Roy Schestowitz

• "If you've ever used a Mac, you're probably familiar with its Time Machine feature. It's a system restore feature that lets you roll back to a saved point in macOS if something goes wrong while you are experimenting on your Mac." https://www.xda-developers.com/timeshift-brings-time-machine-to-linux-machine/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 00:45:38

• "Microsoft really doesn't want us making local accounts on Windows, does it?" https://www.xda-developers.com/use-local-accounts-switch-to-linux/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 00:46:10

• "This release introduces systemd-cryptsetup on the systemd-based ISOs to fix an issue with encrypted /home partitions." https://9to5linux.com/mx-linux-25-release-candidate-arrives-with-various-improvements-and-changes    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 00:47:38

• "I browse Gemini on my smartphone using Deedum, but in my apps list, I've renamed it to simply "Gemini Client." This weekend my Samsung Galaxy A15 received an Android update." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202510/20251027-the-wrong-gemini-on-my-phone.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 00:50:02

• "I have downsized my planner. I used to have a daily planner and a weekly planner, one to hold events and logs and one to hold statistics, but I have now combined them into one weekly planner." gemini://isoraqathedh.pollux.casa/gemlog/2025-10.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 00:50:50

• "But oh, how fun and good the core game play is inspite of that (and the off-putting AI theme). I love playing it." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/compile-card-game    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 00:51:55

• "This is so jank but I was frustrated with how the rest parameter redundantly has all the keywords left in (unlike stragglers in define-options) so I did a grobian solution at least for now: [...]" gemini://idiomdrottning.org/dsssl-with-varargs    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 00:52:52

• "Keeping with the season’s theme, we decided it was time to harvest the biggest of the 3 or 4 pumpkins we had growing this year. So, yeah, no big life changes. As I was telling a friend the other day, my life these days is “comfortably dull”. But, hey, we got a big pumpkin." gemini://tilde.green/~jmcs/gemlog/2025-10-27-big-pumpkin.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 00:53:40

• "If you buy a painting, I'm sure that you take the time to have a look at the artist's signature. This has fallen by the way side when it comes to ASCII art. I saw a post today that reminded me to be more mindful in this regard and pointed me to the "Respect ASCII Artist's Campaign"." gemini://lilemon.gemsync.net/log/ASCIIArtAttribution.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 00:54:40

• 🔤SpellBinding: ADEIQRU Wordo: SAGAS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-10-27.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 00:55:20

• "I'd like to cite Aaron Swartz¹ as a source of inspiration for this entry. I don't have heroes², but if I did, he'd be mine. He is deceased now, but he was more like myself than any other public figure I'm aware of and he had very similar long-term life goals." gemini://nicholasjohnson.ch/2025/10/26/how-to-maximize-your-positive-impact/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 00:56:53

• We Protect you From.. gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2724    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 00:58:03

• "These are mostly the same, only that find(1) takes more key presses (though a wrapper script could help with that) and includes a directory component with the filename." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/10/27/find-glob.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 00:58:51

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1807.jpg    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:02:59

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1457.jpg    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:03:03

• Make computing personal again: return to the roots gopher://hoi.st:70/0/posts/2025-10-27-return-to-the-roots.txt    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:04:04

• Bug in Coreutil's Rust Implementation Briefly Downed Ubuntu 25.10's Automatic Upgrade System https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-25-10-rust-automatic-upgrade-bug/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:17:56

• Valencia flood anniversary: Protesters demand regional leader’s resignation ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251026-valencia-flood-anniversary-protesters-demand-regional-leader-s-resignation    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:23:48

• Review of Nextion 4.3-inch Edge Series HMI touch display ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/27/review-of-nextion-4-3-inch-edge-series-hmi-touch-display/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:24:04

• Tellico 4.1.4 Released ☞ https://tellico-project.org/tellico-4-1-4-released/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:24:35

• Microsoft's decision to axe backdoored Windows 10 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/microsofts-decision-to-axe-windows-10-is-driving-apple-pc-sales-growth-users-buy-macs-instead-of-ai-pcs-despite-microsofts-push-for-copilot-pcs    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:25:01

• Japan grapples with deepfake pornography, with laws yet to catch up ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-grapples-with-deepfake-pornography-with-laws-yet-to-catch-up    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:25:24

• Spreadsheets Apple ][ Style ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/26/spreadsheets-apple-style/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:25:48

• Australia sues Abusive Monopolist Microsoft over ‘misleading’ Hey Hi (AI) offer ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-sues-microsoft-over-misleading-ai-offer    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:26:05

• "Software Freedom Conservancy had Microsoft, Google and Salesforce as Platinum sponsors: https://web.archive.org/web/20200522063800/https://2020.copy... The whole software foundation industry is sketchy." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45716485    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:28:20

• Amazon Looks To Lay Off 30,000 Workers, Almost 10 Percent Of Corporate Jobs: Reports https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2025/amazon-looks-to-lay-off-30-000-almost-10-percent-of-corporate-jobs-reports    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:28:57

• Amazon may lay off 30,000 corporate employees this week, Reuters reports https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-to-reportedly-may-lay-off-30000-corporate-employees-this-week/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:29:31

• "Amazon cut 30K jobs .... Amazon to cut about 30,000 corporate jobs beginning this week .... Well it’s not as bad as they were leading the media to believe. A few hours ago we thought it would be about 75k. I guess they learned the art of perception management." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8kzxz6m    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:31:32

• With Convicted Felon’s Asia trip, speculation mounts of a meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/with-trumps-asia-trip-speculation-mounts-of-a-meeting-with-north-koreas-kim-jong-un    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:32:51

• Predators ‘slip through the cracks’ in Australian childcare centres ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/predators-slip-through-the-cracks-in-australian-childcare    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:33:21

• German foreign minister to meet India's Goyal, Nato's Rutte after postponing China trip ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/german-foreign-minister-to-meet-indias-goyal-natos-rutte-after-postponing-china-trip    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:34:20

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

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:34:29

• Dying breed: Chongqing’s iconic porters struggle for relevance as economy shifts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/dying-breed-chongqings-iconic-porters-struggle-for-relevance-as-economy-shifts    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:34:56

• Ahead of Convicted Felon-Xi meeting, China says H-6K bombers flew near Taiwan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/ahead-of-trump-xi-meeting-china-says-h-6k-bombers-flew-near-taiwan    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:35:07

• Nexperia's China parent Wingtech declares cash-flow risk despite massive 280% profit surge - car production shutdowns loom as Dutch state tightens grip ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/wingtech-flags-nexperia-cash-flow-risk-despite-q3-profit-surge    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:35:35

• US Navy Sea Hawk helicopter, F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet go down in separate South China Sea incidents ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/10/26/world-news/us-navy-sea-hawk-helicopter-f-a-18f-super-hornet-fighter-jet-go-down-in-separate-south-china-sea-incidents/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:36:08

• Chinese Company Launches Wind-Powered Data Center at the Bottom of the Sea ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/china-data-center-ocean-wind    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:36:33

• Home Automation Upgrades ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/26/erv-gets-home-automation-upgrades/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:46:43

• Experiment Reveals What Is Truly Burrowing Beneath Mars's Dunes Each Spring ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/experiment-reveals-what-is-truly-burrowing-beneath-marss-dunes-each-spring    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:47:00

• 'Off Switch' Discovery Could Help Clear Our Brains of a Common Parasite ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/off-switch-discovery-could-help-clear-our-brains-of-a-common-parasite    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:47:19

• Can Organ Transplants Really Confer Eternal Youth? Here's The Science. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/can-organ-transplants-really-confer-eternal-youth-heres-the-science    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:47:29

• Bats in The US Can Glow Ghostly Green, And Scientists Have No Idea Why ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/bats-in-the-us-can-glow-ghostly-green-and-scientists-have-no-idea-why    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:47:38

• Scientists Want You to Stop Pouring Coffee Down Drains – Here's What to Do Instead ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-want-you-to-stop-pouring-coffee-down-drains-heres-what-to-do-instead    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:47:59

• Drug Combination Boosted Lifespan of Mice by 73%, But Only For One Sex ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/drug-combination-boosted-lifespan-of-mice-by-73-but-only-for-one-sex    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:49:03

• Turning Point in Heart Health Occurs at 1 Key Age (It's Younger Than You'd Think) ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/turning-point-in-heart-health-occurs-at-1-key-age-its-younger-than-youd-think    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:50:24

• Southern Ocean Is Building a 'Burp' That Could Reignite Global Warming ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/southern-ocean-is-building-a-burp-that-could-reignite-global-warming    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:50:41

• DNA Finally Reveals What Really Killed Napoleon's Forces ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dna-finally-reveals-what-really-killed-napoleons-forces    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:50:50

• First Mechanical Calculator ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/26/examining-the-first-mechanical-calculator/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:51:10

• VFETs Are (Almost) Solid State Tubes ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/26/vfets-are-almost-solid-state-tubes/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:53:00

• Record-Breaking Robots At Guinness World Records ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/26/record-breaking-robots-at-guinness-world-records/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:53:16

• Quantum Teleportation Was Achieved Over The Internet For The First Time ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-teleportation-was-achieved-over-the-internet-for-the-first-time    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:54:01

• No, it is NOT Hey Hi (AI)... they basically sack people who offer service and let people handle useless CHATBOTS, which won't solve issues https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/booking.com-replaces-customer-service-staff-with-ai-a3Pev2k03sgS see https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/03/Evri_Killed_Customer_Support_in_Favour_of_a_100_Useless_Chatbot.shtml    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:54:59

• Meta Tells Employees Their Jobs Are Being Automated ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-memo-automation    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:55:29

• Guillermo del Toro on Using AI: “I’d Rather Die” ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/guillermo-del-toro-ai-rather-die    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:55:58

• For air-and-missile defence, Israel offers the economic solutions ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/for-air-and-missile-defence-israel-offers-the-economic-solutions/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 01:56:24

• Hong Kong collects black boxes after deadly plane crash ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/26/hong-kong-collects-black-boxes-after-deadly-plane-crash/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 02:10:23

• Easier to ‘break into museums than a jewellery shop’: Louvre heist highlights security gaps ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251026-easier-to-break-into-museums-than-a-jewellery-shop-louvre-heist-highlights-security-gaps    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 02:16:03

• Four killed as Cameroon security forces clash with opposition protesters ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20251027-four-dead-cameroon-opposition-protests-douala    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 02:16:47

• Inside the minds of power: psychological analysis in security ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/inside-the-minds-of-power-psychological-analysis-in-security/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 02:17:16

• Creator makes Wi-Fi sound like dial-up Internet — uses Raspberry Pi and 2-watt speaker to convert digital data into analog signals ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/creator-makes-wi-fi-sound-like-dial-up-internet-uses-raspberry-pi-and-2-watt-speaker-to-convert-digital-data-into-analog-signals    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 02:18:56

• "General Motors trims over 200 white-collar roles amid restructuring, even as profits surge"    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 02:38:25

• Probably exaggerated; you cannot use Wi-Fi to figure out things like DNA, an exposed face is more of an issue and unmasking people all the time ie expensive https://www.techspot.com/news/109975-wi-fi-can-accurately-identify-people-even-if.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 04:37:47

• iophk: "I think I understand why the EFF has been neutered and by whom. It is a dangerous problem for all of society now. I saw a video of an inteview with Thiel, and he looks and sounds like a creature what was once human. Hopefully a tipping point in society has not been passed."    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 04:39:58

• explosive EPO story out shortly    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 05:16:22

• The Cocaine Patent Office - Part II: The Person Who Planted Paid-for Fake News for the European Patent Office (EPO) is a Cocaine User, Friend of António Campinos, Now on Record as Having Been Arrested https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/28/The_Cocaine_Patent_Office_Part_II_The_Person_Who_Planted_Paid_f.shtml    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 05:51:17

• You can grab 911 Operator for free to keep on Steam | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/you-can-grab-911-operator-for-free-to-keep-on-steam/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:00:21

• "GE-Proton 10-22 is out now to further enhance running Windows games on Linux + SteamOS / Steam Deck, here's what's been changed and improved." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/ge-proton-10-22-released-with-a-fix-for-game-launchers-persona-5-strikers-and-richard-burns-rally/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:00:43

• "Good news for everyone who dislikes DRM, as Denuvo has now been removed from Dead Island 2 making it easier to run than ever." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/denuvo-has-been-removed-from-dead-island-2/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:01:11

• The useful AI warning for Steam script has been turned into a proper browser extension | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/the-useful-ai-warning-for-steam-script-has-been-turned-into-a-proper-browser-extension/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:03:46

• Instead, the rich and powerful are lining up to fund Trump's $300 million White House ballroom — a 90,000-square-foot monument to kakistocracy that's already blown past its $200 million estimate. https://boingboing.net/2025/10/27/corporate-america-lines-up-to-fund-white-houses-epstein-ballroom.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:04:31

• iophk: the necessity of avoiding microsoft mentioned near the end, sw patents mentioned at 28:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um-TVmzzK_g ("The Rise of the Thielverse & the Surveillance State (w/ Whitney Webb) | The Chris Hedges Report")    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:05:00

• Vuvuzela Concert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf2P8SnOwLo    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:05:43

• "Trump Defends Demolition Of Yggdrasil, Ancient Tree Of Life - The Onion" https://theonion.com/trump-defends-demolition-of-yggdrasil-ancient-tree-of-life/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:07:49

• "Hand-cranked "They Live" transformation" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/10/hand-cranked-they-live-transformation/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:08:00

• "But I thought I’d take a few minutes to weigh in on one piece of the absurdity: Donald Trump’s hysterical reaction to an ad run by the Canadian province of Ontario that featured audio of Ronald Reagan denouncing tariffs and extolling free trade." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/no-ronald-reagan-didnt-love-tariffs    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:08:23

• "Qilin Ransomware Group TTPs Examined By Researchers" https://thecyberexpress.com/qilin-ransomware-group-ttps/ FUD    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:11:26

• "Saudi Arabia’s health push goes high-tech" https://www.semafor.com/article/10/27/2025/saudi-arabias-health-push-goes-high-tech    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:11:35

• "Saudi’s $50B downtown megaproject seeks partners" https://www.semafor.com/article/10/27/2025/saudis-50b-downtown-megaproject-seeks-partners    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:11:45

• "Trump Says We’re Just Going To Straight Up Murder A Bunch Of People" https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/27/trump-says-were-just-going-to-straight-up-murder-a-bunch-of-people/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:12:04

• iophk: mike is barking https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/27/how-neutrality-and-free-speech-become-excuses-for-driving-out-the-people-you-claim-to-value/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:12:18

• EFF works hard to marginalize what should be a popular, anti-surveillance position https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/joint-statement-un-cybercrime-convention-eff-and-global-partners-urge-governments    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:12:47

• The whole world is out of reason | "Hele verden er fra forstanden | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/hele-verden-er-fra-forstanden    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:13:44

• EU steps up fight against hate| "EU trappar upp kampen mot hat" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/10/27/eu-trappar-upp-kampen-mot-hat/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:13:56

• "A big dam disaster Russian authorities urge evacuation after Ukrainian strike on Belgorod dam sparks flood risk" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/27/a-big-dam-disaster | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:14:39

• "Janine Jackson interviewed the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ Cara Brumfield about erasing federal data for the October 17, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript." ☛ https://fair.org/home/these-changes-are-reducing-our-power-to-effect-positive-change-for-families/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:15:14

• "the Dead Protect the Wild" ☛ https://therevelator.org/cemeteries-protect-the-wild/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:15:51

• "The box is what Steiner had come for: It contained black and red Reebok sneakers to use in his new warehouse job." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/phoenix-post-office-homelessness-funding-cuts | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:19:08

• "Senators Propose Sweeping Changes to Generic Drug Oversight" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/lawmakers-propose-changes-drug-oversight-fda | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:19:16

• "Sometimes when you’re making a PCB that you plan on programming over USB, but you only plan on plugging in a couple of times" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/27/connector-free-zone-pcb-edge-as-usb-c-interfaces/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:19:39

• "The basic principles of a motion picture film camera should be well understood by most readers — after all" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/27/a-3d-printed-16mm-movie-camera/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:20:30

• "For anyone who’s joined us for previous years, you’ll know that badge hacking and modification are core to the Hackaday Supercon experience." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/27/the-supercon-2025-badge-is-built-to-be-customized/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:20:37

• MISERY is a new rogue-lite Stalker-like co-op survival game | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/misery-is-a-new-rogue-lite-stalker-like-co-op-game/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:24:08

• "TimeSplitters Rewind is a massive upcoming fan project that pretty much remakes the original trilogy of TimeSplitters games and it finally has a release date." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/the-huge-timesplitters-rewind-fan-project-launches-in-november/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:24:54

• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt to fully shut down in April 2026 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodhunt-to-fully-shut-down-in-april-2026/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:30:36

• Check out the demo for Turnbound, a clever haunted boardgame inventory battler | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/check-out-the-demo-for-turnbound-a-clever-haunted-boardgame-inventory-battler/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:31:11

• Grab the wonderful Kingdom series in a new Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/grab-the-wonderful-kingdom-series-in-a-new-humble-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:31:44

• "An antenna’s physical properties are inextricably linked to its electromagnetic properties and how it radiates and receives radio waves." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/10/27/morphing-meta-antennas-enable-frequency-manipulation/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:39:12

• "To avoid reinventing the wheel (literally), LeMaster started with a pitching machine that feeds balls down a ramp to a wheel spinning at high speed" ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/10/27/this-machine-lets-you-practice-baseball-solo-similar-to-topgolf/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:39:31

• "I purchased this 1946 Royal KMM standard typewriter on October 4th via Goodwill for $22.00." ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2025/10/27/1946-royal-kmm-standard-typewriter/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:39:54

• "Recently a former employee who was on the business development team for Apple's server products posted on the Tinker Different boards: not only did he have the mythical MacOS ROM" ☛ https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-apple-network-server-macos-roms.html | Source: Old VCR    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:40:31

• OpenIndiana 2025.10 is released    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:45:31

• "A lawsuit filed last November by DISH and Sling TV targeted Richard Moy and CLVPN LLC." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-iptv-man-settles-lawsuit-for-44-5m-yet-couldnt-pay-his-attorney-251027/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:46:34

• "From artists to journalists" ☛ https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/labor-rules-out-text-and-data-mining-exception-in-copyright-review-amid-ai-datafeeding-frenzy/news-story/9df65f82c2d038a4a9d63da91373e4f9 | Source: News AU    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:46:41

• "Whether OpenAI is an anti-competitive monopoly in need of breaking up remains a point of contention." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bernie-sanders-breakup-openai | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:47:11

• "Nevertheless, Windows Central’s sources seem to believe that you might able to tap that full-fledged Windows if you so choose." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2953703/did-pcs-win-the-console-war-the-next-xbox-will-run-windows-report-claims.html | Source: PC World    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:47:31

• "Copper theft does not just cost money – it undermines neighborhood safety and public trust" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/california-gets-bipartisan-on-copper-theft/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:53:36

• "This binding arbitration bullshit was illegal until the 2010s" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/27/shit-shack/#binding-arbitration | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:54:00

• "In August, CPB, which has long served as the vessel for distributing federal funding to NPR and PBS" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/10/26/2025/cpb-hits-back-against-npr-in-court | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:54:22

• "When we finally got access to it, WIRED found that the online encyclopedia contained lengthy entries generated by AI." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-launches-grokipedia-wikipedia-competitor/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:55:01

• "Almost one-fifth of responses to questions about Russia’s war in Ukraine, across the four chatbots they tested, cited Russian state-attributed sources, the ISD research claims" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/chatbots-are-pushing-sanctioned-russian-propaganda/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:55:14

• [Old] "Now, that message of free trade is one I conveyed to Canada's leaders a few weeks ago, and it was warmly received there." ☛ https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/radio-address-nation-free-and-fair-trade-4 |    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:58:10

• "The ad accurately portrays Reagan as being against tariffs, which are a tax on imports and are eventually shouldered by consumers in the form of higher prices." ☛ https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/24/2350203/-Watch-the-ad-driving-Trump-mad | Source: Daily Kos    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:58:32

• "Ever since the enlightenment, people disillusioned with religion are always bemoaning the fact that there does not seem to be anything quite adequate to replace its cultural role." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/eugene-debs-and-all-of-us | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:59:00

• "The cuts are primarily in corporate and back-office functions both at the company’s Stamford, CT, headquarters and around the country." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/charter-to-cut-1200-jobs/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 07:59:14

• "The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has walked away from a $1.5 million government grant and you can blame the Trump administration's war on woke for effectively weakening some open source security." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/python_foundation_abandons_15m_nsf/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:00:27

• "Microsoft is as much an Israeli company as an American company." ☛ https://www.mintpressnews.com/microsoft-israel-surveillance-azure-idf-gaza-genocide/290534/ | Source: Mint Press News    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:00:41

• "The figure represents a small percentage of Amazon's 1.55 million total employees, but nearly 10% of its roughly 350,000 corporate employees." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/amazon-to-lay-off-30-000-corporate-employees-in-largest-job-cut-since-2022-9527291 | Source: NDTV    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:01:02

• "It said that Saimaa ringed seal populations continue to grow rapidly in the Puruvesi and Suur-Saimaa lakes in Eastern Finland." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20190679 | Source: YLE    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:01:55

• "What got me hooked were school trips by train to the south of France and to Russia" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/this-is-why-mark-smith-loves-long-distance-trains-across-europe-train-london-berlin-warszaw-tallin/a-74276312 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:03:23

• "What the ships carry is Russian crude oil bound for overseas buyers, especially China and India." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/a-ghost-fleet-of-tankers-is-keeping-russias-war-machine-afloat-the-west-cant-stop-it/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:03:39

• "It will have five times more storage than all of Australia’s other pumped hydro and grid batteries combined" ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-storage/pumped-storage/white-elephant-hardly-snowy-2-0-will-last-150-years-and-work-with-batteries-to-push-out-gas/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:04:10

• "They are a tool, in my eyes." ☛ https://thomasrigby.com/posts/rover-p6-3500-v8-police-car/ | Source: Thomas Rigby    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:04:31

• "The agriculture sector is under pressure to clean up." ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/10/26/big-ag-greenwashing-climate-summit-cop30/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:05:01

• "One of the war crimes for which the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin" ☛ https://neweasterneurope.eu/2025/10/27/putin-is-the-biggest-child-kidnapper-in-the-world/ | Source: New Eastern Europe    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:08:49

• "Australia will from December 10 force social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok" ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/australia-and-new-zealand/meta-and-tiktok-to-obey-australia-under-16-social-media-ban-1913045 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:13:47

• "Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-27/ice-detains-british-muslim-political-commentator-at-san-francisco-airport | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:14:07

• "The publication is an outgrowth, Lee said, of the de-emphasis of reporting on the far right at many American news organizations" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/10/26/2025/data-journalists-start-news-site-to-track-extremist-movements | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:14:26

• "Whittaker said that the concentration of power among cloud hyperscalers (AWS, Google, and Microsoft)" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/signal_ceo_meredith_whittaker_aws_dependency/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:14:35

• "Watch my talk below. Of if you prefer reading articles over watching video" ☛ https://micahflee.com/practical-defenses-against-technofascism/ | Source: Micah F Lee    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:14:47

• [Old] "In Part I, we saw that authenticated encryption is usually the security goal you want in both the symmetric and public key settings." ☛ https://neilmadden.blog/2018/12/14/public-key-authenticated-encryption-and-why-you-want-it-part-iii/ |    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:15:25

• [Old] "In some cases, we may want to explicitly identify the sender of all messages." ☛ https://neilmadden.blog/2018/11/26/public-key-authenticated-encryption-and-why-you-want-it-part-ii/ |    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:15:48

• [Old] "If you read or watch any recent tutorial on symmetric (or “secret key”) cryptography, one lesson should be clear: in 2018 if you want to encrypt something you’d better use authenticated encryption." ☛ https://neilmadden.blog/2018/11/14/public-key-authenticated-encryption-and-why-you-want-it-part-i/ |    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:16:04

• "I’ve updated the section on Cryptographic Doom at the end of the article after clarifications from the age author." ☛ https://neilmadden.blog/2019/12/30/a-few-comments-on-age/ |    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:16:32

• "The sensitive personal details of more than 450 people holding “top secret” US government security clearances were left exposed online, new research seen by WIRED shows" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/hundreds-of-people-with-top-secret-clearance-exposed-by-house-democrats-website/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:16:51

• "Court records show Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a part of ICE, and the FBI obtained Con Edison user data. The utility provider refuses to say whether law enforcement needs a warrant to access its data." ☛ https://www.404media.co/con-edison-refuses-to-say-how-ice-gets-its-customers-data/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:17:39

• "If you thought living in Europe, Canada, or Hong Kong meant you were protected from having LinkedIn scrape your posts to train its AI, think again." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/linkedin_ai_profile_scraping/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:17:52

• "Browser memories are potentially a privacy nightmare, since they can hold all kinds of sensitive information about users — and their browsing habits." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/27/are-web-browsers-with-integrated-chatbots-a-paradigm-shift-or-just-privacy-and-security-disasters-waiting-to-happen/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:18:12

• "The Convention obligates states to establish broad electronic surveillance powers to investigate and cooperate on a wide range of crimes" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/joint-statement-un-cybercrime-convention-eff-and-global-partners-urge-governments | Source: EFF    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:19:32

• "Microsoft’s Teams platform will soon track employees’ office presence using Wi-Fi signals, automatically updating work location status." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-teams-turns-snitch-will-tell-your-boss-if-youre-in-office-or-not/articleshow/124845035.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:20:03

• "With the US government shutdown effectively paralyzing the National Flood Insurance Program" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/10/flood-insurance-nfip-neptune-shutdown/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:23:27

• Windows TCO: "State-owned Svenska kraftnät, which operates the country’s electricity transmission system" ☛ https://therecord.media/sweden-power-grid-operator-data | Source: The Record    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:23:50

• "She’s also concerned about phones, social media, and internet searches..." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-10-27/jennifer-aniston-star-of-the-morning-show-phones-are-these-almighty-algorithms-that-are-just-feeding-people-and-dividing-and-dividing.html | Source: El País    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:24:42

• "Security keys enrolled as a 2FA method are currently tied to the twitter.com domain." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/x_passkey_reset/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:25:09

• "What follows is the logout process for each of the major social networks and social media platforms." ☛ https://bjhess.com/posts/log-out-process-for-various-social-networks | Source: Barry Hess    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:25:17

• "I couldn’t find an equally good post with R code, and there seems to be a lot of misinformation about double descent online, so I thought I would write my own post." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/double-descent-explained/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:26:05

• "I now think that AI/LLMs suck the joy out of programming. I’ve used spicy auto-complete, as well as agents running in my IDE, in my CLI, or on GitHub’s server-side." ☛ https://alexn.org/blog/2025/10/27/ai-sucks-the-joy-out-of-programming/ | Source: Alexandru Nedelcu    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:26:21

• "What I am sure about is that em dashes are part of my style, and I'm not going to stop using them." ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2025/10/27/on-em-dashes-and-elipses/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:26:35

• "A lot of these claims are cynical rhetoric to keep the hype (and investment) flowing. But it seems like there are a bunch of people whom actually believe this stuff." ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/posts/step-2 | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:26:48

• "My impression is that it is little more than cynicism masquerading as software." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/27/1126673/openai-new-atlas-browser/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:27:14

• [Old] "Unlike the large language models of today, ELIZA could not generate long texts." ☛ https://ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wjds/announcement/view/8 |    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:27:33

• "Attackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in Windows Server Update Services, bypassing a patch Microsoft issued earlier this month that failed to mitigate the issue affecting software versions dating back to 2012." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/microsoft-windows-server-update-services-vulnerability-exploited-attacks/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:28:15

• "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://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/australia-and-new-zealand/australia-sues-microsoft-over-misleading-ai-offer-1912795 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:28:28

• "The ACCC alleges this information provided to subscribers was false or misleading because there was an undisclosed third option" ☛ https://itwire.com/government-tech-news/technology-regulation/microsoft-in-court-for-allegedly-misleading-millions-of-australians-over-microsoft-365-subscriptions.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:29:23

• "For those not as clued into the gaming space, this is similar in scale to when Sega first released a Sonic game for Nintendo, or if Nintendo ever released Mario Kart for PlayStation." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/when-you-put-your-brands-mascot-on-the-enemys-platform/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:29:29

• "Just writing that last paragraph (in the office, on my lunch break) I’ve heard 4 different phones beep." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/blog/smartphones-are-not-the-enemy/ | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:32:51

• "So I'm taking off from Computer Things for the rest of the year. There might be some announcements and/or one or two short newsletters in the meantime but I won't be attempting a weekly cadence until 2026." ☛ https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/im-taking-a-break/ | Source: Buttondown LLC    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:33:11

• "In fact, none of these inferences are correct." ☛ https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2025/10/27/cancer-survival-rates-are-misleading/ | Source: Allen Downey    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:33:25

• [Old] "Someone vocalising an 'aah' sound followed by 10 seconds of normal breathing emits around 60 per cent more aerosols than 30 seconds of repeated coughing, research from 2009 found." ☛ https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2020-06-14/how-can-we-resume-choir-practice-without-spreading-coronavirus/12344812 | Source: ABC    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:33:41

• "It’s been over a year since we incorporated HackSpace magazine into Raspberry Pi Official Magazine." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/book-of-making-2026-on-sale-now/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:34:59

• "These comments have been edited for length and clarity." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/teens-stem-school-career-artificial-intelligence/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:35:05

• "This matters because I’m not just trying to inform you. I’m trying to build your capacity to think through complexity yourself" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/on-my-writing-style | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:35:18

• "Regular Positive and Negative Inference, RPNI for short" ☛ https://rahul.gopinath.org/post/2025/10/24/rpni-learning-regular-languages/ |    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:35:44

• "When I got the e-mail notifying me it was back in stock, I did not hesitate and ordered it." ☛ https://hacdias.com/2025/10/27/internet-phone-book/ | Source: Henrique Dias    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:36:22

• "This week, my site is twenty years old! I do not know the exact date it launched but I do know it happened this week in 2005." ☛ https://jeffbridgforth.com/celebrating-20-years/ | Source: Jeff Bridgforth    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:36:33

• "Given that you can buy a pencil literally anywhere, I might not have needed to bring that many with me." ☛ https://johnnydecimal.com/20-29-communication/22-blog/22.00.0154-mitsubishi-9852/ | Source: Johnny Decimal    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:36:48

• "Of course the true crime is that filename. Every time I opened it I knew it was bad. So, improve it. Stick the ID in there: this is exactly what it's for." ☛ https://johnnydecimal.com/20-29-communication/22-blog/22.00.0155-front-door-and-elephant/ | Source: Johnny Decimal    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:37:02

• "If there’s one lesson I try to carry with me, it's that extremes are bad. And the goal should be to keep the pendulum swings to a minimum, and spend as much time as possible at the centre, where things are balanced." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/indieweb-carnival-on-ego | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:38:25

• "California Highway Patrol did not receive word that Marines would fire artillery rounds over Interstate 5 the afternoon of Friday, Oct. 17, according to reporting by the Los Angeles Times." ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marines-camp-pendleton-artillery-freeway-warning/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:38:49

• "All this is inconvenient, but nowhere near the end of the [Internet]." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/26/internet-infrastructure-fragile-system-holding-modern-world-together | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:45:10

• [Old] "For the Internet’s purposes, the degradation was the important part." ☛ https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-history | Source: IEEE    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:45:19

• "Here are the tools I used to conduct my “Bytes over DNS” tests." ☛ https://blog.didierstevens.com/2025/10/27/bytes-over-dns-tools/ | Source: Didier Stevens    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:46:05

• "After a few weeks getting in the rhythm of editing the weekly" ☛ https://rakudoweekly.blog/2025/10/27/2025-43-trick-or-treat/ | Source: Rakulang    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:46:51

• "Fast forward to today, I’m happy to introduce Zio, an asynchronous I/O and concurrency library for Zig." ☛ https://lalinsky.com/2025/10/26/zio-async-io-for-zig.html |    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:50:07

• "Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like." ☛ https://adventofcode.com/2025/about | Source: AdventOfCode    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:50:17

• "On most Linux platforms (except AArch32, which uses .ARM.exidx), DWARF .eh_frame is required for C++ exception handling and stack unwinding to restore callee-saved registers." ☛ https://maskray.me/blog/2025-10-26-stack-walking-space-and-time-trade-offs | Source: MaskRay    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:50:36

• "This is so jank but I was frustrated with how the rest parameter redundantly has all the keywords left in (unlike stragglers in define-options) so I did a grobian solution at least for now: [...]" ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/dsssl-with-varargs | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:50:51

• "The URLSchemeHandler is a protocol with a reply method to return an async sequence of results. The AsyncSequence expects us to either yield a URLResponse and some data or throw an error." ☛ https://useyourloaf.com/blog/swiftui-custom-url-schemes/ | Source: Keith Harrison    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:54:47

• "Working on UCL, adding some missing builtins I’ve been finding myself wanting. Nothing too interesting." ☛ https://lmika.org/2025/10/27/devlog-ucl-adding-some-missing.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:55:06

• "Well, I think I know why we get these proposals. The thing is that AI can code, but it can't build software." ☛ https://bytesauna.com/post/coding-vs-software-engineering?ref=birchtree.me |    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:55:20

• "Generative AI is erasing open source code provenance." ☛ https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-open-source-may-not-survive-the-rise-of-generative-ai/ | Source: ZDNet    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:55:55

• "Mark Wielaard said that developers are normally able to cite any inspirations for the code they write" ☛ https://lwn.net/Articles/1040888/ | Source: LWN    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:57:31

• "Tracking down bugs in software is a pain that all of us who write code must bear." ☛ https://www.troyhunt.com/how-we-almost-found-chromiums-bug-via-crash-reports-to-report-uri/ | Source: Troy Hunt    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:57:47

• "At first I didn’t want to get involved and after returning from a delivery and seeing the state of things still" ☛ https://claytonerrington.com/blog/saving-the-night-at-a-restaurant/ | Source: Clayton Errington    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:58:24

• "Now, every FreeBSD release artifact can be built without root privileges: [...]" ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-now-builds-reproducibly-and-without-root-privilege/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:59:22

• "An AppImage is a single file that contains an entire Linux application." ☛ https://kevinboone.me/appimage.html | Source: Kevin Boone    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 08:59:55

• "They are so weird I don’t know how to write this article" ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/the-greatness-of-text-adventures | Source: Chris    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 09:00:17

• "Full disclosure, I'm far from an expert, and I've only been running my own home server for about 4 months now" ☛ https://blog.nfreak.tv/music-stack/ |    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 09:00:35

• "Once upon a time, Unix filesystem mounts worked by putting one inode on top of another" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/MountsAsNamespaceOperations | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 09:01:02

• "FX, inflation and SKU price adjustments are not considered during the modeling period." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/unlocking-telecommunication-transformation-red-hat-openshift-service-aws | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 09:01:45

• Global-ready from day one ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/localization-testing | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 09:02:14

• "Vaultwarden, a password manager application, is an unofficial Bitwarden server alternative written in Rust." ☛ https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-install-vaultwarden-password-manager-on-ubuntu-24-04/ | Source: RoseHosting    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 09:02:51

• "The below featured highlights listed on the community’s blog feed aggregator are from October 18 to 26." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/10/27/planet-roundup/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 09:03:13

• "We’re working on a new feature to display direct results in your address bar as you type" ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/better-search-suggestions/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 09:04:01

• libc @ Savannah: The GNU C Library version 2.42 is now available ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10822    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 09:05:24

• Information Overload or Informed Citizens? ☞ https://jxself.org/information-overload.shtml    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 09:07:53

• Meta and Fentanylware (CheeTok) to obey Australia under-16 social control media ban ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/meta-and-tiktok-to-obey-australia-under-16-social-media-ban    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 09:13:49

• ‘TikTok USA’ Deal with China Expected to be Signed Thursday—According to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/27/tiktok-usa-deal-being-finalized-scott-bessent-comments/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 09:14:29

• Top EU body finds both Meta and Fentanylware (CheeTok) in breach of 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 Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 09:15:25

• Love in the Time of Hegemonic Suicide ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/27/love-in-the-time-of-hegemonic-suicide/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 09:17:40

• mRNA Covid vaccines may help some cancer patients fight tumors ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20251027-mrna-covid-vaccines-may-help-some-cancer-patients-fight-tumors    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 09:17:58

• AI Powers a Browser Renaissance — But Not for Open Source ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/10/ai-powers-a-browser-renaissance-but-not-for-open-source/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 09:18:44

• The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 247: My Senate Appearance on the Bill That Could Lead to Canada-Wide Blocking of X, Reddit and Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/10/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-247-my-senate-appearance-on-the-bill-that-could-lead-to-canada-wide-blocking-of-x-reddit-and-chatgpt/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 09:19:49

• New Firefox Extensions Required to Disclose Data Collection Practices ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-firefox-extensions-required-to-disclose-data-collection-practices/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12:07:37

• Python Software Foundation withdraws security-related grant proposal ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1043563/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12:08:31

• Hidden Detail in Crotch Solves a 500-Year-Old Leonardo Da Vinci Mystery ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/hidden-detail-in-crotch-solves-a-500-year-old-leonardo-da-vinci-mystery    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12:14:17

• Safe Browsing Flags Open Source Photo App Immich Web URLs as Dangerous ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/google-safe-browsing-flags-immich/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12:14:30

• 3 Hong Kong men jailed for up to 18 years over 2020 bomb plots ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/27/3-hong-kong-men-jailed-for-up-to-18-years-over-2020-bomb-plots/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12:14:50

• When Good Writing Makes Bad Patents: The Synonym Trap in Claim Construction ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/10/writing-patents-construction.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12:15:24

• Windows TCO ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/microsoft-windows-server-update-services-vulnerability-exploited-attacks/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12:15:59

• Microchip PIC32-BZ6 BLE 6.0, Thread, and Matter wireless MCU integrates touch and motor control ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/28/microchip-pic32-bz6-ble-6-0-thread-and-matter-wireless-mcu-integrates-touch-and-motor-control/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12:27:50

• Radxa Dragon Q6A – A $60+ Qualcomm QCS6490 Edge Hey Hi (AI) SBC with GbE, WiFi 6, three camera connectors ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/27/radxa-dragon-q6a-a-qualcomm-qcs6490-edge-ai-sbc-with-gbe-wifi-6-three-camera-connectors/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12:27:57

• 1GHz Renesas RA8D2 and RA8M2 Cortex-M85 MCUs feature up to 1MB MRAM, 2MB SRAM ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/27/1ghz-renesas-ra8d2-and-ra8m2-cortex-m85-mcus-feature-up-to-1mb-mram-2mb-sram/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12:28:20

• Microsoft's Proprietary Chaffbot Company losses hidden as part of $4.7 billion 'other' expense — stake in Hey Hi (AI) company still doesn't turn a profit as companies grapple with ongoing contract negotiation ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/microsofts-openai-math-is-still-a-black-box    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12:28:58

• Australian regulator sues Abusive Monopolist Microsoft over Abusive Monopolist Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing notifications ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/27/australian-regulator-sues-microsoft-microsoft-365-copilot-pricing-notifications/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12:48:27

• Remembering Better Mono Graphics ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/27/remembering-better-mono-graphics/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12:55:57

• Amazon Braces for Major Cuts to Its White-Collar Work Force ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/amazon-layoffs.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12:56:23

• Report: Amazon to let go of up to 30,000 employees, starting this week ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/27/report-amazon-let-go-30000-employees-starting-week/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12:56:38

• KDE e.V. elects new board members ☞ https://ev.kde.org/2025/10/27/decisions/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12:57:47

• Court orders arrest of İmamoğlu, journalist Yanardağ in espionage probe ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/court-orders-arrest-of-imamoglu-journalist-yanardag-in-espionage-probe-312938    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:02:40

• Shutdown puts a drag on security clearance processes ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-news/2025/10/shutdown-puts-a-drag-on-security-clearance-processes/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:03:05

• OPM bringing protections for data breach victims to an end ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2025/10/opm-bringing-protections-for-data-breach-victims-to-an-end/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:03:26

• Massive China-Linked Smishing Campaign Leveraged 194,000 Domains ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/massive-china-linked-smishing-campaign-leveraged-194000-domains/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:04:04

• Year-Old WordPress Plugin Flaws Exploited to Hack Websites ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/year-old-wordpress-plugin-flaws-exploited-to-hack-websites/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:04:18

• Ransomware Payments Dropped in Q3 2025: Analysis ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ransomware-payments-dropped-in-q3-2025-analysis/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:05:03

• The Cocaine Patent Office - Part I: António Campinos Brought Corruption and Nepotism to the EPO, Then Came the Cocaine ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/27/The_Cocaine_Patent_Office_Part_I_Antonio_Campinos_Brought_Corru.shtml    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:06:08

• Our Latest European Patent Office (EPO) Series Will Last Several Weeks, Will Ask the EPO Management and the European Union (EU) Very Difficult Questions ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/27/Our_Latest_European_Patent_Office_EPO_Series_Will_Last_Several_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:06:14

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s US can still defend Taiwan. But will it? ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/trumps-us-can-still-defend-taiwan-but-will-it/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:12:37

• Peru at a breaking point: How ten years of political chaos opened the door to organized crime ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/peru-at-a-breaking-point-how-ten-years-of-political-chaos-opened-the-door-to-organized-crime/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:13:19

• Sudan's RSF overrun the army's last stronghold in the Darfur region ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20251027-sudan-s-rsf-overrun-the-army-s-last-stronghold-in-the-darfur-region    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:14:08

• US government seeks to deport Kilmar Ábrego García to Liberia ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/us-government-seeks-to-deport-kilmar-abrego-garcia-to-liberia/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:14:37

• Cameroon's president re-elected at 92 ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251027-cameroon-s-president-re-elected-at-92    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:14:50

• Controversial UN Cybercrime Treaty Signed by 65 Countries ☞ https://www.datamation.com/security/un-cybercrime-treaty/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:15:20

• From browsers to better drivers: Fixing Zink’s synchronization the hard way ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/10/27/from-browsers-to-better-drivers-fixing-synchronization-in-zink/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:15:43

• Raku Weekly 2025.43 Trick or Treat ☞ https://rakudoweekly.blog/2025/10/27/2025-43-trick-or-treat/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:16:22

• Firefox Nightly: Extensions UI Improvements and More – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 191 ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2025/10/27/extensions-ui-improvements-and-more-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-191/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:17:18

• Paul Tagliamonte: It's NOT always DNS. ☞ https://notes.pault.ag/its-not-always-dns/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:17:42

• Mike Blumenkrantz: Apitrace Goes Vroom ☞ https://www.supergoodcode.com/apitrace-goes-vroom/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:19:03

• FreeBSD now builds reproducibly and without root privilege ☞ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-now-builds-reproducibly-and-without-root-privilege/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:19:42

• SDG Hub: Building synthetic data pipelines with modular blocks ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/27/sdg-hub-building-synthetic-data-pipelines-modular-blocks    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:20:15

• Promoting hype and lies ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/27/multimodal-ai-edge-deploy-vision-language-models-ramalama    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:21:21

• Britain Needs China’s Money. It Fears What Comes With It. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/world/europe/britain-china-national-security-economy.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:24:02

• Sam Thursfield: Slow Fedora VMs ☞ https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/avoid-the-fedora-kernel-6-16-8-200-fc42-x86_64/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:26:19

• ICE Detains British Media Commentator Sami Hamdi ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/sami-hamdi-detained-ice.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:26:45

• McDonald’s Japan to stop using paper straws from November ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/mcdonalds-japan-to-stop-using-paper-straws-from-nov    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:30:22

• Saeima committee starts viewing draft budget ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/saeima/27.10.2025-saeima-committee-starts-viewing-draft-budget.a620000/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:31:19

• AI “Phone Farm” Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/doublespeed-ai-phone-farm    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:31:52

• EA’s Attempt to Use Hey Hi (AI) for Game Development Backfiring Horribly ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ea-attempts-use-ai-game-development-backfiring    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:32:17

• We’re Laugh-Crying at This Footage of an AI-Generated Video Game ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/footage-ai-generated-video-game-terrible    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:32:40

• Google News Drowning in Slop (and Slopfarms That Hijack About Half the Results) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/28/Google_News_Drowning_in_Slop_and_Slopfarms_That_Hijack_About_Ha.shtml    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:34:27

• Argentina midterm elections seen as confidence vote for Milei's economic refoms ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20251027-argentina-midterm-elections-seen-as-confidence-vote-for-milei-s-economic-refoms    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:35:43

• Pregnant and Postpartum Women Face Neglect and Abuse in ICE Detention ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/pregnant-and-postpartum-women-face-neglect-and-abuse-in-ice-detention    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:36:13

• Rare Fossils Reveal Surprisingly Gorilla-Like Features of Ancient Human Relative ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/rare-fossils-reveal-surprisingly-gorilla-like-features-of-ancient-human-relative    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:37:07

• 'Impossible' Life Found Beneath Arctic Ice Could Alter Climate Models ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/impossible-life-found-beneath-arctic-ice-could-alter-climate-models    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:37:15

• Mystery of The Ocean's Missing Plastic a Step Closer to Being Solved ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mystery-of-the-oceans-missing-plastic-a-step-closer-to-being-solved    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:37:29

• 1 in 5 UTIs Can Be Linked to Poor Hygiene in The Kitchen ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/1-in-5-utis-can-be-linked-to-poor-hygiene-in-the-kitchen    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:38:11

• "We do not need any Gamers. We need our men, husbands, sons and boys to do real work, not sit in front of games." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k80qwm7j    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:39:13

• Gray Hair Might Be The Body's Way of Avoiding a Deadly Cancer ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/gray-hair-might-be-the-bodys-way-of-avoiding-a-deadly-cancer    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:40:42

• Scientists Explain Why 'Harmless' Sharks Devoured Swimmer in Chilling World First ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-explain-why-harmless-sharks-devoured-swimmer-in-shocking-world-first    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:42:24

• First Wap: A Surveillance Computer You’ve Never Heard Of ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/first-wap-a-surveillance-computer-youve-never-heard-of.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:43:05

• Blood Signals May Predict Multiple Sclerosis 7 Years Before Symptoms ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/blood-signals-may-predict-multiple-sclerosis-7-years-before-symptoms    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:45:44

• Salvage work for cargo plane involved in fatal crash at Hong Kong airport to be completed Monday evening ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/27/salvage-work-for-cargo-plane-involved-in-fatal-crash-at-hong-kong-airport-to-be-completed-monday-evening/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:46:13

• Gun-Toting Police Swarm, Handcuff Young Black Man After Hey Hi (AI) Mistakes Doritos Bag For a Gun ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/doritos-or-gun    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:46:41

• Community Strikes Back: 12 Open Source Projects Born from Resistance ☞ https://itsfoss.com/community-strikes-back-with-forks/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:47:03

• Software Patents ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/via-la-strikes-out-against-amazon-at-dusseldorf-regional-court/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:47:34

• Exploding The Mystical Craftsman Myth ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/27/exploding-the-mystical-craftsman-myth/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:49:55

• Adding a fighter type is not the answer to Indonesia’s defence needs ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/adding-a-fighter-type-is-not-the-answer-to-indonesias-defence-needs/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:50:12

• ‘Smooth and easy’: India, China resume direct flights as ties improve ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/27/smooth-and-easy-india-china-resume-direct-flights-as-ties-improve/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:50:45

• Step by step, how China seized control of critical minerals ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/step-by-step-how-china-seized-control-of-critical-minerals    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:51:19

• China urges joint efforts with Japan, South Korea, ASEAN in science and tech ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/China-urges-joint-efforts-with-Japan-South-Korea-ASEAN-in-science-and-tech    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:51:45

• China’s heatwaves threaten to dry up supply of delicious ‘hairy crabs’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-heatwaves-threaten-to-dry-up-supply-of-delicious-hairy-crabs    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:53:02

• China downplays tension after German Foreign Minister cancels Beijing trip ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-downplays-tension-after-german-foreign-minister-cancels-beijing-trip    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:53:16

• AI accelerator selection for inference: A stage-based framework ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/10/27/ai-accelerator-selection-inference-stage-based-framework    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:54:02

• Malaysian lured with ‘satay job’ to Cambodia, trapped in scam call centre ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-lured-with-satay-job-to-cambodia-trapped-in-scam-call-centre    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:55:07

• Dognapping claims in Malaysia spark fear and anger on social control media ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/dognapping-claims-in-malaysia-spark-fear-and-anger-on-social-media    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:55:29

• "Running suspicious software in a virtual machine seems like a basic precaution to figure out whether said software contains naughty code." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/27/making-a-virtual-machine-look-like-real-hardware-to-malware/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:56:09

• Bytes over DNS, (Mon, Oct 27th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32420    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:56:23

• Hacking Team successor linked to malware campaign, new ‘Dante’ commercial spyware ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/hacking-team-dante-spyware-kaspersky/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:00:48

• Chrome Zero-Day Exploitation Linked to Hacking Team Spyware ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-zero-day-exploitation-linked-to-hacking-team-spyware/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:01:34

• Launchpad News: Support for FIDO2 SSH Keys ☞ https://blog.launchpad.net/general/support-for-fido2-ssh-keys    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:02:36

• Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 915 ☞ https://ubuntu-news.org/2025/10/27/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-915/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:03:08

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: #054: Faster r-ci Contimuous Integration via r2u Container ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/10/27#054_faster_r-ci    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:04:22

• FSF Blogs: FSD meeting recap 2025-10-24 ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsd-meeting-recap-2025-10-24    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:05:24

• FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, October 31, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2025-10-31-irc    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:05:37

• Christian Hergert: Status Week 43 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2025/10/27/status-week-43/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:06:07

• Ubuntu Announced How to Fix for 25.10 Automatic Updates ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/10/ubuntu-announced-fix-2510-updates/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:07:01

• Bug in Coreutil's Rust Implementation Briefly Downed Ubuntu 25.10's Automatic Upgrade System ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-25-10-rust-automatic-upgrade-bug/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:07:35

• ‘Pig-butchering’ romance scams take hold in South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/pig-butchering-romance-scams-take-hold-in-south-korea    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:08:08

• Rust Coreutils 0.3.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1043390/ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/27/Ubuntu_Loses_Features_and_Breaks_Itself_Because_Canonical_Hired.shtml    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:09:01

• Sparky 8.1-RC1 ARM64 ☞ https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-8-1-rc1-arm64/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:09:24

• Cassidy James Blaede: I’ve Joined ROOST ☞ https://cassidyjames.com/blog/ive-joined-roost-oss-community-open-online-safety/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:10:16

• linuxsecurity seems to be deleting articles now. Finally, at long last?    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:10:37

• it basically became a slopfarm - a TERRIBLE strategy    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:10:53

• Ubuntu being divested in; yes, "di". Canonical too busy selling Microsoft back doors. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Unity-25.10-Troubles Unity dead, now GNOME with new limitations    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:12:05

• BleachBit 5.0.2 added Pacman and Disabled Snap Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/10/bleachbit-5-0-2-pacman-snap/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:12:51

• How to Upgrade RHEL 9 to RHEL 10 Step-by-Step Guide ☞ https://www.linuxtechi.com/upgrade-rhel-9-to-rhel-10-step-by-step-guide/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:13:16

• Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, UbuntuPIT, Brian Fagioli, and Surveillance Giant Google News ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/27/Slopwatch_LinuxSecurity_UbuntuPIT_Brian_Fagioli_and_Google_News.shtml    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:13:28

• Lenovo Legion devices running GNU/Linux set to get new 'Extreme' mode ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/lenovo-legion-devices-running-linux-set-to-get-new-extreme-mode-that-fixes-previously-broken-power-limits-only-approved-devices-will-be-able-to-run-the-maximum-performance-mode    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:13:58

• Linux 6.18-rc3 released and everything still looks normal ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-618-rc3-released-and-everything-still-looks-normal/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:14:23

• 16 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Serial Terminals ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-linux-serial-terminals/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:16:06

• lunas – syncing cli tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lunas-syncing-cli-tool/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:16:15

• 12 Best Free and Open Source Pixel Art Editors ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-pixel-art-editors/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:16:21

• BrosTrend 8 Port 2.5GB Switch Review ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/brostrend-8-port-2-5gb-switch-review/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:16:28

• Bibman – BIBliography MANager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bibman-bibliography-manager/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:16:40

• Qlustar – GNU/Linux distribution designed as an all-in-one cluster operating system ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/qlustar-linux-distribution/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:16:51

• lv – directory listing and counting tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lv-directory-listing-counting-tool/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:17:08

• OpenRazer 3.11 is out    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:17:30

• Colin Walters: Thoughts on agentic Hey Hi (AI) coding as of Oct 2025 ☞ https://blog.verbum.org/2025/10/27/thoughts-on-agentic-ai-coding-as-of-oct-2025/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:18:19

• Valgrind 3.26.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1043391/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:18:38

• npdfr – command-line PDF reader ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/npdfr-command-line-pdf-reader/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:19:25

• luha – simple file checksum tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/luha-simple-file-checksum-tool/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:19:32

• Why KDE GNU/Linux Chose to Bet on Immutability Instead of Native Packages ☞ https://linuxiac.com/why-kde-linux-chose-to-bet-on-immutability-instead-of-native-packages/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:20:01

• Ubuntu Unity Project Faces Uncertain Future ☞ https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-unity-project-faces-uncertain-future/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:20:19

• nEMU 3.4 Ncurses-Based QEMU Frontend Released with VM Preview Feature ☞ https://linuxiac.com/nemu-3-4-ncurses-based-qemu-frontend-released-with-vm-preview-feature/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:20:34

• Python Software Foundation Withdraws $1.5M U.S. Government Grant Over DEI Restrictions ☞ https://linuxiac.com/python-software-foundation-withdraws-1-5m-u-s-government-grant/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:20:46

• OpenRazer 3.11 Adds Support for 2025 Razer Laptops and New Peripherals ☞ https://linuxiac.com/openrazer-3-11-adds-support-for-2025-razer-laptops-and-new-peripherals/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:21:12

• Millions Suffer in Humanitarian Crisis as World Leaders Meet at Paris Summit on Conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): PHR ☞ https://phr.org/news/millions-suffer-in-humanitarian-crisis-as-world-leaders-meet-at-paris-summit-on-conflict-in-democratic-republic-of-congo-drc-phr/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:22:29

• U-M study: 1 in 5 young adults using marijuana, alcohol to fall asleep ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/u-m-study-1-in-5-young-adults-using-marijuana-alcohol-to-fall-asleep/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:23:14

• Which Is Better, One Long Walk or Many Short Ones? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/well/move/long-short-walks-health.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:24:13

• Going Down the Junk Food Rabbit Hole ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/insider/ultraprocessed-food-junk-history.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:24:34

• Diphtheria, a Once Vanquished Killer of Children, Is Resurgent ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/health/diptheria-somalia-vaccines.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:24:47

• Tabler 0.1.0 is here! ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/tabler-0-1-0-is-here/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:25:34

• Hydraulic Gear Pump Isn’t So Easy ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/27/building-a-hydraulic-gear-pump-isnt-so-easy/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:26:04

• 🎲 DicelyVerse – Your Ultimate Dice Companion for RPGs! ☞ http://renaudguezennec.eu/index.php/2025/10/27/dicelyverse-ultimate-dice-companion-rpgs/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:26:31

• Meanderer trike YouTube video PART4 ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202510/meanderer-trike-youtube-video-part4.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:26:50

• Looking for a Microsoft lobbyist in "Open" clothing ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/open-source-initiative-now-accepting-your-application-for-executive-director http://techrights.org/o/2020/09/27/osi-mostly-clearlydefined/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:27:51

• Hurricane Melissa threatens to unleash record destruction on Jamaica ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20251027-jamaica-hurricane-melissa    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:28:08

• Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1043499/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:28:30

• Floating Mini Panel Gains New Vertical Orientation Option ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/floating-mini-panel-vertical-mode    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:29:53

• Qubes OS 4.3.0-rc3 is available for testing ☞ https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2025/10/27/qubes-os-4-3-0-rc3-available-for-testing/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:30:26

• How to Install Vim on Ubuntu Without Using the Terminal ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-install-vim-on-ubuntu-without-using-the-terminal/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:31:03

• How To Install Brave Browser on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-brave-browser-fedora-42/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:31:39

• How To Install Nessus Scanner on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-nessus-scanner-debian-13/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:31:57

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

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:32:10

• How To Install Gitea on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-gitea-centos-stream-10/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:32:26

• $20,000 Bounty Offered to Bribe FFmpeg Team to Fire Contributor ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/20000-bounty-offered-to-bribe-ffmpeg    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:33:39

• LibreItalia Conference 2025 in Gradisca d’Isonzo ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10/27/libreitalia-conference-2025/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:34:09

• Join the LibreOffice Team as a Paid Developer focusing on scripting support, preferably full-time, remote (m/f/d) ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10/27/join-the-libreoffice-team-as-a-paid-developer-focusing-on-scripting-support-preferably-full-time-remote-m-f-d/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:36:47

• TTABlog Test: Are T-Shirts and Hats Related to Toy Action Figures Under Section 2(d)? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/10/ttablog-test-are-t-shirts-and-hats.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:37:24

• Judge Mary Beth Myles Has Resigned from the TTAB ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/10/judge-mary-beth-myles-has-resigned-from.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:37:40

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Asks Supreme Court to Let Him Fire the Top Copyright Official ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/politics/trump-supreme-court-copyright-official.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:37:59

• Lithuanian airports shut three times over weekend due to smugglers’ balloons ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2727069/lithuanian-airports-shut-three-times-over-weekend-due-to-smugglers-balloons    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:38:13

• Lithuanian president's aide urges 'kinetic measures' to down balloons from Belarus ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2727098/lithuanian-president-s-aide-urges-kinetic-measures-to-down-balloons-from-belarus    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:38:26

• Lithuania closes border with Belarus over 'hybrid attack' ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2727131/lithuania-closes-border-with-belarus-over-hybrid-attack    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:38:39

• Lithuania accuses Belarus of 'hybrid attack' after contraband balloons shut airports ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251027-lithuania-balloon-incursion-hybrid-attack    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:53:33

• "Nothing but the anti-Kremlin hits Performing songs by blacklisted musicians made this Russian street band famous." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/27/nothing-but-the-anti-kremlin-hits | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:53:46

• "A perverse game with death" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/27/a-perverse-game-with-death | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:55:15

• "Not an appropriate thing" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/27/not-an-appropriate-thing | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:56:21

• Baltic companies secretly fuelling Russia’s shadow fleet ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2726119/baltic-companies-secretly-fuelling-russia-s-shadow-fleet    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:56:49

• Kaliningrad transit unaffected by Lithuania's border closure with Belarus – ministry ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2727347/kaliningrad-transit-unaffected-by-lithuania-s-border-closure-with-belarus-ministry    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:57:17

• 3 Takeaways From Vietnam’s Drift Toward Russia and Away From America ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/world/asia/3-takeaways-from-vietnams-drift-toward-russia-and-away-from-america.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:58:05

• Is the U.S. Losing in Vietnam? Russia, North Korea and China Are Gaining. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/world/asia/vietnam-russia-relations.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:58:49

• With Russian cyberattacks on the rise, NATO nations ready to play offense ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2025/1027/nato-cyber-warfare-russia-estonia    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 14:59:35

• Is the US losing in Vietnam? Russia, North Korea and China are gaining ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/is-the-us-losing-in-vietnam-russia-north-korea-and-china-are-gaining    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 15:00:18

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s place in history depends on his approach to the CRINK ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/inflection-points/trumps-place-in-history-depends-on-his-approach-to-the-crink/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 15:01:39

• Four accused of damaging Latvian infrastructure for Russian services ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/27.10.2025-four-accused-of-damaging-latvian-infrastructure-for-russian-services.a619950/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 15:02:41

• Russia Aims Drone Attacks at Civilians, a War Crime, U.N. Inquiry Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/world/europe/russia-drones-target-civilians.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 15:03:39

• UN Commission Accuses Russia Of New Crime Against Humanity In Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-war-united-nations-report-war-crimes-humanity/33572425.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 15:04:09

• "The Lithuanian–Belarusian balloon war" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/28/the-lithuanian-belarusian-balloon-war-putin-s-disappearing-cousin-and-domodedovo-s-fire-sale | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 15:17:42

• Putin Receives North Korea’s Top Diplomat As Zelenskyy Pushes Long-Range Missile Development ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-putin-choe-zelenskyy-north-korea/33572760.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 15:18:24

• Qubes 4.3.0-rc3 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/qubes    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 15:22:34

• Scientists Built a Working Computer Memory Out of Shiitake Mushrooms ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-built-a-working-computer-memory-out-of-shiitake-mushrooms    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 15:23:54

• Putin and North Korea’s foreign minister discuss strengthening ties, KCNA says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/putin-and-north-koreas-foreign-minister-discuss-strengthening-ties-kcna-says    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 15:24:14

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

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 15:25:49

• Late Night Linux – Episode 357 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-357/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 15:26:14

• Maintaining Kate Podcast (German) ☞ https://kate-editor.org/post/2025/2025-10-27-maintaining-kate-podcast-german/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 15:26:39

• Pluralistic: Shake Shack wants you to shit yourself to death (27 Oct 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/27/shit-shack/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 15:27:17

• The most versatile Linux distributions you can install right now - and I've tried them all https://analognowhere.com/_/auxcri/auxcri4.png    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 18:52:00

• Qilin Ransomware Combines Linux Payload With BYOVD Exploit in Hybrid Attack https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/qilin-ransomware-combines-linux-payload.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 18:53:15

• "Fixing the Extreme mode on Linux." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/lenovo-legion-devices-running-linux-set-to-get-new-extreme-mode-that-fixes-previously-broken-power-limits-only-approved-devices-will-be-able-to-run-the-maximum-performance-mode    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 18:53:59

• I just found an obscure Linux distro that's outstanding on old hardware https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-just-found-an-obscure-linux-distro-thats-outstanding-on-old-hardware/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 18:54:44

• "Looking for a general, all-purpose Linux OS? These are user-friendly, secure, and suitable for both new and experienced users." https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-most-versatile-linux-distributions-you-can-install-right-now-and-ive-tried-them-all/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 18:55:15

• Never mind Linux – Windows 10's End of Life is driving up Apple Mac sales https://www.techradar.com/computing/macbooks/never-mind-linux-windows-10s-end-of-life-is-driving-up-apple-mac-sales    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 18:56:12

• Qilin Targets Windows Hosts With Linux-Based Ransomware https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/qilin-targets-windows-hosts-linux-based-ransomware    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 18:56:45

• Ready to ditch Windows? I found a powerful mini PC that's optimized for Linux https://www.zdnet.com/article/ready-to-ditch-windows-i-found-a-powerful-mini-pc-thats-optimized-for-linux/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 18:57:16

• Cross-platform ransomware: Qilin weaponizes Linux binaries against Windows hosts https://www.csoonline.com/article/4079316/cross-platform-ransomware-qilin-weaponizes-linux-binaries-against-windows-hosts.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 18:58:02

• Here’s How Linux Users Get That Cool Logo in Their Terminal https://www.howtogeek.com/heres-how-linux-users-get-that-cool-logo-in-their-terminal/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 18:58:35

• Linux variant of Qilin Ransomware targets Windows via remote management tools and BYOVD https://securityaffairs.com/183891/malware/linux-variant-of-qilin-ransomware-targets-windows-via-remote-management-tools-and-byovd.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 18:59:14

• Brotato gets first proper content drop of the Evil Empire era, plus Mac and Linux support https://rogueliker.com/brotato-new-dawn/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 18:59:54

• Lenovo Legion Go Extreme Mode Is Coming To Address The Gaming Handheld's Biggest Flaw In Linux https://hothardware.com/news/legion-extreme-mode-linux-kernel-patches    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:00:30

• "I’ve used Windows 10 for years, and with Microsoft pulling the plug on it, several machines like my 2015 HP EliteBook 850 G2 will be left behind. These systems aren’t bad, but simply don’t meet the strict hardware requirements." https://www.makeuseof.com/forget-linux-mint-windows-alternative/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:01:05

• The only antivirus I trust on Linux - and it's free to use https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-only-antivirus-i-trust-on-linux-and-its-free-to-use/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:01:31

• "It’s a good read, and I hope the author and/or T3 doesn’t take offense to what I’m going to say." https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/10-years-of-google-chromebooks-bring-increased-capabilities/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:02:27

• Celebrating stupidity as a "win" https://thenewstack.io/ubuntu-25-10-scraps-x11-for-wayland-a-solid-step-forward/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:03:46

• "I get the feeling that Mozilla Firefox is generally resource-consuming. Use of the Rust language, which is known to lead to larger binaries than c source code, is a likely cause. [...] An exhibition in which examples of the clever new uses for old devices would be interesting." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-10/msg00005.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:13:00

• Anon: "The LibrePlanet list moderators still tend to sit on messages for days or weeks List moderation has been a solved problem since the early 1990s, so I am curious as to what is actually going on there."    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:21:22

• "We've been meaning to make a website/blog for the system, but we had a hard time getting around to do it (probably having ADHD, not being able to handle scope creep and all...)." gemini://mbox-sys.net/en/gemlog/2025-10-27_hello-world.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:28:29

• "Despite not knowing how to pixel art at all and having stopped playing Rivals of Aether 1, I kept thinking of how an amphimorpho character would work. We probably won't actually make a mod of it, but feel free to use my idea if you want!" gemini://mbox-sys.net/en/gemlog/2025-10-27-2_rivals-of-aether-amphimorpho-concept.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:29:17

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-10-28.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:29:50

• 🔤SpellBinding — HOPWTUR Wordo: WORTH gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-10-28.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:30:23

• Talviuoma gemini://sampsa.smol.pub/talvi    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:30:54

• 🖼️ xkcd: Document Forgery #3160 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3160.gmi    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:32:11

• Russian Drone Kills Two Ukrainian Journalists https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-23/two-ukrainian-journalists-killed-by-russian-drone    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:35:28

• Russian drone attack kills 2 Ukrainian journalists https://cpj.org/2025/10/russian-drone-attack-kills-2-ukrainian-journalists/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:37:13

• Azerbaijan Moves Russian State Journalist to House Arrest From Jail After Freeing His Colleague https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-24/azerbaijan-moves-russian-state-journalist-to-house-arrest-from-jail-after-freeing-his-colleague    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:37:57

• Ukraine Mourns Two Journalists Killed by a Russian Drone Strike https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-27/ukraine-mourns-two-journalists-after-a-deadly-russian-drone-strike-claimed-their-lives    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:40:52

• TikTok user who pledged to behead https://nltimes.nl/2025/10/22/tiktok-user-pledged-behead-dutch-politicians-held-police-hague    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:48:36

• EU Accuses Meta and TikTok of Breaching Transparency Rules https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-10-24/eu-accuses-meta-and-tiktok-of-breaching-transparency-rules    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:49:04

• Politics bubbles created by TikTok's algorithm primarily benefit the PVV https://nltimes.nl/2025/10/24/politics-bubbles-created-tiktoks-algorithm-primarily-benefit-pvv    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:49:46

• Shielding Chart https://xkcd.com/3158/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:50:27

• Continents https://xkcd.com/3159/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:50:33

• SFP#40: How to tackle Openwashing? https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-40.en.html "Openwashing" coined by Techrights, now the fake FSFE uses the term    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:51:47

• 2025 Youth Hacking 4 https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251025-01.en.html Underage labour    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:52:01

• Distribution Release: Vinari OS 5.0.0 https://vinarios.me/changelog/KRYPTON    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:53:59

• Distribution Release: Planeta Tecno OS 7 https://planetatecno.com.uy/planeta/2025/10/24/planeta-tecno-os-7-amatista-nueva-version-mejorada-de-la-distro-linux-lista-para-usar/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:54:27

• MX-25 “Infinity” Release Candidate 1 (RC1) now available for testing purposes https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-25-infinity-release-candidate-1-RC1-now-available-for-testing-purposes/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:55:44

• "This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 7.8. For a comprehensive list, see the changelog leading to 7.8." https://www.openbsd.org/78.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 19:59:14

• Lizzo Sued for Copyright Infringement: Why is Sydney Sweeney Involved in the Lawsuit? https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/lizzo-sued-copyright-infringement-why-sydney-sweeney-involved-lawsuit-1749625    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:05:38

• 10 Things I Wish I Knew About Linux (All Things Open 2025) https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=TsJbYqvbsHc    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:12:44

• I Installed LMDE 7 on my Main Machine! https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=mr0ax54Yi2M    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:12:59

• GZDoom Explodes, Team Leaves For A Fork https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=J3AYSUqLHMs    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:13:14

• Fsearch Is An Amazing File Searcher For Linux https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=x68o5o1l1Ms    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:13:26

• KDE Plasma Needs Your Help! https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=lf0ixMctoU4    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:13:49

• My Linux Desktop Just Got Scary! 👻 (Hyprland Halloween Setup on Arch With Dot Files) https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=TOTZedtb_d8    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:14:23

• Zorin OS 18 Core overview https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=UsT7hu6MYig    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:14:41

• Learning The Linux File System 2025 https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=p9lCbFq8IPo    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:14:53

• How to install ClassiCube on Kubuntu 24.04 https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=0W-1VR3GTxQ    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:15:04

• Full Linux apps on Android, Plasma 6.5, Zorin OS does big numbers https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=Lxa86z9vtw4    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:15:38

• Fedora 43 Delayed? When A Fedora Release Breaks https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=klIIZIBtmMk    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:15:54

• COSMIC Desktop Is Technically Correct But Feels Wrong   

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:16:07

• Wayland Desktop 5 Years Too Early To Be Awesome https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=Lq038WVLQGc    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:16:28

• My 84 Year Old Mom Uses Linux!...Why Can't YOU? https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=hAAbOYf_wsA    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:16:42

• Ubuntu 25.10 Setup — From Download to Desktop https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=_chjY4Ipsqw    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:16:53

• THEY TAKE MICROSOFT BRIBES, then write " (e.g., please don’t send something in a proprietary word-processor format; PDF is fine, though)." https://opensource.org/blog/open-source-initiative-now-accepting-your-application-for-executive-director Microsoft bribes are FINE, but...    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:19:25

• Kaufman County Faces Cybersecurity Attack: Courthouse Computer Operations Disrupted https://www.inforney.com/local-news/kaufman-county-faces-cybersecurity-attack-courthouse-computer-operations-disrupted/article_e9350250-dd15-47ba-81ef-14aba96ebd52.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:23:04

• KT Chief to Resign After Cybersecurity Breach Resolution https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2025/10/21/2V74EFM7LVAXHKJFRAZWOUXIQI/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:23:46

• Cyber-Attack On Bectu’s Parent Union Sparks UK National Security Concerns https://uk.news.yahoo.com/cyber-attack-bectu-parent-union-102921559.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:24:31

• Resource: NY DFS Issues New Cybersecurity Guidance to Address Risks Associated with the Use of Third-Party Service Providers https://www.dfs.ny.gov/reports_and_publications/press_releases/pr20251021    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:25:18

• Cheeto Mussolini's Shutdown Pay Plan Prioritizes Security Personnel Over Civilian Workers https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-10-23/analysis-trumps-shutdown-pay-plan-prioritizes-security-personnel-over-civilian-workers    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:26:36

• Windows TCO https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/10/24/microsoft-releases-out-band-security-update-mitigate-windows-server-update-service-vulnerability-cve    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:27:31

• Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (43/2025): Plasma 6.5 and more https://linmob.net/weekly-update-43-2025/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:28:10

• More distraction from Rust breaking Ubuntu and a shitfest of the new spy in the house (breaking Ubuntu)? https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/26/0141222/finally-you-can-now-be-a-certified-ubuntu-sys-adminlinux-user    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:30:48

• Linux Load Average Explained: What It Means and How to Utilize It https://www.maketecheasier.com/linux-load-average-explained/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:31:25

• IBM layoffs going on. "Any new rumors circulating about this Thursday?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6b7d7xw    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:32:29

• "well you’ve lost out quite over the past two years…" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k86vt8ew    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:35:04

• "IBM's RTP Main Campus site used to have multiple outsourcing Data Centers in multiple buildings. If the Main Campus is now closed, what has happened to these centers?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8fccj45    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:35:30

• IBM is "dead beef". It is being robbed, for the old, dying brand.    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:35:44

• "Only 30K jobs to be lost at Amazon ? IBM Management under Comrade Alvind can easily beat that number by firing at least another 100K US employees, starting from the bottom of course. Then 100K jobs will magically appear in India in different job families, with different job titles and modified job descriptions. It's divide and hide, of course." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8kzxz6m    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:36:25

• Dancer2 2.0.1 Released https://blogs.perl.org/users/jason_a_crome/2025/10/dancer2-201-released.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:43:57

• Beware of Geeks bearing Grifts https://blogs.perl.org/users/saif/2025/10/beware-of-geeks-bearing-grifts.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:44:08

• Brussels Court of Appeal finds Dr Martens’ yellow stitching distinctive http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/brussels-court-of-appeal-finds-dr.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:46:47

• HEY HI bubble swells http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/as-ai-bubble-swells-spotifys-artist.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:48:22

• "Intellectual Property" is a collective misnomer http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/book-review-decolonizing-intellectual.html    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:49:02

• overdependence https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tech-companies-oligopolies-market-control-9.6948559    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:49:33

• Amazon ordered to pay $20K after B.C. customer says package never arrived https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/amazon-fine-delivery-9.6949078    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:52:24

• The Good and Bad of Amazon’s ‘Dark Patterns’ Settlement https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/22/the-good-and-bad-of-amazons-dark-patterns-settlement/    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:52:57

• The new species of flesh-eating dinosaur that once roamed south Wales: an imaging technology revolution https://theconversation.com/the-new-species-of-flesh-eating-dinosaur-that-once-roamed-south-wales-an-imaging-technology-revolution-266849    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:55:43

• Why does putting back the clocks an hour disrupt us so much? https://theconversation.com/why-does-putting-back-the-clocks-an-hour-disrupt-us-so-much-268016    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:56:16

• Should you pour coffee down the drain? An environmental scientist explains https://theconversation.com/should-you-pour-coffee-down-the-drain-an-environmental-scientist-explains-268236    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:56:37

• internal lunar clock https://theconversation.com/humans-have-an-internal-lunar-clock-but-light-pollution-is-disrupting-it-266717    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:57:09

• SLOP chatbots fail at accurate news, major study reveals https://www.dw.com/en/ai-chatbots-fail-at-accurate-news-major-study-reveals/a-74392921    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 20:57:56

• Seven things Halloween and Hollywood get wrong about bats https://theconversation.com/seven-things-halloween-and-hollywood-get-wrong-about-bats-267341    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 21:55:39

• anatomical names https://theconversation.com/how-anatomical-names-can-carry-hidden-histories-of-power-and-exclusion-267880    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 21:56:01

• Fossil hand from human relative puzzles scientists with mix of human- and gorilla-like features https://theconversation.com/fossil-hand-from-human-relative-puzzles-scientists-with-mix-of-human-and-gorilla-like-features-267871    

posted Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 21:56:23

• "Despite mass layoffs and a previous pay cut, Microsoft's CEO is taking home nearly $100 million this year"    

posted Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 00:35:07

• "Paramount to cut 1,000 jobs following Skydance merger"    

posted Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 00:35:54