to joints at the end of the chain" ☛ https://theorangeduck.com/page/joint-error-propagation | Source: Daniel Holden    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:27:58

• "I used to argue for a Sustainability lens, but that label suggests ethical risks. Those things are vitally important" ☛ https://werd.io/why-you-need-systems-thinking-now/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:28:12

• cpplint – static code checker for C++ ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cpplint-static-code-checker-cplusplus/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:34:08

• Ruffle – Adobe Flash Player emulator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ruffle-adobe-flash-player-emulator/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:34:21

• Spelloff – multiplayer first-person shooter ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/spelloff-multiplayer-first-person-shooter/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:34:32

• Cantera – chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport tool suite ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cantera-chemical-kinetics-thermodynamics-transport-tool-suite/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 09:34:45

• "Have you had neurotypicals repeat nonsense¹ to you about autism? Have you tried to educate them about your condition, but they just won't listen?" gemini://nicholasjohnson.ch/2025/08/24/neurotypicals-lack-empathy-towards-autistic-people/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:11:17

• Updated certs to 99 years and post-post Antenna hook gemini://l-3.space/log-250825-1.gmi    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:12:09

• Jonkinlainen. gemini://eljasverve.smol.pub/1756115406    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:13:18

• "I started using my old iPod Classic again! Using the iPod is a weird mix of nostalgia, convenience and sound quality." gemini://kavka.wrote.re/post/testing-my-old-ipod-classic-2025-08-25/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:20:43

• "Kickstarter is currently featuring the Xerxes Pi, a compact compute module carrier developed by Rapid Analysis in Australia." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/kickstarter-features-xerxes-pi-a-compact-compute-module-carrier-for-home-labs/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:25:00

• "The FET3506J-C is a compact embedded module from Forlinx based on the Rockchip RK3506J." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/tiny-linux-based-industrial-module-built-on-rk3506j-soc/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:25:18

• "I have an ongoing fascination with "interactive TV": a series of efforts" ☛ https://computer.rip/2025-08-25-teletext-in-north-america.html | Source: Computers Are Bad    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:25:58

• [Old] "These things about Go are bugging me more and more. Mostly because they’re so unnecessary." ☛ https://blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go-is-still-not-good.html | Source: Thomas Habets    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:27:11

• "Write a script to return all characters that is in every word in the given array including duplicates." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/common-find.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:27:55

• "If this is true about systems - and it is - it’s even more true about APIs: good APIs are boring." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-api-design/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:28:44

• "The motivation of this implementation seems to be around not relying on the sleep utility, despite this being part of the POSIX standard." ☛ https://matt.blwt.io/post/overengineering-sleep/ | Source: Matt Blewitt    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:28:59

• "Alignment refers to the practice of placing data or code at memory addresses that are multiples of a specific value, typically a power of 2." ☛ https://maskray.me/blog/2025-08-24-understanding-alignment-from-source-to-object-file | Source: MaskRay    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:29:10

• "Alignment refers to the practice of placing data or code at memory addresses that are multiples of a specific value, typically a power of 2." ☛ https://maskray.me/blog/2025-08-24-understanding-alignment-from-source-to-object-file | Source: MaskRay    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:29:32

• "The rolling mean chart shows rate cuts came after the significant uptrend of unemployment, and we can not see such a that increasing recently." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/08/sliding-calculations-of-risks-of-federal-reserve-rate-cuts/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:30:54

• "The thirteenth annual OpenZFS Developer Summit and second annual OpenZFS User Summit will take place in Portland, Oregon, USA October 25th through 28th, 2025" ☛ https://openzfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_Developer_Summit_2025 | Source: OpenZFS    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:31:27

• "Join us for the November 2025 FreeBSD Vendor Summit. The event will take place November 6-7, 2025." ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/event-calendar/fall-2025-freebsd-summit/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:31:45

• "This already looks like people talking about “privacy” but actually refering to “anonimity”, which is a form of “secrecy”." ☛ https://blog.canta.com.ar/2025/08/24/symptoms-of-the-cryptical-agony-of-worker-rights/ | Source: Daniel Cantarín    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:32:25

• "but a fresh copy from homebrew behaved differently: [...]" ☛ https://avi.im/blag/2025/sqlite-fsync/ | Source: Avinash Sajjanshetty    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:33:33

• "Where I have duplicates I have named the machines after one of the stickers stuck on the front." ☛ https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-08-23/ | Source: Jonathan Pallant    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:36:03

• "Yes, if your car inverter could handle a 45-ish watt load — and your wife doesn't want her seat back right away — you could navigate major routes across America on your home computer like this portable Commodore SX-64." ☛ https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/08/make-your-apple-ii-or-commodore-64.html | Source: Old VCR    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:36:19

• "I want to build a numpad for learning how to touch-type financial stuff, and was tempted to just go with the same switches again." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/the-gateron-smoothie-linear-switches/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:36:48

• "openSUSE has quietly rolled out a major refresh to its website—well, to the home page, to be more exact (I’ll get into that in a moment)." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-launches-revamped-website/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:37:57

• "I then ejected the Devuan disc, rebooted, put in the FreeDOS 1.4 RC2 disc and installed that." ☛ https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/freedos-on-an-imac/ | Source: Darren Goossens    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:39:13

• "The KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop environment is taking shape, and while the stable release is still a couple of months away—scheduled for October 21—it looks like it will get a major addition: KDE Initial System Setup (KISS)." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-5-brings-initial-system-setup/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:43:12

• "As a result of discovering that (M.2) NVMe SSDs seem to have become the dominant form of SSDs" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/M2ToVariousThings | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:43:45

• "I have some regular use cases that makes clipboard managers worth their weight in gold." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/i-have-found-the-joy-of-clipboard-managers/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:45:34

• SpaceX Scrubs Critical 10th Test Launch of Starship Rocket ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/science/spacex-starship-launch.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:46:13

• Oligarchs-controlled US schools? Murdoch shills for them. https://nypost.com/2025/08/24/us-news/mesa-south-brooklyns-first-charter-school-opens-after-6-year-wait/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:47:22

• South Korea’s Lee says hard to accept strategic ‘flexibility’ of US troops in Korea: Yonhap ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-lee-says-hard-to-accept-strategic-flexibility-of-us-troops-in-korea-yonhap    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:48:02

• India’s Modi dangles tax cuts as US tariffs loom ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/indias-modi-dangles-tax-cuts-as-us-tariffs-loom    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:48:20

• Seoul to unveil South Korea’s first self-driving shuttle in September ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/seoul-to-unveil-south-koreas-first-self-driving-shuttle-in-september    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:48:50

• South Korea’s special prosecutors seek to detain former PM Han over martial law crisis ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-special-prosecutors-seek-to-detain-former-pm-han-over-martial-law-crisis    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:59:23

• Half of foreign-owned apartments in Seoul belong to Americans, followed by Chinese ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/half-of-foreign-owned-apartments-in-seoul-belong-to-americans-chinese-follow    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:59:41

• Son of a former Malaysia PM nabbed in Selangor for alleged drug possession ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/son-of-a-former-malaysia-pm-nabbed-in-selangor-for-alleged-drug-possession    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 14:59:58

• Malaysia to donate $30.6 million to Gaza, says PM Anwar ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-to-donate-s30-3-million-to-gaza-says-pm-anwar    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 15:00:18

• South Korea tells China it wants to normalise ties, upgrade economic relations ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korea-tells-china-it-wants-to-normalise-ties-upgrade-economic-relations    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 15:01:01

• China’s Tropical Resort Island Orders Evacuations as Typhoon Kajiki Nears ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/world/asia/typhoon-kajiki-china-sanya.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 15:01:31

• This Is the End of China’s Once Mightiest Property Firm ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/business/china-evergrande-delisted.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 15:01:54

• Vietnam plans mass evacuation, China’s Sanya shuts as Typhoon Kajiki intensifies ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-tourist-city-sanya-shuts-down-as-typhoon-kajiki-intensifies    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 15:02:13

• India plans mega dam in Arunachal Pradesh, with eye on China’s hydropower station in Tibet ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-plans-mega-dam-in-arunachal-pradesh-with-eye-on-chinas-hydropower-station-in-tibet    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 15:02:43

• China says ‘rampant’ US protectionism threatens agricultural ties ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-says-rampant-us-protectionism-threatens-agricultural-ties    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 15:45:09

• South Korea tells China it wants to normalise ties, Yonhap reports ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korea-tells-china-it-wants-to-normalise-ties-yonhap-reports    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 15:45:31

• "Pong Cloned By Neural Network" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/24/pong-cloned-by-neural-network/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 15:49:00

• Indonesia’s mobile music craze divides opinion ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250824-indonesia-s-mobile-music-craze-divides-opinion    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 15:54:45

• ESP32 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/24/esp32-sets-sail-as-a-modern-bus-pirate-powerhouse/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:04:11

• Centron CT1832 Real.Pi – A Realtek RTD1619B SBC based on Raspberry Pi 3 Model B form factor ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/08/25/centron-ct1832-real-pi-a-realtek-rtd1619b-sbc-based-on-raspberry-pi-3-model-b-form-factor/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:04:28

• The UEFI Restricted Boot 'Time Bomb' is About to Go Off in a Few Weeks (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/24/The_UEFI_Restricted_Boot_Time_Bomb_is_About_to_Go_Off_in_a_Few_.shtml    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:11:58

• CachyOS is Rising Fast, But Slopfarms Are 'Googlebombing' It ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/24/CachyOS_is_Rising_Fast_But_Slopfarms_Are_Googlebombing_It.shtml    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:12:17

• No Reason for Red Bait Relief Yet (Layoff Rumours) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/24/No_Reason_for_Red_Hat_Relief_Yet_Layoff_Rumours.shtml    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:12:28

• Lying to its own staff https://www.financialexpress.com/trending/microsoft-is-filtering-candidates-laid-off-employee-claims-rehire-promises-are-misleading-says-i-was-told/3956912/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:13:32

• Mass Layoffs Continue at Abusive Monopolist Microsoft This Month (Remaining Workers See Conditions That Deteriorate) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/24/Mass_Layoffs_Continue_at_Microsoft_This_Month_Remaining_Workers.shtml    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:13:48

• 80% of the Sponsored (Fake) Articles in The Register MS Are Promotions of Ponzi Schemes (Unethical Money), the Rest is Banned Chinese Business ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/24/80_of_the_Sponsored_Fake_Articles_in_The_Register_MS_Are_Promot.shtml    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:14:02

• The US Government is Now in the Business (Literally!) of Saving Abusive Monopolist Microsoft and defective chip maker Intel ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/23/The_US_Government_is_Now_in_the_Business_Literally_of_Saving_Mi.shtml    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:14:21

• Men Who Abuse Women Should Never Spend Over 3 Years of the UK High Court's Time (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/23/Men_Who_Abuse_Women_Should_Never_Spend_Over_3_Years_of_the_UK_H.shtml    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:16:16

• The Register MS Needs to Stop Participating in the "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype, But It Gets Paid to Participate in This Hype ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/25/The_Register_MS_Needs_to_Stop_Participating_in_the_Hey_Hi_AI_Hy.shtml    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:16:28

• Nobody is "Replaced by AI", It's Just a Smokescreen for Jobs Being Eliminated by Lack of Money (Too Much Debt) and Offshoring ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/23/Nobody_is_Replaced_by_AI_It_s_Just_a_Smokescreen_for_Jobs_Being.shtml    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:16:41

• What the ‘Panama Playlists’ Exposed About Spotify User Privacy ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/technology/spotify-panama-playlists-privacy.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:17:16

• ‘I thought house was about to collapse’: Mild earthquake strikes Segamat in Johor ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/i-thought-the-house-was-about-to-collapse-mild-earthquake-strikes-segamat-in-johor    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:20:10

• Sri Lanka ex-President Wickremesinghe hospitalised after arrest, media says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/sri-lanka-ex-president-wickremesinghe-hospitalised-after-arrest-media-says    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:21:04

• New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Stick it to the Stickman - 2025-08-23 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2025-08-23-edition/index.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:22:24

• Reading Location Position Value in Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Word Documents, (Mon, Aug 25th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32224    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:23:09

• The end of an era: Properly formatted IP addresses in all of our data., (Sun, Aug 24th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32228    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:23:53

• Stephen Shore Started Taking Photos at 8 Years Old and Never Stopped ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/arts/design/stephen-shore-photography-book-early-work.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:25:16

• "Wire Photo Fax Teardown" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/24/wire-photo-fax-teardown/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:25:57

• Javascript nuisance ☞ https://blog.slackware.nl/anubis-is-now-guarding-the-git-server/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:26:40

• NXP IW623 SoC supports 2×2 tri-band Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth LE audio ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/08/25/nxp-iw623-soc-combines-2x2-tri-band-wi-fi-6e-with-bluetooth-le-audio/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:27:38

• health @ Savannah: Luis Falcon receives the One World One Family Humanitarian award in healthcare ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10806    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:28:36

• GNU Health: Luis Falcon, author of GNU Health, receives the One World One Family Humanitarian award in the field of Healthcare ☞ https://my.gnusolidario.org/2025/08/24/luis-falcon-author-of-gnu-health-receives-the-one-world-one-family-humanitarian-award-in-the-field-of-healthcare/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:29:34

• Runtime Python Virtual Environment Switching based on Cantor ☞ https://zjh-blog.blogspot.com/2025/08/runtime-python-virtual-environment.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:29:56

• Three writing systems of English and localization woes ☞ https://www.hanyoung.uk/blog/2025/three-scripts-of-english/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:31:00

• Best Non-Violent Games Available on Steam for GNU/Linux Users ☞ https://itsfoss.com/non-violent-games-llinux/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:32:05

• CachyOS ISO Snapshot for August 2025 Introduces a New Package Dashboard ☞ https://9to5linux.com/cachyos-iso-snapshot-for-august-2025-introduces-a-new-package-dashboard    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:32:41

• 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 24th, 2025 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-august-24th-2025    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:32:53

• FFmpeg’s ‘Largest Release’ Yet Brings Vulkan Video Processing ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/ffmpeg-8-vulkan-compute-codecs-professional-video    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:33:30

• CachyOS 250824 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/cachyos    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:34:40

• "Speaks In Signs" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/24/ambidextrous-robot-hand-speaks-in-signs/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:35:20

• UN experts voice concern over ongoing violence against Druze population in Syria ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/un-experts-worry-over-ongoing-violence-against-druze-population-in-syria/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:28:38

• Iran willing to limit uranium enrichment ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250824-iran-willing-to-limit-uranium-enrichment    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:28:59

• AMD comments on burning AM5 sockets — chipmaker blames motherboard vendors for not following official BIOS guidelines ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-comments-on-burning-am5-socket-chipmaker-blames-motherboard-vendors-for-not-following-official-bios-guidelines    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:29:44

• My VL-Bus i486 board lives! I’m incredibly happy ☞ https://rubenerd.com/my-vl-bus-i486-board-lives-im-incredibly-happy/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:31:10

• Python Virtual Environment Switching with CPython ☞ https://zjh-blog.blogspot.com/2025/08/python-virtual-environment-switching.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:31:48

• Expect Putin to pay big-time for trolling Convicted Felon ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/08/24/opinion/expect-putin-to-pay-big-time-for-trolling-trump/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:32:31

• As Ukraine Marks Independence Day, Russia Continues To Muddy Prospects For Peace ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-ukraine-putin-trump-carney-battlefield-military/33511569.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:32:43

• Arch Enemies | LINUX Unplugged 629 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/629/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:33:26

• SQL Server does not properly run on GNU/Linux. It never did. This is a lame proposition. ☞ https://idroot.us/install-microsoft-sql-server-debian-13/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:37:51

• How To Install HandBrake on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-handbrake-almalinux-10/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:38:27

• How To Install MailSpring on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-mailspring-manjaro/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:38:47

• How To Install PowerDNS on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-powerdns-fedora-42/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:39:17

• How To Install Timeshift on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-timeshift-fedora-42/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:39:32

• Is It Really Open Source? How to Tell if a Project Walks the Walk ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/08/is-it-really-open-source-how-to-tell-if-a-project-walks-the-walk/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:40:09

• Murdoch tabloids boosting Fentanylware https://nypost.com/2025/08/24/lifestyle/tiktoks-viral-6-6-6-walking-routine-burns-fat-without-grueling-workouts/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:41:13

• █████ https://feeds.feedburner.com/RBloggers ██████████████████████ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:00:00 +0000 ███████ Men’s domestic chores and fertility rates – Part II, technical notes by @ellis2013nz    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:42:15

• "This post is a collection of more technical notes forming a companion piece to the previous post on men’s time spent on domestic chores and total fertility rates at the country level." ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/08/mens-domestic-chores-and-fertility-rates-part-ii-technical-notes-by-ellis2013nz/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:42:34

• Replicating Hansen’s Econometrics using Armadillo ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/08/replicating-hansens-econometrics-using-armadillo/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:43:28

• A Shiny app to visualize the Edgeworth box ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/08/a-shiny-app-to-visualize-the-edgeworth-box/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:43:43

• Top 10 Best GTK Themes For Ubuntu GNU/Linux For 2025 ☞ https://dekisoft.net/best-gtk-themes-for-ubuntu-download/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:44:14

• How to Enable VLC Dark Mode in Linux, backdoored Windows & Android ☞ https://dekisoft.net/enable-vlc-dark-mode-linux-windows/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:44:38

• PowerDNS Authoritative Server 5.0 Released with BIND-Style Views ☞ https://linuxiac.com/powerdns-authoritative-server-5-0-released-with-bind-style-views/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:45:22

• CachyOS August 2025 Release Brings Package Dashboard, LTS Kernel ☞ https://linuxiac.com/cachyos-august-2025-release-brings-package-dashboard/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:45:57

• Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 34 (Aug 18 – 24, 2025) ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linuxiac-weekly-wrap-up-week-34-aug-18-24-2025/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:46:08

• Selene – Tor-based p2p chat and file sharing manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/selene-tor-based-p2p-chat-file-sharing-manager/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:48:36

• 40 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Image Viewers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/imageviewers/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:48:48

• Linus Torvalds releases GNU/Linux 6.17-rc3, says it's a normal release ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/linus-torvalds-releases-linux-617-rc3-says-its-a-normal-release/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:53:55

• CachyOS August 2025 release adds packages dashboard, NiriWM support, and more ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/cachyos-august-2025-release-adds-packages-dashboard-niriwm-support-and-more/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:56:47

• RapidRaw – The improvements just keep on coming ☞ https://www.reallinuxuser.com/rapidraw-the-improvements-just-keep-on-coming/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:58:33

• AMD's unreleased Ryzen 5 5500X3D is reportedly 12% faster in multi-core performance in Geekbench — budget Zen 3 chip spotted running in GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amds-unreleased-ryzen-5-5500x3d-is-reportedly-12-percent-faster-in-multi-core-performance-in-geekbench-budget-zen-3-chip-spotted-running-in-linux    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:59:22

• Should Currys PCWorld Start Voiding Warranties of Users of Vista 11? ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/24/Should_Currys_PCWorld_Start_Voiding_Warranties_of_Users_of_Vist.shtml    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:59:41

• How SPAM E-mails With Windows-Centric Files Get Twisted as GNU/Linux Threats, Then Slopfarms Spread the Word ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/24/How_SPAM_E_mails_With_Windows_Centric_Files_Get_Twisted_as_Linu.shtml    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 17:59:54

• GNU/Linux 6%, backdoored Windows 60% in Venezuela, Suggests statCounter ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/24/GNU_Linux_6_Windows_60_in_Venezuela_Suggests_statCounter.shtml    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 18:00:13

• Major Law Firms Seek Class Certification in Live Nation/Ticketmaster Suit; Companies Accused of ‘Using Their Decade-Plus Monopoly to Raise Prices’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/08/22/live-nation-class-action-lawsuit/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 18:01:13

• Texas House Bill draws immediate lawsuit alleging racially engineered overhaul ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/texas-house-bill-draws-immediate-lawsuit-alleging-racially-engineered-overhaul/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 18:02:06

• Indonesian child’s viral fame draws tourists to boat race ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesian-childs-viral-fame-draws-tourists-to-boat-race    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 18:02:40

• In Washington Crackdown, Making a Federal Case Out of Low-Level Arrests ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/us/politics/trump-dc-crime-takeover-federal-court.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 18:03:00

• "recruiting 30 master’s students in artificial intelligence" = PONZI SCHEME, Lies as "Education" ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/seoul-approves-lg-plan-to-open-first-company-run-graduate-school    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 18:03:48

• Shadow Realm at Black Hole's Edge Simulated For The First Time ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/shadow-realm-at-black-holes-edge-simulated-for-the-first-time    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 18:07:03

• Giant Chunks of The Seafloor Are Mysteriously Upside Down, Scientists Find ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/giant-chunks-of-the-seafloor-are-mysteriously-upside-down-scientists-find    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 18:07:16

• Mixing Coffee And Antibiotics Could Be a Bad Idea, Study Shows ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mixing-coffee-and-antibiotics-could-be-a-bad-idea-study-shows    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 18:07:31

• DNA From Beethoven's Hair Reveals a Surprise Close to 200 Years Later ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dna-from-beethovens-hair-reveals-a-surprise-close-to-200-years-later    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 18:07:45

• RP2040 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/24/rp2040-assembly-language-mix-and-match/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 18:08:08

• "The circuit is an all-discrete PLL that derives a 440kHz output from a 1Hz input, and it arrived just too late for our 1Hz contest." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/24/a-pll-for-perfect-pitch/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 18:08:28

• Sysdig on Linux: diagnose problems in minutes (2025) https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/sysdig-on-linux-diagnose-problems-in-minutes-2025-9bf400c95ce8    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 18:09:45

• "Arch Linux-based CachyOS distribution has a new ISO snapshot for August 2025 that brings the latest package updates from the Arch Linux repositories, as well as various other improvements." https://9to5linux.com/cachyos-iso-snapshot-for-august-2025-introduces-a-new-package-dashboard    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 18:10:28

• This network's tune changed after taking Microsoft money. Now a lot of anti-Linux articles. https://www.makeuseof.com/macos-better-than-linux-for-windows-users/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 18:11:56

• KDE https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/want-affordable-linux-desktop-pc-133016660.html    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 18:12:41

• Linux Kernel May Soon Support USB 3.x on Apple M1 and M2 MacBooks and Desktops https://www.techpowerup.com/340231/linux-kernel-may-soon-support-usb-3-x-on-apple-m1-and-m2-macbooks-and-desktops    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 18:13:15

• "I started working on a proof of concept that slowly became my most important Hare code-base. IRC-Gateway is designed to act as an intermediary between IRC client and external chat services as Slack, Mattermost, Discord, etc... Its goal is to map those services features to IRC v3 protocols." gemini://missbanal.net/status-update-2025-08/    

posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 18:26:16