Roy Schestowitz

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-09-16.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 04:01:10

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1765.jpg    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 04:01:14

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1415.jpg    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 04:01:17

• "In June I wrote how I wasn't going to add scripting to Alhena. Instead I thought it might be cool to put a directive on a pre-formatted text block that would "hint" at a font size. Why? So one could display detailed ascii art created with "high resolution" Code Page 437 characters." gemini://ultimatumlabs.com/gemlog/20250916.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 04:01:51

• "What blog is for web, phlog is for gopher. With smaller or bigger gaps my phlog is here since 2011. I hope you'll enjoy reading it, as much as I did writing it." gopher://i-logout.cz:70/1/phlog/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 04:02:33

• "I love beef jerky. It’s one of my favorite snacks, so I’ve been dehydrating my own for more than ten years. Alas, the price of beef here has risen so significantly in the last six months that I can no longer justify the cost. So last week I attempted my first batch of pork jerky, and here’s how it went." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2703    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 04:03:21

• "Jim Banks Introduces H1-B Reform Bill That ‘Puts American Workers First’". GAFAM would hate that.    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 04:11:22

• "clearly you have TACO derangement syndrome" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k4h3ayvp    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 04:12:10

• Reddut useless to people: "I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns." https://old.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/1ni2krx/what_are_my_options_for_a_linux_distro_that/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 04:14:40

• Monty Widenius 'heartbroken' at the extent of Oracle's MySQL job cuts https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/oracle_slammed_for_mysql_job/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/11/The_World_s_Richest_Ponzi_Scheme_Faking_Value_Using_Net_Waste.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/13/Oracle_Fraud_of_Defrauding_Shareholders.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 04:16:17

• "RH will be assimilated and become just another IBM server product. RH's attack on the fsf & restricting its source code & now this. RH is no longer a FOSS company. They are more anti FOSS these days. Its very sad to see this happen." https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/1965477404945576277    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 04:18:42

• Libera.Chat steadily down https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=Libera.Chat    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 04:23:15

• Undernet fell a bit this month https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=Undernet    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 04:23:53

• “Drug myself to death”: Ricky Hatton spoke of pain addiction and suicidal thoughts before sudden death https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/international-sports/drug-myself-to-death-ricky-hatton-spoke-of-pain-addiction-and-suicidal-thoughts-before-sudden-death-in-manchester/articleshow/123905578.cms    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 04:59:10

• "This comment section really went down the drain quickly." https://itsfoss.com/fsf-new-president/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 09:17:55

• "Hi from Switzerland, thank you for the article. When, earlier this year I found the first articles calling for Richard Stallman's removal from the FSF, I was shocked. Then, after reading carefully the email exchange that gave rise to all this, I see that the first article was unfounded and the other ones that followed just copies."    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 09:17:59

• "Well I am no genius but I can read and I appreciate RMS's humour and intelligence. Ok, maybe he didn't wash back then and was homeless, but that does only show the assaillants like cheap and base low light bulb people. I blame the journalists for publishing texts without reading sources and using their critical sense first."    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 09:18:03

• U Turn! X11 is Back in GNOME 49, For Now https://news.itsfoss.com/x11-is-back-in-gnome/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 09:29:08

• 'Secure' boot? https://old.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/1nhtky3/comment/neg47hv/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 09:56:45

• "Baldur's Gate 3 players on Steam Deck and SteamOS may have noticed recently it appeared like it uninstalled itself, here's what's going on." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/valve-fixes-baldurs-gate-3-issue-on-steam-deck-steamos/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:11:16

• "Wine 10.15 has rolled out as the latest development release on the Windows compatibility layer towards eventually the Wine 11 release next year. And then eventually Proton 11 too for Steam from Valve." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/wine-10-15-released-bringing-unicode-17-and-some-initial-ntsync-work/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:11:35

• "Slay the Spire 2 was originally due in Early Access this year, but the developers have announced it's moving into March 2026. Made with Godot and with plans for full Linux support, I'm excited and I do hope the extra time will allow them to make the best of it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/slay-the-spire-2-delayed-and-now-arrives-march-2026-nothing-to-do-with-silksong/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:12:25

• "What have they done to chess? Mate'Morphosis warps it into a puzzle game where you become the piece you capture where you constantly have to adapt." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/matemorphosis-is-an-upcoming-chess-inspired-puzzle-game-about-becoming-the-piece-you-capture/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:16:07

• "GSC Game World continue improving the recent S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy release, with version 1.3 out for all three titles." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-legends-of-the-zone-trilogy-gets-a-big-upgrade-and-steam-deck-improvements/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:16:26

• "Nintendo likely won't be happy about this one, so get it while it's hot, Super Mario Bros Remastered is out now and open source." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/super-mario-bros-remastered-open-source-fan-project-brings-an-impressive-remake-to-pc/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:16:57

• "Russia Tests Hypersonic Missile at NATO’s Doorstep—and Shares the Video" https://www.wired.com/story/russia-hypersonic-missile-test-nato-borders/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:18:34

• "Chat Control 2: Ett svenskt politiskt haveri" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/09/15/chat-control-2-ett-svenskt-politiskt-haveri/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:18:43

• "Russia Warns Europe: We Will Go After Any State Which Takes Our Assets" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-09-15/russia-warns-europe-we-will-go-after-any-state-which-takes-our-assets    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:18:57

• "My Head Talks on Bloomberg - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/my-head-talks-on-bloomberg    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:19:07

• "Islamism Is Falling — Will the West Take Advantage?" https://www.danielpipes.org/22662/islamism-is-falling    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:19:18

• iopgk on securityweek: pure revisionism, see instead Project Athena, the joint project of MIT; Digital Equipment Corporation, and IBM which launched in 1983 https://www.securityweek.com/zero-trust-is-15-years-old-why-full-adoption-is-worth-the-struggle/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:19:54

• athena history https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/subject/project-athena-628 blocked by gratuitous javascript    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:20:08

• "On Charlie Kirk Show, JD Vance Talks of Crackdown on Liberal Groups" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/jd-vance-charlie-kirk-show.html Liberal DID NOT do this!    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:20:24

• "Charlie Kirk's Assassination Mocked By Liberals Citing Gun Views - Newsweek" https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirks-assassination-mocked-liberals-citing-gun-views-2128232    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:20:39

• iophk: cheerto sez. # meanwhile the actual ban voted in by congress remains unenforced https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/15/trump-says-tiktok-deal-reached-with-china/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:20:58

• "Team Trump Marco Rubio 'Visa' Warning To Those "Celebrating" Charlie Kirk's Killing" https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/team-trump-marco-rubio-visa-warning-to-those-celebrating-charlie-kirks-killing-9284481#publisher=newsstand    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:21:12

• "Musk's Grok falsely accuses police of spreading disinformation about far-right rally in London - Truth or Fake" https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20250915-musk-s-grok-falsely-accuses-police-of-spreading-disinformation-about-far-right-rally-in-london    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:21:26

• A long-awaited problem... | "Et længe ventet problem... | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/et-laenge-ventet-problem    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:21:51

• "Americans have 400 days to save their democracy" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/16/us-americans-republic-midterm-elections-democrats    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:22:04

• "AMD have announced the end of AMDVLK, their official open-source Vulkan driver and will instead now be focusing on the much more popular RADV." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/amdvlk-has-been-discontinued-as-amd-are-throwing-their-full-support-behind-radv/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:22:27

• "LEGO Voyagers is the cutest looking co-op game and it's available today, along with it getting Steam Deck Verified for the release." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/the-cute-co-op-game-lego-voyagers-has-released-and-its-steam-deck-verified/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:22:33

• "FUMES really is awesome and it has an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam which it gained quickly after release, and the developer keeps improving it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/car-combat-game-fumes-improves-support-for-controllers-and-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:22:43

• "Humble Bundle have another great selection of games if you love a challenge in the Humbling Soulslike Bundle. And of course the usual GamingOnLinux run over the compatibility on Desktop Linux, Steam Deck / SteamOS to save you clicking around." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/love-a-challenge-check-out-the-humbling-soulslike-bundle-of-games/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:22:53

• "Bandai Namco Entertainment released DRAGON BALL GEKISHIN SQUADRA, a free to play MOBA set in the Dragon Ball universe and it works well on Linux / Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/dragon-ball-gekishin-squadra-works-great-on-linux-pcs-and-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:23:09

• "Foreigners must register and carry their papers" ☛ https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/09/15/foreigners-must-register-and-carry-their-papers/ | Source: Papers Please    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:26:29

• "Exotic Pet Trade" ☛ https://therevelator.org/exotic-pet-trade-european-union/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:26:49

• "We have tried to negotiatiate with Varnish Software for many months about this issue" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/15/poul-henning-kamp/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:35:38

• "This is as good as any excuse to take stock and make some changes so we are ready for the next 20 years" ☛ https://varnish-cache.org/#new-release-8-0-0-with-bonus-project-news | Source: Varnish HTTP Cache    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:35:45

• "In 2020, China approved Nvidia’s acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, a firm founded in Israel that makes computer networking equipment." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/business/nvidia-china-antitrust.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:36:43

• "NTIA wants some $13 billion in non-deployment BEAD funding returned. But Republican Governor Jeff Landry of Louisiana says that money actually belongs to the states." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/whats-happening-to-non-deployment-bead-money/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:37:19

• "One proposal is a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that seeks comments on reforms to streamline deployment of towers and other wireless infrastructure." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/fcc-plans-vote-on-easing-wireless-wireline-infrastructure-deployment-permitting/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:37:39

• [Old] "From 1978 to 2013, CEO compensation, inflation-adjusted, increased 937 percent, a rise more than double stock market growth and substantially greater than the painfully slow 10.2 percent growth in a typical worker’s compensation over the same period." ☛ https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-continues-to-rise/ |    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:38:09

• "Welcome to the fully privatized city, where the ultrarich can do as they please — no whining from the rabble permitted." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/09/starbase-musk-spacex-bezos-company-towns/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:38:56

• "Maybe other areas of psychology can provide a better explanation. Research shows a link between prejudice and poor psychological functioning, including poor relationships with insecurity and aggression." ☛ https://theconversation.com/racism-isnt-innate-here-are-five-psychological-stages-that-may-lead-to-it-264391 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:39:09

• "Democratic change and a free life require a women's revolution." ☛ https://anfenglishmobile.com/women/tjk-e-on-the-anniversary-of-jin-jiyan-azadi-uprising-the-resistance-lives-on-81262 | Source: ANF News    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:39:21

• "The 2025 figures show a faster rate of overall decline than in the same period a year a year go, when regional dailies audited by ABC were down by 17%." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/regional-daily-abcs-print-circulation-down-by-average-of-18-in-h1-2025/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:40:14

• "Social media prevalence enables employers to increasingly monitor and punish workers for political views expressed outside the workplace." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-09-14/after-charlie-kirks-death-workers-learn-the-limits-of-free-speech-in-and-out-of-their-jobs | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:41:25

• "I used to write political commentary on Twitter. But we should stop doing that. Tweets are like farts in an elevator full of people." ☛ https://alexn.org/blog/2022/04/29/free-speech/?pk_campaign=rss | Source: Alexandru Nedelcu    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:41:37

• "minor in comparison" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-15/uc-univeristy-of-california-trump-campus-investigations | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:41:55

• "This is part two of a two-part series about the recent settlement between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Utah Consumer Protection Division (CPD), and Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/the-ftcs-settlement-with-aylo-this-isnt-really-about-fighting-csam-and-revenge-porn/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:42:10

• "Through the band’s legal representatives, the five Pussy Riot members rejected the charges, claiming the trial and sentences are politically motivated." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pussy-riot-members-sentenced-prison-anti-war-performances-1235428008/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:42:23

• "China is intentionally mischaracterising World War Two-era documents to put pressure on, and isolate, Taiwan, as those accords made no determination of the island's ultimate political status" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-09-15/us-says-china-spreads-false-world-war-two-narratives-to-pressure-taiwan | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:43:09

• "But its most promising prospects lie with OpenAI. With Microsoft’s blessing, the ChatGPT maker turned to Oracle for additional compute power, first in a more modest deal last year and now with a $300 billion agreement" ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/oracles-revenge | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:47:56

• "Under his watch, the project was adopted by institutions such as Google, the City of Munich, and Weta Digital. After Canonical withdrew funding for Kubuntu, Riddell and others continued their work under Blue Systems, which later backed the creation of KDE neon." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/jonathan-riddell-leaves-kde-after-25-years/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:48:10

• "It was the turn of the millenium when I got my first computer fresh at university. Windows seemed uninteresting, it was impossible to work out how it worked or write programs for it." ☛ https://jriddell.org/2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde/ | Source: Jonathan Riddell    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:48:24

• "Under the new rules issued by the Cyberspace Administration of China" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/china-cybersecurity-incident-reporting/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:50:07

• "$3-trillion club" = fake "value" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/alphabet-joins-the-3-trillion-club/270322/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa) http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/16/The_Oracle_Ponzi_Scheme.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:50:40

• "How big a battery would we need in order to be completely self-sufficient?" ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/how-big-a-solar-battery-do-i-need-to-store-all-my-homes-electricity/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:51:50

• "It's not super, super popular, that Bitcoin machine" ☛ https://futurism.com/gas-station-clerk-stops-bitcoin-atm-scam | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:52:26

• "Their findings were published in the journal Frontiers in Science on Monday." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/the-arctic-is-heating-up-quickly-but-scientists-say-polar-geoengineering-is-unrealistic-and-dangerous-1.7632993 | Source: CBC    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:53:08

• "The trouble for endemic Fijian ants started after humans began living on the islands roughly 3,000 years ago, the researchers report." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fijis-ants-are-struggling-scientists-say-theyre-part-of-the-broader-insect-apocalypse-180987343/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:53:24

• "Channel 4, the publicly owned broadcaster founded in 1982, announced on Monday that it will greet Trump’s visit with a televised special chronicling the many lies told by the president during the first months of his second administration." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/channel-4-marathon-trump-lies-uk-state-visit-1235427529/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:55:07

• Laura Loomer ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/15/lawsuit-alleges-that-laura-loomer-illegally-got-ghislaine-maxwells-prosecutor-fired/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:55:27

• "Remember back in 2023, when we told you how to get your cut of a $725 million class action settlement? A couple of years later, that money is going out." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/778472/facebook-gave-our-data-to-cambridge-analytica-and-all-i-got-was-this-38-36 | Source: The Verge    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:55:54

• "The agenda expressly included the fate of the social media giant, for which the US is the biggest market" ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/no-ban-on-tiktok-trumps-big-hint-as-us-china-talks-move-forward-101757938978959.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:56:25

• "With that issue settled, I should probably provide a little background about why anyone would possibly ask such a question in 2025." ☛ https://cryptography.dog/blog/shouldnt-we-trust-google/ | Source: Cryptography.doc OÜ    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:56:58

• "Attaullah Baig, WhatsApp’s former head of security, has filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that Facebook deliberately failed to fix a bunch of security flaws, in violation of its 2019 settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/lawsuit-about-whatsapp-security.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:57:12

• "Now, two years after the fact, the credit union is notifying (PDF) its customers that the hackers stole files containing their names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, government ID numbers, financial information, medical and health insurance information, and other personal data." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/west-virginia-credit-union-notifying-187000-people-impacted-by-2023-data-breach/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:57:27

• "We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone's civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/09/15/danish-justice-minister-we-must-break-perception-of-right-to-private-messaging.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:58:17

• "VPNs are an important cybersecurity tool. They help businesses, politicians, journalists and members of the public protect their data and communications" ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-briefing-warns-against-restricting-vpns/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 10:58:34

• "Now, two years after the fact, the credit union is notifying (PDF) its customers that the hackers stole files containing their names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, government ID numbers, financial information" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/west-virginia-credit-union-notifying-187000-people-impacted-by-2023-data-breach/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:01:10

• Windows TCO: "The ransomware gang breached a "major element" of the healthcare technology supply chain and stole sensitive patient data, according to researchers." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/killsec-ransomware-brazil-healthcare-software-provider | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:01:52

• Windows TCO: "The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District serves about 5,000 students in Uvalde County as well as parts of Zavala and Real counties." ☛ https://therecord.media/uvalde-texas-school-district-temporarily-closing-ransomware | Source: The Record    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:01:58

• Windows TCO: "Finnish prosecutors have filed charges against a US citizen over his suspected involvement in the extortion of patients at the Vastaamo psychotherapy centre." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20183023 | Source: YLE    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:02:07

• "We’ve been hearing that social media platforms are censoring abortion-related content, even when no law requires them to do so. Now, we’ve got the receipts." ☛ https://www.eff.org/pages/our-stop-censoring-abortion-campaign-uncovers-social-media-censorship-crisis#main-content | Source: EFF    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:03:41

• "The case is specifically focused on Google’s AI summaries, a feature now appearing at the top of Google searches that summarizes answers." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/14/penske-media-sues-google-ai-summaries-claims-abuse-search-monopoly/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:04:59

• "Meanwhile, requests from AI bots increased sharply, representing one in 50 visits, up from one in 200 at the start of 2025." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/human-traffic-down-bot-traffic-up-tollbit/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:05:17

• "If historical writing can be done by a machine, then it was never historical enough" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-09-historian-ai-overwrite-history-human.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:05:35

• "Whether there's a solution to the problem remains a hotly debated subject, with some experts arguing that hallucinations are intrinsic to the tech itself. In other words, large language models may be a dead end in our quest to develop AIs with a reliable grasp on factual claims." ☛ https://futurism.com/openai-mistake-hallucinations | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:05:46

• "In simple terms, the creators of AI incentivize them to guess rather than admit they don't know the answer — which might be a good strategy on an exam, but is outright dangerous when giving high-stakes advice about topics like medicine or law." ☛ https://futurism.com/fixing-hallucinations-destroy-chatgpt | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:05:59

• "It's clear that I've made a mistake by trusting a single company to be my security everything" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/09/15/digital-security-nightmare-when-your-provider-locks-you-out.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:06:36

• "Starlink's website reportedly acknowledged problems, but the message has since been removed." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/starlink_outage/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:06:46

• "Virgin Australia has apologised to a Gold Coast doctor who said she was told to leave the airline's lounge at Melbourne airport" ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/doctor-furious-after-being-told-to-leave-virgin-australia-lounge-for-expressing-breast-milk/oudyn2xsw | Source: SBS    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:10:23

• [Old] "The fact that guns are the leading killer of children and teens and more than 40,000 people are killed by guns every year in this country is not 'a prudent deal'—it's an obscene tragedy" ☛ https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-says-gun-deaths-worth-it-2nd-amendment-1793113 | Source: Newsweek    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:10:31

• "company" ☛ https://www.mlive.com/advice/2025/09/dear-abby-co-workers-who-come-to-work-sick-are-not-heros.html | Source: Michigan News    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:10:41

• "Technology has made it so that: [...]" ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/09/im-on-vacation-so-i-wont-be-checking.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:10:52

• "This is based on the CUBES strategy for math. However, the basics of this could be used for a variety of classes." ☛ https://troypatterson.me/2025/09/15/students-marking-up-digital-text/ | Source: Troy Patterson    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:12:03

• "The government has fined UCLA nearly $1.2 billion to settle allegations of civil rights violations." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-15/trump-doj-proposed-settlement-demand-letter-ucla-university-of-california | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:12:08

• "Peter principle" ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2025/09/15/the-peter-principle-and-the-unintended-consequences-of-financial-work-motivation/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:12:12

• "By 2003 I’d read enough papers to have a sense of what was good and what was not. One day (on a transatlantic flight for my day-job, if memory serves)" ☛ https://svpow.com/2025/09/15/my-first-palaeo-paper-is-20-years-old-today/ | Source: Matt Wedel    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:13:09

• "That feature, of course, is the 80×25 text console." ☛ https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10881-i-just-want-an-80x25-console-but-thats-no-longer-possible | Source: John Goerzen    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:14:26

• "You asked how to learn about systems. A great question! I think I need to start first with what I mean when I say systems." ☛ https://notes.eatonphil.com/2025-09-15-what-is-systems-and-how-do-i-learn.html | Source: Phil Eaton    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:14:35

• "I used to think it was about not wanting to flood readers with all kinds of content. That’s part of it, sure, but not the main reason." ☛ https://birming.com/2025/09/15/choosing-writing/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:14:47

• "As part of the release of macOS Tahoe 26.0, Apple has removed built-in support for FireWire devices from macOS. This removal of support can be verified by looking in System Profiler." ☛ https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/firewire-support-removed-from-macos-tahoe/ | Source: Rich Trouton    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:39:47

• "The Dancer Core Team project is proud to announce the release of Dancer2 2.0.0!" ☛ https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-dancer2-2-0-0/ | Source: Perl    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:40:11

• "This is the path of lowest resistance to calling DeletePhoto." ☛ https://commaok.xyz/post/security-through-redundancy/ | Source: Josh Bleecher Snyder    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:40:31

• "There is no general answer for that, of course. It's dependent on your situation." ☛ https://ntietz.com/blog/custom-for-designing-offtheshelf-for-shipping/ | Source: Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:40:42

• "So what, it’s just a library" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/libxml2-maintainer-steps-down/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:40:53

• [Old] "Project Athena was a campus-wide effort to make the tools of computing available to every discipline at the Institute and provide students with systematic access to computers." ☛ https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-looking-back-project-athena-distributed-computing-for-students-1111 | Source: uni MIT    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:41:36

• "The main lesson I learned was not to blithely trust navigation maps, even open source ones. I need to add following the route onscreen before departure to the workflow." ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/bad-maps | Source: Jeremy Cherfas    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:42:26

• "This weekend I spent hours tweaking little cosmetic and technical aspects of this blog. I finally managed to change the HTML of the footnotes" ☛ https://thejollyteapot.com/2025/09/15/reading-my-blog/ | Source: Nicolas Magand    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:45:25

• "One of the more noticeable changes is the addition of camera previews in the permission dialog." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/firefox-143-web-browser-now-available-for-download/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:45:53

• "The laptop dubbed the Campus is a custom 13-inch laptop made from Framework 13 laptop components." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/enthusiast-didnt-like-the-framework-13s-mushy-keyboard-so-he-built-a-custom-version-with-a-mechanical-keyboard-also-added-mechanical-dials-to-control-volume-brightness-and-backlighting | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:46:55

• "ReVanced, a popular open-source project that provides patches for various Android applications, has pulled its Spotify Premium workaround." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/revanced-complies-with-spotify-takedown-but-explores-options-to-fight-back/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:47:14

• "Disposable vapes can contain a surprising amount of computing power/components." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/microcontrollers-projects/engineer-creates-blazingly-fast-web-server-powered-by-a-disposable-vape-vapeserver-powered-by-24-mhz-arm-chip-with-24-kilobytes-of-flash-3kb-of-sram | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:47:25

• "BogdanTheGeek, the handle for researcher Bogdan Ionescu, took apart a discarded vape pen, which he describes as "fancier pacifiers for adults," and decided to repurpose it." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/nicotine_vape_web_server/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:47:39

• "I needed a quick way to create some virtual machines running RHEL 9 and 10, without going through manual steps." ☛ https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2025/09/14/a-simple-way-to-automate-rhel-vm-creation/ | Source: Marcin Juszkiewicz    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:48:21

• "I recently bought a cheap Tapo indoor camera to see what my dog gets up to when I am out of the house." ☛ https://kennedn.com/blog/posts/tapo/ | Source: Joshua Kennedy    

POSTED tUESDAY, sEPTEMBER 16, 2025 AT 11:49:05

• "Today, for reasons outside the scope of this entry, I decided to spend some time maintaining and pruning the access control rules for Wandering Thoughts, this blog." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/ACLSystemsNeedUsageCounters | Source: University of Toronto    

POSTED tUESDAY, sEPTEMBER 16, 2025 AT 11:49:51

• "Tantek, in celebration of 8-Bit Day (the 265th day of the year), published a blog post with the following challenge: [...]" ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/09/15/a-255-byte-web-page | Source: James G    

POSTED tUESDAY, sEPTEMBER 16, 2025 AT 11:50:05

• "The problem comes from the fact that I wrote a dumb little library to handle CGI stuff a while back," ☛ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/09/15/304/ | Source: Rachel    

POSTED tUESDAY, sEPTEMBER 16, 2025 AT 11:50:27

• "This choice relates to centuries-old economic realities." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/09/15/cantillon-lessons-guide-shift-to-open-source/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

POSTED tUESDAY, sEPTEMBER 16, 2025 AT 11:52:27

• "Flashlight Repair Brings Entire Workshop To Bear" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/15/flashlight-repair-brings-entire-workshop-to-bear/ | Source: Hackaday    

POSTED tUESDAY, sEPTEMBER 16, 2025 AT 11:53:59

• "A Robot’s Typewriter-Inspired Mouth" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/15/a-closer-look-inside-a-robots-typewriter-inspired-mouth/ | Source: Hackaday    

POSTED tUESDAY, sEPTEMBER 16, 2025 AT 11:54:30

• Red Hat trying to float hype "This approach addresses two critical areas: optimizing the inference runtime and optimizing the model itself." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/strategic-approach-ai-inference-performance | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:56:34

• And again ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/ai-assisted-development-supercharging-open-source-way | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:56:39

• The typical "quantum" hype of IBM ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/preparing-your-organization-quantum-future | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:57:07

• federalnewsnetwork began reposting AP ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/09/shutdown-talk-heats-up-as-democrats-insist-on-stopping-health-care-cuts/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:58:17

• "CUDA is a parallel computing platform and programming model  that lets developers use NVIDIA GPUs for general-purpose processing." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-announces-it-will-support-and-distribute-nvidia-cuda-in-ubuntu | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 11:58:58

• "Solar System Family Portrai" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/15/see-voyagers-1990-solar-system-family-portrait-debut/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:03:51

• "Phoenix Computer System" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/15/the-microtronic-phoenix-computer-system/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:04:11

• CNC Joinery ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/16/jointly-is-a-typeface-designed-for-cnc-joinery/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:04:49

• PureOS Crimson: August 2025 – Alpha Released ☛ https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-august-2025-alpha-released/ | Source: Purism    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:05:16

• "It can also help you to fall asleep in a noisy environment." ☛ https://puri.sm/posts/blanket-app-now-available/ | Source: Purism    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:05:55

• "This landmark ruling signals a turning point for digital privacy enforcement, especially around health data and ad-tech practices" ☛ https://puri.sm/posts/meta-found-guilty-of-mishandling-womens-health-information/ | Source: Purism    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:06:03

• "It’s not a completely new base, but it continues to build on Ubuntu’s 24.04 LTS and keeps many of the 22.x features, but introduces numerous refinements, new apps, visual polish, and improved hardware support." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/upgrade-linux-mint/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:06:38

• Sound of a Black Hole 'Kicked' Through Space Heard in a Stunning First ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/sound-of-a-black-hole-kicked-through-space-heard-in-a-stunning-first    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:07:19

• Hysterectomy Significantly Raises Risk of Stroke, New Evidence Suggests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/hysterectomy-significantly-raises-risk-of-stroke-new-evidence-suggests    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:07:31

• Mini Placentas 3D-Printed in a Lab in Amazing World First ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mini-placentas-3d-printed-in-a-lab-in-amazing-world-first    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:07:44

• Oldest Human Mummies Discovered, And They're Not What We Expected ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/oldest-human-mummies-discovered-and-theyre-not-what-we-expected    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:08:12

• Something Really Cool Happens if You Use Banana Peel as an Ingredient ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/something-really-cool-happens-if-you-use-banana-peel-as-an-ingredient    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:08:27

• Meet Bumpy: The Unexpectedly Cute Creature Discovered in The Abyss ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/meet-bumpy-the-unexpectedly-cute-creature-discovered-in-the-abyss    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:08:47

• New Ultrasound Helmet Reaches Deep Inside The Brain Without Surgery ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-ultrasound-helmet-reaches-deep-inside-the-brain-without-surgery    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:09:03

• 12,000-Year-Old Bones Could Be One of Earliest Known Murder Victims ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/12000-year-old-bones-could-be-one-of-earliest-known-murder-victims    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:09:13

• Varnish 8.0.0 and bonus project news ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1038242/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:09:50

• West Virginia Credit Union Notifying 187,000 People Impacted by 2023 Data Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/west-virginia-credit-union-notifying-187000-people-impacted-by-2023-data-breach/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:11:07

• FBI Shares IoCs for Recent Salesfarce Intrusion Campaigns ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/fbi-shares-iocs-for-recent-salesforce-intrusion-campaigns/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:11:40

• 689,000 Affected by Insider Breach at FinWise Bank ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/689000-affected-by-insider-breach-at-finwise-bank/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:38:52

• Why some agentic Hey Hi (AI) developers are moving code from Python to Rust ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/09/15/why-some-agentic-ai-developers-are-moving-code-python-rust    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:40:00

• EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.0.11 released ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202509/easyos-excalibur-series-version-7011-released.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:41:25

• How to Install Gambas on FunOS ☞ https://funos.org/install-gambas-funos/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:42:27

• How To Install Hazelcast on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-hazelcast-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:42:49

• How To Install DBeaver on GNU/Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-dbeaver-linux-mint-22/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:43:51

• How To Install PyCharm on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-pycharm-debian-13/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:44:16

• How To Install VeraCrypt on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-veracrypt-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:45:04

• "and the secure boot on my pc is disabled" https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/1nieu45/i_cant_boot_into_grub_bc_of_my_crappy_acer_bios/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:46:08

• "Did you check whether TPM and Secure Boot can be turned on on your hardware?" https://old.reddit.com/r/pchelp/comments/1ni17h9/tpm_20_secure_boot_not_detectedsupported_what_to/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:51:16

• How To Install Ntopng on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-ntopng-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:51:27

• How To Install Tabby Terminal on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-tabby-terminal-linux-mint-22/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:51:43

• "Also disable secure boot in BIOS" https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2679641    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12:52:56

• "But that pressure doesn't need to be a threat, it can be read as a message." gemini://authentico.dev/pressure-shapes-your-days.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:05:10

• "Antinatalism and religion can feel like intense, inconvenient energies. Friction often comes from approach more than belief. These notes offer ways to practice each with ease, easing rejection and drain." gemini://authentico.dev/devotion-with-ease.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:05:57

• Channel demand: Feeling Drained gemini://authentico.dev/feeling-drained.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:06:37

• Channel demand: Lean Daily Habits gemini://authentico.dev/lean-daily-habits.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:07:20

• "Every app, library or snippet carries a production line. Ask who maintains it, what it demands and whether it aligns with the values you claim." gemini://authentico.dev/lean-tech.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:08:11

• Channel demand: Hollow Forest   

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:08:55

• "Every time you try to make real progress—hit publish, launch the project, complete the application—something delays you." gemini://authentico.dev/regain-control-of-transitions.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:10:03

• "There is so little time in Adult Life (tm). I am working the early shift this week so I get some more afternoon in exchange for my nights. Perhaps, if I like it, I could be the morning guy permanently. All depends on how I feel about it." gemini://beyond-mundanity.com/so_little_time.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:10:56

• "When I write shell scripts, I like to challenge myself by seeing how robust the scripts' functions can be while remaining POSIX-compliant and using as few external dependencies as possible. This means I sometimes re-invent the wheel, but I've learned a lot about POSIX shell along the way." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202509/20250915-command-line-options-in-posix-shell.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:11:30

• "There are places in life that feel like a sluggish forest. Each trail, seems to lead deeper. As the trees, growing darker and more grim, branch over the path - it is as though they will devour you if making one wrong move. You move, you struggle — and yet with each turn you get more caught up, weaker" gemini://authentico.dev/hollow-forest.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:12:03

• 🔤SpellBinding — YGIRTVA Wordo: ENSUE gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-09-16.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:13:00

• "I've been working on a software tool for myself, to lighten the load of my job (software engineering), and also *just because*. I'm honestly proud of it. `acre` v0.9 is out there." gemini://devp.smol.pub/acre-0-dot-9    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:13:42

• 🖼️ xkcd: -Style Pizza #3142 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3142.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:14:50

• "Hosting A Website On A Disposable Vape" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/15/hosting-a-website-on-a-disposable-vape/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:25:45

• Fake security and back doors ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/09/15/confidential-vms-core-confidential-containers    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:26:38

• Benchmarking with GuideLLM in air-gapped OpenShift clusters ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/09/15/benchmarking-guidellm-air-gapped-openshift-clusters    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:27:21

• "AI" hype is destroying Red Hat's credibility because IBM is trying to enrol itself in a Ponzi scheme    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:28:09

• "Kremlin says NATO ‘at war’ with Moscow" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/15/kremlin-says-nato-at-war-with-moscow-days-after-russian-drone-incursions-into-poland-and-romania | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:34:40

• "age of sweeping book censorship" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/15/russia-is-in-an-age-of-sweeping-book-censorship-meanwhile-at-meduza-time-to-publish-books-the-kremlin-hates | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:35:06

• "Only Rus, only victory!" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/15/only-rus-only-victory | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:35:26

• "enemy of the people" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/16/kadyrov-calls-russian-pop-icon-alla-pugacheva-an-enemy-of-the-people-for-praising-chechen-separatist-leader | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:35:50

• "Assortment of products offered in Russian grocery stores declines" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/16/assortment-of-products-offered-in-russian-grocery-stores-declines | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:36:10

• "refusing to leave country following release" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/15/belarusian-opposition-politician-nikolai-statkevich-sent-back-to-prison-after-refusing-to-leave-country-following-release | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:36:31

• "flying over key government sites in Warsaw" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/16/poland-neutralizes-drone-flying-over-key-government-sites-in-warsaw-arrests-two-belarusians | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:36:52

• "two explosions on Russian railway tracks" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/15/ukrainian-intelligence-claims-responsibility-for-two-explosions-on-russian-railway-tracks | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:37:13

• "Russian soldiers once again move through gas pipeline to launch offensive" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/15/crawl-of-duty | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:37:31

• "A Russian airstrike killed 25 Ukrainian civilians" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/16/i-should-never-have-just-hoped-for-the-best | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:37:55

• "kills one, injures more than a dozen" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/16/russian-missile-strike-on-ukraine-s-zaporizhzhia-kills-one-injures-more-than-a-dozen | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:38:15

• Even stallman says to charge money just provide the source code. Now does charging money fit the culture of linux?   

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 13:43:04

• Cattle Country: Life on the Frontier ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/cattle-country-review/index.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:25:42

• "Off to the races? Formula One races, that is. This project by [mazur8888] uses an ESP32 to keep track of the sport, and display a “live” dashboard on a 2.9″ tri-color LCD." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/15/off-to-the-races-with-esp32-and-eink/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:26:14

• Sven Hoexter: HaProxy: Configuring SNI for a TLS Proxy ☞ http://sven.stormbind.net/blog/posts/haproxy_tls_proxy_sni/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:27:04

• Launching tomorrow: “Networking for System Administrators, 2nd edition” ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24417    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:29:13

• Is IP fragmentation still considered vulnerable? ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/09/16/is-ip-fragmentation-still-considered-vulnerable/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:29:37

• Google Launched Behind-the-Scenes Campaign Against California Privacy Legislation; It Passed Anyway ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/google-launched-behind-the-scenes-campaign-against-california-privacy-legislation-it-passed-anyway/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:30:45

• Samsung Patches Zero-Day Exploited Against Android Users ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/samsung-patches-zero-day-exploited-against-android-users/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:31:14

• Fixes for Xorg Wizard ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202509/fixes-for-xorg-wizard.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:32:29

• "Originally I thought that Secure Boot was disabled in boot options, as the first 2-3 laptops had this setting turned off, but now it's happening to laptops that have the default boot options from Dell. New and old, it's not exclusive to a certain line of Dell's laptops." https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1nihixd/dell_laptops_continuously_ask_for_bitlocker_key/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:34:36

• "Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Wins Most of Its Claim Disputes in Mandatory Arbitration" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/citizens-property-insurance-florida-arbitration-cases | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:36:08

• "Change Is Needed to Protect Oil and Gas Royalty Owners" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-lawmakers-oil-gas-royalty-proposals | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:36:46

• "Farmworker Visa" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/h-2a-farmworker-visa-safety-suggestions-experts | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:37:19

• This Could Be My New Favorite eBook Reader App on GNU/Linux ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/readest-app/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:37:49

• Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1038231/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:38:06

• Linux Plumbers Conference registration open ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1038271/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:38:33

• █████ https://linuxconfig.org/feed ██████████████████████ Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:57:15 +0000 ███████ Chromium 140.0.7339.80 Security Update Released: Critical Vulnerability Fixes for GNU/Linux Users    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:39:04

• Back from Open Source Summit Europe 2025: talks from Bootlin ☞ https://bootlin.com/blog/back-from-open-source-summit-europe-2025-talks-from-bootlin/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:39:38

• Exploring {ggplot2}’s Geoms and Stats ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/09/exploring-ggplot2s-geoms-and-stats/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:40:25

• Quality Control for Scanned Multiple-Choice Exams ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/09/quality-control-for-scanned-multiple-choice-exams/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:40:32

• From Surviving to Thriving: A Convening to Reclaim and Sustain Open Science Communities ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/09/from-surviving-to-thriving-a-convening-to-reclaim-and-sustain-open-science-communities/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:41:14

• Survivor Australia vs. The World is now in {survivoR} ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/09/survivor-australia-vs-the-world-is-now-in-survivor/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:42:00

• Sven Hoexter: Surveillance Giant Google Cloud: When the Load Balancer Frontend Hands you an F ☞ http://sven.stormbind.net/blog/posts/gcp_gfe_sending_F_missing_sni/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:42:35

• HTTP 423 Error Locked: What is it and how to fix it? ☞ https://linuxhostsupport.com/blog/http-423-error-locked-what-is-it-and-how-to-fix-it/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:43:05

• Kubernetes v1.34: Decoupled Taint Manager Is Now Stable ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/09/15/kubernetes-v1-34-decoupled-taint-manager-is-now-stable/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:43:22

• Godot 4.5, making dreams accessible ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-5-making-dreams-accessible/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:44:48

• mintCast 468 – Very Plexable ☞ https://mintcast.org/468-very-plexable/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:45:12

• Late Night GNU/Linux – Episode 351 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-351/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:45:48

• The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 243: What Are Canada’s Digital Policy Plans as Parliament Returns from the Summer Break? ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/09/law-bytes-podcast-episode-243/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:46:26

• Man's COVID Infection Lasted 2 Years, Setting a New Record ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mans-covid-infection-lasted-2-years-setting-a-new-record    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:46:45

• Luigi Mangione to appear in NYC court as he tries to block jury from seeing his diary ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/09/16/us-news/luigi-mangione-to-appear-in-nyc-court-as-he-tries-to-block-jury-from-seeing-his-diary/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:47:09

• When a Simple Swim Carries a Risk of Dangerous Illness ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/health/schistosomiasis-children.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:47:20

• Hepatitis B Vaccine, Once a Public Health Win, Is Under Threat From RFK Jr. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/well/hepatitis-b-vaccine-rfk-jr.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:47:30

• RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Committee Likely to Target Hepatitis B Shot for Newborns ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/health/hepatitis-b-vaccine-committee-meeting-infants.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:47:45

• Thai ex-PM Thaksin moved to prison hospital wing ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thai-ex-pm-thaksin-moved-to-prison-hospital-wing    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:48:07

• Milei changes course: Argentina will boost social spending after austerity years ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250916-milei-changes-course-argentina-will-boost-social-spending-after-austerity-years    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:48:27

• Ebola vaccinations underway in DR Congo as deadly outbreak spreads ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20250916-ebola-vaccinations-underway-in-dr-congo-as-deadly-outbreak-spreads    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:48:46

• "said social control media has made audiences more zealous" ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/world/asia/lee-jae-jung-squid-game.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:49:32

• South Korea to waive highway tolls, offer discounts for Chuseok holiday period in October ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-to-waive-highway-tolls-offer-discounts-for-chuseok-holiday-period-in-october    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:49:48

• Mosquitoes return as weather cools in South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/mosquitoes-return-as-weather-cools-in-south-korea    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:50:04

• Seoul to review rights violations during US raid ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/seoul-to-review-rights-violations-during-us-raid    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:50:15

• Analysis: Kim Jong Un’s daughter steps into ‘successor spotlight’ ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/09/15/north-korea-kim-ju-ae-succession/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:50:33

• Explainer: Why South Korea cannot make the same US trade deal as Japan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/explainer-why-south-korea-cannot-make-the-same-us-trade-deal-as-japan    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:50:40

• Malaysia’s Sarawak aims to be region’s ‘green battery’ amid deforestation, displacement fears ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-largest-state-sarawak-aims-to-be-regions-green-battery    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:51:01

• Landslide claims lives of five family members in Malaysia’s Kota Kinabalu ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/landslide-claims-lives-of-five-family-members-in-malaysias-kota-kinabalu    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:51:13

• Can PAS really change? Malaysia’s Islamist party courts minorities with language ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/can-pas-really-change-malaysias-islamist-party-courts-minorities-with-language    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:51:29

• Three arrested in Malaysia after tiger carcass found in vehicle ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/three-arrested-in-malaysia-after-tiger-carcass-found-in-vehicle    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:52:14

• Hong Kong to offer free tram rides, half-priced movie tickets, MTR giveaways on China’s National Day ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/16/hong-kong-to-offer-free-tram-rides-half-priced-movie-tickets-mtr-giveaways-on-chinas-national-day/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:52:44

• Nvidia Broke Antitrust Law, China Says, as Tensions With U.S. Mount ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/technology/nvidia-china-antitrust.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:52:57

• With a Hashtag, Young Chinese Are Mourning the ‘Beauty of the Boom Years’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/business/china-young-people-boom.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:53:29

• How China Is Weathering the Trade War With Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/business/china-economy-us-tariffs.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:53:42

• US says China spreading ‘false’ World War II narratives to pressure Taiwan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-says-china-spreads-false-world-war-ii-narratives-to-pressure-taiwan    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:53:58

• In latest trade warning to US, China says Nvidia violated anti-monopoly law ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-says-preliminary-probe-shows-nvidia-violated-anti-monopoly-law    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:54:12

• China’s former climate envoy to meet with EU to revive flailing UN pact ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-former-climate-envoy-to-meet-with-eu-to-revive-flailing-un-pact    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:54:32

• China fires water cannon at Philippine ships in South China Sea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-says-intercepted-philippine-ships-at-disputed-south-china-sea-shoal    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:54:47

• Taiwan launches new civil defence guide, says not aiming to cause panic ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-launches-new-civil-defence-guide-says-not-aiming-to-cause-panic    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:55:00

• China is longing for the ‘Beauty of the Boom Years’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-is-longing-for-the-beauty-of-the-boom-years    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:55:16

• US, China resume trade talks in Madrid ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/15/us-china-resume-trade-talks-in-madrid/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:55:31

• Mali receives more CS/VP14 and VN22 vehicles from China ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/land/land-land/mali-receives-more-cs-vp14-and-vn22-vehicles-from-china/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:56:03

• Jet fuel, China, and lanthanum: a hidden risk to US military power projection ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/jet-fuel-china-and-lanthanum-a-hidden-risk-to-us-military-power-projection/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:56:19

• And it is a bubble, they have financial problems like TypePad https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/most-popular-websites-news-world-monthly-2/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:56:54

• Newspaper ABCs: Metro slims down free distribution for August ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/most-popular-newspapers-uk-abc-monthly-circulation-figures-2/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:57:12

• ‘Dark woke’ Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom trolls Convicted Felon with Hey Hi (AI) satire ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250916-gavin-newsom-governor-california-democratic-trump-ai-usa    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:57:36

• Top 50 news websites in the US in August: Substack leads just five sites with year-on-year growth ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/most-popular-websites-news-us-monthly-3/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:58:50

• Royal cleaner stories removed by Times and Sun after authenticity questions ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/royal-cleaner-stories-removed-by-times-and-sun-after-authenticity-questions/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:59:21

• Food publisher Eye to Eye Media enters liquidation ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/food-publisher-eye-to-eye-media-enters-liquidation/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 15:59:42

• Our Moon Is Drifting Away. Here's What We Can Expect to Happen. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/our-moon-is-drifting-away-heres-what-we-can-expect-to-happen    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:00:03

• Malawi prepares for elections as cost of living tops voters' concerns ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20250915-malawi-prepares-for-elections-as-cost-of-living-tops-voters-concerns    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:00:36

• Malawi heads to the polls in tight presidential rematch amid economic turmoil ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250916-malawi-votes-in-a-rematch-between-two-presidents-as-economic-crisis-bites    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:00:52

• The Fed struggles to balance Convicted Felon’s demands with economic reality ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econographics/the-fed-struggles-to-balance-trumps-demands-with-economic-reality/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:01:30

• The new Qt Multimedia space on Qt Forums ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/the-new-qt-multimedia-space-on-qt-forums    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:02:04

• Illegal plate-flipping devices sold online in Malaysia, aid rogue motorists in evading law ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/illegal-plate-flipping-devices-sold-online-in-malaysia-aids-rogue-motorists-in-evading-law    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:03:02

• Starlink goes down, showing how internet outages hit differently ☞ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/09/starlink-outage-downtime-hits-differently/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:08:47

• Suspect in Charlie Kirk shooting likely to face charges before court hearing ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250916-suspect-in-charlie-kirk-shooting-likely-to-face-charges-before-court-hearing    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:09:18

• Parliament hears Denel owes the Auditor-General R82 million ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/industry/industry-industry/parliament-hears-denel-owes-the-auditor-general-r82-million/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:09:56

• Intel Arc A750 prototype spotted with 16GB VRAM — Engineering sample made by Gunnir sports sticker claiming a 512-bit memory bus ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/intel-arc-a750-prototype-spotted-with-16gb-vram-engineering-sample-made-by-gunnir-sports-sticker-claiming-a-512-bit-memory-bus    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:10:29

• Christian Hergert: Status Week 37 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2025/09/15/status-week-37/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:12:13

• High Contrast Mode in Qt 6.10 ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/high-contrast-mode-in-qt-6.10    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:12:52

• Adding an Hey Hi (AI) edge at SIDO 2025 ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/adding-an-ai-edge-at-sido-2025.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:13:21

• UPC is ILLEGAL. "Well the pharmaceutical industry is closely looking at whether the UPC will maintain patents to formulations (secondary patents/inventions) or whether they will be found to lack inventive step." http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/08/when-your-formulation-ip-is-beyond.html?showComment=1757947453575#c6761588445905927719    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:14:43

• "If the UPC decides to revoke too many in litigation then the opt out system will continue beyond the 7 years presently scheduled, I predict, until the UPC case law becomes more favourable for this type of..." BUT WAIT, UPC is illegal, so these are the wrong questions to even ask    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:14:46

• Software Patents ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/microsoft-and-eyesmatch-agree-on-licence-for-gaze-correction-patents/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:15:27

• Rakudo Weekly 2025.37 ASTQuery ☞ https://rakudoweekly.blog/2025/09/15/2025-37-astquery/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:16:22

• Focusing on Patents ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/15/Focusing_on_Patents.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:16:30

• libxml2 Maintainer Stepping Down - "More Or Less Unmaintained For Now" ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Libxml2-No-Maintainer    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:17:11

• So people won't understand the code; see what it did to Linux ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Code-Maker-LibreOffice-262    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:18:40

• ESP32-S3 wide touch display development board features a 640×172 touch LCD, Hey Hi (AI) voice support ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/09/16/esp32-s3-wide-touch-display-development-board-features-a-640x172-touch-lcd-ai-voice-support/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:19:35

• Redundant DHCP and DNS Resolver using OpenBSD ☞ https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/redundant-dhcp-and-dns-resolver-using-openbsd/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:20:22

• Ruby 3.4.6 Released ☞ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/09/16/ruby-3-4-6-released/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:20:46

• RPKI best practices and lessons learned ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/09/16/rpki-best-practices-and-lessons-learned/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:23:02

• Google terminates 200 Hey Hi (AI) contractors — 'ramp-down' blamed, but workers claim questions over pay and job insecurity are the real reason behind layoffs ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/google-terminates-200-ai-contractors-ramp-down-blamed-but-workers-claim-questions-over-pay-and-job-insecurity-are-the-real-reason-behind-layoffs    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:23:49

• Still Pending: Three Mandamus Petitions Test USPTO’s Expanded Denial Powers ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/09/mandamus-petitions-expanded.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:24:19

• "Google is Googlebombing KDE's Project Banana" (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/16/Google_is_Googlebombing_KDE_s_Project_Banana.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:24:51

• Google’s Hey Hi (AI) summaries could hurt website, Rolling Stone, Billboard owner sues ☞ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/09/penske-google-ai-overviews-lawsuit/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:25:14

• Billboard and Rolling Stone Publisher Penske Media Files Antitrust Suit Against Surveillance Giant Google Over Hey Hi (AI) Summaries — Surveillance Giant Google Responds to the ‘Meritless Claims’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/15/penske-media-google-lawsuit/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:25:47

• Daily Mail ‘arbitrarily’ stopped from joining Fashion Company Apple News ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/daily-mail-arbitrarily-stopped-from-joining-apple-news/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:26:35

• Gedit Technology blog: Mid-September News ☞ https://gedit-text-editor.org/blog/2025-09-15-mid-september-news.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:28:02

• Mozilla Thunderbird: Mobile Progress Report – July/August 2025 ☞ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/09/mobile-progress-report-july-august-2025/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:29:55

• Slop is bad; no matter what generates slop. Does It's FOSS celebrate slop again? ☞ https://itsfoss.com/android-on-device-ai/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:30:48

• Once again Mozilla is attacking the environment ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2025/09/15/raising-the-minimum-android-version-for-firefox/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/07/Throwing_Away_Old_Computers_Mozilla_and_Other_Climate_Deniers.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:32:02

• 53 bus services cancelled Tuesday ahead of driver strike in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/16.09.2025-53-bus-services-cancelled-tuesday-ahead-of-driver-strike-in-latvia.a614533/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:32:17

• Farm Aid Given the Green Light After Tentative Union Deal Arranged ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/15/farm-aid-green-light-tentative-deal/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:33:19

• Katz: ‘Gaza is burning’ as IDF expands operation in Gaza City ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/09/16/world-news/katz-gaza-is-burning-as-idf-expands-operation-in-gaza-city/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:33:53

• Gulf States 'questioning the efficiency of their military cooperation with the United States' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20250915-gulf-states-questioning-the-efficiency-of-their-military-cooperation-with-the-united-states    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:34:21

• Three killed in second US strike on Venezuela boat allegedly carrying narcotics ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/3-killed-in-second-us-strike-on-venezuelan-boat-allegedly-carrying-narcotics/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:34:36

• ‘You have a right to an attorney.’ Massachusetts bar strike and the Sixth Amendment. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/0916/sixth-amendment-us-constitution-massachusetts-bar-strike    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:34:55

• Venezuela’s President Maduro Denounces U.S. Boat Attack, as Convicted Felon Announces Another ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/world/americas/venezuela-boat-strikes-maduro-trump.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:35:16

• U.S. Strikes a 2nd Venezuela Boat, Killing 3, Convicted Felon Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/trump-venezuela-drug-boat-strike.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:35:26

• Angered by Israel’s Attack in Qatar, Arab Leaders Meet to Weigh Response ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/world/middleeast/qatar-arab-leaders-israel.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:35:42

• ‘Beginning of a major assault’: Israel bombards Gaza City after Rubio visit ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250916-beginning-of-a-major-assault-israel-bombards-gaza-city-after-rubio-visit    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:36:01

• Marco Rubio asks Qatar to stay as mediator after Israel strike ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250916-marco-rubio-asks-qatar-to-stay-as-mediator-after-israel-strike    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:36:19

• Microsoft Still Uses RC4 ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/microsoft-still-uses-rc4.html https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/11/Ron_Wyden_Microsoft_Should_be_Held_Accountable_for_Security_Bre.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:36:51

• Google Summer of Code 2025 Reports: Enhancing Support for NAT64 Protocol Translation in NetBSD ☞ http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2025_nat64_protocol_translation    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:37:14

• Unhappy Ending! Kubuntu Creator Jonathan Riddell Departs After 25 Years with KDE ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/jonathan-riddell-farewell/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:37:37

• The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 909 ☞ https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2025/09/15/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-909/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:38:26

• Haiku Activity & Contract Report, August 2025 ☞ https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2025-09-15-haiku_activity_contract_report_august_2025/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:39:07

• Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 to drop support for 32-bit ☞ https://www.ghacks.net/2025/09/15/linux-mint-debian-edition-7-to-drop-support-for-32-bit/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:39:43

• nmilosev: Customizing the new GNU/Linux Terminal App in Android 15/16 ☞ https://nmilosev.svbtle.com/customizing-linux-terminal-app-in-android-15-16    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:40:53

• ty – fast Python type checker ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ty-fast-python-type-checker/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:41:47

• cylon – Arch GNU/Linux maintenance program ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cylon-arch-linux-maintenance-program/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:43:30

• Fourmolu – formatter for Haskell source code ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fourmolu-formatter-haskell-source-code/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:43:39

• 17 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux GUI Password Managers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-linux-password-managers/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:43:46

• Dave Airlie: radv takes over from AMDVLK ☞ https://airlied.blogspot.com/2025/09/radv-takes-over-from-amdvlk.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:44:21

• #SciArtSeptember: Chaos ☞ https://rubenerd.com/sciartseptember-chaos/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:44:45

• End of an era ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/keep-changing-open-source-has-to-continually-evolve http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/15/Stefano_Maffulli_Executive_Director_of_the_Open_Source_Initiati.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:45:31

• The interim head is a slop booster ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/osi-next-phase-executive-director-search http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/16/The_New_Head_of_OSI_is_an_Hey_Hi_AI_Obsessed_Person.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:46:18

• Geminispace Growing at Pace of Over 10% Per Year ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/15/Geminispace_Growing_at_Pace_of_Over_10_Per_Year.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:46:39

• GOTO – simple SSH manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/goto-simple-ssh-manager/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:48:02

• 25 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux GUI Time Tracking Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/timetracking/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:48:09

• Minisforum Hey Hi (AI) X1 Pro: ComfyUI – Generate video, images, 3D, audio with Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/minisforum-ai-x1-pro-comfyui-generate-video-images-3d-audio-ai/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:48:19

• Linux 6.17-rc6 looks fantastic with a normal release on track ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-617-rc6-looks-fantastic-with-a-normal-release-on-track/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:48:47

• socktop – remote system monitor with a rich TUI ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/socktop-remote-system-monitor/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:49:55

• Synapse – Matrix homeserver ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/synapse-matrix-homeserver/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:50:01

• 9 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux IPTV Players ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-linux-iptv-players/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:50:08

• Top 6 GNU/Linux Apps You Should Install This Week (Sept 15-21) ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/linux-apps-to-try-this-week-september-15-21/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:51:00

• How To Enable Automatic Security Updates on Debian ☞ https://idroot.us/enable-automatic-security-updates-debian/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:51:32

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

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:51:43

• Microsoft SQL Server does not run on any Linux; it runs on Drawbridge, but the myths/lies live on ☞ https://idroot.us/install-microsoft-sql-server-linux-mint-22/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:52:33

• A backdoored Windows doing worse (more slowly, no security, no stability) what one can do for free on GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/asrocks-revamped-ai-quickset-wsl-virtualization-tool-makes-it-easy-to-run-linux-ai-apps-on-windows    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:54:06

• Pure SPAM from LF (Microsoft Zemlin) https://www.linux.com/news/sep25-training-promo/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:54:41

• And the site is clownflared, also outsourced https://sitereport.netcraft.com/?url=https://training.linuxfoundation.org    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:57:58

• If You Want to "make your 'Windows PC' lean, mean, and fast" You Will Install GNU/Linux or Some BSD ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/14/If_You_Want_to_make_your_Windows_PC_lean_mean_and_fast_You_Will.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:58:09

• Ask Ubuntu About "Secure Boot" Violation and Laptops That Don't Boot GNU/Linux ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/15/Ask_Ubuntu_About_Secure_Boot_Violation_and_Laptops_That_Don_t_B.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:58:16

• Compatibility Support Module (CSM) Versus GNU/Linux Simplicity ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/15/Compatibility_Support_Module_CSM_Versus_GNU_Linux_Simplicity.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 16:58:23

• Linux Mint Forums Today: Disable 'Secure Boot', It Doesn't Improve Security, It's Just a Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Obstacle to GNU/Linux Users ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/15/Linux_Mint_Forums_Today_Disable_Secure_Boot_It_Doesn_t_Improve_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:07:14

• Complicating Things for No Actual Benefit, Just Added Risk and More Difficulties Adding GNU/Linux and BSDs ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/16/Complicating_Things_for_No_Actual_Benefit_Just_Added_Risk_and_M.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:07:21

• Slopwatch: Serial Sloppers and Slopfarms Still Infesting Surveillance Giant Google News (Fake 'Articles' About "Linux" Spreading FUD) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/16/Slopwatch_Serial_Sloppers_and_Slopfarms_Still_Infesting_Google_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:07:34

• We Are Sad to Hear the Story of Jonathan Riddell, Champion of KDE and GNU/Linux on Desktops/Laptops (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/15/We_Are_Sad_to_Hear_the_Story_of_Jonathan_Riddell_Champion_of_KD.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:07:41

• Microsoft Lunduke: I Spread Hate and Then I Receive Hate ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/16/Microsoft_Lunduke_I_Spread_Hate_and_Then_I_Receive_Hate.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:07:52

• Godot 4.5 Open-Source Game Engine Released With A Multitude Of Improvements ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Godot-4.5-Released    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:08:09

• Mauna 25 release ☞ https://distrowatch.com/mauna https://maunalinux.top/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:09:57

• SparkyLinux 2025.09 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/sparky    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:10:04

• Ultimate 2025.09.14 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ultimate    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:10:13

• "I had some success with fedora media writer." https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1nhb8gt/i_cant_flash_iso_in_usb/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:14:29

• Microsoft MSN: secure boot is BS. Basically. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/hybridpetya-more-proof-that-secure-boot-bypasses-are-not-just-an-urban-legend/ar-AA1MrTDX    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:15:21

• Microsoft. "Laid off July 2nd effective Aug 31. Is today’s payment the rewards bonus or severance?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k5869dy9    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:16:17

• "Microsoft has warned that several of the Secure Boot certificates baked into Windows devices a decade ago will begin to expire in mid‑2026, forcing a coordinated certificate rollover that every PC owner and IT team should plan for now to avoid loss of pre‑boot updates, compatibility problems, and elevated boot‑level security risk." https://windowsforum.com/threads/secure-boot-certificate-expiration-plan-for-windows-linux-and-oem-firmware-2023-ca.380988/#post-934451    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:17:40

• "Microsoft has warned that several of the Secure Boot certificates baked into Windows devices a decade ago will begin to expire in mid‑2026, forcing a coordinated certificate rollover that every PC owner and IT team should plan for now to avoid loss of pre‑boot updates, compatibility problems" https://windowsforum.com/threads/secure-boot-certificate-expiration-plan-for-windows-linux-and-oem-firmware-2023-ca.380988/#post-934451    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:17:49

• "Surely, open firmware could skip that and boot faster - if vendor would allow an escape hatch from the "secure boot" hell" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45247570    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:18:43

• Gentoo 20250914 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/gentoo    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:32:30

• Linuxfx 11.25.09.1 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/linuxfx    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:32:39

• GNOME’s Tetris Clone Quadrapassel Drops a Huge Update ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/gnome-tetris-clone-gets-major-update    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:33:32

• Akademy 2025 ☞ https://espi.dev/posts/2025/09/akademy-2025/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:33:54

• Digital Driver’s Licenses Could Make “Surveillance Pricing” Much Easier for Companies ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/surveillance-pricing-and-ids    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:34:52

• Canonical Make It Easier to Install NVIDIA CUDA on Ubuntu ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/canonical-adds-nvidia-cuda-ubuntu-repos    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:36:45

• Mozilla is preloading Microsoft spyware inside Firefox; this is like the final nail in the coffin to many, after Mozilla also offloaded Firefox to Microsoft's GitHub ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/firefox-143-release-key-changes    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:38:07

• The Censorship Alarm Is Ringing in the Wrong Direction ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/the-censorship-alarm-is-ringing-in-the-wrong-direction/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:40:51

• Jonathan Riddell Leaving KDE Development After 25 Years ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Riddell-Leaves-KDE    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:42:31

• Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 909 ☞ https://ubuntu-news.org/2025/09/15/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-909/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:43:01

• VirtualBox 7.2.2 Fixed TPM 2.0 Emulation & KVM Conflict ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/09/virtualbox-7-2-2-fixed-tpm-2-0-emulation-kvm-conflict/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:43:44

• Firefox is dying. Now out with Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Copilot Hey Hi (AI) Integration ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/09/firefox-143-0-is-out/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:44:11

• freeipmi @ Savannah: FreeIPMI 1.6.16 Released ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10812    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 17:45:44

• 4 MX Linux Tools that I miss while using Ubuntu and other Linux distros https://www.xda-developers.com/mx-linux-tools-that-i-miss-on-ubuntu-and-other-linux-distros/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 18:50:12

• "I found solace in antiX, a Linux distro specifically for old machines with a complete essential app suite and multiple ISO options. It was fairly simple to set up, and the laptop didn't struggle with it at all." https://www.xda-    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 18:50:35

• "I found solace in antiX, a Linux distro specifically for old machines with a complete essential app suite and multiple ISO options. It was fairly simple to set up, and the laptop didn't struggle with it at all." https://www.xda-developers.com/linuxs-antix-os-works-like-charm-on-old-laptop/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 18:50:59

• "Last week, I reported that Mozilla is ending support for Firefox on 32-bit Linux in 2026. In that article, I briefly explained how 32-bit distros are becoming rarer these days." https://www.ghacks.net/2025/09/15/linux-mint-debian-edition-7-to-drop-support-for-32-bit/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 18:52:50

• "Rounding out the Windows-focused fixes, VirtualBox 7.2.2 supports setting light/dark mode independent of the main system setting, and Windows Guest Additions can (once again) be installed on Windows XP SP2 64-bit." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/virtualbox-7-2-2-bug-fix-update    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 18:53:21

• "Despite the calm development cycle, Torvalds has ended his message with a plea to the community to keep testing. The objective is to ensure that developers don’t get complacent and to help prevent last-minute surprises or problems from appearing before the final release." https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-617-rc6-looks-fantastic-with-a-normal-release-on-track/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 18:53:44

• This won't appeal to geeks; it's slow, not secure, more expensive, and people who do such things can handle GNU/Linux OK https://www.techpowerup.com/341009/asrock-announces-ai-quickset-wsl-run-linux-ai-apps-on-windows    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 18:54:48

• "Chaotic too at times when you're battling multiple opponents, and you're all firing off these huge abilities, you can definitely get a bit lost in it." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/dragon-ball-gekishin-squadra-works-great-on-linux-pcs-and-steam-deck/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 18:56:12

• "Under the Llama 4 licensing agreement, entities with more than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month must obtain a license from Meta" https://www.theregreview.org/2025/09/15/massarotto-rethinking-the-ai-race/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 18:57:45

• "So Valve have now just put a separate configuration on Baldur's Gate 3 to force it onto Proton, which is likely to be removed if / when Larian release the special Steam Deck Native Linux build if Valve's retesting then shows it to be better to set that as the actual default." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/valve-fixes-baldurs-gate-3-issue-on-steam-deck-steamos/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 18:59:48

• "This release improves the JACK Audio Connection Kit support to enable support for multiple output connections." https://9to5linux.com/giada-1-3-open-source-loop-machine-adds-support-for-multiple-audio-connections    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:00:12

• "Over the past year I've booted numerous Linux distributions, and seven of them I installed on bare metal and put to the test with daily use. Here are those seven distributions (also called distros) in order of worst to best experience." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-distros-i-tried-in-the-past-year-ranked/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:00:40

• I tried turning my old Android phone into a Linux server, but ended up distro-hopping instead https://www.xda-developers.com/i-ended-up-distro-hopping-on-my-android-phone/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:01:12

• This niche Fedora-based Linux distro ‘just works’ and stays out of your way as much as possible https://www.xda-developers.com/niche-fedora-based-linux-distro-just-works-stays-out-way/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:01:31

• "Student thought she had the hang of this 'Linux' thing and its kooky CLI" https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/who_me/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:02:26

• Revisio 6.05 gemini://eljasverve.smol.pub/1758041391    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:24:48

• "Replacing a command with some other command may also be bad, as that may change the interface, and break scripts that assume "finger" behaves like finger(1). Some folks tried to replace rm(1) with a script that moved files to ~/.trash instead of deleting them, which mostly worked, except when it did not." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/09/16/self-learned-unix.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:25:36

• Taking yet another two-week break gopher://hoi.st:70/0/posts/2025-09-16-another-break.txt    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:26:10

• "Last checkpointed September 15, 2025." Pyotr Wrangel — Always with Honor gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/books/wrangel--always-with-honor/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:27:04

• Radxa Cubie A7A Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction to the Series ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/radxa-cubie-a7a-single-board-computer-running-linux-introduction/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:28:21

• Next-Gen AV2 Video Codec Announced by AOMedia ☞ https://linuxiac.com/next-gen-av2-video-codec-announced-by-aomedia/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:28:46

• Linux Security Tools Bypassed by io_uring Rootkit Technique, ARMO Research Reveals ☞ https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/09/linux-security-rootkit/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:29:31

• Giada 1.3 Open-Source Loop Machine Adds Support for Multiple Audio Connections ☞ https://9to5linux.com/giada-1-3-open-source-loop-machine-adds-support-for-multiple-audio-connections    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:39:12

• Firefox 143 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New ☞ https://9to5linux.com/firefox-143-is-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:39:22

• Canonical to Package and Distribute NVIDIA CUDA within Ubuntu’s Repositories ☞ https://9to5linux.com/canonical-to-package-and-distribute-nvidia-cuda-within-ubuntus-repositories    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:39:29

• Linux Plumbers Conference: Registration for LPC 2025 is now open! ☞ https://lpc.events/blog/current/index.php/2025/09/15/registration-for-lpc-2025-is-now-open/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:39:47

• Cross-Fit Champion Mathew E. Fraser Wins Priority Contest Over HARD WORKS PAYS OFF Mark for Clothing ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/09/cross-fit-champion-mathew-e-fraser-wins.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:40:20

• Perplexity Hit with Lawsuits from Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster ☞ https://www.datamation.com/artificial-intelligence/perplexity-lawsuit-encyclopedia-britannica/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:41:08

• I think Really Simple Licensing misses the mark ☞ https://rubenerd.com/rsl-really-simple-licensing/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:42:19

• Poland neutralizes drone over government sites, detains two Belarusians ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250916-poland-neutralizes-drone-over-government-sites-detains-two-belarusians    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:43:14

• Poland detains 2 Belarusian citizens flying drone over president's residence ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250916-poland-detains-2-belarusian-citizens-flying-drone-over-president-s-residence    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:43:37

• Belarus opposition figure Statkevich reportedly back in prison days after release ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2678543/belarus-opposition-figure-statkevich-reportedly-back-in-prison-days-after-release    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:43:44

• Opinion | It’s time to abandon corporate welfare in Michigan ☞ https://bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-its-time-to-abandon-corporate-welfare-in-michigan/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:43:57

• Spanish PM calls for Israel to be barred from international sport ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250916-spanish-pm-calls-for-israel-to-be-barred-from-international-sport    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:44:49

• New Research Helps Explain Gas Craters in Siberia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/climate/siberia-craters-exploding-permafrost-tundra.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:44:59

• Surprising Guests at Belarus-Russia War Games: Two American Observers ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/world/europe/russia-belarus-zapad-2025-war-games.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:45:09

• Lithuania’s border calm during Zapad drills – border guard chief ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2678189/lithuania-s-border-calm-during-zapad-drills-border-guard-chief    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:45:18

• Lithuanian president hails NATO’s new mission to deter Russia ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2678241/lithuanian-president-hails-nato-s-new-mission-to-deter-russia    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:45:26

• US officers attend Russia-Belarus war games amid warming ties with Minsk ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2678643/us-officers-attend-russia-belarus-war-games-amid-warming-ties-with-minsk    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:45:42

• With drone incursion, Russia pushes against the thickest part of NATO’s shield ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/with-drone-incursion-russia-pushes-against-the-thickest-part-of-natos-shield/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:46:08

• Zelenskyy Calls On Europe To Develop Air Defense After Latest Russian Attack ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-europe-develop-air-defense-russian-attack-drones/33531800.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:46:24

• Ever-faster weapon cycles: innovation and economics in the war in Ukraine ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/ever-faster-weapon-cycles-innovation-and-economics-in-the-war-in-ukraine/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:46:41

• TDF Annual Report 2024 ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09/15/tdf-annual-report-2024/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:47:25

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

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:48:08

• How to enable Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/09/16/how-enable-ansible-lightspeed-intelligent-assistant    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:48:44

• TTABlog Test: Is "TASTE THE POETRY" for Vodka Confusable with "POETRY" for Wine? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/09/ttablog-test-is-taste-poetry-for-vodka.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:49:46

• They should disclose Microsoft is inside their Board ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/how-dojs-proposed-ad-tech-remedies-could-do-what-the-court-would-not-in-online-search/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:51:04

• China says Nvidia breached antitrust rules with Mellanox acquisition, but Fentanylware (TikTok) deal looms ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/15/china-says-nvidia-breached-antitrust-rules-mellanox-acquisition-tiktok-deal-looms/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:51:58

• He also said he made deals with Putin; him writing something is mostly meaningless, after so many false announcements about Fentanylware (TikTok) ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/15/trump-says-tiktok-deal-reached-with-china/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:53:45

• Just repeating what a liar said ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20250916-us-china-reach-framework-deal-on-tiktok    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:54:10

• He made lots of bluff and bluster before; the media keeps parroting him ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0916/tiktok-ban-trump-china-congress    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:54:50

• That does not mean it's happening ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/technology/tiktok-ban-us-china-deal.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:55:23

• This is fraud and fake currencies ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/briefing/trump-witkoff-emirates-us-china-tiktok-kirk-killing.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:55:59

• U.S. and China Reach ‘Framework’ for a Fentanylware (TikTok) Sale ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/business/us-china-trade-talks-tariffs-tiktok.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:56:23

• Quoting a liar about something whose nature is unclear ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/16/us-china-reach-framework-deal-on-tiktok-ownership/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:57:01

• Android 14 smartphone offers 6.13-inch E-Ink color display, 5G cellular connectivity ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/09/15/android-14-smartphone-offers-6-13-inch-e-ink-color-display-5g-cellular-connectivity/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:57:30

• Turning Against Vaccines, America Is a Global Outlier ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/world/asia/anti-vaccine-america-world-covid.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:57:48

• On Charlie Kirk Show, JD Vance Talks of Crackdown on Liberal Groups ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/jd-vance-charlie-kirk-show.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:58:05

• The Nightly Wobble | LINUX Unplugged 632 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/632/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:58:35

• Apple Updates Everything - iOS/macOS 26 Edition, (Mon, Sep 15th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32286    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:58:51

• Hong Kong think tank Path of Democracy renamed PoD Research Institute to shake off image as political group ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/16/hong-kong-think-tank-path-of-democracy-renamed-pod-research-institute-to-shake-off-image-as-political-group/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:59:20

• Where the Waters Once Flowed ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/22/where-the-waters-once-flowed    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 19:59:40

• Converting a disposable vape into a web server ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/09/16/converting-a-disposable-vape-into-a-web-server/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:00:41

• Apple Rolls Out iOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26 With Patches for Over 50 Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/apple-rolls-out-ios-26-macos-tahoe-26-with-patches-for-over-50-vulnerabilities/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:01:05

• The low road to national insecurity: how states’ diplomacy fractures Australia ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-low-road-to-national-insecurity-how-states-diplomacy-fractures-australia/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:02:46

• Satanic panic: 5 ‘occult’ crimes that gripped South Africa’s imagination ☞ https://www.protectionweb.co.za/civil-security/satanic-panic-5-occult-crimes-that-gripped-south-africas-imagination/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:03:13

• Unravelling the illicit economies that sustain terrorism in the Sahel ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/national-security/unravelling-the-illicit-economies-that-sustain-terrorism-in-the-sahel/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:03:40

• South Korea launches probe into alleged rights violations following US immigration raid at battery plant ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/south-korea-launches-probe-into-alleged-rights-violations-following-us-immigration-raid-at-battery-plant/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:04:01

• Hacker ransomware groups announce retirement to enjoy their "golden parachutes" — no further attacks planned ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hacker-ransomware-groups-announce-retirement-to-enjoy-their-golden-parachutes-no-further-attacks-planned-future-attributed-activities-will-relate-to-undisclosed-past-breaches    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:04:17

• Official in Japan’s Haneda Airport nabbed for allegedly stealing money from passengers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/official-in-japans-haneda-airport-nabbed-for-allegedly-stealing-money-from-passengers    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:04:48

• In the Middle East, can old enemies make good neighbors? ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0915/israel-syria-border-security    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:05:09

• World recorded 61 conflicts in 2024 – the highest number since 1946 ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/joint/diplomacy-a-peace/world-recorded-61-conflicts-in-2024-the-highest-number-since-1946/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:05:40

• JAS resurgence deepens Lake Chad Basin’s complex security crisis ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/national-security/jas-resurgence-deepens-lake-chad-basins-complex-security-crisis/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:05:55

• Dihydroxyacetone Man to file $15 billion defamation and libel lawsuit against New York Times ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/09/16/us-news/trump-to-file-15-billion-defamation-and-libel-lawsuit-against-new-york-times/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:07:06

• American Oversight Sues Convicted Felon Administration for Records on Politicized Review of Epstein Files ☞ https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-sues-trump-administration-for-records-on-politicized-review-of-epstein-files/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:07:26

• Educational standards ‘cannot be affected’ in lawsuit against Hong Kong International School – leader John Lee ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/16/educational-standards-cannot-be-affected-in-lawsuit-against-hong-kong-international-school-leader-john-lee/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:07:56

• US chip giant Nvidia says complies with law after China antitrust finding ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/16/us-chip-giant-nvidia-says-complies-with-law-after-china-antitrust-finding/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:08:18

• Hong Kong International School students unlikely to be affected by eviction lawsuit – parent-teacher group ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/15/hong-kong-international-school-students-unlikely-to-be-affected-by-eviction-lawsuit-parent-teacher-group/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:08:35

• West African migrants allegedly held in straitjackets during US deportation to Ghana ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/west-african-migrants-allegedly-held-in-straitjackets-during-us-deportation-to-ghana/    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:09:00

• China accuses Nvidia of anti-monopoly law violations, raising prospect of heavy fines — company could be fined 10% of revenue from China ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-accuses-nvidia-of-anti-monopoly-law-violations-raising-prospect-of-heavy-fines-company-could-be-fined-10-percent-of-revenue-from-china    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:09:16

• Malaysian state assemblyman warns vape smugglers of strict laws in Johor, Singapore ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/state-assemblyman-warns-vape-smugglers-of-strict-laws-in-johor-singapore    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:10:10

• G.O.P. Plan on Pesticides Faces Revolt From MAHA Moms ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/climate/gop-plan-on-pesticides-faces-revolt-from-maha-moms.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:10:25

• Young People Suing Convicted Felon Over Climate Have Their Day in Federal Court ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/climate/montana-lawsuit-trump-executive-orders-energy.html    

posted Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 20:10:38