Roy Schestowitz

• Linux, Open Source and Unicode https://arxiv.org/vc/cs/papers/0609/0609024v1.pdf    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 01:58:19

• "Turn RTP into a public toilet for IBM VPs. It's the one thing why are good at." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8fccj45    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 02:02:18

• "Honestly we can do 100k reduction and still be okay. If you really look at what people do at work, it’s just digital paper pushing." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8dbnhm4    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 02:03:10

• "The contract processing is a total nightmare at IBM, and too many people are involved. If IBM was serious about AI they would replace all these folks with AI... now the question is, does the IBM AI work at all?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8dbnhm4    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 02:03:17

• "They will be removed and replaced with the offshore sweatshop." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k7qzchtm    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 02:03:59

• Into - Komin vauhti ja germaanien saavutus gemini://sampsa.smol.pub/into    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 02:36:34

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1806.jpg    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 02:37:03

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1456.jpg    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 02:37:08

• What determines which side of the bed I sleep on? gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/~johngodlee/posts/personal/2025-10-26-bed_side.gmi    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 02:37:37

• The First Law Book Series gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/stug/phlog/20251026.txt    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 02:38:12

• "On line 5, all the files are put into an array in memory. This will become less efficient as the number of files increases, possibly to the point of running a low-memory system out of memory. Directly looping over the files (above) or using find(1) (below) will avoid this problem." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/10/26/fixing-bash.gmi    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 02:38:53

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-10-27.gmi    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 02:39:11

• "Australia sues Microsoft for misleading M365 users" https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/asia_tech_news_roundup/ iophk: false dilemma, there is a fourth option: open formats ....    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 07:12:25

• "3. Despite all that, being even Star Wars-adjacent means that any attempt at an unlicensed screening would cause the sky to blacken with lawyers." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/10/star-wars-holiday-special/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 07:53:16

• "I know for many people, seeing headlines that Reddit was suing Perplexity was all they needed to hear; obviously Perplexity is in the wrong, right?" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/reddit-sues-perplexity-but-maybe-reddit-are-the-baddies/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 07:53:31

• "History has shown that if the source of pirated content isn't eliminated, one way or another it will simply reappear somewhere else." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/the-streaming-piracy-crisis-suppressant-that-nobody-wants-to-discuss-251026/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 07:53:49

• "In other words, if human actors are already on the chopping block, it’s only a matter of time until the animal kingdom lands on the chopping block — if they aren’t already, that is." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-animal-actors-work | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 07:54:15

• "Now I have built the music collection back up to the point where I probably have more CDs than I did prior to that purge." ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/posts/physical-media-is-great-until-you-have-to-move-it | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 07:54:46

• "In looking for examples of people calling the Web dead, I learned that" ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/10/25/web-dead-predictions-george-colony/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 07:55:15

• "The Prosecutor General's Office recognised Barents Observer as an 'undesirable organisation' in February this year." ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/murmansk-newsonline-fined-for-article-about-barents-observer-lawyer/438300 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 07:55:49

• "The repressive authorities also point to the fact that Zagore works for an 'undesirable organisation' - a branding the Barents Observer got on February 7 this year" ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/democracy-and-media/with-denis-listed-on-friday-half-of-barents-observers-journalists-are-now-foreign-agents/438511 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 07:56:07

• "There are already many other similar cases: journalists are convicted and arrested in absentia on charges of "undesirability"." ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/democracy-and-media/russian-court-starts-case-against-barents-observer-journalist-georgii-chentemirov/438489 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 07:56:29

• [Old] "Krivtsova does not intend to comply with any of the demands requested by the Russian authorities." ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/democracy-and-media/putins-justice-ministry-declares-barents-observer-journalist-olesia-krivtsova-a-foreign-agent/435968 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 07:56:47

• "Anna Stepanova knows well what it means to lose friends, face harassment and threats from neighbours, and be forced into exile." ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/antiwar-activist-annanbsphung-up-ukrainian-flags-and-started-to-wear-blue-and-yellow-clothesnbspshe-had-to-flee-from-her-north-russian-villagenbsp/437770 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 07:58:23

• "In short, there’s an astronomical amount of money up in the air — so much so that the rest of the US economy now depends on the AI industry not dropping the ball" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-openai-economy-crash | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:00:09

• "They will need hundreds of billions of dollars to live up to their obligations" ☛ https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-openai-big-chip-dwarf-revenues.html | Source: TechXplore    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:00:13

• "Caught unprepared for such proximity, Saarinen said he found himself face to face with a lynx only a few metres away." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20190438 | Source: YLE    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:01:04

• "Astronomers, however, aren’t so gung-ho about the idea of a massive space mirror blinding the Earth with Sunlight." ☛ https://futurism.com/space/scientists-mirror-orbital | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:04:16

• "You can’t restore the Earth by destroying it. The only real option is to do something about our consumption." ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/the-mineral-conflict-in-the-high-north/437534 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:04:24

• "The findings come after the initiation of two formal proceedings launched against Meta and TikTok." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/top-eu-body-finds-both-meta-and-tiktok-in-breach-of-eu-digital-services-act/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:05:42

• "Last Saturday, more than 7 million of us poured into the streets to reject Trump’s dictatorship." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-were-winning | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:06:08

• "China's ByteDance reportedly building a Steam competitor" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/chinas-bytedance-reportedly-building-a-steam-competitor-gametop-for-overseas-markets-will-distribute-and-publish-games-like-any-other-store-while-harboring-a-social-space-with-ai-assisted-creator-tools | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:06:27

• "The Venezuelan opposition is playing a game they think they understand." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/when-liberation-becomes-imperial | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:07:06

• "Over half a decade of working with the Home Office on countering extremism, I saw it for myself, time and time again" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/25/civil-servants-whitehall-grooming-gangs-scandal/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:07:40

• Windows TCO ☛ https://blog.talosintelligence.com/uncovering-qilin-attack-methods-exposed-through-multiple-cases/ | Source: Threat Source    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:08:29

• "Social media “sleuths” spread conspiracy theories that Jay was murdered over a drug debt" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/24/the-daily-t-jay-slater-online-trolls-made-life-hell/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:09:02

• "Allen thought he was going to die because an AI couldn't tell the difference between a firearm and a frigging bag of chips." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/10/25/cops-hold-kid-at-gunpoint-over-a-bag-of-chips.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:10:18

• "This feels like an intractable problem to me: given the enormous array of fetishes it's hard to imagine a classifier that could protect people from having their likeness used in this way." ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/26/sora-pervert-problem/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:10:31

• "RightOfPublicity.com Jonathan Faber will participate in WIPO Conversation on IP & Synthetic Media" ☛ https://rightofpublicity.com/rightofpublicity-com-jonathan-faber-will-participate-in-wipo-conversation-on-ip-synthetic-media | Source: Jonathan Faber    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:10:57

• "Identity theft is a growing threat to academia." ☛ https://www.the-scientist.com/impersonation-scandals-shake-academic-publishing-73656 | Source: LabX Media Group    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:11:31

• "to maintain their subscription they must accept the integration of Copilot and pay higher prices for their plan, or, alternatively, cancel their subscription" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/asia_tech_news_roundup/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:12:02

• "The software giant is accused of making "false or misleading" statements to around 2.7 million Australians who subscribe by auto-renewal to Microsoft 365 plans" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2349528.html | Source: RTL    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:12:20

• "When you come across a possible research topic or problem, or have some idea, and are wondering if you want to pursue it, here is my bad advice: [...]" ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/10/bills-bad-advice.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:18:37

• "Many people have fond memories from school, and indeed I had friends there who I remember fondly and I enjoyed some of the experience. But that’s not how it started." ☛ https://perens.com/2025/10/26/my-experience-with-being-handicapped-in-the-early-60s/ | Source: Bruce Perens    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:19:02

• "Truth is, there just aren’t many jobs for teens out there anymore, and most of them have chosen to simply remove themselves from the job market." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/report/806728/tech-left-teens-fighting-over-scraps-robots-taking-jobs | Source: The Verge    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:19:17

• "Music is my first true loveComputer games are my zeroth true love.." ☛ https://mmapped.blog/posts/18-if-composers-were-hackers | Source: Roman Kashitsyn    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:23:22

• "Wikipedia vandals have been tampering with pages since the dawn of the site’s existence back in 2001. Some is clever, some is dark — and a lot, as you saw above, is just insulting stupid." ☛ https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/wikipedia-brain-rot-vandalism | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:24:13

• "Markdown is amazing, but it has strong limitations. I wrote my latest book with Markdown, in the Doc-as-Code tradition" ☛ https://blog.frankel.ch/asciidoc-over-markdown/ | Source: Nicolas Fränkel    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:27:30

• "The hardest problem in software performance is often to understand your code and why it might be slow." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/26/flame-graphs-in-go/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:27:49

• "I’m familiar with notations in Python like 0b10000001" ☛ https://blog.didierstevens.com/2025/10/25/quickpost-pep-515-underscores-in-numeric-literals/ | Source: Didier Stevens    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:28:29

• "Following a suggestion by Christian Hennig at JSM 2024" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/approximating-evidence-via-bounded-harmonic-means-and-hpd-regions-with-known-volumes/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:28:54

• "Here's a fairly straightforward Scala 3 sample, using significant indentation. Can you spot the compilation error?" ☛ https://alexn.org/blog/2023/06/06/scala-3-significant-indentation-woes-sample/?pk_campaign=rss | Source: Alexandru Nedelcu    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:29:22

• "Scala 3 came with significant indentation (🏛️). And I still dislike it, despite trying hard. So I’m switching back to braces." ☛ https://alexn.org/blog/2025/10/26/scala-3-no-indent/?pk_campaign=rss | Source: Alexandru Nedelcu    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:29:37

• "This is a great way to sync code between multiple computers or to work on server-side files without laggy typing or manual copying. If you want to publish your code, just point your web server at the git repo: [...]" ☛ https://maurycyz.com/misc/easy_git/ |    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:29:54

• "That’s a terrible idea. Even simple projects become challenging if you are ambitious." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/26/thinking-clearly/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:30:17

• "I made a version of this plot a few years ago." ☛ https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/10/25/manhattan-plot-of-manhattan/ | Source: Kieran Healy    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:31:14

• "In this post I fix the GISCO (European Commission) shapefile for Antarctica and produce clean orthographic maps." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/mapping-antarctica/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:31:25

• "Arbitration courts are a pay-for-play private justice system in which cases are overseen by judges hired" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/10/shake-shack-arbitration-law-terms-service/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:31:56

• "The voucher phase will run from 2025-10-21 until 2025-11-12 and works as follows: [...]" ☛ https://events.ccc.de/en/2025/10/16/39c3-presale-modus-operandi/ | Source: CCC    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:32:27

• "Over the 28 years this website has existed, it’s gone through various iterations with many tools to build it." ☛ https://probably.co.uk/posts/terminal-in-css/ | Source: Mark Phillips    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:33:06

• [Old] "So why do we still need RSS in 2025?" ☛ https://andrewblackman.net/2025/05/no-rss-isnt-dead/ |    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:34:12

• [Old] "Let me tell you why." ☛ https://news.itsfoss.com/why-use-rss-feeds/ | Source: It's FOSS    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:34:21

• "The Fedora Project has officially declared the final phase of Fedora Linux 43 as GO" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/fedora-43-final-build-approved-official-release-set-for-october-28/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:34:53

• "While this measure helps keep the AUR website accessible" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/arch-linux-aur-hit-by-another-ddos-attack/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:35:55

• "NetBSD isn't just another operating system. It is a vital part of the entire technology ecosystem." ☛ https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2025/10/26/msg033327.html | Source: NetBSD    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:36:27

• "[...] We are also pleased to share the releases of the past week and list the torrents we are seeding. [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20251027 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:37:03

• "A new terminal-based tool has arrived for Solus users who prefer managing their systems without relying on graphical interfaces." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/solseek-brings-a-fast-tui-based-package-manager-to-solus-linux/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:37:16

• "One of the most charming bug = feature tales is the story behind the thrilling crescendo" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/space-invaders-arcade-game-ran-faster-as-enemies-died-due-to-intel-8080-bottleneck-expert-coder-asserts-hardware-accident-to-blame | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:38:11

• "As you know, we are monitoring ProtonDB fairly regularly to confirm the trends of Linux distribution usage." ☛ https://boilingsteam.com/windows-games-compatibility-on-linux-is-at-a-all-time-high/index.html | Source: Boiling Steam    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:38:26

• "I was watching Alex Petros’ talk and he has a slide in there titled “Incantations that make HTML work correctly”." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/dont-forget-these-html-tags/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:39:17

• "Suppose, not hypothetically, that you have a very small DNS server for a captive network situation" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/NSDArbitraryZonesWork | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:39:27

• CAIR proxy https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/ice-detains-british-muslim-journalist-laura-loomer    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:39:54

• "Further | Pity the Nation/ Whose Shepherds Mislead Them | Opinion" https://www.commondreams.org/further/pity-the-nation-whose-shepherds-mislead-them    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:40:02

• "Fighting the DMCA: do NOT accept their premise!" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/fighting-the-dmca-do-not-accept-their:f    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:40:10

• "CCC | Gesichtserkennung und Palantir: Dobrindts Überwachungspaket muss vom Tisch" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2025/gesichtserkennung-und-palantir-dobrindts-uberwachungspaket-muss-vom-tisch    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 08:40:16

• Startup Raises $60 Million to Artificially Cool the Planet ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/startup-cool-planet-geoengineering    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:04:10

• Scientists Discover Remnants of Cataclysmically Destroyed Planet That Became Earth ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/remnants-planet-before-earth    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:04:34

• AI Is Even Putting Animal Actors Out of Work ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-animal-actors-work    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:08:26

• Top EU body finds both Meta and Fentanylware (CheeTok) in breach of EU Digital Services Act ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/top-eu-body-finds-both-meta-and-tiktok-in-breach-of-eu-digital-services-act/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:09:35

• Flame Graphs in Go ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/26/flame-graphs-in-go/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:10:12

• Thinking Clearly ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/26/thinking-clearly/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:10:37

• Fedora 43 Final Build Approved, Official Release Set for October 28 ☞ https://linuxiac.com/fedora-43-final-build-approved-official-release-set-for-october-28/    

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

• Arch GNU/Linux AUR Hit by Another DDoS Attack, Port 22 Access Disrupted ☞ https://linuxiac.com/arch-linux-aur-hit-by-another-ddos-attack/    

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

• Solseek Brings a Fast, TUI-Based Package Manager to Solus GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxiac.com/solseek-brings-a-fast-tui-based-package-manager-to-solus-linux/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:11:44

• Windows Games’ Compatibility on GNU/Linux Is at an All-Time High ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/windows-games-compatibility-on-linux-is-at-a-all-time-high/index.html    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:11:59

• Don’t Forget These Tags to Make HTML Work Like You Expect ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/dont-forget-these-html-tags/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:12:26

• iophk: news was really sparse, even for a Monday; Today is day 300 of 2025    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:13:53

• For Techrights, sparse news is very desirable right now because of a big series about the EPO and many articles to coming in the next few years. Quieter Web = more time to focus on writing. Like back in the time literature was rare and no info overload or signal/sensory noise.    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:15:32

• Hydraulics Channel GVF – compute water surface profiles ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hydraulics-channel-gvf-compute-water-surface-profiles/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:16:01

• Share Preview – test social control media cards locally ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/share-preview-test-social-media-cards-locally/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:22:23

• Draughts – comprehensive draughts (checkers) game ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/draughts-comprehensive-draughts-checkers-game/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:23:04

• Mangal – CLI manga downloader ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mangal-cli-manga-downloader/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:23:18

• deej – open-source hardware volume mixer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/deej-open-source-hardware-volume-mixer/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:23:54

• So in a non-sinister way we root for the Web killing itself, which seems to be happening with help of centralised Muskware, LLMs etc. People will still read, the question is, what?    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:24:57

• 7 Best Free and Open Source Image Upscaling Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-image-upscaling-tools/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:25:28

• Ghostty Terminal: Never Understood the Hype Until I tried it ☞ https://itsfoss.com/ghostty-terminal-features/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:35:25

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: duckdb-mlpack 0.0.2: mlpack is now a duckdb community extension ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/10/26#duckdb-mlpack_0.0.2    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:45:14

• Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 43 (Oct 20 – 26, 2025) ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linuxiac-weekly-wrap-up-week-43-oct-20-26-2025/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:45:44

• Lazy Reading for 2025/10/26 ☞ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/10/26/lazy-reading-for-2025-10-26/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:46:55

• 3 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Graphical FTP Clients ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ftpclients/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:47:52

• Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Content Control Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/contentcontrol/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:48:28

• arcOS – Amateur Radio Community Operating System ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/arcos-amateur-radio-community-operating-system/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:48:56

• 16 Best Free and Open Source Remote Desktop Clients ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-remote-display-clients/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 11:49:03

• Linux 6.18-rc3 Released With Latest Fixes ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-rc3-Released    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:01:52

• MX GNU/Linux 25-rc1 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/mx    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:02:04

• This Week in KDE Apps ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/10/26/this-week-in-kde-apps/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:12:08

• 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 26th, 2025 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-october-26th-2025    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:15:07

• MX GNU/Linux 25 Release Candidate Arrives with Various Improvements and Changes ☞ https://9to5linux.com/mx-linux-25-release-candidate-arrives-with-various-improvements-and-changes    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:15:21

• Ubuntu is dropping many features that only X has is not good news; also, it loses compatibility with a lot of software ☞ https://thenewstack.io/ubuntu-25-10-scraps-x11-for-wayland-a-solid-step-forward/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:16:38

• "Disclosure: This article was written with editorial oversight and verified facts using AI assistance." Read: THIS IS LLM SLOP! ☞ https://ubuntupit.com/ffmpeg-introduces-vulkan-accelerated-apple-prores-decoding/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:17:08

• Rust breaks Ubuntu ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/ubuntu-25-10-rust-coreutils-date-bug http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/24/Who_Will_be_Held_Accountable_for_Breaking_Ubuntu_by_Imposing_Ru.shtml    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:18:05

• Mastodon: if it could happen, doesn’t mean it did ☞ https://rubenerd.com/if-it-could-happen-doesnt-mean-it-did/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:18:47

• Tilt and turn test with heim-joints ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202510/tilt-and-turn-test-with-heim-joints.html    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:21:11

• Dihydroxyacetone Man strikes deals on trade, critical minerals in South-east Asia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/trump-strikes-deals-on-trade-critical-minerals-in-south-east-asia    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:21:39

• New police plan to expand AI-enabled CCTV blanket to public housing estates raises questions over privacy ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/27/new-police-plan-to-expand-ai-enabled-cctv-blanket-to-public-housing-estates-raises-questions-over-privacy/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:21:50

• Asia Pacific charts the course for WTDC-25 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/10/27/asia-pacific-charts-the-course-for-wtdc-25/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:22:27

• The Beloved from Halabja ☞ https://bianet.org/yazi/the-beloved-from-halabja-312892    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:23:11

• OpenIndiana 20251026 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/openindiana    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:23:34

• Guido Günther: Audio Roles, Volumes and Routes ☞ https://phosh.mobi/posts/role-based-routing/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:24:32

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

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:25:22

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

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:26:12

• Paul Simon, Train in the Distance ☞ https://rubenerd.com/paul-simon-train-in-the-distance/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:27:31

• Burevestnik Nuclear Missile Tests Successful, Russia Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/world/europe/russia-burevestnik-missile.html    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:29:57

• Double Descent Explained ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/double-descent-explained/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:30:38

• Russia will respond harshly in event of strikes deep inside its territory, Kremlin says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/Russia-will-respond-harshly-in-event-of-strikes-deep-inside-its-territory-Kremlin-says    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:31:51

• The Russia-Ukraine Energy War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/world/russia-ukraine-energy-war-louvre-arrest.html    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:32:02

• 3 Years Ago It Was a Casting Agency. Now It Has $1 Billion in Drone Contracts. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/world/europe/ukraine-fire-point-drones-flamingo.html    

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

• India and China resume direct flights as ties improve ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-and-china-to-resume-direct-flights-as-ties-improve    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:32:28

• Croatia reintroduces compulsory military service ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/croatia-reintroduces-compulsory-military-conscription/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:32:47

• What is Russia's Burevestnik missile? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/What-is-Russias-Burevestnik-missile    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:34:06

• Kremlin: Wrong to talk about cancellation of Putin-Dihydroxyacetone Man summit, agencies report ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/Kremlin-Wrong-to-talk-about-cancellation-of-Putin-Dihydroxyacetone Man-summit-agencies-report    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:34:15

• Shiitake-powered computer demonstrated by researchers — mushroom-infused chips a surprising alternative to using rare earths in memristors ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/shiitake-powered-computer-demonstrated-by-researchers-mushroom-infused-chips-a-surprising-alternative-to-using-rare-earths-in-memristors    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:34:47

• Dihydroxyacetone Man: Won't Be 'Wasting My Time' Meeting Putin If Deal Not Likely ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-putin-russia-ukraine-sanctions-asia-trip/33570369.html    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:34:58

• Putin Touts Successful Tests Of Nuclear-Powered Burevestnik Missile ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-nuclear-powered-burevestnik-missile/33570798.html    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:35:07

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Rules Out Meeting Putin Without Progress On Ukraine Peace Deal ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-rules-out-meeting-putin-ukraine-peace-talks/33570825.html    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:35:25

• Russia Troops Reported Inside Pokrovsk As Ukrainian Forces Maintain City's Defenses ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-pokrovsk-russia-zelenkyy-putin-war/33570962.html    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:35:41

• The Distro Everyone Should Copy | LINUX Unplugged 638 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/638/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:37:07

• mintCast 471 – “Welcome To dockerCast” ☞ https://mintcast.org/471-welcome-to-dockercast/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:38:18

• New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Ninja Gaiden 4, Dispatch and Jurassic World Evolution 3 - 2025-10-25 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2025-10-25-edition/index.html    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:39:02

• Nigerian regulator wants more control of TikTok: 'It eats our youth's time' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/tech-24/20251026-nigerian-regulator-wants-more-control-of-tiktok-it-eats-our-youth-s-time    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:42:45

• Are banking hubs the answer to disappearing branches? I visited one to find out ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/are-banking-hubs-the-answer-to-disappearing-branches-i-visited-one-to-find-out-avD160y0p3J1 banks being reduced to foreign-owned clown games https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/07/21/nationwide-bank-enshittification/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:46:19

• ‘No Idea How Long People Can Hold Out’: Federal Workers Feel Brunt of Shutdown ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/us/politics/federal-workers-shutdown-pay.html    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:11:35

• Food Banks in U.S. Brace for Surging Demand as SNAP Aid Cutoff Looms ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/us/food-banks-snap-shutdown-hunger-trump.html    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:11:41

• MAHA = Make Americans Hungary Again    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:12:07

• (Hungry)    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:12:18

• "Americans Hungary" is after Cheeto and Peeto do their next Barbarossa    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:13:14

• Instacart Challenges USPTO’s Discretionary IPR Denials in Seventh Pending Mandamus Petition ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/10/instacart-challenges-discretionary.html    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:14:06

• Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc3 ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1043368/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:19:28

• More Silent Layoffs at IBM/Red Hat ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/27/More_Silent_Layoffs_at_IBM_Red_Hat.shtml    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:19:44

• Thankfully We've Made Copies of More Interesting Data From statCounter (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/27/Thankfully_We_ve_Made_Copies_of_More_Interesting_Data_From_stat.shtml    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:19:53

• Purchasing/Possessing Computers Isn't the Same as Controlling Computers ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/27/Purchasing_Possessing_Computers_Isn_t_the_Same_as_Controlling_C.shtml    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:20:06

• More Silent Layoffs at IBM/Red Hat (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/27/More_Silent_Layoffs_at_IBM_Red_Hat.shtml    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:20:35

• Junichi Uekawa: I have completed Clair Obscura Expedition 33 ACT2. ☞ http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2025-Oct-26.html.en#2025-Oct-26-20:47:33    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:21:20

• reluctance to ditch physical media ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/pc-cases/cooler-masters-new-pc-case-with-5-25-inch-drive-bay-launches-in-japan-as-residents-continue-to-embrace-optical-drives-masterbox-cm695-is-unabashedly-towering-and-addresses-the-countrys-reluctance-to-ditch-physical-media    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:22:40

• Update: dnsresolver.py Version 0.0.4 ☞ https://blog.didierstevens.com/2025/10/27/update-dnsresolver-py-version-0-0-4/    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:24:07

• Epidemia de hackeos gemini://sl1200.dystopic.world/art/epidemiahacking.gmi    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:43:19

• statcounter STILL broken. Wow. They had many hours today to fix this. They're in Irish time zone.    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:52:24

• "Just like support for legacy code in Windows, you will never be rid of the old and decrepit." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k7qzchtm    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:52:58

• "‘20 Years of Service, Dreams of 65th Birthday, Then Microsoft Let Him Go’: 62-year-old Employee Says He Feels Cheated"    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:53:22

• Today: "Xbox's Booty says biggest competition is "everything from TikTok to movies"" - see https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/25/Microsoft_is_Finally_Giving_Up_on_XBox_The_Chief_Says_the_Grape.shtml    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:54:18

• "Tech Moves: Ex-Starbucks CTO retires; Microsoft vet joins Oracle Cloud; Amazon hardware leader departs".... oh oh, Microsoft entering SCOracle again.    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:54:56

• This is a lie, pretending that LOSING the console wars is OK: "Xbox president says its competition is now Tiktok and movies, not PlayStation as Halo: Campaign Evolved comes to PS5"    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:55:33

• "IBM is at $307; they need to continue saving money for the investors and for AK" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8fccj45    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 14:56:26

• "In a recent write-up, [David Delony] explains how he built a Wolfram Mathematica-like engine with Python." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/26/making-math-less-stressful-with-a-python-super-calculator/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 15:02:56

• Kaitai Struct WebIDE, (Sun, Oct 26th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32422    

posted Monday, October 27, 2025 at 16:00:05