Roy Schestowitz

• Part Time gemini://gbryant.co.uk/gemlog/2025-10-03_part-time.gmi    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 05:28:03

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posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 05:28:22

• "This one may be easier for the German speaking members of the audience, but the "B"-like character in Brogue is not a beta." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/10/04/notbeta.gmi    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 05:29:22

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posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 05:29:52

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posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 05:29:57

• "The Armed Forces of Austria Upgrade to LibreOffice and the OpenDocument Format" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/02/146250    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 05:37:36

• ""Speak for Me" (S4M) was envisioned as a niche Windows accessibility feature for those on their way to losing their voice" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/microsoft-voice-clone-scary-unsalvageable | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 05:53:51

• "It turns out Sora 2 is vulnerable to prompt injection!" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/3/cameo-prompt-injections/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 05:53:57

• "hit with a $500 million " ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/information-tech/hexaware-slapped-with-500-million-patent-lawsuit-in-us-court/articleshow/124271798.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 05:54:33

• "Strava filed a patent for segments in 2011, which was awarded in 2015. As for heatmaps, it filed two related patents, one in 2014, granted two years later, and another in 2016, granted in 2017." ☛ https://www.androidauthority.com/strava-garmin-lawsuit-3603690/ | Source: Android Authority    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 05:54:46

• "Strava is seeking a permanent injunction to prohibit Garmin from selling or offering any products that provide segments or heat mapping features" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/790922/strava-garmin-patent-infringement-lawsuit | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 05:55:01

• "and the other focused on heatmaps and popularity routing. This second piece has one primary patent that Strava is saying Garmin violated (patent 9297651), with an ancillary patent 9778053" ☛ https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/10/strava-sues-garmin-demands-stop-selling-devices.html | Source: DC Rainmaker    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 05:55:17

• "In this video [1], Stallman talks about his machine trying to understand the "phenomenon" of a physical mechanism, which enables it to "deduce" next steps" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45466244    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 06:06:46

• "In a recent lawsuit filed Sept. 30, Strava claims Garmin infringed on patents related to its segments and heatmapping features." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/strava-lawsuit-demands-garmin-ceases-selling-watches/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 06:26:35

• "And the pressure on the duopoly to keep growing is creating more and more pressure on everyone else’s ability to make a living." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/the-duopoly-crunch-from-the-brand-side/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 06:27:22

• "After months of organizing led by the Maine Music Alliance (MEMA) — a coalition of local independent venues, musicians, music workers, and arts organizations — the Portland City Council voted 6-3 to impose a moratorium blocking construction of a Live Nation venue." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/10/live-nation-ticketmaster-music-industry/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 06:27:32

• "Lastly, Windows users now get extra system information—the client can detect Secure Boot and TPM status, which will also be included in the Steam Hardware Survey going forward." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/steam-oct-client-update-rolls-out-with-exploit-mitigation/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 06:28:15

• "As for what happens now, Ek is not really gone. He has just moved to a higher chair, while two of his deputies step up. From the outside it doesn’t look like much will change." ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music/2025/10/the-man-who-sold-the-world-spotifys-founder-steps-down | Source: New Statesman    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 06:28:24

• "Carr joined Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and State Attorney General Tim Griffin in Arkansas for a tour of the Varner Supermax facility in September, Inside Towers reported." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/fcc-proposes-rules-to-enable-state-local-prisons-to-jam-illegal-cell-phones/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 06:50:50

• "Holy shit I love my internet service provider said no one ever!" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/03/we-dont-care-we-dont-have-to/#were-the-phone-company | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 06:51:02

• "Since 2020, Bell has invested nearly $17 billion to expand its wireless and Pure Fibre networks across Canada." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/bell-expands-wireless-coverage-in-canada/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 06:51:12

• "Instead, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent arrested Marques May, a 38-year-old Brazilian national who has no criminal record and works as a film director in Los Angeles." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-03/film-director-brazil-detained-by-ice-green-card-interview | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:05:42

• "All of that descended into chaos instantaneously, when an ICE agent—or some other masked motherfucker—after being momentarily blocked by a scooter, decides to uncork a can of teargas and casually toss it out of the window of his unmarked SUV" ☛ https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-10-03-logan-square/ | Source: Dan Sinker    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:05:59

• "And what happened in Chicago this week? It’s sufferable. Barely." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/03/chicago-and-the-end-of-american-liberty/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:06:08

• "Blackhawk helicopters. Flash bangs. A chainsaw to cut through fencing. Doors blown off hinges. Holes in walls. An entire building’s worth of American citizens treated as enemy combatants in a war zone." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-sufferable-evil | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:06:19

• "faced criticism for alleged civil rights abuses and failures to adhere to constitutional principles and due process" ☛ https://itwire.com/government-tech-news/technology-regulation/frozen-out-trump-administration-orders-anti-ice-apps,-including-iceblock,-removed-from-apple-s-app-store.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:06:50

• "In the worst union busting in memory, the administration has claimed that union contracts for most federal workers are void and stopped agencies from collecting union dues." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/10/government-shutdown-federal-workers-billionaires/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:07:02

• "CoreCivic, one of two prison giants that have cashed in from President Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations, expects to rake in nearly $300 million more from new contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement." ☛ https://www.notus.org/immigration/corecivic-immigrant-detention-contracts-california-kansas-oklahoma | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:10:50

• "Many tribal leaders said they feared that the Trump administration would use the shutdown to lay off federal workers responsible for ensuring that trust and treaty responsibilities are honored." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2025/10/federal-shutdown-hurts-services-for-native-americans-and-they-worry-worse-is-coming.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:11:04

• "Labor unions and tech companies have fought for years over drivers' rights." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-10-03/newsom-signs-bill-giving-800-000-uber-and-lyft-drivers-in-california-the-right-to-unionize | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:12:35

• "California is the second state where Uber and Lyft drivers can unionize as independent contractors." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/newsom-signs-bill-giving-800000-uber-and-lyft-drivers-in-california-the-right-to-unionise/articleshow/124300550.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:12:46

• "As Elizabeth Lopatto and Sarah Jeong wrote earlier today: [...]" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/791170/iceblock-app-store-removed-by-apple | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:15:04

• "Can liberals do something similar now? Free speech, for obvious reasons, has always been an opposition-party issue—it’s a lot harder to claim that the government is suppressing you when your preferred party is in power." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/can-the-democrats-take-free-speech-back-from-the-right | Source: New Yorker    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:15:16

• "If you want to read the full list of official White House enemies, go ahead and click through." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/02/trump-publishes-enemies-list-to-white-house-website-and-its-just-democrats-speaking-the-truth/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:15:26

• "The day before her death, local security forces raided Slavina's home in search of evidence of her alleged involvement with the opposition." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/03/daughter-of-late-russian-journalist-irina-slavina-detained-while-laying-flowers-in-her-memory-a90707 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:15:43

• "Fifty years, I’ve been kind of a musical ambassador for America around the world" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bruce-springsteen-government-censorship-kimmel-1235440173/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:20:26

• "The U.S. government does not have the authority to demand the removal of these lawful apps. But it does have the authority to make Apple and Google pay dearly if they do not comply." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/apple-google-ice-apps/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:23:52

• "Rights advocates have raised concerns that rights to free speech and due process are often being infringed as the government pushes ahead with its deportation drive." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/apple-removes-ice-tracking-apps-after-pressure-by-trump-administration/articleshow/124281261.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:24:01

• "Apple and Google blocked downloads of phone apps that flag sightings of US immigration agents, just hours after the Trump administration demanded that one particularly popular iPhone app be taken down." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/apple-google-block-apps-that-crowdsource-ice-sightings-some-warn-of-chilling-effects/articleshow/124300538.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:24:11

• "The ability to use your freedom of expression to try to change what the government does is, in fact, why the First Amendment was put in the Constitution in the first place." ☛ https://fair.org/home/under-trump-criticism-is-now-criminal/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:24:20

• "Now teen girls can get a crash course on sex with a few keystrokes" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/10/books-briefing-judy-blume-american-book-banning/684449/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:24:40

• "Sora — as well as Google’s Veo 3 and other tools like it — could become increasingly fertile breeding grounds for disinformation and abuse, experts said" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/technology/sora-openai-video-disinformation.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:25:20

• "Democrats have not called for medical assistance for undocumented migrants, who are not eligible for federal programs" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-03/trump-insists-on-a-hoax-about-migrants-to-explain-the-government-shutdown.html | Source: El País    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:25:27

• "Decay builds quietly until, all at once, trust evaporates. The surprise is rarely the failure itself. The surprise is that the warning signs were ignored." ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1103 | Source: Unmitigated Risk    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:29:30

• "The program was introduced just weeks after the Trump administration announced a new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/china-talent-immigration-visa-h1-b-policy/ | Source: Wired    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:29:49

• "They go back over many years. While some of the issues were worked on in more recent times, the full scale of the problem only became visible during the leadership change in 2025" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/nz_itp_collapse/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:30:05

• "Microsoft is renting external GPU data centers for internal use so it can, in turn, rent out its own facilities to other customers" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-inks-usd33-billion-in-deals-with-neoclouds-like-nebius-coreweave-nebius-deal-alone-secures-100-000-nvidia-gb300-chips-for-internal-use | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:30:31

• "Their advantage lies in handling more specific queries while offering personalized recommendations." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/how-openai-plans-to-accelerate-monetization | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:30:45

• "The ChatGPT developer’s newly closed secondary sale apparently also included contributions from SoftBank Group Corp. and Abu Dhabi’s MGX." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/02/openai-reportedly-closes-new-6-6b-secondary-sale-500b-valuation/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:31:00

• "Uber’s data labeling efforts were originally a function of its core business, but it has recently been selling these services to companies developing self-driving technologies around the world, Bloomberg reported." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/10/03/2025/uber-buys-data-labeling-startup-in-move-toward-ai-services | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:31:11

• "When you have a hundred websites across different agencies, you have a hundred headaches. Each one needs its own budget, its own staff and its own contracts. These costs add up fast." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/10/streamlining-digital-government-why-web-consolidation-is-the-future/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:31:21

• "Yet when it comes to AI in the workplace, there are suspiciously few stories of companies successfully integrating the tech." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/accenture-layoffs-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:31:40

• "A consortium led by Saudi Arabia and a key figure in Donald Trump's circle have brokered a big money deal for video game publisher Electronic Arts." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/ea-what-do-saudi-arabia-and-us-get-from-video-game-deal/a-74216783 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:31:49

• "But focusing on cost savings, rather than cost optimization, is a mistake, said Patrick Brogan" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/how-to-build-a-finops-strategy-that-works/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:32:19

• "Waymo and Tesla represent distinct approaches to autonomous driving technology." ☛ https://beuke.org/tesla-waymo/ | Source: Fabian Beuke    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:33:17

• "Pebble-bed reactor designs have a long and discouraging history dating back to the 1940s." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2025/10/03/paper-reactors-and-paper-tigers/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:33:23

• "Underwater facilities can save around 90 per cent of energy consumption for cooling" ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/underwater-data-center-shanghai-highlander | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:37:07

• "Chinese company Highlander is building a server pod near Shanghai" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/china-to-launch-commercial-underwater-data-center-facility-expected-to-consume-90-percent-less-power-for-cooling | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:37:14

• "In 1986, Goodall shifted course dramatically after attending a conference of chimpanzee researchers at Lincoln Park Zoo" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2025/10/jane-goodall-fame-research-conservation/684433/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:37:40

• "Consider Acadia National Park in Maine. More intense storms and rising seas are accelerating erosion and killing native plants along its iconic coastline." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trumps-purge-of-negative-national-park-signs-includes-climate-change/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:37:52

• "The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 99% of the world's oceans, raising concerns for its $2 billion-a-year American lobster fishery." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-gulf-maine-pose-threat-american.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:38:08

• "Now, the pace of destruction from massive wildfires is accelerating." ☛ https://www.vox.com/climate/463556/wildfire-insurance-climate-science-los-angeles-fire-insurance | Source: Vox    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:38:24

• "That these documents were paraded as fact—in a hearing devoted to disinformation, no less—was a bitter irony." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/a-veteran-reporter-was-branded-as-a-russian-spy-the-proof-didnt-hold-up/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:40:10

• "Former State Department employees whose roles were eliminated as part of a reduction-in-force still received information" ☛ https://fedscoop.com/data-error-rif-state-department-workers-furlough-info/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:40:17

• "The Eagle S is believed to be part of Russia's "shadow fleet," a network of tankers used to bypass sanctions and the oil price cap through obscure ownership structures and flags of convenience." ☛ https://kyivindependent.com/finland-court-drops-case-against-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker-crew/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:40:46

• "A Helsinki court on Friday dismissed a case against three members of a ship from Russia's "shadow fleet" suspected of cutting Baltic Sea cables, saying it was beyond its jurisdiction." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/03/finland-dismisses-case-over-baltic-cable-cuts-a90705 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:41:05

• "At 40 feet long and 10 feet wide, they are the people smugglers’ equivalent of an ocean liner – especially when heavily overloaded." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/01/chinese-super-dinghies-small-boats-migrants-britain/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:43:37

• "These messages at the Education Department are the latest example where the Trump administration has blamed Democrats for the government shutdown using official government channels." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/10/those-were-not-my-words-out-of-office-message-automatically-updated-for-furloughed-education-dept-employees/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:44:02

• "Shenna Bellows, its secretary of state, has said she is investigating the incident and said in a statement: “Safe and secure elections are my top priority." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/amazon-order-ballots-maine-election-b2838710.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:45:04

• "Forget Prime perks, a woman in Maine says her latest Amazon order came with a surprise she didn't add to her cart: 250 blank election ballots." ☛ https://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-claims-amazon-delivery-box-stuffed-hundreds-blank/story?id=126149881 | Source: ABC    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:45:42

• "I doubt the Home Secretary is right to identify him as one man alone. He tapped into discourse globalised by the [Internet] and especially strong in some Muslim immigrant communities." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/03/islamism-politics-grievance-manchester-attack/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:46:09

• "worse than Watergate" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/declining-american-democracy-trump | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:47:06

• "The news illustrates what may be a rising trend of Russian threat actors utilizing the youth of foreign countries to do their dirty work." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/dutch-authorities-arrest-teens-pro-russian-espionage | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:47:16

• "The complaint alleges this is a violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits the use of taxpayer money for partisan political purposes." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/new-complaint-filed-against-small-business-administration-for-hatch-act-violation | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:47:27

• "If Hegseth’s message was to test the loyalty of Trump’s flag officers and to give them and their subordinates permission to commit crimes, Trump delivered the perfect counterargument" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/a-lovely-day-for-a-loyalty-test/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:47:48

• "Red Hat isn't saying what kind of data was taken, or whose it was." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/red_hat_gitlab_breach/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:49:01

• "Fast forward a couple of days and I get an email from them; that's fair I checked the box in case I needed some medical information sending out or whatever." ☛ https://thomasrigby.com/posts/thank-you-for-choosing-us/ | Source: Thomas Rigby    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:49:35

• "S.2850, or Protecting Americans from Doxing and Political Violence Act, would have extended restrictions on the sale of government official location and behavior data to all Americans." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/03/ted-cruz-kills-americas-latest-attempt-to-have-functional-privacy-laws/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:50:00

• "That's why EFF is proud to join an amicus brief in Mata v. Digital Recognition Network, a lawsuit by drivers against a corporation that allegedly violated a California statute that regulates Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs)." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/privacy-harm-harm | Source: EFF    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:50:16

• "The online ad for the product, which allows cities to apply for early access to the technology, shows the image of police getting an alert for “screaming.”" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flocks-gunshot-detection-microphones-will-start-listening-human-voices | Source: EFF    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:51:47

• "For the first time, the company is adding facial recognition to its home security doorbells and video cameras." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/03/amazon-ring-doorbell-facial-recognition-pricacy/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:52:07

• "automated license plate reader cameras in more than 6,000 communities nationwide" ☛ https://therecord.media/flock-surveillance-technology-gunshot-voice-detection | Source: The Record    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:52:37

• "Tile trackers are small Bluetooth trackers, similar to Apple’s Airtags, but they work on their own network, not Apple’s." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/tiles-lack-encryption-danger-users-everywhere | Source: EFF    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:52:55

• "Under the city’s new plan, the number of cameras will balloon to 60,000 by 2028, according to documents submitted to the legislature." ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2025/10/03/hong-kong-surveillance-cameras-ai/ | Source: RFA    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:53:10

• Windows TCO: "The ransomware attack disabled the company's ordering and delivering systems, bringing production to a standstill at most of its 30 factories" ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/japan-running-dry-ransomware-attack-leaves-nation-days-away-from-asahi-beer-shortage | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:54:24

• Windows TCO: "No immediate recovery of our system is in sight at the moment. Ordinary shipments remain halted" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/cyberattack-halts-shipments-from-japans-biggest-brewer/articleshow/124283570.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:54:36

• Windows TCO: "According to a joint statement from the Israeli Health Ministry and the National Cyber Directorate issued on Friday" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/cyberattack-on-shamir-medical-center/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:54:50

• [Old] "Social media thrives particularly well in post-industrial societies because post-industrial workers have time to spend chatting on the net in a way their Fordist (production-line-working) ancestors couldn’t have even dreamt of." ☛ https://philosophynow.org/issues/137/Bullshit_Jobs_by_David_Graeber | Source: Philosophy Now    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:55:25

• "In this way, bullshit jobs and bullshit media are connected through a icious circle: there’s an attempt to compensate the loss of a meaningful working life through an increased use of social media. But the ‘meaning’ found in social media activities is just as unreal as the ‘meaning’ propagated by bullshit jobs.    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:55:57

• "Both bullshit jobs and social media, with their illusions of recognition and gratification, speculate with an ‘as if’ – as if something is being made or changed – but they provide no meaningful purposes in work or in life."    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:56:03

• "Another recent book bearing the word ‘bullshit’ in the title is B.J. Mendelson’s Social Media is Bullshit (2012). Social media and post-industrial society are closely linked. The post-industrial society is an information society, and the processing of information, useful or not, has become an occupation of almost everybody, from the multinational media company to the Facebook sharer."    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:56:28

• "But somehow, the DOJ’s assertion that Portland was in danger of falling into an armed rebellion, wasn’t the most surreal part of the hearing." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/792042/trump-oregon-national-guard-tro | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:56:47

• "A contract opportunity published on Thursday by ICE states that the Homeland Security component is seeking about 30 contractors to perform investigations and analysis of open-source intelligence from the web" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/ice_contractors_social_media_spy/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:56:59

• " Tom Alter, a labor historian and tenured professor of history at Texas State University, was fired from his job on September 10 after a far-right troll doctored a videotape of Alter speaking at a virtual Revolutionary Socialism conference." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/10/texas-state-alter-firing-socialism/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:57:29

• "But with its latest product — the AI-generated video social network Sora 2 — OpenAI may have set the all-time record for greatest distance between mission statement and actual work." ☛ https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/463596/openai-sora2-reels-videos-tiktok-chatgpt-deepfakes | Source: Vox    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:57:57

• "Any talent agency that engages in this should be boycotted by all guilds" ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/entertainment/ai-actor-tilly-norwood-stirs-outrage-in-hollywood-1907555 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:58:15

• "But a scrolling flood of such videos taking over social media has some worried about "AI slop" that crowds out more authentic human creativity and degrades the information ecosystem." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/openai-sora-social-media-1.7647945 | Source: CBC    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:58:37

• "Public figures can’t be generated in Sora unless they’ve uploaded a cameo themselves and given consent for it to be used" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/789126/openai-made-a-tiktok-for-deepfakes-and-its-getting-hard-to-tell-whats-real | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:59:00

• "People on Sora who generate videos of Altman are especially getting a kick out of how blatantly OpenAI appears to be violating copyright laws." ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/openais-new-social-app-is-filled-with-terrifying-sam-altman-deepfakes/ | Source: TechCrunch    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:59:37

• "This is the trap with Sora, and more generally with AI in social media: You get sucked in and receive no reward." ☛ https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/openais-sora-social-media-app-is-an-ai-deepfake-fever-dream/ | Source: CNET    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 07:59:48

• "So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/cory-doctorow-ai-collapse | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:00:00

• "There’s a little bit of a hype bubble going on in the early-stage venture space" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/investors-warn-of-global-hype-bubble-in-ai/272399/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:00:13

• "The membership page crashed due to mass cancellations" ☛ https://www.techradar.com/gaming/pc-gaming/the-xbox-game-pass-price-hikes-are-so-bad-it-literally-crashed-the-membership-site-due-to-widespread-cancellations | Source: TechRadar    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:05:56

• "Just hours after new changes and price increases for Xbox Game Pass were announced, players began attempting to cancel their subscriptions en masse" ☛ https://gamerant.com/xbox-game-pass-cancel-subscription-website-crashing/ | Source: Game Rant    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:06:06

• "They went to cancel their Xbox Game Pass subscriptions en masse. There were so many cancellations in the early hours of Wednesday, in fact, that the website where you cancel the service actually got overloaded." ☛ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/pop-culture/2025/10/01/xbox-game-pass-price-increase-cancel-overloaded/86461775007/ | Source: Gannett    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:06:22

• "WikiHow CEO Elizabeth Douglas described to a court how websites like hers are the middle of an “AI apocalypse.” WikiHow, a website that gives step-by-step practical advice, is suffering from a new paradigm shift in how people find information online." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/790711/google-doj-ad-tech-remedies-wikihow-open-web | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:06:50

• "That will be of little comfort to execs currently receiving emails threatening to leak payroll files and financial records unless they cough up a ransom." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/oracle_ebs_clop_extortion/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:07:17

• "If you aren’t convinced by Microsoft’s offering, it’s normally possible to install an entirely new OS on your device." ☛ https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5686/end-line-windows-10 | Source: Privacy International    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:08:11

• "I decided not to upgrade to a newer version of OS X, or replace it with Linux or one of the BSDs." ☛ https://box.matto.nl/adventures-with-os-x-mavericks-in-2025.html | Source: MJ Fransen    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:08:24

• "The emails, which are littered with broken English, aim to instill fear, apply pressure, threaten public exposure and seek negotiation for a ransom payment." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/extortion-email-clop-oracle-customers/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:08:33

• "The campaign involving the allegedly stolen data first surfaced in late September, when executives at multiple companies began receiving emails alleging that attackers had exfiltrated financial and operational data from their Oracle EBS systems." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/02/clop-linked-hackers-claim-oracle-e-business-suite-data-theft-high-stakes-extortion-push/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:08:47

• "The “gold standard” test is called polysomnography." ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/sleep-score-polysomnography/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:09:35

• "The keyword for me is ambitions. I’m haunted by it. Whatever I set out to do, the ambitions are always there — and not in a good way." ☛ https://birming.com/2025/10/03/haunted-by-ambitions/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:09:51

• "I’ve removed all the apps from my phone and tablet that I tend to fall into when I get bored." ☛ https://jimmitchell.org/2025/10/03/taking-a-break/ | Source: Jim Mitchell    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:10:02

• "It's the judgment—knowing which fruit to pick, which to leave, and how to avoid damaging either. So, we still need human labor." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-hot-harvest-threatens-farm-labor.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:10:13

• "Today, I opened the chassis of r730-0) (that link needs to be updated now that there is new hardware in there; I’ll post that one soon and page will then have a link to the new page)." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/10/02/adding-in-new-nvme-cards-and-sticks/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:13:08

• "I recently obtained two 4TB NVMe cards and two PCIe adapters, each of which holds two NVMe cards. This is what they looked like fully loaded: [...]" ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/10/02/leveling-out-the-nvme-cards-on-the-adaptors/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:13:16

• "Hard drives have long been famous for their bathtub curve of reliability, in which they’re: [...]" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/when-to-replace-hard-drives/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:14:31

• "For years, subminiature vacuum tubes were looking like the future of electronics—until a key figure in their rise heard about something better." ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/10/02/subminiature-tubes-transistors-raytheon-history/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:15:39

• "Once-cheap SSDs, DRAM, and HDD prices are climbing fast as AI demand and constrained supply converge to create the tightest market in years." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/perfect-storm-of-demand-and-supply-driving-up-storage-costs | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:15:56

• "Through the Defense Department’s MyCAA, spouses of certain service members can receive tuition assistance of up to $4,000, with an annual cap of $2,000" ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/pay-benefits/mil-money/2025/10/03/shutdown-halts-funding-for-military-spouse-tuition-assistance-program/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:20:02

• [Old] "According to Graeber, the same free-market policies that have made life and work more difficult" ☛ https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/booked-david-graeber-bullshit-jobs/ | Source: Dissent Magazine    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:20:14

• [Old] "In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that" ☛ https://davidgraeber.org/articles/on-the-phenomenon-of-bullshit-jobs-a-work-rant/ | Source: David Graeber    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:20:38

• [Old] "It didn’t have to be this way, Graeber says." ☛ https://www.vox.com/2018/5/8/17308744/bullshit-jobs-book-david-graeber-occupy-wall-street-karl-marx | Source: Vox    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:20:53

• [Old] "In an age that supremely prizes capitalist efficiency, the proliferation of pointless jobs is a puzzle." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/25/bullshit-jobs-a-theory-by-david-graeber-review | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:21:04

• [Old] "One reason that work was historically irregular is because it was largely unsupervised." ☛ https://harpers.org/archive/2018/06/punching-the-clock/ | Source: Harpers Magazine    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:21:16

• [Old] "I like to talk about “the revolt of the caring classes.” The working classes have always been the caring classes" ☛ https://roarmag.org/essays/graeber-bullshit-jobs-interview/ | Source: ROAR Magazine    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:21:31

• "The Nobel Prize is an honor known the world over, but one that spotlights only narrow slices of science and very few scientists within them." ☛ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nobel-prize-discoveries-not-all-science | Source: Science News    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:22:15

• "The research group has previously synthesized various optically active conductive polymers in liquid crystals." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-method-faraday-rotation-polymers.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:22:30

• "Contrary to what many people believe, this system of peer review is recent. When Watson and Crick submitted their ‘double helix’ paper to Nature in 1953" ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/03/beyond-papers-rethinking-science-in-the-era-of-artificial-intelligence/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:22:40

• "Social media giant LinkedIn on Thursday filed a lawsuit against a company which it says operates a network of millions of fake accounts" ☛ https://therecord.media/linkedin-sues-data-scraping-company | Source: The Record    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:23:39

• "I have reinstated the guestbook on this website after 20 years! As I have written in the About page" ☛ https://susam.net/reinstated-guestbook.html | Source: SusamPal    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:23:49

• [Old] "You can browse the archive by year here." ☛ https://www.ursulakleguin.com/blog | Source: Ursula K Le Guin    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:23:58

• "This of course piqued my curiosity, and when the pre-op nurse came back to check on me I say "Weird question: But can I speak to an anesthesiologist? I want to sate my curiosity."" gemini://tilde.club/~synduckate/gemlog/2025-10-03.gmi    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:34:17

• Reasons not to use ChatGPT https://stallman.org/chatgpt.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:39:23

• "FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles released on September 30th and while it's Steam Deck Verified, it had some troubles on Desktop Linux." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/proton-hotfix-updated-to-improve-final-fantasy-tactics-the-ivalice-chronicles-on-linux/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:50:12

• "Utopia Must Fall is great base-defense arcade shooter, easily one of my favourites that I played earlier this year and soon Steam Deck players will enjoy it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/the-truly-excellent-utopia-must-fall-has-a-new-beta-with-steam-deck-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:50:38

• "Filled up with eccentric characters, tricky foes, plenty of jokes, and a lot of pop culture references - The Crazy Hyper-Dungeon Chronicles (TCHDC) sounds fun." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/the-crazy-hyper-dungeon-chronicles-tchdc-is-for-fans-of-dungeon-crawlers-with-roguelite-replayability/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:50:50

• "What will no doubt be a popular release, Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus II from Bulwark Studios and Kasedo Games now has a demo available." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/warhammer-40000-mechanicus-ii-gets-a-first-demo-live-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:51:08

• "A short delay but hopefully the 1.0 release will be worth it for Necesse, which is a really interesting blend of genres and great for co-op play." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/co-op-sandbox-action-adventure-settlement-builder-necesse-1-0-moves-to-october-16/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:51:31

• "Crashout Crew is the latest casual comedy co-op game from Aggro Crab (PEAK, Another Crab's Treasure, Going Under)." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/aggro-crab-peak-another-crabs-treasure-going-under-revealed-a-new-co-op-game-crashout-crew/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:52:30

• "VirtualBox Vexations" https://soylentnews.org/~turgid/journal/19864    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:53:21

• "Tom the Dancing Bug: A busy, busy day in Washington, D.C." https://boingboing.net/2025/10/01/tom-the-dancing-bug-a-busy-busy-day-in-washington-d-c.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:53:45

• "Trump, Like Sauron, Is Not Inevitable—but Only if We Refuse Despair" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-sauron-tolkien-hope-despair/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:54:03

• "How the framers saw constitutional amendments – and what that might mean today" https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2025/1003/us-constitution-jill-lepore-we-the-people    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:54:16

• "Pfizer Finally Gave Trump What He Wanted" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/10/pfizer-trump-deal/684442/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:54:35

• "Trump no longer distancing himself from Project 2025" https://www.twincities.com/2025/10/03/trump-shutdown-project-2025/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:54:46

• "The Yardbirds Co-Founder Chris Dreja Dead at 79" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/chris-dreja-the-yardbirds-co-founder-obituary-1235440001/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:55:17

• "British police may have shot 2 of the Manchester synagogue attack victims, one fatally, officials say" https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/manchester-synagogue-attack-police-shooting-1.7650095    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:55:35

• "Trump's Crusaders: Christian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in Washington - DER SPIEGEL" https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/trumps-crusaders-christian-nationalists-are-gaining-a-solid-foothold-in-washington-a-643ab80d-fd36-4b45-924a-20fcef6b2e03#ref=rss    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:55:48

• "106th Archbishop of Canterbury: Sarah Mullally appointed first woman to lead Church of England" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2342557.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:56:09

• "Right Wingers Dick-Stepping Their Way Through Shutdown" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/03/right-wingers-dick-stepping-their-way-through-shutdown/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:56:26

• "White House Struggling to Deny Stephen Miller Murdered Boats of Fishermen" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/03/white-house-struggling-to-deny-stephen-miller-murdered-boats-of-fisherman/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:56:45

• "Sharing is Good… We Need to Legalize It" https://en.neritam.com/2025/10/03/sharing-is-good-we-need-to-legalize-it/ :) techrights    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:57:21

• "Manchester Synagogue Attack: Mourners Accuse Government of Enabling Violence as David Lammy's Calls for Unity Are Drowned Out by Boos and Heckles" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/manchester-synagogue-attack-mourners-accuse-government-enabling-violence-david-lammys-calls-1746371    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:57:42

• "Further | Weird Drivel and Loser Shit: This Looks Like Terrible | Opinion" https://www.commondreams.org/further/weird-drivel-and-loser-shit-this-looks-like-terrible    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:58:04

• "The Government Shutdown: The Public vs. the Billionaires" https://jacobin.com/2025/10/government-shutdown-federal-workers-billionaires/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:58:29

• "Democrats Are Screwing Up the Shutdown" https://jacobin.com/2025/10/democrats-shutdown-health-care-bernie-aoc/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 08:58:43

• "Pentagon downgrades leadership role for Air Forces-Europe to 3-star" https://www.airforcetimes.com/air/2025/10/02/pentagon-downgrades-leadership-role-for-air-forces-europe-to-3-star/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:00:36

• "George Washington’s Worries Are Coming True" https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/02/george-washingtons-worries-are-coming-true/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:00:42

• "First female Archbishop appointed to lead Church of England" https://www.dw.com/en/first-female-archbishop-appointed-to-lead-church-of-england/a-74227479    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:02:16

• Chat Control 2: Decision postponed? | "Chat Control 2: Beslutet skjuts upp?" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/10/03/chat-control-2-beslutet-skjuts-upp/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:02:27

• iophk: congratulations to brendan https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://www.muylinux.com/2025/10/02/brave-100-millones-usuarios-activos/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:02:47

• Raspberry Pi 500+: The keyboard-style mini PC gets a refresh with more of everything | "Raspberry Pi 500+ se renueva con teclado mecánico y SSD" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://www.muylinux.com/2025/10/03/raspberry-pi-500-plus/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:03:11

• "Ilmfinity Studios announced that their creature collectors EvoCreo and EvoCreo 2 that are popular on mobile are coming to PC with Linux support." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/highly-rated-creature-collectors-evocreo-and-evocreo-2-are-coming-to-pc-with-linux-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:03:51

• "Popular game store Green Man Gaming have launched the first of many planned bundles, the first one supporting SpecialEffect’s One Special Day charity event." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/green-man-gaming-launch-their-first-game-bundle-to-support-specialeffects-one-special-day/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:03:58

• "Here's everything that's coming to Prime Gaming in October 2025. An easy way to add more games to your library across Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/heres-everything-to-claim-from-prime-gaming-during-october-2025/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:04:07

• "Valve released the latest update to the Steam client, making it a good time to jump to Linux if you're still on Windows 10" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/steam-stable-update-brings-end-of-life-notice-for-32-bit-windows-and-lots-of-bug-fixes/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:04:13

• "Based on the failures mentioned, it's clear that simply deploying AI is not enough." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/classifying-human-ai-agent-interaction | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:15:38

• ServiceNow ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/evolving-our-servicenow-integration-sunsetting-notification-service-more-capable-alternatives | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:15:44

• "This new migration toolkit is designed to simplify and accelerate your journey to Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-openstack-vmware-migration-toolkit-simplify-your-journey-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:15:50

• "If compliance is the vital sign, how do you measure it at the speed of code?" ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1106 | Source: Unmitigated Risk    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:16:14

• "As a result, one of the primary stated goals of Zig for years has been faster compile times" ☛ https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-builds-getting-faster | Source: Mitchell Hashimoto    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:16:22

• "In other words, work on supporting the use of a hash algorithm other than SHA-1 in Git appears to have ground to a halt." ☛ https://lwn.net/Articles/898522/ | Source: LWN    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:16:43

• "I’m teaching my Modern Plain Text Computing course this semester and so I’m on the lookout for small examples" ☛ https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/10/03/iterating-some-sample-data/ | Source: Kieran Healy    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:17:16

• "The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom, has confirmed Ian Kelling as its new president" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/free-software-foundation-names-ian-kelling-as-new-president/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:17:41

• "As has become traditional, we offer free and open source projects a stand to display their work to the audience." ☛ https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-10-03-call-for-stands/ | Source: FOSDEM    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:20:41

• "PostgreSQL handles large JSON payloads reasonably well until you start updating or deleting them frequently." ☛ https://www.shayon.dev/post/2025/276/exploring-postgresql-to-parquet-archival-for-json-data-with-s3-range-reads/ | Source: Shayon Mukherjee    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:20:56

• "According to a recent company blog post, Brave says its browser has crossed a new milestone: 100 million active monthly users." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2929311/brave-browser-keeps-growing-crosses-new-milestone-100-million-users.html | Source: PC World    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:21:14

• "It’s interesting to note that, in the EU, for example, Brave’s iOS installations jumped 50% after Apple rolled out its browser choice screen" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/brave-browser-surpasses-100-million-monthly-active-users-worldwide/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:21:25

• "We’d like to take a moment to celebrate this achievement, and tease what’s next." ☛ https://brave.com/blog/100m-mau/ | Source: Brave Browser    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:21:32

• "Apache's .htaccess files have a generally bad reputation." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/ApacheHtaccessAndDelegation | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:22:14

• "Such software-defined vehicles, or SDVs, would boost car sales, automakers hoped." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/why-are-car-software-updates-still-so-bad/ | Source: Wired    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:22:30

• "FreeBSD has a great concept of establishing default values and letting the user override them." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/10/01/cannot-override-etc-newsyslog-conf-with-etc-newsyslog-conf-d-newsyslog-conf/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:22:44

• "Today we're launching a fundraising campaign to sustain and strengthen GNU Guix." ☛ https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/fundraising-campaign-to-sustain-gnu-guix/ | Source: GNU    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:22:59

• "I only recently started experimenting with Nix, and there’s a huge amount to learn." ☛ https://mtlynch.io/nixos-pi4/ | Source: Michael Lynch    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:23:05

• "This post is mostly for my benefit, so I can keep track of my plan for adjusting space. It doesn’t contain much of educational value." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/10/01/r730-01-the-drive-replacement-plan/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:23:24

• "Grief of Losing Nature" ☛ https://therevelator.org/understory-ecologist-grief/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:24:16

• Mumia Abu-Jamal on Media and Power: "Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”)." ☛ https://fair.org/home/mumia-abu-jamal-on-media-and-power/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:24:51

• "Tolerance" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/04/the-terror-of-tolerance | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:25:02

• suleymanov ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/03/russia-arrests-billionaire-ibrahim-suleymanov-on-suspicion-of-contract-killings-after-alleged-gunman-dies-in-police-custody | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:25:08

• "I won’t send any more" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/03/i-won-t-send-any-more | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:25:18

• "Russian activist" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/03/russian-activist-who-works-with-pows-stays-in-ukraine-as-her-husband-returns-in-prisoner-swap | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:25:28

• "drone revolution" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/03/the-weapons-of-tomorrow | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:25:36

• "But here’s the catch → using SSH with default settings isn’t always safe, because hackers constantly scan the internet for open SSH ports and weak logins." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/ssh-security-linux-tips/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:25:53

• "Terasic has introduced the Atum Nios V Starter Kit, a feature-rich evaluation platform designed to accelerate development with Altera’s Nios V processor." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/terasic-announces-starter-kit-featuring-risc-v-nios-v-processor-and-software-bundle/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:26:04

• "Conscientious objection rejected Even legal applications for alternative civilian service" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/03/conscientious-objection-rejected | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:26:20

• "paper tigers" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/03/european-hysteria-trump-s-paper-tigers-comment-and-maga-values | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:26:31

• ukraine ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/03/russia-launches-largest-strike-on-ukraine-s-gas-infrastructure-since-start-of-full-scale-war-inflicting-critical-damage | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:26:42

• "Built His Fortune on Subprime Loans" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/tom-dundon-portland-trail-blazers-subprime-loans | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:29:33

• "Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived." ☛ https://projects.propublica.org/trump-food-cuts/ |    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:29:44

• "We have seen many scam USB chargers appear over the years, with a number of them being enthusiastically ripped apart and analyzed by fairly tame electrical engineers." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/03/when-usb-charger-marketing-claims-are-technically-true/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:30:03

• "The tides! Such a unique thing, because on Earth, we don’t just have oceans full of liquid water—we also have a big ol’ moon called Moon to pull them around." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/03/build-a-3d-printed-tide-clock-so-you-know-when-the-sea-is-coming-to-get-you/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:30:30

• Introducing Red Bait OpenStack VMware migration toolkit ☞ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-openstack-vmware-migration-toolkit-simplify-your-journey-openshift    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:33:44

• Evolving our ServiceNow integration: Sunsetting the Notification Service for more capable alternatives ☞ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/evolving-our-servicenow-integration-sunsetting-notification-service-more-capable-alternatives    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:33:56

• Terasic Announces Starter Kit Featuring RISC-V Nios V Processor and Software Bundle ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/terasic-announces-starter-kit-featuring-risc-v-nios-v-processor-and-software-bundle/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:35:02

• Beyond papers: rethinking science in the era of artificial intelligence ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/03/beyond-papers-rethinking-science-in-the-era-of-artificial-intelligence/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:37:32

• Adding in new NVMe cards and sticks – and replacing two SSDs ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2025/10/02/adding-in-new-nvme-cards-and-sticks/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:38:11

• End of the Line for backdoored Windows 10? ☞ http://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5686/end-line-windows-10    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:38:38

• Hong Kong plans big AI-powered surveillance boost ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/10/03/hong-kong-surveillance-cameras-ai/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:39:58

• China to launch commercial underwater data center — facility expected to consume 90% less power for cooling ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/china-to-launch-commercial-underwater-data-center-facility-expected-to-consume-90-percent-less-power-for-cooling    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:40:57

• Streamlining digital government: Why web consolidation is the future ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/10/streamlining-digital-government-why-web-consolidation-is-the-future/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:41:27

• Can the Democrats Take Free Speech Back from the Right? ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/can-the-democrats-take-free-speech-back-from-the-right    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:42:20

• Pluralistic: When your ISP pays you (03 Oct 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/03/we-dont-care-we-dont-have-to/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:42:46

• Guido Günther: Free Software Activities September 2025 ☞ http://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_September_2025.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:44:33

• USPTO Patent Bubble Already Imploding, After Decades of Artificial Inflation, Entire Offices Close for Good ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/USPTO_Patent_Bubble_Already_Imploding_After_Decades_of_Artifici.shtml    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:45:26

• Patent Docs (or PatentDocs) Learned the Wrong Lessons From the Death of TypePad ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/Patent_Docs_or_PatentDocs_Learned_the_Wrong_Lessons_From_the_De.shtml    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:45:33

• How Software Patents Were Viewed or Their General Status Changed Over Time ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/How_Software_Patents_Were_Viewed_or_Their_General_Status_Change.shtml    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:45:39

• Another ISG Wi-Fi 6 patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/10/2/another-isg-wi-fi-6-patent-challenged    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:46:03

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: #053: Adding llvm Snapshots for R Package Testing ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/10/03#053_r_pkgs_and_llvm_snapshots    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:47:02

• Red Hat confirms hackers have breached GitLab instances and stolen data ☞ https://betanews.com/2025/10/03/red-hat-confirms-hackers-have-breached-gitlab-instances-and-stolen-data/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:47:40

• Jonathan Dowland: Tron: Ares (soundtrack) ☞ https://jmtd.net/log/tron_ares/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:49:45

• Your company is dead already if they tell you that all it's missing is "adding AI features" and that's why things aren't going well    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:51:08

• So another fiscal term for "AI" is "mystery bullshit" (like vapourware)    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:52:03

• Phyllis Gardner, Early Skeptic of Theranos, Dies at 75 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/science/phyllis-gardner-dead.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:58:59

• Why Obamacare and health costs take center stage amid shutdown ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/1003/shutdown-obamacare-aca-subsidies    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:59:14

• The shutdown looms large in rural America – with Medicaid under debate ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2025/1003/medicaid-rural-health-care-immigrants    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:59:23

• How New Mexico Became a Sanctuary State for Health Care ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/how-new-mexico-became-a-sanctuary-state-for-health-care    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 09:59:38

• Indies Double Down on UMG-Downtown Deal Opposition With ‘100 Voices’ Campaign: ‘For the Long-Term Health of Independent Music, It Should Be Blocked’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/03/universal-music-downtown-100-voices/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:00:32

• Michigan schools budget: free meals, record funding, safety upgrades ☞ https://bridgemi.com/talent-education/michigan-schools-budget-free-meals-record-funding-safety-upgrades/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:02:52

• Philanthropist and entrepreneur Tad Taube leaves lasting legacy on Stanford ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/10/03/tad-taube-leaves-lasting-legacy/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:03:34

• Is South Korea’s ‘Buddhistcore’ Aesthetic a Fad or a Spiritual Awakening? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/world/asia/south-korea-buddhism-young-people.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:04:37

• Windows TCO: "This week a reader sent me a story about a CVE in Notepad++, and something isn’t quite right." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/03/this-week-in-security-cvss-0-chwoot-and-not-in-the-threat-model/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:09:57

• Dihydroxyacetone Man and Carney to Hold Tariff and Security Talks in D.C. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/world/canada/trump-carney-meeting-tariffs-canada.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:10:23

• U.S. Research Focus in the Arctic Shifts: Less Climate, More Security ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/climate/arctic-research-security.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:10:37

• India set to receive first Afghan Taliban minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/India-set-to-receive-first-Afghan-Taliban-minister    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:10:57

• Australia’s landmark defence treaty with PNG set to swing pendulum away from China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australias-landmark-defence-treaty-with-png-set-to-swing-pendulum-away-from-china    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:11:08

• Working with the Amiga's RAM and RAD disks ☞ https://www.datagubbe.se/ramdisk/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:11:46

• Federal unions sue White House, demand immediate end to shutdown ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2025/10/federal-unions-sue-white-house-demand-immediate-end-to-shutdown/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:12:13

• Agency shutdown messaging draws Hatch Act, Antideficiency Act challenges ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/10/agency-shutdown-messaging-draws-hatch-act-antideficiency-act-challenges/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:12:41

• China urges Convicted Felon to lift security curbs in push for deals ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-urges-trump-to-lift-security-curbs-in-push-for-deals    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:13:02

• Tesla Is Sued by Families Who Say Faulty Cybertruck Doors Led to Two Deaths ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/business/tesla-cybertruck-doors-lawsuit-california.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:13:32

• Sora 2 Is Generating Videos That Brutally Mock Scam Altman ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-sora2-videos-mocking-sam-altman    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:14:15

• China to cancel some flights as Typhoon Matmo nears Hainan during peak holiday travel ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-to-cancel-some-flights-as-typhoon-matmo-nears-hainan-during-peak-holiday-travel    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:22:35

• Video: How China’s ‘Great Green Wall’ brings hope but also hardship ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/04/video-how-chinas-great-green-wall-brings-hope-but-also-hardship/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:22:58

• Philippines says important that China does not militarise disputed Scarborough Shoal ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/philippines-says-watching-chinas-actions-on-south-china-sea-nature-reserve    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:23:09

• Human Rights Watch sounds alarm over China's new draft 'ethnic unity' law ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/access-asia/20251003-human-rights-watch-sounds-alarm-over-china-s-new-draft-ethnic-unity-law    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:23:36

• IBM Unveils Granite 4.0 Hybrid Model That Competes with Rivals Twice Its Size ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/ibm-unveils-granite-4/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:23:56

• "Finding, collecting, and restoring vintage tech is the rewarding pastime of many a Hackaday reader." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/03/a-treasure-trove-of-random-vintage-tech-resources/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:24:30

• "If you need to create a high vacuum, there are basically two options: turbomolecular pumps and diffusion pumps." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/03/pulling-a-high-vacuum-with-boiling-mercury/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:24:45

• Victory for Nottinghamshire Live in battle with Reform UK over council ban ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/victory-for-nottinghamshire-live-in-battle-with-reform-uk-over-council-ban/ "Journalists will not back down if our freedoms are attacked."    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:26:29

• Greater Anglia trains nationalised ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/news-diary-6-12-october-labour-deputy-leader-ballot-opens-greater-anglia-trains-nationalised-nobel-prizes-announced/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:26:59

• Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices https://www.inkl.com/news/as-microsoft-lays-off-thousands-and-jacks-up-game-pass-prices-former-ftc-chair-says-i-told-you-so-the-activision-blizzard-buyout-is-harming-both-gamers-and-developers    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:33:44

• Former FTC Chair Criticizes Xbox Activision Merger Amid Game Pass Price Hike https://twistedvoxel.com/former-ftc-chair-criticizes-xbox-activision-merger-amid-game-pass-price-hike/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:35:08

• Ex-FTC Chair Slams Microsoft As ‘Too-Big-To-Care’ After Game Pass Price Jumps 50 Percent https://kotaku.com/xbox-game-pass-price-lina-khan-ftc-microsoft-activision-merger-2000631611    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:35:55

• Stunning Double Ring System Is The Most Powerful Odd Radio Circle Found So Far ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/stunning-double-ring-system-is-the-most-powerful-odd-radio-circle-found-so-far    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:40:27

• Scientists Found an Entirely New Way to Measure Time ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-found-an-entirely-new-way-to-measure-time    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:40:36

• 5 Common Herbs And Spices With Digestive Benefits, Backed by Science ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/5-common-herbs-and-spices-with-digestive-benefits-backed-by-science    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:40:50

• The Strange Science Behind Ghostly Lights That Have Haunted Us For Centuries ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-strange-science-behind-ghostly-lights-that-have-haunted-us-for-centuries    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:40:58

• Drugs Like Ozempic Quieten 'Food Noise,' in Our Brains, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/drugs-like-ozempic-quieten-food-noise-in-our-brains-study-finds    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:41:10

• Scientists Identified Structural, Brain-Wide Changes During Menstruation ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identified-structural-brain-wide-changes-during-menstruation    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:42:48

• The 'Other Diabetes' Has Nothing to Do With Blood Sugar ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-other-diabetes-has-nothing-to-do-with-blood-sugar    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:42:58

• Security advisory: Uncontrolled Recursion and Use-After-Free vulnerabilities in Qt SVG module impact Qt ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/security-advisory-uncontrolled-recursion-and-use-after-free-vulnerabilities-in-qt-svg-module-impact-qt    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:43:36

• Lithuanian president hopes to continue cyber security cooperation with Moldova ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2700287/lithuanian-president-hopes-to-continue-cyber-security-cooperation-with-moldova    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:48:21

• Federal judiciary touts cybersecurity work in wake of latest major breach ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/federal-judiciary-touts-cybersecurity-work-in-wake-of-latest-major-breach/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/11/Ron_Wyden_Microsoft_Should_be_Held_Accountable_for_Security_Bre.shtml    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:49:54

• Flights Are Briefly Halted at Munich Airport After Drone Sightings ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/world/europe/munich-airport-drones.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:50:15

• Finland Court Dismisses Case About Cutting Cables in Baltic Sea ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/world/europe/finland-court-baltic-sea-undersea-cables-sabotage.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:50:24

• Drones, sabotage, surveillance: Moscow’s hybrid warfare takes to the high seas ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251003-drones-sabotage-surveillance-moscow-s-hybrid-warfare-takes-to-the-high-seas    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:50:34

• Latvian border guards prevent illegal crossing attempt near Russian border ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/03.10.2025-latvian-border-guards-prevent-illegal-crossing-attempt-near-russian-border.a616890/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:50:48

• Opposer Fails to Submit Evidence: TTAB Dismisses for Failure to Prove Statutory Standing ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/10/opposer-fails-to-submit-evidence-ttab.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:52:35

• Who Gets to Challenge USPTO Rules? Federal Circuit Says Big Tech Yes, Small Inventors No ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/10/challenge-federal-inventors.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:52:52

• Slopwatch: Surveillance Giant Google News as a Firehose of LLM Slop About "Linux" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/Slopwatch_Google_News_as_a_Firehose_of_LLM_Slop_About_Linux.shtml    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 10:58:54

• Oracle Says Known Vulnerabilities Possibly Exploited in Recent Extortion Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/oracle-says-known-vulnerabilities-possibly-exploited-in-recent-extortion-attacks/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:03:04

• Organizations Warned of Exploited Meteobridge Vulnerability ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/organizations-warned-of-exploited-meteobridge-vulnerability/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:03:37

• Unauthenticated RCE Flaw Patched in DrayTek Routers ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/unauthenticated-rce-flaw-patched-in-draytek-routers/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:04:01

• You readers are nasty, Michael. See the comments. https://www.phoronix.com/news/FSF-New-President-2025    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:04:54

• Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #511 - New Raspberry Pi OS Trixie is HERE! ☞ https://newsletters.raspberrypi.com/w/UN7OHH0xOMs8F9k3dUR6zQ    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:06:23

• facebook ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20251003-madagascar-president-claims-attempted-coup "took to Facebook (Farcebook) on Friday"    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:07:17

• Audio Clips of Sounds of Climate Changes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/climate/sounds-of-climate-change.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:07:39

• BeepSaber update ☞ https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/BeepSaber    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:09:35

• The 2025 Annual IP3 Awards ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/the-2025-annual-ip3-awards/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:10:52

• GameStop promises to keep selling Game Pass Ultimate for $19.99 — company defies Microsoft's 50% price increase ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gamestop-promises-to-keep-selling-game-pass-ultimate-for-usd19-99-company-defies-microsofts-50-percent-price-increase    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:12:38

• Typhoon Bualoi death toll rises to 51 in Vietnam, banks told to support affected firms ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/bualoi-death-toll-rises-to-51-in-vietnam-banks-told-to-support-affected-firms    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:17:47

• Lithuanian, eurozone banks introduce additional verification for transfers to combat fraud ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2700749/lithuanian-eurozone-banks-introduce-additional-verification-for-transfers-to-combat-fraud    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:18:36

• IBM Releases Open-Source Granite 4.0 Generative Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ibm-granite-40-ai/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:18:58

• IBM releases Granite 4 series of Mamba-Transformer language models ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/03/ibm-releases-granite-4-series-mamba-transformer-language-models/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:21:31

• Indonesia School Collapse Leaves Families Gripped by Grief and Fury ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/world/asia/indonesia-school-collapse-families.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:22:53

• Chrome 141 and Firefox 143 Patches Fix High-Severity Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-141-and-firefox-143-patches-fix-high-severity-vulnerabilities/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:23:42

• UN torture prevention experts urge New Zealand to reduce prison population ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/un-torture-prevention-experts-urge-new-zealand-to-reduce-prison-population/ "Aisha Shujune Muhammad, head of the SPT delegation" wants NZ to release dangerous people    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:28:06

• A First Look at the USPTO’s FY2026 Examiner Performance Plan (PAP): What’s Changed and Why It Matters ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/10/examiner-performance-changed.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:37:15

• Indian Comedian Kunal Kamra Forced Offstage Amid Political Censorship ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/world/asia/india-comedian-kunal-kamra.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:45:22

• Guido Günther: Free Software Activities September 2025 ☞ https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_September_2025.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:46:07

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

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:48:17

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

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:48:30

• Nothing that Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Lunduke claims or says can be trusted (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/02/For_the_Second_Time_in_a_Few_Weeks_Microsoft_Lunduke_Makes_Fals.shtml    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:49:27

• Nothing that Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Lunduke claims or says can be trusted ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/02/For_the_Second_Time_in_a_Few_Weeks_Microsoft_Lunduke_Makes_Fals.shtml    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:49:35

• Debian: XLibre is Not Allowed, Devs Are Nazis ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/debian-xlibre-is-not-allowed-devs    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:49:45

• How To Install Virtualmin on openSUSE ☞ https://idroot.us/install-virtualmin-opensuse/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:50:03

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

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:50:14

• The artificial complexity of OOXML files (the DOCX case) ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10/03/the-docx-case/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:50:58

• French Photojournalist Killed in Drone Attack in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/world/europe/ukraine-drone-attack-journalist-killed.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:51:15

• Ukraine’s New Prime Minister Speaks Convicted Felon’s Language ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/world/europe/ukraine-prime-minister-trump-war-svyrydenko.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:51:23

• French Journalist Killed In Ukraine By Drone Attack Blamed On Russia ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/french-journalist-killed-ukraine-lallican-drone-attack/33549080.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:51:34

• Lithuania’s new culture minister under heat over clumsy interview answers on Ukraine ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2700321/lithuania-s-new-culture-minister-under-heat-over-clumsy-interview-answers-on-ukraine    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:51:50

• Lithuanian PM demands resignation of culture minister amid protests ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2700458/lithuanian-pm-demands-resignation-of-culture-minister-amid-protests    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:51:58

• Moldovan election result 'exceptional by European standards': Former deputy PM Popescu ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/talking-europe/20251003-moldovan-election-result-exceptional-by-european-standards-former-deputy-pm-popescu    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:52:32

• French photojournalist Antoni Lallican killed by a drone in Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251003-french-photojournalist-antoni-lallican-killed-by-a-drone-in-ukraine    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:52:50

• Munich airport grounded by drone sightings for second day running ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251004-munich-airport-drones    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:53:14

• Ukrainian film festival makes a welcome return to Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/culture/03.10.2025-ukrainian-film-festival-makes-a-welcome-return-to-latvia.a616960/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:53:35

• President von der Leyen attends informal European Council meeting in Copenhagen to discuss European defence and European support to Ukraine ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ac_25_2289    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:54:04

• Putin Suggests Convicted Felon Will Decide Against Sending Tomahawk Missiles to Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/world/europe/putin-trump-ukraine-tomahawk-missiles.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:54:25

• What Kissinger would do about Putin and Ukraine ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/what-kissinger-would-do-about-putin-and-ukraine/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:54:37

• Sweeping Ban on Drone Flights Across Chicago Looks Suspiciously Like an Attempt to Ban Press Coverage ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/chicago-drone-ban    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:55:26

• Censorship by "Woke" Tim Crook... for the SSCheeto ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/politics/apple-iceblock-app-store-trump.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:57:10

• DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp on vLLM, Day 0: Sparse Attention for long-context inference, ready for experimentation today with Red Bait Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/03/deepseek-v32-exp-vllm-day-0-sparse-attention-long-context-inference    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 11:58:46

• ">It’s a wet and windy October afternoon here in the UK, and it’s time for another GNOME Foundation update. As ever, there is plenty going on behind the scenes which hasn’t made it into this post, such as planning discussions and routine operations. However, there are some notable things from this week that are easier to sum up" https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/10/03/gnome-foundation-update-2025-10-03/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:33:16

• This Week in Plasma: 6.5 beta 2 ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/10/04/this-week-in-plasma-6.5-beta-2/ "When you’re using your system in a language that’s not English, you can now find Emojis in the Emoji Selector window by searching for their English names, in addition to the names in your primary language. (Kai Uwe Broulik"    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:33:50

• This Week in GNOME: #219 Deciphering Hieroglyphs ☞ https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/10/twig-219/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:34:13

• Run Custom Command or Script in Ubuntu 25.10 Automatically at Login ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/10/run-command-script-automatically-at-login/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:35:07

• GSoC'25 KWin Project Blog Post: Week 5-6 ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/10/03/gsoc25-kwin-project-blog-post-week-5-6/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:35:30

• Dingbats > emoji? ☞ https://rubenerd.com/dingbats-greater-than-emoji/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:36:07

• Renewables overtake coal for first time in Australia ☞ https://rubenerd.com/renewables-overtake-coal-for-first-time-in-australia/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:36:43

• In Other News: PQC Adoption, New Android Spyware, FEMA Data Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-pqc-adoption-new-android-spyware-fema-data-breach/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:37:09

• Lithuanian culture sector braces for nationwide protests ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2700759/lithuanian-culture-sector-braces-for-nationwide-protests    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:37:41

• Lithuanian culture minister resigns after one week in office amid backlash ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2700570/lithuanian-culture-minister-resigns-after-one-week-in-office-amid-backlash    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:37:57

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Boat Strike Cartel War Doesn’t Make a Lot of Sense So Far ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/opinion/venezuela-armed-conflict-boats-drones.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:39:04

• U.S. Military Attacked Boat Off Venezuela, Killing Four Men, Hegseth Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/politics/hegseth-military-boat-venezuela.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:39:14

• Garmin Uses GNU/Linux for Some of the Garmin Products, Now It's Sued by Strava Using Software Patents ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Garmin_Uses_Linux_for_Some_of_the_Garmin_Products_Now_It_s_Sued.shtml    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:40:51

• Latest Steam Client Update Improves Support for DualSense Controllers on GNU/Linux ☞ https://9to5linux.com/latest-steam-client-update-improves-support-for-dualsense-controllers-on-linux    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:41:08

• "Hong Kong to install surveillance cameras with Hey Hi (AI) facial recognition ... is already being used to monitor crowds and read licence plates there" ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-to-install-surveillance-cameras-with-ai-facial-recognition    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:42:02

• Hong Kong to install surveillance cameras with Hey Hi (AI) facial recognition ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/04/hong-kong-to-install-surveillance-cameras-with-ai-facial-recognition/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:42:09

• Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2025-10-03 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/10/03/gnome-foundation-update-2025-10-03/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:42:31

• "When taking pictures of the night sky, any noise picked up by the sensor can obscure the desired result." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/03/cold-sensor-hot-results-upgrading-a-dslr-for-astrophotography/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:43:04

• No, this jihadist brandishing two severed heads isn’t Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20251003-syria-president-ahmed-al-sharaa-jihadist-debunked    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:43:20

• How to use n8n and Raspberry PI to create workflows and automate Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://peppe8o.com/n8n-raspberry-pi-workflows/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:43:53

• "Just a friendly heads-up that some brief downtime of Phoronix.com will happen overnight due to replacing a drive in the web server's RAID array." https://www.phoronix.com/news/Brief-Downtime-RAID-2025    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:44:26

• PostgreSQL database specialist Supabase snags $100M in funding ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/03/postgresql-database-specialist-supabase-snags-100m-funding/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:44:58

• 'This is the moment to invite the world to reconstruct Gaza': EU Mediterranean Commissioner Suica ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/talking-europe/20251003-this-is-the-moment-to-invite-the-world-to-reconstruct-gaza-eu-mediterranean-commissioner-suica    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:45:15

• Linux Mint Improves Keyboard and Input Switching for Cinnamon ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/linux-mint-is-improving-keyboard-layout-switching-in-cinnamon-desktop    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:48:36

• Linux App Release Roundup (September 2025) ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/linux-app-release-roundup-september-2025    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:51:38

• extrox 2.0-rc2 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/extrox    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:52:02

• Bluestar 6.16.10 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/bluestar    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:52:09

• Xray_OS 2025.10.03 released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/xray    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:52:17

• InterceptSuite – network traffic interception tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/interceptsuite-network-traffic-interception-tool/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:52:57

• Principia – sandbox physics game ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/principia-sandbox-physics-game/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:53:05

• hns – privacy-focused speech-to-text CLI utility ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hns-privacy-focused-speech-to-text-cli-utility/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:53:11

• Korai – manga reader ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/korai-manga-reader/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:53:20

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

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:53:45

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

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:54:00

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

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:54:16

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

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:54:29

• ddclient – update dynamic DNS entries ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ddclient-update-dynamic-dns-entries/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:55:34

• webdav – simple and standalone WebDAV server ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/webdav-simple-standalone-webdav-server/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:55:41

• Linux-based Vega OS replaces Android-based Fire OS in Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Select ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/03/linux-based-vega-os-replaces-android-based-fire-os-in-amazon-fire-tv-stick-4k-select/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:56:18

• Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/40 ☞ https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2025/10/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2025-40/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:57:39

• Security updates for Friday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1040729/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:58:03

• Module 2: Automating Complex Workflows with Targets ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/courses/systemd-automation/automating-workflows-targets/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:58:32

• LHB GNU/Linux Digest #25.29: Git for DevOps eBook, getfacl, Crontab Recovery and More ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/newsletter/25-29/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:58:47

• Linux kernel 6.12.50 compiled ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202510/linux-kernel-61250-compiled.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:59:13

• Guvcview added to Easy Excalibur ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202510/guvcview-added-to-easy-excalibur.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:59:19

• Dihydroxyacetone Man is Abusing His Power to Build a Dangerous, National Policing Force ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/trump-is-abusing-his-power-to-build-a-dangerous-national-policing-force    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 12:59:53

• "Elliot Williams and Al Williams got together to share their favorite hacks of the week with you." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/03/hackaday-podcast-episode-340-the-best-programming-language-space-surgery-and-hacking-two-3d-printers-into-one/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:01:07

• A Conservative Professor on How to Fix Campus Culture ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/a-conservative-professor-on-how-to-fix-campus-culture    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:02:01

• How Russell Vought Broke the U.S. Government ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/how-russell-vought-broke-the-us-government    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:02:09

• FOSS Force’s Top Ten for September ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/10/foss-forces-top-ten-for-september/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:42:18

• From Tech Team to Top Spot: Ian Kelling Leads FSF into Its Fortieth Year ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/10/from-tech-team-to-top-spot-ian-kelling-leads-fsf-into-its-fortieth-year/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:42:54

• India and China to resume direct flights after 5-year suspension ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/03/india-and-china-to-resume-direct-flights-after-5-year-suspension/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:43:45

• Ozzy Osbourne considered suicide in 2021 after botched neck surgery ☞ https://pagesix.com/2025/10/03/celebrity-news/ozzy-osbourne-considered-suicide-after-botched-neck-surgery/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:44:14

• TikTok says it’s engaging with Indonesia after licence suspended ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/tiktok-says-its-engaging-with-indonesia-after-licence-suspended    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:44:39

• TikTok is Not Harmless (Being CheeTok in the US Will Advance Orange Agenda) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/03/TikTok_is_Not_Harmless_Being_CheeTok_in_the_US_Will_Advance_Ora.shtml    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:44:46

• Best Ubuntu Time Tracking Software 2026 https://vocal.media/journal/best-ubuntu-time-tracking-software-2026    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:47:59

• Back doors with "Linux" in the title https://www.makeuseof.com/borrowed-habits-from-linux-make-windows-setup-better/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:49:20

• Here's How I Batch Install All My Old Apps When Switching Linux Distros https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/heres-batch-install-old-apps-200016156.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:49:52

• How to switch your Windows 10 PC to Linux Mint - for free https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-switch-your-windows-10-pc-to-linux-mint-for-free/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:52:54

• Yes, Gemini, A Wii Server Is Possible https://hackaday.com/tag/wii-linux/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:53:40

• "This release also adds support for dual gyros when using Nintendo Switch Joycons in combined mode." https://9to5linux.com/latest-steam-client-update-improves-support-for-dualsense-controllers-on-linux    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:54:03

• "Want to try Linux but dread the command line? Don't worry - there's likely a GUI that can handle whatever you need." https://www.zdnet.com/article/8-free-linux-apps-that-are-surprisingly-useful-no-command-line-required/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:54:34

• "Valve just released an update to Proton Hotfix which should sort out the most pressing issues with playing it on Desktop Linux including the game not launching properly, and some very annoying background flickering as noted on the GitHub bug report." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/proton-hotfix-updated-to-improve-final-fantasy-tactics-the-ivalice-chronicles-on-linux/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:54:55

• "The first EvoCreo plans to launch sometime later this year and will be getting a demo during Steam Next Fest." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/highly-rated-creature-collectors-evocreo-and-evocreo-2-are-coming-to-pc-with-linux-support/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:55:19

• "And if you missed it recently Valve also added Steam Link VR support for PICO and HTC headsets, plus Valve confirmed experimental Linux support for it too!" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/steam-stable-update-brings-end-of-life-notice-for-32-bit-windows-and-lots-of-bug-fixes/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:55:43

• 10 Linux tips I give to both beginners and professionals for improved productivity https://www.zdnet.com/article/10-linux-tips-i-give-to-both-beginners-and-professionals-for-improved-productivity/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:56:41

• "Tribute Games have previously worked on a number of Native Linux games including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge and they're also doing the upcoming Scott Pilgrim EX. So it's nice to see direct support continue for MARVEL Cosmic Invasion too!" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/marvel-cosmic-invasion-gets-a-demo-with-native-linux-support/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 13:57:14

• xkcd — Ping #3150 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3150.gmi    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 14:10:53

• 🔤SpellBinding — ADTIJSH Wordo: POPES gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-10-04.gmi    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 14:11:44

• "People hated meetings and phone calls and even answering machines so our current world of short text messages is one we strived for years in order to finally build." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/our_hardearned_dystopia    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 14:12:30

• Event has just begun https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf40-twelve-reasons    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 14:13:58

• "People may not be happy they have to trust Alphabet. But they certainly do. And even when they insist they're Stallman, their friends do, their family does" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45457871    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 14:15:29

• "Free Software Foundation was founded (1985) by Richard Stallman." https://x.com/KnowledgeZoneIn/status/1974331523244699928    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 14:15:55

• "trying to tame my expanding flac collection, so more metaflac experiments:-) the last script stopped working with metaflac so a different way to do it." gemini://gemini.mingmengtou.org/2025-10-04-find-my-own-way.gmi    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 14:17:48

• reframing Baudpunk gopher://baud.baby:70/0/phlog/fs20251004.txt    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 14:20:43

• sweet sweat gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/sweetsweat    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 14:21:23

• TCS mass layoffs. Another de facto Microsoft proxy.    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 15:48:50

• "After nearly 10 years, this community-powered publication for IT leaders is ending." https://enterprisersproject.com/ community... NOT under ICBM.    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 16:09:30

• FSF40 Hackathon next month https://www.fsf.org/events/fsf40-hackathon    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 16:12:02

• "Stallman ruled with an iron fist in those days, and I needed my peripherals to work. I imagine it's better now, but Ubuntu is a 14-year habit at this point." https://www.threads.com/@mctroyd/post/DPXuoeVkQ0M/well-i-use-ubuntu-and-no-lies-detected-i-really-wanted-to-like-debian-when-i-fir    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 16:30:58

• "AI Coding is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/01/2332257    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 17:50:17

• you can get real code and hack on it; that would generally have something functional as a starting point    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 17:51:20

• iophk: LLMs don't generate code for software engineers or even for developers. It generates code for managers that can't and don't want to know if software works. As mentioned other times, LLMs generate only legacy code -- code which no one on staff has written or understands.    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 17:53:01

• iophk: As mentioned other times, LLMs generate only legacy code -- code which no one on staff has written or understands. And which take unnecessary time and effort to interpret and learn.    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 18:22:30

• It's like trying to cook bread pag-pag style; you start with trash rather than solid, predictable ingredients.    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 18:23:15

• LLM slopfest, i.e. GARBAGE but new https://medium.com/@adiltkt777/linux-the-open-source-revolution-that-powers-our-digital-world-5ec4e3361509    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 18:26:36

• iophk: Subversion of the SPLC by CAIR and other terrorist interests has been actively omitted from the article. Most live in the past and don't see that while the name has remained the same, the institution has changed completely https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-npsm-7-memo-crackdown-opposition-1235440530/ same as UK ORG.    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 18:37:11

• Man arrested in UK over alleged cyberattack that affected European airports https://www.ottumwacourier.com/news/national_news/man-arrested-in-uk-over-alleged-cyberattack-that-affected-european-airports/article_79336802-dc80-5302-a043-bc8b22ae233c.html    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 18:38:03

• Lotte Card reissues 650,000 cards after data leak, protects 1.28 million customers https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-finance/2025/09/24/VDVKK3X3KFFLJC5OOPUDBEMFCI/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 18:39:13

• Aren't both Strava and Garmin using Linux, possibly stolen Linux? Is there a non-fascist video link to the talk which RMS gave in Sweden? (The talk is next week) http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/04/Richard_Stallman_Will_Give_a_Talk_in_Sweden_in_6_Days.shtml    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 18:57:40

• CISA Emergency Directive 25-03: Identify and Mitigate Potential Compromise of Cisco Devices https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/ed-25-03-identify-and-mitigate-potential-compromise-cisco-devices    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 18:58:21

• ApolloMD notifies patients of 11 physician practices affected by a June cyberattack https://databreaches.net/2025/09/26/apollomd-notifies-patients-of-11-physician-practices-affected-by-a-june-cyberattack/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 18:59:08

• "One of the most significant contributions by @rms is copyleft, embodied in the GNU family of licenses. This ensures that software remains free for all of the users of the program, not just some of them." https://mastodon.social/@jxself/114721769749621938    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 19:09:15

• Countries’ Fossil Fuel Plans Put Climate Goals Out of Reach https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/09/24/countries-fossil-fuel-plans-put-climate-goals-out-of-reach    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 19:45:09

• State of climate change: How healthy is our planet? https://www.dw.com/en/state-of-climate-change-how-healthy-is-our-planet/a-74122186    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 19:45:25

• Tesla Urges Cheeto Mussolini Not to Repeal Vehicle Emissions Rules https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-09-25/tesla-urges-trump-not-to-repeal-vehicle-emissions-rules-climate-finding    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 19:45:51

• COP30 Urged to Link Climate Justice With Reparations for Historical Crimes https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-09-26/cop30-urged-to-link-climate-justice-with-reparations-for-historical-crimes    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 19:46:12

• AP's Director of Climate News Breaks Down Cheeto Mussolini's Remarks at the UN on Climate Change https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-09-26/fact-check-aps-director-of-climate-news-breaks-down-trumps-remarks-at-the-un-on-climate-change    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 19:46:34

• The Climate’s Emergency Brake https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/26/the-climates-emergency-brake/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 19:47:22

• UNESCO Designates 26 New Biosphere Reserves Amid Biodiversity Challenges and Climate Change https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-09-27/unesco-designates-26-new-biosphere-reserves-amid-biodiversity-challenges-and-climate-chan    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 19:47:41

• New York Seeks More Wind and Solar Energy https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-09-26/new-york-seeks-more-wind-and-solar-energy-before-federal-subsidies-expire    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 19:48:12

• 'Underweight' https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iris-energy-faces-outrage-jpmorgan-slaps-stock-underweight-tag-1745512    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 19:48:35

• Private Equity Sees Profits in Power Utilities as Electric Bills Rise and Big Tech Seeks More Energy https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/pennsylvania/articles/2025-09-27/private-equity-sees-profits-in-power-utilities-as-electric-bills-rise-and-big-tech-seeks-more-energy    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 19:48:49

• lder] Energy projects threaten nature in Van https://anfenglishmobile.com/ecology/energy-projects-threaten-nature-in-van-81440    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 19:49:12

• grant cuts threaten nuclear energy progress at UMich https://www.michigandaily.com/news/research/researchers-warn-federal-grant-cuts-threaten-nuclear-energy-progress-at-umich/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 19:49:29

• War on Fracking https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/labour-declares-war-frackingwill-this-law-rewrite-britains-energy-future-1746060    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 19:49:59

• Political Speech https://www.michigandaily.com/news/academics/political-speech-and-the-public-square-discusses-considerations-for-next-umich-president/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 19:52:06

• not a Victory for Free Speech https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/26/why-putting-jimmy-kimmel-back-on-the-air-is-not-a-victory-for-free-speech/    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 19:52:12

• Alberta premier blames Ottawa for Imperial Oil job cuts, but experts say it's a global trend https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/imperial-oil-lay-offs-reaction-1.7647315    

posted Saturday, October 04, 2025 at 19:52:45