Roy Schestowitz

• "The answer is easy IBM executive egos are fragile and the board allows the IBM exec’s to focus internally vs externally. Always have, and most likely without an external CEO always will." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k988h0d3    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 02:53:24

• IBM "Ottawa 50% gutted. There were only about 450 at Riverside, now 196 fewer remaining." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k95fj0qj    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 02:54:24

• "Which groups in Austin were impacted? Marketing? Sales?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9a7mjpy    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 02:55:16

• "Ummm ... HALF of Infrastructure!!?? That's hard to believe, but if so .... Wowzer!!! Not True - its 5% overall with Infrastructure at 10% ... Maybe half in the US?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9aqthbt    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 02:56:10

• "I answered the employee survey honestly. IBM su-ks, doesn't listen to its employees, and treats people like garbage all while pushing team, family, unity, and doing more with less bullsh-t." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k97mg4b3 "Will surveys of those let go even be counted?"    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 02:56:48

• "On what basis are they firing Band 10s? Sales quota? Utilization? Any info?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k991zmnk    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 02:57:17

• "How long will the layoffs last? I heard it could go on for at least ten more days. No other details, though. And there are so many rumors flying around, it’s hard to tell which ones make any sense." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9awa7bm    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 02:57:56

• ""The beatings will continue until morale improves." :-/ "Managers have until Nov 14th w/ last exit on Dec 15th" "Layoffs will last until the only non-AI beings at IBM are butt-ugly AK and that co-k su-ka RT." "Nobody needs copiers"    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 02:58:37

• "Next, IBM will announce, it is selling infrastructure to some company in India. This will complete the transition of IBM from International to Indian ...." "the first entry is not relevant. others are good." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9b9nhtz    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 02:59:33

• "Oh yeah. Yesterday I got RAed from a software product that had 9% growth last quarter and 11% YoY. Almost 30% of the employees got cut as well. Focus on higher growth software services?? Job roles replaced by AI??? Why the press does not question these obvious and gigantic lies?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k98dpydf    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:00:38

• "Watson would be rolling in his grave right now. Way to go, IBM. You blew it. Once a great American company and now… a joke. [...] No way. Even Watson is using Siri and Alexa." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k98dpydf    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:01:01

• "This sounds like discrimination to me? Out with the old in with the new? https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/ibm-s-ceo-admits-gen-z-s-hiring-nightmare-is-real-but-after-promising-to-hire-more-grads-he-s-laying-off-thousands-of-workers/ar-AA1PRWW6?ocid=BingNewsSerp " https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9be79ck    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:01:40

• "IBM Ottawa - Ottawa 50% gutted. There were only about 450 at Riverside, now 196 fewer remaining." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9b4k29e    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:02:02

• "When I worked at IBM I always hated the Ottawa office."    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:02:25

• In 2008 Cognos analytics had around 2000 employees in Ottawa and about 1.5 billion in revenue, Today, although it still makes around 400 million, it has less than 20 employees in Ottawa (and ~100 in India, most of them with less than 6 months in the company ), I hope the remaining Cognos customers understand the risk of having a mission critical product supported by almost nobody, no engineering expertise remaining, and no investment. Mission accomplished Sripriya Srinivasan!    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:02:38

• "In 2008 Cognos analytics had around 2000 employees in Ottawa and about 1.5 billion in revenue, Today, although it still makes around 400 million,"    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:03:02

• "it has less than 20 employees in Ottawa (and ~100 in India, most of them with less than 6 months in the company ), I hope the remaining Cognos customers understand the risk of having a mission critical product supported by almost nobody, no engineering expertise remaining, and no investment. Mission accomplished Sripriya Srinivasan! [...] because Cognos analytics management and designers were stupid a--holes"    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:03:06

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-11-06.gmi    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:06:10

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1466.jpg    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:07:14

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1816.jpg    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:07:23

• My (current) reasons against AI gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2025/2025-11/2025-11-05--my-current-reasons-against-ai.txt    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:08:43

• Retrieving pixels from Android phones with Pixnapping https://lwn.net/Articles/1042715/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:38:01

• Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation https://lwn.net/Articles/1042938/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:38:36

• GoFundMe to delete unwanted open-source foundation pages https://lwn.net/Articles/1043075/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:40:42

• Safer speculation-free user-space access https://lwn.net/Articles/1042711/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:41:17

• BPF signing LSM hook change rejected https://lwn.net/Articles/1042625/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:42:14

• Street Musicians Who Played Anti-Kremlin Songs Get More Jail Time https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-29/young-russian-street-musicians-who-played-anti-kremlin-songs-get-more-jail-time    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:47:13

• Exiled Russian founders build new startups across Europe https://www.dw.com/en/exiled-russian-founders-build-new-startups-across-europe/a-74551629    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:48:12

• "Stallman is insanely insufferable, but all of those politics have given OSS devs some say in how their software gets used" https://x.com/nomad421/status/1986090259168522333    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 03:50:31

• "Oh yeah. Yesterday I got RAed from a software product that had 9% growth last quarter and 11% YoY. Almost 30% of the employees got cut as well. Focus on higher growth software services?? Job roles replaced by AI??? Why the press does not question these obvious and gigantic lies?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k98dpydf    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 04:38:47

• "You're welcome, now do the needful and join the rest of the Dinobabies with the December 4 exit!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9b689t6    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 04:39:19

• control of the internet https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-internet-restrictions-9.6960036    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 04:39:52

• Anon: "RMS has been making great presentations lately on tour around the world. He has refined his message considerably."    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 04:42:58

• Ukrainian Conti Ransomware Suspect Extradited to US from Ireland https://hackread.com/ukraine-conti-ransomware-extradite-us-ireland/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 04:43:34

• TikToker. So if you are not a TikToker, you don't count?? https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/stranded-tiktoker-jamaica-complains-about-food-hurricane-melissa-turns-deadly-who-jourdain-1751056    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 04:44:25

• Fake Shark Sighting in Jamaica ttps://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hurricane-melissa-viral-tiktok-video-fuels-fake-shark-sighting-jamaica-1750793    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 04:44:46

• Now the Cheeto circle will control the propaganda https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-10-29/white-house-says-deal-to-put-tiktok-under-us-ownership-could-be-finalized-in-south-korea    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 04:45:25

• Document Forgery https://xkcd.com/3160/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 04:45:40

• Heart Mountain ttps://xkcd.com/3162/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 04:45:51

• Repair Video https://xkcd.com/3163/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 04:46:01

• Join the Free Software conversation at SFSCON 2025! https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251029-01.en.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 04:46:19

• iophk: I cannot figure out the cognitive dissonance that allows the "Left" to support Iran's Hamas or islam in general. There's a psychological phenomenon which prevents people from thinking that both sides can be wrong. Iran's Hamas is wrong. The state of Israel is wrong.    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 04:56:47

• iophk: "Both are wrong. Yet, nearly 100% of the populace take to heart boosting one because the oppose the other. That is so wrong."    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 04:57:02

• It sounds like EPO workers have more stories and pointers. We're all ears. Many scandals.    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 05:33:47

• "Famed mathematician, cryptographer and coder Daniel J. Bernstein has tried out the new type-safe C/C++ compiler, and he's given it a favorable report." https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/05/djb_tries_filc_and_approves/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 06:37:43

• ARC Raiders has seriously exciting gameplay that has firmly hooked me in | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/arc-raiders-has-seriously-exciting-gameplay-that-has-firmly-hooked-me-in/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 06:38:41

• Sonic Rumble has arrived on Steam and works on Linux / Steam Deck | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/sonic-rumble-has-arrived-on-steam-and-works-on-linux-steam-deck/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/sonic-rumble-has-arrived-on-steam-and-works-on-linux-steam-deck/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 06:39:04

• Humble Choice for November 2025 has Total War: WARHAMMER III | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/humble-choice-for-november-2025-has-total-war-warhammer-iii/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 06:46:54

• "IBM's layoffs aren't about a struggling business, they're about a profitable company discovering it needs fewer workers to generate the same revenue" Quotes the article. Well articulated Dan Sheehan, MBA, MS    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 06:50:35

• "IBM presently has 2,840 job openings in India, 376 in the US, 228 in Japan, 225 in the Philippines, 127 in the UK, 112 in Canada, and 96 in Mexico." https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/ibm_cutting_several_thousand_jobs/ Job advertised does not mean job available.    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 06:54:19

• Sonic fan game Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers gets a big upgrade | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/sonic-fan-game-dr-robotniks-ring-racers-gets-a-big-upgrade/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 06:54:41

• Scribbly, open-world action adventure Scrabdackle arrives December 2 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/scribbly-open-world-action-adventure-scrabdackle-arrives-december-2/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:42:38

• litigation is expensive https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/10/22/cost-of-censorship/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:43:13

• The Crew Motorfest is Steam Deck Verified with the Season 8 update out now | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-crew-motorfest-is-steam-deck-verified-with-the-season-8-update-out-now/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:43:42

• Terminator 2D: NO FATE delayed yet again into December | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/terminator-2d-no-fate-delayed-yet-again-into-december/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/terminator-2d-no-fate-delayed-yet-again-into-december/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:44:53

• "Rant: is being RIGHT more important than being in business?" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/rant-is-being-right-more-important-than:9    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:45:46

• "Politics and AI data centers" https://soylentnews.org/~liar/journal/19950    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:45:54

• "The Big Smirk - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-big-smirk    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:46:03

• "The Cruelty Is the Point" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:46:11

• "How Biden’s Justice Department Failed to Investigate Trump’s First Term Crimes | Truthout" https://truthout.org/video/how-bidens-justice-department-failed-to-investigate-trumps-first-term-crimes/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:46:20

• library case https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://bibliotekettarsaka.com/2025/11/05/biblioteket-og-redningsplankane/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:46:31

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:46:41

• "In his first term, Donald Trump called journalists the enemy. This time around, he’s treating us like one" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/05/trump-journalists-enemy    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:46:51

• "Norway to allocate $7 billion in aid to Ukraine in 2026" https://kyivindependent.com/norway-to-allocate-7-billion-in-aid-to-ukraine-in-2026/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:47:00

• "Trump's 'Might Makes Right' Politics Are Bringing Out America's Worst" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-might-makes-right-america-worst-1235459574/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:47:11

• "Keeper of Forbidden Knowledge - David Revoy" https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1099/keeper-of-forbidden-knowledge    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:48:00

• "We're on the Unfuck Stage of Trump's Abuse of Power" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/05/were-on-the-unfuck-stage-of-trumps-abuse-of-power/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:48:09

• "Trump’s Mamdani Math and the Mikie Sherrill Alternative" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/trumps-mamdani-math-and-the-mikie    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:48:20

• "An absolute drubbing" https://birchtree.me/blog/an-absolute-drubbing/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:48:32

• "In the two months before Trump’s decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-spraying and tackling protesters." https://www.propublica.org/article/portland-protests-national-guard-trump    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:48:47

• "'100 Liters of Gold' Review: Comedic Ode to Finland's Ancient Homebrew" https://variety.com/2025/film/reviews/100-liters-of-gold-review-100-litraa-sahtia-1236570085/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:48:56

• Provocation of crime or provocation of evidence? https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/11/05/brottsprovokation-eller-bevisprovokation/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:49:19

• Environmental Regulations ☛ https://therevelator.org/why-we-need-environmental-regulations/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 07:50:09

• "Common Crawl maintains that it is doing nothing wrong. I spoke with Skrenta twice while reporting this story." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/common-crawl-ai-training-data/684567/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:22:07

• "In early 2023, stock photo provider Getty Images Holdings Inc. sued Stability AI for copyright infringement." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/04/uk-court-mostly-sides-stability-ai-ai-copyright-lawsuit/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:22:22

• "Popular shadow library Anna's Archive has become a top target for copyright holders." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/google-removed-749-million-annas-archive-urls-from-its-search-results/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:22:45

• "Koda just recently submitted the action to the Copenhagen City Court and promptly requested a high-court referral in light of the “fundamental” issues at hand." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/04/koda-suno-lawsuit/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:24:09

• "The group, which represents around 51,000 composers, authors and publishers, said it had evidence of the use of songs from famous Danish acts like Aqua and MØ among others." ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20251104/danish-music-rights-group-sues-ai-music-platform-suno | Source: The Local DK    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:24:21

• "Michael Jackson remains the “highest paid” dead celebrity, with his estate having earned a whopping $3.5 billion since his death in 2009." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/04/michael-jackson-is-the-highest-paid-dead-celebrity/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:24:36

• How to spin Red Hat layoffs https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article312796900.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:26:48

• IBM to cut thousands of jobs as Red Hat growth slows https://www.computerworld.com/article/4084865/ibm-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs-as-red-hat-growth-slows-2.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:28:24

• "The Ellisons have since set their sights on Warner Brothers, CNN, and HBO. It won’t be cheap; it’s estimated that Larry and company will have to pay upwards of $60 billion for the acquisition." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/05/comcast-netflix-and-cbs-will-all-now-kiss-trumps-ass-to-try-and-acquire-warner-brothers-and-cnn/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:41:52

• "The university apologized for its actions, but only after Murphy began legal action against it for violating her academic freedom." ☛ https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/11/04/chinese-government-threatens-academic-freedom-in-the-uk | Source: HRW    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:42:06

• "Tanzanians are now able to share videos and information following the restoration of internet access." ☛ https://zambianobserver.com/internet-restored-in-tanzania-after-election-protests/ | Source: The Zambian Observer    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:42:21

• "More than twelve billion dollars gone in just three months. The staggering losses reported by OpenAI in the third quarter are unprecedented" ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/openais-abyssal-losses | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:42:52

• "The ReConnecting Rural America Act of 2025 will codify and clarify components of the ReConnect Program and, in so doing, reduce red tape and speed broadband deployment. The bill will: [...]" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/bill-to-reauthorize-usdas-reconnect-reintroduced/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:43:03

• "he knew when to be online" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/814065/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-race-victory-online | Source: The Verge    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:55:49

• "Nokia has announced an expansion of its partnership with SoftBank Corp. through a new deal to supply advanced 4G and 5G radio access equipment in Japan." ☛ https://itwire.com/business-it-news/business-technology/nokia-extends-softbank-corp-partnership-with-network-modernization-deal-in-japan.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:56:00

• "The F5 incident was not another routine software breach. Security researchers and federal officials have called it a nation-state–level compromise that could have a cascading impact." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/us-cyber-readiness-crisis-f5-breach-cisa-job-cuts-shutdown-op-ed/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:56:18

• "OpenAI said on Monday that it had agreed to purchase $38 billion in cloud computing services from Amazon over the next seven years." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/technology/openai-amazon-cloud-computing.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:56:27

• "Lawsuits have been dropped, settlements have been renegotiated in favor of companies and a proposed consumer-friendly crypto regulation was killed outright." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-marc-andreessen-silicon-valley | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:56:41

• "With the impending departure of longtime, renowned, and beloved Executive Director Cindy Cohn, EFF and leadership advisory firm Russell Reynolds Associates have developed a profile for her successor." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/what-eff-needs-new-executive-director | Source: EFF    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:56:57

• "Look at what they’ve been building, what they’ve been selling, what they’ve been trying to make you believe." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-simulation-is-collapsing | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:57:05

• "That is where the Partnership for Transatlantic Energy Cooperation (P-TEC), taking place in Athens today and tomorrow, has proven its unique value." ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/europes-energy-operating-system-p-tec-as-the-north-star-in-a-european-maze/ | Source: Atlantic Council    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 08:57:19

• "The consulting firm's projections considered a sharp growth in the number of data centres, with a combined electricity demand of 2,500 megawatts (MW)" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20192344 | Source: YLE    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 09:30:53

• "Some tech companies have spent so much on AI recently that they have been forced to look for new sources of funding." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/data-center-ai-boom-us-economy-jobs/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 09:31:01

• IBM's "Whole Design Team ... Working on an AI focused project in Software and my entire design team got RAed." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9c7e42g    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 09:49:59

• "I’m not aware in my 35-year history in the aviation market where we’ve had a situation where we’re taking these kinds of measures" ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/11/faa-reducing-air-traffic-by-10-across-40-high-volume-markets/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 09:50:15

• "racing toward climate breakdown with its foot on the accelerator" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/new-report-warns-fossil-fuel-expansion-is-accelerating-far-beyond-global-limits/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:01:47

• "The way their case was handled contrasts starkly with that of three other JSO activists who took part in the same demonstration on London’s orbital motorway." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/05/just-stop-oil-protesters-convicted-after-being-denied-right-to-state-climate-facts | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:02:11

• "If you like to stack rocks to make little (or big) piles on your hikes, you might want to rethink this practice." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/11/05/please-stop-stacking-rocks-when-youre-out-hiking.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:02:21

• "looming threat to rock-dwelling biodiversity." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/british-cairn-kicker-1.7613028 | Source: CBC    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:02:51

• "In the sickly river, fish ran out of oxygen. Too much water, an expert panel found, over too many years, was diverted for agricultural profit. The Barka became too weak to nourish life." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2025/11/05/death-and-capitalism-part-4-of-4/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:03:15

• "climate justice" ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/pursuits-of-justice-rise-with-temperatures-climate-lawsuits-are-redefining-rights-313243 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:03:41

• "community radio stations" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2025/1105/As-jihadis-advance-in-Mali-community-radio-stations-broadcast-hope | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:05:08

• "The initiative has been promoted by Russian Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Vasily Shpak as an explicitly civilian project, aiming, as he says, to help build a new sector of the economy based on unmanned aerial vehicles." ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/global/europe/2025/11/03/russia-starts-grading-its-provinces-on-drone-production-training/ | Source: C4ISRNET    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:05:23

• "Elon Musk Wants to Be a Trillionaire. That Doesn’t Bode Well for Humanity" ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/elon-musk-wants-to-be-a-trillionaire-that-doesnt-bode-well-for-humanity/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:05:37

• "The reform is a response to a surge in deadly gang [sic] violence. Police say criminal networks increasingly recruit children to carry out shootings and deliver weapons, as minors under 15 cannot be prosecuted." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-to-jail-13-year-olds-will-others-in-the-eu-follow/a-74599789 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:06:02

• "AI chips" = GPUs ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/china-bans-foreign-ai-chips-from-state-funded-data-centers | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:06:54

• "But the most recent are telling for his legacy: [...]" ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/04/dick-cheney-gone-but-not-forgotten/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:07:55

• "Helped Kill Our Faith in Leaders" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/cheney-architect-of-endless-war-helped-kill-our-faith-in-leaders/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:08:07

• "only those who pay survive" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/11/05/miracle-survivors-reveal-sudan-hidden-genocide/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:10:09

• "The carrier completed its transit of the Strait of Gibraltar on Tuesday, a move that was made in support of the U.S. military’s increasing footprint in the region." ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2025/11/04/uss-gerald-r-ford-heads-to-caribbean-to-support-anti-narcotics-effort/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:10:15

• "Palantir has formed a new company with Dubai Holding, a conglomerate controlled by Dubai’s ruling family, to deploy AI software across government and the private sector." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/11/05/2025/palantir-dubai-create-ai-venture-to-spur-digital-transformation | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:11:43

• "The latest case in point: one owner of the $300 iLife A11 smart vacuum realized that the device wasn’t just cleaning his home" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/05/whoops-your-smart-vacuum-may-be-broadcasting-a-3d-map-of-your-home/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:12:30

• "By voting in favour of the Europol Regulation, Members of the LIBE Committee have greenlighted the European Commission’s long-term plan to turn Europe into a digital police state." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/european-parliament-backs-europol-expansion-a-dangerous-step-towards-mass-surveillance-in-the-eu/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:12:47

• Windows TCO ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/cloudflare-scrubs-aisuru-botnet-from-top-domains-list/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:17:36

• "Here, on my own site, I’ve also always wanted to display the feedback I get." ☛ https://medienbaecker.com/articles/mastodon-replies | Source: Thomas Günther    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:18:09

• [Old] "Given all this, I'm imposing my own reverse ban, effective immediately." ☛ https://antonz.org/self-promo/ | Source: Anton Zhiyanov    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:18:21

• "AI video hasn’t actually improved over the past year. You can’t direct the AI video generator — you just press the button and hope it spits out a good clip this time." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/04/its-the-fake-thing-coca-cola-tries-another-ai-christmas-tv-ad/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:24:02

• "Over its nine-minute runtime, the video omits one crucial detail: with only two exceptions, none of the tasks shown are performed autonomously." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/the-illusions-of-neo | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:24:19

• "This article examines two potential costs of the abliteration process for Large Language Models: performance penalties and output quality degradation." ☛ https://kirill.korins.ky/articles/the-cost-of-abliteration-in-large-language-models/ | Source: Kirill A Korinsky    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:24:47

• "First, the number of articles published each year has risen for decades." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/04/manuscript-submissions-are-up-thats-good-right/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:25:17

• "write to protest and reject the deeply misguided and wrongheaded approach to public consultation demonstrated by the government’s thirty-day “national sprint” on Canada’s artificial intelligence (“AI”) strategy." ☛ https://bccla.org/policy-submission/open-letter-to-the-minister-of-artificial-intelligence-and-digital-innovation-from-civil-society-organizations-and-individuals-opposing-national-sprint-consultation-on-ai-strategy/ |    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:25:42

• "write to protest and reject the deeply misguided and wrongheaded approach to public consultation demonstrated by the government’s thirty-day “national sprint”" ☛ https://bccla.org/policy-submission/open-letter-to-the-minister-of-artificial-intelligence-and-digital-innovation-from-civil-society-organizations-and-individuals-opposing-national-sprint-consultation-on-ai-strategy/ |    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:25:54

• "Omnilert is back in the news, and it’s brought a cops along for the ride." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/05/student-gets-handcuffed-searched-at-gunpoint-because-ai-thought-a-bag-of-chips-was-a-handgun/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:26:18

• "Cycling gets special attention too. The August 2025 update added dedicated cycling and mountain bike route overlays showing popular paths worldwide." ☛ https://greycoder.com/magic-earth-vs-organic-maps-comparing-two-privacy-focused-navigation-apps/ | Source: GreyCoder    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:26:35

• "If you don't have your BitLocker recovery key backed up, you will lose all your files if you run into this issue." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2963041/bitlocker-recovery-bug-in-recent-windows-updates-could-brick-your-pc.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:26:44

• "One of Advanced Installer's popular features is its update tool, which empowers software programs to automatically check for and install updates as they become available." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/risk-solarwinds-popular-software-tool-update | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:26:53

• "The West Europe region is in the Netherlands." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/05/azure_thermal_event_west_europe/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:27:08

• "By contrast, in the 15 years since its passage, healthcare costs have increased by just 1.4 percentage points of GDP." ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/05/why-is-health-care-expensive/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:27:53

• "Conversations powered by popular large language models can veer into problematic and ethically murky territory, two new studies show." ☛ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/teens-crisis-ai-chatbots-risks-mental | Source: Science News    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:28:10

• "That analogy wasn’t quite as tortured as I thought it’d be, but not my finest work!" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/i-did-a-thing/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:29:04

• "The Web should always be capitalized. So should the Internet. Both are proper nouns. That they have been commonized by the AP and the Chicago Manual of Style does not mean that doing so was the right move." ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2025/11/05/workings/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:29:18

• "The highlight was a lowlife spambot attack that I could counter only by putting the site behind CloudFlare, and don't get me wrong, I'm glad I could do that, but I wish I hadn't had to." ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/monthly-report-2025-10 | Source: Jeremy Cherfas    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:29:33

• "It’s the same with every technical topic. SEO-stuffed filler drowning the one thing that actually matters — the answer." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/blog/stop-explaining-what-things-are/ | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:35:19

• "I had made a declaration about restarting theme development and I’m pretty happy to have finished it before my self imposed deadline." ☛ https://mandarismoore.com/2025/11/04/theme-changes-for-november-th/ | Source: Mandaris Moore    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:35:36

• "I’m trying a bit of an experiment, making a ‘mini blog’ section of my website, using it separately from my normal posts." ☛ https://nate.mecca1.net/miniblog/miniblog_about/ | Source: Nate    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:35:52

• Sitios desagradables gemini://blg.hmd-tld.xyz/post/sitios-desagradables.gmi    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:38:19

• 🔤SpellBinding — BCEHIRU Wordo: MINDS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-11-06.gmi    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:38:59

• Grinn GenioBoard Offers MediaTek Genio 700 SoM, Dual M.2 Expansion, and CRA-Ready Security ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/grinn-genioboard-offers-mediatek-genio-700-som-dual-m-2-expansion-and-cra-ready-security/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:42:53

• Slimbook Titan report 7 - Nope, I'm not happy (again) ☞ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/slimbook-titan-report-7.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:43:17

• Xray_OS – Arch-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/xray_os-arch-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:44:10

• rirc – terminal-based IRC client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rirc-terminal-based-irc-client/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:44:35

• Citations – manage your bibliography ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/citations-manage-bibliography/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:44:42

• pavucontrol – audio mixer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pavucontrol-audio-mixer/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:44:48

• Progress – simple Kanban board manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/progress-simple-kanban-board-manager/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:44:55

• "it's ageism, pure and simple in disguise of not having the right skills sets. What extra skills does Alvind have a CEO? He is nothing exceptional. IBM became a dump and has been made worse with the introduction of Indian mindset. It's all about the Indians cannibalizing the business until there is no business. Then they move on to the next victim." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9be79ck    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 10:46:46

• "Exactly what has been planned: you'll own nothing and love it. Back in the day, Microsoft called it Palladium, today they released it as Windows 11. Apple's walled garden has always been a good excuse to rip off the customer. Future smartphones will be cylindrically shaped, and the high end models might even come with some lube. To monitor your well-being , that is." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/11/05/1236251#1423462    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 11:25:51

• Anon: Palladium in new wrappings; I suspect that Vista11 violates the DMA (and other regulations) in at least half a dozen ways. https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/11/05/1236251#1423462    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 11:26:30

• "is that not a breach of the IBM Business Conduct Guidelines ? Seems that there's a different set of rules and guidelines for managers and executives visiting countries outside the US on company business ? or is it personal business ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k98ba427    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 11:30:19

• "It's a matter of ethics. IBM HR is an ethically challenged organization under the current CEO and the HR VP. There should be an audit or even an investigation into what IBM managers do on their so called business travel trips, particularly outside the US." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k98ba427    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 11:30:32

• "Agile and Design Thinking culture are driven out at IBM, but Indian Consulting BS mantras are now business as usual. It starts right at the top with Comrade Alvind, Walrus Joanne Wright and the educationally challenged Krabanaugh." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9c7e42g    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 11:31:13

• "The expectation by bad and not quite so bad guys that you were always on-line and vulnerable. There is strong governmental and corporate desires to never fix the problem." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/11/05/1236251#1423462    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 11:33:00

• "Not that you'll want to play it though. It's a free to play cheap imitation of Fall Guys wearing a Sonic skin, filled to the max with pretty crummy monetization. This looks and feels exactly like a mobile game, complete with the big button overlays in the PC release that you would expect to see on mobile." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/sonic-rumble-has-arrived-on-steam-and-works-on-linux-steam-deck/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 11:36:35

• "NVIDIA today released the latest recommended / certified stable driver for Linux with version 580.105.08." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/nvidia-driver-580-105-08-out-now-for-linux-as-the-new-recommended-version/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 11:36:54

• Blaming Linux for Microsoft's Hyper-V (Proprietary) https://www.how2shout.com/news/hackers-are-using-linux-malware-to-invisibly-bypass-windows-security.html see http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/05/Windows_TCO_and_Blaming_Linux_for_Microsoft_s_Hyper_V_Proprieta.shtml    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 11:38:09

• Ubuntu 24?? https://www.xda-developers.com/turning-ubuntu-24-into-windows-11/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 11:39:07

• When was Ubuntu 11 released?    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 11:39:52

• For the First Time Ever, Linux Gaming Crosses 3% on Steam https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/for-the-first-time-ever-linux-gaming-crosses-3-on-steam    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:02:01

• Who Monitors The Monitor? ☞ https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-november-2025/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:03:07

• "Under CEO Arvind Krishna, IBM has been strengthening its software operations, with a particular emphasis on expanding and streamlining its cloud services, including the Red Hat    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:08:39

• "Under CEO Arvind Krishna, IBM has been strengthening its software operations, with a particular emphasis on expanding and streamlining its cloud services, including the Red Hat unit." https://m.sakshipost.com/amp/news/career/ibm-layoffs-2025-company-shifts-ai-powered-cloud-solutions-472299    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:08:58

• Could be slop: "This fundamental shift in business focus, supported by major acquisitions including Red Hat and HashiCorp" https://rollingout.com/2025/11/05/ibm-announces-sweeping-job-cuts-fuel-ai/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:09:39

• "The largest segment was software with revenue of $7.2bn. Hybrid cloud – including Red Hat – increased 14 percent, below the expected 16 percent. Following the earnings call, IBM shares dipped around five percent, and have yet to recover." https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ibm-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs-to-focus-on-software-segment/?utm_source=ts2.tech    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:10:18

• "The emphasis on software follows a strong performance in IBM’s recent earnings report, where software revenue jumped 10%. However, growth in a key part of the hybrid cloud business, Red Hat, has recently slowed, which analysts believe could be a factor prompting the current restructuring." https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ibm-layoffs-november-2025/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:11:00

• "...Red Hat, has recently slowed, which analysts believe could be a factor prompting the current restructuring." https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ibm-layoffs-november-2025/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:13:25

• "So I turned my attention to TIFF, built initially as an image standard for desktop publishing." ☛ https://inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/ |    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:14:50

• "Let me explain what’s happening and why this could be a game-changer for the Java ecosystem." ☛ https://webtechie.be/post/2025-11-05-openjfx-returning-to-openjdk/ | Source: Frank Delporte    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:15:17

• "Explicit lazy imports" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/python_to_embrace_lazy_imports/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:19:17

• en Access/Content   

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:19:39

• "What if the bathymetry of the Mediterranean Sea is reversed? We would get a Western Island and an Eastern Island, a Sardinia-Corsica Bay" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/reversed/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:24:12

• "Description: While R is best known as a tool for statistical analyses, it can also be used for mathematical simulations." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/a-gentle-introduction-to-mathematical-simulation-in-r-workshop/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:25:24

• "I mostly encounter XSLT on people's Atom/RSS feeds, converting those to a more readable format in case someone should navigate directly to that link." ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/5/removing-xslt/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:25:53

• "We drop support for several things this time around: [...]" ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/11/05/curl-8-17-0/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:26:11

• "I've had several people ask about Bacula because it's not quite as well known among tech folks unless you've ever been tasked to venture out" ☛ https://blog.feld.me/posts/2025/11/bacula-for-dummies/ | Source: Feld    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:26:32

• "I’m currently trying out the 2nd-generation Nokia 105 4G. Although it looks like a classic dumb phone from the 90s, it’s actually quite capable" ☛ https://kevinboone.me/nokia105.html | Source: Kevin Boone    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:27:01

• "I’d used the RP2040 before, in Pico form, in other projects and had bought a supply of RP2040 ICs for embedding on PCBs" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/casio-fx9000p-ram-replacement/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:27:23

• "Devuan 6, codenamed after the legendary King Arthur's equally legendary sword, was released this week. Version 6 is the Devuan project's version of Debian 13 "Trixie". As the release notes say: [...] " ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/05/devuan_6_excalibur_is_out/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:28:40

• "Devuan GNU+Linux 6.0.0, code name "Excalibur", has been released." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12623 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:28:51

• "Following the previous reverted attempt [see earlier report], Robert Nagy (robert@) committed VA-API" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251104063040 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:29:30

• "I have a long-standing shell function in my shell that attempts to do this (imaginatively called 'spawn')" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XTermDuplicatingWindows | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:30:20

• "Mr. Nicoletti emphasized that the localization error was just that, completely unintentional" ☛ https://thenewleafjournal.com/jp-to-en-game-translation-mishaps/ | Source: The New Leaf Journal    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:31:04

• [Old] "When I loaded this onto my Apple 1 and played a few rounds, I was reminded of how difficult it was to play this game as a child." ☛ https://www.jeffquast.com/post/hamurabi_bas/ | Source: Jeff Quast    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:31:42

• "This is at first done locally on the RPi, and these printer(s) then accessed from the network (or locally)." ☛ https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/rpi-print-server-using-a-debian-image/ | Source: Darren Goossens    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:35:58

• "OpenZFS provides a slew of features that make it uniquely well suited as a reliable storage back end for virtualization" ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-enabled-disaster-recovery-virtualization/ | Source: Klara    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:37:06

• "Indeed, since I got the laptop, my big problem was the lack of consistency in the experience. If it were totally bad, I could ditch it. If it were totally good, I could enjoy it and forget about it. But no. In a typical Linux fashion of casual disregard to QA and the fullness of the desktop usage philosophy, issues come and go with every update, things break, and no one really cares."    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:37:37

• "But for me, to be able to embrace this system, to rely on it for important activities, I need that reliability, I need that consistency. Stability and predictability are a must. And as I documented over the past six long-term reports, the Titan has not met these seemingly simple goals. Okay, let's see what the seventh endeavor shall reveal before us. After me." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/slimbook-titan-report-7.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:37:43

• "But for me, to be able to embrace this system, to rely on it for important activities, I need that reliability, I need that consistency. Stability and predictability are a must. And as I documented over the past six long-term reports, the Titan has not met these seemingly simple goals. Okay, let's see what the seventh endeavor shall reveal before us. After me." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/slimbook-titan-report-7.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:37:56

• "Celebrate National Engineering Day and inspire young people to learn coding and AI skills to shape our future" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/celebrating-the-uks-national-engineering-day-2025/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:38:22

• "While tab grouping provides a great way to manage tabs and reduce tab overload, it can be a challenge to locate which tabs to group when you have many open." ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ai/ai-tech/ai-tab-groups/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:38:53

• "The waydroid package prior to version 1.5.4-2 (including aur/waydroid) creates Python byte-code files (.pyc) at runtime which were untracked by pacman. This issue has been fixed in 1.5.4-3, where byte-compiling these files is now done during the packaging process." ☛ https://archlinux.org/news/waydroid-154-3-update-may-require-manual-intervention/ | Source: ArchLinux    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:39:19

• "The brief showcases how to build a strong foundation for edge AI and networking by using a Dell PowerEdge XR8000 ruggedized edge network+compute platform consisting of two server sleds powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/edge-networking-gets-smarter-ai-and-5g-in-action | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 12:45:35

• "Broadly, there are two common topologies for implementing Argo CD." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/multi-cluster-gitops-argo-cd-agent-openshift-gitops | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:02:03

• "In Debian, package management works in layers, and each tool plays a different role: [...]" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/debian-dpkg-apt-aptitude-synaptic-tasksel/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:02:27

• An overview of the PPPP protocol for IoT cameras ☞ https://palant.info/2025/11/05/an-overview-of-the-pppp-protocol-for-iot-cameras/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:06:13

• Totally changes the headlines that DHH wrote to incite against a straw man https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-midlife-crisis/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:09:49

• Jordan Petridis: DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-midlife-crisis/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:09:58

• Jordan Petridis is a pro-Hamas spinner, not a reasonable person    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:11:31

• Cocaine at the European Patent Office Now a Subject in YouTube, Media Will Revisit the Topic ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/05/Cocaine_at_the_European_Patent_Office_Now_a_Subject_in_YouTube_.shtml    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:12:31

• YouTube Goes Bonkers, Removes backdoored Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm' ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/youtube-removes-windows-11-bypass-tutorials/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:13:42

• Hacking Buttons Back Into The Car Stereo ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/05/hacking-buttons-back-into-the-car-stereo/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:13:59

• Pursuits of justice rise with temperatures: Climate lawsuits are redefining rights ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/pursuits-of-justice-rise-with-temperatures-climate-lawsuits-are-redefining-rights-313243    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:15:14

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:15:25

• As jihadis advance in Mali, community radio stations broadcast hope ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2025/1105/As-jihadis-advance-in-Mali-community-radio-stations-broadcast-hope    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:15:28

• China bans foreign Hey Hi (AI) chips from state-funded data centers, report claims — crackdown would include removing Nvidia, AMD, and defective chip maker Intel chips from builds in early stages ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/china-bans-foreign-ai-chips-from-state-funded-data-centers    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:15:52

• European Parliament backs Europol expansion: “A dangerous step towards mass surveillance in the EU” ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/european-parliament-backs-europol-expansion-a-dangerous-step-towards-mass-surveillance-in-the-eu/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:16:08

• Clownflare Scrubs Aisuru Botnet from Top Domains List ☞ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/cloudflare-scrubs-aisuru-botnet-from-top-domains-list/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:16:20

• Reversed ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/reversed/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:17:09

• A Gentle Introduction to Mathematical Simulation in R workshop ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/a-gentle-introduction-to-mathematical-simulation-in-r-workshop/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:17:20

• curl 8.17.0 ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/11/05/curl-8-17-0/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:17:32

• The Art of the Command Line ☞ https://jxself.org/art-of-the-command-line.shtml    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:19:29

• The Four Freedoms for Kids ☞ https://jxself.org/four-freedoms-for-kids.shtml    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:19:58

• SUSE Powers Up Raspberry Pi 5 ☞ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/11/04/raspberrypi5-opensuse/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:21:32

• X Ends Sex Bias Suit Over Twitter Acquisition Layoffs https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/wage-hour/articles/2407821/x-ends-sex-bias-suit-over-twitter-acquisition-layoffs    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:25:36

• Badly Crippled IBM Can’t Be Fixed https://www.aol.com/articles/badly-crippled-ibm-t-fixed-151044608.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:26:53

• "IBM’s only bright future is to be bought by a larger company and be part of someone else’s success."    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:27:42

• Why Does So Much New Technology Feel Inspired by Dystopian Sci-Fi Movies? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/magazine/ai-tech-industry-sora-science-fiction.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:33:36

• Radiation May Be Unnecessary for Many Breast Cancer Patients ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/health/breast-cancer-radiation.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:34:07

• Can Melatonin Cause Heart Failure? What to Know About Claims of Health Risks. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/well/melatonin-heart-health-study.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:34:18

• Rights group raises concern over cholera outbreak in Haiti ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/rights-group-raises-concern-over-cholera-outbreak-in-haiti/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:34:39

• 'Health is the face of climate change': how can cities mitigate the impact of global warming ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251105-health-is-the-face-of-climate-change-how-can-cities-mitigate-the-impact-of-global-warming    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:34:47

• Michigan food stamp payments to resume Saturday – but be cut in half ☞ https://bridgemi.com/health-and-welfare/michigan-food-stamp-payments-to-resume-saturday-but-be-cut-in-half/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:35:27

• Latvia still tries to switch to electronic prescriptions, referrals ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/05.11.2025-latvia-still-tries-to-switch-to-electronic-prescriptions-referrals.a621198/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:35:58

• US tightens sanctions on North Korea after Convicted Felon-Kim summit snub ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-tightens-sanctions-on-n-korea-after-trump-kim-summit-snub    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:36:25

• North Korea condemns ‘wicked nature’ of latest US sanctions ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-says-antagonised-by-us-sanctions-will-respond    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:36:56

• 4 Malaysians arrested for trying to smuggle 86kg cannabis buds worth $2.5m into Britain ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/4-malaysians-arrested-for-trying-to-smuggle-86kg-cannabis-buds-worth-2-5m-into-britain    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:37:21

• Taiwan detains 25, seizes over $190 million tied to suspected scam-centre operator Prince Group ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-detains-25-seizes-over-190-million-tied-to-suspected-scam-centre-operator-prince    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:37:59

• Malaysian rapper Namewee remanded for 6 days over Taiwanese influencer’s death: Police ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-police-confirm-rapper-namewee-detained-over-taiwanese-influencers-death    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:38:15

• Malaysia high court orders government, police to pay $9.6m to family of kidnapped pastor ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-high-court-orders-govt-police-to-pay-9-6-million-in-damages-to-family-of-missing-pastor    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:38:37

• How Trade Tensions Sent Automakers Scrambling for Chips ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/business/us-china-chips-automakers.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:48:15

• Making noodles in a cave, our China writer gets a slice of country life ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2025/1105/rural-china-life-noodles    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:48:38

• China’s Shenzhou-20 return mission delayed due to space debris impact ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-shenzhou-20-return-mission-delayed-due-to-space-debris-impact    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:48:51

• Taiwan says China ignoring requests for information on new Xiamen airport safety concerns ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-says-china-ignoring-requests-for-information-on-new-xiamen-airport-safety-concerns    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:49:19

• China extends suspension of extra tariffs on US goods ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-extends-suspension-of-extra-tariffs-on-us-goods    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:49:39

• Toyota, Honda turn India into car production hub in pivot away from China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/toyota-honda-turn-india-into-car-production-hub-in-pivot-away-from-china    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:50:09

• Dihydroxyacetone Man pressed China’s Pooh-tin to release jailed HK media tycoon Jimmy Lai, say sources ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/trump-pressed-chinas-xi-to-release-jailed-hong-kong-media-tycoon-sources-say    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:50:33

• Taiwan must be allowed equal participation when China hosts Apec, US says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-must-be-allowed-equal-participation-when-china-hosts-apec-us-says    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:51:04

• Taiwan says senior Fijian UN diplomat visited, despite Fiji’s formal ties with China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-says-senior-fijian-un-diplomat-visited-despite-fijis-formal-ties-with-china    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:51:22

• Powerful Typhoon Kalmaegi poised to drench Vietnam’s key coffee region ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/powerful-typhoon-kalmaegi-poised-to-drench-vietnams-key-coffee-region    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:51:40

• Congressional leaders want an executive branch strategy on China 6G, tech supply chain ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/exclusive-china-6g-letter-krishnamoorthi-congress-state-commerce-letters/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:52:41

• Why China is here to stay in Iraq’s energy sector ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/why-china-is-here-to-stay-in-iraqs-energy-sector/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:52:58

• Chinese Astronauts Stuck in Space After Suspected Damage to Return Craft ☞ https://futurism.com/space/china-debris-struck-ship-space-station-astronauts    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:53:23

• "I see a very strong trend in the industry: General-purpose computing is being locked down, and the trend is accelerating." https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1opdl8f/we_should_act_before_the_irreversible_loss_of/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:56:43

• "SolidWorks Certification… With FreeCAD?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/05/solidworks-certification-with-freecad/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:58:46

• "The Deadliest US Nuclear Accident Is Not What You Think" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/05/the-deadliest-us-nuclear-accident-is-not-what-you-think/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:59:04

• Pam Bondi’s DOJ Gets Admonished a Second Time for Indict[ing] First, Investigat[ing] Second ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/05/pam-bondis-doj-gets-admonished-a-second-time-for-indicting-first-investigating-second/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:59:33

• Tyler Lemons Narcs out Pam Bondi: She Couldn’t Have Ratified Lindsey Halligan’s Actions ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/05/tyler-lemons-narcs-out-pam-bondi-she-couldnt-have-ratified-lindsey-halligans-actions/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 13:59:45

• Bloomberg’s Mishal Husain: Interviews shouldn’t be about ‘winning or losing’ ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/bloomberg-mishal-husain-interviews-shouldnt-be-about-winning-or-losing/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:00:20

• New police media guidance aims to reset post-Leveson culture of suspicion ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/new-police-media-journalists-guidance-aims-to-rest-post-leveson-culture-of-suspicion/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:00:45

• Under Takaichi, Tokyo becomes a partner of conviction for Washington ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/under-takaichi-tokyo-could-become-washingtons-most-reliable-ally/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:01:24

• "Component Abuse Challenge" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/05/2025-component-abuse-challenge-the-ever-versatile-transistor-as-a-temperature-sensor/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:01:44

• ‘I’m not a doll’: Miss Mexico speaks out after insults from Miss Universe official ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/lifestyle/miss-mexico-speaks-out/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:02:55

• Most Powerful Black-Hole Flare Ever Recorded Shone Like 10 Trillion Suns ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/most-powerful-black-hole-flare-ever-recorded-shone-like-10-trillion-suns    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:03:22

• A Simple Eye Scan Could Flag Heart Risks – And How Fast You're Aging ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-simple-eye-scan-could-flag-heart-risks-and-how-fast-youre-aging    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:03:34

• The World's Oldest Known Cave Art Wasn't Made by Our Species ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-worlds-oldest-known-cave-art-wasnt-made-by-our-species    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:03:44

• Oldest Known Maya Monument Could Be a Map of The Universe ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/oldest-known-maya-monument-could-be-a-map-of-the-universe    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:03:55

• Space Junk Likely Struck China's Shenzhou-20, Delaying Crew's Return ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/space-junk-likely-struck-chinas-shenzhou-20-delaying-crews-return    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:04:11

• Your Gut's Methane-Making Microbes Could Secretly Turn Fiber Into Extra Calories ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-guts-methane-making-microbes-could-secretly-turn-fiber-into-extra-calories    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:04:31

• Hundreds of Genes Act Differently in Male vs Female Brains, Scientists Discover ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/hundreds-of-genes-act-differently-in-male-vs-female-brains-scientists-discover    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:04:41

• 21-Year Study Links Gum Disease And Cavities to Higher Stroke Risk ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/21-year-study-links-gum-disease-and-cavities-to-higher-stroke-risk    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:04:54

• "Better 3D-Printed Bridges Are Possible" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/05/better-3d-printed-bridges-are-possible-with-the-right-settings/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:07:35

• "Handheld computers have become very much part of the hardware hacker scene" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/05/a-pentium-in-your-hand/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:07:54

• "Spectravideo is not exactly the most well-known microcomputer company, but they were nevertheless somewhat active in the US market from 1981 to 1988." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/05/spectravideo-computers-get-a-big-upgrade/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:08:13

• Elections Show Convicted Felon’s Edge on the Economy Slipping ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/us/politics/trump-elections-economy-inflation.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:08:41

• Five reasons health insurance rates are rising so much in Michigan ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/five-reasons-health-insurance-rates-are-rising-so-much-in-michigan/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:08:49

• With Convicted Felon’s threats of military intervention in Nigeria, Tinubu faces a delicate balancing act ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/with-trumps-threats-of-military-intervention-in-nigeria-tinubu-faces-a-delicate-balancing-act/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:09:04

• 2025 Postel Awardee David Clark, an Architect and Implementer of the Internet ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/11/2025-postel-awardee-david-clark-an-architect-and-implementer-of-the-internet/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:09:22

• It’s Cool to Have No Followers Now ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/its-cool-to-have-no-followers-now "As social control media has become older, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence, flouting online popularity has gained a new cachet."    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:09:48

• Custom defective chip maker Intel motherboards with a whopping 36 USB ports spotted online ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/custom-intel-motherboards-with-a-whopping-36-usb-ports-spotted-online-extravagant-connectivity-offering-fuels-bot-farm-speculation    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:10:32

• Hong Kong police freeze HK$2.75 billion of assets linked to Cambodia scam syndicate ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/11/05/hong-kong-police-freeze-hk2-75-billion-of-assets-linked-to-cambodia-scam-syndicate/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:11:07

• Coke’s New AI-Generated Ad Required 100 Staff and 70,000 AI-Generated Clips, and It Still Looks Like Garbage ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/coke-ai-holiday-ad    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:12:24

• The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the Hey Hi (AI) Bubble Pops ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/big-short-michael-burry-1-billion-ai-bubble    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:12:49

• Newsmax Gets Fooled by Hey Hi (AI) Video, Broadcasts Entire Segment as If It Was Real ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/newsmax-airs-ai-video-real    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:13:02

• Professors Aghast as Class Caught Cheating “Sincerely” Apologizes in the Worst Possible Way ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/class-caught-cheating-apologizes    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:13:16

• analytics.usa.gov: Vista 11 Scarcely Used, GNU/Linux Increasingly Dominant (Microsoft Loses "Goodwill", Depletes Cash Equivalents, and Debt Soars) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/05/analytics_usa_gov_Vista_11_Scarcely_Used_GNU_Linux_Increasingly.shtml    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:14:45

• Slopwatch: linuxbsdos.com, GNU/Linux Journal, LinuxSecurity, Brian Fagioli, and WebProNews ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/05/Slopwatch_linuxbsdos_com_Linux_Journal_LinuxSecurity_Brian_Fagi.shtml    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:14:53

• NVIDIA 580.105.08 added New Env to Disable GPU Boost for CUDA apps ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/11/nvidia-580-105-08-env-disable-gpu-boost/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:15:19

• SUSE Dives into the Agentic Hey Hi (AI) Pool ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/SUSE-Dives-into-the-Agentic-AI-Pool    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:15:36

• Calam Arch Installer – Arch-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/calam-arch-installer-arch-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:17:46

• 14 Best Free and Open Source Anti-Malware Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-anti-malware-tools/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:17:58

• taskfinder – extracts and displays tasks from plain text files ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/taskfinder-extracts-displays-tasks/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:18:21

• Bonsai – TUI remake of GNOME Baobab ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bonsai-tui-remake-gnome-baobab/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:18:30

• FEX 2511 Tagged https://fex-emu.com/FEX-2511/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:19:29

• TEAMGROUP ULTRA Micro SDXC A2 V30 Memory Card 1TB Review ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/teamgroup-ultra-micro-sdxc-a2-v30-memory-card-1tb-review/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:20:33

• vkCommander – GUI application for monitoring and analyzing Valkey databases ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/vkcommander-monitor-analyze-valkey-databases/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:20:45

• dut – disk usage calculator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dut-disk-usage-calculator/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:20:55

• Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1045124/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:23:20

• Expirion 6.1-251105 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/expirion    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:23:51

• openmamba 20251105 is out as well☞ https://distrowatch.com/openmamba    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:23:58

• "Remember too that IBM routinely removes US job posts from the system right before a big RA. They do NOT want you to find a job within 30 days - that would defeat the whole purpose of the RA in the first place. They want you GONE! (I've been through this ringer myself)." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9bz3eyn    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:25:11

• "I was at IBM 22 years, I made 100% club almost everyone, with exceptions. I was moved to a non-sales role when I hit 112% one year. Another person on my team was also in the club and was RA’d. Only one other person on this large sales team made Club and 2 of the 3 were males and affected. Every other seller, all under 100%, kept their jobs." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k98ysyca    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:26:29

• "This team was dominated by Females, on the ground selling and up the management chain. Mid tier management makes crazy azz decisions not based on logic. Thats said it’s no different from anywhere else." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k98ysyca    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:26:34

• umbrelOS 1.5.0 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/umbrelos    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:26:42

• OsoLinux 43 is out too ☞ https://distrowatch.com/osolinux    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:26:54

• linuxbsdos is still promoting scams https://linuxbsdos.com/2025/11/04/ethereum-price-predictions-2025/ https://linuxbsdos.com/2025/11/05/3-steps-to-build-the-perfect-website-for-your-organization/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:29:43

• GCompris meets KITE in Kerala – 2025 ☞ https://timotheegiet.com/blog/floss/gcompris-meets-kite-in-kerala-2025.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:30:02

• LXQt 2.3 Desktop Environment Released with New Features and Enhancements ☞ https://9to5linux.com/lxqt-2-3-desktop-environment-released-with-new-features-and-enhancements    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:31:18

• Fwupd 2.0.17 Released with Support for Lexar and Maxio NVMe SSDs ☞ https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-2-0-17-released-with-support-for-lexar-and-maxio-nvme-ssds    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:31:25

• "IBM , the quinticential sc-mbag US corporate company. Of course Still getting your corporate welfare tax money to replace you" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9bz3eyn    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:35:06

• "It is not a surprise, IBM managed by incompetent useless racists. There are multiple tribes within IBM, the white boys club and the Indian cabal. Both these tribes created a partnership. The incompetent white boys are doing the financial stealing and the Indian cabal is stealing the knowledge and move it to India." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9cnjcte    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:36:26

• "I doubt that a knowledge ill acquired can help the Indians in the long term, while the whites are destroying the futures for the next generations." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9cnjcte    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:36:40

• "IBM is not worth the $300 per share stock price - under incompetent Chairman AK the Senior Finace VP Kavanaugh, it has evolved into a garbage company whose share price should be in the region of $10 to $20 per share. Kramer has got it completely wrong or someone is bribing him to say good things about IBM.    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:36:56

• "IBM has nothing to offer any clients or customers, except false statements about the quality of it's AI and Quantum Computing development. No US company should even consider buying IBM which has sunk to the depths of mediocrity under it's Indian management."    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:37:00

• antiX-25-full-beta1available for public testing ☞ https://antixlinux.com/antix-25-full-beta1available-for-public-testing/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:38:08

• FOSS Weekly #25.45: Rust in Apt, Devuan 6, Modular Router, FSearch, Workspace Mastery and More GNU/Linux Stuff ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-45/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:38:17

• When a clear film wasn’t ☞ https://rubenerd.com/when-a-clear-film-wasnt/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:39:06

• EasyContainers GUI fix ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202511/easycontainers-gui-fix.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:40:06

• Nginx Proxy Manager 2.13 Brings Long-Awaited React Interface ☞ https://linuxiac.com/nginx-proxy-manager-2-13-brings-long-awaited-react-interface/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:40:49

• Google to make major changes to its app store to settle Epic Games lawsuit ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/05/google-make-major-changes-app-store-settle-epic-games-lawsuit/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:41:18

• "Nobody can save IBM not even Lisa Su. What do you think she should do?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9chw68s    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:43:44

• "fwiw, he's not talking about hiring in the US. the huge majority of open roles are abroad in poland, india, czech republic, ireland, brazil where salaries are considerable lower. the layoffs were across all age groups. it had more to do with salary." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9be79ck    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:44:17

• "I haven't travelled to the US in many years. I made an exception a few years ago because my wife wanted to see Hawaii again. Before that, I hadn't travelled to the US in many years, too." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-11-06-usa    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:48:27

• "The accident was recorded on several security cameras, as well as on at least one bystander's phone. At the time of writing, it's been established that the number 1 engine detached from the left wing of the aircraft for an unknown reason. As UPS2976 lifted off the runway, fire was seen billowing from the wing, and it quickly fell back to the ground." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202511/20251106-ups2976-and-the-future-of-the-md-11.gmi    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:49:06

• "The accident was recorded on several security cameras, as well as on at least one bystander's phone. At the time of writing, it's been established that the number 1 engine detached from the left wing of the aircraft for an unknown reason." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202511/20251106-ups2976-and-the-future-of-the-md-11.gmi    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:49:16

• 🖼️ xkcd — Metric Tip #3164 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3164.gmi    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:50:20

• Binary Breadcrumbs: Correlating Malware Samples with Honeypot Logs Using PowerShell, (Wed, Nov 5th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32454    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:52:06

• Malware Now Uses Hey Hi (AI) During Execution to Mutate and Collect Data, Surveillance Giant Google Warns ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/malware-now-uses-ai-during-execution-to-mutate-and-collect-data-google-warns/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:52:32

• Steam Deck Adds Display-Off Mode for Low-Power Downloads ☞ https://linuxiac.com/steam-deck-adds-display-off-mode-for-low-power-downloads/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:53:03

• LXQt 2.3 Desktop Environment Released with Better Wayland Support ☞ https://linuxiac.com/lxqt-2-3-desktop-environment-released-with-better-wayland-support/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:53:18

• Fwupd 2.0.17 Brings Post-Quantum Signatures and Phased Updates ☞ https://linuxiac.com/fwupd-2-0-17-brings-post-quantum-signatures-and-phased-updates/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:53:31

• Flatpak Development Restarts with Fresh Energy and Clear Direction ☞ https://linuxiac.com/flatpak-development-restarts-with-fresh-energy-and-clear-direction/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:53:52

• ZFS Snapshots: Instant Data Recovery in Seconds on GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxconfig.org/zfs-snapshots-instant-data-recovery-in-seconds-on-linux    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:54:20

• Announcing Istio 1.28.0 ☞ https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.28.x/announcing-1.28/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:54:42

• New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including Legends of Dragaea: Idle Dungeons - 2025-11-05 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-clients-2025-11-05-edition/index.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:54:56

• Journalists acquitted over protest against killing of Kurdish reporters in Syria airstrike ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/journalists-acquitted-over-protest-against-killing-of-kurdish-reporters-in-syria-airstrike-313236    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:55:41

• SeaMonkey 2.53.22 compiled in woofQ2 ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202511/seamonkey-25322-compiled-in-woofq2.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:56:08

• Building and running Request Tracker as a quadlet container ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/05/building-and-running-request-tracker-quadlet-container    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:57:20

• Recommended Reading: A Legal Strategist's Guide to Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Practice, Fifth Edition ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/11/recommended-reading-legal-strategists.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 14:58:10

• Federal lawsuit challenges race-based redistricting in California’s Proposition 50 ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/federal-lawsuit-challenges-race-based-redistricting-in-californias-proposition-50/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:01:52

• U.S. Military Draws Up Nigeria Plans, With Limited Options to Quell Violence ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/us/politics/nigeria-us-military.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:02:04

• When ‘made in America’ becomes a warning label: food safety in the US vs. Mexico ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/food/when-made-in-america-becomes-a-warning-label-food-safety-in-the-us-vs-mexico/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:02:45

• Lithuania should reopen Belarus border once smuggling balloons stop – Seimas speaker ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2736192/lithuania-should-reopen-belarus-border-once-smuggling-balloons-stop-seimas-speaker    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:03:08

• airBaltic changes Vilnius flight times amid smuggling balloon disruptions ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2736240/airbaltic-changes-vilnius-flight-times-amid-smuggling-balloon-disruptions    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:03:22

• Lithuania will ask Belarus to let stranded trucks return home – PM ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2736270/lithuania-will-ask-belarus-to-let-stranded-trucks-return-home-pm    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:03:31

• Devuan 6.0 Released: No Systemd & Non-Woke Debian ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/devuan-60-released-no-systemd-and    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:03:49

• How To Install KDE Plasma on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-kde-plasma-fedora-43/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:04:24

• iophk: denizens of tiktokistan let loose into the national opera's hall: https://yle.fi/a/7-10087589    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:08:10

• How To Install Zammad on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-zammad-linux-mint-22/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:08:48

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

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:09:18

• How To Install Rust on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-rust-fedora-43/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:09:36

• How to See Tonight's Beaver Supermoon – The Biggest And Brightest Since 2019 ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/how-to-see-tonights-beaver-supermoon-the-biggest-and-brightest-since-2019    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:10:32

• Thematic Book Series: Too Much Combustion, Too Little Fire ☞ https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/11/thematic-book-series-too-much-combustion-too-little-fire/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:11:10

• How to Enable amd64v3 Packages on Ubuntu 25.10 ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/how-to-enable-amd64v3-packages-ubuntu-25-10    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:13:26

• Kill Switch on your backdoored Windows PC ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/how-to-check-and-enable-secure-boot-on-your-windows-pc http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/08/If_Your_Machine_Still_Has_Secure_Boot_Enabled_Then_Microsoft_Ha.shtml    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:14:39

• "full-scale nuclear tests" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/11/05/russian-defense-minister-proposes-preparations-for-full-scale-nuclear-tests | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:15:02

• "Across Russia, people who ask officials for help with flooded roads and housing problems face retribution instead" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/11/05/living-here-is-impossible | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:15:19

• What to Know About Kataib Hezbollah, the Iraqi Militia That Held Tsurkov Captive ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/world/europe/elizabeth-tsurkov-iraqi-militia-torture.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:15:51

• How Venezuela’s Military Might Respond to U.S. Attacks ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/us/venezuela-military-maduro-coup.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:15:59

• In Russia, Bookstores Offer a Shrinking Refuge as Censorship Tightens ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/world/europe/russia-bookstores-refuge-censorship.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:16:10

• Openwashing Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/state-of-the-source-at-ato-2025-state-of-the-open-ai http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/10/The_Fall_of_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_The_OSI_Election_is_.shtml    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:17:04

• OSI does not speak for security ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/help-us-improve-the-eu-cyber-resilience-act-standards http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/30/It_Took_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_4_Years_to_Address_the_D.shtml    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:17:43

• simaerep release 1.0.0 ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/simaerep-release-1-0-0/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:18:47

• Faking plotly’s ‘y unified’ tooltip in ggiraph ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/faking-plotlys-y-unified-tooltip-in-ggiraph/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:18:57

• Graceful Internet Packages ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/graceful-internet-packages/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:19:05

• Suspected debris strike delays Chinese spaceship Shenzhou-20’s return ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/11/05/suspected-debris-strike-delays-chinese-spaceship-shenzhou-20s-return/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:19:34

• UN rights experts call US strikes on vessels potential war crimes ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/un-rights-experts-call-us-strikes-on-vessels-potential-war-crimes/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:20:01

• California Strikes Back in the Redistricting War ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/california-strikes-back-in-the-redistricting-war    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:20:15

• Democrats Raise Concerns After Convicted Felon Officials Give Boat Strikes Briefing ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/us/politics/trump-drug-boat-strikes-democrats.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:20:29

• Philippine president declares state of emergency in the wake of Typhoon Kalmaegi ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20251106-philippines-state-of-emergency-typhoon-kalmaegi    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:20:49

• Use OpenShift Lightspeed with locally served LLMs to drive security-focused, cost-efficient enterprise solutions for Red Bait products ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/05/use-openshift-lightspeed-locally-served-llms    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:21:12

• Elizabeth Tsurkov Recounts 2 1/2 Years of Captivity ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/world/middleeast/tsurkov-kataib-torture-kidnap.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:21:29

• Setting up defective chip maker Intel TDX VMs with Trustee on OpenShift ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/05/setting-intel-tdx-vms-trustee-openshift    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:25:02

• Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in October 2025 ☞ https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2025-10/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:25:23

• "The trend in tech for the past ten years has been to cut people based solely on how much they cost the company. It doesn't matter who you are, what you've done, or what you're working on - they cut based on salary and benefits. Period. And if you're due to cross a threshold which increases benefits then you are more likely to be cut." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k991zmnk    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:26:43

• "IBM is moving all engineering to India (other than that which can't be legally exported.)" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k991zmnk    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:26:47

• "IBMC is less than 2% market share, and is at least three years behind all other cloud providers. I could go on for days about the design flaws in the implementation, but would risk NDA violations. Suffice to say, even if they caught up with AWS it would be an inferior offering." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k98mfp49    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:27:16

• "The most recent appointment of leadership in Jan 2025 was not good for anyone in design, marketing or product. These leaders do not understand how these role work nor how their demise will lead to non-competitive products being launched. Even before this nobody knew how to collaborate with these teams." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9c7e42g    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:28:14

• "The message is clear since Dinesh took ownership of software - Developer driven culture at any cost." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9c7e42g    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:28:18

• "Because IBM is not an AI company. WatsonX is a joke, you can download free software like LM Studio and Ollama that does exactly what WatsonX does but better and free. Granite is on not a single AI Leaderboard. Orchestrate is ancient technology with multiple layers of lipstick applied. Consulting has RAed/PIPed 90% of their AI talent over the last year."    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:28:34

• The billions of dollars of GenAI revenue that IBM reports is just people tagging old consulting projects as GenAI because the PM uses ChatGPT to write the weekly status report. When Wall Street finally figures out it's all fake the stock will be under $150 the next day."    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:28:38

• "IBM does not remove the listings when it starts a new round of RA's. Hiring managers are instructed to ignore applications. IBM management is slimy." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9bz3eyn    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:29:03

• Andrew Cuomo’s Extensive Use of Hey Hi (AI) Made His Campaign a Toxic Joke ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/andrew-cuomo-ai-toxic    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:32:14

• Hong Kong top court denies Portuguese citizen final chance to appeal for shorter nat. security sentence ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/11/05/hong-kong-top-court-denies-portuguese-citizen-final-chance-to-appeal-for-shorter-nat-security-sentence/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:32:55

• Nigeria facing 'multiplicity of security challenges': Communal clashes, separatists, insurgencies ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251105-nigeria-facing-multiplicity-of-security-challenges-communal-clashes-separatists-insurgencies    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:33:13

• Judge Fast-Tracks Diddy’s Appeal After Pardon Push Falls Through ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/04/judge-fast-tracks-diddys-appeal/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:33:42

• With each cloud outage, calls for government action grow louder ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/with-each-cloud-outage-calls-for-government-action-grow-louder/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:34:06

• Sobre autoexigencia y soltar lastre gemini://aperalesf.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-11-06_sobre-autoexigencia-y-soltar-lastre.gmi    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 15:45:43

• Clown computing https://yle.fi/a/74-20191502    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 22:53:43

• tomorrow is j-day in denmark and also Techrights' anniversary    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 22:54:04

• How to Add Two-Factor Authentication in WordPress for Free ☞ https://www.blackmoreops.com/add-two-factor-authentication-in-wordpress/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 22:54:35

• Nikkei Says 17,000 Impacted by Data Breach Stemming From Slack Account Hack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/nikkei-says-17000-impacted-by-data-breach-stemming-from-slack-account-hack/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 22:55:26

• Exploited ‘Post SMTP’ Plugin Flaw Exposes WordPress Sites to Takeover ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/exploited-post-smtp-plugin-flaw-exposes-wordpress-sites-to-takeover/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 22:55:43

• White House ‘open to discussing’ back pay for furloughed workers, following mixed messages on earlier guarantee ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2025/11/shutdown-staffing-shortages-strain-some-social-security-offices-and-air-traffic-controllers/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 22:56:49

• False Claims Act and cybersecurity: A survival guide for federal contractors facing new frontiers ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/11/false-claims-act-and-cybersecurity-a-survival-guide-for-federal-contractors-facing-new-frontiers/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 22:57:33

• Latvia to host international conference on sanctions ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/05.11.2025-latvia-to-host-international-conference-on-sanctions.a621236/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 22:57:49

• "If you prefer your desktop operating system to be prettier than the average bear, then Linux is where it's at." https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-most-beautiful-linux-distributions-for-2025/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 22:59:50

• Linux Gaming Is On The Rise – Should Microsoft Be Worried? https://www.gameshub.com/news/features/linux-gaming-microsoft-2838060/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:00:12

• Windows TCO https://www.techzine.eu/news/security/136076/pro-russian-hackers-hide-in-windows-with-linux-vms/ Blaming Linux for Microsoft's Hyper-V (Proprietary) http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/05/Windows_TCO_and_Blaming_Linux_for_Microsoft_s_Hyper_V_Proprieta.shtml    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:01:58

• The first 8 Linux commands every new user should learn https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-first-8-linux-commands-every-new-user-should-learn/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:02:28

• 7 Linux commands I can't live without after 20 years in the terminal https://www.zdnet.com/article/7-linux-commands-i-cant-live-without-after-20-years-in-the-terminal/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:02:55

• 4 ways to make any Linux distro feel more like Windows https://www.xda-developers.com/4-ways-to-make-any-linux-distro-feel-more-like-windows/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:03:42

• Windows TCO https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/russian-hackers-hit-windows-machines-via-linux-vms-with-new-custom-malware http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/05/Windows_TCO_and_Blaming_Linux_for_Microsoft_s_Hyper_V_Proprieta.shtml    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:04:19

• My top 5 password managers for Linux - and my favorite works on Windows and MacOS too https://www.zdnet.com/article/my-top-5-password-managers-for-linux-and-my-favorite-works-on-windows-and-macos-too/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:04:44

• Windows TCO https://cybernews.com/security/russian-hackers-abuse-microsoft-hyperv-to-run-linux/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:05:10

• "I often have to grab screen recordings of my Linux desktop, and these are the apps I stick with." https://www.zdnet.com/article/my-top-5-screen-recording-apps-for-linux-and-theyre-all-free/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:07:24

• "For The N’th Time In The Last 20 Years, I download A ReactOS ISO" https://hackaday.com/2025/11/04/jennys-daily-drivers-reactos-0-4-15/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:07:43

• "The new variable allows users to disable the default behavior of boosting their NVIDIA GPU to a higher power state when running CUDA apps." https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-580-105-08-linux-graphics-driver-released-with-a-new-environment-variable    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:07:58

• Peridio’s production-grade Linux stack accelerates physical AI deployment https://www.newelectronics.co.uk/content/news/peridio-s-production-grade-linux-stack-accelerates-physical-ai-deployment    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:08:27

• LXQt 2.3.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1045140/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:10:36

• Scam alert: fraudsters impersonate Lidl in a series of fake ads ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/scam-alert-fraudsters-impersonate-lidl-in-a-series-of-fake-ads-ayV1m3Y9IWzX    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:10:56

• Brazil Proposes a New Type of Fund to Protect Tropical Forests ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/climate/cop30-amazon-brazil-forest-fund.html    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:11:08

• "I declare that my ideal operating system will have really good command-line completion, and lazily crib fish’s setup." gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/os/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:12:27

• AK said: “No more dinosaurs“ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9be79ck    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:15:32

• "Arvind, Dinesh, James, Rob, Nickle, Joanne and Mohamed have been trying to put lipstick on a pig for the benefit of IBM clients. It isn't working." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9c7e42g    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:16:16

• IBM layoffs. "is the Baton Rouge CIC doing layoffs?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9awa7bm    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:16:41

• "what will you audit for? If someone is traveling to a foreign country and gets invited to a wedding, is that a problem?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k98ba427    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:18:28

• IBM stagnant; "that means you built a good product. What will you build next? We can’t rest on our past glory." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k98dpydf    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:19:10

• "Wow, you’re 3 days behind. Wake up dummy" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9dd80wk    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:19:37

• "A 10 year old car in good working order beats a new fancy car with a car payment. Keeping up with the neighbors only brings stress from over extending yourself financially. As soon as possible, get debt free." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k988h0d3    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:20:42

• "If your job can done and moved to a low cost country like India, Eastern Europe, Thailand, Mexico, Brazil etc… it will. It’s all about dinero and return on investment to shareholders" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k991zmnk    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:23:18

• "if your argument was true, why haven't they outsourced the jobs of the CEOs, CxOs etc in the corporations. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. And AI could do a better job without all these corrupt leaders."    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:23:33

• "AGE 68 Band 10 Sales Executive - Do I have a target on my back ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9dn97rh    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:24:41

• Court reimposes original sentence for Capital One hacker ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/court-reimposes-original-sentence-for-capital-one-hacker/    

posted Thursday, November 06, 2025 at 23:35:13