Roy Schestowitz

• "The easy litmus test is that he hates Richard Stallman. Realistically, no one should have taken him seriously from that point on" https://x.com/GNUPlusRacism/status/1971611577586770196    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 00:34:13

• "I'm so glad clowns like ddevault are now noticed on a bigger scale." https://x.com/bee_fumo/status/1971452200028340554    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 00:34:36

• "Trying to force a CoC down a projects throat is toxic behaviour" https://x.com/observer385/status/1971508825430851677    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 00:41:29

• "The contributor covenant and the toxic ideas behind it are a giant cancer on the FOSS community that need to be wiped out" https://x.com/konradbezwinger/status/1971365289846780339    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 00:41:52

• List Of Hollywood & Media Layoffs From Paramount To Warner Bros Discovery To CNN & More    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 00:56:24

• The media isn't dying, it is being killed. GAFAM LLMs play a role too.    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 00:56:42

• Trump Calls for Microsoft to Fire Former Biden Aide Lisa Monaco https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-26/trump-calls-for-microsoft-to-fire-former-biden-aide-lisa-monaco    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 00:57:28

• Trump says Microsoft should fire its global affairs president Lisa Monaco https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-says-microsoft-should-fire-its-global-affairs-president-lisa-monaco-2025-09-26/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 00:57:49

• "Earlier this year, Trump demanded the resignation of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, a former venture capitalist with a history of international investment, including in China. Just days later, Trump changed his stand after meeting Tan, praising his career as an “amazing story.”" https://www.barrons.com/articles/trump-microsoft-lisa-monaco-biden-obama-db5effbd    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:00:05

• Microsoft: we bribe politicians by hiring them http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/24/Microsoft_Hiring_European_Politicians_is_Another_Form_of_Briber.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/25/Microsoft_Bribes_and_Buys_Politicians_to_Tell_Europe_What_to_Do.shtml    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:00:33

• Of course what Cheeto does is 'cancel culture'; the right does this all the time, then projects, blaming "the Left"    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:03:10

• WATCH: President Rinkēvičs addresses the United Nations ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/president/25.09.2025-watch-president-rinkevics-addresses-the-united-nations.a615771/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:15:17

• President von der Leyen strengthens the EU's multilateral engagement during the UN General Assembly in New York ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ac_25_2210    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:15:33

• The Justice Dept. Is Taking Aim at Convicted Felon’s Foes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/briefing/justice-department-george-soros-us-argentina-bailout.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:16:05

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Says He Wants to Give Aid to Struggling Farmers ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/business/trump-farmer-bailout.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:16:19

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Wades Into Bailout Politics in Offering a Lifeline to Argentina ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/us/politics/trump-argentina-milei-bailout.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:16:26

• kdab jumping the shark with plagiarism, proprietary crap, and GPL violations https://www.kdab.com/exploring-github-copilot-agent-mode-in-vs-code/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:17:11

• Kyrgyzstan undermines human rights with closure of torture prevention body, UN report ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/kyrgyzstan-undermines-human-rights-with-closure-of-torture-prevention-body-un-report/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:17:30

• Microsoft Disables Some Services to Israel’s Defense Ministry ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/technology/microsoft-israel-defense-ministry.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:17:43

• UN group of human rights experts on Nicaragua warn of escalation in transnational repression ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/un-group-of-human-rights-experts-on-nicaragua-warn-of-escalation-in-transnational-repression/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:18:06

• Microsoft blocks Israeli military’s access to some cloud services to prevent mass surveillance ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/25/microsoft-blocks-israeli-militarys-access-cloud-services-prevent-mass-surveillance/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:18:42

• Dem report concludes Department of Government Efficiency violates cybersecurity, privacy rules ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/senate-democrats-report-doge-cybersecurity-privacy-violations/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:19:06

• "Ukraine planning new offensive" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/25/ukraine-planning-new-offensive-that-would-require-u-s-intelligence-support-wsj | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:23:53

• "No heat, collapsing roofs" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/25/no-heat-collapsing-roofs-and-buckets-for-toilets | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:24:00

• Ukraine Pounds Major Russian Oil Refineries As Fuel Shortages Reported ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-war-drone-strikes-oil-refinery/33539528.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:24:12

• Zelenskyy Says Convicted Felon 'Supports' Ukraine's Retaliatory Strikes On Russian Energy ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-us-zelenskyy-trump-drone-attacks/33540655.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:24:22

• International pressure key to change Russia’s behaviour – Lithuanian president to UN chief ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2691414/international-pressure-key-to-change-russia-s-behaviour-lithuanian-president-to-un-chief    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:24:30

• Dihydroxyacetone Man urges Turkey's Erdogan to stop buying Russian oil in White House meeting ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250925-trump-urges-turkey-s-erdogan-to-stop-buying-russian-oil    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:24:41

• Mass child deportations: Russia seeks to 'eradicate Ukrainian identity, history, and entire country' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250925-mass-child-deportations-russia-seeks-to-eradicate-ukrainian-identity-history-and-entire-country    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:24:54

• Ukrainians believe there can be no lasting peace without security ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukrainians-believe-there-can-be-no-lasting-peace-without-security/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:25:15

• Rocky relations? Thai mall displays ‘Mt Rushmore’ of Convicted Felon, Putin, Pooh-tin and Kim ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/rocky-relations-thai-mall-displays-mt-rushmore-of-trump-putin-xi-and-kim    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:25:31

• Dihydroxyacetone Man called Russia a ‘paper tiger’ because he believes Putin is losing ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/trump-called-russia-a-paper-tiger-because-he-believes-putin-is-losing/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:26:32

• Audacity: Multi-Track Reel-to-Reel for the Digital Age ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/09/audacity-multi-track-reel-to-reel-for-the-digital-age/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:29:38

• Voyager GNU/Linux 13.1 Debian – A French Take on Classic Debian ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/09/voyager-linux-13-1-debian-a-french-take-on-classic-debian/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:33:21

• "The app has been added to the stores for both vendors, and Valve confirmed they're working on a fresh SteamVR Beta with a Steam Link APK for other hardware manufacturers to validate Steam Link on their headsets themselves, and to allow users of unsupported headsets to try it out too." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/steam-link-vr-now-available-for-pico-and-htc-headsets-plus-valve-confirm-experimental-linux-support/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:47:28

• iophk: Is https://octave.org/ down for a few days?    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 01:55:13

• iophk: "Something on the net is odd lately. Some sites seem almost unavailable. Supposedly there are some massive DDoSes about but almost no public info about that."    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 02:03:00

• Still unsolved issue (many GNU and FSF sites are slow, barely accessible and offline at times) https://thenewstack.io/how-the-free-software-foundation-battles-the-llm-bots/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 02:03:56

• "octave.org actually looked down but takes _*ages*_ to even respond to HTTPS [...] but there are some other DDoS activities going on too, not just against FOSS targets, if I understand correctly Back in the day, /. used to have the technical details." -Anon    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 02:07:27

• Thanks to the Ponzi scheme of LLMs, which some corrupt "media" sites got paid to PARTICIPATE in (for profit! Ponzi for personal gain) we've had issues with the Web, where most traffic is now bots; there is a super typhoon on the WWW, it is NOT seasonal, and it's basically the bitcoin of bandwidth. BitCoin [sic] burns power without producing material results. LLMs... same. As they lose inertia they burn up MOAR.    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 02:10:01

• iophk: those LLM plagiarism bots are a problem on top of the hybrid attacks    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 02:11:06

• Slop on page https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/short-bio-of-richard-m-stallman/81973976    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 04:35:56

• The defamatory old pieces about RMS still have an effect on people, as they were never corrected, no retractions issued https://www.threads.com/@minnesota.steve/post/DPFcGVQEfbi/ohhh-now-i-know-what-happened-to-richard-stallman-i-already-knew-eric-raymond-wa this new one cites an article published by a BILL GATES-BRIBED SITE. http://techrights.org/o/2019/12/21/police-report-bill-gates/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 04:40:19

• So Bill Epsteingate gets to bribe news sites to WRONGLY portray people he doesn't like as guilty of what he himself is guilty of https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 04:41:20

• People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. - Soren Kierkegaard    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 05:21:01

• "Customers will only want you on their site if you bring value. Are you helping to solve their business and technical problems? If so, by all means we have a desk for you and will include you on some of our internal meetings where we feel you can bring value. Are you just another sales rep trying to sell me something that I do not need? Then no thanks." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k61rfyn7    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:14:12

• "So what kind of person should IBM send onsite. A well rounded, experienced person who knows the technology and how it can be used to bring real business and technical value. Please do not send your green people who lack any experience to solve my problems. Let them get their training elsewhere." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k61rfyn7    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:14:17

• "It really depends on the area you're in. Some (perhaps many) managers in IBM Marketing want to get back to a time when salespeople spent their time on location at customer sites. More time on site would mean more sales, more license renewals, more requests for consulting work, that sort of thing." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k61rfyn7    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:16:43

• "But not every area is the same, and not every customer is the same. Some customers don't want anyone on the premises that wasn't invited to be there. In those places, IBM salespeople would be viewed the same way as travelling insurance or vacuum cleaner salespeople...just starving pests, looking for a meal. Boot 'em out of there." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k61rfyn7    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:16:48

• "If you have a long term relationship, say, with a bank, let's say, a bank like HSBC, that kinda writes a report about, let's say, Quantum Computing, that... let's say, puts IBM as a Quantum Computing leader, what would happen with the stoQ of that Qompany?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k60r0vge    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:18:16

• "Oh, what a coincidence, look... Today, 09/26, IBM shares are up slightly after an analyst highlighted the company's position as a leader in Quantum Computing, spurred by HSBC's success using IBM quantum tools. Didn't know that Quantum was actually a thing that was working already. Surprise!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k60r0vge    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:18:20

• "If by AI you mean Actually Indians, then yes, it is very much a real factor driving layoffs." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k631de61    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:20:06

• "that is all good... what happens when so many people are laid off because of AI and can't find any other jobs? Seems to me there will be a lot less consumers buying the products and services from these companies that think it is wise to cut costs! What is that going to do to these companies top and bottom lines?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k631de61    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:21:33

• "As a reminder, about 70% of the GDP is personal consumption, ie. people like you and me that actually spend money buying stuff right and left." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k631de61    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:21:44

• "Right now if any company tells stockholders they replaced x number of employees with AI it’s going to be a favorable response and upward pressure on price. IBM lives off of this kind of smoke and mirrors game." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k631de61    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:22:15

• "This AI bubble's gonna burst like one of Krabenaugh's hemorrhoids the day after a Whopper binge. You just watch." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k63kgwqz    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:23:04

• "IBM is in a race (to the bottom) to become the worst of the worst tech companies in the US. Sorry, make that the worst in the world. And it shows with every passing week. Particularly with a Tamil Indian CEO who cannot even keep Red Hat going. Useless id--t." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k60vrf77    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:30:09

• "AK will be gone before the end of Q1 2026. The real problem is that the next CEO is very likely to be even worse."    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:30:26

• Glimmer of Hope: More People Realise and Come to Accept "AI" is Just a Giant, Elaborate Ponzi/Pyramid Scheme That Will Leave Everyone Worse Off (Except the "Top of the Pyramid") http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/27/Glimmer_of_Hope_More_People_Realise_and_Come_to_Accept_AI_is_Ju.shtml    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:41:08

• s: Why the [Microsoft reseller] cut over 11000 jobs https://www.dnaindia.com/business/report-accenture-layoffs-why-the-tech-giant-cut-more-than-11000-jobs-know-the-real-reason-here-artificial-intelligence-ai-restructuring-programme-slow-growth-ceo-julie-sweet-statement-news-3181784/amp    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:42:22

• "Global PR firm We. Communications has confirmed layoffs at its Singapore office. The move comes amid intensifying competition and clients shifting PR functions in-house, creating significant budget gaps for the agency." https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2025/09/26/global-pr-firm-we-communications-confirms-layoffs-at-its-singapore-office/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:43:41

• iophk: All the chatter in the press about executive orders being spewed from the White House pointedly omit the fact that the orders have little to no legal weight.    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:44:18

• "Starbucks Layoffs and Store Closures: What the $1B Plan Means for SBUX Stock"    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:45:04

• Defunct? 9-10 weeks, no articles at all https://devclass.com/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/08/Microsoft_Tim_s_DevClass_Part_of_The_Register_MS_Situation_Publ.shtml    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:46:21

• This one has only one author https://blocksandfiles.com/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:47:10

• This one promotes a Ponzi scheme (and Microsoft) https://www.nextplatform.com/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:48:02

• The Register MS has been trying for some time to profit from the Ponzi scheme by participating it. This won't end well for anybody.    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:48:40

• slop has potential when the level of journalism is this low or, maybe by now, a lot of the competition remaining is other slop    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 08:49:38

• "Valve released SteamOS 3.7.15 stable bringing improvements for the Steam Deck, Asus ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go and lots of security issues fixed." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/steamos-3-7-15-brings-fixes-for-rog-ally-legion-go-wake-on-bluetooth-returns-for-steam-deck-lcd-and-more/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 09:41:56

• "Valve have updated Steam Link VR to bring support for streaming games to PICO and HTC headsets, plus new info on the experimental Linux support." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/steam-link-vr-now-available-for-pico-and-htc-headsets-plus-valve-confirm-experimental-linux-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 09:42:14

• "Microsoft and Asus have now put the ROG Xbox Ally X and ROG Xbox Ally up for pre-order, ready to take on Valve's Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/rog-xbox-ally-x-and-rog-xbox-ally-up-for-pre-order-to-take-on-the-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 09:42:26

• "Two huge bits of news from System76, as they've released a Beta for both the new COSMIC desktop and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS bringing lots of goodies." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/system76-cosmic-desktop-beta-and-pop-os-24-04-lts-beta-now-available/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 09:46:21

• "In Saveseeker you're an eight year old time-travelling girl on a quest to stop her former Hero father from using his powers to destroy the world" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/saveseeker-is-an-upcoming-time-travelling-rpg-with-a-twist/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 09:47:07

• "Another bunch of games for you to get cheaps here with the Humble Lone Survivor Bundle, featuring a mixture of different survival action." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/get-some-survival-action-in-the-humble-lone-survivor-bundle/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 09:47:34

• "Love retro boomer shooters and need another to add to your list? Mala Petaka has just arrived on Steam and it's rather colourful." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/mala-petaka-is-another-action-packed-gzdoom-boomer-shooter-now-on-steam/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 09:48:30

• "BALL x PIT is a ball-smashing brick-breaking action-packed roguelite that's releasing in October and it's now Steam Deck Verified." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/smash-some-balls-on-the-go-as-ball-x-pit-is-steam-deck-verified-ahead-of-release/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 09:48:58

• "As part of the ongoing 17th anniversary celebration over on GOG.com, they've announced the release of the Tomb Raider Definitive Survivor Trilogy." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/tomb-raider-definitive-survivor-trilogy-now-available-on-gog/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 09:49:28

• "Portraying ICE agents as victims, Trump’s new way to promote immigration terror" https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-25/portraying-ice-agents-as-victims-trumps-new-way-to-promote-immigration-terror.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:16:35

• Hardware that of course must exist | "Hardware som selvfølgelig må existere | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/hardware-som-selvfoelgelig-maa-existere    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:17:17

• Swedish government concerned that Chat Control 2 does not go far enough | "Svenska regeringen orolig för att Chat Control 2 inte går långt nog" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/09/24/svenska-regeringen-orolig-for-att-chat-control-2-inte-gar-langt-nog/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:20:04

• "Justice and Home Affairs Council - Consilium" https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/jha/2025/10/13-14/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:21:04

• "🦹 Countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence" https://tiv.today/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:21:14

• iophk: political CoC style attacks, trying to wrest projects away from more founders https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2025/09/26/david-please-stop-posting/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:21:31

• "Why Is Trump Bailing Out Argentina? - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-is-trump-bailing-out-argentina    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:21:40

• "Old Books vs. Modern Books - Rik's Weblog" https://huijzer.xyz/posts/108/old-books-vs-modern-books    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:28:18

• Alliance plans demonstration against Palantir deployment | "Stuttgart: Bündnis plant Demonstration gegen Palantir-Einsatz" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2025/stuttgart-buendnis-plant-demonstration-gegen-palantir-einsatz/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:28:47

• "The Comey Indictment Is an Embarrassment" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/comey-indictment-trump-doj/684381/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:28:58

• "James Comey indictment: Trump DOJ’s case has a gaping hole" https://www.vox.com/politics/462958/james-comey-indictment-read-perjury-trump-bondi    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:29:22

• "Russia-NATO conflict: Drones and jets in Europe’s airspace could mean war" https://www.vox.com/politics/462814/russia-nato-drones-jets-war-ukraine    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:29:45

• "Contributor: Trump is doing everything he can to raise your energy bills" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-09-26/donald-trump-energy-bills    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:31:29

• iophk on twactivism; 1) fire off 140 char to be down-ranked by the algorithms 2) bask in the satisfaction of a job well done, nothing more to do :/ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/california-tweet-governor-newsom-get-ab-566-signed-law    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:32:16

• "Longest-serving Marine to retire after 42 years" https://taskandpurpose.com/news/longest-serving-marine-retires/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:32:39

• iophk: this does not override congress unless traitors illegally act on it https://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/trump-signs-order-declaring-tiktok-sale-ready-values-it-at-14-billion-1906265    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:32:59

• "From climate collapse to the end of NATO: Finland outlines scenarios for the world in 2045" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250926-from-climate-collapse-to-the-end-of-nato-finland-outlines-scenarios-for-the-world-in-2045 https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-383-702-7    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:33:22

• Google backs down on censorship| "Google backar om censur" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/09/25/google-backar-om-censur/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:33:48

• "NORAD intercepts Russian aircraft near Alaska amid NATO airspace tensions in Europe" https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/25/norad-intercepts-russian-aircraft-near-alaska-amid-nato-airspace-tensions-in-europe    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:33:59

• iophk: the jaundiced eye of redmond now turns its baleful gaze to DHH and tries to work up an online lynch mob https://github.com/Plan-Vert/open-letter http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/24/What_They_Really_Hate_David_Heinemeier_Hansson_DHH_for.shtml    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:34:29

• old: "US Presidential Pardon Would Costs $2 Million" https://en.neritam.com/2025/09/26/us-presidential-pardon-would-costs-2-million/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:34:43

• "The Future of Technical Training According to Microsoft" https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/09/26/the-future-of-technical-training.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:34:54

• iophk: billionaires are symptom society's failure https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/which-country-has-most-self-made-female-billionaires-us-china-lead-uk-trails-behind-1745518    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:35:16

• The Register MS: "LockBit's new variant is 'most dangerous yet'" https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/26/lockbits_new_variant_is_most/ FUD: http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/09/27/Windows_Ransomware_Framed_as_Linux_Issue.shtml    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:35:42

• iophk: Microsoft fears FOSS in Europe https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-10-extended-support-is-now-free-but-only-in-europe-microsoft-capitulates-on-controversial-usd30-esu-price-tag-which-remains-firmly-in-place-for-the-u-s    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:36:02

• "Trump’s Real Architecture Agenda Is Social Submission" https://jacobin.com/2025/09/trump-architecture-neoclassicism-shubow-repression/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:36:14

• Trump's TikTok deal is a gift to himself https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2025/tiktok-goes-maga-trumps-tiktok-deal-ist-ein-geschenk-an-ihn-selbst/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:36:46

• "Meanwhile, Trump in remarks to reporters on Friday morning continued to slam Comey and call for other enemies to be prosecuted as well." https://alabamareflector.com/2025/09/26/repub/comey-says-hes-standing-up-to-donald-trump-while-trump-calls-for-more-retribution/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:37:08

• "Supreme Court allows Trump to cancel $4B in foreign aid already approved by Congress • Georgia Recorder" https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/09/26/repub/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-cancel-4b-in-foreign-aid-already-approved-by-congress/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:37:18

• "Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/trump-fires-us-attorney-california-immigration.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:37:29

• "University of Michigan reports another record enrollment, nearly 116K applicants - mlive.com" https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2025/09/university-of-michigan-reports-another-record-enrollment-nearly-116k-applicants.html rolling in money    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:38:15

• iophk: WTF EFF!? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/fair-use-protects-everyone-even-disney-corporation EFF for plagiarism and slop = total sellout https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/31/Google_Bribes_EFF_EFF_Promotes_LLM_Slop_as_Fair_Use_To_GAFAM_It.shtml    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:39:05

• Logging ☛ https://therevelator.org/logging-northern-spotted-owls/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:45:54

• "He is a friend of mine." ☛ https://insighthungary.444.hu/2025/09/26/trump-calls-orban-to-discuss-russian-oil-import | Source: Insight Hungary    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:46:28

• Data Center   

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:47:20

• "Near Daily" ☛ https://fair.org/home/near-daily-israeli-assaults-on-lebanon-have-become-non-news-for-western-media/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:47:40

• "‘The White House Is Shaking Down Media Owners" ☛ https://fair.org/home/the-white-house-is-shaking-down-media-owners-to-get-them-to-follow-the-trump-agenda/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:48:00

• "Legal amendments adopted during the summer expanded the scope of Italy's Piracy Shield blocking system beyond sports to all live entertainment events. Given the prevalence of piracy around big movie premieres" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/italy-expands-piracy-shield-to-live-tv-begins-with-the-x-factor-250924/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:54:24

• "The legal battle between game developer Bungie and cheat seller AimJunkies is over." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/bungies-copyright-battle-against-cheat-seller-aimjunkies-ends-with-final-capitulation/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:54:38

• "Cox Communications is not fighting its billion-dollar piracy liability case alone." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-govt-asks-to-speak-on-coxs-behalf-in-supreme-court-piracy-liability-showdown/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:54:57

• "Make no mistake about what's going on: Apple is claiming that the EU is forcing Apple to adopt interpretations of the DMA that no other party has, which the EC itself has not backed" ☛ https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-antitrust-playbook/ | Source: Alex Russell    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:55:57

• "I find the way Apple is communicating this really frustrating. It reads like either a bad faith smokescreen or that something got lost in the translation between engineering and marketing." ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/09/25/apples-thoughts-on-the-dma/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:56:12

• "At the time of writing, the EC appears not to have posted submissions online." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/26/google_apple_dma_review_submissions/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:56:26

• "A US judge recently decided not to break up Google, despite a ruling last year that the company held a monopoly in the online search market." ☛ https://theconversation.com/despite-googles-recent-victory-a-flurry-of-competition-cases-could-still-change-how-the-tech-giants-do-business-264890 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:56:48

• "Apple has threatened to stop selling iPhones and other devices in the European Union (home to over 500,000,000 affluent consumers) if the bloc doesn't rescind the Digital Markets Act" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/26/empty-threats/#500-million-affluent-consumers | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:57:03

• "I have been familiar with and meaning to write about SIM banks for a few months now, specifically because they have become popular with ticket scalpers." ☛ https://www.404media.co/the-sim-farm-hardware-seized-by-the-secret-service-is-also-popular-with-ticket-scalpers/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 10:57:31

• "For years, on-demand playback on smartphones was one of Spotify’s main selling points, reserved exclusively for paying subscribers." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/spotifys-risky-bet | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:02:38

• "It doesn’t sound mind-blowing until you see what those 40k users are doing: they chewed through 83.9 petabytes of data, nearly a quarter of all the country’s fixed [Internet] traffic." ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/09/starlink-zimbabwe-vsat-growth-leased-lines-collapse/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:05:09

• "How can mobile traffic still be a third of fixed?" ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/09/zimbabwe-internet-usage-fixed-vs-mobile-q2-2025/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:05:56

• "It saves a textual and graphical copy of the page and provides a short URL." ☛ https://greycoder.com/archive-ph-snapshots-of-web-pages/ | Source: GreyCoder    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:07:03

• "But – as the report notes – 79% of EU companies are doing algorithmic management" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/#counterapps | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:08:59

• "A stop-work order from the Trump administration last month paused construction of a wind turbine farm off the coast of Rhode Island, laying off 1,000 unionized workers." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/09/trump-wind-power-construction-jobs/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:09:08

• "Within the digital rights movement in Europe, EDRi identified in 2024 a number of vital opportunities to bring the fight for the climate closer to the movement for digital rights." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/reflections-capacity-building-digital-environmental-justice/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:10:16

• "The speed and unpredictability of the ICE roundups make hearing about them difficult. News organizations can't be everywhere all at once" ☛ https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-09-26-ice-coverage/ | Source: Dan Sinker    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:11:46

• "For about nine minutes Wednesday morning, ICE agents pinned a man to the ground in the middle of a Maryland intersection. It was broad daylight as he screamed in anguish and shouted for help in both Spanish and English." ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents-guns-arrest-hyattsville-witnesses | Source: Marisa Kabas    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:12:28

• "what happened Thursday was a shocking escalation." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-officer-shoves-woman-till-eckert | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:12:52

• "The congressionally allocated funds serve myriad functions for tribes in the Northwest, including providing clean drinking water, affordable housing, schools, transit and land management." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2025/09/report-nearly-half-of-all-federal-funding-for-tribes-at-risk-under-trumps-big-beautiful-bill.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:13:31

• "But rangers say the real crisis is happening beyond the trails and campgrounds, where visitors can’t see it." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2025/09/national-parks-maintenance-research-trump/684379/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:14:04

• "Did you go to Airborne just to pull security for ICE?" ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/veteran-groups-billboards/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:14:27

• "Five senior Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture-led publication partly funded with their redundancy money." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-observer-big-hitters-launch-new-title-with-redundancy-payouts/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:28:03

• "In Putin-era Russia, the takeover of NTV, and similar cases of state encroachment in the media" ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/is-trumps-attack-on-the-media-following-putins-playbook | Source: New Yorker    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:28:10

• "Reporters have described Carr as threatening Kimmel with mafioso behavior, sending a message to other artists and activists that dissent of conservative figures could potentially carry serious consequences." ☛ https://observer.case.edu/jimmy-kimmel-returns-to-air-after-suspension/ | Source: Case Western Reserve University    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:29:16

• "Nexstar owns and operates more than 30 ABC affiliates across the nation, including stations in Nashville, Salt Lake City, and Hartford/New Haven, Connecticut." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/jimmy-kimmel-live-returns-nexstar-stations-abc-1235434858/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:29:36

• "Trump did not temper his words in his fiery post on Truth Social. And yet, Kimmel’s show was not aired at the White House... or anywhere else in Washington." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-09-24/jimmy-kimmel-returns-with-an-emotional-defiant-monologue-0ur-government-cannot-be-allowed-to-control-what-we-say-on-tv.html | Source: El País    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:29:51

• "Neither Nexstar nor Sinclair cited a specific reason for returning the program, which has not aired on its stations since Sept. 16" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-09-26/jimmy-kimmel-live-returns-to-sinclairs-abc-stations-on-friday | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:30:23

• "The Moscow Times has gathered a running list of notable cases over the past three years." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/25/death-by-falling-a-timeline-of-cases-across-russia-and-abroad-a89697 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:30:46

• "This is not social shunning. This is not speaking from the bully pulpit." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/review-free-speech-books | Source: New Yorker    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:31:07

• "I recently reached out to the most principled, nonpartisan free-speech organization that I know of, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, to ask what legislative changes it would suggest to bolster free-speech rights." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/republicans-free-speech-fcc/684359/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:31:43

• "In summer 2025, so-called “Chat Control” became a huge topic of public attention. This is because in a major vote planned for 13 or 14 October, EU governments will decide whether to endorse or reject a mass surveillance, encryption-breaking and anonymity-ending law: the EU CSA Regulation." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/chat-control-what-is-actually-going-on/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:32:17

• "Security forces beat her during the arrest and charged her with "propaganda against the state"" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-rights-activist-rashidi-dies-prison/33541076.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:33:08

• "I'm the breadwinner of my family" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-taliban-internet-women/33538742.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:33:38

• "Trump’s new EO is the formal declaration of the rabid fascist war to crush political opposition." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-are-all-domestic-terrorists-now | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:34:14

• "While these safeguards are undeniably important, Thurmond’s conviction that “we don’t ban books” is missing a caveat: We don’t ban books here — except in our state prisons." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/california-officials-defend-right-to-read-banned-books-unless-youre-in-prison/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:34:42

• "pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/pentagon-becomes-department-of-war-on-first-amendment/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:35:17

• "Threat hunting vendor Silent Push published research on Sept. 23 concerning a threat actor tracked as Storm-1679 (aka Matryoshka)." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/russia-moldovan-election-disinformation | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:36:10

• "But criticism without constructive alternatives is just intellectual masturbation, so let me offer some practical guidance for any CEO who might still possess a functioning moral compass." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-memo-to-corporate-america-how-to | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:37:29

• "The gist of it is that calls for civility in the public sphere are a means of control by the people in power" ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/posts/fake-civility | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:37:55

• "The move follows Oracle's first quarter results from earlier in the month" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/25/oracle_18_billion_debt/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:38:20

• "The company is recruiting country leads for India, Australia and New Zealand, Korea, and Singapore, with broader expansion underway across the UK, northern and southern Europe, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland." ☛ https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/26/anthropic-global-ai-hiring-spree.html | Source: CNBC    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:38:38

• "More than 100 of the employees Anthropic plans to hire will join its offices in Dublin, London and Zurich. The latter facility is reportedly focused on supporting the company’s AI research efforts." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/26/anthropic-triple-international-headcount-add-offices-following-latest-funding-round/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:39:22

• "The evisa scheme has highlighted many of the risks and harms that digital IDs can bring: [...]" ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/id-cards-uk-risks-sleeping-walking-into-pre-crime-state/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:39:56

• "President Trump on Friday demanded that Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco — the former Biden-era deputy attorney general now serving as the tech giant’s president of global affairs — calling her “a menace to U.S. National Security” with access to “Highly Sensitive Information.”" ☛ https://nypost.com/2025/09/26/us-news/trump-demands-microsoft-fire-ex-biden-doj-official-lisa-monaco/ | Source: NYPost    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:40:26

• "Fred Finn, an English businessman, holds a unique place in aviation history as the world’s most-traveled man and, more specifically, the most frequent passenger on the iconic Concorde." ☛ https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/fred-finn-concorde.html | Source: Vintage Everyday    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:41:18

• "Robinson traces the origins of Pennsylvania’s failed promise as a leader in renewables to one big shift over the past 15 years." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/pennsylvania-was-once-a-national-leader-in-renewable-energy-what-happened/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:41:35

• "Amsterdam will begin enforcement actions this fall to prevent microcars, also known as brommobielen, from being used on city ferries and bike paths, city officials announced on Thursday." ☛ https://nltimes.nl/2025/09/26/amsterdam-enforce-ban-microcars-ferries-bike-paths | Source: NL Times    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:41:55

• "The exhibition, presented in English and Spanish, runs through October 3, 2027, and tells an 80-year story of Mexican American ingenuity, family tradition and mechanical artistry embodied in lowriders." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-lowrider-culture-turned-custom-cars-into-colorful-stunning-works-of-art-180987414/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:42:07

• "Yet the climate crisis barely registers in the world’s news coverage." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-09-25/the-worlds-newsrooms-can-learn-from-bill-mckibbens-climate-journalism.html | Source: El País    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:43:13

• "Other planetary boundaries that have already been crossed — including dangerous levels of chemical pollution, the warming atmosphere and changes to the nutrient cycle — have already signalled threats to people." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/planetary-health-check-ocean-acidification-1.7642148 | Source: CBC    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:43:27

• "Of the nine total planetary boundaries, this is the seventh that’s been breached." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-oceans-just-hit-an-ominous-milestone/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:44:16

• "Deaths tied to terrorism in Burkina Faso have almost tripled over the past three years to 17,775." ☛ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/09/burkina-fasos-media-images-far-different-from-harsh-reality/ | Source: ADF    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:45:18

• "The incident comes only two days after Denmark reported a mysterious drone incursion on Sept. 22." ☛ https://kyivindependent.com/denmark-shuts-down-airport-over-suspicious-drone-sightings-for-2nd-time-this-week/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:45:57

• "Many observers, myself included, have already addressed the transparently political nature of this campaign of lawfare." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/comey-indictment-its-mafia-politics | Source: Garry Kasparov    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:46:25

• "These aren’t isolated incidents of individual moral failure. They represent the systematic transformation of American capitalism from a system of competitive enterprise into a protection racket where tribute payments and loyalty demonstrations determine market outcomes." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-capitalist-cartoon-how-americas | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:46:56

• "TikTok’s potential to undermine U.S. national security" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/25/tiktok-will-stay-trump-signs-executive-order-keep-app-us/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:47:32

• "The unprecedented public letters from workers at FEMA, NASA, the Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/federal-workers-declare-five-alarm-fires-at-key-agencies/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:48:26

• "It’s a glimpse of Trump’s next attempt to seize power." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/comey-indictment/684377/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:48:49

• "When the government abruptly shut down all major social media platforms on September 4, claiming the companies had failed to properly register with authorities, that frustration erupted onto the streets of the capital." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/nepals-gen-z-protesters-look-to-the-future/a-74134471 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:49:15

• "Now we’re watching the systematic prosecution of political enemies while the very Republicans who promised institutional constraint sit in comfortable silence." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-kindergarten-logic-how-elite | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:49:53

• "An Emirati state-backed investment firm that boosted President Trump’s [cryptocurrency] venture stands to win a stake in TikTok U.S. as part of a deal negotiated by Trump’s White House." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/26/tiktok-owners-mgx-conflict/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:50:23

• "There are widespread concerns that the Trump administration is willing to weaponize its allies’ control of media and social media to censor content it doesn’t favor." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/president-trump-signs-tiktok-deal/ | Source: Wired    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:51:40

• "Since the law banning TikTok briefly went into effect in January, Trump has pushed back its enforcement four times, with the most recent deadline giving TikTok until December 16th to strike a deal with American companies." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/report/786748/tiktok-deal-trump-administration-legal-uncertainty | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:52:14

• "For those unfamiliar with the decade-old law, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act gives companies permission to share threat indicators with the government." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/26/government_shutdown_cisa_law/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:52:42

• "The document has zero legal authority and can’t actually do anything to change the law—it’s performative authoritarian cosplay from a president whose approval ratings have cratered and whose policies are imploding" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/26/trump-declares-everyone-who-doesnt-kiss-his-ass-is-a-terrorist/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:53:09

• "It turns out that GZip streams have fields for information about the original file including the filename, modified timestamp, and comments." ☛ https://sethmlarson.dev/gzip-files-and-streams-may-contain-names | Source: Seth Michael Larson    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:54:05

• "These threats, and others posed by a techno-authoritarian regime" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/digital-threat-modeling-under-authoritarianism.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:54:17

• "Meta is bringing its “pay or consent” ad model to the UK after months of wrangling with regulators over the controversial policy." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/786313/meta-pay-or-consent-uk | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:54:56

• ""The government said that digital IDs will be held on people's phones and will build on existing work to introduce a government digital wallet including driving licenses ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/26/uk_digital_id_confirmed/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:55:10

• "noyb has scored a win in its complaint proceedings against the Austrian credit information agency KSV1870 and the energy provider Unsere Wasserkraft." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-austrian-authority-forbids-unlawful-credit-scoring-ksv1870 | Source: NYOB    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:55:40

• "TechCrunch could even list all the most recent Neon users — with public call and text downloads — and full call records for any Neon user." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/26/neon-buys-your-phone-calls-to-train-ai-then-it-leaks-them-all/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:56:04

• "This is the blog version of my talk at the IPTC’s Photo Metadata Conference online conference." ☛ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/09/18/C2PA-Investigations | Source: Tim Bray    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:56:29

• "Over the past six months, Senator Peters directed oversight visits to key DOGE [sic] agencies, including SSA, the General Services Administration (GSA), and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)." ☛ https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/dems/peters-report-finds-that-doge-continues-to-operate-unchecked-likely-violating-federal-privacy-and-security-laws-and-putting-the-safety-of-americans-personal-information-in-danger/ | Source: US Senate    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:57:01

• "In addition to compiling established DOGE [sic] grievances, Peters' report also asserts that leadership at the aforementioned agencies is actively stymying attempts to figure out what DOGE is doing." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/26/senate_doge_report/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:57:35

• "Meta has announced that it will offer customers in the UK a new subscription service which will enable them to access the company’s services without receiving adverts." ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/meta-fails-to-respect-data-rights-with-consent-and-pay-scheme/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:58:03

• "There have been lawsuits in relation to data-sharing schemes between the NHS and large US technology companies, including recent investors, Google and Palantir." ☛ https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5680/patient-data-and-healthcare-ai-boom | Source: Privacy International    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:58:19

• "GitHub’s purpose is not to enable social interaction." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/25/australia_social_media_ban_github/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:59:59

• Windows TCO: "In a white paper [PDF] presented at Virus Bulletin 2025, ESET researchers Peter Kálnai and Matěj Havránek identified new links between DeceptiveDevelopment's malware and the Lazarus Group's PostNapTea RAT." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/25/lazarus_group_shares_malware_with_it_scammers/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:01:07

• Windows TCO: "The county government began sending out breach notifications to 45,487 local residents and county employees this week." ☛ https://therecord.media/ohio-ransomware-attack-impacts-45000 | Source: The Record    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:01:18

• "The battlefield of social justice has shifted. It no longer unfolds solely on city streets or in marches, courtrooms, or legislative chambers" ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/palabra/2025/09/this-community-driven-tech-uplifts-migrants-and-queer-communities.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:02:08

• "The limits cannot be removed without parental consent for users under 16." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/meta-activates-facebook-teen-accounts-worldwide/articleshow/124122563.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:02:24

• "A few days ago there was a discussion on the Social Web Incubator Community Group mailing list about fediverse handles. I sent an email to the list that I want to capture on my blog here." ☛ https://www.manton.org/2025/09/25/email-to-swicg-about-handles.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:02:45

• "This is a restriction TikTok has in place for some regions, but not everywhere." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/privacy-commissioner-tiktok-report/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:04:50

• "First, it’s an AI paper in Nature, which runs a lot of abject trash on AI these days, in the news section as well as the journal." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/25/are-ai-users-dishonest-if-they-are-this-nature-paper-doesnt-show-it/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:06:46

• "In GitLab 18.3, the company laid the groundwork for human-AI collaboration, introducing leading AI tools such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, Amazon Q CLI, and Gemini CLI as native integrations" ☛ https://itwire.com/it-industry-news/market/gitlab-announces-18-4-release.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:07:19

• "Moderators reversed course on its open door AI policy after fans filled the subreddit with AI-generated Dale Cooper slop." ☛ https://www.404media.co/pissed-off-fans-flooded-the-twin-peaks-reddit-with-ai-slop-to-protest-its-ai-policies/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:07:36

• "The feature is designed to be entirely optional—no AI code is even loaded unless the user sets up a provider." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/calibre-8-11-adds-ask-ai-feature-to-e-book-viewer-and-fixes-bugs/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:07:59

• "The complaint, filed in July, alleges Meta has been torrenting and seeding Strike 3’s videos since 2018. Associated exhibits and details of the complaint were unsealed last week." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/meta-lawsuit-strike-3-porn-copyright-ai/ | Source: Wired    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:08:24

• "Jason Koebler reports on a study that defines “work slop” (truly a cursed phrase) as work that “masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.” [...]" ☛ https://everythingchanges.us/blog/work-slop/ | Source: Mandy Brown    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:08:46

• "As I've said several times before, In application security, 99% is a failing grade. If there's a 1% chance of an attack getting through, an adversarial attacker will find that attack." ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/26/how-to-stop-ais-lethal-trifecta/ | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:09:30

• "One of my favourite requests for help online comes from the shibboleth-users group, where someone Japanese used machine translation to ask about the following problem: [...]" ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/the-wind-a-pole-and-the-dragon | Source: Chris    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:09:52

• "Meta, my interest is real photographs and real videos – not AI. Is there a way to teach the algorithm that? What I really want is to be able to teach Instagram and Facebook that my preference is not for AI." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/social-media/did-anyone-even-ask-for-this-meta-now-has-a-video-feed-exclusively-for-ai-content-but-what-i-really-want-is-a-feed-dedicated-to-non-ai-content | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:10:26

• "Is there a way to teach the algorithm that? What I really want is to be able to teach Instagram and Facebook that my preference is not for AI." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/social-media/did-anyone-even-ask-for-this-meta-now-has-a-video-feed-exclusively-for-ai-content-but-what-i-really-want-is-a-feed-dedicated-to-non-ai-content | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:10:49

• "Kimmel brought up the AI bit by telling the audience about the flood of fake AI videos." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/did-you-know-youre-dead-jimmy-kimmels-dad-makes-appearance-after-ai-videos-his-death-go-1745509 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:11:28

• "New research from Stanford recommends one way the United States Congress could move the needle on model safety: Allow tech companies to rigorously test their generative models without fear of prosecution." ☛ https://www.techpolicy.press/how-congress-could-stifle-the-onslaught-of-aigenerated-child-sexual-abuse-material/ | Source: Tech Policy Press    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:11:55

• "Workslop is the machine-learning equivalent of spam, and the study claims that the amount of work involved in sorting out the wheat from the chaff" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/26/ai_workslop_productivity/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:12:54

• "In other words, 75 million removals or not, Spotify certainly isn’t free of AI audio." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/25/spotify-ai-protections-announcement/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:13:40

• "It’s been clear for a while that a deluge of AI slop is drowning out real music and human artists on Spotify." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/spotify-admits-overrun-ai-slop | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:14:39

• "By the end of 2025, he writes, the tech industry will have invested over $700 billion in LLMs, a figure he says companies are likely to repeat next year, barring catastrophe." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/investor-ai-monopoly-roger-mcnamee | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:14:53

• "CISA also warned that any ASA boxes hitting end-of-life on September 30 shouldn't just be patched – they need to be yanked off networks for good." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/26/cisco_firewall_flaws/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:15:55

• "began as early as November 2024, if not earlier" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-emergency-directive-timeline-investigation/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:16:48

• "The difference wasn’t the presence of technology in our lives; it was the nature of our relationship with it." ☛ https://lithub.com/how-to-raise-a-reader-in-an-age-of-digital-distraction/ | Source: Literary Hub    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:17:24

• "Recently I’ve been playing with NVMe to find out more about monitoring for wear." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/09/26/finding-out-more-about-nvme-on-freebsd/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:20:32

• "1950s as a command-and-control centre" ☛ https://theconversation.com/underground-data-fortresses-the-nuclear-bunkers-mines-and-mountains-being-transformed-to-protect-our-new-gold-from-attack-262578 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:21:06

• "So, the journey from work to home is not just physical. It’s more a mental one. One I certainly can get used to." ☛ https://yordi.me/the-power-of-commuting/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:23:14

• "This is the 109th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-kris-howard | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:23:34

• "So today was the first day of the Tokyo Games Show 2025! And what a day! It felt like a whole new show compared to the usual editions." ☛ https://boilingsteam.com/tgs-2025-day-1-report/index.html | Source: Boiling Steam    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:23:51

• "Ian and I are teaching our full-day Advanced Design Tokens workshop on November 5th!" ☛ https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/come-to-beyond-tellerrand/ | Source: Brad Frost    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:24:09

• "Privacy Camp is one of the flagship digital rights and privacy gatherings in Europe. Every year, we bring together over 300 digital rights advocates" ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/privacycamp25-the-final-programme/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:24:29

• "A funding award enabled me to dedicate three months solely to developing my artistic practice — something I’ve been reflecting on these past few weeks." ☛ https://colly.com/journal/reflecting-on-a-summer-of-sound | Source: Simon Collison    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:24:39

• "It started with Algebraic [Data] Types are not Scary, Actually. The post covers AlgDTs1 in more detail, but a quick overview is: [...]" ☛ https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/algdt-history/ | Source: Hillel Wayne    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:25:26

• "And because the effect is systematic, not random, it doesn’t help to collect more data." ☛ https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2025/09/25/the-poincare-problem/ | Source: Allen Downey    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:25:36

• "This got me thinking about how many times I say thank you when it comes to the web, both directly and to myself. When a friend shares a cool link with me" ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/09/26/saying-thanks-on-the-web | Source: James G    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:26:39

• "However that is not always the case, as the humble “internet exchange” (IX) still exists" ☛ https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/ixp-bad-broadcast-packets-interesting | Source: Ben Jojo    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:27:21

• Hackaday Podcast Episode 339 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/26/hackaday-podcast-episode-339-the-vape-episode-a-flying-delorean-and-diy-science/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:29:27

• Beyond a single cluster with OpenShift Service Mesh 3 ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/09/26/beyond-single-cluster-openshift-service-mesh-3    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:30:27

• Microsoft Reduces Israel’s Access to Cloud and Hey Hi (AI) Products Over Reports of Mass Surveillance in Gaza ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-reduces-israels-access-to-cloud-and-ai-products-over-reports-of-mass-surveillance-in-gaza/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:33:22

• "UNIX For A Legacy TI" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/26/unix-for-a-legacy-ti/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:34:34

• "We were sent to the slaughter" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/26/we-were-sent-to-the-slaughter | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:35:28

• Russian fighter jets intercepted above Baltic sea ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/26.09.2025-russian-fighter-jets-intercepted-above-baltic-sea.a615898/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:35:44

• "What war?" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/27/what-war | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:36:11

• "My body didn’t belong to me" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/26/my-body-didn-t-belong-to-me | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:37:05

• "A person couldn’t climb up there easily" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/26/a-person-couldn-t-climb-up-there-easily | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:37:38

• "Russians pick up the tab The Kremlin’s new tax hike aims to plug a record deficit and fund the war" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/26/russians-pick-up-the-tab | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:37:56

• "Fox News is the channel Trump watches" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/26/fox-news-is-the-channel-trump-watches | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:38:46

• How To Install n8n on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-n8n-debian-13/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:39:55

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

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:40:17

• How To Install MERN Stack on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-mern-stack-fedora-42/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:40:44

• How To Install Snipe-IT on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-snipe-it-almalinux-10/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:41:09

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

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:41:51

• "Reading the title of this guide, your initial thought might be, dude, why this piece? After all, there are official instructions on how to do this, there's no need for yet another tutorial." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/virtualbox-ubuntu-24-04-repo-setup.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 12:46:43

• "I have a SenseCAP T1000-E as my first foray into Meshtastic / LoRa. These devices are fairly cheap, and it has a serial over USB. When I realized this device also has GPS I wondered if it would be possible to use this with NTP." ☛ https://blog.feld.me/posts/2025/09/sensecap-t1000-e-ntp-clock-source/ | Source: Feld    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 13:26:23

• "We extracted 31,622,338 keys from three public sources in two scans. Compared to previous work, we see a clear tendency to abandon RSA signatures in favor of EdDSA signatures." ☛ https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09331 | Source: arXiv    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 13:26:51

• "We investigate the security of ten SSH implementations supporting strict KEX for up to five key exchange algorithms." ☛ https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10895 | Source: arXiv    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 13:27:05

• "I checked out several programming languages rankings. If you only include newer languages (version 1.0 released after 2010), the top 6 are: ➀ TypeScript, ➁ Go, ➂ Rust, ➃ Kotlin, ➄ Dart, and ➅ Swift." ☛ https://antonz.org/lang-ranking/ | Source: Anton Zhiyanov    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 13:27:50

• "One of the ways I have used it is by piping the output through sort" ☛ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32324 | Source: SANS    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 13:28:22

• "curl experimented with using pthread_cancel to timeout async DNS requests and it blew up. What else can we do?" ☛ https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/async-dns | Source: Ted Unangst    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 13:32:59

• "As I already had twenty years of entries in HTML, one design goal was not to store the entries as MOPML, but to keep them their final HTML-rendered state." ☛ https://boston.conman.org/2025/09/25.2 | Source: Sean Conner    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 13:33:16

• "The whole process was time consuming and so Djikstra put the burden of proving that the change should be merged on the author." ☛ https://agentultra.com/blog/code-review-tips/index.html | Source: J Kenneth King    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 13:33:30

• "It is actually not that hard, but it does have a few fiddly bits which can be challenging to put together. So, let’s do some time traveling." ☛ https://blog.julik.nl/2025/09/chronically-regular | Source: Julik Tarkhanov    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 13:33:40

• "So what do we mean by one person is open source." ☛ https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/ | Source: Open Source Security (Audio Show)    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 13:34:17

• "As usual for settlements like these, Amazon will admit no wrongdoing." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ftc-amazon-settlement/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 13:36:52

• "It is 2025. Linux will turn 34 and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) 40." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/26/open_source_in_europe_2025/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 13:37:53

• "This is the new edition of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python which is not really a Linux book specifically" ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/a-new-library-book/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 13:39:27

• "Dealing with comments and comment spam feels like pressure." ☛ https://anniemueller.com/posts/why-do-i-love-my-pika-guestbook-so-fucking-much-lets-discuss | Source: Annie Mueller    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 13:40:05

• "SQLite is my database engine of choice for simple, no-frills stuff, and has of late become popular enough for me not to have to bother compiling it" ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/db/sqlite | Source: Rui Carmo    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 13:41:20

• "Administrators can choose between worker and io_uring methods, or stick to the traditional synchronous mode if they prefer." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/postgresql-18-released-with-up-to-3-faster-io-and-easier-upgrades/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 13:41:33

• "Claudio Jeker (claudio@) announced the release of version 8.9 of OpenBGPD, the OpenBSD project's Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) daemon: [...]" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250926141610 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 13:42:08

• "The new unit traced the swatting signals to an apartment just outside New York City." ☛ https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/23/us/swatting-investigation-server-network-discovered?ref=404media.co | Source: CNN    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 13:56:38

• "FortranBSD is an OS based on DragonflyBSD, including the latest GNU Fortran compiler for high-performance computing." ☛ https://fortranbsd.sourceforge.io/ |    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 13:56:56

• "It happened! System76 has announced the beta release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/system76-launches-popos-24-04-lts-beta-and-cosmic-desktop-beta/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 15:01:39

• "ByteDance, the company best known for owning TikTok, has floated a new idea for the Linux kernel. In a recent RFC posted to the Linux Kernel Mailing List, engineers Fam Zheng and Thom Hughes introduced Parker (short for “PARtitioned KERnel”)." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/bytedance-engineers-propose-parker-a-new-multi-kernel-approach-for-linux/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 15:32:14

• "Well before Oracle closed Solaris, separate groups of people ported ZFS into FreeBSD and onto Linux, where the effort was known as "ZFS on Linux"" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSOnIllumosLinuxAndFreeBSD | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 15:32:26

• "Systems lie about their proper functioning" ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/631 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 15:33:24

• This Week in GNOME: #218 Adaptive Sidebars ☞ https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/09/twig-218/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 15:34:34

• Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2025-09-26 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/09/26/gnome-foundation-update-2025-09-26/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 15:36:35

• This Week in Plasma: lots and lots of bug-fixing for Plasma 6.5! ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/09/27/this-week-in-plasma-lots-and-lots-of-bug-fixing-for-plasma-6.5/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 15:37:04

• Ubuntu Touch – open source GNU/Linux operating system for mobile ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ubuntu-touch-open-source-linux-operating-system-mobile/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 15:37:38

• KoboldCpp – Hey Hi (AI) text-generation software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/koboldcpp-ai-text-generation-software/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 15:37:55

• Pluralistic: Fashion Company Apple threatens to stop selling iPhones in the EU (26 Sep 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/26/empty-threats/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:13:39

• Is Convicted Felon’s Attack on the Media Following Putin’s Playbook? ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/is-trumps-attack-on-the-media-following-putins-playbook    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:14:30

• Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-observer-big-hitters-launch-new-title-with-redundancy-payouts/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:14:47

• Anthropic to triple international headcount, add offices following latest funding round ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/26/anthropic-triple-international-headcount-add-offices-following-latest-funding-round/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:16:04

• ID cards: UK risks sleeping walking into pre-crime state ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/id-cards-uk-risks-sleeping-walking-into-pre-crime-state/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:16:17

• TikTok will stay: Convicted Felon signs executive order to keep app in the US ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/25/tiktok-will-stay-trump-signs-executive-order-keep-app-us/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:17:10

• Digital Threat Modeling Under Authoritarianism ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/digital-threat-modeling-under-authoritarianism.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:17:38

• noyb WIN: Austrian authority forbids unlawful credit scoring by KSV1870 ☞ https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-austrian-authority-forbids-unlawful-credit-scoring-ksv1870    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:18:04

• Meta fails to respect data rights with consent and pay scheme ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/meta-fails-to-respect-data-rights-with-consent-and-pay-scheme/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:18:31

• Patient data and the healthcare Hey Hi (AI) boom ☞ http://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5680/patient-data-and-healthcare-ai-boom    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:18:42

• Calibre 8.11 Adds “Ask AI” Feature to E-Book Viewer and Fixes Bugs ☞ https://linuxiac.com/calibre-8-11-adds-ask-ai-feature-to-e-book-viewer-and-fixes-bugs/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:19:27

• Finding out more about nvme on FreeBSD ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2025/09/26/finding-out-more-about-nvme-on-freebsd/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:20:23

• New tool: convert-ts-bash-history.py, (Fri, Sep 26th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32324    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:21:17

• System76 Launches Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta and COSMIC Desktop Beta ☞ https://linuxiac.com/system76-launches-popos-24-04-lts-beta-and-cosmic-desktop-beta/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:22:41

• How to set up VirtualBox repo in Ubuntu 24.04 ☞ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/virtualbox-ubuntu-24-04-repo-setup.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:23:07

• ByteDance Engineers Propose Parker, a New Multi-Kernel Approach for GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxiac.com/bytedance-engineers-propose-parker-a-new-multi-kernel-approach-for-linux/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:23:44

• Something Grisly Happens When Hospitals Become For-Profit ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/hospitals-private-equity-harvard    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:32:57

• Remi Collet: 🎲 PHP on the road to the 8.5.0 release ☞ https://blog.remirepo.net/post/2025/09/26/PHP-on-the-road-to-the-8.5.0-release    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:33:52

• Remi Collet: ⚙️ PHP version 8.3.26 and 8.4.13 ☞ https://blog.remirepo.net/post/2025/09/26/PHP-version-8.3.26-and-8.4.13    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:35:11

• 8 Best Free and Open Source Graphical MPD Clients ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-graphical-mpd-clients/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:39:32

• pacbro – package browser for Arch ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pacbro-package-browser-arch/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 16:39:40

• AMD Ryzen Hey Hi (AI) 9 HX 370 NPU in Linux: Introduction ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/amd-ryzen-ai-9-hx-370-npu-linux/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:43:53

• Decker – multimedia sketchpad ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/decker-multimedia-sketchpad/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:44:06

• Glerm – puzzle game ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/glerm-puzzle-game/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:44:13

• wmsmixer – hack to wmmixer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/wmsmixer-hack-wmmixer/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:44:22

• Chameleon Ultra GUI – frontend for the Chameleon Ultra/Chameleon Lite ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/chameleon-ultra-gui/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:45:34

• Pentobi – computer opponent for the board game Blokus ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pentobi-computer-opponent-board-game-blokus/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:46:15

• 7 Best Free and Open Source Console Log File Analyzers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/logfiles/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:46:25

• Btrfs Brings BS ... ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-Btrfs that's BS, MAN!    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:47:18

• blendOS 68e3897e is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/blendos    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:48:04

• Pop!_OS 24.04 (with COSMIC Desktop) Just Hit Beta ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/pop_os-24-04-with-cosmic-is-now-in-beta    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:48:48

• "The EdgeXpert achieves up to 1000 AI TOPS at FP4 precision with sparsity and can scale higher using FP8 data formats." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/msi-edgexpert-compact-ai-supercomputer-based-on-nvidia-dgx-spark/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:50:23

• "The firmware supports protocols such as I-C, SPI, UART, 1-Wire, CAN, and JTAG, as well as infrared, smartcards, and USB device emulation." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/esp32-bus-pirate-turns-low-cost-boards-into-multi-protocol-debugging-tools/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:50:54

• "Learn how Tom Mason at St Joseph’s College used the Code Editor for Education to run an open-ended Python quiz project." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/fostering-creativity-through-open-ended-projects-with-code-editor-for-education/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:51:09

• "This is the second compilation of our Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat tutorials which have been published here at The Ubuntu Buzz since 2024." ☛ https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2025/09/collection-of-ubuntu-2404-tutorials-part-ii.html | Source: Ubuntubuzz    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:52:01

• "Traditional telecommunication service provider environments tend to operate at a slower pace compared to the rapid release cycles of Kubernetes, which sees three releases per year." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/vodafone-revolutionizes-telco-cloud-openshift-and-gitops | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:52:35

• "ready to not run for reelection if the war ends" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/26/zelensky-says-he-s-ready-to-not-run-for-reelection-if-the-war-ends | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:53:17

• "closed twice in one week after drone reports" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/26/denmark-s-aalborg-airport-closed-twice-in-one-week-after-drone-reports | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:53:32

• CAFC Reverses and Remands ASPIRE BANK Opposition for Reconsideration of First and Sixth DuPont Factors ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/09/cafc-reverses-and-remands-aspire-bank.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:54:26

• Bayer and Regeneron secure market exclusivity of Eylea with PI in Munich ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/bayer-and-regeneron-secure-market-exclusivity-of-eylea-with-pi-in-munich/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:54:46

• "Newron holds the patent monopoly and has licensed distribution to Zambon." ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/newron-defends-spc-for-parkinsons-drug-xadago-against-puren/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:55:41

• G2/24: EBA brings skin-cleanser dispute to an end ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/g2-24-eba-brings-skin-cleanser-dispute-to-an-end/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:56:03

• Software Patents: $2,000 awarded for Adaptive Avenue website patent monopoly prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/9/25/2000-awarded-for-adaptive-avenue-website-patent-prior-art    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:56:18

• $2,000 awarded for Key Patent Innovations entity, Malikie Innovations, video streaming patent monopoly prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/9/25/2000-for-key-patent-innovations-entity-malikie-innovations-video-streaming-patent-prior-art    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:57:21

• Are We Looking at The Corporate Takeover of Ruby's Ecosystem? ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/corporate-takeover-of-ruby/ "Corporate interests might be reshaping Ruby."    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 20:57:57

• Space Can Hurt Your Vision, And Now We Can Predict The Damage ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/space-can-hurt-your-vision-and-now-we-can-predict-the-damage    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:02:11

• This Rock Is Not From Earth, And We Can Finally Reveal Its Story ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-rock-is-not-from-earth-and-we-can-finally-reveal-its-story    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:02:23

• Scientists Finally Reveal Why 'Hobbits' Were So Small ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-finally-reveal-why-hobbits-were-so-small    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:02:34

• A Million-Year-Old Skull Just Rewrote The Origin Story of Humanity ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-million-year-old-skull-just-rewrote-the-origin-story-of-humanity    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:02:47

• The Sad Case of The Youngest-Ever Alzheimer's Diagnosis ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-sad-case-of-the-youngest-ever-alzheimers-diagnosis    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:02:59

• Scientists Discover Giant Black Hole Growing 2.4X Faster Than Theoretical Limit ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-giant-black-hole-growing-2-4x-faster-than-theoretical-limit    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:03:16

• The Moon Is Rusting, And It's All Earth's Fault ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-moon-is-rusting-and-its-all-earths-fault    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:03:25

• Eerie Circles in Space Could Be Blasts From Black Holes ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/eerie-circles-in-space-could-be-blasts-from-black-holes    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:03:34

• "Hyperspectral" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/26/set-phone-to-hyperspectral/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:11:07

• IRS touts ‘major progress’ on IT modernization, but has yet to decommission legacy systems ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/it-modernization/2025/09/irs-touts-major-progress-on-it-modernization-but-has-yet-to-decommission-legacy-systems/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:11:52

• Longtime Investor Warns the Hey Hi (AI) Industry Is Set to Collapse for a Basic Financial Reason ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/investor-ai-monopoly-roger-mcnamee    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:12:29

• When seconds count: Location intelligence and the new era of emergency tech ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/09/when-seconds-count-location-intelligence-and-the-new-era-of-emergency-tech/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:13:29

• Latvian and Estonian companies joining forces to build 'Drone Wall' ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/26.09.2025-latvian-and-estonian-companies-joining-forces-to-build-drone-wall.a615941/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:13:40

• "Robot Bartender Is The Life Of The Party" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/26/robot-bartender-is-the-life-of-the-party/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:26:45

• "When you think of a scope probe, you usually think of what is basically a wire with a spring hook and an attenuator. Those are passive probes. [Kerry Wong] shows off a pre-release active probe that sidesteps some problems with those ordinary passive probes." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/26/active-probe-reaches-3-ghz/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:27:22

• "While William Rowan Hamilton isn’t a household name like, say, Einstein or Hawking, he might have been. It turns out the Irish mathematician almost stumbled on quantum theory in the or around 1827. [Robyn Arianrhod] has the story in a post on The Conversation." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/26/the-19th-century-quantum-mechanics/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:27:41

• Fedora Community Blog: Infra and RelEng Update – Week 39 2025 ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/infra-and-releng-update-week-39-2025/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:29:18

• Brutal Murder of 3 Women, Broadcast On Instagram, Shocks Argentina ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/world/americas/argentina-women-murder-instagram.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:29:40

• Microsoft Blocks Israeli Military Access to Hey Hi (AI) and Cloud ☞ https://www.datamation.com/cloud/microsoft-blocks-israeli-military/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:29:50

• US to revoke visa for Colombian President Petro over 'incendiary' comments ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250927-us-to-revoke-visa-for-colombian-president-petro-over-incendiary-comments    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:30:09

• How Free Is Free Speech? ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/review-free-speech-books    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:30:25

• Netanyahu’s Defiant U.N. Speech Aimed at Home as Well as the World ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/world/middleeast/israel-netanyahu-united-nations.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:31:20

• Prabowo backs Palestine, offers rare security pledge to Israel in bold UN speech ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/prabowo-backs-palestine-offers-rare-security-pledge-to-israel-in-bold-un-speech    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:31:28

• Netanyahu Wears QR Code Referencing Oct. 7 During U.N. Speech ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/world/middleeast/netanyahu-qr-code.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:31:41

• Thousands Protest Netanyahu’s U.N. Speech in NYC ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/nyregion/nyc-united-nations-netanyahu-protest.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:31:49

• Russian vlogger arrested over viral video of couple having sex on pickup truck in Phuket ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/russian-vlogger-arrested-over-viral-video-of-couple-having-sex-on-pickup-truck-in-phuket    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:33:01

• Russia’s repeated flights over NATO countries prompt calls for action ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2025/0927/russia-nato-drone-estonia    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:33:16

• Russia Steps Up Provocations in Europe, Alarming Leaders There ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/world/europe/russia-europe-poland-drones-moldova-election.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:33:24

• Russia and China Fail to Delay U.N. ‘Snapback’ Sanctions Against Iran Over Nuclear Program ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/world/middleeast/iran-sanctions-europe-russia-un.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:33:40

• Iran Recalls Ambassadors As 'Snapback' Sanctions Loom ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-nuclear-snapback-sanctions-un-e3-russia/33542035.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:33:57

• U.K. Politician Admits Making Pro-Russia Statements in Return for Bribes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/world/europe/gill-russia-britain-bribery.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:34:16

• 'We are already in a hybrid war with Russia': EU Commissioner Dombrovskis ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/talking-europe/20250927-we-are-already-in-a-hybrid-war-with-russia-eu-commissioner-dombrovskis    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:34:34

• Why – and do – Russian-speaking migrants struggle to learn Lithuanian? ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2689609/why-and-do-russian-speaking-migrants-struggle-to-learn-lithuanian    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:34:49

• Lithuania’s Panemunė border crossing to close for four hours on Monday ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2693396/lithuania-s-panemune-border-crossing-to-close-for-four-hours-on-monday    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:35:03

• Moldova to vote in parliamentary elections amid claims of Russian interference ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250927-moldova-to-vote-in-parliamentary-elections-amid-claims-of-russian-interference    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:35:24

• Moldova to vote in critical parliamentary election fraught with Russian interference claims ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250927-moldova-to-vote-in-critical-parliamentary-election-fraught-with-russian-interference-claims    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:35:36

• USA: The Insurrectionist witch hunt allegations intensify ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250927-usa-donald-trump-witch-hunt-allegations-intensify    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:39:05

• Dispatch from Chișinău: Will Russia’s political pincer move put Moldova’s EU hopes in jeopardy? ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/chisinau-will-russias-political-pincer-move-put-moldovas-eu-hopes-in-jeopardy/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:39:22

• Stop the World: Greenland’s strategic weight surges amid US, China, Russia jostling ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/stop-the-world-greenlands-strategic-weight-surges-amid-us-china-russia-jostling/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:40:00

• New Drone Sightings Over Denmark As EU Plans Defensive Wall ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/drone-uav-hybrid-europe-russia-defense/33542502.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:40:14

• Russian Assets, Frozen in Europe, Could Help Ukraine in New Plan ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/world/europe/europe-frozen-russian-funds-ukraine.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:40:25

• Ukrainian YouTuber arrested in Japan over Fukushima live stream ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/ukrainian-youtuber-arrested-in-japan-over-fukushima-livestream    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:40:40

• UMG, Sony Music Sign Major Hey Hi (AI) Copyright Detection and Fingerprinting Alliance ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/25/umg-sony-music-ai-fingerprinting/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:41:22

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-09-27.gmi    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:42:22

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1426.jpg    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:42:52

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1776.jpg    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:42:56

• 🔤SpellBinding: EGHLUOM Wordo: SEDGY gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-09-27.gmi    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:43:38

• "For the past few months, every other week my server (which hosts this blog) would just go crazy for a day and require a full reboot to get back to normal. I haven't tracked down a root cause for this, but I do suspect it has to do with web bot activity increasing over the past few months." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/09/26.1    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:44:25

• "I'm still pouring through web sever log files [1] and I'm noticing that many of the feed readers fetching my various feeds files aren't using conditional requests" gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/09/26.2    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:45:33

• "I heard that LibreWolf is firefox but hardening, removing all of that anti-feature. I tried to switch to it but I can't get it to run on my machine yet, the main reason are my remaining disk space and amount of ram require to compile it. (Also there are some logged in session I don't want to lose but that's just a excuse.)" gemini://tilde.club/~silica/gemlog-en/2025-09-27_from-browser-to-dev-plan.gmi    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:46:15

• Hello, Gemini! (by ~octagon) gemini://tilde.club/~octagon/gemlog/2025-09-27-hello-gemini.gmi    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:47:15

• "The amount isn't very much, given that over 4.5 billion years the delta is only a "day or two" for the Earth, and the feet-head distances are much smaller than for core-crust, and for various reasons the feet can sometimes be level with or above the head." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/09/27/youngfeet.gmi    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:48:17

• "Prime Minister Starmer has announced that digital IDs will become mandatory for employment 'right to work' checks. The French government has claimed that the lack of these checks is a key factor in encouraging irregular migration into the UK via France." gemini://rochelimit.uk/articles/20250927_digital_ids_everyone_outraged.gmi    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:49:11

• 🖼️ xkcd: Hiking #3147 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3147.gmi    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:50:11

• "This platform has 99 default templates for those who want to try creating a website from that era but don't have any experience with layout. Register and feel like you're back in the 90s." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2708    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:50:55

• "It has been some time since the last entry..." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ralfwause/phlog/260925.txt    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:51:54

• raspi-zero gemini://tecnico-ligero.duckdns.org/gemlog/45--2025-09-26-Por-qué-explota-cada-2-por-3-la-raspi-zero.gmi    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:52:55

• "The other day, one of my social media mutuals, who I met through our shared love of the Blue Jays, posted about DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson), noting that so many male colleagues over the years had called her a bitch for calling him out." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/9-27.gmi    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:54:24

• EU Eyes 'Drone Wall' Amid Concerns Over Russian Airspace Violations ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/drone-wall-uav-denmark-norway-poland-romania-russia-ukraine-hybrid-war/33541567.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:57:26

• NATO plans 'drone wall' to counter threats ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250927-nato-plans-drone-wall-to-counter-threats    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:57:36

• Ukrainians in Poland face legal limbo as permits expire ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250927-ukrainians-in-poland-face-legal-limbo-as-permits-expire    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:57:53

• Indo-Pacific should study Europe’s counter-hybrid playbook ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/indo-pacific-should-study-europes-counter-hybrid-playbook/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:58:10

• Leftist Activists Demand Removal of Ruby on Rails Founder, DHH ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/leftist-activists-demand-removal    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:58:17

• How To Install Thunderbird Mail on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-thunderbird-mail-debian-13/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:58:58

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

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:59:14

• How To Install ELK Stack on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-elk-stack-almalinux-10/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:59:23

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

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 21:59:40

• Super Typhoon Ragasa: Taiwan races to rescue over 20 missing after barrier lake burst ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/26/super-typhoon-ragasa-taiwan-races-to-rescue-over-20-missing-after-barrier-lake-burst/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:02:39

• YouTuber's homebrew aim-assist exoskeleton grabs them second place in global Aimlabs leader board — 63% aim boost from AI-powered project ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/youtubers-homebrew-aim-assist-exoskeleton-grabs-them-second-place-in-global-aimlabs-leader-board-63-percent-aim-boost-from-ai-powered-project    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:03:55

• Incus 6.17 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released ☞ https://linuxiac.com/incus-6-17-container-virtual-machine-manager-released/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:04:52

• LHB GNU/Linux Digest #25.28: New Git For DevOps Course, Emacs Guide, Self-hosted Clown Storage and More ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/newsletter/25-28/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:05:27

• Security updates for Friday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1039749/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:05:59

• Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/39 ☞ https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2025/09/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2025-39/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:07:14

• Adam Young: Tools First ☞ https://adam.younglogic.com/2025/09/tools-first/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:07:36

• Macaroni OS – GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/macaroni-os-linux-distribution/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:07:56

• Sandstorm – self-hostable web productivity suite ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sandstorm-self-hostable-web-productivity-suite/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:09:18

• BigLinux 2025-09-26 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/biglinux    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:09:56

• Manjaro 25.0.9 is also out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/manjaro    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:10:04

• Fun with docling ☞ https://major.io/p/fun-with-docling/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:10:48

• KDE Android News (September 2025) ☞ https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2025/09/27/kde-android-news-september-2025.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:11:30

• ZimaOS 1.5.0 6 is out☞ https://distrowatch.com/zimaos    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:11:42

• Pop!_OS 24.04-beta 6 is also out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/popos    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:11:51

• Macaroni 25.09 released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/macaroni    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:11:58

• OBS Studio 32.0.1 Fixes Browser Source Breakage ☞ https://linuxiac.com/obs-studio-32-0-1-fixes-browser-source-breakage/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:13:42

• System76 Releases COSMIC Beta Desktop Environment and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta ☞ https://9to5linux.com/system76-releases-cosmic-beta-desktop-environment-and-pop_os-24-04-lts-beta    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:13:57

• Calibre 8.11 E-Book Manager Adds an “Ask AI” Tab to the Dictionary Lookup Panel ☞ https://9to5linux.com/calibre-8-11-e-book-manager-adds-an-ask-ai-tab-to-the-dictionary-lookup-panel    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:14:07

• Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 Released with Ubuntu Touch Upgrader, Rabbit R1 Support ☞ https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-touch-ota-10-released-with-ubuntu-touch-upgrader-rabbit-r1-support    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:14:16

• Microsoft makes a mess inside Linux, the kernel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-Writeback-Lockups    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:14:44

• Raspberry Pi 500+ Launches as the Ultimate All-In-One PC Based on Raspberry Pi 5 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/raspberry-pi-500-launches-as-the-ultimate-all-in-one-pc-based-on-raspberry-pi-5    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:15:27

• Cisco Firewall Zero-Days Exploited in China-Linked ArcaneDoor Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-firewall-zero-days-exploited-in-china-linked-arcanedoor-attacks/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:23:11

• Recent Fortra GoAnywhere MFT Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/recent-fortra-goanywhere-mft-vulnerability-exploited-as-zero-day/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:23:33

• No Patches for Vulnerabilities Allowing Cognex Industrial Camera Hacking ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/no-patches-for-vulnerabilities-allowing-cognex-industrial-camera-hacking/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:24:11

• North Korea’s Fake Recruiters Feed Stolen Data to IT Workers ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/north-koreas-fake-recruiters-feed-stolen-data-to-it-workers/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:24:41

• Interpol Says 260 Suspects in Online Romance Scams Have Been Arrested in Africa ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/interpol-says-260-suspects-in-online-romance-scams-have-been-arrested-in-africa/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:30:24

• In Other News: LockBit 5.0, Department of War Cybersecurity Framework, OnePlus Vulnerability ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-lockbit-5-0-department-of-war-cybersecurity-framework-oneplus-vulnerability/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:30:50

• Microsoft promised a secure future. Where is it? ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/09/microsoft-promised-a-secure-future-where-is-it/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/11/Ron_Wyden_Microsoft_Should_be_Held_Accountable_for_Security_Bre.shtml    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:38:22

• It will be harder to get local apples in Latvia this year ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/food-drink/26.09.2025-it-will-be-harder-to-get-local-apples-in-latvia-this-year.a615896/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:38:51

• Chinese Release of “Together” Edited Woman’s Face Onto Gay Man to Censor Same-Sex Couple ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/together-movie-gay-censor-china    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 22:40:33

• GitOps at Fleet Scale: Decentralization vs. Control ☞ https://cloudnativenow.com/features/gitops-at-fleet-scale-decentralization-vs-control/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 23:07:11

• Lilbits: A laptop with a 192 Wh battery, Ubuntu Touch, and Amazon readies Vega OS for Fire TVs https://liliputing.com/lilbits-a-laptop-with-a-192-wh-battery-ubuntu-touch-and-amazon-readies-vega-os-for-fire-tvs/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 23:18:28

• "Google is adding a setting to enable GPU-accelerated rendering in Android’s Linux Terminal app." https://www.androidauthority.com/android-linux-terminal-gpu-rendering-3601664/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 23:23:12

• "The Linux subsystem on Android is capable of opening up a huge range of possibilities. And the vast majority of them can be unlocked once this tiny, but important, change actually makes it to stable Android." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-on-android-are-one-step-closer-to-reality/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 23:23:32

• Google Prepares Faster Linux Apps on Android with GPU Support https://sammyguru.com/google-prepares-faster-linux-apps-on-android-with-gpu-support/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 23:23:59

• Could just use the real thing; it does not cost anything https://www.xda-developers.com/tools-that-make-mac-feel-more-like-linux/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 23:24:55

• "A close look at the new features coming in Fedora 43." https://news.itsfoss.com/fedora-43-features/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 23:25:14

• System76's Cosmic Desktop Arrives in Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta https://www.howtogeek.com/system76-sends-out-pop-os-2404-beta-and-cosmic-desktop-beta/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 23:25:32

• 3 Neat Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (September 26 - 28) https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-to-try-this-weekend-september-26/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 23:26:47

• "Ditching Google could help Amazon better monetize its streaming gadgets." https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/amazon-fire-tv-devices-expected-to-ditch-android-for-linux-in-2025/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 23:27:18

• CLO Launches Marvelous Designer for Linux, Expanding Support for Professional Pipelines https://www.prnewswire.com/apac/news-releases/clo-launches-marvelous-designer-for-linux-expanding-support-for-professional-pipelines-302567708.html    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 23:27:45

• Beckhoff launches TwinCAT for Linux with virtualized PLC capabilities https://www.designworldonline.com/beckhoff-launches-twincat-for-linux-with-virtualized-plc-capabilities/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 23:28:19

• After Windows, I want Raycast to come to Linux next https://www.xda-developers.com/after-windows-want-raycast-come-linux-next/    

posted Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 23:28:49