Roy Schestowitz

• "Pls exit video game business and market and help sons of the soil de-addict from video games but instead contribute to real work and labor." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6t61yb7    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 05:22:25

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-10-09.gmi    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 05:24:23

• "Surprisingly, the same banana clump that produced this bunch is already putting out another flower. In fact it is putting out two flowers! I knew it was growing well but I didn't expect this much production so quickly." gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/gemlog/2025-10-08-foodforestupdate6.gmi    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 05:25:12

• "Oh bother! The virus has returned in the refreshed and expanded demo for the roguelite Winnie’s Hole the viral dungeon crawling roguelite. Yes, it's a name you can make many crude jokes about but I'll try not to." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/jump-back-into-winnies-hole-with-a-fresh-and-expanded-demo-for-this-unique-genre-blending-roguelite/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 08:21:58

• "With the ongoing drama from the likes of Steam and itch.io getting hit by payment processors for hosting certain adult games, the UK government say pretty clearly they will not get involved." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/uk-gov-has-no-plans-to-intervene-with-payment-processors-pressuring-stores-to-remove-games/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 08:22:11

• "Paradox Interactive today revealed that the Crusader Kings III major expansion All Under Heaven now has a release date and a new trailer too." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/crusader-kings-iii-major-expansion-all-under-heaven-gets-a-release-date/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 08:22:21

• "Vice: Magic City Mayhem is a supremely odd blend but it looks like it works. A Zelda-like with some GTA elements thrown in because why not." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/zelda-fused-with-gta-vibes-vice-magic-city-mayhem-certainly-sounds-unique/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 08:22:36

• "Thanks to a bit of a woops, PICO PARK:Classic Edition from TECOPARK is now staying free to play, permanently." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/co-op-puzzler-pico-park-classic-edition-is-now-permanently-free/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 08:22:47

• "SILENT HILL f getting a DRM-free release on GOG was the final surprise for their 17th anniversary celebration." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/silent-hill-f-gets-a-drm-free-release-on-gog/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 08:23:01

• "Nightdive Studios / Atari have announced that the classic System Shock 2 (1999) is getting delisted from stores on October 10th. This means you won't be able to buy it, but existing purchases will remain so you can still download and play it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/system-shock-2-1999-is-getting-delisted-and-bundled-with-the-25th-anniversary-remaster/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 08:23:12

• "Some good stuff in Humble Choice for October 2025, looks like a good month. Here's all that's in it and what compatibility to expect on Linux / SteamOS. Your usual expected GamingOnLinux round-up." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/humble-choice-for-oct-25-has-atomic-heart-v-rising-system-shock-and-more/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 08:23:28

• "The newer in-development cross-platform open source Nexus Mods app has improved again, bringing with it a proper built-in downloads page." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/the-cross-platform-nexus-mods-app-brings-a-fancy-new-mod-downloads-page/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 08:23:41

• "Level 3 (L3) operations team at the service provider would begin troubleshooting the incident." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/4-ai-use-cases-telco-red-hats-autonomous-intelligent-network-solutions | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 09:49:12

• "But what happens when one model becomes a thousand?" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/mlops-challenge-scaling-one-model-thousands | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 09:49:28

• "AAP 2.5 already has the platform gateway installed!" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/whats-new-in-ansible-automation-platform-2.6 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 09:49:39

• "Your model is no longer just a project in a lab: it’s a production endpoint." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/your-red-hat-openshift-ai-models-are-waiting-door-whos-knocking | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 09:49:51

• "Trump Is Effortlessly Destroying Washington’s International Influence" https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-foreign-policy-international-relations/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:00:07

• "Trump Opens the White House Doors to Foreign Regimes and Their Dirty Money" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-foreign-lobbying-corruption/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:00:17

• "Trump’s Minions Are Trying to Terrorize Judges Into Submission" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/stephen-miller-elon-musk-judge-tweet/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:00:33

• T.A.C.O. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/donald-trumps-big-pharma-showdown-ends-with-a-whimper    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:00:50

• "Tyskland säger NEJ till Chat Control 2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/10/08/tyskland-sager-nej-till-chat-control-2/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:01:01

• "Coin bearing Donald Trump’s image runs into an 1866 law" https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-07/coin-bearing-donald-trumps-image-runs-into-an-1866-law.html    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:01:22

• "October 7 Exposed an Authoritarian Axis" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/october-7-exposed-an-authoritarian    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:01:31

• "Ingots We Trust - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/ingots-we-trust    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:01:42

• "Trump’s Latest Insult to Social Security: A Part-Time Commissioner" https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/trumps-latest-insult-to-social-security-a-part-time-commissioner    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:02:02

• "AI Sent Tourists to a Place That DOESN'T EXIST" https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/ai-sent-tourists-to-a-place-that-doesn't:3    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:02:15

• "Apple Removes ICE Tracking Apps After Pressure by Trump Administration" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/06/1158252    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:02:29

• "The damage done to rule of law by replacing career prosecutors with Trump defense attorneys for the sole purpose of charging a political target is enormous. No doubt about it." https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/how-kash-patel-and-pam-bondi-became-slaves-to-stephen-miller/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:02:52

• "The Czech Neoliberal Right Lost. Czech Trumpists Won." https://jacobin.com/2025/10/czech-election-trumpists-andrej-babis/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:03:03

• "ICE in Chicago: Trump threatens to jail JB Pritzker, Brandon Johnson" https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/464244/trump-jb-pritzker-brandon-johnson-illinois-chicago    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:03:18

• iophk: turning a matter of law into a matter of opinion https://taskandpurpose.com/news/poll-cities-national-guard/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:03:46

• "Jeff Bezos: AI in an 'industrial bubble' but society will benefit" https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/jeff-bezos-ai-in-an-industrial-bubble-but-society-to-benefit.html    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:03:55

• ""It’s as if she hasn’t spoken to the millions of people who are working full-time but are unable to pay their bills" - Green Party" https://greenparty.org.uk/2025/10/08/its-as-if-she-hasnt-spoken-to-the-millions-of-people-who-are-working-full-time-but-are-unable-to-pay-their-bills/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:04:15

• "When Jimmy Kimmel made his dramatic return to ABC’s airwaves on September 23, I was eager to be one of the over 6 million who tuned in." ☛ https://fair.org/home/magas-little-helpers-sinclair-nexstar-and-the-consolidation-of-broadcast-tv/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:05:54

• "Last month Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced S. 2769, a short, simple bill to repeal the REAL-ID Act of 2005 in its entirety." ☛ https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/10/08/repeal-the-real-id-act/ | Source: Papers Please    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:06:34

• "Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been clear about her desire to shut down the agency she runs. She’s laid off half the staff and joked about padlocking the door." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-public-schools-activists-linda-mcmahon-trump | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:07:19

• "The move follows reporting by Oregon Public Broadcasting and ProPublica about the role that the state’s lengthy permitting process plays" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-renewable-energy-trump-tax-credits | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:07:47

• Saving Zimbabwe’s Vultures ☛ https://therevelator.org/saving-zimbabwes-vultures/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:08:05

• "Last month, our Global Clubs Partners came together in Sri Lanka for our annual meetup, celebrating collaboration and community." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/creating-community-at-our-2025-sri-lanka-global-clubs-partner-meetup/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:08:25

• "In June 2024, Nintendo filed a lawsuit at a Washington federal court against Arizona-resident James C. Williams, known online as ‘Archbox’." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/nintendo-seeks-reasonable-4-5m-judgment-against-r-switchpirates-mod-archbox-251007/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:10:28

• "After initially avoiding external blocking measures, the Internet Archive must block access to various books" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/internet-archive-ordered-to-block-books-in-belgium-after-talks-with-publishers-fail/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:10:32

• "This is the latest in a back-and-forth that started when the country singer released a new song on his Instagram account along with the message" ☛ https://www.tmz.com/2025/10/07/dhs-uses-zach-bryan-song-for-new-video/ | Source: TMZ    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:10:37

• "Consumer rights group Which? is bringing the action on behalf of UK consumers who purchased certain Apple or Samsung smartphones between October 1, 2015" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/06/which_says_qualcomm_owes_uk/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:11:02

• "My city is under siege. Troops are arriving in the suburbs. Federal agents are storming apartment buildings, pulling people out of cars and beds, shooting people in the street" ☛ https://organizingmythoughts.org/the-emergency-is-the-atmosphere/ | Source: Kelly Hayes    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:11:35

• "One scene in particular is key to this debate. It comes in Austen’s third published novel, 1814’s Mansfield Park." ☛ https://www.vox.com/culture/463959/mansfield-park-jane-austen-empire-slavery-abolition-edward-said | Source: Vox    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:11:48

• "Some 150 former inmates issued a joint statement on September 29 condemning the “systematic” deaths of prisoners in Qarchak and demanding the prison’s closure." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-qarachak-prison-women-oppression/33552239.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:12:02

• "Of course, it's not lost on me, and I hope it's not lost on you, that there's a new crop of masked bastards running around the very streets that we live on right now. And it feels, at least for me, like the odds of overcoming them are insurmountable." ☛ https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-10-08-masked-bastards/ | Source: Dan Sinker    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:12:14

• "all of the above, and more." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/from-fear-to-fidelity-how-to-live | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:12:31

• "By arresting Samuel Peter Oyay without explanation, UAE authorities are once again showing that commentators and journalists face tremendous risks in a country where press freedom is severely restricted" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/10/uae-arrests-south-sudanese-political-commentator-samuel-peter-oyay/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:13:03

• "Journalists and experts from the Western Balkans and Turkey explored the challenges confronting the media and discussed potential solutions to strengthen journalism." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/holding-the-line-for-free-expression-amid-global-decline-journalism-must-reconnect-with-people-312348 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:13:15

• "We do know people were actively seeking out the Manchester Evening News on Thursday, when searches for the Manchester Evening News tripled." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/google-manchester-visibility-s/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:13:32

• "Bonhams in Los Angeles will auction three of Ross' paintings on Nov. 11. Other auctions will follow in London, New York, Boston and online. All profits are pledged to stations that use content from distributor American Public Television." ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51386499/bob-ross-paintings-to-be-auctioned-to-support-public-tv-stations-after-federal-funding-cuts | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:13:47

• "The CEO of the Illinois Press Association, who had joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration for actions toward journalists outside a Chicago-area ICE facility, resigned this week following a dispute with the IPA's board over the litigation." ☛ https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/10/08/don-craven-resigns-ice-illinois-press-association/index.html | Source: Northwestern University    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:14:03

• "If she had more time, Peterson said, she wishes she could cover the local government and schools more in-depth. Still, whatever’s happening in Hooker County, Peterson aims to highlight in the paper." ☛ https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/10/08/hooker-county-tribune-mullen-nebraska-newspaper/index.html | Source: Northwestern University    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:14:18

• "I'm a historian and scholar of modern U.S. law and politics. Here's the story of why this amendment—now considered fundamental to American freedom and identity—wasn't part of the original Constitution and how it was included later on." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-free-speech-rights-left-constitution.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:14:38

• "Never in modern times has the federal government undermined bedrock constitutional protections on this scale or usurped states’ police power by directing federal agents to carry out an illegal mission against the people for the government’s own benefit" ☛ https://www.notus.org/media/chicago-journalists-trump-administration-lawsuit-protests | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:14:48

• "The letter was dated November 9, 1968, five days after Richard Nixon defeated Johnson’s Vice-President, Hubert Humphrey, for the Presidency. Five months after that, with Nixon in the White House, CBS abruptly cancelled the Smothers brothers’ show." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/13/before-kimmel-the-smothers-brothers-ate-it | Source: New Yorker    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:14:59

• "Meanwhile, an appeals court denied a man jailed for five years for conspiring to incite secession through social media posts the chance to ask for a shorter sentence at the city’s top court." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/07/explainer-hong-kongs-national-security-crackdown-month-63/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:15:20

• "The Kurdish people, whose identity, language, and culture have long been denied, continue their cultural resistance despite centuries of assimilation policies." ☛ https://anfenglishmobile.com/culture/banned-kurdish-books-return-to-shelves-81616 | Source: ANF News    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:15:30

• iophk: If it weren't for the RSS feeds, I would not have noticed that 25.10 Questionable Quokka or whatever was released. The buzz about Ubuntu faded rapidly once it got taken over from the inside by microsofters and thus corrupted.    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:16:06

• (It's not just Ubuntu, it's all of them or all of them)    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:16:43

• [Old] "No law shall be passed, restraining the free interchange of thought and opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print, freely, on any subject whatever; but for the abuse of that right, every person shall be responsible." ☛ https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/19/indiana-governor-threatens-licenses-of-who-teachers-celebrate-political-violence-online/ |    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:16:58

• "Early in 2020 (not long before the pandemic), I traveled to the University of Chicago Law School, to sit down with Geoffrey R. Stone." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/we-need-free-speech-consistency | Source: Garry Kasparov    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:17:12

• "A well articulated argument. As if to prove Tsai’s point, one of the apps Apple removed has nothing to do with the alleged safety concerns for ICE officers." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/apple-helping-chill-ice/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:17:22

• [Old] "Hypocrisy is a strong word, but I am sorry, this is just sad." ☛ https://unixdigest.com/articles/hypocrisy-and-politics-in-free-and-open-source-software-projects.html | Source: UNIXdigest    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:18:02

• "Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) yesterday announced that its Board of Directors has appointed former CEO of PayPal Holdings Inc. Dan Schulman as CEO, effective immediately." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/verizon-names-former-ceo-of-paypal-as-new-ceo-2/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:18:18

• "Arduino states that the move will help accelerate innovation by providing developers with direct access to Qualcomm’s hardware and AI technology. Both companies say Arduino will continue to operate under its current brand and maintain its open-source model." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/qualcomm-to-acquire-arduino-pushing-deeper-into-ai/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:18:27

• "Third, the government desperately needs to rethink its approach to privacy. Bills C-2, C-4, and C-8 all raise privacy concerns. Privacy protective laws – such as a new version of the old Bill C-27 – are nowhere to be seen." ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/10/government-reverses-on-bill-c-2-removes-lawful-access-warrantless-demand-powers-in-new-border-bill/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:18:44

• "Verizon (NYSE: VZ) announced on Monday that the company had appointed Dan Schulman as the new CEO, replacing Hans Vestberg, Inside Towers reported." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/the-numbers-behind-verizons-ceo-shuffle/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:19:09

• "Supporters argue that it provides valuable insight into market psychology and timing, while critics contend that it lacks a sound theoretical foundation and empirical consistency. Several key points highlight this ongoing debate." ☛ https://beuke.org/technical-analysis/ | Source: Fabian Beuke    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:19:33

• "as part of a contract, combination in the form of a trust, or conspiracy to restrain trade or commerce." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/california_bans_algorithmic_price_fixing/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:19:47

• "A series of Russian strikes targeting trains and railway infrastructure have raised fears the Kremlin is probing Ukraine's response to supply disruptions amid Russia's ongoing war on Ukraine." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-invasion-railway-trains-drone-strikes/33552449.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:20:11

• "The technology giant plans to invest $10 billion (around Rs 88,730 crore) to develop a one-gigawatt data centre cluster in the city." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/google-to-invest-10-billion-in-visakhapatnam-for-asias-largest-data-centre-cluster/articleshow/124390266.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:20:21

• "Over time, it hit me. I can do almost anything I would want to do while on the bus, and I can do a lot of stuff too when I arrive early to the office." ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/the-time-commuting-to-work/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:20:35

• "Many bicyclists with a GPS bike computer probably have it primarily to record their bike rides and then upload them to places like Strava." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/WhyIHaveGPSBikeComputer | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:20:45

• "Triple-junction solar cells (TJPSCs) consist of three stacked semiconductor layers with different bandgaps. Each is tuned to absorb a different slice of the solar spectrum." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/science/record-setting-perovskite-solar-cell-endures-200-cycles-and-retains-95-power | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:20:55

• "In the northeastern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chinese mining companies are exploiting government corruption" ☛ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/10/chinese-mines-destroy-livelihoods-and-the-environment-in-northeastern-drc/ | Source: ADF    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:21:41

• "Let me explain how I came to that conclusion." ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/10/08/fort-leavenworth-dumps-books-at-kansas-library-was-dei-to-blame-i-decided-to-investigate/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:22:16

• "It also doesn’t excuse any of the wrong assumptions I made in my original post." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/07/it-definitely-looks-like-i-was-wrong-about-the-iowa-school-superintendent-arrested-by-ice/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:22:25

• "The majority of housing in Sweden is built with prefabricated elements." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/modular-housing-sweden-u-s-canada-1.7647182 | Source: CBC    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:23:52

• "In her later years, Goodall founded the Jane Goodall Institute and became a respected advocate for wildlife conservation." ☛ https://overpopulation-project.com/farewell-to-jane-goodall-population-activist/ | Source: Overpopulation    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:24:01

• TikTok or Cheetok? ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/07/trump-vance-us-tiktok-accounts/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:26:19

• "valuable nets that in some cases were handed down from their parents have become treasured but unused relics." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/swedish-fishermen-nets-ukraine-drones-russia-invasion/33551420.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:26:49

• "engage with foreign businesses and influential people with the goal of obtaining some benefit for China (such as access to foreign technology) or disseminating China’s influence." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/chinese-govt-fronts-cyber-tech | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:27:22

• "Hypocenter of Hiroshima Atomic Bombing" ☛ https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/shinichis-tricycle.html | Source: Vintage Everyday    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:27:46

• "deranged push for retribution against dissent" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/further/untethered-to-the-facts | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:28:24

• "Senate Democrats are charging the Department of Government Efficiency is putting federal data at risk at the Social Security Administration, the General Services Administration and the Office of Personnel Management." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2025/10/senate-democrats-charge-doge-is-putting-federal-data-at-risk/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:28:49

• "Armed with colossal amounts of personal data, giants like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Alibaba, or Amazon achieved what was once unthinkable: knowing their users better than the users know themselves." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-10-06/yanis-varoufakis-the-technolords-control-our-minds.html | Source: El País    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:29:06

• "When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void. In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar way." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/10/russia-conspiracy-theories-us-reality/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:29:16

• "The eight-decade-old shell was found at one of the port’s six container terminals, according to a port spokesperson." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-08/wwii-era-explosive-found-at-port-of-long-beach-during-construction | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:29:27

• Confidentiality: "You see it all the time after a tragedy occurs somewhere, and people flock to offer their sympathies via the "thoughts and prayers" line." ☛ https://www.troyhunt.com/court-injunctions-are-the-thoughts-and-prayers-of-data-breach-response/ | Source: Troy Hunt    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:29:49

• "The incident, which was first reported on by 404 Media in May, showcases the extent that law enforcement and technology companies can track people without their knowledge, according to privacy experts." ☛ https://therecord.media/police-searched-license-reading-cameras-abortion-investigation | Source: The Record    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:30:09

• "It costs $149, and 200,000 units have been sold since it launched last summer. It’s made by the Chinese company Haivivi and runs on DeepSeek’s large language models" ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/07/1125191/ai-toys-in-china/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:30:24

• "In a major breakthrough for the digital rights movement, the German government has refused to back the EU’s controversial Chat Control regulation yesterday after facing massive public pressure." ☛ https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/citizen-protest-halts-chat-control-breyer-celebrates-major-victory-for-digital-privacy/ | Source: Patrick Breyer    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:30:38

• "Fighting over Chat Control is becoming an annual tradition." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/chat-control-is-back-again/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:30:55

• "Employees could be opening up to OpenAI in ways that put sensitive data at risk." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/07/gen_ai_shadow_it_secrets/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:32:07

• "While I'm protecting my privacy and security online, companies and platforms attempt to protect their platforms and infrastructure using a variety tools." ☛ https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/captchas-and-the-punishment-of-privacy-conscious-users | Source: Cory Dransfeldt    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:32:19

• "Last month, federal privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne, alongside his provincial privacy counterparts from Quebec, Alberta, and British Columbia, released the results of a multi-year investigation into TikTok’s privacy practices" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/10/why-the-recent-tiktok-privacy-ruling-swaps-privacy-for-increased-surveillance/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:32:43

• "The company Flok is surveilling us as we drive: [...]" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/flok-license-plate-surveillance.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:32:56

• "The bill signed Wednesday would require them to set up an easy-to-find mechanism that lets Californians opt-out with the push of a button, instead of having to do so repeatedly when visiting individual websites." ☛ https://therecord.media/california-signs-law-opt-out-browsers | Source: The Record    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:33:10

• Windows TCO: "nation-state hackers recently used a zero-day attack to break into email accounts" ☛ https://therecord.media/us-law-firm-hackers-breached-email | Source: The Record    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:34:59

• Windows TCO: "The ransomware gang later deleted the kids' and parents' data, apparently under pressure from other criminals" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/07/2_teens_arrested_in_london/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:35:07

• "He’s correct that social media didn’t simply manufacture right-wing populism through algorithmic sorcery." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/democracy-doesnt-need-better-analysisit | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:35:25

• "The company has charted impressive growth over the past decade and now pays out over $2 billion a year to creators who use its platform." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-jack-conte-patreon/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:35:35

• "It also requires companies to give notice of these rights, along with other information, to customers, job applicants, and others. (Bonus tip: Have a complaint about something else, such as a data breach? Go to the CA Attorney General.)" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/how-file-privacy-complaint-california | Source: EFF    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:35:49

• "Second, I still don’t wanna go back to any of the usual social media platforms." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/professionalism/ | Source: Ava    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:35:59

• "Access to several social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, has been "intentionally restricted" in Afghanistan, an internet watchdog said Wednesday, a week after a 48-hour telecommunications blackout in the country." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2344499.html | Source: RTL    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:36:09

• "California becomes first US state to enact a dedicated AI safety law" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/california-becomes-first-us-state-to-enact-a-dedicated-ai-safety-law/articleshow/124396066.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:36:48

• "The 237-page document on automatic penalties in the country’s welfare system included a made-up quote from a court judgement and references to non-existent academic publications." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/10/08/2025/deloittes-ai-slip-up-reveals-bigger-threat-to-consulting-firms | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:36:57

• "Meta and OpenAI will make sure of it. Meta recently announced its endless slop-feed Vibes, made up entirely of AI-generated content: cats, dogs, and blobs. And that’s just in Mark Zuckerberg’s initial video post about it." ☛ https://www.vox.com/technology/464097/meta-openai-sora-slop-ai | Source: Vox    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:37:06

• "Scholars have, in fact, long debated whether or not the painting is a Raphael original." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/ai-detected-an-unusual-detail-hidden-in-a-famous-raphael-masterpiece | Source: Science Alert    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:37:20

• "On a number of measures, equity market valuations appear stretched, particularly for technology companies focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI)." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/boe_dotcom_bubble_ai/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:37:59

• "AI hype is colliding with reality yet again. Wiley's global survey of researchers finds more of them using the tech than ever, and fewer convinced it's up to the job." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/more_researchers_use_ai_few_confident/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:38:11

• "Analyzing the cases has shown him some interesting trends. Half of the people who have contacted him are sufferers themselves, and half are family members who are watching, distraught, as loved ones enchanted by AI become more distant and delusional." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/ai_psychosis/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:38:30

• "Simultanously, another campaign was being torn to shreds—quite literally. The launch of Friend, the AI amulet, was not well received on the New York City Subway." ☛ https://www.8ball.report/p/a-is-for-anthropic | Source: Sean Monahan    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:38:44

• "SlopTok" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/the-sort-of-mother-fucker-who-makes-sloptok/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:38:57

• "amac explains that his current work focuses on coding with AI and, more broadly, trying to understand learning with AI – like many people fascinated with AI, he’s trying to figure out what the potentials and realities of these systems really are." ☛ https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/10/08/amac-at-umass-how-do-we-regulate-ai/ | Source: Ethan Zuckerman    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:39:23

• "So Salesforce decided to help the numbers. On 29 September, the Salesforce help page replaced the search bar with the Agentforce chatbot." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/08/salesforce-replaces-help-with-agentforce-ai-customers-outraged/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:39:38

• "I can't explain how the soul interacts with our brains, I suspect it goes beyond some simple physical mechanism." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/10/big-bots-dont-cry.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:39:50

• "As companies increasingly turn to A.I. to sift through thousands of job applications, candidates are concealing instructions for chatbots within their résumés in hopes of moving to the top of the pile." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/business/ai-chatbot-prompts-resumes.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:40:01

• "Users of these apps often say goodbye when they intend to end a dialog session, but about 43 percent of the time, companion apps will respond with an emotionally charged message to encourage the user to continue the conversation." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/ai_bots_use_emotional_manipulation/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:40:15

• "This whole comic nails it—especially that line. The only people excited about AI art are those who see it as some sort of tech bro hustle culture. [...]" ☛ https://tiv.today/a-cartoonists-review-of-ai-art/ |    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:40:27

• "Deloitte finally admitted the incredibly obvious — they wrote the report with ChatGPT. And they’ll be refunding part of their fee. Vibe compliance" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/07/deloitte-australia-retracts-chatgpt-report-refunds-government/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:42:50

• "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to this 'vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,' just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/gen-ai-zelda-robin-williams-1.7653514 | Source: CBC    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:43:22

• "Williams’ comments come a week after ChatGPT maker OpenAI launched Sora 2, a TikTok-like text-to-video generating app that serves up AI slop to the masses." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/robin-williams-daughter-disgusted-ai-slop | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:45:25

• "Financial consulting firm Deloitte was forced to reissue the Australian government $291,000 US after getting caught using AI and including hallucinated numbers in a recent report." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/deloitte-government-ai-hallucinations | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:45:35

• "Already too much software and too many websites suck beyond comprehension and you're not making it any better!" ☛ https://unixdigest.com/articles/if-youre-a-programmer-and-you-feel-depressed-by-ai-dont-be.html | Source: UNIXdigest    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:45:49

• "As I argue in my newly published book, Needy Media: How Tech Gets Personal, our phones—and more recently, our watches—have become animated beings in our lives. These devices can build bonds with us by recognizing our presence and reacting to our bodies." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-smartphones-emotions-trigger-reflexes-addicted.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:49:01

• "[...] I’m hoping I’ll have less distractions, less influence to do things based on what I see, more time to create and a bit more calm." ☛ https://ljpuk.net/2025/10/08/quit-social-media/ | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:49:19

• "Birds can spread the flu virus via their physical presence – entering a hen house, for example – or via droppings. This means it is important to act quickly to scare them off. NTT’s drones with deterrent lasers seem like they are a good fit for this task." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/japanese-tech-giant-deploys-laser-drones-to-protect-chickens-drones-are-hoped-to-prevent-the-spread-of-avian-flu | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:49:32

• "The quadcopter system sports a payload consisting of a laser-grid projector not unlike those chintzy Christmas light shows from 2019. When deployed, the drone automatically navigates toward unwanted nuisance animals before blasting them with a dazzling array of red and green lasers." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/japan-laser-drone-chickens | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:49:43

• "Real-time monitoring of water levels is critical to keeping people safe during extreme weather events, such as tsunamis, hurricanes, and high tide flooding." ☛ https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/news/sep25/tide-gauges-tsunami-response.html | Source: NOAA    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:50:29

• "Published in Nature Astronomy, the study by researchers from the University of Oxford, Google Cloud, and Radboud University demonstrates that a general-purpose large language model (LLM)—Google's Gemini—can be transformed into an expert astronomy assistant with minimal guidance." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-ai-advance-astronomers-cosmic-events.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:50:40

• "I was interested from the outset, because launching a 12U CubeSat into space isn't cheap, and requires a lot of engineering." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/how-much-radiation-can-pi-handle-space | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:50:51

• "Next year looks to be worse. The 2026 budget proposed by the White House would slash the National Science Foundation by 56.9 percent, the N.I.H. by 39.3 percent and NASA by 24.3 percent, including 47.3 percent of the agency’s science-research budget." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/climate/trump-climate-science-funding.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:51:04

• "Let me repeat without mincing: your old migrations are not useful to you. I don’t care if they’re from 2010 or 2020 - they serve no purpose in your current codebase." ☛ https://blog.julik.nl/2025/10/delete-your-old-migrations | Source: Julik Tarkhanov    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:51:43

• "When I talk about blogging for developers, I talk about building a body of work and a set of documentation that lasts for a long time in the era of social media where posts have visibility of maybe few minutes or hours and even accounts and platforms have lifecycles measured in years." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/networking-and-writing-as-a-catalyst-for-relationships-and-opportunities/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:52:05

• "Today in Tedium: After 55 years, The Dr. Demento Show has come to an end. Last June, the good doctor (real name Barret Hansen) announced he would be ending the show this year. Now, the time to sign off has come." ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/10/07/dr-demento-retirement-tribute/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:52:27

• "For some reason, the reversal of their “first party hard drive only” decision makes me feel different." ☛ https://json.blog/2025/10/08/synology-reluctantly-discovers-i-am.html | Source: Jason Becker    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:52:37

• "Yesterday arrived with an onslaught of Russian spambots abusing the comment form here, and nothing seemed able to stop them. Cloudflare worked, then it didn’t. Slightly panicked here, I might have slowed the flow by adding a block on 11 IP ranges." ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/attacked-by-the-evil-empire | Source: Jeremy Cherfas    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:52:57

• "Sending emails en masse is less cost effective than spamming contact forms." ☛ https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/a-theory-on-why-contact-forms-get-more-spam-than-email-addresses/ | Source: Luke Harris    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:53:10

• "The answer is no, but goodness does this look good? Now a few days ago, I talked about the themes that I added to the site. You can still see them if you’re on desktop, there’s a little menu in the lower right side." ☛ https://mtwb.blog/posts/2025/have-i-made-the-perfct-blog/ | Source: Matthew Weber    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:53:22

• "John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China (1986) was one of the most distinctive action, fantasy films of the 1980s, a wild mix of martial arts, supernatural mythology, and tongue-in-cheek humor. Its production was as unconventional and spirited as the film itself." ☛ https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/big-trouble-in-little-china-bts.html | Source: Vintage Everyday    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:54:03

• "Same story as the last dozen. No pulse, no structure, no soul." ☛ https://www.jonoalderson.com/misc/the-death-of-a-website/ | Source: Jono Alderson    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:54:28

• "The OpenBSD ports tree generally tracks current, but sometimes backports (and stable packages) are made for more serious issues." ☛ https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/backporting-go-on-openbsd | Source: Ted Unangst    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:54:49

• "Free threading in Python, which disables the global interpreter lock (GIL)" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/python_314_released_with_cautious/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:55:35

• "Is Python Really That Slow?" ☛ https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/python-3-14-is-here-how-fast-is-it | Source: Miguel Grinberg    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:55:44

• "One of the biggest additions in this release is free-threaded Python, which removes the Global Interpreter Lock and allows true parallel execution." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/python-3-14-released-with-free-threaded-mode/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:55:51

• "Python 3.14. This year's major Python version, Python 3.14, just made its first stable release! " ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/8/python-314/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:55:58

• "Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is a diffstat report relative to previous release." ☛ https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/10/08/#rpushbullet_0.3.5 | Source: Dirk Eddelbuettel    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:56:37

• "The language invites experimentation without compromising performance." ☛ https://machaddr.com/blog/articles/2025-10-08-perl-isnt-dead/ | Source: André Machado    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:57:11

• "Julia version 1.12 has finally been released. We want to thank all the contributors to this release and all the testers who helped find regressions and issues in the pre-releases. Without you, this release would not have been possible." ☛ https://julialang.org/blog/2025/10/julia-1.12-highlights/index.html | Source: Julia Programming Language    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 16:57:39

• "What do they do with the rest of their time? Code maintenance, technical debt and wrestling with fragmented tools." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/survey-engineers-want-to-code-but-spend-all-day-on-tech-debt/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:01:33

• "To be honest, I found the idea quite strange at first. I wanted to dig deeper to understand the motivation and the implications." ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/10/08/cpp26-range-support-for-std-optional | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:01:47

• "Why would anyone write a book entitled Beautiful Code?" ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/08/aesthetics-matter/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:02:00

• "Why would anyone write a book entitled Beautiful Code?" ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/08/aesthetics-matter/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:02:10

• "What I was interested in was patterns of daily counts, so I wanted to average by day across years." ☛ https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/10/08/halloween-in-the-round/ | Source: Kieran Healy    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:02:35

• "It’s expensive. Not really my ideal solution, being more focused towards those that want to build an audience and make money" ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/moving-again/ | Source: Greg Morris    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:03:36

• "I’ll probably bail on it soon." ☛ https://baty.blog/2025/10/hows-the-wordpress-experiment-going/ | Source: Jack Baty    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:03:49

• "IBM has signed an OEM agreement with Cockroach Labs – maker of the distributed PostgreSQL-like cloud RDBMS CockroachDB" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/ibm_cockroachdb_mainframe_postgres/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:04:12

• "Over a year after the previous 1.4 release, ClamAV, a mainstay in the open-source antivirus world developed by Cisco Talos, a part of Cisco Systems Inc." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/clamav-1-5-antivirus-brings-fips-mode-signature-verification-support/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:05:03

• "Maintenance, server or home or garden" ☛ https://macadie.info/2025/10/08/emacs-carnival-maintenance/ | Source: Eric MacAdie    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:05:08

• "The past twelve months have been another remarkable chapter in Thunderbird’s journey." ☛ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/state-of-the-bird-2024-25/ | Source: Thunderbird    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:05:13

• "To commemorate the release, they’re selling a physical copy of Immich that can, optionally, be ordered with a server or client key." ☛ https://initialcharge.net/2025/10/immich-stable/ | Source: Mike Rockwell    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:05:19

• "It would be something of an understatement to say that Alphabet, Google’s holding company, is big and successful. Some Wall Street analysts are even predicting it could become the world’s most valuable corporation." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/07/googles-requirement-for-all-android-developers-to-register-and-be-verified-threatens-to-close-down-open-source-app-store-f-droid/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:05:39

• "The restriction resets whenever a user crosses a regional border or switches to a different network, meaning connectivity may remain unstable while traveling within Russia, according to the local internet monitoring group Na Svyazi." ☛ https://therecord.media/russia-blocks-mobile-internet-foreign-sim-cards | Source: The Record    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:05:53

• "Ubuntu Touch is a free and open source Linux operating system targeted at phones and it is maintained by UBports (see the official Ubuntu Touch website). It is officially supported on a relatively small number of devices, most of which run Android (thanks to Halium)." ☛ https://thenewleafjournal.com/reviewing-imoon-for-ubuntu-touch/ | Source: The New Leaf Journal    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:06:08

• "The idea of following a woodworking workshop or a pen creation workshop stuck on the back of my mind but never quite managed to materialize." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/10/i-made-my-own-fountain-pen/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:06:38

• "Since the beginning, we have manufactured our single-board computers at the Sony UK Technology Centre (Sony UK TEC) in Pencoed, South Wales" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/sustainable-solutions-with-raspberry-pi-local-zero-waste-manufacturing-and-precious-metal-recovery/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:06:50

• "The Gnoppix team has officially released Gnoppix KDE 25.10, a Debian Trixie–based distribution that places a strong focus on performance, privacy, and user experience." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/gnoppix-kde-25-10-launches-with-debian-trixie-base/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:07:14

• "Andreas Mueller has announced the release of Gnoppix AI Linux 25_10, which features the KDE Plasma desktop." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12581 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:07:27

• "The AlmaLinux OS team have announced the availability of a new beta for the 9.x series." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12584 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:07:51

• "The FreeBSD Foundation is excited to share that NetActuate has generously sponsored a bare-metal server to be used as a Cirrus CI runner" ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/netactuate-sponsors-bare-metal-server-to-strengthen-freebsd-projects-ci-infrastructure/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:08:26

• "The focus of this quarter’s issue is Embedded FreeBSD." ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/the-q3-2025-issue-of-the-freebsd-journal-is-now-available/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:08:41

• "System76 has announced that the company’s new Oryx Pro will be the first Linux laptop to ship with both the Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/system76-unveils-oryx-pro-linux-laptop-with-cosmic-desktop-beta/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:09:04

• "A while ago I wrote an entry about things that resolved wasn't for as of systemd 251." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdResolvedDnsDelegates | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:09:20

• "This week, we’ll dive deep into these three core concepts of advanced ZFS dataset management and explore how they work, some practical applications" ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/advanced-zfs-dataset-management/ | Source: Klara    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:09:51

• "This week it's all about your feedback! We answer your questions, and dig through your problems!" ☛ https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/462 | Source: The Ask Noah Show    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:10:12

• 🔤SpellBinding — DFHSLOI Wordo: FAKIR gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-10-09.gmi    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:26:14

• 🖼️ xkcd — Skateboard #3152 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3152.gmi    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:26:50

• (Smart Phone) gemini://tilde.club/~silica/gemlog-th/2025-10-09_not-that-everyone-have-internet.gmi    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:27:29

• "After that I got a Sony Clie PEG-SL10. The draw of the SL10 for me was the higher resolution grayscale screen. While the higher res did look nice it had the same issue of being significantly less visible without the backlight. There were things I liked more about the SL10 but I couldn't get past the screen so after a test period it ended up in the drawer." gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/gemlog/2025-10-09-pdas.gmi    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:28:07

• agate server update gemini://gemini.mingmengtou.org/2025-10-09-agate-server-update.gmi    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:44:38

• "I'm in the city of Lost Wages, Nevada, again. I'm here tagging along with my wife since she has a convention to work. I don't really have much to do so I have just been hanging out, trying not to spend much money. We both needed to get away, but unfortunately, this is a working trip for her." gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2025/20251008_lost_wages    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:45:58

• System76 Unveils Oryx Pro GNU/Linux Laptop with COSMIC Desktop Beta ☞ https://linuxiac.com/system76-unveils-oryx-pro-linux-laptop-with-cosmic-desktop-beta/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:51:37

• NetActuate Sponsors Bare-Metal Server to Strengthen FreeBSD Project’s CI Infrastructure ☞ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/netactuate-sponsors-bare-metal-server-to-strengthen-freebsd-projects-ci-infrastructure/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:51:49

• The Q3 2025 Issue of the FreeBSD Journal is Now Available! ☞ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/the-q3-2025-issue-of-the-freebsd-journal-is-now-available/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:52:12

• Mozilla Thunderbird: State Of The Bird 2024/25 ☞ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/state-of-the-bird-2024-25/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:53:28

• Qt 6.10 Released With Flexbox Layout, New SearchField ☞ https://linuxiac.com/qt-6-10-released-with-flexbox-layout-new-searchfield/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:54:05

• Aesthetics matter ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/08/aesthetics-matter/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:54:16

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: RPushbullet 0.3.5: Mostly Maintenance ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/10/08#rpushbullet_0.3.5    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:54:40

• Python 3.14 Released With Free-Threaded Mode ☞ https://linuxiac.com/python-3-14-released-with-free-threaded-mode/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:54:56

• backporting go on openbsd ☞ https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/backporting-go-on-openbsd    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:55:09

• Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/climate/trump-climate-science-funding.html    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:56:29

• How much radiation can a Pi handle in space? ☞ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/how-much-radiation-can-pi-handle-space    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:56:42

• AI Detected an Unusual Detail Hidden in a Famous Raphael Masterpiece ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ai-detected-an-unusual-detail-hidden-in-a-famous-raphael-masterpiece    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:57:28

• Flok License Plate Surveillance ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/flok-license-plate-surveillance.html    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 17:59:57

• Why The Recent Fentanylware (CheeTok) Privacy Ruling Swaps Privacy for Increased Surveillance ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/10/why-the-recent-tiktok-privacy-ruling-swaps-privacy-for-increased-surveillance/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:00:43

• Court Injunctions are the Thoughts and Prayers of Data Breach Response ☞ https://www.troyhunt.com/court-injunctions-are-the-thoughts-and-prayers-of-data-breach-response/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:01:58

• Government Reverses on Bill C-2: Removes Lawful Access Warrantless Demand Powers in New Border Bill ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/10/government-reverses-on-bill-c-2-removes-lawful-access-warrantless-demand-powers-in-new-border-bill/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:04:19

• Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino, Pushing Deeper Into Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://linuxiac.com/qualcomm-to-acquire-arduino-pushing-deeper-into-ai/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:04:33

• Google appears to prioritise global newsbrands over local ones for breaking news events ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/google-manchester-visibility-s/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:07:18

• Microsoft backdoored Windows is No Longer an Operating System, It's Surveillance Project (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/08/Microsoft_Windows_is_No_Longer_an_Operating_System_It_s_Surveil.shtml    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:11:09

• Copr: Generating dataset from Fedora packaging guidelines ☞ https://fedora-copr.github.io//posts/data-from-packaging-guidelines    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:11:41

• Niko Matsakis: SymmACP: extending Zed's ACP to support Composable Agents ☞ https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2025/10/08/symmacp/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:13:02

• "My name is Akash Kumar, and I was a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025 mentee with the openSUSE organization." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/10/08/gsoc-semantic-video-search/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:16:42

• openSUSE ☛ https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2025/10/how-to-run-opensuse-leap-16-on-qemu-kvm-virtual-machine.html | Source: Ubuntubuzz    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:17:34

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 620 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/10/08/this-week-in-rust-620/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:17:54

• FLOSS Weekly Episode 850: One ROM To Rule Them All ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/08/floss-weekly-episode-850-one-rom-to-rule-them-all/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:18:56

• Boosting the next hype wave (fake valuation) for "daddy IBM" ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/08/quantum-computing-101-developers    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:21:11

• "IMHO Covid (Plandemic, Scamdemic) changed the world in horrible ways and 1 of them was the forced work from home. It showed people can adapt and we bailed out companies by bringing home the bacon and working in bedrooms etc. Work is no longer a place you go. It is something you do to pay the bills." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k61rfyn7    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:24:46

• Colin Watson: Free software activity in September 2025 ☞ https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/activity-2025-09.html    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:25:30

• One model is not enough, too many models is hard: Technical deep dive ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/08/one-model-not-enough-too-many-models-hard-technical-deep-dive    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:26:34

• Charles: How to Build an Incus Buster Image ☞ https://www.charlz.net/2025-10-09-buster-incus-image/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:27:30

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

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:28:18

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

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:28:29

• How To Install WGDashboard on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-wgdashboard-fedora-42/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:28:40

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

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:29:36

• How To Convert Hex To ASCII Characters on GNU/Linux ☞ https://idroot.us/convert-hex-to-ascii-characters-linux/    

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:29:46

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

posted Thursday, October 09, 2025 at 18:30:04

• How To Install Opera Browser on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-opera-browser-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Friday, October 10, 2025 at 01:11:43

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

posted Friday, October 10, 2025 at 01:12:01

• How To Install Xrdp Server on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-xrdp-server-debian-13/    

posted Friday, October 10, 2025 at 01:12:51

• How To Install NTP Server and Client on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-ntp-server-and-client-manjaro/    

posted Friday, October 10, 2025 at 01:13:10

• Xogot Brings Full Godot Game Development to iPhone ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/xogot-for-iphone/    

posted Friday, October 10, 2025 at 01:13:43

• Release candidate: Godot 4.5.1 RC 2 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/release-candidate-godot-4-5-1-rc-2/    

posted Friday, October 10, 2025 at 01:13:52

• Bargaining and backstabbing: How to break France's political deadlock? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20251008-bargaining-and-backstabbing-how-to-break-france-s-political-deadlock    

posted Friday, October 10, 2025 at 01:14:12

• Ubuntu worker nodes for OKE now in Limited Availability ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-worker-nodes-for-oracle-oke-now-in-limited-availability | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, October 10, 2025 at 01:15:32