Roy Schestowitz

• KDE launches its own distribution (again) https://lwn.net/Articles/1037166/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 05:15:10

• Rug pulls, forks, and open-source feudalism https://lwn.net/Articles/1036465/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 05:17:41

• The dependency tracker for complex deadlock detection https://lwn.net/Articles/1036222/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 05:18:30

• How many ways are there to configure the Linux kernel? https://lwn.net/Articles/1034811/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 05:19:03

• Months After Microsoft Layoffs, Zenimax Unions Never Stopped Fighting For Impacted Workers https://aftermath.site/zenimax-unions-microsoft-layoffs-mmo-elder-scrolls    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 05:30:02

• IBM. "Any insight on the fall RA? Feel like it should’ve happened by now. Don’t put it past them to do it during the holidays because they’re disgusting animals, but still, weird that it hasn’t happened yet. Pretty much every BU facing huge budget cites next year. They waiting for Q?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k5cjm6bz    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 05:37:22

• "They put a bunch of folks on PIP this quarter so that’s probably what’s happening in place of RAs. Anything to Research?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k5cjm6bz    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 05:37:43

• OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/17/openai_hallucinations_incentives/ Nope, LLMs just don't work; they don't have an understanding of anything    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 05:53:31

• Uploaded: 2025 Sep 11, 13:05 http://pdf.online-doc.org/hackers-heroes-of-the-computer-revolution.pdf    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 05:55:27

• How to easily switch your PC from Windows to Linux Mint - for free https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-easily-switch-your-pc-from-windows-to-linux-for-free/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 08:06:30

• How To Install Ubuntu On A Chromebook (And What You Should Know Before You Try) https://www.bgr.com/1965941/how-to-set-up-ubuntu-on-chromebook-feel-like-brand-new/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 08:06:59

• "This release is based on Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” and it’s available only with the Cinnamon desktop environment." https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-debian-edition-lmde-7-gigi-is-now-available-for-public-beta-testing    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 08:07:57

• "Another one of the big changes here is that they've now disabled the X11 session, as part of their work towards a full migration to Wayland. Apps on GNOME desktops that need X11 will continue working with XWayland as you would expect." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/gnome-49-released-with-new-video-player-document-viewer-improved-app-store-and-disabled-x11-session/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 08:08:30

• "This release also ships with the latest KDE Plasma 6.4.5 desktop environment, NVIDIA 580.82.09 graphics driver, and Linux kernel 6.16.7." https://9to5linux.com/slackware-based-porteux-2-3-is-out-with-gnome-49-improved-webcam-support    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 08:08:52

• "GNOME 49 "Brescia" has been officially released today with improvements big and small across this popular Linux desktop environment." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/gnome-49-released-with-new-video-player-document-viewer-improved-app-store-and-disabled-x11-session/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:06:39

• "Inspired by drawn-on-film animation of the 1930s, ZOE Begone! masterfully blends together a bullet hell with a run and gun shooter and you need to check it out." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/zoe-begone-is-a-fab-hand-drawn-fusion-of-bullet-hell-with-a-run-and-gun/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:07:41

• "Looking a lot like a classic Resident Evil game but switching things up to be turn-based, with dungeon exploration - House of Necrosis looks genuinely very cool." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/mixing-retro-resident-evil-vibes-with-a-mystery-dungeon-house-of-necrosis-arrives-in-october/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:07:57

• "Flick Shot Rogues is a turn-based tactical roguelike about flicking your characters across the map, to bump into enemies. It's clever and a new favourite. Disclosure: a key was provided to GamingOnLinux." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/line-up-the-perfect-shot-to-bump-enemies-in-the-wonderful-and-clever-flick-shot-rogues/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:11:31

• cheeto mussolini sez https://tiv.today/trump-says-hes-designating-antifa-as-a-major-terrorist-organization/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:11:54

• "Am I my brother's keeper? | jyc" https://www.jonathanychan.com/blog/am-i-my-brother-s-keeper/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:12:10

• "Achieving Self-Funding Local Sovereignty as Global Food Systems Collapse | WEB OF DEBT BLOG" https://ellenbrown.com/2022/07/09/achieving-self-funding-local-sovereignty-as-global-food-systems-collapse/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:12:20

• "Canada’s media is advising elites to invest in oligopolies—and laugh all the way to the bank" https://breachmedia.ca/canadas-media-is-advising-elites-to-invest-in-oligoplies-and-laugh-all-the-way-to-the-bank/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:12:33

• "Charlie Kirk built a movement of young people. Where will it go from here?" https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0917/charlie-kirk-turning-point-young-conservatives    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:12:49

• "To see how the president is losing ground to Beijing, consider his disastrous relationship with India." https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/09/trump-china-india-modi/684231/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:13:07

• "Whitmer talks damage of Trump tariffs in Michigan economic speech • Michigan Advance" https://michiganadvance.com/2025/09/16/whitmer-talks-damage-of-trump-tariffs-in-michigan-economic-speech/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:13:19

• "Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor 1.0 has now officially released, so you can deep dive into one of the best horde survival games around and dig for riches. Time for some more Rock and stone!" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/deep-rock-galactic-survivor-is-an-excellent-horde-survival-game-1-0-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:13:42

• "From Transhuman Design who made Soldat, King Arthur's Gold and Maniac is a fresh action game with Jackal and you can now try it early with the demo release." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/soldat-dev-releases-demo-for-jackal-a-brutal-new-top-down-action-game-inspired-by-hotline-miami/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:14:08

• Bytedance's Tiktok already _*is*_ a propaganda mill https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/tiktok-to-be-sold-to-trumps-right-wing-billionaire-buddies-and-converted-into-a-propaganda-mill/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:14:34

• "India, EU To Ink Free Trade Deal By Dec" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/india-eu-to-ink-free-trade-deal-by-dec-1904443    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:14:47

• "You're supposed to only be able to use AMD FSR4 with the latest AMD GPUs, but thanks to a woops from AMD - even the Steam Deck can now use FSR4." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/steam-deck-plugin-adds-amd-fsr4-support-to-improve-visuals/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:15:07

• "The 2.0 demo of the casual sweet farm-to-table cooking game Kokoro Kitchen is out now, and it really does look wonderful. It also has a Native Linux version." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/check-out-the-demo-for-kokoro-kitchen-a-sweet-farm-to-table-cooking-game/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:15:24

• Rare Earth Metals ☛ https://therevelator.org/rare-earth-metals-indigenous-rights/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:16:35

• Deadly police shootings in Amsterdam: Sammy Baker’s family from Germany forces prosecution of officers ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2025/09/17/deadly-police-shootings-in-amsterdam-sammy-bakers-family-from-germany-forces-prosecution-of-officers/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:19:44

• "Even before those complex questions are addressed, there is a huge assumption that the proposed settlement will go through in its present form. That’s by no means assured." ☛ https://walledculture.org/anthropics-ai-lawsuit-settlement-may-not-go-through-but-it-exposes-a-truth-about-copyright/ | Source: Walled Culture    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:20:11

• "Similarly, Prince shared his stages and studios with an incredibly broad and diverse set of collaborators" ☛ https://www.anildash.com/2025/09/17/a-way-we-were/ | Source: Anil Dash    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:20:28

• "After all, the Sackler family flagrantly lied about the safety of their opioids. They bribed doctors to over-prescribe their drugs." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/17/cause-and-effect/#things-have-causes | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:21:13

• "Without unions, corporate executives have no incentive to pass on the profits they’re gaining to their workers. Only unionized workers can secure a fair share of tariff-driven profits, while most nonunion workers will be left behind." ☛ https://www.epi.org/publication/unions-raise-wages-tariffs-dont-why-trumps-trade-policy-wont-help-u-s-workers/ | Source: Economic Policy Institute    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:27:29

• "Microsoft faces some retaliation claims" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/microsoft-faces-some-retaliation-claims/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:27:44

• "If this cut really is 7 million and if it is aimed at our production support, the amount of films we can support will be halved. This means only a few documentaries and shorts, and less than 10 feature films" ☛ https://variety.com/2025/film/global/finnish-industry-laments-government-cuts-1236522041/ | Source: Variety    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:28:03

• "Violence Against Journalists" ☛ https://thedissenter.org/las-long-history-of-violence-against-journalists/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:28:35

• "Nigerien authorities must immediately release Ali Soumana and reform their laws in favor of media freedom and the public’s right to know." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/09/in-niger-journalist-faces-up-to-3-years-jail-for-alleged-defamation-of-pm/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:36:53

• "The lawsuit has no merit. It lacks any legitimate legal claims. I believe its purpose is to stifle independent journalism, to deter the kind of fact-based reporting that the Times and other institutions are known for." ☛ https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/nyt-chief-executive-warns-trump-is-deploying-anti-press-playbook-ft-says-2025-09-18/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:37:06

• "The network did not explain its decision, but the sequence of events on Wednesday amounted to an extraordinary exertion of political pressure on a major broadcast network by the Trump administration." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/business/media/abc-jimmy-kimmel.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:37:33

• "It’s worth noting this was not just a rank-and-file Disney employee who got kicked to the curb. Kimmel is the face of the network — a repeat host of the Oscars and Emmys on ABC’s air, and who the network brings in like clockwork at their upfront presentation to roast its own programming." ☛ https://variety.com/2025/tv/columns/abc-jimmy-kimmel-late-night-tv-future-1236522762/ | Source: Variety    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:37:48

• "During his Monday evening monologue, Kimmel suggested Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, might have been a pro-Trump Republican." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/abc-suspends-jimmy-kimmels-late-night-show-indefinitely-over-his-remarks-about-charlie-kirks-death/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:38:49

• "The Walt Disney-owned broadcaster said it was yanking "Jimmy Kimmel Live" indefinitely after at least one affiliate said it would replace the show on its airwaves and the nation's top communications regulator threatened investigations due to Kimmel's statements." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-09-18/hollywood-comes-to-kimmels-defense-after-abc-pulls-late-night-show | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:39:26

• "What just happened, in short, shows how far down the authoritarian road the United States has traveled in just eight months." ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/461887/jimmy-kimmel-suspension-air-abc-charlie-kirk-nexstar | Source: Vox    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:40:04

• "Jimmy Kimmel is in timeout with ABC ... the network is suspending him ... and it's all over what he said about the alleged Charlie Kirk killer." ☛ https://www.tmz.com/2025/09/17/abc-suspends-jimmy-kimmel-over-charlie-kirk-comments/ | Source: TMZ    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:40:23

• "TMZ shot video of the embattled late-night host rushing into his Chevy Silverado inside a garage Wednesday night in Los Angeles." ☛ https://www.tmz.com/2025/09/17/jimmy-kimmel-seen-after-abc-suspension/ | Source: TMZ    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:40:49

• "Nexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/jimmy-kimmel-out-abc-charlie-kirk-comments-1235430078/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:41:15

• "This is how a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish" ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51376767/abc-pulls-jimmy-kimmel-live-off-air-after-kimmels-remarks-about-kirk | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:41:40

• "indefinitely." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/technology/brendan-carr-fcc-jimmy-kimmel.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:42:08

• "we don't live in the normal world, we live in a crisis where comedians are kicked off the air due to government pressure on multiple occasions." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/jimmy-kimmel-said-the-most-shocking-thing-youve-ever-heard-on-television/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:42:37

• And then the Cheeto Nazi fans mock the UK for a lack of press speech/press?    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:42:57

• "In context, Kimmel’s statements were quite benign" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/cowardly-disney-caves-to-brendan-carrs-bogus-censorial-threats-pulling-jimmy-kimmel/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:43:35

• "Banning broadband [Internet] is an unprecedented escalation of censorship that will undermine journalists’ work and the public’s right to information" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/09/taliban-blocks-fiber-optic-internet-in-afghan-provinces-for-immorality/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:44:19

• "Over the past week since the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk, we’ve watched conservatives unabashedly take ownership of “cancel culture” and crack down on free speech right before our eyes." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/09/kirk-assassination-right-cancel-culture/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/14/Cancel_Culture_by_the_Right_Microsoft_Lunduke_Contacts_People_s.shtml    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:44:43

• "HRW’s report, released on the third anniversary of Amini’s death, stated that the Iranian judiciary has not pursued cases against those implicated in unlawful killings, mass arrests, and torture of protesters." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/rights-group-reports-iran-ignored-accountability-for-torture-killings-during-2022-protests/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:44:59

• Fascist propaganda ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/charlie-kirk-tribute-jimmy-kimmel-time-slot-abc-sinclair-1235430157/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:45:59

• "To be clear here: this is not about the security and general quality of FOSS (which is often very good), or the responsiveness of FOSS maintainers." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/OpenSourceMeansNoGuarantees | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:46:29

• "Robert Redford was a man of the Left until the end and a patron saint of independent cinema. He will be missed." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/09/robert-redford-hollywood-looks-politics/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:46:44

• "Redford, who died Tuesday at age 89, was hardly the only liberal activist to emerge out of Hollywood, but few matched his knowledge and focus, his humility and dedication." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2025/09/robert-redford-remembered-for-his-deep-legacy-in-environmental-activism-and-native-american-advocacy.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:46:57

• "Trump and the global far-right are trying to discredit Europe’s tech laws with misinformation and political pressure, fearing that these regulations might disrupt their ability to undermine democracy." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/why-europes-new-tech-laws-have-the-world-on-edge/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:47:10

• "Because it's so simple, it can be adjusted for animals." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/cephalopods-passed-a-cognitive-test-intended-for-human-children | Source: Science Alert    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:47:47

• "Geothermal debris is a more common problem than you might think: Already this year, park staffers have removed more than 13,000 pieces of garbage from Yellowstone’s thermal areas" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/more-than-300-hats-have-been-pulled-from-yellowstones-geothermal-features-so-far-this-year-180987345/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:48:26

• "This commitment to product longevity extends even to our earliest products." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pis-commitment-to-longevity-a-sustainable-advantage/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:48:33

• "Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared." ☛ https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:49:46

• "This is all obviously bunkum. Trump and his henchmen are rewriting the past and present in the most Orwellian of manners." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-political-violence-incitement/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:50:16

• "the 80 busses TPUSA paid for was investigated earlier, in the first year of the investigation, along with a bunch of other entities that sent busses." ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/17/chuck-grassley-complains-that-doj-investigated-why-tpusa-sent-80-busses-to-a-riot/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:50:51

• "In the Declaration of Independence, the founders wrote a long train of abuses by the King to justify their actions. Some may feel …unfortunately relevant today: [...]" ☛ https://lmnt.me/blog/a-long-train-of-abuses.html | Source: Louie Mantia    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:51:25

• "In his bloody wake, many now beset by irrational vitriol are left to argue, "I don't support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie."" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/further/one-of-our-own-on-wonderful-americans-like-charlie | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:52:07

• "For the first time ever, visitors will be able to see the entire United States Constitution." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-the-entire-us-constitution-on-display-for-the-very-first-time-in-history-180987338/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:52:34

• "This would leave ByteDance and its Chinese shareholders with around a 20% stake," ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/16/tiktok-deal-terms-leak-stake/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:52:54

• "80% of TikTok’s U.S. assets to Andreessen Horowitz (owned by Marc Andreessen, an increasingly incoherent right wing billionaire and close Trump ally), Oracle (owned by Larry Ellison, a rabidly right wing billionaire and close Trump ally), and Silver Lake (a hedge fund with a history of… predatory and dodgy behaviors)." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/tiktok-to-be-sold-to-trumps-right-wing-billionaire-buddies-and-converted-into-a-propaganda-mill/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:53:26

• "80% of TikTok’s U.S. assets to Andreessen Horowitz (owned by Marc Andreessen, an increasingly incoherent right wing billionaire and close Trump ally), Oracle (owned by Larry Ellison, a rabidly right wing billionaire and close Trump ally), and Silver Lake" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/tiktok-to-be-sold-to-trumps-right-wing-billionaire-buddies-and-converted-into-a-propaganda-mill/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:53:44

• "PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a system for encrypting and signing data using public-key cryptography." ☛ https://anagogistis.com/notes/pgp/ | Source: Andreas    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:54:27

• "The return of the House of Commons from the summer break brings with it a resumption of debate on government bills." ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/09/government-doubles-down-in-defending-bill-c-2s-information-demand-powers-that-open-the-door-to-warrantless-access-of-personal-information/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:55:35

• "Between June 2020 and July 2022, Kmart deployed FRT to capture the faces of every person who entered 28 of its retail stores, and all individuals who presented at a returns counter, in an attempt to identify people committing refund fraud." ☛ https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/kmart%e2%80%99s-use-of-facial-recognition-to-tackle-refund-fraud-unlawful,-privacy-commissioner-finds.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:55:41

• "The company says that it plans on updating its locks by the end of the year, but have no plans to patch any locks already sold." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/hacking-electronic-safes.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:56:14

• Windows TCO ☛ https://linuxiac.com/after-arch-linux-mageia-faces-infrastructure-outage/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:56:58

• Social Control Media ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/the-russians-are-loving-this | Source: Garry Kasparov    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:57:22

• "We could just dismiss the idea but I'd rather try to formulate a reasonable definition, which I would expect from a good PhD student. It's not about knowing stuff, which we can always look up, but the ability to talk and engage about current research." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/09/what-is-phd-level-intelligence.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:58:00

• "The MIT report that 95% of AI projects don’t make any money frightened the AI bubble investors. This is even as the actual report is trash, and its purpose was to sell you on the authors’ Web3 crypto scam." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/16/the-hype-after-ai-lads-its-looking-really-quantum/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:58:12

• Settlement basically ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/reddit-seeks-to-strike-next-ai-content-pact-with-google-openai/articleshow/123950210.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:58:37

• "Systemd, a widely adopted system and service manager for Linux, has released its latest iteration, v258, which introduces significant changes that administrators should be aware of." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/systemd-258-drops-cgroup-v1-raises-kernel-baseline-to-5-4/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 10:59:57

• "Big tech has built machines optimized for one thing: keeping people scrolling. The algorithms don’t care what keeps you scrolling." ☛ https://staticmade.com/2025/09/17/turn-off-the-internet/ | Source: Jeffrey Inscho    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:00:32

• "Beijing reportedly believes that homegrown AI chip makers, like Huawei and Cambricon, now produce chips that have comparable performance to Nvidia’s China-only products." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/china-bans-its-biggest-tech-companies-from-acquiring-nvidia-chips-says-report-beijing-claims-its-homegrown-ai-processors-now-match-h20-and-rtx-pro-6000d | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:01:08

• "For journals, true value lies not in the volume of papers they publish, but in the trust they cultivate and their reputation for consistently publishing high-quality, meaningful research" ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/16/guest-post-is-it-enough-to-say-a-journal-is-peer-reviewed-the-case-for-rating-journals-based-on-peer-review-quality/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:01:58

• "Here are the key takeaways from our community discussion: [...]" ☛ https://makemeacto.substack.com/p/landing-the-cto-role-insights-from | Source: Sergio Visinoni    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:02:17

• "That's what's especially galling about these cuts — we know so much more about cancer and are on the brink of some incredible scientific breakthroughs" ☛ https://futurism.com/neoscope/trump-shutting-down-cancer-research | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:03:19

• "The event, dubbed GW190412, saw a black hole eight times the Sun's mass colliding with another black hole that was 30 times the mass of the Sun, some 2.4 billion light-years away." ☛ https://futurism.com/strange-signal-gravitational-waves-black-hole-recoil | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:03:28

• "NASA scientists have expressed concern after detecting an unexpected surge in solar activity" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nasa-alarmed-sun-shows-unusual-activity-heres-how-its-going-affect-all-us-1744491 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:03:40

• "Some researchers will do anything not to deal with messy humans and ethics boards. They only want an excuse to synthesize their data." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/17/we-simulated-the-human-mind-with-a-chatbot-it-didnt-work/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:03:49

• "In a sobering analysis of 215 data breach reports between January 2022 and August 2024" ☛ https://www.fortra.com/blog/mischief-malware-ico-warns-schools-about-student-hackers | Source: Fortra LLC    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:05:08

• "That's not true. UTF-8 was designed, in front of my eyes, on a placemat in a New Jersey diner one night in September or so 1992." ☛ https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Emgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt | Source: uni Cambridge    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:25:26

• "The Java community has reason to be excited, as the highly anticipated JDK 25 has been officially released as a Long-Term Support (LTS) version." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/jdk-25-lts-released-with-tls-key-exporters-improved-debugging/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:26:10

• FSF News: FSF40: Free software activists to speak on their history of involvement ☞ http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf40-volunteer-panel    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:29:46

• iophk: "Anyone who does not toe the line is being fired this week Kimmel is on the record for condemning the shooting, yet ... The US had been an oligarchy for a few decades until this January when it pivoted to a full on kakistocracy. It was the 1990s when it was last a republic."    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:31:39

• USA = global foes of free press, everywhere http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/How_Americans_View_Free_Speech_in_Practice.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Threats_Against_Techrights_Always_Come_From_Outside_Britain.shtml    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:32:22

• "It's been a while since I last talked about my Slimbook Executive laptop. I've had the machine for two years now, and early on, the experience was blissful. Superb really. But then, a firmware update, which you get as normal part of your Linux update process, plus maybe a kernel change or two, messed up the lovely stability and peace of my device. I've talked about this a lot, most recently in the eighth report. I am not very happy about this issue." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/slimbook-executive-report-9.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:36:57

• "It's been a while since I last talked about my Slimbook Executive laptop. I've had the machine for two years now, and early on, the experience was blissful. Superb really. But then, a firmware update, which you get as normal part of your Linux update process, plus maybe a kernel change or two, messed up the lovely stability and peace of my device." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/slimbook-executive-report-9.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:37:16

• "It's been a while since I last talked about my Slimbook Executive laptop. I've had the machine for two years now, and early on, the experience was blissful. Superb really. But then, a firmware update, which you get as normal part of your Linux update process, plus maybe a kernel change or two, messed up the lovely stability and peace of my device." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/slimbook-executive-report-9.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:37:33

• "I've talked about this a lot, most recently in the eighth report. I am not very happy about this issue." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/slimbook-executive-report-9.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:37:41

• "We're excited to announce the release of Sundials.jl v5.0, a major update that brings significant improvements to differential-algebraic equation (DAE) solving, upgrades to the latest Sundials C library, and enhanced integration with the SciML ecosystem." ☛ https://sciml.ai/news/2025/09/17/sundials_v5_release/index.html | Source: SciML    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:38:42

• "if a text editor is predestined to eventually grow a shell, and a shell is predestined to become a text editor, will they end up in the same place?" ☛ https://arcan-fe.com/2025/09/17/arcan-september-hackathon-2/ | Source: Arcan    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:38:56

• "It may not be technically correct. If something doesn’t exist in a database" ☛ https://lmika.org/2025/09/18/learning-to-like-sentinel-errors.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:39:53

• "This week, let’s move further — shifting away from inheritance and embracing composition." ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/09/17/observers-part3 | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:40:03

• "But it’s a laborious process. Searching, dragging, and dropping. For an event with more than a handful of artists, that’s a lot of work." ☛ https://www.tommyp.org/blog/my-home-cooked-app/ | Source: Tommy Palmer    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:40:33

• "Let’s go build an accessible dataset." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/09/phoenician-colonization/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:44:18

• "The FSF has been campaigning for software freedom for over forty years. As part of its celebrations, the organization has asked some of its long-standing community members to reflect on their work for the FSF, GNU, and free software generally. The FSF is pleased to announce that free software activists Panos Alevropoulos, Amin Bandali, and Yoni Rabkin will be speaking on the topic." ☛ https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf40-volunteer-panel | Source: FSF    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:44:59

• "I don’t know about you, but my usula process of evaluating Emacs Lisp expressions has always been to jump to scratch buffer, type or paste the elisp expression and C-e or C-j." ☛ https://arkoinad.com/posts/emacs_i_should_have_known_2.html | Source: Abhinav Gopalakrishnan    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:45:19

• "The FSF has been campaigning for software freedom for over forty years. As part of its celebrations, the organization has asked some of its long-standing community members to reflect on their work for the FSF, GNU, and free software generally." ☛ https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf40-volunteer-panel | Source: FSF    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:46:23

• "The FSF is pleased to announce that free software activists Panos Alevropoulos, Amin Bandali, and Yoni Rabkin will be speaking on the topic."    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:46:56

• "Looking through the repo, you’ll find notes on op-amps, JFETs, and other building blocks used in guitar pedal circuits." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/linus-torvalds-tinkers-with-guitarpedal/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:47:30

• "Six years ago, I was inspired to buy a DEC serial terminal. Since then, my collection has grown to include several DEC models, an IBM 3151, a Wyse WY-55, a Televideo 990, and a few others." ☛ https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10886-installing-and-using-debian-using-my-decades-old-genuine-dec-vt510-serial-terminal | Source: John Goerzen    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:47:59

• "David Heinemeier Hansson has announced the release of Omarchy 3.0, a significant upgrade to the project's Arch-based Linux distribution featuring the Hyprland tiling window manager" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12558 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:48:39

• "Project Oberon (New Edition 2013)" ☛ https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html |    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:49:50

• "Last month, waddlesplash spent a bunch of time refactoring the disk block and directory entry caching logic in the kernel to be able to use atomic operations rather than exclusive locks in the most common cases (reading an already-cached block, and inserting a new entry into the entry cache.)" ☛ https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2025-09-15-haiku_activity_contract_report_august_2025/ | Source: HaikuOS    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:50:17

• "These sorts of changes are tricky to write and tougher to test (any bugs in them that aren’t immediately obvious will likely be due to race conditions, and can usually only be found by analyzing code carefully, as all other means of trying to catch them generally change timing enough that they won’t occur)" | Source: HaikuOS    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:50:29

• "Six months after the launch of version 48, GNOME 49 “Brescia,” named after the Italian city that hosted this year’s GUADEC conference, was released today and is now available for anyone interested in trying it." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/gnome-49-desktop-environment-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:51:12

• "Akin to many (retro) (partial) screenshot guessing quizzes out there, here’s my own. The photo below depicts my right hand holding seven mystery cards, each from another card game" ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/09/name-those-card-games-quiz-one/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:51:34

• "I recently set up Suricata IDS in my home lab again as part of a re-build." ☛ https://www.h-i-r.net/2025/09/raspberry-pi-home-lab-ids-with-suricata.html | Source: HiR    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:52:11

• "I started with a Debian 13 VM on ProxMox and followed the instructions for a single-node install." ☛ https://www.h-i-r.net/2025/09/build-your-home-lab-siem-with-wazuh.html | Source: HiR    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:52:20

• "Most people know ZFS as a stable, resilient, and durable file system that excels at large-scale storage and backup workloads." ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/optimizing-zfs-for-high-throughput-storage-workloads/ | Source: Klara    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:53:04

• "The good news is that Linux makes it surprisingly easy to monitor disk usage and catch problems before they happen." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/monitor-disk-usage-bash-script/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:53:30

• Kubernetes v1.34: Pods Report DRA Resource Health https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/09/17/kubernetes-v1-34-pods-report-dra-resource-health/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:56:16

• "The F28E12x devices integrate TI’s C28x digital signal processor core with advanced control peripherals and analog subsystems, enabling fast execution of Field-Oriented Control algorithms (FOC)." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/ti-expands-c2000-portfolio-with-affordable-real-time-mcus-for-motor-control/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:56:29

• "The IOTA is powered by an Intel Processor N150, a quad-core chip with a boost frequency of 3.6 GHz, compared to the 1.92 GHz Intel Atom x5-Z8350 in the V1." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/lattepanda-iota-brings-intel-n150-and-rp2040-co-processor-in-palm-sized-sbc/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:56:46

• Mozilla outsourced DNS from one's ISP to spying companies based in the US: "All web browsing starts with a DNS query to find the IP address for the desired service or website. For much of the internet’s history, this query is sent in the clear" ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/dns-android/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:58:07

• "Mozilla’s Substack." Mozilla is outsourcing and promoting bad technology. ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/period-tracking-apps/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:58:15

• GSoC'25 KWin Project Blog Post: Week 3-4 ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/09/15/gsoc25-kwin-project-blog-post-week-3-4/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:59:19

• John Goerzen: Installing and Using Debian With My Decades-Old Genuine DEC vt510 Serial Terminal ☞ https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10886-installing-and-using-debian-using-my-decades-old-genuine-dec-vt510-serial-terminal    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 11:59:57

• Sean Whitton: Southern Biscuits with British ingredients ☞ https://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/southernbiscuits/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:00:31

• GNUnet News: GNUnet 0.25.0 ☞ https://gnunet.org/en/news/2025-09-0.25.0.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:02:22

• FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, September 19, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2025-09-19-irc    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:03:02

• “Networking for System Administrators, 2nd ed” Kickstarter is live ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24420    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:03:31

• Fact: EFF Got Corrupted by Corporate Money. Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Lunduke (Political Noise): The Issue With EFF is, It Kills Babies. ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/17/Fact_EFF_Got_Corrupted_by_Corporate_Money_Microsoft_Lunduke_Pol.shtml    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:04:15

• How To Install HPLIP on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-hplip-linux-mint-22/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:04:51

• How To Install Neo4j on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-neo4j-almalinux-10/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:05:00

• 26 Sparkling Free and Open Source CLI GNU/Linux Time Trackers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/timetrackers/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:07:15

• Cockpit Project: Cockpit 347 ☞ https://cockpit-project.org//blog/cockpit-347.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:07:41

• Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1038453/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:08:00

• A deep dive into Apache Kafka's KRaft protocol ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/09/17/deep-dive-apache-kafkas-kraft-protocol    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:08:46

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

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:09:21

• "Putin in uniform, U.S. observers, and Z-bloggers..." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/17/putin-in-uniform-u-s-observers-and-z-bloggers-reactions | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:10:07

• Access Now at the 12th edition of CIPESA’s FIFAfrica ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/event/access-now-at-fifafrica-2025/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:11:17

• Tell PKGget some default-* packages already installed ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202509/tell-pkgget-some-default--packages-already-installed.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:13:02

• French strikes delay Bayeux Tapestry transfer ahead of British Museum loan ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250917-french-strikes-hit-bayeux-tapestry-transfer-ahead-of-uk-loan    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:14:44

• France’s new prime minister faces a bumpy ride with nationwide strikes ahead ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250917-france-s-new-prime-minister-faces-a-bumpy-ride-with-nationwide-strikes-ahead    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:15:00

• UN experts say US strike on vessel violated right to life ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/un-experts-say-us-strike-on-vessel-violated-right-to-life/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:15:22

• Israel Strikes Houthi Sites at Hudaydah Port Amid Gaza City Assault ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/world/middleeast/israel-yemen-hudaydah.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:15:31

• Turkish Medical Association calls for probe into Israeli doctors' alleged involvement in torture of Gazans ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/turkish-medical-association-calls-for-probe-into-israeli-doctors-alleged-involvement-in-torture-of-gazans-311608    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:20:04

• Review: Elecrow's All-in-one Starter Kit for Pico 2 ☞ https://itsfoss.com/review-elecrows-pico-2-kit/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:20:33

• ABC pulls late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off air after Charlie Kirk comments ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250917-abc-says-jimmy-kimmel-off-air-indefinitely-after-charlie-kirk-comments    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:20:45

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-09-18.gmi    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:22:10

• "Last year, I tutored several adult students on how to use their computers (specifically, laptops with Windows or ChromeOS) and smartphones (both Android and iOS), as a part of basic adult literacy class at a local library. Working as a software developer and using computers since I was a teenager" gemini://yaky.dev/2025-09-17-computer-literacy/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:22:59

• "Everything in Alhena is stored in an embedded H2 database. The database is encrypted. The idea was to prevent casual snooping but the password can be found in the source on GitHub. You can change it if you build from source. You can also set an environment variable with the password but that's a topic for another day." gemini://ultimatumlabs.com/gemlog/20250918.gmi    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:23:53

• 🔤SpellBinding — ZBHILRA Wordo: SLOGS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-09-18.gmi    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:24:36

• "well i've been away a while from writing gemlogs but that's neither here nor there.. still a nice thing to have i think even if i am infrequent with it. if i get up in my head about how i haven't done it consistently enough then i feel like it's a lost cause or i have to start over from scratch with a new one or whatever. bweh" gemini://gemini.melikule.xyz/gemlog/bottom-surgery.gmi    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:26:31

• "Yes, government equals violence, in every 'solution' it offers. Yes, enforcement, especially selective enforcement of contracts is violence. And capitalism, especially in advances stages, is total violence -- like most --isms (government preferences) it is and -ism that gives preference to the rich." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/stack/32799    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:27:12

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1417.jpg    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:32:27

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1767.jpg    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:32:32

• "As you may have noticed, my Gopher server was offline for a couple of days. This was caused by me, moving all the content from an Intel Atom-based dedicated server in the OVH datacenter in France to an AMD EPYC-based VPS here in Czechia." gopher://i-logout.cz:70/0/phlog/posts/2025-09-17_a_brief_downtime_and_what_caused_it.txt    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:33:53

• Libxml2 2.15.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1038478/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:51:03

• Epic battle over Stelara continues with win for Janssen against Samsung Bioepis ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/epic-battle-over-stelara-continues-with-win-for-janssen-against-samsung-bioepis/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:52:47

• New Hey Hi (AI) NPE Campaign — Prior Art Found ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/9/15/new-ai-npe-campaign-prior-art-found    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:53:08

• Promoting the Progress: Patents, Knowledge, and the Pursuit of Happiness ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/09/promoting-knowledge-happiness.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:53:37

• Pacing Publication Up a Bit ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/17/Pacing_Publication_Up_a_Bit.shtml    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:54:26

• Introducing admiralneuro! ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/09/introducing-admiralneuro/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:55:21

• SparkyLinux 9 'Tiamat' arrives with updated kernel and software packages ☞ https://betanews.com/2025/09/17/sparkylinux-9-tiamat-arrives-with-updated-kernel-and-software-packages/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:57:18

• Settlement Talks Stall Between X and Music Publishers — Litigants ‘Will Continue Their Discussions’ As the Case Resumes ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/17/music-publishers-x-lawsuit-settlement-update/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:58:11

• After Arch Linux, Mageia Faces Infrastructure Outage ☞ https://linuxiac.com/after-arch-linux-mageia-faces-infrastructure-outage/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:58:44

• PyMarkdown – Markdown linter ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pymarkdown-markdown-linter/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 12:59:53

• Hunt – word search game ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hunt-word-search-game/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 13:00:00

• Slopwatch: Fake Articles, Fake Text, Fake Images, Negative Slant on "Linux" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/17/Slopwatch_Fake_Articles_Fake_Text_Fake_Images_Negative_Slant_on.shtml    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 13:00:08

• SSHR – TUI SSH manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sshr-tui-ssh-manager/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 13:00:17

• Violations Lib – parse report files from static code analysis ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/violations-lib-parse-report-files-static-code-analysis/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 13:00:24

• EU eyes deeper India alliance despite concern over Moscow ties ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/EU-eyes-deeper-India-alliance-despite-concern-over-Moscow-ties    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 13:00:44

• "Unable to make loan payments" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/17/nearly-one-in-five-russians-unable-to-make-loan-payments-survey-finds | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 14:45:52

• "European Convention against Torture" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/17/russia-s-state-duma-votes-to-withdraw-from-european-convention-against-torture | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 14:46:24

• "reportedly resigns as Kremlin deputy chief of staff" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/17/dmitry-kozak-only-senior-russian-official-thought-to-oppose-the-war-reportedly-resigns-as-kremlin-deputy-chief-of-staff | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 14:46:49

• Lithuania says it busted Russian-linked network that planned terror attacks in Europe ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2681837/lithuania-says-it-busted-russian-linked-network-that-planned-terror-attacks-in-europe    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 14:47:16

• "her LGBTQ advocacy briefly vanished from Wikipedia" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/17/an-australian-is-representing-the-u-s-at-russia-s-eurovision-rival-after-the-announcement-her-lgbtq-advocacy-briefly-vanished-from-wikipedia | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 14:48:27

• "Z-blogosphere" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/18/nothing-short-of-delightful | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 14:48:59

• "murdering ‘rude’ civilian while AWOL" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/18/russian-contract-soldier-sent-back-to-prison-for-murdering-rude-civilian-while-awol | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 14:49:40

• Denmark to Buy Long-Range Weapons in ‘Paradigm Shift’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/world/europe/denmark-buy-long-range-weapons.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 14:50:23

• U.S. Government to Invest $75 Million in Ukraine’s Minerals ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/world/europe/ukraine-us-minerals-deal.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 14:51:03

• David vs Goliath: Moldova’s fight for European democracy against Russia – opinion ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2681617/david-vs-goliath-moldova-s-fight-for-european-democracy-against-russia-opinion    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 14:51:57

• Europe needs a new approach to Belarus focused on practical outcomes ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/europe-needs-a-new-approach-to-belarus-focused-on-practical-outcomes/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 14:52:27

• Russia resorts to using Nazi weapons in Ukraine war as Moscow raids museums to restock arms ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/09/17/world-news/russia-resorts-to-using-nazi-weapons-in-ukraine-war/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 14:53:10

• "Vladimir Putin is responsible for the murder of my husband" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/17/vladimir-putin-is-responsible-for-the-murder-of-my-husband | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 14:54:09

• Navalny Vomited and Convulsed in Prison Before Dying, His Wife Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/world/europe/russia-navalny-poisoning.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 14:54:29

• Alexei Navalny’s widow says tests 'prove he was poisoned’ ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250917-alexei-navalny-s-widow-says-tests-prove-he-was-poisoned    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 14:54:39

• Security Onion 2.4.180 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/securityonion    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 14:58:06

• PorteuX 2.3 is also out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/porteux    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 14:58:17

• GNOME 49 Officially Released, This is What’s New ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/gnome-49-officially-released    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 14:58:50

• Mint 7-beta "LMDE" released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/mint    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 14:59:00

• Intel's Latest Open-Source Project To End & Layoff Developers... But A New Home At NumPy ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-NumPy-x86-simd-sort    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:00:07

• Mozilla Thunderbird 143 Open-Source Email Client Arrives as a Bugfix-Only Release ☞ https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-thunderbird-143-open-source-email-client-arrives-as-a-bugfix-only-release    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:00:17

• Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 “Gigi” Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing ☞ https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-debian-edition-lmde-7-gigi-is-now-available-for-public-beta-testing    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:00:27

• GNOME 49 “Brescia” Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s New ☞ https://9to5linux.com/gnome-49-brescia-desktop-environment-officially-released-heres-whats-new    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:00:39

• Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.3 Is Out with GNOME 49, Improved Webcam Support ☞ https://9to5linux.com/slackware-based-porteux-2-3-is-out-with-gnome-49-improved-webcam-support    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:00:52

• Dolphin Emulator 2509 now Emulates Cars 2 & Disney Infinity Smoothly ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/09/dolphin-2509-cars-2-disney-infinity/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:01:35

• "Lapland could see snow next week" https://yle.fi/a/74-20183701    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:02:36

• PanVK now uses AFBC by default ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/panvk-now-uses-afbc-by-default.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:02:55

• GNOME 49 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1038487/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:03:49

• HDR Wallpapers ☞ https://blog.jimmac.eu/2025/wallpapers/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:05:23

• Remarks by Commissioner Šuica on the package of proposals on Israel ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_2122    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:06:30

• JD Vance in Michigan: Convicted Felon will send National Guard to Detroit if Whitmer asks ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/jd-vance-in-michigan-trump-will-send-national-guard-to-detroit-if-whitmer-asks/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:06:55

• Netanyahu's Sparta speech: PM's call for self-reliance sparks widespread panic in business community ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250917-netanyahu-s-sparta-speech-pm-s-call-for-self-reliance-sparks-widespread-panic-in-business-community    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:07:19

• The simple solutions to hate speech ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0917/The-simple-solutions-to-hate-speech    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:07:52

• DOOM left running on ASUS MyPal PDA for 2.5 years finally crashes — bug that crashes the game when gametic value hits 2,147,483,647 ticks likely to blame ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/doom-left-running-on-asus-mypal-pda-for-2-5-years-finally-crashes-bug-that-crashes-the-game-when-gametic-value-hits-2-147-483-647-ticks-likely-to-blame    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:09:11

• How both conservatives and liberals doctored the same photo of the Charlie Kirk murder suspect ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250917-conservatives-liberals-doctored-photo-charlie-kirk-tyler-robinson-usa    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:09:41

• The Todo list ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1091/the-to-do-list    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:10:21

• Our other servers are down again ☞ https://blog.mageia.org/en/2025/09/17/our-other-servers-are-down-again/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:11:18

• pgSCV 0.15.0 released! ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgscv-0150-released-3138/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:12:09

• Rothschild Downgrades Live Nation Stock Amid DOJ Antitrust Suit, Broader Growth-Trajectory Concerns ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/17/live-nation-stock-downgraded-september-2025/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:12:49

• Mom of two gunned down by ex-bf just minutes after posting on Facebook (Farcebook) that he was ‘stalking’ her: report ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/09/17/us-news/mom-of-two-gunned-down-by-ex-bf-just-minutes-after-posting-on-facebook-that-he-was-stalking-her-report/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:14:12

• Jackson: tag2upload in the first month of forky ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1038486/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:16:24

• Tails 7.0 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tails    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:16:48

• A Collection of Old English Customs, and Curious Bequests and Charities (1842) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/curious-bequests    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:18:03

• “You Think Me a Bold Cheat”: Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/mary-carleton-counterfeit-princess    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:18:17

• BreachForums Owner Sent to Prison in Resentencing ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/breachforums-owner-sent-to-prison-in-resentencing/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:19:24

• Details Emerge on Chinese Hacking Operation Impersonating US Lawmaker ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/details-emerge-on-chinese-hacking-operation-impersonating-us-lawmaker/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:19:31

• The front door is the new frontline of physical security ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2025/09/the-front-door-is-the-new-frontline-of-physical-security/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:19:47

• House CR includes short-term CISA 2015 extension ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2025/09/house-cr-includes-short-term-cisa-2015-extension/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:20:01

• Do you want to weigh in on the upcoming USMCA negotiations? Here’s how ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/do-you-want-to-weigh-in-usmca-negotiations-heres-how/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:20:38

• How Convicted Felon's Attacks on Democracy Put the Constitution at Risk ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/how-trumps-attacks-on-democracy-put-the-constitution-at-risk    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:20:55

• Thai security forces clash with Cambodian protesters at disputed border ☞ https://rfa.org/english/cambodia/2025/09/17/cambodia-thailand-border-clash/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:25:36

• Illinois governor calls for transparency from ICE over traffic stop shooting ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/illinois-governor-calls-for-transparency-from-ice-over-traffic-stop-shooting/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:25:47

• Modern memory is still vulnerable to Rowhammer vulnerabilities — Phoenix root privilege escalation attack proves that Rowhammer still smashes DDR5 security to bits ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/modern-memory-is-still-vulnerable-to-rowhammer-vulnerabilities-phoenix-root-privilege-escalation-attack-proves-that-rowhammer-still-smashes-ddr5-security-to-bits    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:26:40

• Reps. Lawler, Gottheimer rip Mamdani for scrapping Holocaust group’s antisemitism definition ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/09/17/us-news/reps-lawler-gottheimer-rip-mamdani-for-scrapping-holocaust-groups-antisemitism-definition/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:27:20

• How Did Hands Evolve? Look to Your Anus, a New Study Suggests. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/science/evolution-crispr-hands.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:28:03

• Bacteria-Made Material Could Replace Petroleum in Biodegradable Plastic ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/bacteria-made-material-could-replace-petroleum-in-biodegradable-plastic    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:28:34

• Look Up This Week to See a Rare Triple Conjunction 'Smiling' Down ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/look-up-this-week-to-see-a-rare-triple-conjunction-smiling-down    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:29:07

• Stunningly Complete Dome-Headed Dinosaur Emerges From The Sands of Mongolia ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/stunningly-complete-dome-headed-dinosaur-emerges-from-the-sands-of-mongolia    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:30:13

• Did an Exploding Comet Wipe Out The Clovis Culture? New Evidence Says Yes ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/did-an-exploding-comet-wipe-out-the-clovis-culture-new-evidence-says-yes    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:30:22

• The Forrest Dump Fantasy Is Unraveling ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/opinion/trump-economy-deportation-inflation.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:30:59

• Fed cuts interest rates in response to a slowing job market ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/0917/federal-reserve-inflation-jobs-economy-powell    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:31:11

• Systemd v258 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1038458/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:31:35

• Cephalopods Passed a Cognitive Test Intended For Human Children ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/cephalopods-passed-a-cognitive-test-intended-for-human-children    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:32:20

• Charlie Kirk and Tyler Robinson Came from the Same Warped Online Worlds ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/charlie-kirk-and-tyler-robinson-came-from-the-same-warped-online-worlds    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:32:42

• UN Human Rights Council urged to maintain international scrutiny in Sri Lanka ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/un-human-rights-council-urged-to-maintain-international-scrutiny-in-sri-lanka/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:33:09

• Utah prosecutors seek death penalty in Charlie Kirk killing ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/utah-seeks-death-penalty-in-kirk-killing/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:33:58

• "Environmental and Regulatory Scrutiny Elon Musk’s Companies Have Faced" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-environmental-regulations | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:34:45

• "Fight to Unseal Ken Paxton Divorce Records" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-divorce-case-records-unseal | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:35:18

• Lithuania moves to give military faster authority to neutralize drones ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2681676/lithuania-moves-to-give-military-faster-authority-to-neutralize-drones    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:35:29

• Destination Linux 436: Exploring Design in GNU/Linux & Open Source with Máirín Duffy ☞ https://destinationlinux.net/436    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:37:07

• Máirín Duffy ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/dl-436/ "In this episode of Destination Linux, we chat with Máirín Duffy from Red Bait about the essential role of user experience design in open source. She shares her journey into Linux, driven by early encounters with technology, and discusses her contributions to projects like Inkscape."    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:37:13

• [Podcast] Faster Network design with simpler hardware: TCP Flow control and ECN ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/09/18/podcast-faster-network-design-with-simpler-hardware-tcp-flow-control-and-ecn/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:38:02

• "This week Jonathan and Rob chat with Tom Herbert about XDP2! It’s the brand new framework for making networking really fast, making parsers really simple, and making hardware network acceleration actually useful with Linux." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/17/floss-weekly-episode-847-this-is-networking/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:38:26

• Taliban announces ban on Internet in Northern Afghanistan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/taliban-announces-ban-on-internet-in-northern-afghanistan    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:38:54

• Taliban extend crackdown on internet access in Afghanistan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/afghanistan-taliban-extend-crackdown-on-internet-access    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:39:16

• Multipass Makes Spinning Up Ubuntu Images as Simple as It Gets ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/09/multipass-makes-spinning-up-ubuntu-images-as-simple-as-it-gets/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:40:11

• "Forgotten Internet" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/17/forgotten-internet-the-story-of-email/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:40:54

• "The sounds of shortwave are thus no longer well known to anyone but a few enthusiasts, but that hasn’t stopped [gnd buzz] investigating their potential in electronic music." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/18/give-your-band-the-music-of-the-bands/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:41:46

• "alleged car bomb plot" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/18/fsb-arrests-three-in-st-petersburg-over-alleged-car-bomb-plot | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:42:00

• "Is 2025 finally the year of non-planar 3D printing?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/17/smooth-non-planar-3d-ironing/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:42:19

• Shanghai University’s uncrewed vessels support China’s maritime push ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/shanghai-universitys-uncrewed-vessels-support-chinas-maritime-push/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:42:57

• Hong Kong to ‘fast-track’ mega-project near border ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/09/17/hong-kong-northern-metropolis/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:43:31

• China's largest chipmaker testing first homegrown immersion DUV litho tool — SMIC takes significant step on road to wafer fab equipment self-sufficiency ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/chinas-largest-foundry-testing-first-domestic-immersion-duv-lithography-tool-smic-takes-significant-step-on-road-to-wafer-fab-equipment-self-sufficiency    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:43:57

• Exploring the RTX Pro 6000D, Nvidia's China-only GPU, which is now banned from sale — neutered specs cannot compete with grey-market chips ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/why-nobody-is-buying-nvidia-6000d-in-china    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:44:04

• Taiwan shows off first missile to be jointly made with US firm ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-shows-off-first-missile-to-be-jointly-manufactured-with-us-arms-maker    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:44:30

• Manila to hold its ground at Scarborough Shoal even as Beijing cranks up pressure ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/manila-to-hold-its-ground-at-scarborough-shoal-even-as-beijing-turns-up-pressure    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:46:04

• How China Is Losing Its Title as the World’s Sneaker Factory ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/business/vietnam-sneaker-manufacturing-china.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:46:19

• South Korean Chief Justice denies collusion claims over guilty verdict for then presidential-race front runner Lee Jae Myung ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-chief-justice-denies-collusion-claims-over-president-lees-guilty-verdict    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:46:48

• Democrats stake out opposition to spending bill, raising threat of a shutdown ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/09/republicans-unveil-a-bill-to-fund-the-government-through-nov-21-democrats-call-it-partisan/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:47:05

• Brazil's Bolsonaro diagnosed with skin cancer, adding to his medical issues ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250917-brazil-s-bolsonaro-diagnosed-with-skin-cancer-adding-to-his-medical-issues    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:47:25

• New York judge drops terrorism charges against Luigi Mangione ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250917-new-york-judge-drops-terrorism-charges-against-luigi-mangione    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:47:42

• FDA issues warning letters to drug companies alleging misleading advertisements ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/fda-issues-warning-letters-to-drug-companies-alleging-misleading-advertisements/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:47:56

• Senator and Insurers Cast Doubt on U.S. Vaccine Panel as It Readies Review ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/health/kennedy-acip-insurers-cassidy.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:48:10

• How Vaccines Are Revealing Cracks in Convicted Felon’s G.O.P. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/us/politics/cassidy-monorez-kennedy-vaccines-cdc.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:48:17

• Senator Suggests Meeting Between Kennedy and His C.D.C. Director Was Recorded, Then Backtracks ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/us/politics/kennedy-cdc-director-recording.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:48:28

• Pig Organ Transplants May Pose a Dilemma for Some Jews and Muslims ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/health/pig-transplants-jews-muslims.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:48:40

• Is the Economy as Healthy as Convicted Felon Claims? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/us/the-morning-economy-trump-gaza-redford.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:48:53

• "In decades past these were readily available from almost any scrap radio, but the varicap diode and then the PLL have removed the need for them in consumer electronics." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/17/its-a-variable-capacitor-but-not-as-we-know-it/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:49:42

• "WiFi is an excellent protocol, but it certainly has its weaknesses" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/17/getting-the-most-out-of-ism-transceivers-using-math/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:49:57

• "The video takes a look at this, and reveals that not all Pyrex is the same." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/17/when-is-your-pyrex-not-the-pyrex-you-expect/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:50:46

• Michigan chronic absenteeism inches down but remains higher than pre-pandemic ☞ https://bridgemi.com/talent-education/michigan-chronic-absenteeism-inches-down-but-remains-higher-pre-pandemic/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:51:30

• Whitmer directs state agencies to promote COVID-19 vaccine access ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/whitmer-directs-state-agencies-to-promote-covid-19-vaccine-access/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:51:43

• South Korea Clocks a $560 Million Music Trade Surplus in H1 (Thanks K-Pop!) ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/17/south-korea-h1-2025-music-trade-surplus/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 15:52:22

• ZuckerMusk gemini://ploum.net/2025-09-18-idees-mystifiees.gmi    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:07:26

• 🖼️ xkcd: Question Mark #3143 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3143.gmi    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:08:12

• spark disinfo https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-russian-drone-downings-in-poland-spark-disinfo/a-73952818    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:25:42

• Russian and Belarusian Electronics in Missiles https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-09-12/ukraine-increasingly-finds-russian-and-belarusian-electronics-in-missiles    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:26:40

• Limiting Mobile Service to Counter Russian Drones https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-09-14/ukraine-considers-limiting-mobile-service-to-counter-russian-drones    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:28:47

• parcel bomb attacks in Europe https://www.dw.com/en/russia-linked-group-planned-parcel-bomb-attacks-in-europe/a-74033597    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:31:12

• Biology Department https://xkcd.com/3140/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:46:50

• Mantle Model https://xkcd.com/3141/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:47:03

• SFP#38: Policy and EU: Free Software Software Stack(s) https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-38.en.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:47:55

• Legal Corner: The War on Ad Blockers – Axel Springer’s Assault on User Freedom https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250916-01.en.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:48:56

• Dialogue over propaganda tool https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-09-12/china-urges-us-to-address-tiktok-issue-through-dialogue    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:54:44

• TikTok Talks - propaganda for both nations https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-09-12/bessent-will-meet-chinese-officials-in-spain-for-trade-and-tiktok-talks    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:55:11

• Both countries get to do brainwashing over Social Control Media https://www.dw.com/en/us-china-kick-off-talks-on-trade-tiktok-in-madrid-meeting/a-73988012    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:56:14

• Irritants https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-09-14/us-chinese-officials-to-launch-talks-in-spain-on-trade-irritants-tiktok-deadline    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:56:31

• Worst of both worlds https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/461621/trump-tiktok-deal-ban-china-bytedance    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:56:46

• Chinese propaganda worldwide, PLUS "MAGA" megaphone not just in US but globally https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-09-15/us-china-talks-in-madrid-on-trade-tiktok-carry-over-into-second-day    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:57:20

• They do not solve the underlying issue https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-09-15/us-trade-secretary-bessent-says-framework-of-deal-on-tiktok-reached    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:57:39

• It was supposed to be banned in January already, with SCOTUS doubling down https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-09-15/u-s-ready-to-ban-tiktok-if-deal-on-divestiture-cannot-be-reached    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:58:14

• So now #TwoDictators get to control this propaganda tool https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-09-15/trump-hints-tiktok-deal-reached-according-to-truth-social-post    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:58:40

• Cheeto Mussolini Suggests Deal Reached Over the Future of TikTok as He Announces Call With Xi https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-09-15/trump-suggests-deal-reached-over-the-future-of-tiktok-as-he-announces-call-with-xi    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:58:59

• California Democrat Turns "MAGA" tool for public outreach is suicide https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-09-15/california-democrat-turns-to-tiktok-to-reach-hispanic-voters-in-governors-race    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 16:59:28

• Lending the propaganda tool to MAGA adds to the problem, does not tackle it https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-09-16/us-treasury-secretary-anticipates-final-tiktok-deal-after-trump-xi-talk    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 17:00:06

• His friends https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-09-16/trump-says-u-s-will-announce-a-buyer-of-tiktok    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 17:00:17

• "Until yesterday, Mauna Linux came with four desktop environments, as well as a special edition. However, the barely released Mauna Linux 25 also comes with GNOME as the fifth desktop environment option." https://www.notebookcheck.net/Debian-based-Mauna-Linux-25-comes-with-GNOME-48-and-multiple-minor-updates.1116986.0.html    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 17:12:16

• ACENET workshop: Introduction to the Linux Command Line https://www.upei.ca/events/2025/09/acenet-workshop-introduction-linux-command-line    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 17:12:31

• Just got Linux Mint 22.2? Two more versions are coming soon - and they're big https://www.zdnet.com/article/just-got-linux-mint-22-2-two-more-versions-are-coming-soon-and-theyre-big/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 17:12:56

• This HASS.Agent alternative is the best data reporting application for Home Assistant users on Linux https://www.xda-developers.com/hass-agent-alternative-best-data-reporting-home-assistant-linux/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 17:13:46

• "This is because GNOME decided to end support for Xorg. Back in 2023, when GNOME 45 was released, developers began planning the removal of X11." https://www.ghacks.net/2025/09/17/fedora-linux-43-beta-released-drops-x11-support-to-go-wayland-only/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 17:15:37

• "At OSS EU, LWN editor and long-time kernel developer Jonathan Corbet shared a long-term perspective on how and why Linux has thrived for a third of a century." https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/three_decades_in_of_linux/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 17:26:38

• "100% correct. It seems you are not alone: https://www.thelayoff.com/post/@aa+1k5bwg1n0 The quality is always lacking, but they are very good at politicking (for themselves)." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k57k4772    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 19:16:55

• What's your favorite Linux distro? https://www.xda-developers.com/thread/whats-your-favorite-linmux-distro/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 20:36:58

• GNOME 49 Launches With New Apps, Nautilus Redesign, and GNOME Shell Upgrades https://news.itsfoss.com/gnome-49-release/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 20:37:27

• "Even with the more approachable nature of it, there's still a fair bit you need to keep an eye on when you're burning rubber. It has tyre wear, tyre grip, fuel consumption, damage simulation and weather conditions - all to keep you on your toes." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/modding-friendly-arcade-racer-formula-legends-is-out-now-works-well-on-linux-steam-deck/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 20:39:38

• "The simplest way is actually just to use the Windows version with Proton from Steam, so we'll start with that (the Native Linux instructions are down below). The Windows version also has better controller support too so that's a bonus. Tip: the below images can be clicked to enlarge them." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-install-hollow-knight-silksong-mods-on-linux-steamos-and-steam-deck/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 20:39:54

• "This release ships with new default apps, including the GNOME Console terminal emulator and GNOME Loupe image viewer." https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-0-anonymous-linux-os-released-based-on-debian-13-trixie    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 20:40:11

• How to use Vim in Linux https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatacenter/tutorial/How-to-use-Vim-in-Linux    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 20:40:57

• How To Run FSR4 On Steam Deck And Other Linux Devices https://twistedvoxel.com/how-to-run-fsr4-on-steam-deck-and-other-linux-devices/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 21:02:30

• "CLO Virtual Fashion will release Marvelous Designer for Linux on 30 September 2025. The company confirms support for Rocky Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, and equivalent distributions. The Linux version is aimed squarely at studio pipelines." https://digitalproduction.com/2025/09/18/marvelous-designer-finally-sews-itself-into-linux/    

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 21:03:53

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

posted Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 23:26:46