Roy Schestowitz

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-10-13.gmi    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:10:04

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1792.jpg    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:10:30

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1442.jpg    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:10:50

• "Support for Windows 10 is ending. What to do? I could go to Linux, but experience shows that I don't have the patience to deal with it: I have a Linux machine that gradually accumulated issues until I stopped using it. I don't want to fix an OS. I do want to run some software." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2025-10-13_Giving_up.gmi    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:11:28

• "It's been a longtime since I've went back on this website and I've been running through the posts I've missed out on in the last few months. Life has been overall good---I've moved cross-country back home, at least temporarily until my partner finishes his Master's." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2713gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2713    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:12:30

• "The nonsense that Skyjake and the Gemlog host master said that there are many bot accounts, that is not true, because almost all countries have blocked sites by the government, due to the current tense world geopolitical problems, many IP addresses are no longer static, but dynamic." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2712    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:13:30

• Maskuga Treasure gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2711    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:14:17

• "Around ten years ago, it used to be that most of the music I listened to was from my own personal file collection in lossless formats. Over time though as my music tastes changed and I leaned on streaming more and more, my collection didn’t keep up and I stopped paying attention to audio quality as much as I once did." gemini://moddedbear.xyz/logs/2025-10-12-enjoying-lossless-music-again.gmi    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:15:03

• Aaron Aziz backlash shows Gaza activism now a litmus test for celebrities in Malaysia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/aaron-aziz-backlash-shows-gaza-activism-now-a-litmus-test-for-celebrities-in-malaysia    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:17:49

• One Malaysian killed, 5 S’poreans injured after express bus crashes into signpost in Selangor ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/one-malaysian-killed-5-sporeans-injured-after-express-bus-crashes-into-signboard-pole-in-selangor    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:18:11

• Beijing blames US for raising trade tensions, defends rare earth curbs ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/beijing-blames-us-for-raising-trade-tensions-defends-rare-earth-curbs    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:18:45

• How China powers its electric cars and high-speed trains ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/how-china-powers-its-electric-cars-and-high-speed-trains    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:18:53

• China Flexed. Convicted Felon Hit Back. So Much for the Thaw. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/world/asia/china-trump-tariff-threat.html    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:19:18

• China Detains Dozens of Members of Underground Church ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/world/asia/china-church-pastor-detained.html    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:19:31

• ‘China isn’t afraid’: Beijingers shrug off Convicted Felon tariff threat ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-isnt-afraid-beijingers-shrug-off-trump-tariff-threat    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:19:45

• China ready to walk away from Xi-Dihydroxyacetone Man summit amid erosion of US credibility, say analysts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-ready-to-walk-away-from-xi-trump-summit-amid-erosion-of-us-credibility-say-analysts    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:19:59

• Dihydroxyacetone Man announces additional 100 percent tariff on Chinese imports ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251011-trump-announces-additional-100-percent-tariff-on-chinese-imports    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:20:09

• Tens of thousands flock to China's Palace Museum on 100th anniversary ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251011-tens-of-thousands-flock-to-china-s-forbidden-city-on-100th-anniversary    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:20:26

• Rare earth element reserves in Turkey: What is known and what remains unknown ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/rare-earth-element-reserves-in-turkey-what-is-known-and-what-remains-unknown-312426    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:20:40

• North Korea Flaunts New Missiles ​in Parade With Chinese and Russian Officials ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/world/asia/north-korea-military-parade-china-russia.html    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:21:12

• She Studies the Russian ‘Red Man’ Whose Bloody War Evokes Soviet Tyranny ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/world/europe/russia-svetlana-alexievich.html    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:21:29

• GNU/Linux how to ssh tunnel mail traffic (smtp 25,465,587,2525) (imap 143,993) via your own server (proxy for thunderbird) ☞ https://dwaves.de/2025/10/11/gnu-linux-how-to-ssh-tunnel-mail-traffic-smtp-254655872525-imap-143993-via-your-own-server-proxy-for-thunderbird/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:22:02

• Solus Begins a New Epoch with Polaris Repository and Python 2 Removal ☞ https://linuxiac.com/solus-begins-a-new-epoch-with-polaris-repository-and-python-2-removal/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:22:34

• "I loved the suggestion that it referred to Richard Stallman because of the appearance of the 3 gnus on the faceplate and Stallman was a driving force" https://www.cipherchallenge.org/tbd/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:23:43

• Richard Stallman incontra gli studenti https://www.uniroma1.it/it/cerca today    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:27:11

• 10 Best Free and Open Source Graphical GNU/Linux Diff Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/difftools/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:31:57

• LinuxHub Prime – Arch-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/linuxhub-prime-arch-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:32:04

• lefthook – Git hooks manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lefthook-git-hooks-manager/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:32:11

• Ukraine Restores Power To Thousands After Mass Outages Caused By Russian Strikes ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-electricity-outages-power-winter/33557069.html    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:32:36

• Russian attack on Ukraine's energy facilities plunges thousands into darkness ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251011-russian-attack-on-ukraine-s-energy-facilities-plunge-thousands-into-darkness    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:32:43

• Converted school bus turned into mobile retro computing museum — historic array includes Sinclair (Timex) ZX Spectrum 48K and Commodore 64 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/converted-school-bus-turned-into-mobile-retro-computing-museum-historic-array-includes-sinclair-timex-zx-spectrum-48k-and-commodore-64    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:33:05

• ‘Pawns in Putin’s war game’: African women lured into drone factories ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251011-pawns-in-putin-war-game-african-women-lured-drone-factories-russia-alabuga    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:33:21

• ouch – compress and decompress files and directories ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ouch-compress-decompress-files-directories/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:33:54

• dnsupdate – modern and flexible dynamic DNS client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dnsupdate-modern-flexible-dynamic-dns-client/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:34:00

• ahoviewer – image viewer, manga reader, and booru browser ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ahoviewer-image-viewer-manga-reader-booru-browser/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:34:06

• 15 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based GNU/Linux File Managers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-web-based-linux-file-managers/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:34:27

• Synex – Debian-based distribution that’s designed to be minimalist ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/synex-debian-based-distribution/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:34:36

• Linux Out Loud 116: Big Endian, Big Problems ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/linux-out-loud/lol-116/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:36:05

• Video: The Oral History of Ken Thompson ☞ http://www.montanalinux.org/video-oral-history-of-ken-thompson-2025.html    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:36:43

• I got tired of looking for Linux alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud — but I didn't need to https://www.xda-developers.com/got-tired-looking-linux-alternatives-photoshop-didnt-need-to/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:38:44

• “X” but not Musk ☛ https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/10/12/cbp-changes-procedures-for-airline-passengers-with-x-passports/ | Source: Papers Please    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:52:28

• "Mosque in uber-liberal London enclave bans all females over 12 from charity park run... so where are the howls of outrage from the Wokerati? | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15183963/Mosque-bans-females-charity-park-run.html    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:52:41

• "Troops request assistance at ‘unprecedented’ rate as shutdown persists" https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/10/10/troops-request-assistance-at-unprecedented-rate-as-shutdown-persists/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:52:51

• "This Web Server Is 100% Solar Powered" https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/this-web-server-is-100-solar-powered:5    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:53:02

• "Why I Don't Use the Mac App Store (and What I Use Instead)" https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Homebrew:5    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:53:12

• "Pakistani man jailed over child bride migration scam fights to return to Britain" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/12/pakistani-man-jailed-child-bride-british-citizenship/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:58:25

• "District Court: TRO For Troops In Chicago Area, TRO From Using Riot Tactics Against Protests, And More!" https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/district-court-tro-for-troops-in-chicago-area-tro-from-using-riot-tactics-against-protests-and-more/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:58:34

• DRM poisons everything: "The FCC Will Allow ABC, CBS, FOX, & NBC TV Stations Decide When Switch to ATSC 3.0" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/12/0052201    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:58:51

• "White House debates invoking Insurrection Act" https://www.semafor.com/article/10/12/2025/white-house-debates-invoking-insurrection-act    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:59:00

• eating the seed corn https://taskandpurpose.com/news/pentagon-pay-military-troops/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:59:15

• "Zelensky warns Russia exploiting lack of 'attention' on war" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2345558.html    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:59:24

• "Chat Control 2: Vad händer nu?" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/10/12/chat-control-2-vad-hander-nu-6/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 04:59:37

• "A separate group of authors sued Apple last month for allegedly misusing their work in AI training." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/lawsuit-claims-apple-trained-ai-on-stolen-books/272693/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:04:44

• "Some people are upset about this part because government officers aren’t normally considered a protected class." ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/10/10/deicer-removed-from-the-app-store/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:04:58

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/12/spotify-boycott-artists | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:05:34

• "Being together with mutual respect and kindness is a form of protest" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oregon/articles/2025-10-12/naked-bike-riders-demonstrate-against-federal-troops-in-quintessentially-portland-protest | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:06:29

• "They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up." ☛ https://organizingmythoughts.org/they-came-for-our-neighbors-we-showed-up/ | Source: Kelly Hayes    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:06:35

• "banned girls and women from their basic rights" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/taliban-muttaqi-afghanistan-women-delhi-b2843931.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:06:42

• "In shutting down the [Internet] and cellphone services across Afghanistan last month" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/world/asia/afghanistan-social-media-internet-shutdown.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:07:43

• "The streamer would not elaborate on the reasons for the last-minute change but The Savant’s subject matter is believed to be behind it" ☛ https://deadline.com/2025/09/the-savant-jessica-chastain-postponed-apple-1236553658/ | Source: Deadline    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:07:52

• "The former CNN and Fox News personality also co-founded Blaze Media, with a subscription TV product, BlazeTV" ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51388535/glenn-beck-says-he-planned-to-turn-his-media-empire-over-to-charlie-kirk- | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:17:03

• "Through gerrymandering, political elections can be won this way." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/gerrymandering | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:17:55

• "a form of acceptable self harm" ☛ https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2025/adhere-empire/ | Source: Jacky Alciné    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:18:02

• "Tipping points include global ice loss, Amazon rainforest loss, and the possible collapse of vital ocean currents." ☛ https://www.404media.co/earths-climate-has-passed-its-first-irreversible-tipping-point-and-entered-a-new-reality/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:30:00

• "With ministers gathering ahead of the COP30 summit" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-earth-reality-coral-reefs-climate.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:30:07

• [Old] Overpopulation: "water efficiency investments, which might achieve (at best) between 10-20 per cent savings" ☛ https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2020/08/26/stop-grand-theft-water |    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:30:38

• "We, together with the Baltic countries and Poland, are defending all of Europe." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-12/finland-fortifies-itself-against-its-russian-neighbor.html | Source: El País    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:31:15

• "What you won’t find in the Pew study, however, are what those rules are." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tech/798648/how-verge-parents-and-readers-manage-kids-screen-time | Source: The Verge    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:31:24

• "Arizona’s newly elected congresswoman is poised to break a House logjam on releasing the Epstein files." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-10-12/grijalva-swearing-in-jeffrey-epstein-trump-mike-johnson | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:31:39

• "Rinderknecht has yet to enter a plea, but if he goes to trial, the case could offer a meaningful glimpse into how the proliferation of AI technology will affect criminal investigations and prosecutions in the future." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/chatbot-history-evidence-criminal-case-1235444944/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:33:02

• "It is also about recognizing when he have been pressured and manipulated into oversharing by companies whose business model depends on it." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/privacy-value/ | Source: Ava    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:33:13

• "Yet somewhere along the way, we've shifted from "doorstep" to "entire street"." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/security-cameras/as-ring-cameras-go-4k-are-we-crossing-a-line-between-safety-and-privacy | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:33:22

• "According to Zoom, since its launch in 2019, Zoom Phone has become one of the “fastest-growing cloud telephony solutions in the market." ☛ https://itwire.com/it-industry-news/market/zoom-phone-%e2%80%98hits-10-million-seats%e2%80%99,-transforming-how-businesses-connect-in-the-ai-era.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:33:33

• "A federal judge on Friday rejected attempts by LinkedIn and other tech companies to toss out the bulk of consumer privacy claims asserting the companies secretly tracked users' sensitive medical information across healthcare websites without their knowledge or consent." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/linkedin-cant-dodge-claims-it-tracked-users-medical-data/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:33:41

• In 10 hours https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/12/Richard_Stallman_RMS_Has_Announced_His_Talk_in_Rome_Less_Than_2.shtml    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:40:28

• Windows TCO ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-security/ransomware-manufacturing-an-escalating-battle | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:41:11

• "It’s a simple problem, with a simple solution, but one that still dominates our current world." ☛ https://rscottjones.com/the-folly-of-social-media-feeds/ | Source: R Scott Jones    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:41:45

• "The premise is simple enough: kids use Snapchat’s AI tools to create images of a grimy man in their home and tell their parents they let them in to use the bathroom, take a nap, or just get a drink of water." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/798681/police-stop-pulling-ai-homeless-man-tiktok-prank | Source: The Verge    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:41:55

• "And this second one I actually listened to here, but I'm linking to the video because there are a couple of diagrams reference that people my find useful." ☛ https://www.cartoongravity.com/a-couple-of-things/ |    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:42:05

• "Jonathan Haidt suggests delaying access to social media until age 14 and warns that the rise of artificial intelligence could prove even more harmful to young people than social networks themselves." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/health/2025-10-12/a-generation-in-crisis-why-young-people-are-so-unhappy.html | Source: El País    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:42:15

• "For the past few years, Gen Z internet users have been calling this genre of unchallenging video “slop”. These productions are sub-lowbrow; they take no intellectual discernment to produce, and no taste either." ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/social-media/2025/10/inside-vibes-metas-new-ai-slop-feed | Source: New Statesman    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:42:24

• "And many people have noted that the AI boom is driving most, possibly all, of the economy’s recent growth. So what will happen if the boom goes bust?" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/technology-bubbles-causes-and-consequences | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:43:31

• "A major Australian university used artificial intelligence technology to accuse about 6,000 students of academic misconduct last year." ☛ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-09/artificial-intelligence-cheating-australian-catholic-university/105863524 | Source: ABC    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:43:41

• "College students are being wrongly accused of using AI to cheat on their assignments by their university — based, in a headache-inducing twist, on the findings of another AI system." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/students-falsely-accused-cheating-with-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:43:50

• "The phrase “I voted for this” has become a common thing for far-right supporters of Trump to say when something particularly brutal has happened to their political opponents." ☛ https://gizmodo.com/fake-protest-videos-are-the-latest-ai-slop-to-go-viral-in-maga-world-2000669656 | Source: Gizmodo    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:44:06

• "The phenomenon was first flagged by Gizmodo, which reported a concerning rise in AI-generated pro-Trump propaganda since the release of OpenAI’s Sora 2, an AI video generator capable of spitting out short, nearly photorealistic clips." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/trump-ai-protest-troops | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:44:18

• "A fiery apocalypse." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/how-solid-is-ed-zitrons-case-against-generative-ai/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:44:31

• "And I can’t entirely blame them, because a key part of what makes LLM chatbots work as well as they do is pretending to be Artificial General Intelligence – fake it till you make it!" ☛ https://davidyat.es/2025/09/27/signifier-flotation-devices/ |    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:45:02

• "You can forget those cheap USB floppy drives you can buy online." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/cambridge-university-rescues-data-from-old-floppy-disks | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:46:18

• "Last week, during Intel's Tech Tour press event, El Reg had the opportunity to tour Fab52" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/12/gelsingers_foundry_dream_lives_on/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:46:24

• "My mission as a staff engineer is to provide technical clarity to the organization" ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/clarity/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:50:52

• "It is two years on from many Australian states announcing school smartphone bans. I was contacted for comment on ‘whether or not the phone bans were the gamechanger we think they were’. The final piece in the Guardian is here. Below are my full comments to the main questions." ☛ https://criticaledtech.com/2025/10/13/smartphone-bans-in-schools-how-much-has-changed/ | Source: Neil Selwyn    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:51:01

• "School mobile phones bans typically mandate that mobile devices are kept in bags or lockers during the school day and confiscated on sight and stored in the school office until the end of the day." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/13/two-years-after-school-phone-bans-were-implemented-in-australia-whats-changed-the-impacts-were-clear | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:51:12

• "A father and son duo have converted an old school bus into a computer gaming museum. The Retro Reset Computer Bus was inspired by the son’s visit to a traditional brick-and-mortar computer museum, and the wish to spread the joy of retro-computing more widely, reports the BBC." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/converted-school-bus-turned-into-mobile-retro-computing-museum-historic-array-includes-sinclair-timex-zx-spectrum-48k-and-commodore-64 | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:51:24

• "A father and son duo have converted an old school bus into a computer gaming museum. The Retro Reset Computer Bus was inspired by the son’s visit to a traditional brick-and-mortar computer museum, and the wish to spread the joy of retro-computing more widely" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/converted-school-bus-turned-into-mobile-retro-computing-museum-historic-array-includes-sinclair-timex-zx-spectrum-48k-and-commodore-64 | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:51:57

• "A father and son duo have converted an old school bus into a computer gaming museum. The Retro Reset Computer Bus was inspired by the son’s visit to a traditional brick-and-mortar computer museum" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/converted-school-bus-turned-into-mobile-retro-computing-museum-historic-array-includes-sinclair-timex-zx-spectrum-48k-and-commodore-64 | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:52:11

• "A father and son duo have converted an old school bus into a computer gaming museum. The Retro Reset Computer Bus was inspired by the son’s visit to a traditional brick-and-mortar computer museum" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/converted-school-bus-turned-into-mobile-retro-computing-museum-historic-array-includes-sinclair-timex-zx-spectrum-48k-and-commodore-64 | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:52:39

• "finding the shortest path" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/new-method-is-the-fastest-way-to-find-the-best-routes/ | Source: Wired    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:53:06

• "Supporting this interesting array of hardware was the NeXTSTEP operating system." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/steve-jobs-unveiled-the-next-computer-on-this-day-in-1988-the-cube-would-be-used-to-develop-the-www-doom-and-quake | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:53:23

• "Perhaps the most interesting discussion, however, isn’t about AI at all. It’s about the scope of systems research. What systems research is, or aught to be." ☛ https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/10/12/barbarians.html | Source: Marc Brooker    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:53:43

• "And then we renovated our home resulting in more shuffling around of room designations: the living room migrated to the new section with high glass windows to better connect with the back garden. That logically meant I could claim the vacant living room space." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/10/my-desk-setup-in-2025/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:54:31

• "Last week, for James Bond Day, Amazon revealed updated poster art for the movies. But fans immediately noticed that the super spy’s signature Walther PPK was conspicuously missing from every image. In some cases it had clearly and rather clumsily been Photoshopped out" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/798712/amazon-awkwardly-edited-the-guns-out-of-james-bond-art | Source: The Verge    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:54:40

• "So, the message started emphatically with 520x10. Or ‘I love you’ x 10. 1314 is significant as it is a homophone for ‘forever and always.’ Elsewhere in the tricky sum, we see 514 (til death), 619 (escaping forever), 666 (awesome), and 957 (I’m teasing)." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/bride-surprises-new-husband-with-an-rtx-5090-on-wedding-day-chinese-number-slang-reveals-surprise-gift | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:57:12

• "Modern English was once Middle English, which was once Old English, which was once some form of Germanic before that. Every language is the bastard child of another, sometimes many others. Spanish and Italian? Just Latin for different times and climes." ☛ https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/our-ancestors-murdered-their-mother-tongue-laura-spinney-proto |    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 05:57:21

• "I learned something new today. I long assumed the ubiquitous 32-bit PCI slot was “PCI”, and that the longer PCI slot was therefore “PCI-X”. This isn’t true at all; they’re different standards." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/64-bit-pci-versus-pci-x/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:05:38

• "The world is growing tired of yaml. Alternative configuration formats are making the rounds. Toml has steadily been gaining traction, in part due to tools like Cargo and adoption in the Python standard library." ☛ https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2025/abstraction-not-syntax | Source: Ruud van Asseldonk    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:05:51

• "JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) was designed as a simple, lightweight, and human-readable data interchange format, often positioned as a more accessible alternative to XML." ☛ https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/json-isnt-json/ |    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:06:13

• "So, the message started emphatically with 520x10. Or ‘I love you’ x 10. 1314 is significant as it is a homophone for ‘forever and always.’ Elsewhere in the tricky sum, we see 514 (til death)" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/bride-surprises-new-husband-with-an-rtx-5090-on-wedding-day-chinese-number-slang-reveals-surprise-gift | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:06:41

• "This post will first cover how to represent intervals in code, then dive into the logic for detecting overlaps." ☛ https://zayenz.se/blog/post/how-to-check-for-overlapping-intervals/ |    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:07:30

• "And here I'm using the Zsh shell, but a generally-compatible one like Bourne or Bash will work. Check out the official instructions for other shells or tons more detail on this topic" ☛ https://beej.us/blog/data/python-venv/ | Source: Beej    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:07:39

• "Recently, I had to write a Django migration to update hundreds of thousands of database objects. With some paper-napkin math I calculated that I can fit all the necessary data in memory, making the migration much simpler than it would have been otherwise." ☛ https://blog.pecar.me/django-bulk-update-memory-issue | Source: Anže Pečar    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:07:49

• "In this post, I tackle the problem of passing dependencies to an object. I will go through several options and analyze their respective pros and cons." ☛ https://blog.frankel.ch/dependencies-objects/ | Source: Nicolas Fränkel    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:08:05

• "Here, though, I want to take a slightly different approach." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/the-only-thing-stopping-you-from-switching-to-linux-is-your-mindset/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:08:39

• "I came across a post, or an archive of, to be frank, that I wrote in 2008" ☛ https://www.amitgawande.com/blog/2025/when-chrome-was-launched/ | Source: Amit Gawande    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:09:05

• "This post is just a quick guide about the implementation of RSS feed for my blog — amanhimself.dev." ☛ https://amanhimself.dev/blog/rss-feed-in-an-astro-blog/ | Source: Aman Mittal    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:09:22

• "The Nokia Beacon 1 is a standard mesh Wi-Fi router that is typically given as part of broadband packages." ☛ https://spaceraccoon.dev/nokia-beacon-router-uart-command-injection/ | Source: Spaceraccoon    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:09:46

• "Colin Percival has announced the availability of the first beta build of the upcoming FreeBSD 15.0." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12596 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:10:04

• "[...] In our Questions and Answers column we talk about the relatively security of different software sources and share" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20251013 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:11:29

• "As I am also lazy, I wanted to do this without getting up from my chair, fishing out the notebook and sitting on the kitchen floor with a recovery drive in hand manually typing in commands until I get to a ssh-able state like some sort of caveman." ☛ https://crescentro.se/posts/ssh-nixos/ | Source: Ivan    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:12:42

• "A while back I wrote about readdir()'s inode numbers versus OverlayFS, which discussed an issue where for efficiency reasons, OverlayFS sometimes returned different inode numbers in readdir() than in stat()." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ReaddirInodeNumbersVsOverlayFSII | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:12:52

• "I modified my mqttwarn scripts today to ignore some messages." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/10/12/etcdir-for-sysutils-mqttwarn-is-not-as-expected/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:14:04

• "For the record, I want to be very clear that I think this is a poor way of illustrating the effects of a CRT. Firstly, the photo is out of focus - which is understandable, because it's notoriously hard to take a good photo of a CRT screen. Secondly, nobody sits that close to a CRT (or any other screen)." ☛ https://www.datagubbe.se/crt2/ | Source: Carl Svensson    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:14:15

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

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:15:48

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

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:16:29

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

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:16:55

• EPO staff reps: "As of January, the salary adjustment in Germany (+1.2%) will be insufficient to cover the increase in pension and healthcare contributions (+2.2 percentage points) resulting in a pay cut of -1%"    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:20:43

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

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:20:58

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

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:21:12

• Linux Kernel 6.16 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to GNU/Linux Kernel 6.17 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-16-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-6-17    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:21:39

• Linus Torvalds Announces First GNU/Linux Kernel 6.18 Release Candidate ☞ https://9to5linux.com/linus-torvalds-announces-first-linux-kernel-6-18-release-candidate    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:21:46

• TROMjaro 2025.10.08 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tromjaro    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:22:04

• Oreon 10-2510 is out as well☞ https://distrowatch.com/oreon    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:22:13

• Jose E. Marchesi: Version 2 of the Algol 68 GCC Front-End posted ☞    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:22:41

• Linuxfx 11.25.10 is out☞ https://distrowatch.com/linuxfx    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:22:53

• "Microsoft fan extensions"??? WTH? "With the patches for handling the Microsoft fan extensions, this should help different devices falling into that boat. The original bug report last year was over missing fan information on an HP EliteBook 860." https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Microsoft-ACPI-Fan    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:23:52

• Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc1 https://lwn.net/Articles/1041658/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:24:27

• "When he opened it up, he could smell that something had gone on in the amplifier. You can follow the repair in the video below." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/11/toasty-subwoofer-limps-back-to-life/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:38:15

• techrights will publish epo leaks today    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:42:05

• "Last week, we were talking about how glad we are to be the type who by-and-large understands technology, and how it’s becoming more and more difficult to simply get along otherwise." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/11/easy-for-the-masses/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:50:04

• "A Casio Toy Synth Is Ready To ROCK!" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/11/a-casio-toy-synth-is-ready-to-rock/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:50:21

• Power Over Ethernet ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/11/entering-the-wild-world-of-power-over-ethernet/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:50:37

• This Week in Science: A Bizarre Bird, The End of The Universe, And More! ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-week-in-science-a-bizarre-bird-the-end-of-the-universe-and-more    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:55:37

• Radiation Therapy Reduces Pain From The Most Common Form of Arthritis ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/radiation-therapy-reduces-pain-from-the-most-common-form-of-arthritis    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:55:43

• 'Toothpick Grooves' in Neanderthal Teeth Aren't What We Thought ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/toothpick-grooves-in-neanderthal-teeth-arent-what-we-thought    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:55:58

• There's an Evolutionary Reason Why Female Mammals Live Longer ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-an-evolutionary-reason-why-female-mammals-live-longer    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:56:10

• Alzheimer's May Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Reveals Expert ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/alzheimers-may-not-actually-be-a-brain-disease-reveals-expert    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:56:17

• Bandages Made From Living Fungi Could Be The Future of Wound Healing ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/bandages-made-from-living-fungi-could-be-the-future-of-wound-healing    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:56:24

• Blazing Outflow Shrinks Mass of Universe's Brightest Quasar by 10x ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/blazing-outflow-shrinks-mass-of-universes-brightest-quasar-by-10x    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:56:31

• Little Girl Sobs While Saying Goodbye to Her Broken Hey Hi (AI) Toy ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deepseek-girl-ai-companion    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:57:05

• An Astonishing Proportion of High Schoolers Have Had a “Romantic Relationship” With an AI, Research Finds ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/high-schoolers-romantic-relationship-with-ai    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 06:57:17

• USB-C ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/11/save-your-usb-c-plugs-from-oblivion/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 07:51:42

• "About To Go Dumb" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/11/bose-soundtouch-smart-wifi-speakers-are-about-to-go-dumb/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 07:51:56

• Fears of a Coup Rise in Madagascar as Army Unit Joins Protesters ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/world/africa/madagascar-protest-coup-fears.html    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 07:52:34

• China issues bounty for Taiwan psychological operations unit for ‘separatism’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-issues-bounty-for-taiwan-psyops-unit-for-separatism    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 07:53:02

• Firefights erupt between Pakistani and Afghan forces along the border ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/firefights-erupt-between-pakistani-and-afghan-forces-along-the-border    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 07:53:11

• New 7-Zip high-severity vulnerabilities expose systems to remote attackers — users should update to version 25 ASAP ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/7-zip-flaws-open-door-to-remote-code-execution    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 07:53:24

• Pakistani Taliban attacks on security forces kill more than 20 in restive northwest ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20251011-pakistani-taliban-claim-deadly-attacks-security-forces-northwest-border-province-afghanistan    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 07:53:40

• "I haunted the Princess, going multiple times a week, sometimes with friends, other times just by myself." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jdd/phlog/20251011-filmsihavewatched.txt    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 07:57:56

• "The original thumbstick of the Steam Controller was always a bit imperfect. I bought my Steam Controller on day one, but a few years in, the soft-touch material on the stick started to flake off. That's gross!" gemini://envs.net/~silv/gemlog/steam_controller_stick.gmi    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 07:58:49

• "I first read the original Earthsea triology during my personal "golden age of science-fiction" (i.e. around 12), and I find myself re-reading it about once a decade or so, along with the later novels." gemini://hyperborea.org/reviews/books/wizard-of-earthsea.gmi    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 08:00:28

• "If you are a parent and your child or children are still kids or teens, Youtube is a serious problem. It is the primary source of distraction, is a cauldron with very limited filters where anybody can have voice while it shouldn't." gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~freezr/pebcak/index.gmi    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 08:01:27

• Shanios – Linux-based immutable operating system ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/shanios-linux-based-immutable-operating-system/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 08:09:55

• A Bug Broke Flatpaks on Ubuntu 25.10 [Patch Released] ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-25-10-flatpak-bug/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 08:10:41

• 5 Best Free and Open Source Go Linter Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-go-linter-tools/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 08:10:58

• UPC denies asking questions to CJEU about its own illegality https://legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/patent-blog/brexit-blues-reverb/ FFII: Will try to make a press release... This is insane. http://techrights.org/wiki/UPC/ http://techrights.org/wiki/Unitary_Patent/ EU = corruption at this point https://techrights.org/n/2024/01/04/An_Article_Techrights_Contributed_to_Exposes_Corruption_in_Euro.shtml    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 08:13:27

• This Extension Adds Live Calendar & Clock Icons to Ubuntu Dock ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/live-dock-icons-ubuntu-gnome-extension    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 09:12:17

• Building a Ham Radio Station in Your RV ☞ https://perens.com/2025/10/12/building-a-ham-radio-station-in-your-rv/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:27:51

• Human rights experts condemn new Taliban internet restrictions ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/human-rights-experts-condemn-new-taliban-internet-restrictions/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:28:10

• "CRT monitors: there’s nothing quite like ’em." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/11/a-deep-dive-into-the-coolness-that-was-crt-projectors/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:28:31

• Human rights groups tell Abusive Monopolist Microsoft to suspend business with Israel government ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/human-rights-groups-tell-microsoft-to-suspend-business-with-israel-government/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:29:03

• Research Alt ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/research-alt/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:30:00

• Safety Precautions and Hate Crimes ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/10/11/safety-precautions-et-al/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:30:13

• Photos: North Korea shows off new intercontinental missile at military parade ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/10/11/north-korea-icbm-hwasong-20-missile/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:30:44

• Battlefield 6 has an epic launch bug where it fails to recognize that the game is already installed — EA boss suggests one affected user to ‘refund and buy on Steam’ ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/battlefield-6-has-an-epic-launch-bug-where-it-fails-to-recognize-that-the-game-is-already-installed-ea-boss-suggests-one-affected-user-to-refund-and-buy-on-steam    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:31:55

• JDM: Japanese Drift Master Review: A Major Letdown ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/jdm-review/index.html    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:32:36

• ESP32-based dual-port WLED controller features Ethernet port, 24V DC input ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/11/esp32-based-dual-port-wled-controller-features-ethernet-port-24v-dc-input/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:33:12

• KDE Frameworks 6.19 Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes ☞ https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6-19-released-with-various-improvements-and-bug-fixes    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:33:52

• LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 7 Is Now Available for Download ☞ https://9to5linux.com/lmde-linux-mint-debian-edition-7-is-now-available-for-download    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:34:10

• Compact M5Stack Unit C6L Integrates RISC-V ESP32-C6 and SX1262 for LoRa Meshtastic Use ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/compact-m5stack-unit-c6l-integrates-risc-v-esp32-c6-and-sx1262-for-lora-meshtastic-use/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:34:37

• BrOS 13.1.1 is out☞ https://distrowatch.com/bros    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:35:00

• Solus GNU/Linux Preparing To Remove Python 2, Big systemd Upgrade & Finish /usr Merge ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Solus-Linux-EOY-2025-Epoch    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:35:14

• FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending October 10, 2025 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/10/foss-forces-top-five-articles-for-the-week-ending-october-10-2025/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:35:37

• Covid virus changes sperm in mice, may raise anxiety in offspring: Study ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/covid-virus-changes-sperm-in-mice-may-raise-anxiety-in-offspring-study    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:36:01

• Pakistani Taliban claim attacks that killed 23 in north-western districts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/pakistani-taliban-claim-attacks-that-killed-23-in-north-west    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:36:27

• Bangladesh launches typhoid vaccination drive to combat drug-resistant threat ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/bangladesh-launches-typhoid-vaccination-drive-to-combat-drug-resistant-threat    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:36:52

• Strange New Health Issues Put Jordan Peterson in ICU ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/jordan-peterson-icu    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:37:17

• South Korea pledges to protect citizens in Cambodia amid rise in kidnapping, forced labour cases ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/lee-vows-diplomatic-action-after-death-of-22-year-old-south-korean-in-cambodia-sparks-safety-fears    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:37:34

• "Louis blatantly violates Glenn Sanders' Zaxcom patent with the help of his new friend." https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/louis-blatantly-violates-glenn-sanders':d    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:54:46

• As the trade war resumes, China may be keeping one eye on Convicted Felon and one on the Supreme Court ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/as-the-trade-war-resumes-china-is-keeping-one-eye-on-trump-and-one-on-the-supreme-court/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:58:44

• China’s High Ambitions for Clean Energy ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/world/china-clean-energy-solar-israel-gaza-hostage-madagascar-coup.html    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:59:03

• Cars to Fighter Jets: China’s New Export Curbs May Level a Heavy Blow Worldwide ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/business/china-rare-earth-export-controls.html    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:59:21

• China and Philippines trade blame over boat collision in disputed sea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/philippines-says-chinese-ship-rammed-government-vessel-in-disputed-sea    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:59:37

• China, North Korea to strengthen strategic cooperation, KCNA says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-north-korea-to-strengthen-strategic-cooperation-kcna-says    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 11:59:59

• Taiwan sees no significant impact on chip sector from China rare earths curbs ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-sees-no-significant-impact-on-chip-sector-from-china-rare-earths-curbs    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:00:16

• Taiwan says its chip fabs are safe from China’s rare-earth crackdown ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/taiwan-says-its-fabs-are-safe-from-china-rare-earth-crackdown    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:00:36

• China says it is 'not afraid' of a trade war, in response to US 100% tariffs threat ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-says-it-is-not-afraid-of-a-trade-war-in-response-to-us-100-percent-tariffs-threat    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:00:47

• China accuses US of ‘double standards’ over new tariffs threat ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/12/china-accuses-us-of-double-standards-over-new-tariffs-threat/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:01:12

• China and Philippines trade blame over boat collision near disputed islands ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251012-china-philippines-trade-blame-over-boat-collision-in-disputed-sea    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:01:36

• As the trade war resumes, China is keeping one eye on Convicted Felon and one on the Supreme Court ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/as-the-trade-war-resumes-china-is-keeping-one-eye-on-trump-and-one-on-the-supreme-court/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:02:11

• 5 Signs Your Proprietary Workflow Is Stifling Your Creativity (And What You Can Do About It) ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/proprietary-workflow-stifling-creativity/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:02:46

• "Typeface (such as Times New Roman) refers to the design that gives a set of letters, numbers, and symbols their signature “look”." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/12/the-subtle-art-of-letterform-design/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:03:21

• "When it comes to FDM 3D prints and making them stronger, most of the focus is on the outer walls and factors like their layer adhesion." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/12/removing-infill-to-make-3d-printed-parts-much-stronger/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:04:25

• "Every time we check in on [Project326], he’s doing something different with X-rays. This week, he has a passive X-ray imager." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/12/tubeless-x-ray-runs-on-patience/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:11:03

• "PVC Pipe Structure Design That Skips Additional Hardware" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/12/pvc-pipe-structure-design-that-skips-additional-hardware/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:11:19

• "Singing Dentures Of Manchester" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/12/the-singing-dentures-of-manchester-and-other-places/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:13:52

• Study Reveals 'Alarming' Rise of Superbugs in Newborn Babies ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/study-reveals-alarming-rise-of-superbugs-in-newborn-babies    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:14:59

• A Signal of Future Dementia May Be Hidden in The Shape of Your Brain ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-signal-of-future-dementia-may-be-hidden-in-the-shape-of-your-brain    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:15:13

• There's a Scientific Reason Why Some Songs Get Stuck in Your Head ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-scientific-reason-why-some-songs-get-stuck-in-your-head    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:15:26

• After 40,000 Years, Microbes Are Awakening From Thawing Permafrost ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/after-40000-years-microbes-are-awakening-from-thawing-permafrost    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:15:39

• How Convicted Felon’s Chicago Immigration Crackdown Escalated, in 10 Videos ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/us/chicago-immigration-crackdown-videos.html    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:16:05

• AI datacenters in the US aren't 'running on coal' — but this dirty fuel has found favor for feeding demand spikes due to increased gas prices ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-datacenters-in-the-us-arent-running-on-coal-but-this-dirty-fuel-has-found-favor-for-feeding-demand-spikes-due-to-increased-gas-prices    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:16:29

• Meta and Fortnite push Hey Hi (AI) video game characters into the mainstream ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/tech-24/20251012-meta-and-fortnite-push-ai-video-game-characters-into-the-mainstream    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:16:48

• Numerous Billionaires Preparing for End of Society ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/billionaires-preparing-for-end    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:17:17

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Supporters Are Using OpenAI’s Sora to Generate Hey Hi (AI) Videos of Soldiers Assaulting Protesters ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/trump-ai-protest-troops    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:17:57

• Ohio Seeks to Ban Human-AI Marriage ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ohio-ban-ai-marriage    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:18:15

• Scam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-real-work-ai this man is a FRAUD. http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/06/TRILLIONS_And_TRILLIONS_and_TRILLIONS_and_TRILLIONS_Invest_toda.shtml    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:18:43

• OpenAI’s Marketing Efforts Are Embarrassingly Ineffective, New Consumer Research Finds ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/new-openai-ads-are-bad    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:19:04

• Australia pro-Palestinian rally draws tens of thousands, scepticism on ceasefire ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/tens-of-thousands-attend-pro-palestinian-rally-in-sydney    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:19:40

• UN Reports millions in Haiti face acute hunger epidemic as armed groups tighten control ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/millions-in-haiti-face-acute-hunger-as-armed-groups-tighten-control/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:24:09

• A Pacific reflection on Women, Peace and Security ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/a-pacific-reflection-on-women-peace-and-security/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:25:16

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSpdlog 0.0.23 on CRAN: New Upstream ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/10/12#rcppspdlog_0.0.23    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:27:24

• Case1Tech: Changing Claim Construction Position on Appeal ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/10/case1tech-changing-construction.html    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:28:21

• Systems Theory, Equilibrium and the New Eligibility Shock ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/10/systems-equilibrium-eligibility.html    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:28:36

• Memory Bank: Labels In HTML ☞ https://medium.com/information-and-technology/memory-bank-labels-in-html-7a71a428537d    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:29:20

• Pocock on Switzerland: "what is the point of men doing military practice to defend a system that is so rotten?"    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:32:27

• EPO leaks scheduled for this afternoon    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 12:49:16

• How we incidentally uncovered a 7-year old bug in gentoo-ci ☞ https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2025/10/12/how-we-incidentally-uncovered-a-7-year-old-bug-in-gentoo-ci/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 13:57:09

• Digilent Analog Discovery Studio Max – A 14-in-1 portable electronics trainer kit with four breadboards ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/13/digilent-analog-discovery-studio-max-a-14-in-1-portable-electronics-trainer-kit-with-four-breadboards/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 13:58:02

• Wireshark 4.4.10 and 4.6.0 Released, (Sun, Oct 12th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32358    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 13:58:23

• "DIY 35mm Film Scanning" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/12/diy-35mm-film-scanning/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 13:59:26

• Indonesia’s seawall project set to expand – good for some, but gloomy for others ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesias-seawall-project-set-to-expand-good-for-some-but-gloomy-for-others    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 13:59:40

• FreeBSD 15.0-BETA1 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/freebsd    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 13:59:55

• FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 1 Brings OpenZFS Upgrade, Performance Fix For TCP LRO ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0-Beta-1    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:00:00

• Weekend Discussion About How IBM's Bluewashing of Red Bait Will Cause "Enshittification" for Users (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/12/Weekend_Discussion_About_How_IBM_s_Bluewashing_of_Red_Hat_Will_.shtml    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:00:12

• 4-inch square HDMI displays with USB touchscreen sell for $33 and up ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/12/4-inch-square-hdmi-displays-with-usb-touchscreen/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:03:35

• Australian airline Qantas says millions of customers’ data leaked online following July cyber breach ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australias-qantas-says-stolen-customer-data-leaked-online    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:50:51

• Need a Surveillance Giant Google Workspace Alternative? Try Sync-in ☞ https://thenewstack.io/need-a-google-workspace-alternative-try-sync-in/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:51:49

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Is Blowing Up Boats Off Venezuela. Could Mexico’s Cartels Be Next? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/world/americas/mexico-drugs-venezuela-us-military.html    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:52:17

• Border clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan leave dozens dead ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251012-border-clashes-between-afghanistan-and-pakistan-leave-dozens-dead    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:52:29

• 64-bit PCI versus PCI-X ☞ https://rubenerd.com/64-bit-pci-versus-pci-x/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:53:15

• MocaccinoOS – minimal GNU/Linux meta-distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mocaccinoos-minimal-linux-meta-distribution/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:54:08

• pre-commit – framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pre-commit-framework-pre-commit-hooks/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:54:24

• Pomodorolm – simple time tracker ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pomodorolm-simple-time-tracker/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:54:39

• In-a-dyn – small and simple Dynamic DNS, DDNS, client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/in-a-dyn-small-simple-dynamic-dns-ddns-client/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:55:01

• 5 Best Free and Open Source Lightweight GUI Email Clients ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lightweight-email-clients/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:55:17

• Hayagriva – bibliography management ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hayagriva-bibliography-management/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:55:33

• XIVA Studio – multimedia-oriented GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/xiva-studio-multimedia-oriented-linux-distribution/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:55:51

• 13 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Bibliography Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bibliography/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:56:10

• dgop – system monitoring tool with CLI and REST API ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dgop-system-monitoring-tool/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:56:25

• The Only Thing Stopping You from Switching to GNU/Linux Is Your Mindset ☞ https://linuxiac.com/the-only-thing-stopping-you-from-switching-to-linux-is-your-mindset/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:56:42

• Ingo Juergensmann: Outages on Nerdculture.de due to Ceph ☞ https://blog.windfluechter.net/2025/10/12/outages-on-nerdculture-de-due-to-ceph/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:57:23

• Xubuntu GNU/Linux 25.10 released with improved Wayland support and Xfce 4.20 ☞ https://betanews.com/2025/10/10/xubuntu-linux-25-10-released-with-improved-wayland-support-and-xfce-4-20/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:57:46

• GNU Tools Cauldron Event in Portugal: Videos Now Available via Invidious ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/12/GNU_Tools_Cauldron_Event_in_Portugal_Videos_Now_Available_via_I.shtml    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:57:55

• RMS talk begins in 3 mins    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:58:17

• The utility of digressions ☞ https://rubenerd.com/the-utility-of-digressions/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 14:59:08

• Now on: https://news.uniroma1.it/13102025_1600 https://www.di.uniroma1.it/en/distinguished-lectures    

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

• Zelensky suggests Tomahawk missiles could make progress toward ending war, vows to only use them on military targets ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/10/12/us-news/zelensky-suggests-tomahawk-missiles-could-make-progress-toward-ending-war-vows-to-only-use-them-on-military-targets/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:01:51

• Zelenskyy Calls For More Pressure On Russia As Moscow Intensifies Attacks On Ukraine’s Energy Infrastructure ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-attacks-energy-infrastructure-kyiv-zelenskyy-donald-trump/33557806.html    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:02:03

• Russia attacks Ukraine power grid, Moscow expresses 'extreme concern' over US Tomahawk missiles ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251012-russia-attacks-ukraine-power-grid-moscow-expresses-extreme-concern-us-tomahawk-missiles    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:02:21

• Ukrainian photographers living in Vilnius: appreciating natural photography ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2699397/ukrainian-photographers-living-in-vilnius-appreciating-natural-photography    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:02:28

• Kremlin warns the West over ‘dramatic’ escalation moment in Ukraine war ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/kremlin-warns-the-west-over-dramatic-escalation-moment-in-ukraine-war    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:02:39

• Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #512 - The Official Raspberry Pi Handbook 2026 is here! ☞ https://newsletters.raspberrypi.com/w/qRe892CyJePQV763wbuZ8923s9gg    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:03:18

• What is Puppy Linux? ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202510/what-is-puppy-linux.html    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:04:40

• Smartphone bans in schools – how much has changed? ☞ https://criticaledtech.com/2025/10/13/smartphone-bans-in-schools-how-much-has-changed/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:05:34

• Murena – smartphone OS ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/murena-smartphone-os/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:05:44

• We Are Safe in a Modern "Tech" Society, Right? (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/11/We_Are_Safe_in_a_Modern_Tech_Society_Right.shtml    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:06:41

• "This week, we got the long-anticipated Ubuntu 25.10 and LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 7 releases, Wireshark 4.6 as a major update to the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer, the first Release Candidate of Linux kernel 6.18, and new updates to GIMP, LibreOffice, ClamAV, PipeWire, KDE Gear, and KDE Frameworks." https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-october-12th-2025    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:07:43

• "This was another busy week in tech, with the big release of Ubuntu Linux 25.10, Synology walking back its hard drive compatibility restrictions, Microsoft testing a new Start Menu for Windows 11, and much more. Here are the biggest stories you might have missed." https://www.howtogeek.com/ubuntus-big-update-the-new-start-menu-synologys-backtrack-and-more-news-roundup/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:08:03

• "Linux audio has a reputation for being confusing at best and downright broken at worst. Between PulseAudio, ALSA, and JACK, the experience has often depended on trial and error, along with a lot of tinkering" https://www.xda-developers.com/goodbye-to-linux-audio-headaches-pipewire-simplifies-everything/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:08:54

• "The final release of the Linux 6.18 kernel series is expected at the end of November or in early December 2025 and could be the next LTS series." https://9to5linux.com/linus-torvalds-announces-first-linux-kernel-6-18-release-candidate    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:09:10

• "Linux kernel 6.17 is already available in the stable repositories of various distributions, including openSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch Linux." https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-16-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-6-17    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:09:26

• 🔤SpellBinding — EWLORSK Wordo: VIRES gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-10-13.gmi    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:11:17

• "Let’s sail all the way out to the sea to a tiny speck of an island where we can explicate and externalize and incarnate our hitherto unspoken grawing worries and fears, Liminalize the subliminal, break on through to the other side" gemini://idiomdrottning.org/tove_jansson-moominpappa_at_sea    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:11:58

• 12th issue of magazine about small web gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2714    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:12:35

• "It's a "citizen science" project that asks regular people to look for and report observations of wildlife (and wild plants, fungi, etc), submitting photo, sound or video evidence, wherever you happen to be: Out in the woods, on a farm, on an urban street, in your kitchen where you spot a spider under the sink." gemini://hyperborea.org/reviews/web/inaturalist.gmi    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:14:01

• "I'd like to rant about the state of genAI for "mere mortals" and some other adjacent topics without a particular structure. So, here's my chain of thoughts (no pun intented)." gopher://hoi.st:70/0/posts/2025-10-13-a-short-ai-rant.txt    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:18:10

• The TWO FOSS authors in El Reg have published NOTHING about FOSS in two weeks. Coincidence? https://www.theregister.com/Author/Liam-Proven https://www.theregister.com/Author/Steven-J-Vaughan-Nichols    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:20:57

• Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for pretending UK's Online Safety Act doesn't exist https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/13/4chan_ofcom_fine/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:50:26

• Arduino has a new job selling chips for its new owner. Let's not pretend otherwise https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/13/arduino_new_job/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 15:51:06

• "People are right here about the pay for play relationship of IBM+Forbes: Forbes Insights has a long-standing partnership with IBM to produce research, reports, and content focused on technology trends and insights. The collaborations leverage IBM's technical expertise, particularly in areas like AI and cloud computing, with Forbes' broad audience of business leaders." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k7b7whws    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 16:17:14

• "the same bank that's had multiple outages recently??" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k779yxj8    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 16:30:25

• [photos] [japan] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-10-13.gmi    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 18:15:06

• [photos] [japan] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-10-12.gmi    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 18:15:14

• "Tech bros ruined it. I miss Stallman-like IT people. But they're obviously less noisy." https://x.com/marvelouscrow/status/1977566526191600001    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 18:19:11

• Developers fancy assuming that everyone who uses the programs they code has as much RAM as them. It's like people assume because they have 20/20 vision everyone can settle for small fonts. Some are blind.    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 18:34:12

• Almost all their recent "tweets" are about RMS https://x.com/bahnhofab    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 20:45:49

• Same here https://x.com/JonKarlung    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 20:46:54

• Stallman https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPuPvZrkmJe/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 20:49:15

• No, XBox the CONSOLE is dying, TOO https://resellcalendar.com/news/news/xbox-physical-copy-discontinued/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 20:50:59

• Edinburgh Games Developers Launch Legal Action Over Layoffs https://www.digit.fyi/edinburgh-games-developers-launch-legal-action-over-layoffs/    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 20:51:27

• Preguntas cuando crees que debes terminar algo gemini://text.eapl.mx/preguntas-cuando-crees-que-debes-terminar-algo    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 21:29:58

• RSS feed manual gemini://ness.archipielago.uno/rss.gmi    

posted Monday, October 13, 2025 at 21:30:28