Roy Schestowitz

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-09-19.gmi    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 05:14:54

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1418.jpg    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 05:15:31

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1768.jpg    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 05:15:36

• "But also, its current core users (mostly, hate-apologists of the right-wing mindset that finds conspiration theories everywhere) are becoming more commonplace, and by sheer probability (if not for algorithmic bias)" https://gwolf.org/2025/09/still-use-twitter-x-consider-dropping-it.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 05:36:47

• How to install OBS Studio on Kubuntu 24.04 https://www.linuxmadesimple.info/2025/09/how-to-install-obs-studio-on-kubuntu.html https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=K8ECz7g8kDs    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 05:49:24

• I quit my job! Now what? https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=vOPDSTv8R98 "Help me figure out what to do here on YouTube now that I am out of work. :)"    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 05:50:36

• Thank You Linus Tech Tips https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=vxajcHaLp4I    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 05:51:04

• Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=gGNPiFaHTyA    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 05:51:47

• 32 Bit Linux Isn't Dead Yet... But It's Coming https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=rIuxhy21eLQ    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 05:52:07

• Tails 7.0, the privacy-focused Linux OS, arrives with Debian 13 and GNOME 48 https://betanews.com/2025/09/18/tails-7-0-the-privacy-focused-linux-os-arrives-with-debian-13-and-gnome-48/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 05:56:10

• New Release: Tails 7.0 https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_0/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 05:57:27

• Testing KDE's OFFICIAL DISTRO on REAL hardware: Tuxedo Stellaris 16 Gen 7 ! https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=eSJ7TmIXtis    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 06:00:55

• 'sed' - filter and transform text - Video Man Pages https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=D7aDAXWi5SM    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 06:08:54

• Lubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin Quick Overview https://www.yewtu.be/shorts/UXQ3KjUZUlI    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 06:09:09

• tldr-pages Explained: A Better Way to Read Linux Commands https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=vZ775J_mt64    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 06:09:26

• Linux Mint 22.2 “zara” Cinnamon overview | Sleek, modern, innovative. https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=FkuSw7-C6qA    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 06:09:43

• A XeroLinux Live Stream https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=SX62BkAkGZQ    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 06:10:27

• Major Oil Company’s Astonishing Layoff Figures Sound like ‘Recession’ https://247wallst.com/investing/2025/09/18/major-oil-companys-astonishing-layoff-figures-sound-like-recession/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 06:12:53

• Amazon, Microsoft among companies sponsoring more H-1B visas than before: Report https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/amazon-microsoft-among-companies-sponsoring-more-h-1b-visas-than-before-report-101758246860249.html https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/amazon-microsoft-among-companies-sponsoring-more-h-1b-visas-than-before-report-101758246860249.html Nobody in the US can write computer programs anymore, they asked in LinkedIn to tick some compliance boxes. Nobody found.    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 06:14:38

• Microsoft among companies sponsoring more H-1B visas than before: Report https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/amazon-microsoft-among-companies-sponsoring-more-h-1b-visas-than-before-report-101758246860249.html https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/amazon-microsoft-among-companies-sponsoring-more-h-1b-visas-than-before-report-101758246860249.html Nobody in the US can write computer programs anymore, they asked in LinkedIn to tick some compliance boxes. Nobody found.    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 06:14:52

• Microsoft among companies sponsoring more H-1B visas than before https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/amazon-microsoft-among-companies-sponsoring-more-h-1b-visas-than-before-report-101758246860249.html https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/amazon-microsoft-among-companies-sponsoring-more-h-1b-visas-than-before-report-101758246860249.html Nobody in the US can write computer programs anymore, they asked in LinkedIn to tick some compliance boxes. Nobody found.    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 06:15:02

• Microsoft among companies sponsoring more H-1B visas than before https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/amazon-microsoft-among-companies-sponsoring-more-h-1b-visas-than-before-report-101758246860249.html Nobody in the US can write computer programs anymore, they asked in LinkedIn to tick some compliance boxes. Nobody found.    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 06:15:18

• Microsoft stenographer: "Satya Nadella is haunted at the prospect of Microsoft not surviving the AI era" (there's NO "HEY HI ERA", Microsoft is dead steak)    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 06:17:17

• Seattle Children’s Hospital announces layoffs across 5 Washington locations https://mynorthwest.com/local/seattle-childrens-hospital-layoffs/4133212    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 06:17:46

• ‘It’s scaring me’: Microsoft employee of 7 years says current work culture has changed for the worse https://www.financialexpress.com/trending/its-scaring-me-microsoft-employee-of-7-years-says-current-work-culture-has-changed-for-the-worse/3982230/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 06:18:15

• Under Cheeto Hitler, no journalism allowed without his prior approval https://deadline.com/feature/hollywood-media-layoffs-list-1236007845/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 06:20:08

• https://www.linux.com/ became just "LF SPAM"    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 07:02:03

• "Spoilers: yes. Well, it already had become. Thinking is expensive (consider how much sugar a human brain consumes); therefore, organisms may attempt to think as little as possible in order to save energy. Hence the risk of letting a chess engine play for you (while you instead need to internalize the game of chess, and use the chess engine only as a critic, not a crutch), among other such traps." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/09/19/thinking.gmi    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 07:31:47

• "Thinking is expensive (consider how much sugar a human brain consumes); therefore, organisms may attempt to think as little as possible in order to save energy. Hence the risk of letting a chess engine play for you (while you instead need to internalize the game of chess, and use the chess engine only as a critic, not a crutch), among other such traps." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/09/19/thinking.gmi    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 07:32:01

• Endless Linux Kernel Problems Are Fixed With Gitlab https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=RpZXTxjWjZ8    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 09:46:49

• Omarchy: The HYPE is Real ! Everything You NEED to Know (NEW!) https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=NkdVrnra_DU    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 09:47:22

• How to install Linux Mint 22.2 “zara” Cinnamon https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=KVktRlHsucc    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 09:47:38

• Would You Use A KDE Linux Distro? https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=gTFxWY10umY    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 09:47:57

• Red Hat being eaten, KDE Linux, Firefox getting worse -Linux Weekly News https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=74vw2TbJtm4    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 09:48:15

• 🔤SpellBinding: GHUOSTM Wordo: RAZES gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-09-19.gmi    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 09:50:12

• Outside in the evening: the aftermath gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 09:51:19

• Microsoft NPM And Rust Are Constantly Under Attack https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=C_IJskzSe1I    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 09:54:34

• deepin 25 Quick Overview https://www.yewtu.be/shorts/6rDvF9oCue8    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 09:54:49

• AMD Drivers Are Dead, Long Live The AMD Drivers https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=ICMPuFfen5g    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 09:55:08

• GNOME 49 focuses on apps & performance https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=SwSEWsUCkuE    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 09:55:47

• Anon: Exceptionally bad news for service in / to / from Finland now: https://yle.fi/a/74-20183873 "It has already been run into the ground by intentional mismanagement. There are basically no post offices anywhere and few post boxes left. Delivery no longer happens every day and it takes days even for domestic mail rather than overnight like it was a few years ago."    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 09:57:11

• Notice the photo: https://yle.fi/a/74-20183839 Anon: "The package has _*not*_ been delivered home but the recipient must drive to a pickup point, sometimes 10s of km, to fetch it"    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 09:59:10

• "A huge announcement for the entire computing industry came today, with NVIDIA and Intel teaming up to make new chips for data centre and consumers too. This is of course, largely about AI, and they want to ensure they stay ahead of AMD and Arm chip makers." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/nvidia-are-investing-5-billion-in-intel-to-develop-new-chips-together/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:00:20

• "If you have the need for speed but don't want to play one of the various full simulators, perhaps Formula Legends might be just the ticket you need." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/modding-friendly-arcade-racer-formula-legends-is-out-now-works-well-on-linux-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:01:07

• "Radical Fish Games known for the awesome CrossCode have just put a demo for their next action-RPG with Alabaster Dawn now available to test." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/alabaster-dawn-from-the-devs-of-crosscode-has-a-demo-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:01:23

• "Love creature collecting games? You should check out the Critter Chaos Humble Bundle that's live now with another 8 great games." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/go-catch-some-creatures-with-the-critter-chaos-humble-bundle/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:01:39

• "The worst is this headline: https://yle.fi/a/7-10084668 which wrongly omits that as a state run /service/ all Finns are _*already*_ co-owners." Anon    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:02:19

• "A few hours before Dying Light: The Beast releases today, Valve put up a green tick for it to be Steam Deck Verified and SteamOS Compatible." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/dying-light-the-beast-rated-steam-deck-verified-ahead-of-release/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:02:50

• X.com -- pronounced 'ex-crement dot com' (-Anon)    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:03:16

• "A top-down shooter where anything from cars, cameras, electronics and even enemy implants can be rewired into chaotic chains of destruction in DeadWire." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/hack-the-system-and-cause-chaos-in-the-explosive-top-down-shooter-deadwire/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:03:34

• "Dear supporters and players of the fheroes2 project, the open source reimplementation of Heroes of Might and Magic 2 for modern platforms!" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/heroes-of-might-and-magic-2-project-fheroes2-version-1-1-11-has-been-released/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:06:33

• In the UK, depending on where one lives, First Class shipping still takes one day and there are efforts to knock on doors for parcels, letters get pushed into doors. But that does not mean the ongoing attacks on and privatisation of the service keeps this intact.    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:08:12

• "Hollow Knight: Silksong can be a challenging game and it has an active modding scene - here's how to install Silksong mods on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-install-hollow-knight-silksong-mods-on-linux-steamos-and-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:09:04

• "Build words letter by letter, while using magical books to bend the rules potentially in your favour in the anagram roguelike Watchword." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/use-rule-bending-books-to-build-a-massive-score-in-anagram-roguelike-watchword-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:11:53

• "Developer Texel Raptor just surprise launched a brand new DLC for the theme park building game Parkitect, adding in two new content themes." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/excellent-theme-park-builder-parkitect-gets-a-surprise-dinos-dynasties-dlc-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:12:20

• "DRM-free store GOG have recently launched a bit of a refresh of their user reviews system, to make it a little bit more modern and useful. Valve also recently upgraded the reviews system on Steam too." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/gog-did-a-little-upgrade-to-their-user-reviews-system/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:12:33

• DMCA, DRM: "Spotify wants you in prison for skipping lines of code: the revanced case & where I stand" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/spotify-wants-you-in-prison-for-skipping:d    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:16:24

• "Who Needs Passports?! Airport Security Now Fully Based on Facial Recognition" https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/facial-recognition:f1    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:16:36

• "Buying the F-35 Could Be Canada’s Biggest Strategic Mistake | The Walrus" https://thewalrus.ca/buying-the-f-35-could-be-canadas-biggest-strategic-mistake/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:16:46

• iophk: freedom of information also now under threat https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/09/16/radda-offentlighetsprincipen/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:17:02

• "Rädda offentlighetsprincipen!" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/09/16/radda-offentlighetsprincipen/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:17:18

• "Tragedy in Germany: Man and two children burn to death in Tesla - helpers cannot open doors | blue News" https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/international/man-and-two-children-burn-to-death-in-tesla-helpers-cannot-open-doors-2875864.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:17:39

• from the owner of fascist firehose, funded by KSA (x.com), "smart" cars that burn their owners and their kids. Cruelty the point, empathy a weakness?    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:19:16

• "'Antifa' is Short for 'Anti-Fascists': Who Are They and Why Trump Wants to Declare Them a Terrorist Organisation" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/antifa-short-anti-fascists-who-are-they-why-trump-wants-declare-them-terrorist-1744584    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:19:39

• No, it cancels many. This is a smokescreen, Microsoft funded PR site https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/18/microsoft-invest-4b-build-second-data-center-facility-wisconsin/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/05/No_Microsoft_Does_Not_Invest_80B_in_Hey_Hi_AI_It_s_Just_Full_of.shtml    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:20:17

• Three Decades in Kernelland - Jonathan Corbet, LWN.net https://youtu.be/LS2LGMRzE1I    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:21:01

• "Military Weighs Using Charlie Kirk’s “Legacy” to Recruit Soldiers | Truthout" https://truthout.org/articles/military-weighs-using-charlie-kirks-legacy-to-recruit-soldiers/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:21:13

• creativecommons and Zulip: "New Community Chat Platform: Moving from Slack to Zulip" https://creativecommons.org/2025/09/18/new-community-chat-platform-moving-from-slack-to-zulip/ no one mention of FOSS or open standards ... Zulip is considered "OSS" btw, but as "SNAP"    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:27:02

• bad news https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0917/1533991-data-protection-commissioner/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:27:36

• Censorship only makes the problems worse | "Censur gör bara problemen värre" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/09/18/censur-gor-bara-problemen-varre/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:28:02

• "Autopsy Finds Hanged Mississippi Student Died by Suicide, Police Say" https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-09-18/autopsy-finds-hanged-mississippi-student-died-by-suicide-police-say    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:28:10

• iophk: That crowd is on the record stating that they view empathy as a weakness. Besides getting burned up is an indicator that they were not from a 'blessed' group, and thus not worthy of survival anyway. https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/3/12/17109306/prosperity-gospel-good-evil-cancer-fate-theology-theodicy    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:28:41

• iophk: God as a vending machine https://medium.com/backyard-theology/the-prosperity-gospel-is-just-capitalism-in-a-preachers-suit-cb30224554be    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:28:49

• "Media Really Took at Face Value What Trump Said About This Boat and Its Occupants" ☛ https://fair.org/home/media-really-took-at-face-value-what-trump-said-about-this-boat-and-its-occupants/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:35:06

• "The definition of the Yiddish concept of chutzpah, or unbelievable audacity, often goes like this: A child murders his parents, and then asks the judge to take pity on him because he’s an orphan." ☛ https://fair.org/home/barnard-prezs-nyt-op-ed-is-height-of-hypocrisy/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:35:33

• "Udall Legacy" ☛ https://therevelator.org/reclaiming-udall-legacy/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:37:02

• "You didn’t used to have to be an expert on intellectual property law just to be a music fan." ☛ https://www.anildash.com/2025/09/18/the-taylors-version-generation/ | Source: Anil Dash    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:48:34

• "The lawsuit marks the first time major US entertainment companies have targeted a Chinese AI company and follows a similar lawsuit in June against California-based AI company Midjourney" ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/17/hollywood-studio-giants-sue-chinese-ai-firm-over-copyright-infringement/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:49:01

• "giving nothing back to society" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/german-minister-calls-for-google-to-be-broken-up/articleshow/123981058.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:49:29

• "If there were a trophy for squandering opportunity, Nebraska would already have it on the shelf" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/nebraska-faces-backlash-over-plan-to-use-only-44m-of-405m-federal-broadband-funds/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:49:51

• "At APNIC 60, during the IPv6 Deployment session, several presentations explored the state of IPv6 research, deployment, and adoption — from scanning techniques and national transition strategies to operational rollouts." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/09/18/ipv6-deployment-at-apnic-60/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:50:07

• "Although Okosi did not say exactly where the four hubs will be built, he said each landing station aims to cater for a region that more or less aligns with the four cardinal directions, meaning there will be one in the north, east, south and west of the continent." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/google-four-new-africa-connectivity-hubs/270522/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:50:42

• "people appearing for court hearings were being confined" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/ice-mass-arrests-new-york-officials/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:51:19

• "A guest essay by Bernhard Poerksen" ☛ https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/critiquing-der-spiegel-the-four-dilemmas-facing-quality-journalism-a-303305e1-ca1d-40f6-82c3-7a3b17e9317f#ref=rss | Source: Spiegel    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:52:52

• "Russia doesn’t have America’s history of democracy, but it was not always a KGB police state." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/i-saw-how-russia-killed-media-freedom | Source: Garry Kasparov    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:53:14

• "But what I will posit is this: Independent media matters more than ever right now, because it is less susceptible to the triggers that hold back less flexible corporate media outlets." ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/09/17/jimmy-kimmel-independent-media-thoughts/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:53:34

• "Abdiaziz Saleban Sulub’s ongoing detention is the latest in a disturbing and persistent pattern of state aggression against the media in Somaliland" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/09/cpj-calls-for-immediate-release-of-somaliland-journalist-abdiaziz-awl/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:53:51

• "Cuesta used open-source investigation techniques to identify his assailants and published his findings in two detailed Diario Red analyses." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/09/spanish-journalist-roman-cuesta-uses-video-of-his-assault-to-identify-his-assailants/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:54:15

• "We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jimmy-kimmel-suspended-abc-maga-trump-fcc-bs-1235430544/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:57:07

• "The crowds slammed ABC, Disney and Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Carr set off a chain of events Wednesday with his comments in a podcast interview that threatened Disney with another FCC investigation" ☛ https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/disney-protests-jimmy-kimmel-pressure-fcc-nexstar-trump-1236523938/ | Source: Variety    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:57:56

• "Blatant Censorship" ☛ https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/stephen-colbert-rips-abc-pulling-kimmel-censorship-1236522765/ | Source: Variety    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:58:13

• "On his show last week, Kimmel called Kirk's murder "senseless." And on the day it happened, Kimmel posted a message on Instagram sending love to the Kirk family and to the victims of gun violence." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5544559 | Source: NPR    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:58:48

• "In its complaint, Ben & Jerry's said Unilever also refused to let the company release a social media post that identified issues it believed would be challenged during President Donald Trump's second term, including minimum wages, universal health care, abortion and climate change." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/greenfield-ben-jerrys-resignation-1.7635874 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 10:59:23

• "Earlier, Nexstar Media Group, which describes itself as the nation's largest local [sic] television and media company, said it would stop airing the show on its 32 ABC affiliates, citing Kimmel's comments." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-comments-nexstar-abc-1.7636766 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:00:06

• HB 4938 https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/what-is-anticorruption-of-public-morals-act-gop-lawmakers-in-michigan-propose-new-bill-to-ban-pornography-vpns-101758194686902.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:03:58

• "using a television industry term for when a show is replaced or removed from the schedule." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250917-abc-says-jimmy-kimmel-off-air-indefinitely-after-charlie-kirk-comments | Source: France24    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:04:18

• "This is how a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/abc-pulls-jimmy-kimmel-live-off-air-over-charlie-kirk-comments/a-74036521 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:05:38

• "We are witnessing an unprecedented government assault on First Amendment freedoms in America." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/emergency-zoom-call-the-first-amendment | Source: Garry Kasparov    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:05:51

• "Academic workers are re-thinking how they live and work online after some have been fired for criticizing Charlie Kirk following his death" ☛ https://www.404media.co/union-warns-professors-about-posting-in-the-current-climate/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:06:27

• "to prevent immorality" ☛ https://therecord.media/taliban-bans-fiber-optic-internet | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:06:57

• "Jimmy Fallon has cancelled his planned appearance at Fast Company's Innovation Festival in New York, just hours before he was due to take the stage." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/jimmy-fallon-abruptly-cancels-scheduled-appearance-hours-after-jimmy-kimmels-show-pulled-off-air-1744597 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:10:03

• "In our analysis of those right-wing plans, we perceived that the right seemed poised for a broader attack, unlikely to stop at setting up a few specific scapegoats and relying on a climate of fear to do the rest of their work." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/jimmy-kimmels-suspension-is-shocking-but-the-worst-could-be-yet-to-come/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:10:44

• "You’re now apparently also not allowed to make jokes about the president or his friends." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/09/jimmy-kimmel-canceled-trump-kirk/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:11:16

• "Fairly examined, these words were neither offensive nor factually wrong. Kimmel wasn’t saying that the killer was definitely a part of the “MAGA gang”—he was objecting to the way MAGA was responding to the shooting." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jimmy-kimmel-suspended-trump-charlie-kirk-free-speech/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:11:51

• "It was not happenstance that President Trump chose L.A. as the first stop for his National Guard tour, or that ICE’s roving patrols are on our streets. It’s not bad luck or even bad decisions that is driving the push to destroy UCLA as we know it." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-09-18/chabria-wake-up-los-angeles-we-are-all-jimmy-kimmel | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:12:34

• "We All See Where This Is Going, Correct?" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/09/david-letterman-jimmy-kimmel-atlantic-festival/684254/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:12:53

• "That decision — the product of a spider’s web of interlocking political and financial pressures placed atop one of the country’s biggest corporations — quickly morphed into a flashpoint for free speech in America." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/business/media/disney-abc-jimmy-kimmel.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:13:26

• "the show’s host — a longtime critic of the president — had inaccurately described the possible political motivations of the suspect, Tyler Robinson, in last week’s killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2025-09-18/jimmy-kimmel-stephen-colbert-who-is-next-free-speech | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:14:55

• "The answer might seem simple, but not in the reality we currently live in. After all, Georgia is now a country where an activist who leaves graffiti on the mayor’s campaign poster can face a longer prison sentence than a violent assailant." ☛ https://oc-media.org/for-georgias-courts-dissent-is-more-dangerous-than-violence/ | Source: Open Caucasus Media    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:15:18

• "Dougan is a former deputy sheriff from Florida who gained political asylum in Moscow in 2016, and is allegedly a disinformation purveyor supported by the Kremlin." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/russian_fakenews_network/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:15:47

• "Critics point out that the federal government has been barred from seeking to influence or direct curricula since 1970." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/ed-department-will-give-grants-to-k-12-schools-that-adopt-right-wing-curriculum/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:16:00

• "Ton Roosendaal is to step down as chairman of the Blender Foundation and Blender CEO on 1 January 2026. The news was announced during today’s keynote at the Blender Conference" ☛ https://www.cgchannel.com/2025/09/ton-roosendaal-to-step-down-as-blender-chairman-and-ceo/ |    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:20:06

• "On December 11 2027, the Cyber Resilience Act is fully in force in the European Union member states and associated countries and territories." ☛ https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/09/eu-cra-its-later-than-you-think-time-to.html | Source: BSDly    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:20:39

• "It all fits into a laptop I can lift with one hand. Or a big tablet. Or this thing." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/report/781330/nvidia-intel-explain-5-billion-deal-jensen-huang-lip-bu-tan-amd | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:21:09

• Fake money for bribe, i.e. the usual from this criminal corporation ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/17/microsoft_uk_ai_cash/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:21:46

• "firm's net loss narrowed to $170 million"... LOSING month, "worth" 8800 million?? ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/cybersecurity-firm-netskope-fetches-8-8-billion-valuation-as-shares-jump-in-nasdaq-debut/articleshow/123981244.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:22:31

• "Sehili was arrested after crossing the Russian border with China for the last leg of his attempt to break the world speed record for the journey from Lisbon to Vladivostok." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/french-cyclist-arrested-russia-eurasia-sehili-record/33534225.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:23:51

• Bluster ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-boosts-wisconsin-data-center-spending-to-7-billion/articleshow/123980945.cms see https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Confirmed_in_the_Mainstream_Media_A_Lot_of_Microsoft_Workloads_.shtml    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:24:13

• ">Nothing says ‘circular economy’ like Microsoft stranding 400 million PCs on International E-waste Day" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/16/campaigners_urge_eu_to_mandate | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:28:38

• "But Iversen does think it possible that the ice-free future may already have begun for the Arctic environment. And he has already taken a look at how this future might look." ☛ https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/expedition-to-the-north-pole-polar-researchers-fear-an-ecological-collapse-in-the-arctic-a-640a73ff-0fcc-4593-9ab0-dae85ca146c6#ref=rss | Source: Spiegel    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:28:54

• "Solovyov’s segment contained a telling slip: a restroom sign above a doorway and a column fitted with speakers" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/18/in-plain-sight | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:30:01

• "Epstein files" ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2025/09/jeffrey-epstein-haunts-donald-trumps-state-visit | Source: New Statesman    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:30:11

• Overpopulation ☛ https://overpopulation-project.com/fears-that-falling-birth-rates-in-us-could-lead-to-population-collapse-are-based-on-faulty-assumptions/ | Source: Overpopulation    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:31:06

• "One of the bombs found in the center of the capital has been declared safe. The other bomb, on the outskirts of Berlin, is set to be defused on Friday." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/germany-thousands-evacuated-in-berlin-over-2-wwii-bombs/a-74053192 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:32:07

• Coup by TikTok? ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2025/0918/nepal-protest-nepokids-arson-democracy | Source: CS Monitor http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/13/Nepal_Will_Fall_Without_a_Single_Shot_Fired_Thanks_to_Social_Co.shtml    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:32:37

• "It’s a complicated world to parse, so we turned to Elle Reeve, someone who has a history of investigating and explaining the shady corners of the internet that have started dealing serious damage in the real world." ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/461866/charlie-kirk-shooter-internet-meme-violence-discord | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:33:15

• "Perliger thinks that when we endlessly obsess over the individual politics of an assassin, we’re focusing on the wrong question." ☛ https://www.vox.com/culture/461857/charlie-kirk-assassination-political-ideology-tyler-robinson | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:33:41

• "consortium of US technology companies" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/tiktok-deal-enterprise-risks | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:34:07

• "The thing is, there are real reasons for the upsurge in resentment by young white males. American men have in important ways been hurt by the changes in our society over the past several decades" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/exploiting-male-rage | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:34:31

• "maggots, vermin, and swine" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/09/18/charlie-kirk-called-democrats-maggots-vermin-and-swine-many-plan-to-honor-him-in-congress.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:35:01

• "Ban social media for under 15s, says French report warning of TikTok dangers" ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkjep23403o | Source: BBC    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:35:37

• "This digitally savvy [sic] Gen Z, a term referring to people born roughly between 1997 and 2012, has emerged as a formidable force, challenging authoritarianism" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/gen-z-protests-in-asia-can-they-spark-real-change/a-74028671 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:37:17

• "2024 election campaign relied heavily on social media and who has said he is fond of TikTok, put the ban on pause." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/17/us-president-trump-extends-delay-on-tiktok-ban-until-mid-december/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:37:46

• "Thank you for your letter and for your enclosures. I have given some thought to our recent correspondence." ☛ https://lettersofnote.com/2016/02/02/every-ounce-of-my-energy/ |    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:50:18

• "critical ways of articulating" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/we-cant-let-white-nationalism-dictate-what-is-taught-and-learned-in-classrooms/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:50:41

• "The double focus ring problem is something you might run into when you are trying to make a large, complicated website or web app accessible at scale." ☛ https://piccalil.li/blog/taking-a-shot-at-the-double-focus-ring-problem-using-modern-css/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:53:37

• "On at least x86 PCs, Linux text consoles ('TTY' consoles or 'virtual consoles') support some surprising things. One of them is doing some useful stuff with your mouse, if you run an additional daemon such as gpm or the more modern consolation." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/LinuxConsoleAndMouse | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:53:50

• "The standard way to dynamically update HTML content in Ruby on Rails relies heavily on DOM IDs. These IDs are used to identify the target HTML element for an update. The ID must be present on the original page, and in the subsequent partial updates." ☛ https://www.jameskerr.blog/posts/2025/refs-rails/ | Source: James Kerr    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:53:59

• "Almost 15 years ago, I wrote Grab a Single Frame from a Video in QuickTime X. And for many years since, I slightly modified that workflow. Instead of using Preview, I would use pngpaste, and paste the copied frame from QuickTime player into a file." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/save-video-still-frames-quicktime-player-shortcut | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:54:13

• "Tone controls boosted or cut frequencies in the bass and treble range. There never was much consistency about what frequencies constituted ‘bass’ and ‘treble’, beyond bass being ‘low-ish’ and treble being ‘high-ish’." ☛ https://kevinboone.me/tone_control.html | Source: Kevin Boone    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:54:30

• "The ways that we speak and the words that we use, are key parts of being able to think, learn and thrive in any educational setting." ☛ https://criticaledtech.com/2025/09/19/the-always-listening-ai-classroom-minding-what-we-say-and-the-ways-in-which-we-say-it/ | Source: Neil Selwyn    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:40:04

• "unlock privacy-preserving alternatives to the dominant adtech business model" ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/notes-from-org-adtech-roundtable-on-the-future-of-cookie-consent-requirements-in-the-uk/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:40:31

• "In part 1, I discussed the lurking Fourth Amendment problem with the “content review” provisions of that order" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/18/the-worlds-most-popular-porn-site-is-a-government-agent-now-does-it-matter/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:40:53

• "The GDPR has been inadequately enforced for years. " ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/budget-cuts-paralyse-austrian-dpa-ngo-complaint-eu-commission | Source: NYOB    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:41:10

• "It follows the appointment of two new Commissioners for Data Protection, Dr Des Hogan and Dale Sunderland in February 2024." ☛ https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0917/1533991-data-protection-commissioner/ | Source: RTE    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:41:23

• "Former tech industry lobbyist Niamh Sweeney has been named to the Data Protection Commission, the chief regulator for big tech firms in Ireland." ☛ https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/09/17/ex-tech-lobbyist-named-to-data-protection-commission/ | Source: Irish Times    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:41:42

• "The DPC is the EU lead privacy regulator for most US Big Tech (such as Google, Microsoft or Meta) and was already notoriously pro-business." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/former-meta-lobbyist-named-dpc-commissioner-meta-now-officially-regulates-itself | Source: NYOB    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:42:04

• "That discretion was largely absent on social media, a fragmented digital landscape shaped by smartphones and instant uploads where graphic footage showing Kirk's body recoiling and blood pouring from a wound spread rapidly." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2337796.html | Source: RTL    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:42:49

• "In any case, one thing is certain: many YouTubers—most seemingly with a larger desktop audience, and many in the tech/FOSS/etc. space—have seen a drastic downturn in views counted in YouTube analytics since mid-August." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/digging-deeper-youtubes-view-count-discrepancy | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:43:18

• "Best-o-Masto is an alternative Mastodon client that does very little, but on purpose. When you open the app, it shows you the 20 most popular posts in the last few hours. You can favorite those posts, boost them, or open them in a real Mastodon client, and that's about it." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/introducing-best-o-masto/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:43:35

• "LinkedIn changed its terms to share more data with Microsoft for advertising purposes" ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/increase-privacy-on-linkedin/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:43:57

• "Signed by President Harry Truman in 1948, the Smith-Mundt Act was initially intended to give the U.S. tools to match the Soviet Union’s international media operation." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/what-is-the-smith-mundt-act-republicans-eye-rolling-back-the-clock-on-misunderstood-cold-war-state-media-law/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:44:21

• "The poll highlights a growing distrust and disillusionment with AI. Average Americans are concerned about how AI tools could stifle human creativity, as the industry continues to celebrate the automation of human labor as a cost-cutting measure" ☛ https://futurism.com/new-poll-americans-loathe-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:44:59

• "This is a nice piece of research: “Mind the Gap: Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use Vulnerabilities in LLM-Enabled Agents“.: [...]" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/time-of-check-time-of-use-attacks-against-llms.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:45:12

• "The parent company of Facebook and Instagram no longer talks about “connected glasses,” but rather “AI glasses.” Its hopes to build on the momentum of its earlier models, which gained traction once AI features were added." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/metas-ai-glasses | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:45:27

• "In another segment, Jack Mancuso, a chef and influencer, asked his AI glasses to help with a recipe for a Korean steak sauce." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/09/18/mark-zuckerbergs-smart-glasses-demo-disrupted-glitches/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:45:41

• "The poor showing painfully demonstrates that the tech is far from ready, even as companies continue to shove AI into every aspect of our daily lives." ☛ https://futurism.com/mark-zuckerberg-ai-glasses-demo-fails | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:46:18

• "We are beyond the point of being able to identify AI-generated content, and there is no way to reliably mark content as being AI-created in such a way that it cannot be circumvented." ☛ https://vale.rocks/posts/detecting-ai | Source: Declan Chidlow    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:46:35

• "AI psychosis is just one of the many delusions inspired by AI, and it's hardly the most prevalent." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/17/automating-gang-stalking-delusion/#paranoid-androids | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:46:59

• "The most widespread AI delusion is, of course, that an AI can do your job (it can't, but an AI salesman can capitalize on this delusion to convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that can't do your job): [...]"    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:47:19

• "Consider that porn has always been at the bleeding edge of technology. With each new advance in media production, pornography has been quick to adopt the latest format. As soon as there were motion pictures, there were pornographic movies." ☛ https://www.8ball.report/p/the-inevitable-ai-takeover-of-porn | Source: Sean Monahan    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:47:41

• "Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI ever since the release of GPT-3.5 in late 2022." ☛ https://www.404media.co/librarians-are-being-asked-to-find-ai-hallucinated-books/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:48:22

• "We’re excited to roll out a new provisioning flow on Arduino Cloud — and the UNO R4 WiFi is the first board to support it! Say goodbye to cables and complicated steps: setup is now faster and smoother." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/09/18/introducing-a-new-provisioning-flow-starting-with-the-uno-r4-wifi/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:49:03

• "Apple’s subscriptions are struggling to attract users and deliver profits" ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/apples-misleading-services-boom | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:49:18

• [Old] "In 1984, Tom Zito interviewed a 29-year-old Steve Jobs, months after he introduced his first Mac." ☛ https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-jobs-1984-access-magazine-interview/ | Source: The Daily Beast    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:49:37

• "As explained at the end of July, I found myself at the bitter end of a long process of detaching from modern computing. Apple in particular." ☛ https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/getting-ready-for-the-winter-part-1/ | Source: Simone Silvestroni    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:50:26

• "Of the 24 devices, only four were ever patched, and these patches arrived late" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/a-wireless-device-exploit-uncovered-11-years-ago-still-hasnt-been-fixed-by-some-manufacturers-six-vendors-and-24-devices-found-harbouring-vulnerable-firmware-across-routers-range-extenders-and-more | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:50:53

• "both implicitly and explicitly... keep returning" ☛ https://futurism.com/teens-killed-ai-phrase | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:52:32

• "A bipartisan group of Pennsylvania state legislators recently hatched a plan to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in health care" ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/09/18/repub/as-ai-enters-exam-rooms-states-step-up-oversight/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:52:45

• "As I read Zak Killian's Expect HDD, SSD shortages as AI rewrites the rules of storage hierarchy — multiple companies announce price hike" ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2025/09/hard-disk-unexpectedly-not-dead.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:53:12

• "The hearing in the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions centered on the “state of K-12 education”" ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/09/18/repub/decline-in-k-12-national-reading-math-science-scores-probed-by-us-senate-panel/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:53:50

• "Last year, after a long period working at a fully remote company with people from all over the world" ☛ https://hacdias.com/2025/09/18/new-beginnings/ | Source: Henrique Dias    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:54:09

• "JAXA launched Akatsuki, a name that translates to “Dawn” in English, aboard one of its own H-IIA rockets in May 2010." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/jaxa_dawn_akatsuki_venus_mission_ends/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:54:58

• "We, humans, are driven to touch and craft with our body. Deep down we crave that. Website making is a digital craft." ☛ https://ohhelloana.blog/why/ | Source: Ana Rodrigues    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:55:54

• "The centerpiece is JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 512 Compact Source Files and Instance Main Methods" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/java-25-oracle-makes-java-easier-to-learn-ready-for-ai-development/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:56:40

• "If life gives you a bunch of Markdown files to analyse or edit, do you warm up your regex muscles and get going? How about using more specific tools instead?" ☛ https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/09/18/markdown-programmatic-parsing/ |    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:57:10

• "We have all been there. Your software keeps growing and you feel the need to make it customizable. It is too soon for a full-blown UI with all the bells and whistles, so your pragmatic instinct suggests a text-based configuration file." ☛ https://ochagavia.nl/blog/configuration-files-are-user-interfaces/ | Source: Adolfo Ochagavía    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:57:33

• "This brief article provides a footnote for an actual state of using OpenBSD as build machine with a high number of CPU cores." ☛ https://kirill.korins.ky/articles/the-openbsd-build-machine-with-a-high-number-of-cpu-cores/ | Source: Kirill A Korinsky    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:57:44

• "In this post, we are going to take a closer look at some of the issues you might need to deal with when working in a large codebase, such as having incomplete build metadata or conflicting requirements between components" ☛ https://www.tweag.io/blog/2025-09-18-managing-dependency-graph/ | Source: Modus Create LLC    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:57:57

• "Instead of simply measuring your coverage, you should actually test your tests." ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/09/18/use-mutation-testing-to-find-the-bugs-your-tests-dont-catch/ | Source: Trail of Bits    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:58:14

• "I have modeled the BIST 100 index to build predictive intervals. Because the data has daily seasonality, I preferred the modeltime::adam_reg function." ☛ https://datageeek.com/2025/09/18/augmented-dynamic-adaptive-model-adam-for-daily-seasonal-data/ | Source: DataGeeek    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 13:58:47

• "In recent months we have gotten 3-4 security reports per week. The program has run for over six years now, with almost 600 reports accumulated." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/09/18/from-suspicion-to-published-curl-cve/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:01:31

• "I wanted to document the flow that Artemis – the calm web reader I maintain – follows to download web feeds. Artemis polls several thousand feeds on behalf of a few hundred users." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/09/18/how-artemis-polls-web-feeds | Source: James G    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:01:38

• "Importantly, all of these features existed identically on Mac, Windows, and nine flavors of Unix, and were released simultaneously. This was basically unheard of at the time." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/09/netscape-navigator-2-0-was-released-30-years-ago-today/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:01:50

• "But it does kinda feel like “browser” is undergoing a similar redefinition as “phone”." https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/rip-browsers/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:02:37

• "RSS is awesome technology that makes the [Internet] fun, but to use it you need an RSS feed reader. There are many options available, but the one I’ve stuck to the longest has been Newsboat." ☛ https://techtea.io/articles/2025/newsboat/ | Source: TechTea    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:03:01

• "That flexibility extends to the address bar, status bar, and side panel, allowing users to strip down the interface or build it out depending on how they like to browse." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/vivaldi-browser-7-6-launches-with-fully-customizable-tab-bar/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:03:11

• Vivaldi is proprietary    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:03:33

• "Moving to Zulip is not just a platform change—we are also taking this opportunity to strengthen our outreach and engagement process." ☛ https://creativecommons.org/2025/09/18/new-community-chat-platform-moving-from-slack-to-zulip/ | Source: Creative Commons    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:03:56

• "Utkarsh Gupta has announced the availability of the beta release of Ubuntu 25.10, inclusive of most of the usual Ubuntu flavours, with the notable exception of Ubuntu MATE: [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12562 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:04:39

• "The beta runs on the upcoming Linux kernel 6.17, which improves hardware support across Intel, AMD, ARM, and RISC-V platforms." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-25-10-beta-released-with-linux-kernel-6-17-and-gnome-49/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:04:48

• "We are very excited to present you Tails 7.0, the first version of Tails based on Debian 13 (Trixie) and GNOME 48 (Bengaluru). Tails 7.0 brings new versions of many applications included in Tails." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_0/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:05:21

• "A major update of Tails, a Debian-based portable Linux distribution that protects against surveillance and censorship, is now available. Tails 7.0 is based on the recently-released Debian 13 and includes GNOME 48: [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12560 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:06:03

• "One of the most visible changes in Tails 7.0 is a faster startup. By switching image compression from xz to zstd, the system now boots 10–15 seconds quicker on most machines." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/tails-7-0-brings-debian-13-gnome-48-and-major-app-updates/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:06:26

• "The Linux Mint team has announced the BETA release of LMDE 7, codenamed “Gigi.” As you know, unlike the regular Mint edition, which is based on Ubuntu, LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) is built directly on Debian." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/lmde-7-beta-released-for-testing-ahead-of-stable-launch/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:07:11

• "Clement Lefebvre has announced the availability of the beta release of Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7, the popular distribution's alternative branch, based on the recently-released Debian 13: [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12561 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:07:35

• "The distro started as a derivative of Fedora Silverblue, carrying over its immutable, image-based approach while adding its own tooling for things like Flathub, Homebrew, and ZFS." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/bluefin-lts-released-immutable-desktop-on-centos-stream-10/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:09:29

• "I’ve had this installed in a few honeypot VMs, and it’s been… amusing seeing the commands people issue." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/silly-booby-traps-in-freebsd-and-netbsd/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:09:55

• "after using KDE for a while I am starting to really appreciate how good it is. And no, this is not compared to other Linux desktops, but also with both Windows and macOS" ☛ https://kokada.dev/blog/kde-is-now-my-favorite-desktop/ |    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:10:19

• "This post is about the Linux text console – not X or Wayland. We’re going to get the console right without using those systems." ☛ https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10907-running-an-accurate-80x25-dos-style-console-on-modern-linux-is-possible-after-all | Source: John Goerzen    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:11:04

• "Corbet's talk offered a rare, nearly unique, insight into the rise and rise of Linux over 30 years." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/three_decades_in_of_linux/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:11:31

• "The Death of Industrial Design, Host naming Convensions, Symbian reflections, bash timeouts, nvme vs ssds, a system to organize your life, and more." ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/629 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:11:50

• John Goerzen: Running an Accurate 80×25 DOS-Style Console on Modern GNU/Linux Is Possible After All ☞ https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10907-running-an-accurate-80x25-dos-style-console-on-modern-linux-is-possible-after-all    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:13:37

• Silly booby traps in FreeBSD and NetBSD ☞ https://rubenerd.com/silly-booby-traps-in-freebsd-and-netbsd/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:13:54

• Bluefin LTS Released: Immutable Desktop on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://linuxiac.com/bluefin-lts-released-immutable-desktop-on-centos-stream-10/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:14:08

• LMDE 7 “Gigi” BETA Released for Testing Ahead of Stable Launch ☞ https://linuxiac.com/lmde-7-beta-released-for-testing-ahead-of-stable-launch/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:14:21

• Tails 7.0 Brings Debian 13, GNOME 48, and Major App Updates ☞ https://linuxiac.com/tails-7-0-brings-debian-13-gnome-48-and-major-app-updates/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:14:36

• Tails 7.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1038579/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:14:48

• New Community Chat Platform: Moving from Slack to Zulip ☞ https://creativecommons.org/2025/09/18/new-community-chat-platform-moving-from-slack-to-zulip/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-community-chat-platform-moving-from-slack-to-zulip    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:15:11

• Vivaldi Browser 7.6 Launches With Fully Customizable Tab Bar ☞ https://linuxiac.com/vivaldi-browser-7-6-launches-with-fully-customizable-tab-bar/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:15:35

• RIP “Browsers” ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/rip-browsers/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:15:48

• From suspicion to published curl CVE ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/09/18/from-suspicion-to-published-curl-cve/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:16:08

• A wireless device exploit uncovered 11 years ago still hasn't been fixed by some manufacturers — six vendors and 24 devices found harbouring vulnerable firmware across routers, range extenders, and more ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/a-wireless-device-exploit-uncovered-11-years-ago-still-hasnt-been-fixed-by-some-manufacturers-six-vendors-and-24-devices-found-harbouring-vulnerable-firmware-across-routers-range-extenders-and-more    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:17:01

• Introducing a new Provisioning flow — Starting with the UNO R4 WiFi ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/09/18/introducing-a-new-provisioning-flow-starting-with-the-uno-r4-wifi/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:17:15

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:17:33

• Pluralistic: Hey Hi (AI) psychosis and the warped mirror (18 Sep 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/17/automating-gang-stalking-delusion/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:17:38

• Time-of-Check Time-of-Use Attacks Against LLMs ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/time-of-check-time-of-use-attacks-against-llms.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:17:57

• Former Meta lobbyist named DPC Commissioner: Meta now officially regulates itself ☞ https://noyb.eu/en/former-meta-lobbyist-named-dpc-commissioner-meta-now-officially-regulates-itself    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:18:25

• Budget cuts paralyse Austrian DPA: NGO complaint to the EU Commission ☞ https://noyb.eu/en/budget-cuts-paralyse-austrian-dpa-ngo-complaint-eu-commission    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:18:41

• NOTES FROM ORG ADTECH ROUNDTABLE ON THE FUTURE OF COOKIE CONSENT REQUIREMENTS IN THE UK ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/notes-from-org-adtech-roundtable-on-the-future-of-cookie-consent-requirements-in-the-uk/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:18:54

• French Cyclist's Journey Ends In Russian Jail, Achingly Short Of 13,000-Km Goal ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/french-cyclist-arrested-russia-eurasia-sehili-record/33534225.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:19:47

• Disney Pulled Jimmy Kimmel as Pressure Built on Multiple Fronts ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/business/media/disney-abc-jimmy-kimmel.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:20:26

• IPv6 Deployment at APNIC 60 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/09/18/ipv6-deployment-at-apnic-60/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:21:15

• French films tackle AI, nuclear science and the 'it' couple of 1960s cinema ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/arts24/20250918-french-films-tackle-ai-nuclear-science-and-the-it-couple-of-1960s-cinema    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:22:31

• Gunnar Wolf: Still use Twitter/X? Consider dropping it... ☞ https://gwolf.org/2025/09/still-use-twitter-x-consider-dropping-it.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:23:06

• Tensions rise at parliament’s ‘peace’ committee as pro-Kurdish MPs walk out ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/tensions-rise-at-parliaments-peace-committee-as-pro-kurdish-mps-walk-out-311655    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:23:26

• Cloud bursting with confidential containers on OpenShift ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/09/18/cloud-bursting-confidential-containers-openshift    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:24:20

• Reach native speed with MacOS llama.cpp container inference ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/09/18/reach-native-speed-macos-llamacpp-container-inference    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:25:01

• Alexei Navalny’s death is just one of Putin’s countless sins against Russia ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/opinion/alexei-navalnys-death-is-just-one-of-putins-countless-sins-against-russia/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:25:41

• "openly disagreeing with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions" ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250918-donald-trump-keir-starmer-and-their-vision-on-ongoing-conflicts    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:26:41

• Putin’s Polish probe demands decisive response to restore NATO deterrence ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-polish-probe-demands-decisive-response-to-restore-nato-deterrence/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:26:49

• Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation ☞ https://www.perl.com/article/geizhals-donates-to-tprf/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:27:29

• libtool @ Savannah: libtool-2.6.0 released [alpha] ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10814    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:28:38

• Akademy 2025 - KDE at a Turning Point ☞ https://akademy.kde.org/news/2025-09_akademy-2025-report/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:30:53

• Omarchy 3.0.1 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/omarchy    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:31:18

• SmartOS 20250918 also out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/smartos    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:31:29

• Tails 7.0 Anonymous GNU/Linux OS Officially Released, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie” ☞ https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-0-anonymous-linux-os-released-based-on-debian-13-trixie    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:32:29

• GNOME 48.5 Improves Support for WPA(2) Enterprise Networks, Legacy Tray Icons ☞ https://9to5linux.com/gnome-48-5-improves-support-for-wpa2-enterprise-networks-legacy-tray-icons    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:32:35

• KDE Plasma 6.5 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing ☞ https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-5-desktop-environment-is-now-available-for-public-beta-testing    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:32:43

• FOSS Weekly #25.38: GNOME 49 Release, KDE Drama, sudo vs sudo-rs, Local Hey Hi (AI) on Android and More GNU/Linux Stuff ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-38/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:33:26

• FSF Blogs: Twelve reasons to come to FSF40 ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf40-twelve-reasons    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:40:30

• Canonical is upselling Debian to make MS (Mark Shuttleworth) richer "Learn about Ubuntu Pro for Devices" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-iec-62443-4-1 | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:41:33

• Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) Beta released https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2025-September/000316.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:42:31

• "The summit will be on the last day of SUSECON, which is April 21 - 23, 2026. Members of the project invite partners of SUSE, openSUSE contributors, open-source community projects and enthusiasts to take part." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/09/18/open-dev-summit/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:44:08

• "In this post, I’ll walk you through installing cPanel & WHM on AlmaLinux 9" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/install-cpanel-whm-almalinux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:45:04

• Kubernetes v1.34: DRA Consumable Capacity ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/09/18/kubernetes-v1-34-dra-consumable-capacity/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:45:58

• IBM Red Hat pushing buzzwords for fake valuations and hype ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/reducing-bias-ai-models-through-open-source | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:47:46

• "This "pocket library" of knowledge can be deployed on-premise or on customer workstations, allowing users to access critical information and maintain their systems without needing an internet connection." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-customer-portal-recognized-association-support-professionals-one-best-support-websites-2025 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:48:05

• CVE-2025-58767: DoS vulnerability in REXML ☞ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/09/18/dos-rexml-cve-2025-58767/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:49:45

• Sebastian Wick: Integrating libdex with GDBus ☞ https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/libdex-gdbus/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:50:32

• "Desktop environments are the norm as computer interfaces these days, but there was once a time when they were a futuristic novelty whose mere presence on a computer marked it out as something special." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/18/a-gem-of-a-desktop-environment/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:51:16

• I’ve Written About Loads of Scams. This Phone Scam Almost Got Me. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/nyregion/zelle-chase-banking-scam.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:51:53

• At least 4,500 fraud cases reported in eight months in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/18.09.2025-at-least-4500-fraud-cases-reported-in-eight-months-in-latvia.a614841/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:52:17

• Seems like an ad for a couple of kids with a degree setting up (litigation) shop ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/new-ip-firm-leca-sevestre-founded-in-paris/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:53:25

• UPC is illegal, so they really should question the very legitimacy of this grant; UPC exists because of corruption, fraud, EPO crimes, and media bribes ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/upc-grants-pi-against-bega-in-fight-with-washtower-over-washing-machine-cabinets/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:54:24

• $2,000 awarded for IP Investments Group entity, Digimedia Tech, storage patent monopoly prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/9/18/2000-awarded-for-ip-investments-group-entity-digimedia-tech-storage-patent-prior-art    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:54:49

• Intellectual Ventures cloud load balancing patent monopoly challenge instituted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/9/17/intellectual-ventures-cloud-load-balancing-patent-challenge-instituted    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:55:04

• Patent trolls take over again; with Iancu, a trolls' go-to person ran under "Trump I" ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/09/welcome-director-squires.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:55:53

• Supreme Court Asked to Resolve ‘Secret Springing Prior Art’ Controversy in IPR Proceedings ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/09/springing-controversy-proceedings.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:56:09

• Red Hat already leaps to the next passing fed or buzzwords https://www.itpro.com/infrastructure/networking/is-all-photonics-the-future-of-networking    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:58:28

• Red Hat shilling mindless buzzwords and hype for IBM https://inferenceops.substack.com/p/state-of-the-model-serving-communities-408    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 14:59:36

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

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:02:38

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

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:02:49

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

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:03:44

• How To Install Nginx Proxy Manager on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-nginx-proxy-manager-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:03:58

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

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:07:34

• How To Set up Nginx Server Blocks on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/set-up-nginx-server-blocks-debian-13/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:07:51

• How To Install Nginx Proxy Manager on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-nginx-proxy-manager-debian-13/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:10:37

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

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:11:05

• How to Add User to Sudoers in Debian 13 ☞ https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-add-user-to-sudoers-in-debian-13/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:11:29

• "[Benn Jordan] decided to take a closer look at the creepy cameras invading our public spaces and how to circumvent them." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/18/a-deep-dive-on-creepy-cameras/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:11:47

• How Much of GNU/Linux is Antifa? ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/how-much-of-linux-is-antifa    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:12:04

• The more recent history of DR GEM ☞ https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/96552.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:13:12

• History of the GEM Desktop Environment ⚓ https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/history-of-the-gem-desktop-environment ䷉ Source: substack | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/history-of-the-gem-desktop-environment    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:13:49

• "I finally found a smartphone that's smaller than 6.7 inches! It's only 3 inches and I love it! They way most people get excited for a new iPhone, I am excited for this puny phone. It's specs are decent (3Gb RAM, dual-sim, 8Mp camera), price is very cheap, and it performs admirably for my modest needs." gemini://tobykurien.com/microblog.gmi    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:26:16

• "Original, CGI-based SpellBinding on tildes was plenty fast, clocking in for ~200uS for the core processing -- plus the CGI overhead and whatever the server does. Moving it to my own VPS on the Amazon cloud, with polluxd server, improved the response time to ~100uS. Getting rid of CGI altogether, merging a Fornax server into the same logic, resulted in ~20uS." gemini://spell.ddns.net:10965/2025-09-19.improved.gmi    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:27:42

• "Who's it gonna send your biometrics to, Richard Stallman?" https://x.com/jimbotron915465/status/1968863132891176962    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:33:33

• "Back at the office 3 days/week. Nobody's really thrilled about this, everyone seeing it as something we have to do because the powers that be said we had to do it. We've been bringing our coffee in thermal cups and thermoses, but our outbuilding has a small kitchen. Two tables, enough seating for eight. Building capacity maybe sixty or so seats? A problem at lunch time." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/9-19.gmi    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:34:07

• "I have just got my sleep pattern restored after a superb two days at the FUN OCaml conference in Warsaw. OCaml is an unusual computer programming language reputed to be a bit of a productivity boost and agreeable to use to boot." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-09-18_dispatches-from-fun-ocaml-2025.gmi    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:35:01

• "It's quiet. How's everyone getting on?" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2704    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:35:53

• "current obsession - at this very moment i'm too physically tired to call anything an obsession. i was very into renewed mandolin practice until it broke. since then i'm back to my "always" obsession - tarot." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/lastthinggame    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:36:47

• Belarus: Freed prisoners were forcibly deported — opposition https://www.dw.com/en/belarus-freed-prisoners-were-forcibly-deported-opposition/a-73982327    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:38:19

• Russo-Belarusian military drills trigger concern in Baltic states https://www.dw.com/en/russo-belarusian-military-drills-trigger-concern-in-baltic-states/a-73906585    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:38:39

• Poll: Half of Lithuanians anxious over Russian-Belarusian military drills ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2681778/poll-half-of-lithuanians-anxious-over-russian-belarusian-military-drills    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:39:11

• ALT 11.1.1 "Workstation K" is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/alt    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:39:25

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Said Broadcasters Risk Losing Licenses for Criticizing Him ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/briefing/trump-jimmy-kimmel-russian-drones-lasers.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:39:41

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Said Broadcasters Risk Losing Licenses for Criticizing Him

  Also, NATO is looking for an answer to Russian drones. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

Drones vs. Lasers ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/briefing/nato-air-defense-trump-media-britain-tech-deal.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:40:13

• "Jailed Moscow punk musician says he was tortured and framed for explosives possession" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/18/jailed-moscow-punk-musician-says-he-was-tortured-and-framed-for-explosives-possession | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:40:30

• Bucha ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/18/st-petersburg-school-security-guard-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison-for-sharing-post-about-russian-atrocities-in-bucha | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:41:04

• "inside the Kremlin-approved Internet" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/18/it-feels-like-surveillance | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:41:25

• "Americans, don’t take this sitting down" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/18/americans-don-t-take-this-sitting-down | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:46:43

• "Journalists expose the operatives behind Russia’s European package plot" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/19/unmasking-moscow-s-sex-toy-bombers | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:47:21

• Cause of death revealed in mysterious Burning Man murder of Russian national Vadim Kruglov ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/us-news/cause-of-death-revealed-in-mysterious-burning-man-murder/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:47:37

• "Russia appeals U.N. aviation authority ruling holding it responsible for 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/19/russia-appeals-u-n-aviation-authority-ruling-holding-it-responsible-for-2014-downing-of-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh17 | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:47:55

• Russian decoy drone fragment washes up on Latvian beach ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/19/russian-decoy-drone-fragment-washes-up-on-latvian-beach | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:48:13

• How Vilnius became the hub of GRU’s parcel bomb plot – LRT investigation ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2683250/how-vilnius-became-the-hub-of-gru-s-parcel-bomb-plot-lrt-investigation    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:48:37

• Re:Baltica and partners expose Europe-wide Russian sabotage plot ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/18.09.2025-rebaltica-and-partners-expose-europe-wide-russian-sabotage-plot.a614873/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:51:03

• Kostiantynivka ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/18/russian-forces-bomb-ukraine-s-kostiantynivka-killing-five | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:51:20

• Dihydroxyacetone Man and Starmer Acknowledge Divide Over Palestinian Statehood ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/18/world/trump-uk-visit    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:51:31

• Dihydroxyacetone Man and Starmer Acknowledge Divide Over Palestinian Statehood

  Hell Toupée and Prime Minister Keir Starmer discussed the wars in Gaza and Ukraine during Mr. Convicted Felon’s state visit. Earlier, the two leaders signed a technology partnership agreement.

   

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:51:41

• "Russia’s Ukraine war veterans" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/18/putin-proclaims-his-successors-russia-s-ukraine-war-veterans | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:55:20

• "overhaul of Russia’s migrant work permits" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/18/putin-eyes-overhaul-of-russia-s-migrant-work-permits | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:55:42

• "let him down" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/19/trump-says-putin-has-let-him-down-on-ukraine-but-it-s-not-yet-time-to-press-for-a-ceasefire | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:56:03

• Longtime Putin Aide Who Opposed Ukraine War Is Granted Rare Resignation ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/world/europe/russia-putin-kozak-resigns.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:56:25

• Putin, Netanyahu, Convicted Felon lead outpouring of wishes on Indian PM Modi’s 75th birthday ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-pms-birthday-goes-viral-putin-netanyahu-trump-lead-mymodistory-greetings    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:56:46

• Putin Marks Another Break From International Norms As Russia Exits Anti-Torture Pact ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-withdraws-antitorture-convention/33533784.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:57:07

• Dmitry Kozak, Longtime Putin Confidant Who Reportedly Opposed Ukraine War, Resigns ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/kozak-resigns-putin-kremlin-ukraine/33533883.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:57:24

• The Servo Blog: Your Donations at Work: Funding Josh Matthews' Contributions to Servo ☞ https://servo.org/blog/2025/09/17/your-donations-at-work-funding-jdm/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:57:50

• Announcing the Soft Launch of Fedora Forge https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/announcing-the-soft-launch-of-fedora-forge/ became a slave of IBM with this webUI: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/explore/organizations    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 15:59:56

• GNOME 49 Officially Released with New Video Player & Document Viewer ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/09/gnome-49-officially-released-with-new-video-player-document-viewer/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:02:34

• Kubuntu 25.10-beta is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kubuntu along with Edubuntu 25.10-beta ☞ https://distrowatch.com/edubuntu Ubuntu 25.10-beta ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ubuntu and KDE neon 20250918 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kdeneon    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:03:08

• "Faster more powerful backdoored Windows alternative" Zorin OS teases release of big update ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/faster-more-powerful-windows-alternative-zorin-os-teases-release-of-big-update/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:04:42

• This common household medicine cuts colorectal cancer recurrence in half for some patients: study ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/health/this-common-household-medicine-cuts-colorectal-cancer-recurrence-in-half-for-some-patients-study/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:05:42

• Wildfire Smoke Will Kill Thousands More by 2050, Study Finds ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/climate/wildfire-smoke-health-deaths.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:05:54

• U.S. to Cut Out Nongovernmental Groups in Refocusing Health Aid ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/us/politics/us-aid-health-ngos.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:06:13

• New York and Other States Form Health Bloc as Answer to Convicted Felon’s Policies ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/nyregion/northeast-public-health-collaborative-trump.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:06:24

• A pivotal meeting on vaccine guidance is underway—and former CDC leaders are alarmed ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/18/1123844/meeting-vaccine-guidance-former-cdc-leaders-alarmed/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:06:41

• Rights group says UK compensation scheme mismanagement contributes to further harm ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/hrw-says-uk-compensation-scheme-mismanagement-contributes-to-further-harm/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:07:22

• Israel bombs Gaza City as hospitals are pushed to the 'brink of collapse' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250918-israel-bombs-gaza-city-as-hospitals-are-pushed-to-the-brink-of-collapse    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:07:37

• Wayne State president leaves with ‘bargain’ settlement of $760K, plus health care ☞ https://bridgemi.com/talent-education/wayne-state-president-leaves-with-bargain-settlement-of-760k-plus-health-care/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:08:11

• Why heirs of South Korea’s conglomerates are choosing longer military service ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/why-heirs-of-south-koreas-conglomerates-are-choosing-longer-military-service    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:08:31

• Kidnapping attempts on the rise in South Korea with over nine every week, shows police data ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/kidnapping-attempts-on-the-rise-in-south-korea-with-more-than-nine-every-week-police-data    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:09:04

• Cocaine seizures in South Korea surge 200 times over two years, sparking concern ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/cocaine-seizures-in-south-korea-surge-200-times-over-two-years-sparking-concern    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:09:29

• Over 4,000 teens treated for gambling addiction in South Korea in 2024, tripling 2020’s figure ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/over-4000-teens-treated-for-gambling-addiction-in-2024-up-three-fold-since-2020    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:09:39

• South Korea prosecutors seek arrest of Unification Church leader ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-prosecutors-seek-arrest-of-unification-church-leader    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:10:15

• ‘Keep it on’: Shirtless joggers are frowned upon in South Korea, but some push back ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/keep-it-on-shirtless-joggers-are-frowned-upon-in-south-korea-but-some-push-back    

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

• Seoul launches task force to fix US visa system after mass detention ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/seoul-launches-task-force-to-fix-us-visa-system-after-mass-detention    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:10:51

• Hooking a menace: Anglers target aquatic invaders threatening Malaysia’s native freshwater species ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/hooking-a-menace-anglers-target-aquatic-invaders-threatening-malaysias-native-freshwater-species    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:11:12

• How China Became a Wedge Between Two South Pacific Neighbors ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/world/australia/china-pacific-nz-cook-islands.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:11:32

• What Will China’s Green-Tech Ambitions Cost the World? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/magazine/china-green-tech-laos.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:12:05

• China’s defence minister urges greater unity to avoid ‘law of the jungle’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-defence-minister-urges-greater-unity-to-avoid-law-of-the-jungle    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:12:20

• China targets brain computer interface race with new standard — groundwork could lead to breakthroughs as soon as 2027 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/wearable-tech/china-targets-brain-computer-interface-race-with-new-standard-new-bci-standard-could-lead-to-breakthroughs-as-soon-as-2027    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:18:02

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Says US Seeks To 'Get Back' Bagram Base Amid Taliban Rule ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/bagram-airbase-afghanistan-trump-taliban/33534222.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:18:23

• China defence minister denounces ‘hegemonic logic’ at Beijing forum ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/18/china-defence-minister-denounces-hegemonic-logic-at-beijing-forum/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:19:00

• US tennis star Taylor Townsend apologises after calling turtle and bullfrog at Chinese hotel buffet ‘crazy’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/18/us-tennis-star-taylor-townsend-apologises-after-calling-turtle-and-bullfrog-at-chinese-hotel-buffet-crazy/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:20:05

• China’s economy remains trapped in the doldrums ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econographics/chinas-economy-remains-trapped-in-the-doldrums/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:20:31

• Dihydroxyacetone Man suggests US troops could return to base in Afghanistan, citing its proximity to rival China ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2025/09/trump-suggests-us-troops-could-return-to-base-in-afghanistan-citing-its-proximity-to-rival-china/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:20:51

• "Clearing The Air With SCATANA" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/18/radio-apocalypse-clearing-the-air-with-scatana/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:21:34

• "A Poor Man’s High-Def" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/18/enhanced-definition-tv-a-poor-mans-high-def/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:25:09

• "Dirty Pots, Meet Power Tools" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/19/dirty-pots-meet-power-tools/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:27:29

• AI referral traffic ‘not making up for search losses’: How publishers can respond ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/ai-referral-traffic-not-making-up-for-search-losses-how-publishers-can-respond/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:28:40

• Why The Economist isn’t doing Hey Hi (AI) deals but has launched on Substack ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news-leaders/why-the-economist-isnt-doing-ai-deals-but-has-launched-on-substack/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:29:00

• Wild Chimps Consume The Equivalent of a Beer a Day, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/wild-chimps-consume-the-equivalent-of-a-beer-a-day-study-finds    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:30:03

• Physicists Propose a 'Neutrino Laser' Straight Out of Science Fiction ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-propose-a-neutrino-laser-straight-out-of-science-fiction    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:30:13

• 78 Million Years Ago, an Asteroid Hit Earth. Then Life Grew in The Crater ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/78-million-years-ago-an-asteroid-hit-earth-then-life-grew-in-the-crater    

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

• Why Some Adults Never Have Sex, According to a Study of 400,000 People ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/why-some-adults-never-have-sex-according-to-a-study-of-400000-people    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:45:03

• After 60 Years, Diabetes Drug Found to Unexpectedly Impact The Brain ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/after-60-years-diabetes-drug-found-to-unexpectedly-impact-the-brain    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:45:35

• The Booming Longevity Industry Has 3 Major Problems, Experts Warn ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-booming-longevity-industry-has-3-major-problems-experts-warn    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:45:55

• Insects Are Vanishing Even in Remote, Human-Free Places ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/insects-are-vanishing-even-in-remote-human-free-places    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:46:12

• Incredible 112-Million-Year-Old Amber Reveals an Entire Ancient Ecosystem ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/incredible-112-million-year-old-amber-reveals-an-entire-ancient-ecosystem    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:47:11

• Ghost Sharks Use Teeth on Their Forehead to Have Deep-Sea Sex ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ghost-sharks-use-teeth-on-their-forehead-to-have-deep-sea-sex    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:47:56

• The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Rust 1.90.0 ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/18/Rust-1.90.0/ Rust 1.90.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1038649/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:49:06

• Jeremy Cline: Fedora Signing Update, September edition ☞ https://www.jcline.org/blog/fedora/signing/2025/09/18/fedora-artifact-signing-p4.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:50:21

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1038638/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:51:03

• Bluefin LTS released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1038584/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:51:24

• Announcing Fedora Linux 43 Beta https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-43-beta/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:52:19

• Infantile Business Machines is killing Red Hat, piece-wise    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 16:59:26

• "IBM gets what it pays for - if Alvind, the Pipmunks and the IBM board want to pay peanuts, then they are forced to hire from a selection of third rate incompetent monkeys from the Third World." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k5cjm6bz    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:02:12

• "The fact that IBM AI is nothing to write home about speaks volumes about IBM FAILURE to keep up with any technology other than outdated mainframes. Whose fault is that ? Certainly not US employees, who are being put on PIPs and layoffs. Blame the id--ts in IBM US management who can never get anything right." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k5cjm6bz    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:02:25

• "IBM has d-mbed down many roles and short-staffed other critical roles. This makes it much harder to connect with the customer and meet them where they are at. As a result, interactions are increasingly transactional in nature and customers are getting turned off by that." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k5cjm6bz    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:02:52

• "So more people are struggling to make KPIs and being shown the door via PIPs. It is unclear if that is intentional or incompetent leadership. There are fewer and fewer people with deep knowledge as this thinning happens and more and more inexperienced people in those key roles." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k5cjm6bz    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:03:13

• "The effects of the tech layoffs across the board will be showing more strongly in the next few months, and a lot of what has been going on will become more evident. (not sure who and why someone downvoted your question, macro implications may affect AK's "plan", hopefully)" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k5cjm6bz    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:03:37

• "Sad to read this. It just means that the F&O Blubber Queen, Joanne Wright is not impacted as usual. Krabanaugh has to protect her for the noble cause of DEI." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k5cjm6bz    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:03:58

• "Fontaine is trying to outdo Kamala Harris at word salad buzzword games. Is she seeing Wi---e Brown too to keep ahead of the competition ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k5fvq75c    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:06:26

• "Google her name. She must be related to someone high up, only explanation possible. I clicked on the post thinking that I'd read something illuminating, and it's indeed a "word salad" at its best. A bunch of nothing new, nothing brilliant, nothing unique, just words..." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k5fvq75c    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:06:48

• "is this some sort of drinking game - where we all take a shot - when we see/hear a useless vague buzzword" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k5fvq75c    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:07:17

• "Even as two major, terrifying wars rage around the world, every newspaper has an above-the-fold AI headline and half the stories on Google News as I write this are about AI. I’ve had to make rule for my events: The first person to mention AI owes everyone else a drink." https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:07:42

• Docker Containers That Could Be Essential for Your Small Business ☞ https://thenewstack.io/docker-containers-that-could-be-essential-for-your-small-business/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:14:08

• Hong Kong Judge Roberto Ribeiro re-appointed to Court of Final Appeal ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/19/hong-kong-judge-roberto-ribeiro-re-appointed-to-court-of-final-appeal/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:15:08

• Do Reptiles Have Moods, Too? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/science/reptiles-cognition-moods.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:15:28

• Nvidia to Buy $5 Billion Stake in Intel, Giving Rival a Lifeline ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/business/nvidia-intel-stake.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:15:47

• North Korea's Kim Jong Un oversees drone testing, KCNA says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/North-Koreas-Kim-Jong-Un-oversees-drone-testing-KCNA-says    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:16:05

• China Bans Tech Firms from Buying Nvidia Chips ☞ https://www.datamation.com/artificial-intelligence/china-bans-nvidia-chips/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:16:22

• 'The Forrest Dump administration has no involvement in this partnership at all' = we need to cover up the corruption now, say this EXPLICITLY☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/teams-at-nvidia-and-intel-have-been-working-in-secret-on-jointly-developed-processors-for-a-year-the-trump-administration-has-no-involvement-in-this-partnership-at-all    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:17:30

• Taiwan’s spending bonanza draws more foreign firms to its largest arms show ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwans-spending-bonanza-draws-more-foreign-firms-to-its-largest-arms-show    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:21:06

• FTC and Seven States Sue Live Nation and Ticketmaster Over ‘Illegal Ticket Resale Tactics’ and ‘Deceiving Artists and Consumers’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/18/ftc-lawsuit-live-nation-ticketmaster-ticket-resale/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:21:39

• Texas Man Is Charged With Making Threats Against Mamdani ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-threat-nyc-mayor.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:22:39

• Mapisa-Nqakula whistle-blower in the dock ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/sa-defence/sa-defence-sa-defence/mapisa-nqakula-whistle-blower-in-the-dock/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:23:32

• Syria’s President Says Border Deal With Israel Could Come ‘Within Days’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/world/middleeast/syria-israel.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:24:06

• Rifts Grow Between Netanyahu and His Security Chiefs ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/world/middleeast/israel-netanyahu-military-gaza.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:24:23

• Building up defence capabilities must go with reassuring other countries: Chan Chun Sing ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/building-up-defence-capabilities-must-go-with-reassuring-other-countries-chan-chun-sing    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:24:49

• A Chinese international student and activist goes missing during a trip home ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/09/18/zhang-yadi-tara-tibet-china-transnational-repression/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:25:29

• US 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 Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:26:36

• Attacker opens fire at crossing between West Bank and Jordan, killing at least two ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250918-attacker-opens-fire-allenby-crossing-west-bank-jordan-killing-two    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:27:23

• "New Bill Aims to Block Both Online Adult Content and VPNs" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/09/18/185203    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:34:57

• Lack of SAPS training to tackle illegal mining ‘incomprehensible’ ☞ https://www.protectionweb.co.za/mining/lack-of-saps-training-to-tackle-illegal-mining-incomprehensible/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 17:47:07

• Improving Risk Management Decisions with SBOM Data: A New Whitepaper from the OpenSSF SBOM Everywhere SIG ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/18/improving-risk-management-decisions-with-sbom-data-a-new-whitepaper-from-the-openssf-sbom-everywhere-sig/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 18:20:19

• Insight Partners Confirms Data Breach Result of Ransomware Attack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/insight-partners-confirms-data-breach-result-of-ransomware-attack/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 18:20:29

• Nearly 250,000 Impacted by Data Breach at Medical Associates of Brevard ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/nearly-250000-impacted-by-data-breach-at-medical-associates-of-brevard/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 18:20:43

• HEY HI BS. The Reg MS. https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/got_a_copilot_pc_now/ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/microsoft_copilot_marketing_blitz/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 18:24:18

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 18:26:27

• EPO leak coming next    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 18:26:31

• European Patent Office Illegally Gutting and Outsourcing Its Functions, Acting Like an Above-the-Law Commercial Business (It Won't Stop at Formalities Officers (FOs) and Classification Slop at the EPO) http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/19/European_Patent_Office_Illegally_Gutting_and_Outsourcing_Its_Fu.shtml    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:05:56

• SonicWall Prompts Password Resets After Hackers Obtain Firewall Configurations ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/sonicwall-prompts-password-resets-after-firewall-configurations-exposed-in-breach/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:06:15

• Windows TCO ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/threat-actor-infests-hotels-with-new-rat/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:06:44

• Tiffany Data Breach Impacts Thousands of Customers ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/tiffany-data-breach-impacts-thousands-of-customers/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:07:09

• KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta Release ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.90/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:10:05

• iOS Upgrade to Version 26: “Unknown Error (1109). 06B4.0000” ☞ https://www.urspringer.de/2025/09/18/ios-upgrade-to-version-26-unknown-error-1109-06b4-0000/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:11:30

• In Benin, tech entrepreneurs tackle pineapple waste ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250918-in-benin-tech-entrepreneurs-tackle-pineapple-waste    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:12:14

• $2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/09/18/2-weact-display-fs-adds-a-0-96-inch-usb-information-display-to-your-computer/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:13:17

• LattePanda IOTA SBC combines defective chip maker Intel N150 SoC with Raspberry Pi RP2040 for GPIO and power control ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/09/18/lattepanda-iota-sbc-combines-intel-n150-soc-with-raspberry-pi-rp2040-for-gpio-and-power-control/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:13:36

• Alan Rusbridger to leave Prospect after four years as editor ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news/alan-rusbridger-to-leave-prospect-after-four-years-as-editor/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:14:09

• ChatGPT Targeted in Server-Side Data Theft Attack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chatgpt-deep-research-targeted-in-server-side-data-theft-attack/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:14:43

• Protecting Free Speech in the Face of Government Retaliation ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/protecting-free-speech-in-the-face-of-government-retaliation    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:17:11

• Trike tilt ring assembly partial build ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202509/trike-tilt-ring-assembly-partial-build.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:19:14

• Openwashing BS ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/18/openmind-releases-open-source-android-os-intelligent-robots/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:20:21

• Infostealer and ransomware on the rise in South Africa ☞ https://www.protectionweb.co.za/cyber-security/infostealer-and-ransomware-on-the-rise-in-south-africa/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:20:54

• Microsoft transmits malware to people via NPM ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/shai-hulud-malware-campaign-dubbed-the-largest-and-most-dangerous-npm-supply-chain-compromise-in-history-hundreds-of-javascript-packages-affected    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:22:26

• #NoExamShutdown: lessons for the new academic year ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/no-exam-shutdown-new-academic-year/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:23:16

• SPAM full of buzzwords from this Microsoft propaganda mill (funded by Microsoft) https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/18/ai-pcs-cut-cloud-raising-stakes-edge-crowdstrikefalcon/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:24:26

• Are Arab nations going to impose real costs on Israel? ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/are-arab-nations-going-to-impose-real-costs-on-israel/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:25:03

• Anti-austerity strikes and protests rock France, pressure Macron ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250918-anti-austerity-strikes-and-protests-rock-france-pressure-macron    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:25:22

• The Benefits of Open Heritage in the Digital Environment ☞ https://creativecommons.org/2025/09/18/the-benefits-of-open-heritage-in-the-digital-environment/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:26:03

• French voters desire change amid growing disillusionment with Macron and successive PMs ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250918-french-desire-change-amid-growing-disillusionment-with-macron-and-successive-pms    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:27:21

• France: Clashes between protesters and police on second day of demonstrations ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250918-france-clashes-between-protesters-and-police-on-second-day-of-demonstrations    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:27:32

• ‘Rather festive’ mood in central Paris as thousands protest budget cuts ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250918-rather-festive-mood-in-central-paris-as-thousands-protest-budget-cuts    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:27:46

• Day of strike in France over proposed budget cuts ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250918-day-of-strike-in-france-over-proposed-budget-cuts    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:28:01

• Anti-Austerity Strikes and Protests Grip France ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/world/europe/france-protests-austerity.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:28:54

• More U.S. cyber offense could mean more risk for companies caught in the crossfire ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2025/09/more-u-s-cyber-offense-could-mean-more-risk-for-companies-caught-in-the-crossfire/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:29:33

• Spotify “Panama” Leak Is a Wake-Up Call for Digital Privacy ☞ https://puri.sm/posts/spotify-panama-leak-is-a-wake-up-call-for-digital-privacy/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:30:07

• Living in the Regulatory Future: Purism, the EU Data Act, and America’s Patchwork Privacy Laws ☞ https://puri.sm/posts/living-in-the-regulatory-future-purism-the-eu-data-act-and-americas-patchwork-privacy-laws/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:30:26

• Brazil passes new law to protect children’s online privacy ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/brazil-passes-new-law-to-protect-childrens-online-privacy/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:30:47

• EDRi-gram, 17 September 2025 ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-17-september-2025/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:32:33

• Chrome 140 Update Patches Sixth Zero-Day of 2025 ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-140-update-patches-sixth-zero-day-of-2025/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:32:55

• There Are Red Bait (IBM) Layoffs, But Surveillance Giant Google News is Infested With Slopfarms ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/17/There_Are_Red_Hat_IBM_Layoffs_But_Google_News_is_Infested_With_.shtml    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:33:01

• Slopwatch: Surveillance Giant Google Helps Plagiarism and Sends Traffic to Ripoff Artists ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/18/Slopwatch_Google_Helps_Plagiarism_and_Sends_Traffic_to_Ripoff_A.shtml    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:33:07

• When Technology Policy Defends Human Dignity ☞ https://puri.sm/posts/when-technology-policy-defends-human-dignity/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:34:08

• "According to AAEON, the Intelli i14 Edge is equipped with a 24-core, 32-thread Intel Core i9 CPU capable of handling parallel and latency-sensitive workloads simultaneously." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/aaeon-intelli-i14-edge-combines-intel-core-i9-and-nvidia-rtx-in-compact-ai-vision-system/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:35:04

• 101: The Hearing’s Gonna Be Lit ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24422    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:36:50

• Rspamd 3.13 Launches with Redis-Backed Multiclass Bayes ☞ https://linuxiac.com/rspamd-3-13-launches-with-redis-backed-multiclass-bayes/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:52:11

• sshmate – simplify interactions with SSH servers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sshmate-simplify-interactions-ssh-servers/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:52:28

• Ezarcher – full featured Arch GNU/Linux based desktop ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ezarcher-full-featured-arch-linux-based-desktop/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:53:19

• Cruise – Docker TUI client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cruise-docker-tui-client/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:53:42

• 10 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Task Managers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-terminal-based-task-managers/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:54:42

• AAT Activity Tracker – GPS-tracking application ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/aat-activity-tracker-gps-tracking-application/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:55:27

• semgrep – static analysis for many languages ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/semgrep-static-analysis/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:55:57

• Embellish – install nerd fonts ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/embellish-install-nerd-fonts/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:56:38

• New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients - 2025-09-17 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-clients-2025-09-17-edition/index.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:58:30

• Pixel Wheels – retro top-down race game ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pixel-wheels-retro-top-down-race-game/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:58:59

• LMDE 7 “Gigi” – BETA Release ☞ https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4893    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 19:59:32

• Tails 7.0, the privacy-focused GNU/Linux OS, arrives with Debian 13 and GNOME 48 ☞ https://betanews.com/2025/09/18/tails-7-0-the-privacy-focused-linux-os-arrives-with-debian-13-and-gnome-48/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:00:36

• Python 3.14.0rc3 is go! https://pythoninsider.blogspot.com/2025/09/python-3140rc3-is-go.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:01:44

• Michael Meeks: 2025-09-18 Thursday ☞ https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-09-18.html Michael Meeks: 2025-09-17 Wednesday ☞ https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-09-17.html "Flight back; RyanAir: pay for extra leg-room, get a different plane, and crushed into a tiny slot instead; tried to work."    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:03:07

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

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:03:29

• "[WhiskeyTangoHotel] wrote in with his newest clock build — and he did warn us that it was minimalist and maybe less than useful. Indeed, it is nothing more than a super-cheap ESP32-C3 breakout board with an OLED screen and some code." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/18/worst-clock-ever-teaches-you-qr-codes/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:05:01

• Windows TCO ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/asus-is-actively-investigating-rog-gaming-laptop-stuttering-issue-2021-2024-models-affected-by-performance-interruptions    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:05:48

• 32-bit backdoored Windows ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/valve-to-drop-steam-support-for-32-bit-windows-versions-next-year-says-its-no-longer-compatible-with-core-client-features-only-0-01-percent-of-players-actually-used-it    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:06:30

• Internet Shutdowns Hit Parts of Afghanistan ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/world/asia/internet-shutdowns-afghanistan.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:06:48

• Public Knowledge Condemns Censorship of Jimmy Kimmel ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-condemns-censorship-of-jimmy-kimmel/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:07:19

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Hails Kimmel Suspension After Criticizing UK on Free Speech ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/world/europe/trump-kimmel-suspension-uk-free-speech.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:07:33

• Speech ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/18/speech/ "Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and the little-noticed continued effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil for his speech demonstrates the urgency of setting up alternative media outlets to bypass the oligarch-owned and multinational media companies susceptible to Convicted Felon's censorship"    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:08:03

• Policy Address 2025: Greenpeace urges climate initiatives as lawmakers heap praise on leader’s annual speech ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/18/policy-address-2025-greenpeace-urges-climate-initiatives-as-lawmakers-heap-praise-on-leaders-annual-speech/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:08:34

• Policy Address 2025: Include ‘affirmative consent,’ NGO urges, as city leader vows to amend sexual offence laws ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/18/policy-address-2025-include-affirmative-consent-ngo-urges-as-city-leader-vows-to-amend-sexual-offence-laws/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:08:55

• digital euro == attack on citizens disguised as "progress" ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_2127    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:09:48

• "Local Officials Waver on Water Fluoridation in Michigan, Where It Started" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/fluoride-drinking-water-rfk-jr-michigan-cdc-hhs | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:10:17

• No Evidence = No Cancellation of Registration for CASUAL COMFORT for Pillows ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/09/no-evidence-no-cancellation-of.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:11:25

• Ensuring quality in the Godot documentation, a continuous process ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/ensuring-quality-godot-documentation/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:11:49

• Video recap: LibreOffice Conference 2025 ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09/18/video-recap-libreoffice-conference-2025/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:12:15

• Raspberry Pi Home-Lab IDS with Suricata and Wazuh ☞ http://www.h-i-r.net/2025/09/raspberry-pi-home-lab-ids-with-suricata.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:13:39

• Publishers ‘should be making £1m a year’ from a successful Youtube channel ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/publishers-youtube-video-strategy-hearst-sky-bbc/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/15/YouTube_Layoffs_Mean_That_YouTube_is_Still_Losing_a_Lot_of_Mone.shtml    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:14:18

• RTÉ Prime Time investigation uncovers location data of thousands of smartphones in Ireland for sale ☞ https://about.rte.ie/2025/09/18/rte-prime-time-investigation-uncovers-location-data-of-thousands-of-smartphones-in-ireland-for-sale/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:15:00

• RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Committee to Vote on Hepatitis B and Covid Shots ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/health/kennedy-cdc-vaccine-meeting-hepatitis-covid.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:15:22

• In Texas, Parents Fighting Vaccinations Say Their Movement Is Winning ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/us/politics/vaccine-mandates-covid-measles.html    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:15:30

• Linux Mint 22.2 ‘Zara’: More Excellence From a Consistently Outstanding Distro ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/09/linux-mint-22-2-zara-more-excellence-from-a-consistently-outstanding-distro/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:16:01

• How Bad Is It?: Political Violence in the U.S., and What We Can Learn from Brazil ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/how-bad-is-it-political-violence-in-the-us-and-what-we-can-learn-from-brazil    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:17:24

• “The Paper,” “The Lowdown,” and the Drama of Journalism ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/critics-at-large/the-paper-the-lowdown-and-the-drama-of-journalism    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:17:49

• All the Ways to Programmatically Edit or Parse R Markdown / Quarto Documents ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/09/all-the-ways-to-programmatically-edit-or-parse-r-markdown-quarto-documents/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:18:59

• Augmented Dynamic Adaptive Model (ADAM) for Daily Seasonal Data ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/09/augmented-dynamic-adaptive-model-adam-for-daily-seasonal-data/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:19:10

• 16 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Graphical Task Managers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/taskmanagers/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:22:57

• Benchmarking the Radxa ROCK 4D Single Board Computer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/benchmarking-radxa-rock-4d-single-board-computer/    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:23:23

• Thunderbird 143 Release Delivers Mailbag Full of Fixes ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/thunderbird-143-release-brings-bug-fixes-aplenty    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:26:01

• Vivaldi 7.6 Released with New Tab Bar Editor, Tab Button Menu + More ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/vivaldi-7-6-released-with-editable-tab-bar-address-bar-actions-more    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:26:24

• Ubuntu 25.10 Beta Released, Ready for Testing ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/ubuntu-25-10-beta-released    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:27:24

• The hypocrite Microsoft Lunduke is at it again, bemoaning "leftist violence" just a week or so after he condoned violence against leftists https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/03/Condoning_Violent_Behaviour_and_Free_Speech.shtml    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:31:42

• So no point even entertaining this utter idiot    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:31:56

• Put another way, Microsoft Lunduke engages in rather extremist behaviour while accusing his critics of extremism. Microsoft projection.    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:32:44

• Funnily enough, he cites "racism against whites"; and who does this alleged racism come from? Whites. So it needn't even make any sense. It's like seeing Hitler shouting at "British aggression".    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:34:59

• "MAGA" politics is really toxic. They say "free speech"; "we are oppressed!" and "they silence us!" and now we see how much they value free press. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Münchener_Post    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:36:12

• Kremlin has opened a second branch. In Washington, DC.    

posted Friday, September 19, 2025 at 20:36:49