Roy Schestowitz

• Rip. Mix. Burn. gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jdd/phlog/20250930-ripmixburn.txt    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 00:48:05

• "I've been having quite a bit of trouble with the news, both in reading it and staying away from it. So I decided to call it a day and head out on a dirt motorcycle loop around the forest." gemini://gem.sdf.org/beej/blog/2025-09-30-motoloop.gmi    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 00:49:57

• Raspberry Pi Zero 2 gemini://bubble.bonn.cafe/s/bonncafe/30    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 00:50:28

• "If you build Alhena from source, you can now create a page style by protocol (gemini, spartan, nex, http, https and file). Thanks @me for the great idea!" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/bluesman/33239    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 00:51:08

• "Regular readers of my gemlog will be only too aware that most of the content is not about Gemini, but about UK housing policy. I really prefer not to do "meta" posts, because I consider Gemini just a regular part of the internet nowadays." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-09-30_last-minute-entry-for-roophloch-2025.gmi    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 00:52:05

• Late Night Linux – Episode 353 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-353/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 00:57:41

• EcoFactor: Did the Federal Circuit Unconstitutionally Displace the Jury? ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/09/ecofactor-unconstitutionally-displace.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 01:02:00

• Avalanche confirms layoffs and studio closure after halting Contraband development https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/avalanche-confirms-layoffs-and-studio-closure-after-halting-contraband-development    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 01:03:11

• IBM layoffs: "Last year they notified people the third week of September and their last day was in third week of october" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6b7d7xw    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 01:21:21

• "Is it confirmed? I know I will be part of it this time and trying to time start dates for my new opty." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6b7d7xw    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 01:21:55

• "There is no more loyalty from employees anymore. You need to take anything you can from the company you work for, and move on once you have exhausted all you can get. There is no shame in this, this is just the way it works today." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6dabgfc    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 01:23:15

• IBM "Mainframe RA - Do any of the mainframe team get hit when layoffs occur?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6bqpep4    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 01:24:18

• US Firms To Consider Shifting Work To East (and South) https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6d99rh9    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 01:24:45

• "Rust uses the `master` branch instead of `main`" https://x.com/IroncladDev/status/1973112599752618073    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 01:55:02

• The Clarey Test on Richard Stallman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udnTKKT9za8 9 hours ago    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:00:59

• Mexico building its own satellites to monitor climate, security threats ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-building-satellites-monitor-climate-security/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:43:48

• Akira Ransomware’s Exploitation of SonicWall Vulnerability Continues ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/akira-ransomwares-exploitation-of-sonicwall-vulnerability-continues/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:44:21

• Cyberattack on JLR Prompts £1.5 Billion UK Government Intervention ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cyberattack-on-jlr-prompts-1-5-billion-uk-government-intervention/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:44:30

• Hackers used a fake congressional email to breach federal systems and exploit trust ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2025/09/hackers-used-a-fake-congressional-email-to-breach-federal-systems-and-exploit-trust/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:44:39

• New ML-KEM standard aims to protect data from future quantum attacks ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/29/post-quantum-security-ml-kem-digicert/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:45:04

• Aviation groups warn a government shutdown will delay aircraft safety inspections, maintenance work on ‘critical’ equipment ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/09/29/us-news/aviation-groups-warn-a-government-shutdown-will-delay-aircraft-safety-inspections-and-maintenance-work-on-critical-equipment/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:45:25

• Safety, Security and Fire Report reveals uptick in on-campus crime ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/09/29/safety-security-and-fire-report-reveals-uptick-in-on-campus-crime/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:45:41

• OpenSSF Newsletter – September 2025 ☞ https://openssf.org/newsletter/2025/09/29/openssf-newsletter-september-2025/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:46:07

• Venezuela's Maduro threatens to declare state of emergency over US boat attacks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250929-maduro-security-powers-military-venezuela    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:46:20

• Madagascar President dissolves government amid youth protests over water, power cuts ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20250929-madagascar-president-dissolves-government-amid-youth-protests-over-water-power-cuts    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:46:42

• Sponsored puff piece ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/09/nextcloud-hub-25-autumn-ups-the-ante-for-open-source-clouds/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:47:37

• TuxCare Expands Full Enterprise Support to Include Rocky GNU/Linux 9.6 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/09/tuxcare-expands-full-enterprise-support-to-include-rocky-linux-9-6/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:47:55

• ‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ Noodle Cup Trend May Increase Burn Risks for Kids ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/kpop-demon-hunters-noodles-tiktok.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:48:26

• The Insurrectionist’s Fentanylware (CheeTok) Deal Looks Like Crony Capitalism ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/donald-trumps-tiktok-deal-looks-like-crony-capitalism    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:48:48

• Now controlled more by MAGAts, a separate kind of problem and still not compliant with the demands of Congress ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/29/vance-tiktok-america-separated/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:50:00

• The Register MS still uses slop images, e.g. https://regmedia.co.uk/2025/09/30/live_facial_recognition_police.jpg?x=302&y=151&crop=1    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:58:16

• Or maybe it's from some movie, but there is no attribution to suggest so https://regmedia.co.uk/2025/09/30/live_facial_recognition_police.jpg    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:59:01

• Just do it. https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/uk_government_x_twiter/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 03:00:02

• "Why Every Computer Deserves Freedom" https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPOVUFIjPAi/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 03:33:26

• Misleading numbers as many of these accounts are dead already https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 03:34:32

• And https://fediverse.to/ has been hijacked by scammers    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 03:35:48

• lxer.com having technical issues    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 05:09:52

• "Speaking about that debt, Bloomberg's report reveals that this deal is partly funded by $20 billion in debt sourced by JPMorgan Chase & Co. This is the most significant debt commitment ever registered for a buyout." https://wccftech.com/ea-55-billion-deal-might-bring-massive-layoffs-ai-pivot-20-billion-debt/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 06:01:08

• Canadian energy minister disappointed by Imperial Oil’s planned layoffs https://medicinehatnews.com/news/national-news/2025/09/30/canadian-energy-minister-disappointed-by-imperial-oils-planned-layoffs/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 06:02:08

• IBM does Red Hat layoffs by RTO https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/red_hatters_to_be_big/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 06:04:28

• "Apple has fired 185 Indians over donation fraud." https://www.dqindia.com/news/apple-layoffs-how-internal-audits-led-to-the-discovery-of-fraud-8602762    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 06:06:42

• "In short, with the core support now removed, future development will occur outside the tree." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-6-18-to-ship-without-bcachefs/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 06:44:01

• "Chris’, as he describes himself, is not a reset, but a starter. That aligns quite nicely with the global styles first approach I teach people." ☛ https://piccalil.li/links/the-coyier-css-starter/ | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 06:49:02

• "If you’ve been gaming on Framework Desktop, we’d love to see your setup. Share it with us in the Framework Community" ☛ https://frame.work/fi/en/blog/extending-on-framework-desktop-stylus-availability-and-a-roundup-of-gaming-performance | Source: Framework Computer BV    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 06:49:31

• "The Ware for September 2025 is shown below." ☛ https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2025/name-that-ware-september-2025/ | Source: Bunnie Huang    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 06:49:47

• "The Ware for August 2025 is the Superboard II from an Ohio Scientific Challenger 1P. Congrats to Tibor Bartos for naming it. Email me for your prize!" ☛ https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2025/winner-name-that-ware-august-2025/ | Source: Bunnie Huang    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 06:50:26

• "As robotics continues to expand into industrial and collaborative environments" ☛ https://rosindustrial.org/news/2025/9/30/new-tools-for-robotics-rqt-frame-editor-and-the-pitasc-framework | Source: ROS Industrial    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 06:50:34

• "After spending too many hours trying in vain to squeeze more performance out of my queries and indexes" ☛ https://emschwartz.me/subtleties-of-sqlite-indexes/ |    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 06:51:13

• "After flip-flopping about what I'm going to do with this site, I decided to flip to Jekyll and build my own little CMS while I'm at it. Because why not?" ☛ https://kevquirk.com/blog/switching-back-to-jekyll-building-my-own-cms/ | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 06:56:06

• "When working on open source projects it’s easy to focus on the power users." ☛ https://jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2025/the-majority-of-your-users/ | Source: Jacob Tomlinson    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 06:56:47

• "Patrice Roy’s new book, C++ Memory Management, has made me more conscious of object lifetimes." ☛ https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/09/30/ | Source: Chris Wellons    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 06:56:53

• "In brief, the newer and current Armadillo no longer allows C++11 (which also means it no longer allowes suppression of deprecation warnings …)." ☛ https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/09/30/#051_a_neat_rcpp_trick | Source: Dirk Eddelbuettel    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 06:59:30

• "The VisualStats::plot_distributions() function will generate four plots representing the four R distribution functions." ☛ https://bryer.org/posts/2025-09-30-distributions.html | Source: Jason Bryer    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 06:59:35

• "Some concurrent operations don't require explicit synchronization." ☛ https://antonz.org/go-concurrency/atomics/ | Source: Anton Zhiyanov    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:00:00

• "I use the Emacs Diary all the time. I prefer it to using only Org-mode dates in my agenda. The tricky piece is getting the stuff from my CalDAV (Fastmail) calendar into the diary." ☛ https://baty.blog/2025/09/caldav-to-emacs-diary/ | Source: Jack Baty    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:01:22

• "So, I’m doing some construction, and I want to future-proof my home networking. What should I install so that I don’t have to worry about it in the future?" ☛ https://scottstuff.net/posts/2025/09/30/home-ethernet/ | Source: Scott Laird    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:02:56

• "I published six blog posts this month, starting with my announcement of my upcoming PyCon Finland talk." ☛ https://buttondown.com/juhis/archive/009-end-of-summer/ | Source: Buttondown LLC    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:03:07

• "I've made a ton of changes to this site that I haven't yet written about." ☛ https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/a-changelog | Source: Cory Dransfeldt    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:03:15

• "And since I have all of this, it's not even worth the effort of switching to the proper rcvstore approach and throwing a bunch of it away." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/MyEmailDriftIntoComplexity | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:05:24

• "People ask me the story behind my nickname, “Sam”, because my given name Saurabh has no “M” in it." ☛ https://samkhawase.com/blog/whats-in-a-name/ | Source: Saurabh "Sam" Khawase    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:05:42

• "Carried aboard NASA's Psyche mission, DSOC demonstrated how data encoded in lasers could be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/30/nasa_dsoc_demo/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:08:04

• "Submit your project briefing proposal for the CNI Fall 2025 Membership Meeting by Friday, October 10, 2025." ☛ https://www.cni.org/news/submit-your-proposal-for-cni-fall-2025 | Source: Coalition for Networked Information    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:08:26

• "This is a big tour! I'll be doing in-person events in the US, Canada, the UK and Portugal, and a virtual event in Spain." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/30/enshittification-tour/#moving-right-along | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:08:37

• "Since the middle of the past century, the number of Americans in college has increased substantially—in raw numbers, by roughly a factor of five." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/should-college-get-harder | Source: New Yorker    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:09:03

• "I’m organizing another Software You Can Love conference in Vancouver, June 2026. The last time I did this was 2023 and I had a blast." ☛ https://mattnite.net/blog/sycl-2026-announcement/ |    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:09:15

• "Thinking about the current storage capacity of my card index collection, I made a back-of-the-index-card calculation: [...]" ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2025/09/30/55833213/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:09:46

• "Doctors waiting for ‘irreversible damage’ before offering care. Patients given less effective medicines instead of the best available treatments." ☛ https://phr.org/news/study-u-s-state-abortion-bans-lead-to-cascading-harms-across-various-medical-fields/ | Source: PHR    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:10:08

• Recognition of digital legacy is still spotty, and without dedicated legacy contacts, accessing the deceased’s online accounts often involves court orders or legal documentation"" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-a-password-manager-to-share-your-logins-after-you-die/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:10:31

• Proprietary crap ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/vmware-vulnerability-cve-2025-41244/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:11:45

• "Behind the lofty rhetoric — reminiscent of the years he spent evangelizing the metaverse — the picture is less flattering." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/metas-ai-strategy-remains-unclear | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:12:11

• "Human drivers who make illegal turns risk a $234 fine, plus court fees if drivers contest a ticket." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/california_cops_self_driving/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:12:23

• "Human drivers who make illegal turns risk a $234 fine, plus court fees if drivers contest a ticket." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/california_cops_self_driving/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:30:06

• "deepfakes as a weapon" ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/korea/2025/09/29/north-korea-deepfake-ai-hackers/ | Source: RFA    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:30:16

• "They’re trapped within it. Does it shelter them? Does it provide some resources? Does it, perhaps, even keep them alive? Sure. So does a prison" ☛ https://anniemueller.com/posts/shelter-or-prison | Source: Annie Mueller    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:30:23

• "Worse, it fragments my attention. It makes things like writing music more difficult" ☛ https://jishu.bearblog.dev/breaking-the-loop-replacing-reddit-with-quiet-and-focus/ |    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:30:53

• Windows TCO: "Unit 42 first spotted this cluster of attackers in 2022 and has kept an eye on it ever since." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/phantom_taurus_apt/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:31:51

• Windows TCO: "The attackers deployed an approach known as Living Off The Land (LOTL), which involves using pre-installed and legitimate toolsets to carry out an attack." ☛ https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/the-soc-case-files-akira-ransomware-turns-victim%e2%80%99s-remote-management-tool-on-itself.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:31:58

• Windows TCO: "Working out exactly the proportion of Windows devices running version 11 versus Windows 10 is tricky." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/30/windows_11_healthcare/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:32:06

• "So I sent off a Subject Access Request asking specifically for the Direct Messages sent to/from my account." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/can-you-use-gdpr-to-circumvent-blueskys-adult-content-blocks/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:33:01

• "Users think they're getting a free VPN or SEO widget; in reality, their most private queries — health scares, finances, identity crises — are being slurped, anonymized, and resold" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/profound_browser_extension_privacy_concern/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:33:13

• "The scope of data collection recalls VK’s Max, another Russian-built messenger criticized for intrusiveness. Users have even mocked Zosima in parody reviews styled after VK’s advertising campaigns for its own product." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/30/holy-data-grab | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:33:33

• "It's a pleasure to meet you, sir! I'm happy to serve as your guide through our short introductory course on "Surreptitious Surveillance"." ☛ https://blog.cr.yp.to/20250930-stealth.html | Source: DJ Bernstein    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:34:04

• "The tool, called Waldo, reviewed more than 430,000 past posts on Reddit forums related to cannabis use." ☛ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-health-side-effects-social-media | Source: Science News    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:34:28

• "A popular critique is that digital ID represents a security and privacy risk. Of course, any data can be potentially hacked or leaked." ☛ https://theconversation.com/as-the-uk-plans-to-introduce-digital-ids-what-can-it-learn-from-pioneer-estonia-266303 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:40:00

• "The app is also a political flashpoint. TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company under the shadow of Beijing." ☛ https://www.vox.com/podcasts/463206/tiktok-deal-us-china-ellison-murdoch | Source: Vox    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:41:41

• "This hearing was not about protecting religious liberty" ☛ https://ffrf.org/news/releases/latest-religious-liberty-hearing-promotes-privilege-not-freedom/ | Source: Freedom From Religion Foundation    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:41:56

• "On Tuesday, at Marine Corps Base Quantico, American dignity died." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/ive-seen-enough | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:42:14

• "It won’t do any good." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/democratic-credibility-dies-in-the | Source: Garry Kasparov    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:42:37

• "The perpetual advice to Democrats is that moving rightward will solve all their problems." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/09/democrats-moderate-electoral-strategy/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:42:56

• "The TIP is a jihadi group primarily composed of Uyghurs from the Western Chinese province of Xinjiang" ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/isis-has-its-sights-set-on-a-new-potential-ally-uyghur-jihadi-groups/ | Source: Atlantic Council    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:43:26

• "Who was the first Muslim to gain Swedish citizenship?" ☛ https://www.thelocal.se/20250930/who-was-the-first-muslim-to-gain-swedish-citizenship | Source: The Local SE    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:43:57

• "Russia-backed hacking plot" ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/dutch-teens-recruited-telegram-russia | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:44:14

• "These lakes, dated at roughly 15,000 years, are the first evidence of surface water returning to Arabia following the extremely arid period." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/12000-year-old-desert-rock-art-conveyed-important-message-for-ancient-people | Source: Science Alert    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:52:29

• "Our findings point to plastic’s role in the early origins of many chronic diseases that reverberate into adolescence and adulthood" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/study-plastics-pose-urgent-threat-to-childrens-lifelong-health/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:52:45

• "Permafrost, which lies beneath about 15% of the land in the Northern Hemisphere, is defined as ground that has remained frozen for at least two years." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/30/1124548/scientists-see-permafrost-thawing-from-space/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:52:59

• "OK, not really. Wind power is, in fact, far cleaner and safer than burning fossil fuels. And I personally like the sight of wind turbines." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/fossil-fuels-and-fossilized-minds | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:53:07

• "The 1958 Volvo PV 544 Sport marked an important evolution in Volvo’s line of durable and stylish family cars." ☛ https://www.vintag.es/2025/09/1958-volvo-pv-544-sport.html | Source: Vintage Everyday    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:53:32

• "James Grant invited me to address the annual conference of Grant's Interest Rate Observer. This was an intimidating prospect, the previous year's conference featured billionaires Scott Bessent and Bill Ackman." ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2025/09/the-gaslit-asset-class.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:53:41

• "Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in the project, an enormous project that could end up requiring an astronomical amount of electricity to run." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-new-data-centers-more-power-new-york-city | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:54:01

• But there is no money to fund it. http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/27/Glimmer_of_Hope_More_People_Realise_and_Come_to_Accept_AI_is_Ju.shtml    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:54:22

• "In its analysis of Grid Status' energy data analytics, Bloomberg found that for areas located near new data centers built to run and train AI, wholesale electricity prices had risen by up to 267%." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-center-boom-sends-some-wholesale-electricity-prices-soaring-up-to-267-percent-in-five-years-says-report-as-global-rollout-of-ai-factories-continues-apace | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:54:37

• "Keeping networks online during repeated blackouts comes with a number of challenges. To address this, I built and deployed a fast-charge, cloud-aware power management system for network nodes." ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/YuriyVyknevych/keeping-network-sites-online-during-blackouts/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:54:52

• "most sought-after drone pilot" ☛ https://www.thedronegirl.com/2025/09/30/eric-thurber/ | Source: The Drone Girl    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:55:19

• "Plants lack nerves, yet they can sensitively detect touch from other organisms." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-09-venus-flytrap-response-specialized-ion.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:55:42

• "with death threats" ☛ https://brucelawson.co.uk/2025/regulation-fun-with-lawyers-and-economists/ | Source: Bruce Lawson    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:57:30

• "Apple, Meta and Google have sophisticated threat hunting teams in place and have made spyware findings known to victims and the public." ☛ https://therecord.media/spyware-safe-harbor-law-proposed-tech-companies | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:57:39

• "The buyer consortium includes Silver Lake Partners, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and a firm run by Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-09-29/video-game-maker-electronic-arts-to-be-acquired-and-taken-private-for-55-billion | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:57:55

• "What they need to do is explicitly make education their primary mission again." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/features/americas-elite-universities-have-lost-their-way-101759230515113.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:58:21

• "Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek will step down as CEO on January 1 and become executive chairman, handing the reins to two of his deputies in a leadership shake-up, the music streaming giant said Tuesday." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2341259.html | Source: RTL    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:59:19

• "Raymond described them as “a kind of infectious social insanity” that has caused “drama, politics, and backbiting” rather than fostering collaboration." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/eric-s-raymond-codes-of-conduct-are-a-disaster/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 07:59:36

• "John Flynn, usually known as ‘Four’, has been DeepMind’s VP of security since May 2024." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/ciso-conversations-john-four-flynn-vp-of-security-at-google-deepmind/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:01:17

• "ISO/IEC 27001 is among the most widely recognized and internationally accepted information security standards." ☛ https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-achieves-iso-27001-certification | Source: Canonical    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:01:28

• "The marching orders went out to agencies’ leadership via email at 1:30pm ET, a government source confirms." ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-omb-mandatory-email-federal-shutdown | Source: Marisa Kabas    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:02:55

• "With the outbreak of hostilities, the Ukrainian army went up to 800,000 people." ☛ https://kyivindependent.com/russian-propagandists-unexpectedly-echo-trump-casting-doubt-on-russia-s-army-ability-to-advance/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:03:44

• "owners will include Rupert Murdoch (responsible for creating Fox News, the most effective mass media right wing propaganda platform ever) and Trump bestie Larry Ellison, who is in the process of turning CBS News into basically the same thing via his nepo baby son and Bari Weiss." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/30/trump-makes-it-very-clear-theyre-going-to-turn-tiktok-into-a-right-wing-propaganda-machine/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:04:11

• "The Federal Communications Commission’s regulatory powers should not be used as a cudgel to punish voices that contradict the Trump administration’s narrative" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/09/cpj-calls-on-fcc-chair-to-respect-first-amendment-rights-press-freedom/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:04:56

• "The Taliban have ordered [Internet] and mobile phone data services to be cut across Afghanistan, diplomatic and industry sources said on Tuesday, as residents and monitoring services reported no connectivity and disruption to flights and financial services." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-09-30/afghanistans-cellphone-internet-services-down-monitoring-shows | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:05:09

• "TOLO also reported that the Taliban have given network operators a one-week deadline to shut down higher speed 3 and 4G mobile [Internet] services." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/talibans-internet-shutdown-in-afghanistan-whats-at-stake/a-74043564 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:05:20

• "The curfew relaxation initially extended from 10 AM to 2 PM, later prolonged depending on emerging circumstances." ☛ https://thenorthlines.com/leh-curfew-eased-for-seven-hours-security-forces-on-alert/ | Source: The North Lines IN    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:05:30

• "The officials said mobile [Internet] services continued to be suspended in Leh town, and prohibitory orders banning assembly of five or more persons are still in force in other major parts of the Union Territory, including Kargil." ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/leh-curfew-eased-for-4-hours-internet-ban-continues-1907079 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:05:59

• "Women can be a powerful force in Russia. Their protests to bring their men home helped bring peace in the First Chechen War." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-28/kremlin-silences-wives-of-soldiers-deployed-to-the-front-but-some-still-raise-their-voices-in-protest.html | Source: El País    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:06:37

• "The Taliban has imposed a nationwide telecommunications shutdown in Afghanistan, cutting off Internet and mobile networks." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/taliban-internet-shutdown-afghanistan-2025/33544978.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:07:00

• "Before I get too caught up in 31 Days of Horror, I wanted to make an addendum to this post I had last week: Getting Ready For Banned Books Week." ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-to-act-during-banned-books-week-via.html | Source: Becky Spratford    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:07:10

• "does trump show signs of dementia" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/789152/google-ai-searches-blocking-trump-dementia-biden | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:07:24

• "It can direct surveillance resources, encourage financial subpoenas and coordinate interagency efforts, but it cannot formally designate a domestic movement as a terrorist organization." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/when-everyone-is-antifa-no-one-is-safe/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:07:55

• "With an average of more than nine hangings per day in recent weeks" ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/un-experts-warn-of-surging-executions-in-iran/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:08:34

• "Companies are saying that the economy and AI are causing the large amount of tech layoffs, but Vanessa Wingårdh looked at the H-1B visa data and noticed that the companies are lying." ☛ https://huijzer.xyz/posts/111/companies-are-lying-about-ai-layoffs | Source: Rik Huijzer    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:08:42

• "The FCC’s action overturns its 2024 order establishing hotspot lending programs for schools and libraries." ☛ https://www.ala.org/news/2025/09/ala-disappointed-fcc-takebacks-lack-due-process-decision-end-library-hotspots-school | Source: American Library Association    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:09:02

• "Here is a table of major affiliate station owners: [...]" ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2025/09/30/on-the-continuing-end-of-ota-tv-part-2/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:09:44

• "The app borrows heavily from TikTok’s short-video format but adds a twist: users can record short clips and let friends spin them into AI-generated cameos." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/culture/sora-2-tiktok-like-ai-video-app | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:10:24

• "As vishing becomes more frequently used amongst threat actors, researchers have discovered that AI-generated voice clones from as little as five minutes of recorded audio are well on the rise" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/ai-voice-cloning-vishing-risks | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:10:35

• "For the second time the release date of Terminator 2D: NO FATE has been moved, and now it's going to arrive on November 26th." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/terminator-2d-no-fate-delayed-again-and-now-releases-in-november/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:17:00

• "Developer Evil Empire who did lots of work on Dead Cells and made The Rogue Prince of Persia have announced they're taking over future development of Brotato." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/evil-empire-dead-cells-the-rogue-prince-of-persia-take-over-brotato-with-a-plan-for-more-updates/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:17:11

• "As part of the ongoing 17th anniversary celebration, GOG have announced another expansion of their GOG Preservation Program." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/gog-expands-their-preservation-program-to-include-gothic-1-2-mortal-kombat-trilogy-and-more/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:17:21

• "Taking some inspiration from silly TV gameshows, Task Time needs to be on your list if you're after more games to play with friends either locally or online." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/inspired-by-gameshows-task-time-looks-like-a-quality-chaotic-local-and-online-party-game/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:18:48

• "Spectacular Team: Assemble is a silly physics-based action game about customizable super heroes, with a demo available for testing." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/check-out-the-demo-for-spectacular-team-assemble-a-physics-based-super-hero-action-game/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:19:06

• "NVIDIA have launched their latest recommended driver for Linux users with driver version 580.95.05 now available." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/nvidia-driver-580-95-05-released-as-the-latest-recommended-for-linux/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:19:56

• "Who actually owns your data?" https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/who-actually-owns-your-data:4    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:20:30

• "The Face-Saving Deal: Netanyahu’s Retreat Disguised as Triumph" https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-face-saving-deal-netanyahus-retreat    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:20:43

• "Tech companies should be shielded from spyware lawsuits, report says | The Record from Recorded Future News" https://therecord.media/spyware-safe-harbor-law-proposed-tech-companies see instead Section 3 of this talk: http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:21:11

• windows kills https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/30/windows_11_healthcare/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:22:05

• "Kroah-Hartman explains Cyber Resilience Act for open source" https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/30/cyber_reiliance_act_opinion_column/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:23:04

• "For Turkey, Article 5 is dead" https://www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1282156/for-turkey-article-5-is-dead/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:23:12

• "Sweden says no agreement yet on Gripen jets for Ukraine" https://kyivindependent.com/sweden-says-no-agreement-yet-on-gripen-jets-for-ukraine/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:23:23

• "Wes Streeting calls Farage a “con artist”" https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/09/wes-streeting-farage-is-a-con-artist    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:24:32

• "Trump Threatens ‘Irreversible’ Cuts to Federal Benefits During Shutdown - NOTUS — News of the United States" https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/trump-benefits-medicaid-medicare-healthcare-shutdown-cuts    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:24:52

• "GOG are really stretching out the announcements for their 17th anniversary, with a second helping of classic games now in the GOG Preservation Program. They only just announced a few titles a day ago and now they're back with even more" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/even-more-yes-again-classics-join-the-gog-preservation-program/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:26:32

• "Team FOLON today announced the huge Rabbit & Pork update for the popular Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London. It expands the game in some massive ways." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/fallout-london-mod-gets-a-huge-upgrade-with-rabbit-pork/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:26:42

• "Team Fortress 2 Classic is an upcoming mod for Valve's shooter that aims to re-imagine the launch era of the original game and you'll be able to try it soon." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/team-fortress-2-classic-will-get-an-open-beta-on-october-13-during-steam-next-fest/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:26:51

• "The political cartoon is of vast importance to the history of the United States." ☛ https://fair.org/home/us-cartooning-tradition-in-peril-in-trumps-first-year/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:52:49

• raspberrypi pushing ponzi schemes, not technical skills ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/introducing-ai-quests-a-new-gamified-learning-experience-within-experience-ai/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:53:15

• Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 Released Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-touch-24-04-1-0-released-based-on-ubuntu-24-04-lts/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 08:58:15

• Imgur is No Longer Available to Users in the UK ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/imgur-not-accessible-in-uk-ico    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:02:27

• Whippy Term – modern GUI based terminal program ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/whippy-term-modern-terminal-program/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:02:59

• Rights group warns new China law threatens minority protections ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/human-rights-watch-warns-new-china-law-threatens-minority-protections/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:07:39

• Afghanistan Goes Dark As Taliban Imposes Nationwide Communications Blackout ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/taliban-internet-shutdown-afghanistan-2025/33544978.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:08:06

• Eric S. Raymond: Codes of Conduct Are a Disaster ☞ https://linuxiac.com/eric-s-raymond-codes-of-conduct-are-a-disaster/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:10:48

• Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/30/enshittification-tour/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:14:00

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: #051: A Neat Little Rcpp Trick ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/09/30#051_a_neat_rcpp_trick    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:14:40

• New Tools for Robotics: RQT Frame Editor and the pitasc Framework ☞ https://rosindustrial.org/news/2025/9/30/new-tools-for-robotics-rqt-frame-editor-and-the-pitasc-framework    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:15:20

• Linux Kernel 6.18 to Ship Without Bcachefs ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-6-18-to-ship-without-bcachefs/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:15:35

• Antoine Beaupré: Proper services ☞ https://anarc.at/blog/2025-09-30-proper-services/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:20:35

• "GnuPG 2.5.12, file archiver 7-Zip 25.01, text editor Vim 9.1.1706 and Kernel Source 6.16.5 were just a few of the packages updated in the month’s snapshots." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/09/30/tw-monthly-update-sept/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:24:23

• "FoxReplace is a Firefox addon that is able to replace text in a web page, in both editing and reading mode, with or without regular expression (regex), both manually and automatically" ☛ https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2025/09/foxreplace-text-replacement-addon-for-firefox-browser.html | Source: Ubuntubuzz    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:24:50

• "Recent Red Hat research shows that nearly all IT managers in Ireland plan to increase investment in both cloud (93%) and AI (95%) this year." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/irelands-next-steps-effective-ai-delivery | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:25:50

• "If that’s how you feel, you are not alone. Effective and speedy issue resolution, prompt responses and shorter wait times are important aspects of customer service. Customer expectations have increased." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/optimizing-application-architectures-ai-monoliths-intelligent-agents-2-2-blogs-series | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:25:55

• "As we know, however, a nervous system doesn't operate in isolation. It relies on the rest of the body, with countless other systems working in harmony." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/why-open-source-matters-enterprise-ai | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:26:01

• Every single page from Red Hat on that same day is promoting buzzwords and a Ponzi scheme    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:26:44

• IBM share price gamed with Red Hat's promotion of mindless slop    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:27:13

• Maybe one day Red Hat can stop pushing slop and buzzwords, but under IBM there's nothing left but vapourware    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:27:53

• "Think of these parameters as special instructions you give to the kernel before it even starts running the operating system." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/linux-kernel-boot-time-parameters-explained/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:28:27

• Human eggs created from skin cells for first time in landmark fertility study ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/09/30/science/human-eggs-created-from-skin-cells-for-first-time-in-landmark-fertility-study/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:28:50

• Morocco rocked by violent clashes as youths protest health, education system ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20251001-morocco-violent-clashes-youths-protest-health-education    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:29:05

• Harvard Blasts Administration Over ‘Distorted’ Civil Rights Investigation ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/politics/harvard-response-trump.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:31:08

• HIV cases rising in Lithuania, driven by infections among foreign nationals ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2696412/hiv-cases-rising-in-lithuania-driven-by-infections-among-foreign-nationals    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:31:43

• DOJ sues New Jersey protestors over violent disruptions to synagogue services ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/doj-sues-new-jersey-protestors-over-violent-disruptions-to-synagogue-services/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:32:20

• US government nears first shutdown in nearly 7 years amid partisan standoff ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250930-us-government-shutdown-partisan-standoff    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:32:57

• Another Young Artist Crashes? Lola Young Cancels All Upcoming Shows to ‘Work On Myself’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/30/lola-young-cancels-upcoming-shows/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:33:49

• Study: U.S. State Abortion Bans Lead to ‘Cascading Harms’ Across Various Medical Fields, from Oncology to Neurology ☞ https://phr.org/news/study-u-s-state-abortion-bans-lead-to-cascading-harms-across-various-medical-fields/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:34:08

• Huge Proportion of Young Americans Now Reporting Serious Cognitive Issues ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/young-americans-suffering-cognitive-issues    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:35:25

• Democrats vote down GOP funding bill, putting government on path to shutdown ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/09/us-government-on-brink-of-first-shutdown-in-almost-seven-years-amid-partisan-standoff-in-congress/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:35:57

• Husband seeks justice after death of pregnant wife in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/30.09.2025-husband-seeks-justice-after-death-of-pregnant-wife-in-latvia.a616401/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:36:20

• South Korea’s Lee, outgoing Japan PM Ishiba hold talks on global trade, North Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-lee-outgoing-japan-pm-ishiba-hold-talks-on-better-ties-us-trade-deals    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:38:50

• South Korea ex-PM Han’s trial over martial law crisis kicks off ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-ex-pm-hans-trial-over-martial-law-crisis-kicks-off    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:39:03

• South Korea’s young job seekers fear shrinking age window for entry-level work ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-young-job-seekers-fear-shrinking-age-window-for-entry-level-work    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:39:50

• Denuclearisation off the table for North Korea, but freeze is achievable, say analysts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/denuclearisation-off-the-table-for-n-korea-but-freeze-is-achievable-say-analysts    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:40:03

• Hong Kong accepts health certificates from official mainland Chinese vets for imported cats, dogs ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/01/hong-kong-accepts-health-certificates-from-official-mainland-chinese-vets-for-imported-cats-dogs/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:40:59

• India, China look to be partners amid US tariff turmoil ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2025/0930/india-china-trade-tariffs-ports    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:41:15

• Liu Haixing takes over Communist Party of China’s international department ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/liu-haixing-takes-over-cpcs-international-department    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:41:32

• New York firm faces China investigation over $17M advanced trading hardware smuggling https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/new-york-firm-faces-china-investigation-over-usd17m-advanced-trading-hardware-smuggling-accused-of-installing-customized-processors-and-networking-hardware-at-shanghai-futures-exchange    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:45:59

• HKFP Lens: Sea of red in Hong Kong as city prepares for PRC’s 76th anniversary ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/30/hkfp-lens-sea-of-red-in-hong-kong-as-city-prepares-for-prcs-76th-anniversary/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:46:29

• Palo Alto Networks spots new China espionage group showcasing advanced skills ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/phantom-taurus-china-espionage-group/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:48:40

• From Disillusionment to Freedom: Why Creatives Need FOSS Now More Than Ever ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/creatives-need-foss-now/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:48:59

• "Telegram founder Pavel Durov says he thinks he was poisoned in 2018" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/10/01/telegram-founder-pavel-durov-says-he-thinks-he-was-poisoned-in-2018 | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:49:28

• Employees are being forced back to the office – and it’s impacting remote workers’ baby boom ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/09/30/lifestyle/return-to-office-mandate-impacts-remote-workers-baby-boom/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:58:06

• Newspaper columnists and BillBC execs becoming more elitist, research finds ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/little-sign-of-progress-on-social-diversity-among-journalists-and-commentators-private-school-university/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:58:33

• Physicists Simulated a Black Hole in The Lab, And It Then Began to Glow ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-simulated-a-black-hole-in-the-lab-and-it-then-began-to-glow    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 09:59:07

• First Stars Appeared in a 'Pre-Heated' Universe, Says Surprising Study ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/first-stars-appeared-in-a-pre-heated-universe-says-surprising-study    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:05:05

• Working Egg Cells Made Using DNA From Human Skin in World First ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/working-egg-cells-made-using-dna-from-human-skin-in-world-first    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:05:17

• Earth Is at Risk From 'Invisible' Asteroids Lurking Near Venus ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-is-at-risk-from-invisible-asteroids-lurking-near-venus    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:05:42

• Radicle 1.5.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1040236/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:06:12

• "[Zoltan] was developing a workshop on Matter for DEF CON, and wanted to whip up a fun IoT project to go with it. His idea was simple—take a simple toy train, and put it on the Internet of Things." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/30/toy-train-joins-the-internet-of-things/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:06:37

• What restrictions have the Taliban imposed in Afghanistan this year? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/What-restrictions-have-the-Taliban-imposed-in-Afghanistan-this-year    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:07:02

• Afghanistan In Massive Internet Shutdown Amid Taliban 'Morality' Crackdown ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/33544280.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:07:25

• UN calls for Taliban to restore internet as Afghanistan goes dark ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250930-un-calls-for-taliban-to-restore-internet-as-afghanistan-goes-dark    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:07:45

• Athens Democracy Forum: Discontent Has Put Democracy in Jeopardy ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/world/europe/democracy-athens-forum-discontent.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:08:07

• How Chinese Weapons Transformed a War Between Two Neighbors ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/world/asia/thailand-cambodia-china-weapons.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:08:23

• ‘My Child is Now a Political Debate’: Immigrant Families Battle Convicted Felon’s Birthright Citizenship Threats ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/my-child-is-now-a-political-debate-immigrant-families-battle-trumps-birthright-citizenship-threats    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:09:57

• Christian Hergert: Status Week 39 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2025/09/30/status-week-39/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:24:56

• Openwashing+ponzi scheme, paid for scam ("aifactoriesdatacenters") https://siliconangle.com/2025/09/30/private-ai-moves-data-next-door-aifactoriesdatacenters/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:27:27

• vLLM or llama.cpp: Choosing the right LLM inference engine for your use case ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/09/30/vllm-or-llamacpp-choosing-right-llm-inference-engine-your-use-case    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:28:36

• How to change the meaning of python and python3 on RHEL ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/09/30/how-change-meaning-python-and-python3-rhel    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:29:10

• NixOS Moderation Team Resigns in Protest of SC Interference ☞ https://linuxiac.com/nixos-moderation-team-resigns-in-protest-of-sc-interference/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:30:56

• Manners are for politicians, journalists need to be honest, direct, sometimes blunt. But even politicians are fast becoming blunt, partly because they're convicted criminals who should never have made it through (but do).    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:32:52

• Hans de Goede: Fedora 43 will ship with FOSS Meteor, Lunar and Arrow Lake MIPI camera support ☞ https://hansdegoede.dreamwidth.org/31089.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:33:56

• Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1040120/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:34:08

• Constructing Meanderer trike lower swing-arms ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202509/constructing-meanderer-trike-lower-swing-arms.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:35:27

• Haruna 1.5 ☞ https://haruna.kde.org/blog/2025-09-30-haruna-1.5/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:35:59

• MuseScore Studio 4.6 Notation App Released with VST3 Support on GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxiac.com/musescore-studio-4-6-notation-app-released-with-vst3-support-on-linux/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:39:29

• Latest NVIDIA GNU/Linux Driver 580.95 Released with Bug Fixes ☞ https://linuxiac.com/latest-nvidia-linux-driver-580-95-released-with-bug-fixes/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:41:26

• Donut Browser – anti-detect browser ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/donut-browser-anti-detect-browser/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:44:31

• VIT – Visual Interactive Taskwarrior ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/vit-visual-interactive-taskwarrior/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:44:49

• Scramble – privacy-focused image metadata removal tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/scramble-privacy-focused-image-metadata-removal-tool/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:44:57

• ChessMD – lightweight PGN database viewer and analysis tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/chessmd-lightweight-pgn-database-viewer-analysis-tool/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:46:04

• Water Hammer Simulation – simulate the Water Hammer phenomenon ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/water-hammer-simulation-simulate-the-water-hammer-phenomenon/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:46:12

• 15 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Tools for Novelists ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/novelists/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:46:36

• Almalinux vs Rocky Linux: Battle of the CentOS Clones ☞ https://ubuntupit.com/almalinux-vs-rocky-linux/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:47:15

• Debian vs. Arch Linux: Which is Better for You? ☞ https://ubuntupit.com/debian-vs-arch-linux/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:48:07

• 14 Basic Tar Commands in GNU/Linux with Examples for Newbies ☞ https://ubuntupit.com/basic-tar-commands-in-linux-with-examples-for-newbies/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:48:37

• Apt vs Apt-get Commands Explained: Which One To Use? ☞ https://ubuntupit.com/apt-vs-apt-get-commands-explained-and-which-one-to-use/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 10:49:12

• Huawei-powered mini-PC debuts with Huawei Hey Hi (AI) chip and 192GB of memory — Orange Pi Hey Hi (AI) Studio Pro wields Ascend 310 chip with 352 TOPS of Hey Hi (AI) performance, but relies on a single USB-C port ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/orange-pi-ai-studio-pro-mini-pc-debuts-with-huawei-ascend-310-and-352-tops-of-ai-performance-also-features-up-to-192gb-of-memory-but-relies-on-a-single-usb-c-port    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:00:09

• German far-right lawmaker’s ex aide sentenced to nearly 5 years for spying for China ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/30/german-far-right-lawmakers-ex-aide-sentenced-to-nearly-5-years-for-spying-for-china/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:00:35

• Compsci Grads Are Cooked ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/computer-science-college-graduates-jobs    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:01:19

• You Might Want to Ditch Your Hey Hi (AI) Investments Now That Jim Cramer Says No Bubble Is Coming ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/jim-cramer-ai-bubble    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:01:36

• Bills to watch as government shutdown draws nearer ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/09/bills-to-watch-as-government-shutdown-draws-nearer/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:02:31

• How Zohran Mamdani Built a Campaign Around Food ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/dining/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-food.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:03:26

• U.N. Security Council Approves Larger Force to Fight Gangs in Haiti ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/world/americas/un-haiti-security-gangs.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:03:43

• iophk: Good news there in .at http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/01/Austria_s_military_switches_from_Microsoft_Office_to_LibreOffic.shtml Didn't the French Gendarmerie make a similar move years ago too?    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:04:22

• Every headline with the term "ai" in it is becoming irritating enough and the substance in such stuff is always nothing... so it is worth skipping    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:05:03

• $7.3 billion worth of cryptocurrency recovered from newly convicted 'Bitcoin Queen' — funds from fraudster thought to be the largest seizure to date ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/usd7-3-billion-worth-of-cryptocurrency-recovered-from-newly-convicted-bitcoin-queen-funds-from-fraudster-thought-to-be-the-largest-seizure-to-date    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:10:41

• Qt 6.9.3 Released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.9.3-released    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:11:09

• Myanmar authorities convert Rohingya land into security facilities, UN report says ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/myanmar-authorities-convert-rohingya-land-into-security-facilities-un-report-says/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:12:08

• SIU uncovers syndicates which allegedly looted R2 billion at Tembisa hospital ☞ https://www.protectionweb.co.za/civil-security/siu-uncovers-syndicates-which-allegedly-looted-r2-billion-at-tembisa-hospital/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:20:51

• Dutch cargo ship Minervagracht hit by explosive device in Gulf of Aden ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/sea/sea-sea/dutch-cargo-ship-minervagracht-hit-by-explosive-device-in-gulf-of-aden/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:21:41

• Anthropic touts safety, security improvements in Claude Sonnet 4.5 ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/anthrophic-sonnet-4-5-security-safety-testing/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:22:00

• Watchdog: Cyber threat information-sharing program’s future uncertain with expected expiration of 2015 law ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/watchdog-cyber-threat-information-sharing-programs-future-uncertain-with-expected-expiration-of-2015-law/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:23:10

• How a UN Security Council resolution could help end the war in Gaza ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-a-un-security-council-resolution-could-help-end-the-war-in-gaza/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:24:07

• As Europe’s neutral states shift closer to NATO, Ireland approaches a turning point for its security ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/as-europes-neutral-states-shift-closer-to-nato-ireland-approaches-a-turning-point-for-its-security/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:25:18

• The overlooked frontline of Women, Peace and Security ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-overlooked-frontline-of-women-peace-and-security/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:27:02

• Cyberattack on Beer Giant Asahi Disrupts Production ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cyberattack-on-beer-giant-asahi-disrupts-production/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:49:12

• High-Severity Vulnerabilities Patched in VMware Aria Operations, NSX, vCenter ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-vulnerabilities-patched-in-vmware-aria-operations-nsx-vcenter/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:50:26

• New Guidance Calls on OT Operators to Create Continually Updated System Inventory ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-guidance-calls-on-ot-operators-to-create-continually-updated-system-inventory/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:50:49

• Birth of the Pearl (1901) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/birth-of-the-pearl    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 12:58:21

• "Supercon is the Ultimate Hardware Conference and you need to be there! Just check out this roster of talks that will be going down." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/30/2025-hackaday-speakers-round-one-and-spoilers/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 13:05:38

• Hard Hat Becomes Bluetooth Direction Finder: "Have you ever wanted to find a Bluetooth device out in the wild while looking like the comic relief character from a science-fiction series? You might like Dendrite, the direction-finding hat from [SolidStat3]" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/30/hard-hat-becomes-bluetooth-direction-finder/ | Source: Hackaday    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, oCTOBER 01, 2025 AT 13:09:27

• "Improved 3D Printer Cannibalizes Two Older Printers" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/30/improved-3d-printer-cannibalizes-two-older-printers/ | Source: Hackaday    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, oCTOBER 01, 2025 AT 13:09:56

• Unitree Humanoid Robot Exploit Looks Like A Bad One ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/30/unitree-humanoid-robot-exploit-looks-like-a-bad-one/ | Source: Hackaday    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, oCTOBER 01, 2025 AT 13:10:38

• "You can get all kinds of great wildlife footage if you trek out into the woods with a camera, but it can be tough to stay awake all night. However, this is a task you can readily automate, as [Luke] did with his DIY trail camera." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/30/a-trail-camera-built-with-raspberry-pi/ | Source: Hackaday    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, oCTOBER 01, 2025 AT 13:11:38

• Why Business Intelligence is Key to Software Production ☞ https://toscalix.com/2025/09/30/why-business-intelligence-is-key-to-software-production/    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, oCTOBER 01, 2025 AT 13:15:18

• 10 Years of Qt OPC UA ☞ https://www.basyskom.de/10-years-of-qt-opc-ua/    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, oCTOBER 01, 2025 AT 13:15:55

• Junichi Uekawa: Start of fourth quarter of the year. ☞ http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2025-Oct-1.html.en#2025-Oct-1-08:25:44 "Start of fourth quarter of the year. The end of year is feeling close!"    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 13:18:47

• Amazon’s New AI-Powered Alexa Is a Half-Working Mess ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-ai-alexa-half-working-mess "LLMs aren’t designed to be predictable, and what you want when controlling your home is predictability."    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 13:19:42

• Public Knowledge Opposes FCC Phone Jamming Vote ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-opposes-fcc-phone-jamming-vote/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 13:20:07

• Whistleblowers Say NASA Is Poised to Kill an Astronaut ☞ https://futurism.com/space/nasa-whistleblowers-budget-astronaut    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 13:20:58

• Weakness of "MANE" for Hair Products Yields Dismissal: MAIN ESTEEM Not Confusable with MANE 'N TAIL ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/09/weakness-of-mane-for-hair-products.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 13:21:23

• Apple Updates iOS and macOS to Prevent Malicious Font Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/apple-updates-ios-and-macos-to-prevent-malicious-font-attacks/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 13:22:54

• IOW, there are enough fools out there hallucinating that "bullshit generators" actually think and understand (spoiler: they don't they cannot) https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-chatgpt-conscious-entities    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 13:23:48

• Orange Pi Hey Hi (AI) Studio Pro – A Huawei Ascend 310 Hey Hi (AI) mini PC with up to 352 TOPS, 192GB RAM ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/09/30/orange-pi-ai-studio-pro-huawei-ascend-310-ai-mini-pc-with-up-to-352-tops-192gb-ram/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 13:24:35

• China's 96-core x86 CPU taps chiplet design to rival AMD EPYC and defective chip maker Intel Xeon — 13 chiplets per processor provide up to 384 cores on a single motherboard, but no word on power consumption ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/chinas-96-core-cpu-taps-chiplet-design-to-rival-amds-epyc-up-to-384-cores-on-a-single-motherboard-but-no-word-yet-on-tdp    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 13:25:19

• Report: FBI-run encrypted phone data was stored on server in Lithuania ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2697631/report-fbi-run-encrypted-phone-data-was-stored-on-server-in-lithuania    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 13:25:47

• Hong Kong Chief Exec. John Lee warns foreign diplomats not to engage in ‘destructive activities’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/30/hong-kong-chief-exec-john-lee-warns-foreign-diplomats-not-to-engage-in-destructive-activities/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 13:26:57

• "Shopify Engages in Hostile Takeover of RubyGems and Bundler" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/09/29/0143218    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 13:54:44

• "user=admin". Sometimes you don't even need to log in., (Tue, Sep 30th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32334    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 13:55:54

• WordPress 6.8.3 Release ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2025/09/wordpress-6-8-3-release/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 13:56:19

• Meta reportedly buying RISC-V Hey Hi (AI) GPU firm Rivos — acquisition to bolster dev team and possibly replace Nvidia internally ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/meta-reportedly-buying-risc-v-ai-gpu-firm-rivos-acquisition-to-bolster-dev-team-and-possibly-replace-nvidia-internally    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 13:57:21

• File size-based log rotation in syslog-ng ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/other/syslog-ng-file-size-based-log-rotation/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 13:58:45

• Pope Leo Plans to Speak on Climate Change ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/climate/pope-leo-climate-speech-laudato-si.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 13:59:14

• Athens Democracy Forum: Freedom of Speech in Academia Is Under Attack ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/world/democracy-forum-athens-freedom-of-speech.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 13:59:35

• Starmer Describes Fight for ‘Soul’ of U.K. as Populist Right Rises ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/world/europe/starmer-speech-soul-uk.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:00:04

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Generals Speech Was Political Theater ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/opinion/trump-hegseth-generals-speech.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:00:34

• Judge Rules Convicted Felon Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/politics/student-speech-palestinians-ruling.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:00:52

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Gave the Military’s Brass a Rehashed Speech. Until Minute 44. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/politics/trump-military-brass-speech.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:01:25

• 5 Takeaways From Convicted Felon’s Address to Top Military Leaders ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/politics/trump-speech-military-takeaways.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:01:36

• May Solidarity and Speech Defeat Pardons and Tanks ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/30/may-solidarity-and-speech-defeat-pardons-and-tanks/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:02:03

• Dihydroxyacetone Man's Martial plan? US military encouraged to embrace 'warrior ethos' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20250930-trump-s-martial-plan-us-military-encouraged-to-embrace-warrior-ethos    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:02:31

• Dihydroxyacetone Man calls for using US cities as a ‘training ground’ for military in unusual speech to generals ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2025/09/trump-and-hegseth-set-to-meet-with-hundreds-of-military-leaders-as-speculation-grows/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:02:48

• Video message by President von der Leyen at the “Climate action that works for you” event ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_2262    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:03:21

• Qubes OS Summit 2025: videos and slides ☞ https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2025/09/30/qubes-os-summit-2025-videos-and-slides/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:06:02

• Kernel 6.17: auspicious autumnal accomplishments ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/kernel-6.17-auspicious-autumnal-accomplishments.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:06:24

• Support for Istio 1.25 has ended ☞ https://istio.io/latest/news/support/announcing-1.25-eol-final/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:07:03

• Centralized Expanded Discretionary Denial ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/09/centralized-expanded-discretionary.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:17:27

• "I have not read the patent monopoly but typically batteries are replaceable, and when something comprising a battery is disclosed, you typically automatically conceive its existence also without the battery, for example, as someone pointed out above, when time has come to exchange the battery." http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-unforgiving-gold-standard-why.html?showComment=1759218782315#c457225504453491086    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:18:01

• "In this sense, a device without a battery would appear to be at least implicitly disclosed. Or not?"    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:18:06

• "Certainly the sheer volume of cases the EPO gets through, and the conscious desire to grant and maintain valid cases means there is a lot which the EPO does right compared to other patent monopoly offices."    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:19:34

• "It undergoes a constant evolution in case law and patent monopoly practice which is responsive to changing needs and new technologies. However it still has its faults." http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-unforgiving-gold-standard-why.html?showComment=1759221110459#c9216750033242259739    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:19:39

• "I have not read the patent monopoly but typically batteries are replaceable, and when something comprising a battery is disclosed, you typically automatically conceive its existence also without the battery, for example, as someone pointed out above, when time has come to exchange the battery. In this sense, a device without a battery would appear to be at least implicitly disclosed. Or not?"    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:21:27

• Lexidine vehicle camera patent monopoly challenge instituted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/9/30/lexidine-vehicle-camera-patent-challenge-instituted    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:22:13

• European court cancels Biogen’s extended market exclusivity for Tecfidera ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/biogen-loses-market-exclusivity-battle-over-multiple-sclerosis-drug/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:22:33

• Jonathan McDowell: Local Voice Assistant Step 5: Remote Satellite ☞ https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2025/09/voice-assistant-satellite.markdown.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:24:44

• Dozens missing, three dead in Indonesia school collapse ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesia-school-building-collapse-kills-one-injures-dozens    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:25:15

• Fedora's Balancing Act: New Guidelines on Vibe Coding Contributions ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/fedora-ai-guidelines/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:25:46

• Phishing evolves with Hey Hi (AI) and stealth ☞ https://www.protectionweb.co.za/cyber-security/phishing-evolves-with-ai-and-stealth/    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, oCTOBER 01, 2025 AT 14:33:11

• China beefs up missile threat against Taiwan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/the-missiles-threatening-taiwan    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:35:48

• Strong quake in central Philippines kills 8 as search ongoing ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/6-9-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-off-central-philippines-usgs    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:36:14

• 404 Accountability not found: Spyware accountability through software liability ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/404-accountability-not-found-spyware-accountability-through-software-liability/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:55:29

• Open-Source Android Apps at Risk Under Google’s New Decree ☞ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-f-droid-warns-google-developer-decree-open-source-android/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:55:57

• LibreArts Weekly recap — 28 September 2025 ☞ https://librearts.org/2025/09/week-recap-28-september-2025/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:56:34

• Fedora Community Blog: Simplifying Package Submission Progress (29 July – 7 August) – GSoC ’25 ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/simplifying-package-submission-progress-29-july-7-august-gsoc-25/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:57:05

• Is cookie consent going to change in the UK? ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-future-of-cookie-consent-and-the-risks-of-relaxing-online-tracking/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:57:50

• COOKIE CONSENT REVIEW EXPOSES WEAKNESSES IN UK DATA PROTECTION REFORM ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/cookie-consent-review-exposes-weaknesses-in-uk-data-protection-reform/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:58:11

• Bukele ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/ambassador-ronald-johnson-nayib-bukele-trump-el-salvador | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 14:58:43

• Something for the #TODO list: stick with one ☞ https://rubenerd.com/something-for-the-todo-list-make-one/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:00:08

• #SciArtSeptember: Accrete ☞ https://rubenerd.com/sciartseptember-accrete/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:00:18

• "Gawker thought they could legally get away with mistreating their free image source, as though the licence absolved them of journalistic integrity and class. Firms with fat profit margins think they can demand anything from maintainers of small projects, and have the gall to not offer anything in return." ☞ https://rubenerd.com/treat-people-well-who-give-you-things/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:00:57

• The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 911 ☞ https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2025/09/29/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-911/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:01:32

• Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1040152/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:01:50

• Notes from September 2025 ☞ https://evanhahn.com/notes-from-september-2025/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:02:40

• Linux Matters: MacOS Made Me Snap! ☞ https://linuxmatters.sh/65/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:03:09

• $3,000 awarded for Cloud-Native Heroes Challenge - prior art found on Proxense '640 ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/9/25/3000-awarded-for-cloud-native-heroes-challenge-prior-art-found-on-proxense-640    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:04:30

• Putin’s dream of demilitarizing Ukraine has turned into his worst nightmare ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-dream-of-demilitarizing-ukraine-has-turned-into-his-worst-nightmare/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:05:49

• Avoiding OSAID: Brock and Perens Reflect on a Year of Open Source Hey Hi (AI) Debate ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/09/avoid-osaid-brock-and-perens-reflect-on-a-year-of-open-source-ai-debate/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:06:19

• Ukrainian Latvian discussion taking place this week ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/30.09.2025-ukrainian-latvian-discussion-taking-place-this-week.a616429/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:07:14

• Multinational combined joint force offers credible collective deterrence ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/multinational-combined-joint-force-offers-credible-collective-deterrence/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:07:44

• Belarus dictator must not be rewarded for releasing his own prisoners ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/belarus-dictator-must-not-be-rewarded-for-releasing-his-own-prisoners/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:07:59

• IAEA Working To Restore Power Line At Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Plant After Zelenskyy Sounds Alarm ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-nuclear-power-russia-zaporizhzhya-grossi-iaea/33545347.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:08:39

• Second Ukrainian Suspect Detained Over Nord Stream Blasts ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/second-ukrainian-suspect-detained-over-nord-stream-blasts/33545104.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:08:56

• A.I. Fighter Jets and Cockroach Spies: Inside the Changing Business of War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/business/economy/defense-spending-startups.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:09:08

• Secretive Program That Keeps Ukraine’s Weapons Firing Is Suddenly in Doubt ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/world/europe/ukraine-ammunition-program-czech-republic.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:09:25

• "Parts of Russia are resorting to price caps and gasoline" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/cards/pain-at-the-pump | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:10:01

• "Civilians are paying the price." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/30/hospitals-and-schools-are-the-first-to-suffer | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:10:09

• Bookshelf: Brzezinski, one of the last grand strategists ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/bookshelf-brzezinski-one-of-the-last-grand-strategists/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:11:13

• US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker’s message to allies ‘dragging their feet’ on defense spending ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/news/transcripts/us-ambassador-to-nato-matthew-whitakers-message-to-allies-dragging-their-feet-on-defense-spending/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:11:34

• France investigates oil tanker listed under Russia 'shadow fleet' sanctions ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250930-france-investigates-oil-tanker-listed-under-russia-shadow-fleet-sanctions    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:12:02

• Lithuania expects expanded powers for NATO air mission amid Russian threats ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2697243/lithuania-expects-expanded-powers-for-nato-air-mission-amid-russian-threats    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:12:17

• Russia’s Military Budget Shrinks as War Costs Hit Kremlin’s Economic Limits ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/world/europe/russia-budget-military.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:12:27

• "Gay until proven otherwise" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/30/gay-until-proven-otherwise | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:12:47

• "closes its visa centers in Russia" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/30/czechia-bans-unaccredited-russian-diplomats-and-closes-its-visa-centers-in-russia | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:13:03

• "Russia’s vanishing act" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/30/russia-s-vanishing-act | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:13:21

• UN presses Belarus to loosen child contact restrictions for convicted mothers ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/un-presses-belarus-to-loosen-child-contact-restrictions-for-convicted-mothers/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:13:39

• John Squires Confirmed as USPTO Director, With Serious Work Ahead ☞ https://patentprogress.org/2025/09/john-squires-confirmed-as-uspto-director-with-serious-work-ahead/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:14:05

• Dev snapshot: Godot 4.6 dev 1 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-6-dev-1/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:14:17

• Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/health/long-covid-children.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:14:45

• Austria’s military switches from Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Office to LibreOffice ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09/30/austrias-military-switches-from-microsoft-office-to-libreoffice/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:15:06

• Microsoft Lunduke Spreads Deliberate Lies to Incite Online Mobs ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/30/Microsoft_Lunduke_Spreads_Deliberate_Lies_to_Incite_Online_Mobs.shtml    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:15:14

• South African Ambassador to France Is Found Dead in Paris ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/world/europe/mthethwa-south-africa-ambassador-france-dead.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:15:39

• South African ambassador found dead at Paris hotel in possible suicide: prosecutor ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250930-south-african-ambassador-found-dead-at-paris-hotel-in-possible-suicide-prosecutor    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:15:51

• Suicide blast targeting Pakistan paramilitary kills 10, officials say ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/Suicide-blast-targeting-Pakistan-paramilitary-kills-10-officials-say    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:16:17

• Turkey’s state science academy used research funds for personal gadgets, audit reveals ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/turkeys-state-science-academy-used-research-funds-for-personal-gadgets-audit-reveals-312088    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:16:33

• The Insurrectionist’s Fentanylware (CheeTok) Deal Looks Like Crony Capitalism ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/donald-trumps-tiktok-deal-looks-like-crony-capitalism    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:16:50

• Fentanylware (CheeTok) hijacking pop culture abroad https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/30/tiktok-launches-classical-music-accelerator-program/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:17:29

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

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:19:11

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

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:19:22

• How to Install PPTP VPN on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-pptp-vpn-almalinux-10/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:19:44

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

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:19:56

• How To Install JFrog Artifactory on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-jfrog-artifactory-debian-13/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:20:49

• How To Install Next.js on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-next-js-linux-mint-22/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:21:07

• How To Install Mesa Drivers on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-mesa-drivers-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:22:08

• What the Meteorologist: Announcing wxpull ☞ https://entropicthoughts.com/ecmwf-open-data-howto    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:22:22

• Surveillance + Surveillance ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/30/waymo-youtube-music-partnership/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:24:49

• Dihydroxyacetone Man warns of "irreversible" actions in case of government shutdown ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20250930-trump-warns-of-irreversible-actions-in-case-of-a-government-shutdown    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:25:01

• CrossOver Linux: An Ultimate Guide To Run backdoored Windows Programs and Games on GNU/Linux ☞ https://ubuntupit.com/crossover-linux-an-ultimate-guide-to-run-windows-programs-and-games-on-linux/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:25:48

• 50 Most Asked GNU/Linux Interview Questions & Answers ☞ https://ubuntupit.com/most-asked-linux-interview-questions-and-answers/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:25:58

• Should you switch your backdoored Windows 10 PC to Linux? ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/should-you-switch-your-windows-10-pc-to-linux-aLUJQ1c4MKpy    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:26:21

• Linux Kernel 6.17 is Available ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-Kernel-6.17-is-Available    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:29:59

• Calam 2025-10 is released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/calam    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:32:47

• AcreetionOS 1.0 "GNOME" is also released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/acreetionos    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:32:57

• Tiny Core 16.2 is out ☞ http://www.tinycorelinux.net/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:33:38

• Multiple Mushrooms Have Evolved Their Own Ways to Make Psilocybin ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/multiple-mushrooms-have-evolved-their-own-ways-to-make-psilocybin    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:34:17

• NVIDIA 580.95.05 Driver Adds Support for YCbCr 4:2:2 Display Modes over HDMI FRL ☞ https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-580-95-05-driver-adds-support-for-ycbcr-422-display-modes-over-hdmi-frl    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:34:30

• Ubuntu Touch Mobile GNU/Linux OS Is Now Finally Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-touch-mobile-linux-os-is-now-finally-based-on-ubuntu-24-04-lts    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 15:34:37

• "Today the sad news arrived. In two years news.individual.net will be discontinued." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/end-of-life-of-newsindividualnet.txt    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:09:46

• "As politicians of our representative democracies continue to push us all (and our communications too) towards being constantly monitored, analysed, and making us all into criminals, I lost my patience, and my trust, on politics." gemini://tilde.club/~keyboardan/gemlog/2025-10-01__Chat_Control.gmi    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:10:22

• 🔤SpellBinding: GHYLRSI Wordo: FINAL gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-10-01.gmi    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:11:43

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-10-01.gmi    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:12:47

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1430.jpg    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:13:23

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1780.jpg    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:13:30

• "The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-32463 (CVSS score: 9.3), which affects Sudo versions prior to 1.9.17p1. It was disclosed by Stratascale researcher Rich Mirch back in July 2025." https://thehackernews.com/2025/09/cisa-sounds-alarm-on-critical-sudo-flaw.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:19:11

• "CISA has given federal agencies until October 20 to apply the official mitigations or discontinue the use of sudo." https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-of-critical-linux-sudo-flaw-exploited-in-attacks/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:19:40

• I tried running Windows apps on Linux with Wine, but virtualization is still better https://www.xda-developers.com/tried-running-windows-apps-linux-with-wine-but-virtualization-still-better/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:20:04

• The Linux kernel just got some important upgrades - here's what's new in 6.17 https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-linux-kernel-just-got-some-important-upgrades-heres-whats-new-in-6-17/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:20:34

• Moscow: install our proprietary software on Linux. We will PROTECT YOU! https://www.kaspersky.com/linux-antivirus    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:22:44

• How I use Btrfs snapshots to make my Linux system practically bulletproof https://www.xda-developers.com/use-btrfs-snapshots-make-linux-system-bulletproof/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:23:09

• practically or virtually? Did you fire bullets into your HDD?    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:23:38

• physically and literally?    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:24:08

• Now they promote using Windows while calling it "Linux" https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-apps-can-run-wslg-make-total-sense-windows/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:25:07

• "NVIDIA have launched their latest recommended driver for Linux users with driver version 580.95.05 now available." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/nvidia-driver-580-95-05-released-as-the-latest-recommended-for-linux/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:25:39

• "There has been considerable worry about the impact of the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act on open source programmers. Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says, however, that there won't be much of an impact at all." https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/30/cyber_reiliance_act_opinion_column/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:26:59

• "The policy also calls out "AI slop" for unverified, low-quality machine-generated content" https://news.itsfoss.com/fedora-ai-guidelines/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:27:31

• Peridio’s Avocado OS Demo Highlights Seamless Edge AI Migration Across Qualcomm and Nvidia Hardware https://embeddedcomputing.com/technology/software-and-os/os-filesystems-libraries/peridios-avocado-os-demo-highlights-seamless-edge-ai-migration-across-qualcomm-and-nvidia-hardware    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:27:53

• Marvelous Designer finally sews itself into Linux https://digitalproduction.com/2025/09/30/marvelous-designer-finally-sews-itself-into-linux/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:28:20

• "Being in the GOG Preservation Program means they will keep them working and up to date for modern systems. While they mean Windows, you'll be able to play them on Linux systems with the help of Wine / Proton. A bunch of the new additions are also on sale." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/even-more-yes-again-classics-join-the-gog-preservation-program/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:28:54

• The Galaxy Tab S11's best new feature turns it into a powerful Linux computer https://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-tab-s11-linux-terminal-3602231/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:29:17

• Is this Arch distro the 'ultimate' Linux? That depends on your GPU https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-this-arch-based-distro-the-ultimate-linux-that-depends-on-your-gpu/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:30:07

• Galaxy Tab S11 Series Can Actually Run Linux Apps https://sammyguru.com/galaxy-tab-s11-series-can-actually-run-linux-apps/    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 16:38:16

• PCLinuxOS Screenshot Showcase https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202510/page11.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 18:16:53

• "This month’s cover was created by Meemaw. She took an image from Pixabay artist Gerd Altmann as her background, and placed the Linux mascot Tux making “leaf angels” in the leaves. It’s a fitting image for the onset of Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere." https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202510/editorial.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 18:17:52

• Wiki Pick: Backing Up Your /home Directory https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202510/page08.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 18:20:54

• "Wired and Business Insider have removed news features written by a freelance journalist after concerns they are likely AI-generated works of fiction, according to an article from the Press Gazette in the UK." https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202510/page03.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 18:22:56

• Inkscape Tutorial: Arrows! https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202510/page04.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 18:23:32

• Tip Top Tips: Install Resynthesizer Plugin For GIMP3 https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202510/page06.html    

posted Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 18:25:21