Roy Schestowitz

• iophk: https://www.adacore.com/ has removed their feed as of today :/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:17:28

• iophk: https://blog.arduino.cc/ has become marketeering and spamlik since the sale with lots of posts still but none worth reporting on any longer    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:17:35

• Capitalismo y generación de falsas necesidades gemini://hispagatos.org/post/capitalismoygeneracióndefalsasnecesidades/index.gmi    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:20:44

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-11-19.gmi    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:21:09

• “Our kids can't play and we will not be able to walk due to traffic” gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/11/18.1    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:21:49

• "For reasons, I noticed that ClaudeBot (and I'd link to the information page for it, but, and this is my shocked face, they forgot to include a proper link!) was repeatedly requesting the same file over and over again—/sitemap.xml. My bad!" gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/11/18.2    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:23:05

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1479.jpg    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:25:09

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1829.jpg    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:25:14

• The web browser add-on uMatrix is now abandoned https://hunden.linuxkompis.se/2020/10/04/the-web-browser-add-on-umatrix-is-now-abandoned.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:28:25

• US Jury Says Apple Must Pay Masimo $634 Million in Smartwatch Patent Case https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-11-14/us-jury-says-apple-must-pay-masimo-634-million-in-smartwatch-patent-case    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:30:24

• ‘Flop’ https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-iphone-air-sales-response-7f0c01f1    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:30:59

• Ann Arbor residents grapple with ADHD medication shortages and recalls https://www.michigandaily.com/news/research/ann-arbor-residents-grapple-with-adhd-medication-shortages-and-recalls/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:31:23

• Apple Pulls Two Gay Dating Apps https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2025-11-11/apple-pulls-two-gay-dating-apps-in-china-under-government-order    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:32:10

• Fortinet https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/11/14/fortinet-releases-security-advisory-relative-path-traversal-vulnerability-affecting-fortiweb    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:35:02

• Draft UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill Enters UK Parliament https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-information-security-law/draft-uk-cyber-security-and-resilience-bill-enters-uk-parliament    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:36:18

• Wiki Haven: Digital.Security V 1.20, Mojolicious V 1.09, Perl V 1.34 https://blogs.perl.org/users/ron_savage/2025/11/wiki-haven-digitalsecurity-v-120-mojolicious-v-109-perl-v-134.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:37:18

• Security Handbook to All Households as China Threat Rises https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-11-16/in-a-first-taiwan-to-distribute-security-handbook-to-all-households-as-china-threat-rises    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:38:26

• Student Uprising Crackdown https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-11-16/bangladesh-beefs-up-security-ahead-of-verdict-against-ousted-pm-sheikh-hasina    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:38:35

• Is South Korea ready to command its own troops at wartime? https://www.dw.com/en/is-south-korea-ready-to-command-its-own-troops-at-wartime/a-74685586    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:40:37

• "Lawyers will knock at the door, to get rich from a class action lawsuit for targeted ageism and discrimination." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaa79mcb    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:54:21

• "and yet incompent and crooked Indians are still taking American jobs because you are incapable of creating your own." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka9kn2j1    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:55:15

• "Indians have absolutely no idea what a clusterf--k like the one coming down in December is really all about. That's why Alvind has the brains of the genius, Wile E Coyote (Super Genius) - it's why he gets paid the big bucks." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka68k07z    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 04:55:49

• iophk: "Military classification will likely be used to hide and redact large sections of the "Epstein Files" and keep them from coming to light. I would posit the delay has been due to the redaction activities and no other reason, the White House could have released them long ago without involving congress."    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 05:11:50

• Man arrested for darknet site targeting politicians https://www.dw.com/en/germany-man-arrested-for-darknet-site-targeting-politicians/a-74696784    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 05:12:38

• GNU/Linux up to 5% in https://analytics.usa.gov/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 05:35:04

• Steam Deck gets display-off low power downloads in a new stable update | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/steam-deck-gets-display-off-low-power-downloads-in-a-new-stable-update/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:38:51

• Cozy exploration-trading game Townseek arrives Spring 2026 with a fresh demo | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/cozy-exploration-trading-game-townseek-arrives-spring-2026-with-a-fresh-demo/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

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

• Earth 2140 remake on OpenRA engine OpenE2140 gets a first release | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/earth-2140-remake-on-openra-engine-opene2140-gets-a-first-release/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:39:30

• The big new RPG Where Winds Meet release works well on Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-big-new-where-winds-meet-release-works-well-on-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:39:57

• "Apple's new Digital ID in Apple Wallet is here, but cybersecurity and privacy experts are warning about the significant risks. Is this new 'convenience' actually a digital leash? We break down the security concerns." https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/apple's-digital-id-is-a-warning:6    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:41:46

• "Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/hyundai-car-requires-2000,-app-internet:f    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:41:56

• Hytale has been saved as Hypixel acquired it from Riot Games | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/hytale-has-been-saved-as-hypixel-acquired-it-from-riot-games/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/hytale-has-been-saved-as-hypixel-acquired-it-from-riot-games/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:43:40

• The Game Awards 2025 nominees revealed | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-game-awards-2025-reveals-all-the-nominees/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-game-awards-2025-reveals-all-the-nominees/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:44:06

• old: "Microsoft, TCP/IP, Open Source, and Licensing || kuro5hin.org" https://web.archive.org/web/20051114154320/http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory%3Bsid%3D2001%2F6%2F19%2F05641%2F7357 s/couldn't/wouldn't/g;    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:44:29

• "Trump is not have all the mentals. McDonald’s. Water. Sir! (Very strong.)" https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-not-have-all-the-mentals-cognitive-functioning    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:44:59

• "Kyle Cheney is one of the only people noting that this is not coming in isolation, citing these six (he says seven) signs that Trump is losing his grip." https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/18/trump-trips-over-own-feet-hastening-parallel-retreats/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:45:17

• "The Privatization of American Power - by Garry Kasparov" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/the-privatization-of-american-power    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:45:27

• not The Onion https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/khashoggi-trump-saudi-crown-prince.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:45:41

• "Do Better, Don’t Get Embarrassed" https://json.blog/2025/11/18/do-better-dont-get-embarrassed.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:45:54

• Guild Wars Reforged announced to release in December and will be Steam Deck Verified | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/guild-wars-reforged-announced-to-release-in-december-and-will-be-steam-deck-verified/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:47:13

• Playnite may get a Linux version during 2026 as the creator plans a move to Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/playnite-may-get-a-linux-version-during-2026-as-the-creator-plans-a-move-to-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:47:33

• EU member states agree on voluntary chat monitoring | "Interne Dokumente: EU-Staaten einigen sich auf freiwillige Chatkontrolle" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2025/interne-dokumente-eu-staaten-einigen-sich-auf-freiwillige-chatkontrolle/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:48:09

• "Saudi wealth does have a bottom. Trump is about to find it." https://www.semafor.com/article/11/18/2025/saudi-wealth-does-have-a-bottom-trump-is-about-to-find-it    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:48:21

• "Netherlands court upholds decision rejecting asylum for US transgender woman" https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/netherlands-court-upholds-decision-rejecting-asylum-for-us-transgender-woman/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:48:32

• "Mozilla Unveils Plans for New 'AI Window' Browsing Mode in Firefox, Opens Signups" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/11/18/018202 https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/14/Mozilla_Handed_Over_Control_Over_Firefox_to_Microsoft_Now_Firef.shtml    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:49:02

• "Trump Told a Woman, ‘Quiet, Piggy,’ When She Asked Him About Epstein" https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2025/11/trump-comments-denigrating-women-reporters-pattern/684974/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:49:56

• Chat Control 2 without mandatory mass surveillance – now the decision is being hammered out in the Council of Ministers | "Chat Control 2 utan obligatorisk massövervakning – nu klubbas beslutet i ministerrådet" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/11/18/chat-control-2-utan-obligatorisk-massovervakning-nu-klubbas-beslutet-i-ministerradet/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:50:22

• "'No more new questions': 'Piggy.' 'Terrible.' Trump lashes out at female reporters" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2355821.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:50:35

• "Russia strengthens operations in Baltic states – increasingly recruiting youth" https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2749197/russia-strengthens-operations-in-baltic-states-increasingly-recruiting-youth    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:50:48

• "Another Federal appeals court has overruled arguments by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) that its checkpoint staff are immune from any liability for sexual assaults or other offenses committed in the course of their official duties." ☛ https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/11/18/another-court-turns-down-tsa-appeal-for-impunity-for-checkpoint-staff/ | Source: Papers Please    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:55:22

• "This isn’t just about AI—it’s about fundamentally redefining what copyright protects. And once again, something that should be perfectly fine is being treated as an evil that must be punished, all because some new machine did it." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/18/book-reports-potentially-copyright-infringing-thanks-to-court-attacks-on-llms/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:59:00

• "U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued his ruling Tuesday after the historic antitrust trial wrapped up in late May." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/meta-antitrust-victory-facebook-instagram-whatsapp-9.6983652 | Source: CBC    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 06:59:38

• "The ruling is the latest blow to the government’s effort to challenge Big Tech companies’ dominance over the [Internet] after another federal judge in September refused to break up Google for monopolizing the online search market." ☛ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/judge-rules-that-meta-doesnt-have-a-social-media-monopoly-00656616 | Source: Politico LLC    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:00:06

• "A federal judge on Tuesday handed Meta a victory, ruling against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in an antitrust suit that claimed the social media giant stifled competition and bolstered a monopoly by buying upstart rivals." ☛ https://text.npr.org/2025/11/18/nx-s1-5495626/meta-ftc-instagram-whatsapp-antitrust-ruling | Source: NPR    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:00:18

• "The decision hands a defeat to the Federal Trade Commission, the US antitrust watchdog, which sued Meta in 2020 claiming the company secured a monopoly in social media by purchasing its rivals." ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crklgrpdke8o | Source: BBC    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:00:30

• "To blunt government efforts to rein in the most powerful tech companies, Silicon Valley has increasingly pointed to rapid technological advances." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/technology/meta-google-antitrust-tech.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:00:54

• "The case posed an existential challenge to the company, charging that it had simply purchased Instagram and WhatsApp to stave off competition." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/us-meta-wins-major-antitrust-case-avoids-forced-break-up/a-74798391 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:01:41

• "District Judge James E. Boasberg rejected the Federal Trade Commission’s argument that Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp violated antitrust laws." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/18/meta-antitrust-whatsapp-instagram/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:01:51

• "Viagogo, meanwhile, said that processes to verify tickets would be a more effective way to stop illegal bot activity than limiting resale prices." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/18/stubhub-ticket-resale-caps/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:02:19

• "Everyone knows it's broken. Creators hate making clickbait titles but do it anyway." ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/the-weight-is-optional/ | Source: Greg Morris    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:03:09

• "Washington is once again preparing to welcome Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on Nov. 17." ☛ https://dawnmena.org/the-trump-administration-is-enabling-and-exploiting-the-saudi-regimes-repression/ | Source: Democracy for the Arab World Now    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:03:41

• "For a leader whose toxicity over a horrific killing made him a pariah, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has come a remarkably long way." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-canada-9.6983422 | Source: CBC    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:03:58

• "The president described the journalist, who had been critical of the crown prince’s policies, as “extremely controversial,” saying “a lot of people didn’t like that gentleman.”" ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/trump-defends-saudi-crown-prince-dismisses-human-rights-concerns-during-white-house-meeting/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:04:23

• "The US president mounted an extraordinary defence of Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, as he welcomed him to the White House for the first time since the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/11/18/donald-trump-mohammed-bin-salman-white-house-live/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:07:36

• "President Bone-Spurs capes for Prince Bone-Saw" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/11/president-bone-spurs-capes-for-prince-bone-saw/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:08:09

• "During the Biden administration, U.S. intelligence officials released a report determining that Prince Mohammed had ordered the killing, but the White House declined to take direct action against him." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/khashoggi-trump-saudi-crown-prince.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:08:18

• "The visit is the prince's first since the grisly 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of Saudi agents" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/saudi-prince-calls-khashoggi-killing-a-mistake-on-us-visit/a-74794067 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:08:46

• "All the tawdry details aside, between Nuzzi’s ethical lapses, the revelations from the Epstein emails of journalists withholding information, and Trump’s continued degradation of the press, what’s been reinforced is a crisis of elite control of journalism and of profound rot." ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-elite-journalism-nuzzi-lizza-rfk-jr-trump | Source: Marisa Kabas    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:09:14

• "on politically-motivated charges." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/in-the-city-of-freedom-part-ii | Source: The Next Move    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:09:42

• "HOPE was held at St. John’s University in 2022, 2024, and 2025, and was going to be held there in 2026, as well." ☛ https://www.404media.co/hope-hacking-conference-banned-from-university-venue-over-apparent-anti-police-agenda/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:10:02

• "What we're told - and what we find rather hard to believe - is that all of this came about because a single person thought we were promoting an anti-police agenda." ☛ https://www.2600.com/content/hope-conference-banned-st-johns-university | Source: 2600    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:10:22

• "What we're told - and what we find rather hard to believe - is that all of this came about because a single person thought we were promoting an anti-police agenda." ☛ https://www.2600.com/content/hope-conference-banned-st-johns-university | Source: 2600    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:10:37

• "So it’s certainly possible that NBC executives could fire Seth Meyers in order to gain regulatory approval of Warner Brothers, but they, of course, won’t admit there would be any connection between the two." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/18/trump-brendan-carr-threaten-to-censor-some-more-comedians-for-the-crime-of-comedy/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:10:53

• "The videos have become commonplace. Federal officers wearing masks and bulletproof vests subdue a moped driver in the middle of a busy D.C. street." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/favorite-statute-section-111-ice/684961/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:11:15

• "Arkhangelsk college students lost a beloved American studies scholar earlier this month." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/11/19/russian-university-fires-long-time-american-studies-scholar-amid-online-attacks-on-his-family | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:11:31

• "Over the past few years, a new technology has become mainstream: AI. But still, no candidate has unlocked AI’s potential to revolutionize political campaigns." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/ai-and-voter-engagement.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:14:22

• "This initiative aims to accelerate the research, development and industrial deployment of quantum technologies in the EU." ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/15512-EU-Quantum-Act_en | Source: European Commission    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:14:46

• "AI is both a set of technologies, such as neural networks and transformer models, and a range of rhetorical claims. The technology and the claims are only loosely connected." ☛ https://www.danmcquillan.org/irish_parliament_opening_statement.html | Source: Dan McQuillan    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:14:54

• "Never trust a person who wants to live forever." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-entropy-budget | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:15:07

• "Because once someone has decided they should persist indefinitely, everyone else becomes a threat to that project. Not because you’re malicious, but because you exist. You breathe their air."    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:15:28

• "Chatter about an AI bubble has been everywhere lately, and top tech companies like Google, Meta, and Microsoft have doubled down on their AI investments for 2026." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-4-things-you-need-for-a-tech-bubble/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:15:39

• "The multiyear deal, which is expected to generate more than $100 million in revenue for OpenAI" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/18/intuit-partners-openai-100m-deal-integrate-finance-applications-chatgpt/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:15:52

• "While Canadian politicians are still caught up in their AI love affair, panic is rippling through the industry—and the AI bubble may be about to burst, with massively damaging consequences for Canada." ☛ https://breachmedia.ca/ai-bubble-may-be-about-to-burst/ | Source: Breach Media    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:16:25

• Breakthrough Helps Scientists Grow More Realistic Human Brain Models ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/breakthrough-helps-scientists-grow-more-realistic-human-brain-models    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:18:46

• Scientists Have Discovered a Special Type of Immune Cell That Slows Aging ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-discovered-a-special-type-of-immune-cell-that-slows-aging    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:18:55

• This Is What Time You Should Eat Dinner During Winter ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-is-what-time-you-should-eat-dinner-during-winter    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:19:03

• "Over the weekend, I did some more modifications and enhancements to my bike. I finally mounted some compatible mudguards after I initially bought some incompatible ones when I bought my bike." ☛ https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2025/11/final-ride-of-the-year | Source: Jan Lukas Else    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:19:32

• "It turns out that single different number is the check digit. Entering our Golf’s VIN into the NHTSA decoder validates. The one from the dealership? Nope." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/blog/hit-by-a-truck/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:19:42

• "research at IBM is some kind of gimmick, these days. Talking about Quantum nonsense." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:20:14

• "Gartner warns that fossil fuel dominance in on-site power generation is not sustainable, given the rapid rise in datacenter energy consumption due to AI servers." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/fossil_fuel_ai_datacenter/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:20:24

• "Solar remains the country’s fastest-growing source of new generating capacity, largely from utility-scale photovoltaic projects developed by electric utilities and independent power producers." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/eia-fewer-u-s-solar-projects-reporting-delays-as-developers-adjust-schedules/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:20:36

• "When two people book the same flight, they can get wildly different carbon footprints from online calculators." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-11-flight-carbon-footprint-accurate.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:21:06

• "Saudi Arabia is pitching itself to US tech firms as a low-cost compute hub, with its ample land and cheap energy making it an attractive place for hyperscalers to build capacity." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/11/18/2025/saudi-set-to-announce-slew-of-ai-deals-with-us-firms | Source: Semafor Inc http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/17/Slop_Nihilism_is_Funded_by_Big_Oil.shtml    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:21:32

• "Opening 80 million acres in the Gulf is a recipe for more spills, more carbon pollution and more damage to coastal communities and marine life" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/environmentalists-accuse-trump-of-rubber-stamping-gulf-of-mexico-oil-sale/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:21:57

• "But in a few short weeks, the deal has generated intense controversy." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/palabra/2025/11/data-centers-are-the-deserts-thirsty-new-neighbor.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:24:34

• "The report analyzes the policies of 63 countries worldwide, which combined are responsible for 90% of greenhouse gas emissions." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/climate/2025-11-18/us-joins-saudi-arabia-iran-and-russia-in-the-group-of-countries-doing-the-least-to-combat-climate-change.html | Source: El País    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:24:54

• "Experts and international bodies note that by 2025 the drought is no longer merely a climatic phenomenon; years of poor water management, state policies and long-term environmental neglect have turned it into a structural collapse." ☛ https://english.anf-news.com/ecology/drought-pushes-eastern-kurdistan-and-lake-urmia-basin-to-collapse-82260 |    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:25:20

• "searchable and downloadable format" ☛ https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/469588/jeffrey-epstein-files-congress-doj-donald-trump | Source: Vox    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:26:05

• "And then, he says, he never heard another word from Coinbase, despite four follow-up emails sent in January." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/17/coinbase_breach_timeline/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:26:13

• "On November 19, the European Commission will present its latest attempt to achieve this by the end of the decade." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/wider-europe-jozwiak-military-schengen-eu/33593920.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:29:13

• "Yet there is something real buried underneath Musk’s bluster" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/elon-musk-tesla-optimus/684968/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:29:25

• "One vulnerability is still not fixed after a 90-day disclosure window that ended in October 2024. It remains unaddressed as of this publication." ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/18/we-found-cryptography-bugs-in-the-elliptic-library-using-wycheproof/ | Source: Trail of Bits    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:30:21

• "Finally, we would like to reiterate that, even if deployed voluntarily, on-device detection technologies cannot be considered a reasonable tool to mitigate risks, as there is no proven benefit, while the potential for harm and abuse is enormous." ☛ https://csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Nov2025 |    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:31:13

• "Following a major public outcry, a clarification in the EU’s controversial “Chat Control” law appeared to secure a victory for privacy advocates." ☛ https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-chat-control-proposal-still-poses-high-risks-despite-removal-of-mandatory-scanning-experts-warn/ | Source: Patrick Breyer    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:31:43

• "ARC says it informed lawmakers and customers about the decision earlier this month." ☛ https://www.404media.co/airlines-will-shut-down-program-that-sold-your-flights-records-to-government/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:31:59

• "The groups argue San Jose police often violate the California Constitution by using records from automated license plate readers" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/civil-rights-watchdogs-sue-san-jose-police-over-deeply-invasive-traffic-camera-searches/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:32:27

• "In order to biometrically identify you, a company typically will take your image and extract a faceprint by taking tiny measurements of your face and converting that into a series of numbers that is saved for later." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/18/the-legal-case-against-rings-face-recognition-feature/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:32:46

• "The original passport photo is loaded with the aura of use, brads punched through, ink smeared on the photo, a stamp across its edge." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2025/11/17/a-study-in-aura/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:33:03

• "So yeah, it’s cold and lonely out here. I’ll keep at it though: I think the benefits that come from having my own place for my code is worth it." ☛ https://lmika.org/2025/11/19/github-fomo.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:34:35

• Windows TCO: "Sitting alongside Cairncross was Mandiant cofounder Kevin Mandia, who argued that the current asymmetry in US cyber posture" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/the_us_wants_to_go/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:36:16

• Windows TCO: "Several party websites — including those of the Conservatives, the Red-Green Alliance, the Moderates and the ruling Social Democrats" ☛ https://therecord.media/denmark-election-political-government-websites-ddos-incidents | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:36:28

• "When you think of social media, many of the platforms you think of are what we call proprietary: their underlying software is private to the companies that build them, and it’s very difficult to move your data or your connections anywhere else." ☛ https://werd.io/the-state-of-the-open-social-web/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:39:07

• "Findings This cohort study of 14 350 participants in South Australia during the 4 years before, during, and after the pandemic found rapid increases in social media use compared with all other activities." ☛ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2841335 | Source: JAMA    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:39:20

• "Reading for fun: The proportion of children who never read for fun increased from 11% to 53%" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-11-social-media-soars-kids-sports.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:39:41

• "But also, hiding the fact that they are part of the process is very harmful. Without acknowledging the work of human helpers, the entire industry of celebrity and/or famous people memoirs could get inundated by AI slop." ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/11/just-say-no-to-ai-talking-openly-about.html | Source: Becky Spratford    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:40:11

• "Linux and Git inventor Linus Torvalds discussed AI in software development in an interview earlier this month" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/linus_torvalds_vibe_coding/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:40:39

• "Most corporations operate with an understanding that their servers will remain relevant for between three and five years" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/gpu-depreciation-could-be-the-next-big-crisis-coming-for-ai-hyperscalers-after-spending-billions-on-buildouts-next-gen-upgrades-may-amplify-cashflow-quirks | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:44:35

• "Large language models, or LLMs — the artificial intelligence systems that power chatbots like ChatGPT — are increasingly being used as sources of quick answers." ☛ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-chatbots-learning-superficial-llm | Source: Science News    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:44:49

• "But financial markets today are larger, more complex, and less tightly tied to any single lever such as interest rates." ☛ https://theconversation.com/is-the-ai-bubble-about-to-burst-what-to-watch-for-as-the-markets-wobble-270113 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:45:03

• "For PIRG, the actions are a welcome move, but a minor victory." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-blocks-toymaker-ai-teddy-bear | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:45:44

• "None of this works in Kiosk mode, by the way. It’s only for digital signage." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/windows_bsod_digital_signage_mode/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:46:16

• "Today, I was in the middle of writing a blog post when things suddenly stopped making sense." ☛ https://afranca.com.br/the-fragile-web-we-built | Source: Andre Franca    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:46:29

• "With the memories of the latest AWS outage still fresh in our heads, we were treated to another web outage today." ☛ https://marijkeluttekes.dev/blog/articles/2025/11/18/oh-hey-the-internet-is-broken-again/ | Source: Marijke Luttekes    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:46:41

• "But as I signed on to my computer for the morning to get to work, I quickly saw that Cloudflare was having a major outage." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/i-was-so-close-to-saying-something-nice-about-dia/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:46:54

• "Cloudflare said last year that about 20 percent of the web runs through its network, which is supposed to share the load to keep websites online in the face of traffic spikes and DDoS attacks." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/823711/cloudflare-outage-postmortem | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:47:17

• "Knecht said Cloudflare would soon share a detailed explanation of why the incident occurred." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/cloudflare-says-highly-disruptive-outage-not-caused-by-attack/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:47:31

• "One of the most significant steps is the final deprecation of System V init script support" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/systemd-259-rc1-previews-sysv-script-removal/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:48:30

• "we failed our customers and the broader internet" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/cloudflare-apologizes-after-outage-takes-major-websites-offline | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:48:56

• "It said many websites were showing 500 errors – this is a generic hypertext transfer protocol status code that means the website’s server encountered an unexpected problem and could not fulfil a request." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/cloudflare-meltdown-knocks-major-websites-offline/274406/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:49:10

• "triggered by a change to one of our database systems' permissions which caused the database to output multiple entries into a ‘feature file’ used by our Bot Management system." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/19/cloudflare_incident_report/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:51:02

• "the company was named as a victim by the CL0P ransomware group earlier this month as part of the threat group’s campaign targeting Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerabilities." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/logitech-confirms-data-breach-cl0p-oracle/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:51:26

• "That's what happened with Logitech recently, which has just filed a Form K-8 with the SEC, confirming it was [breache] and 1.8 terabytes of data was taken, but that sensitive data wasn't affected." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/hackers-steal-1-8tb-of-data-from-pc-peripheral-vendor-logitech-firm-says-zero-day-vulnerability-to-blame-no-sensitive-information-stolen | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:51:52

• "If your organization uses Microsoft Exchange-based email, you’ll be happy to hear that Thunderbird’s latest monthly Release version 145" ☛ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thunderbird-adds-native-microsoft-exchange-email-support/ | Source: Thunderbird    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:52:38

• "Daddy, are you working or playing?" ☛ https://afranca.com.br/fatherhood-in-the-age-of-screens | Source: Andre Franca    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:54:06

• "Now, as a person who sees systems, who intuits chaos, who can grasp these concepts of swirling infinities" ☛ https://hazelweakly.me/blog/to-be-a-leader-of-systems/ | Source: Hazel Weakly    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:00:45

• "maiden flight at the International Supercomputing Conference" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/17/europe_jupiter_supercomputer/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:01:48

• "I encountered the question today of what to do with missing values when conducting null hypothesis testing or regression?" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/why-you-should-not-use-mean-imputation-for-missing-data/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:01:58

• "This is a textbook ops manual. Next time I need to raise an invoice, I need to be following a process. Last time, I just made it up on the fly." ☛ https://johnnydecimal.com/20-29-communication/22-blog/22.00.0169-an-invoice-disappears/ | Source: Johnny Decimal    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:02:52

• "Outages, you say? Of course I have stories about outages, and limits, and some limits causing outages, and other things just screwing life up." ☛ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/11/18/down/ | Source: Rachel    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:03:02

• "And, yeah, I'm getting there! Quitting work (don't call it FIRE) wasn't as traumatic as I thought." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/2025-a-year-in-review/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:03:14

• "the closer you get to launch, the less you know" ☛ https://thomasrigby.com/posts/til-cone-of-uncertainty/ | Source: Thomas Rigby    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:03:28

• "There is a peace in knowing that my words sit on my device, readable by anything from TextEdit to Ulysses. No login required, no server ping needed." ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/simple-local-txt/ | Source: Greg Morris    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:21:11

• "So why would I bring it up?" ☛ https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/11/why-does-my-device-stick-to-the-wrong-wi-fi-router/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:21:22

• "The intention here is not to list all available options, but list the decisions I made. The goal here is not to self-host a complete redundant DNS server setup." ☛ https://linderud.dev/blog/self-hosting-dns-for-no-fun-but-a-little-profit/ | Source: Morten Linderud    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:21:34

• "I found this so surprising that I tested it on our Linux servers as well as a FreeBSD and an OpenBSD machine." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ShebangRelativePathSurprise | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:21:53

• "When I talk to people about Python package management in 2025 I see the following tools in active use; uv, pixi, pip, conda, mamba, micromamba and poetry." ☛ https://jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2025/python-package-managers-uv-vs-pixi/ | Source: Jacob Tomlinson    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:22:10

• [Old] "[...] And we actually had the cover of Publisher's Weekly at some point in the late 1990s and it said, 'The Internet was built with O'Reilly books.' And nobody would think anything of that." ☛ https://www.econtalk.org/tim-oreilly-on-technology-and-work/ |    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:22:36

• [Old] "[With Perl], I was trying to encourage what I call diagonal thinking. Traditionally computer languages try to be as orthogonal as possible, meaning their features are at all at right angles to each other, metaphorically speaking." ☛ https://techgnosis.com/perl-creator-larry-wall/ |    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:22:49

• "Congrats to the team for the new Rakudo compiler, Release #187 (2025.11)." ☛ https://rakudoweekly.blog/2025/11/17/2025-46-advent-alert-release-187/ | Source: Rakulang    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:23:20

• "Trick question! Perl is not dead. I’ll show you what I mean, and then still answer what I think killed Perl." ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/what-killed-perl | Source: Chris    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:23:31

• "my code runs in a couple of cycles" ☛ https://jerf.org/iri/post/2025/the_uselessness_of_fast/ | Source: Jeremy Bowers    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:33:09

• "1993 is 32 years ago. The Symbolics 3600, probably the first Lisp machine that sold in more than tiny numbers, was introduced in 1983, ten years earlier. People who used Lisp machines other than as historical artefacts are old today." ☛ https://www.tfeb.org/fragments/2025/11/18/the-lost-cause-of-the-lisp-machines/ | Source: Tim Bradshaw    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:33:18

• "These concepts are mostly orthogonal. You can switch from vector to a linked list, or even change the programming language, affecting only the data type." ☛ https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/ntoh-hton-is-a-bad-api/ | Source: Alisa Sireneva    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:35:32

• "As software developers we are keen to discuss APIs, interfaces, and the beauty of well-crafted systems." ☛ https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-11-17-the-api-of-a-camera-and-the-unix-manifesto | Source: Eliseo Martelli    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:35:45

• "When I started at AWS in 2008, we ran the EC2 control plane on a tree of MySQL databases: a primary to handle writes, a secondary to take over from the primary" ☛ https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/11/18/consistency.html | Source: Marc Brooker    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:36:28

• "The Blender Foundation has released Blender 5.0, a major update for this popular open-source 3D creation suite that touches nearly every aspect of the app, from minor details to foundational shifts." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/blender-5-0-released-with-a-ui-overhaul-smarter-nodes-and-hdr-support/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:41:57

• "On the user interface side, when you open Blender 5.0 for the first time, the interface feels different. The developers have unified the theme system, removing more than 300 options, which is one of the biggest structural changes in years, to make custom theme creation and maintenance more manageable. However, some existing custom themes built for Blender 4.5 may break as a result."    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:42:09

• "ClamAV will retire outdated signatures on December 16, reducing both databases by about 50% to improve performance and trim update costs." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/clamav-to-cut-signature-database-size-by-50-percentage/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:42:30

• "In this article I compare three open-source Android-derived firmwares: Lineage OS, ∕e∕OS, and Graphene OS." ☛ https://kevinboone.me/lineage-eos-graphene.html | Source: Kevin Boone    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:49:24

• "Most eSIM providers let you hold multiple plans at once. You keep your home number active for calls and texts while using a local data plan for [Internet] access" ☛ https://greycoder.com/using-esims-to-get-inexpensive-cellular-service-when-traveling/ | Source: GreyCoder    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:49:31

• "This article will delve into a particular section of the talk, from ~27 minutes onwards, that sets out NVIDIA’s stance on language-based security." ☛ https://www.adacore.com/blog/proving-safety-at-scale-spark-risc-v-and-nvidias-security-strategy |    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:50:04

• "MSX2 is second generation of MSX retro computer released in 1985 by Microsoft/ASCII corporation and was popular mostly in Japan." ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/msx2-retro-computer-emulator-released-for-rp2350pc/ | Source: Olimex    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:50:14

• "The second edition is a major combination of my first two books, to fully cover ARM 64-Bit Assembly Language on newer Raspberry Pis, preferably at least the 5." ☛ https://smist08.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/raspberry-pi-assembly-language-programming-second-edition/ | Source: Stephen Smith    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 08:50:24

• "We’re thrilled to announce that Zorin OS 18 has amassed 1 million downloads in just over a month since its release, breaking all previous records." ☛ https://blog.zorin.com/2025/11/18/test-the-upgrade-from-zorin-os-17-to-18-and-celebrating-1-million-downloads-of-zorin-os-18/ | Source: Zorin Group    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 09:04:19

• "The new Debian Libre Live Images provide amd64 live and installer ISOs built entirely without proprietary firmware, addressing a long-standing gap created after Debian’s 2022 decision to include non-free firmware in its official images for the Bookworm and Trixie releases." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/debian-libre-live-images-debut-for-fully-free-debian-installations/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 09:04:58

• "The target audience is users who prefer a system free of licensing restrictions and proprietary blobs while remaining close to the experience offered by the regular Debian Live Images. The goal of this initiative is to provide a Debian environment that does not require accepting the restrictive licenses associated with proprietary firmware."    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 09:05:15

• "The new Debian Libre Live Images provide amd64 live and installer ISOs built entirely without proprietary firmware, addressing a long-standing gap created after Debian’s 2022 decision to include non-free firmware in its official images" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/debian-libre-live-images-debut-for-fully-free-debian-installations/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 09:05:43

• "Juha Uotila has announced the release of Aurora 43, an important update of the project's Fedora-based immutable Linux distribution made for the desktop. This version updates the underlying system to Fedora 43 and also introduces KDE Plasma 6.5: [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12638 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 09:06:26

• "Breeze, the default Plasma theme engine, receives corrections, including a palette reset fix and improved QQC2 menu styling." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-5-3-desktop-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 09:06:47

• "Released in June 1996, Quake had to ride three technological shock-waves during its lifetime." ☛ https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_chunnel/index.html | Source: Fabian Sanglard    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 09:07:07

• "“Vietnam 1965-1975” was conceived in the early 1980s when Nick Karp, a Princeton University student, needed to complete his senior thesis." ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/11/19/can-a-tabletop-game-explain-why-america-lost-the-vietnam-war/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 09:07:19

• "This week Steve and Noah talk about the things you didn't know you knew about Linux. Scott Jenson joins the program to talk about principals of UX/UI design." ☛ https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/467 | Source: The Ask Noah Show    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 09:07:45

• "Explore technology, inclusive teaching, and creative projects at the Code Club Conference 2025." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/code-club-conference-2025-creativity-community-and-collaboration-in-cambridge/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 09:10:06

• "Conclusive Engineering has introduced the KSTR-IMX93 on Kickstarter, a Linux-capable SBC integrating Wi-Fi 6, cellular IoT, Bluetooth LE 5.4, Zigbee, Thread, GNSS" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/linux-ready-kstr-imx93-sbc-debuts-on-kickstarter-with-wi-fi-6-cellular-iot-and-802-15-4-connectivity/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 09:10:42

• It's proprietary, it does not actually run in GNU/Linux, and end of support implies a lack of interest ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-says-sql-server-adoption-on-linux-is-phenomenal-ends-support-for-suse-distro/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 09:13:24

• "89.4 MB/Sec" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-enterprise-linux-delivers-deterministic-performance-industrial-tsn | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 09:14:00

• Red Hat selling Microsoft and back doors ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/enhance-workload-security-confidential-containers-azure-red-hat-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 09:14:58

• Red Hat selling Microsoft and back doors again ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/openshift-virtualization-now-generally-available-azure-red-hat-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 09:16:07

• More selling of buzzwords (bubble): "While AI solutions are often positioned as immediately deployable, successful enterprise implementation requires strategic planning and systematic integration." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/building-consistent-ai-platform-customization-meets-enterprise-data | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 09:16:52

• "Even with powerful services like Amazon Bedrock and DevOps Guru, organizations face hurdles: [...]" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-ansible-certified-collection-amazonai-automate-ai-infrastructure | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 10:58:34

• "In today’s dynamic digital landscape, collaboration between industry and government is essential for developing innovative, customized solutions that enable agencies to better serve citizens." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-2025-north-america-public-sector-partner-pinnacle-award-winners | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 10:58:45

• "In today’s dynamic digital landscape, collaboration between industry and government is essential for developing innovative, customized solutions that enable agencies to better serve citizens." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-2025-north-america-public-sector-partner-pinnacle-award-winners | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 10:59:10

• IGF 2025 releases new guide on financing community connectivity ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/11/18/igf-2025-releases-new-guide-on-financing-community-connectivity/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:00:14

• Your elected leaders: Akinori Maemura, long-serving former APNIC EC Chair ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/11/19/your-elected-leaders-akinori-maemura-long-serving-former-apnic-ec-chair/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:01:21

• IBM Red Hat promoting the chatbot bubble ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/18/reduce-llm-benchmarking-costs-oversaturation-detection    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:03:00

• nmilosev: TPU Monitoring in MLFlow Part 2 ☞ https://nmilosev.svbtle.com/tpu-monitoring-in-mlflow-part-2    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:03:46

• Chinese Spies Are Using Microsoft's Surveillance Arm LinkedIn to Target U.K. Lawmakers, MI5 Warns ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/world/europe/chinese-spies-linkedin-uk.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:04:16

• Google Pulls Down Hey Hi (AI) Chatbot After It Accuses Senator of Terrible Crime ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-chatbot-accuses-senator-crime    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:04:54

• MI5 Warns Lawmakers That Chinese Spies Are Trying to Reach Them via Microsoft's Surveillance Arm LinkedIn ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/mi5-warns-lawmakers-that-chinese-spies-are-trying-to-reach-them-via-linkedin/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:05:17

• Political Tech Summit ☞ https://edri.org/take-action/events/political-tech-summit/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:05:47

• The DSA and Platform Regulation Conference 2026 ☞ https://edri.org/take-action/events/the-dsa-and-platform-regulation-conference-2026/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:06:17

• China’s DeepSeek Chatbot Expansion in Africa Raises Alarms ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/11/chinas-deepseek-chatbot-expansion-in-africa-raises-alarms/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chinas-deepseek-chatbot-expansion-in-africa-raises-alarms    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:07:20

• Israeli Airstrike on Refugee Camp in Lebanon Kills at Least 13, Officials Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/world/middleeast/israel-strike-lebanon-camp.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:07:39

• Israeli army says it struck 'Hamas training compound' in Lebanon, killing at least 13 ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20251118-israeli-army-says-it-struck-hamas-training-compound-in-lebanon-killing-at-least-13    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:07:56

• Court strikes down Texas map in setback for Convicted Felon over racial gerrymandering ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20251118-texas-racial-gerrymandering-map-trump    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:08:17

• Mexico’s president rejects Convicted Felon’s suggestion of US strikes on cartel targets ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20251119-mexico-president-rejects-trump-usa-cartel-strikes    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:08:30

• ‘Last time the US came to Mexico, they took half the territory,’ Sheinbaum warns: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/politics/last-time-us-mexico-took-territory-sheinbaum-tuesdays-mananera-recapped/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:09:04

• IBM Red Hat "all-in" on buzzwords ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/18/making-sense-llm-customization    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:10:29

• Late Night Linux – Episode 360 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-360/ "then angry and disappointed about Mozilla’s latest nonsense"    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:11:34

• Commission launches market investigations on clown computing services under the Digital Markets Act ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2717    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:12:00

• The Rust Programming Language Blog: Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2025 results ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/11/18/gsoc-2025-results/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:13:27

• MiniOS 5.1.0-rc1 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/minios    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:17:25

• Vladimir Putin fears entering Russian history as the man who lost Ukraine ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/vladimir-putin-fears-entering-russian-history-as-the-man-who-lost-ukraine/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:18:00

• EU accession talks would help Ukraine rein in corruption, says Lithuanian FM ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2749091/eu-accession-talks-would-help-ukraine-rein-in-corruption-says-lithuanian-fm    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:18:11

• Poland Suspects Russian Sabotage Behind Railway Explosion ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/poland-suspects-russian-sabotage-in-railway-explosion/33594773.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:18:23

• Zelenskyy Heads To Turkey Amid Burgeoning Energy Sector Corruption Scandal ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-zelenskyy-energy-scandal-corruption-turkey-war-talks/33594741.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:18:34

• Danube Tanker Fire From Russian Drone Strike Extinguished, Romania Says ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/danube-tanker-fire-russian-drone-strike-extinguished-romania-ukraine/33594740.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:18:57

• Poland Blames Russian-Backed Ukrainians for Railway Sabotage ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/world/europe/poland-railway-sabotage-russia-ukraine.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:19:08

• Zelensky Will Try to Revive Peace Talks With Russia During Turkey Visit ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/world/europe/zelensky-russia-ukraine-talks-turkey.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:19:51

• South African Parts Found in Russian Drone ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/11/south-african-parts-found-in-russian-drone/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=south-african-parts-found-in-russian-drone    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:25:33

• Russia says Ukraine fired U.S.-made ATACMS missiles at Voronezh ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/russia-says-ukraine-fired-us-made-atacms-missiles-at-voronezh    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:25:50

• "Poland links railway sabotage to two Ukrainians working for Russia’s FSB" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/11/19/poland-links-railway-sabotage-to-two-ukrainians-working-for-russia-s-fsb | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:26:06

• Operationalizing the National Defense Industrial Strategy for great power competition ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/operationalizing-the-national-defense-industrial-strategy-for-great-power-competition/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:26:32

• UN endorses US-backed Gaza peace resolution ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/un-endorses-us-backed-gaza-peace-resolution/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:26:55

• Despite change of ownership, Mere retail chain remains in Russian hands ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2749364/despite-change-of-ownership-mere-retail-chain-remains-in-russian-hands    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:27:11

• Russia strengthens operations in Baltic states – increasingly recruiting youth ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2749197/russia-strengthens-operations-in-baltic-states-increasingly-recruiting-youth    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:27:22

• Cross-Border False Information Targets Côte d’Ivoire ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/11/cross-border-false-information-targets-cote-divoire/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:27:52

• Could JNIM Eventually Control Burkina Faso? ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/11/could-jnim-eventually-control-burkina-faso/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=could-jnim-eventually-control-burkina-faso    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:28:21

• Microsoft's Surveillance Arm LinkedIn ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/11/19/uk-intelligence-agency-warns-mps-over-chinese-spies-posing-as-headhunters/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:29:08

• "Millions in Russia still lack clean drinking water" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/11/18/amid-record-spending-on-the-war-millions-in-russia-still-lack-clean-drinking-water | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:30:12

• "the new Russian propaganda channel launching in Kyrgyzstan" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/11/18/meet-nomad-tv-the-new-russian-propaganda-channel-launching-in-kyrgyzstan | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:30:38

• How We Linked the Auto Industry to Lead Poisoning in Nigeria ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/world/africa/lead-poisoning-auto-industry-car-batteries.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:34:05

• In Washington, Birds Are Giving ‘Yelp Reviews’ of Forest Restoration Work ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/climate/washington-birds-habitat-health.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:34:20

• Scientists Call for Global Shift Away From Ultraprocessed Foods ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/well/eat/ultraprocessed-foods-health.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:35:19

• Michigan hunters have taken over 50,000 deer since opening weekend ☞ https://bridgemi.com/outdoors-life/michigan-hunters-have-taken-over-50000-deer-since-opening-weekend/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:35:50

• Michigan’s health is poor. Can better transportation, food and schools fix it? ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/michigans-health-is-poor-can-better-transportation-food-and-schools-fix-it/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:36:21

• Jeju Air Crash Investigators to Hold Public Hearing as They Face Criticism ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/world/asia/jeju-air-crash-boeing-south-korea-hearing.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:37:09

• Bucheon’s battle with clickbait: Can this South Korean city tame live-stream chaos? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/bucheons-battle-with-clickbait-can-this-south-korean-city-tame-live-stream-chaos    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:37:46

• South Korean military to launch adjustment programme for multicultural recruits in 2026 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/military-to-launch-adjustment-programme-for-multicultural-recruits-in-2026    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:38:11

• As the ringgit strengthens, what will it take for Malaysians working in Singapore to return home? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/as-the-ringgit-strengthens-what-will-it-take-for-malaysians-working-in-singapore-to-return-home    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:39:25

• China premier makes landmark Zambia trip as West vies for investment foothold ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-premier-makes-landmark-zambia-trip-as-west-vies-for-investment-foothold    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:39:47

• China to suspend imports of Japanese seafood amid diplomatic dispute, media reports ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/update-2-china-to-suspend-imports-of-japanese-seafood-amid-diplomatic-dispute-media-reports    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:39:57

• Japan warns citizens in China about safety as diplomatic crisis deepens ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-warns-citizens-in-china-about-safety-as-diplomatic-crisis-deepens    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:40:43

• Giant pandas Chen Xing and Xiao Yue arrive in Malaysia; set for 10-year stay ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/new-giant-panda-pair-landing-in-malaysia-today-set-for-10-year-stay    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:41:31

• China tour groups start cancelling Japan trips as spat simmers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-tour-groups-start-cancelling-japan-trips-as-spat-simmers    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:41:46

• Temple blaze in China blamed on tourists’ ‘irresponsible’ handling of candle, incense ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/temple-blaze-in-china-blamed-on-tourists-irresponsible-handling-of-candle-incense    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:42:08

• China President Pooh-tin Jinping is making Premier Li Qiang his top messenger on world stage ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-president-xi-jinping-is-making-premier-li-qiang-his-top-messenger-on-world-stage    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:42:27

• Japan counts cost of China’s travel boycott as tensions flare ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-counts-cost-of-chinas-travel-boycott-as-tensions-flare    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:42:39

• Japan warns citizens in China over safety amidst Taiwan row ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/11/18/japan-warns-citizens-in-china-over-safety-amidst-taiwan-row/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:48:02

• As Europe aims for "digital sovereignty" ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20251118-as-europe-aims-for-digital-sovereignty-biomedical-agentic-ai-could-be-the-next-big-field    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:48:56

• China’s economic slowdown and spillovers to Africa ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/chinas-economic-slowdown-and-spillovers-to-africa/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:49:51

• RustDesk Pulls Ahead of TeamViewer, AnyDesk with Wayland Multi-Scaled Display Support ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/rustdesk-multi-scaled-display-support/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:50:08

• We found cryptography bugs in the elliptic library using Wycheproof ☞ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/18/we-found-cryptography-bugs-in-the-elliptic-library-using-wycheproof/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:50:47

• Hackers turn open-source Hey Hi (AI) framework into global cryptojacking operation ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/ray-ai-cryptojacking-vulnerability-exposed-clusters-attack-oligo-security/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 11:52:36

• "Kubernetes Cluster Goes Mobile In Pet Carrier" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/18/kubernetes-cluster-goes-mobile-in-pet-carrier/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:04:56

• Chrome 142 Update Patches Exploited Zero-Day ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-142-update-patches-exploited-zero-day/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:05:43

• Your journey in tech starts here: introducing the Arduino Starter Kit R4 ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/11/18/your-journey-in-tech-starts-here-introducing-the-arduino-starter-kit-r4/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:09:01

• FSCS to increase deposit protection to £120,000 – what it means for your money ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/fscs-to-increase-deposit-protection-to-120000-what-it-means-for-your-money-aAstz0H6nOnV    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:13:15

• Dutch court surprises with swift decision on Newron’s SPC for Xadago ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/dutch-court-swift-decision-on-newron-spc-for-xadago/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:13:45

• Another International Semiconductor Group Wi-Fi 6 patent monopoly challenge instituted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/11/12/another-isg-wi-fi-6-patent-challenge-instituted patent troll    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:14:14

• DynaIP entity, Random Chat, chat patent monopoly challenge instituted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/11/18/dynaip-entity-random-chat-chat-patent-challenge-instituted    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:18:26

• Patents out of control in Europe. "Completely agree DXThomas with so much you have written. Just a small comment on the applicant/proprietor switching between interpretations. This does sometimes need to happen when the patent monopoly is sold or licenced and a different party is then controlling it."    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:19:14

• From http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/11/first-use-of-g-124-to-broaden-clear.html?showComment=1763474366959#c9093227713645122977    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:19:19

• Lost Profits: Market Reconstruction and Noninfringing Substitutes ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/11/reconstruction-noninfringing-substitutes.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:19:40

• Brendan Gregg: Third Stage Engineering ☞ http://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2025-11-17/third-stage-engineering.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:28:57

• Proprietary systemd v258 ☞ https://0pointer.net/blog/mastodon-stories-for-systemd-v258.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:30:07

• How to run performance tests using benchmark-runner ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/18/how-run-performance-tests-using-benchmark-runner    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:32:27

• Building the digital substation: Exploring the LF Energy SEAPATH architecture on Red Bait Enterprise GNU/Linux ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/18/exploring-lf-energy-seapath-architecture-rhel    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:32:56

• Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1046891/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:33:40

• Ruth Suehle (proprietary, SAS) now speaking for OSI because its chief quit or got canned ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/sustaining-open-source-the-next-25-years-depend-on-what-we-do-together-now    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:34:40

• Tech Talk Recap: Simplifying DevSecOps in Air-Gapped Environments with Zarf ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2025/11/18/tech-talk-recap-simplifying-devsecops-in-air-gapped-environments-with-zarf/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:53:46

• Indonesian teen’s diary and online trail reveal path to Jakarta mosque blasts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesian-teens-diary-and-online-trail-reveal-path-to-jakarta-mosque-blasts    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:54:14

• Thai YouTuber slammed after dancing shirtless on car at Japan’s iconic Fuji-view tourist spot ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thai-youtuber-slammed-after-dancing-shirtless-on-car-at-japans-iconic-fuji-view-tourist-spot    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:54:48

• On Republican Neo-Nazism, Hamas and Israel: An Epidemic of Moral Cowardice ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/opinion/israel-hamas-antisemitism-republicans.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:55:14

• Rodrigo Siqueira: XDC 2025 ☞ https://siqueira.tech/2025-11-18-xdc-2025/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:55:47

• EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.0.32 released ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202511/easyos-excalibur-series-version-7032-released.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:56:51

• Gemini Protocol as a Growing Source of Audience (Mostly Technical People) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/18/Gemini_Protocol_as_a_Growing_Source_of_Audience_Mostly_Technica.shtml    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:57:57

• "they’re making basic mistakes and giving overconfident, even risky advice" ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/can-you-trust-ai-chatgpt-and-other-ai-chatbots-put-to-the-test-aetjt5e0RnPB    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:59:02

• TV Programmes in Geminispace (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/18/TV_Programmes_in_Geminispace.shtml    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 12:59:55

• Destination Linux 443: Will Hey Hi (AI) DESTROY the GNU/Linux Desktop? | New Steam Machine & Essential Apps! ☞ https://destinationlinux.net/443    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:01:28

• GNU/Linux open source warning files.svg created with Inkscape 1.2 (Debian 12) and opened with 1.4 (Debian 13) might not work ☞ https://dwaves.de/2025/11/18/gnu-linux-open-source-warning-files-svg-created-with-inkscape-1-2-debian-12-and-opened-with-1-4-debian-13-might-not-work/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:02:45

• How To Install FreeRADIUS on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-freeradius-manjaro/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:03:31

• How To Install Lazygit on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-lazygit-manjaro/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:03:52

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

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:04:24

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

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:04:40

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

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:05:04

• Common Kubernetes misconfigurations and how to avoid them ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/common-kubernetes-misconfigurations-and-how-to-avoid-them/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:06:14

• How to Make Sense of Law Enforcement in the Streets ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010484295/how-to-make-sense-of-law-enforcement-in-the-streets.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:06:28

• Python is Attempting an Outreach to African-Americans, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Lunduke Has a Problem With That ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/17/Python_is_Attempting_an_Outreach_to_African_Americans_Microsoft.shtml    

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

• Linus Torvalds, Communism, & The WEF ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linus-torvalds-communism-and-the    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:07:04

• How To Install Apache Kafka on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-apache-kafka-almalinux-10/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:07:40

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

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:07:53

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

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:11:27

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

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:11:47

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

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:12:14

• Self-hosting DNS for no fun, but a little profit! ☞ https://linderud.dev/blog/self-hosting-dns-for-no-fun-but-a-little-profit/ "However after setting up an account and paying for the transfer for 4 domains, I realized their DNS services are provided by Clownflare!"    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:12:44

• KDE Plasma 6.5.3 Delivers Bug Fixes Across KWin, Discover, and Breeze ☞ https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-5-3-desktop-released/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:13:14

• Off to Vietnam for two weeks ☞ https://rubenerd.com/off-to-vietnam-for-two-weeks/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:14:21

• Brainchip AKD1500 PCIe/SPI Edge Hey Hi (AI) co-processor to power battery-operated wearables and IoT devices ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/18/brainchip-akd1500-pcie-spi-edge-ai-co-processor-to-power-battery-operated-wearables-and-iot-devices/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:17:33

• HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop running Linux: Introduction to the Series ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hp-probook-440-g8-laptop-running-linux-introduction/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:18:51

• HyprEmoji – modern emoji picker for Hyprland ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hypremoji-modern-emoji-picker-hyprland/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:19:12

• wayscriber – screen annotation tool for Wayland compositors ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/wayscriber-screen-annotation-tool-wayland-compositors/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:24:54

• swiftfetch – simple system information fetch tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/swiftfetch-simple-system-information-fetch-tool/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:25:04

• eyerest – remind your eyes to take a screen break ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/eyerest-remind-eyes-screen-break/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:25:13

• randwall – randomly changes the desktop wallpaper ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/randwall-randomly-changes-desktop-wallpaper/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:26:03

• 14 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Fractal Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fractaltools/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:26:13

• JackMiniMix – simple volume mixer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/jackminimix-simple-volume-mixer/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:26:24

• How to Install ERPNext v15 on Debian 13 ☞ https://www.linuxtuto.com/install-erpnext-v15-on-debian-13/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:27:42

• Terminal Prompt Customization ☞ https://www.linux.org/threads/terminal-prompt-customization.57149/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:28:15

• Valve Announces Pending Release of Steam Machine ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Valve-Announces-Pending-Release-of-Steam-Machine    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:29:37

• Lithuania was right to close Belarus border, says Social Democrat leader ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2749064/lithuania-was-right-to-close-belarus-border-says-social-democrat-leader    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:30:24

• Lithuanian government to decide on reopening Belarus border on Wednesday ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2749346/lithuanian-government-to-decide-on-reopening-belarus-border-on-wednesday    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:31:03

• UN experts warn of Belarus attacks on legal profession ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/un-experts-warn-of-belarus-attacks-on-legal-profession/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:31:41

• Pluralistic: Disney lost Roger Rabbit (18 Nov 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/18/im-not-bad/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:32:03

• AI Platforms, Major Sites Back Online After Clownflare Outage ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/11/ai-platforms-major-sites-back-online-after-cloudflare-outage/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:32:28

• The Librephone project aims to remove proprietary blobs from smartphones running an open-source OS ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/18/librephone-project-remove-proprietary-blobs-smartphones-open-source-os/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:33:13

• Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/app-store-oligopoly    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:33:48

• Daniel Kahn Gillmor: App Store Oligopoly ☞ https://dkg.fifthhorseman.net/blog/2025-app-store-oligopoly.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:34:58

• Video of auxiliary police officer ‘scolding’ children in Penang goes viral ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/video-of-auxiliary-police-officer-scolding-children-in-penang-goes-viral    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:35:56

• Snal 1.39 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/snal    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:37:13

• gabeeOSLinux 6.12.58 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/gabee    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:37:21

• TinkerCAD ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/18/a-quick-primer-on-tinkercads-new-features/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:39:07

• Xubuntu Reveals How its Website Was Hijacked ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/xubuntu-website-breach-report    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 13:58:12

• Increase resolution of webcam viewer ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202511/increase-resolution-of-webcam-viewer.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:21:51

• SeaMonkey 2.53.22 compiled with system ICU ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202511/seamonkey-25322-compiled-with-system-icu.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:22:30

• Workaround to fix printer setup ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202511/workaround-to-fix-printer-setup.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:22:50

• Microsoft itself is the cause of the largest DDoS attacks, so this is somewhat ironic☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/security-software/microsoft-azure-blocks-largest-ddos-attack-in-history-attack-equivalent-to-streaming-3-5-million-netflix-movies-at-once-15-72-terabits-per-second-from-500-000-ip-addresses-tied-to-iot-botnet    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:23:48

• TTABlog Test: Is DANKE Confusable with MERCI for Chocolates? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/11/ttablog-test-is-danke-confusable-with.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:25:04

• A Recap of The People’s Oversight Hearing ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/a-recap-of-the-peoples-oversight-hearing/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:25:29

• Clownflare outage hints at nefarious "traffic spike" as service impact spreads — X, McDonalds go down, company issues statement amidst chaos ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/cloudflare-outage-under-investigation-as-twitter-downdetector-go-down-company-confirms-global-network-issue-clone    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:25:46

• Clownflare Outage Disrupts X, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot and Other Parts of the Internet ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/business/cloudflare-down-challenges-error.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:26:12

• "agents that pilfer through your files" sounds like something from Orwell novels ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsofts-vision-of-ai-native-windows-is-becoming-real-update-introduces-agents-that-pilfer-through-your-files-latest-windows-11-insider-build-includes-experimental-ai-agents-toggle-that-can-perform-tasks-for-you-in-the-background    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:27:14

• CEO Accused of Asking Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot About Something Absolutely Wild ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/court-case-ceo-chatgpt-subnautica-2    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:28:31

• Veterans Demand Congress Pull Troops from American Cities ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/veterans-demand-congress-pull-troops-from-american-cities    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:29:37

• ‘Bare shoulders’ backlash: Malaysia artistes turn to self-censorship amid syariah-oversight concerns ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/bare-shoulders-backlash-malaysias-artists-turn-to-self-censorship-amid-syariah-oversight-concerns    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:30:13

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Team Calls Maduro a ‘Cartel’ Boss. That Word Doesn’t Mean What You Think. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/trump-maduro-drug-cartel.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:30:45

• Public Knowledge is infiltrated by Microsoft though (conflict of interest) ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-responds-to-ftc-v-meta-ruling-further-undermining-competition-in-big-tech/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:32:03

• GIMP 3.2 Hits Release Candidate with Improved Text Editing + More ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/gimp-3-2-release-candidate-highlights    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:45:04

• GIMP 3.2 RC1 Released with SVG Export and New Keyboard Shortcuts ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/11/gimp-3-2-rc1-released-with-svg-export-and-new-keyboard-shortcuts/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:45:32

• Quectel QSM560DR industrial Qualcomm QCM6490/QCS6490 SBC supports Ubuntu, Android, and backdoored Windows ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/18/quectel-qsm560dr-industrial-qualcomm-qcm6490-qcs6490-sbc-supports-ubuntu-android-and-windows/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:45:54

• GIMP 3.2 Release Candidate Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New ☞ https://9to5linux.com/gimp-3-2-release-candidate-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:47:01

• KDE Plasma 6.5.3 Improves Visual Smoothness on Multi-Monitor VRR Setups ☞ https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-5-3-improves-visual-smoothness-on-multi-monitor-vrr-setups    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:47:52

• Debian Libre Live Images Released for Software Freedom Lovers ☞ https://9to5linux.com/debian-libre-live-images-released-for-software-freedom-lovers    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:48:00

• Blender 5.0 Open-Source 3D Graphics App Is Now Available for Download ☞ https://9to5linux.com/blender-5-0-open-source-3d-graphics-app-is-now-available-for-download    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:48:14

• Linux-Ready KSTR-IMX93 SBC Debuts With Wi-Fi 6, Cellular IoT, and 802.15.4 Connectivity ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/linux-ready-kstr-imx93-sbc-debuts-on-kickstarter-with-wi-fi-6-cellular-iot-and-802-15-4-connectivity/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:48:31

• Vendefoul 181125 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/vendefoul    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:48:59

• BrOS 13.2 is out as well☞ https://distrowatch.com/bros    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:49:10

• Vulkan-to-DirectX 12 translation tool used in Valve's Proton now supports AMD's FSR4 and Anti-Lag ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/vulkan-to-directx-12-translation-tool-used-in-valves-proton-now-supports-amds-fsr4-and-anti-lag-while-nvidias-dlss4-remains-unsupported-fsr4-now-also-works-on-older-gpus-vkd3d-proton-v3-0-brings-other-performance-improvements    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:49:57

• "The job of Research at IBM is to generate press releases that juice the stock price at the lowest possible cost to produce. Nothing more." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:51:38

• "another wonderful sleight of hand trick from Alvind and the Pipmunks. Jobs from Brazil will disappear and magically appear in India (as usual). It's all about costs, not the quality of research. Of course all the bunk and about Quantum in India is exactly that - qbits of nothing is still nothing." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:51:43

• "Nothing extraordinary will happen to Research in India except the parroting and vomiting of the same information in different journals, white papers etc. IBM Research is nothing but a darn joke and should be shut down. The useless VP of Research hasn't got the ba--s to do anything except collect his oversized paycheck." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:51:48

• "You get more value for your meals at Mcdonalds than research at IBM Research - but both are grossly overpriced." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:51:55

• Just like Muppet Labs in Redmond!    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:52:08

• "Investing in Quantum at IBM is liking fu**ing for virginity. LOL" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaaxz7js    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:53:01

• "actually they cut 8000 people in the US and hire 16000 in India. They call it getting a bigger bang for the buck. Of course, the reality is that that most of the work in India is still done manually and so, it is a total waste of money. But try telling that to losers like Alvind who put a spin on IBM US job losses and layoffs as job gains." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaabh7pr    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:53:36

• Newspaper ABCs: Five nationals see double-digit weekday and Saturday declines ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/most-popular-newspapers-uk-abc-monthly-circulation-figures-2/ seems like crisis for Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:59:09

• Express offers compensation after freelances say work was stolen ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/express-offers-compensation-after-freelances-say-work-was-stolen/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 14:59:39

• Raconteur team halved following Technology Advice takeover ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/raconteur-team-halved-following-technology-advice-takeover/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:00:01

• Financial Times launches first Substack newsletter to target younger readers ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/financial-times-launches-first-substack-newsletter-to-target-younger-readers/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:00:15

• "Red Hat - nothing but a $34 billion disaster in the making brought to you by Alvind and the Pipmunks. This demolition squad are capable of trashing any company they purchase into the ground in 5 years or less, and calling it a profitable venture. But it's not a profit for the IBM shareholders, of course." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaazynkz    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:01:37

• "Krabanaugh will be cooking the books again and asking for more employees to increase their education activities." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaazynkz    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:01:43

• NASA Is Tracking a Vast Anomaly Growing in Earth's Magnetic Field ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-is-tracking-a-vast-anomaly-growing-in-earths-magnetic-field    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:02:31

• Earliest Chemical Traces of Life on Earth Discovered in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Rock ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/earliest-chemical-traces-of-life-on-earth-discovered-in-3-3-billion-year-old-rock    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:02:46

• Children With Autism, ADHD, And Anorexia Share a Common Microbe Imbalance ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/children-with-autism-adhd-and-anorexia-share-a-common-microbe-imbalance    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:06:54

• We May Have Bred Neurodiversity Into Our Pets, Expert Suggests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/we-may-have-bred-neurodiversity-into-our-pets-expert-suggests    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:07:08

• The Long-Term Impacts of Eating Disorders Are Far More Serious Than You Might Realize ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-long-term-impacts-of-eating-disorders-are-far-more-serious-than-you-might-realize    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:07:42

• FDA to Remove 'Black Box' Warnings From Menopause Hormone Therapy. Here's Why. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/fda-to-remove-black-box-warnings-from-menopause-hormone-therapy-heres-why    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:07:54

• A Dangerous, Banned Substance Is Lurking in Trending Weight-Loss Pills ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-dangerous-banned-substance-is-lurking-in-trending-weight-loss-pills    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:08:04

• StubHub Lashes Out at UK Government’s Plan to Ban Scalping, Promises ‘Transactions Will Move to Black Markets’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/18/stubhub-ticket-resale-caps/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:08:57

• "A gastroscopy is a procedure that, in simple terms, involves sticking a long, flexible tube down a patient’s throat to inspect the oesophagus and adjacent structures with a camera fitted to the tip." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/18/hacking-a-pill-camera/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:09:25

• Blender 5.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1046962/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:10:57

• What Killed Perl? ☞ https://entropicthoughts.com/what-killed-perl    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:11:51

• ZimaOS 1.5.2-beta1 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/zimaos    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:13:01

• extrox 2.0 is also out☞ https://distrowatch.com/extrox    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:13:10

• Calculate 20251118 is out☞ https://distrowatch.com/calculate    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:19:14

• BlueOnyx 5212R-20251117 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/blueonyx    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:19:30

• WordPress 6.9 Release Candidate 2 ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2025/11/wordpress-6-9-release-candidate-2/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:22:23

• Syria to hand over Uyghur jihadist fighters to China, sources say ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/11/18/syria-to-hand-over-uyghur-jihadist-fighters-to-china-sources-say/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:22:47

• ChromeOS 16433.41.0 is out☞ https://distrowatch.com/chromeos    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:25:28

• Aurora 43.20251118 is out today ☞ https://distrowatch.com/aurora    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:25:48

• Jeffrey Epstein's brother says the 'Bubba' in viral email is not Bill Clinton ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20251118-jeffrey-epstein-s-brother-says-the-bubba-in-viral-email-is-not-bill-clinton    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:26:25

• "In 2008, social control media was just emerging into the mainstream" ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/11/ai-and-voter-engagement.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:28:10

• Using SATADOM drives in a Dell R730 ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2025/11/18/using-satadom-drives-in-a-dell-r730/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:30:45

• Who are the armed groups contesting Hamas's authority in Gaza? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-observers/20251118-armed-groups-contesting-hamas-authority-gaza    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:30:59

• ST launches 800 MHz STM32V8 Arm Cortex-M85 high-performance MCU manufactured with 18nm FD-SOI process ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/19/st-stm32v8-arm-cortex-m85-800-mhz-high-performance-mcu-18nm-fd-soi-process/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:31:36

• 2025 Component Abuse Challenge Winners ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/18/congratulations-to-the-2025-component-abuse-challenge-winners/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:32:09

• Cheap VHF Antenna? Can Do! ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/18/a-vhf-antenna-for-not-a-lot-this-one-can/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:32:40

• The Internet Crashed So Hard This Morning That Downdetector Went Down ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/internet-down-detector-cloudflare    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:33:20

• So defective that it uses up space to do this vanity thing ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/gelsingers-i386-initials-gambit-ex-intel-ceo-explains-how-he-bluffed-andy-grove-to-keep-his-mark-on-the-legendary-chips-silicon    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:34:32

• Printing nonsensical, imaginary, false figures https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-wants-foundry-partners-to-build-100-200-billion-ai-chips-per-year-musk-says-chipmaking-industry-cant-deliver-on-his-goals like this https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/11/With_Net_Income_of_One_Billion_Dollars_Tesla_Claims_It_Can_Pay_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:35:40

• Ponzi scheme targets POLITICIANS https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/taiwan-announces-3bn-spend-on-ai-island-ambitions    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:36:26

• The Whole Financial World Is Terrified of Nvidia’s Earnings Call ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/financial-world-nvidia-earnings-call http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/18/The_GPU_Bubble_GPUs_Marketed_by_Useless_Slop.shtml    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:38:18

• Town’s Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/christmas-mural-ai    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:38:50

• Greenpeace Faces an Unusual New Legal Attack From a Pipeline Giant ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/climate/greenpeace-energy-transfer-lawsuit-netherlands.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:39:42

• Environmentalists Sue to Stop Oil Lease Sales in the Gulf of Mexico ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/climate/gulf-of-mexico-oil-lease-sale-lawsuit.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:39:54

• Australian Man Convicted of Murderer Sues to Challenge Vegemite Ban Behind Bars ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/world/australia/prisoner-vegemite-lawsuit.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:40:37

• French court rejects Perrier "natural water" lawsuit against Neslé ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20251118-french-court-rejects-perrier-natural-water-lawsuit-against-nesl%C3%A9    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:40:50

• Drake’s UMG Appeal Set to Begin with Court-Ordered Mediation Session—Though a Settlement Seems Unlikely ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/17/drake-umg-appeal-mediation-session/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:41:15

• Fragmented climate policy undermines Australia’s food security ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/fragmented-climate-policy-undermines-australias-food-security/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:43:49

• Why Australia’s terrorism definition still works ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/why-australias-terrorism-definition-still-works/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:44:05

• JNIM Blocks Mali’s Fuel Supply, Driving Insecurity ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/11/jnim-blocks-malis-fuel-supply-driving-insecurity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jnim-blocks-malis-fuel-supply-driving-insecurity    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:44:27

• UN Support Propels Convicted Felon Gaza Plan, but Road Ahead Is Still Rough ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/world/middleeast/un-trump-gaza-plan.html    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:45:04

• Indonesia welcomes UN Security Council's adoption of Convicted Felon's Gaza plan, ministry says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/indonesia-welcomes-un-security-councils-adoption-of-trumps-gaza-plan-ministry-says    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:45:18

• Taiwan charges Chinese national and six others with spying ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-charges-chinese-national-and-six-others-for-spying    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:45:33

• Saudi Arabia warned over human rights abuses migrant workers face on Riyadh Metro Project ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/saudi-arabia-warned-over-human-rights-abuses-migrant-workers-face-on-riyadh-metro-project/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:47:17

• One dead, three wounded in West Bank stabbing and ramming attack ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20251118-one-dead-three-wounded-in-west-bank-stabbing-and-ramming-attack    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:47:42

• What does the UN-backed Gaza plan entail? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251118-what-does-the-un-backed-gaza-plan-entail    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:48:07

• Nigeria steps up search for 25 abducted schoolgirls ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20251118-nigeria-steps-up-search-for-25-abducted-schoolgirls    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:48:27

• The realities of CISO burnout and exhaustion ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/ciso-burnout-mental-health-cybersecurity-exhaustion-op-ed/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:48:57

• Information sharing law’s expiration could squander government vulnerability hunting efforts, senator says ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/cyber-threat-data-sharing-law-expiration-security-risk-mike-rounds-gary-peters-rand-paul/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:49:49

• Data Stolen in Eurofiber France Hack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/data-stolen-in-eurofiber-france-hack/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:50:34

• Princeton University Data Breach Impacts Alumni, Students, Employees ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/princeton-university-data-breach-impacts-alumni-students-employees/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:50:56

• Pennsylvania Attorney General Confirms Data Breach After Ransomware Attack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/pennsylvania-attorney-general-confirms-data-breach-after-ransomware-attack/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:51:12

• Snagboot v2.5 released ☞ https://bootlin.com/blog/snagboot-v2-5-released/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:53:41

• UK couple’s garden shed datacenter heats home and cuts energy bills to £40 — clusters of 56 Raspberry Pis run real workloads, waste heat converted to heat home ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/uk-couples-garden-shed-data-center-heats-home-and-cuts-bills    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:54:01

• KDE Plasma 6.5.3, Bugfix Release for November ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.3/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:54:14

• Sahil Dhiman: Anchors in Life ☞ https://blog.sahilister.in/2025/11/anchors-in-life/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:54:49

• "Humane Mousetrap Lets You Know It’s Caught Something" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/18/humane-mousetrap-lets-you-know-its-caught-something/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:56:17

• "Casting Metal Tools With Kitchen Appliances" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/18/casting-metal-tools-with-kitchen-appliances/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:56:33

• "Where Winds Meet is a new free to play game on Steam that's doing some big numbers right now, and thankfully it seems to work great on Linux with Proton. Tested with Proton 10, so far I haven't encountered any issues." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-big-new-where-winds-meet-release-works-well-on-linux/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:57:42

• "ShaniOS maintains two separate environments. If an update - or anything - goes wrong with one environment, simply reboot and switch to the other. I am seriously impressed." https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-found-an-immutable-linux-distro-that-never-breaks-and-is-effortless-to-use/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:58:15

• Valve engineer who keeps decade-old Radeon GPUs alive on Linux, now pushes for AMDGPU to become the default driver https://hardforum.com/threads/valve-engineer-who-keeps-decade-old-radeon-gpus-alive-on-linux-now-pushes-for-amdgpu-to-become-the-default-driver.2044822/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 15:59:30

• Spam https://www.newelectronics.co.uk/content/technology-spotlights/modnyco-is-a-uk-based-embedded-solutions-partner-specialising-in-electronics-firmware-and-embedded-linux-development-we-design-pcbs-develop-firmware-integrate-edge-ai-and-prepare-products-for-certification    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 16:00:07

• "Linux Mint and Zorin OS are both popular Linux distros - but which is right for you?" https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-mint-vs-zorin-os-how-to-pick-between-these-windows-alternatives/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 16:00:25

• "This release delivers new compiler toolsets and updated module streams, along with improvements to debugging and networking tools." https://9to5linux.com/almalinux-os-9-7-is-out-as-a-free-alternative-to-red-hat-enterprise-linux-9-7    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 16:03:19

• Kroah-Hartman: Linux Kernel Maintainer on CRA Open Source Impact https://thenewstack.io/kroah-hartman-linux-kernel-maintainer-on-cra-open-source-impact/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 16:03:49

• "This release also introduces the dc3dd package, a patched version of GNU dd with added features for computer forensics." https://9to5linux.com/finnix-251-linux-distro-for-sysadmins-introduces-official-oci-container-images    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 16:05:07

• Valve's Proton brings better DirectX 12 support and FSR4 to Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/valves-proton-is-getting-better-directx-12-support-including-fsr4/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 16:05:38

• "According to the company, that level of availability translates to 3.15 seconds or less of unplanned downtime or data loss per year on a single platform." https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/penguin-solutions-boosts-fault-tolerant-computing-with-oracle-linux-integration-1646347/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 16:06:25

• "Are you tired of Linux distros that try to hide all the technicalities and simplify everything? Do you want distributions to let you optimize, configure, and push your system to its limits? Well, here are four distros built for all you power users who enjoy tweaking their machines!" https://www.howtogeek.com/these-are-the-only-linux-distros-i-recommend-for-power-users/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 16:06:47

• "After picking up the PlayDate about 2 months ago, I wanted to build something for it. Well, my first completed project for it is done! This is my annoying 3x3x3 twisty puzzle game "FlatCube"! Have you ever wanted to solve a Rubik's cube but only wanted to ever be able to look at 1 side?" gemini://vigrey.com/journal/my-first-game-for-the-playdate-flatcube.gmi    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 16:33:01

• "You all use uBlock Origin? Good. Today I saw a post by @lichen@bananachips.club with the following uBlock Origin rules to get rid of AI stuff when using GitHub. Love it." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-11-17-ublock-origin    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 16:33:35

• Writing about your life gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2739    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 16:36:23

• 🔤SpellBinding: EILQTYU Wordo: LIRAS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-11-19.gmi    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 16:37:24

• Trans activists are putting Rust inside parts of Python: eventually a hard dependency https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/19/cpython_may_use_rust/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 17:12:56

• Or call them Rust activists, either way, it's not good for Python, which has bits relying on code that won't be maintained for much longer    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 17:13:33

• "However, following the publication of your latest "Teaser" on this topic we wanted to sound a note of caution." -Anon https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/29/Teaser_The_EPO_s_Spokesperson_a_Cocaine_User_Fancies_Young_Wome.shtml    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 18:42:05

• Extra keyboard shortcuts gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/extra-keyboard-shortcuts/    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 20:22:28

• Re: why desktop linux is growing gopher://redterminal.org:70/0/phlog/2025-11-19-Re_why_desktop_linux_is_growing.txt    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 20:24:10

• "Mr. Hybrid Cloud is rethinking. Running a tech company where you invest in innovation is way too expensive for Mr. Curry. That money could go into a 4th vacation home or another Porsche or something useful." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaaxz7js    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 20:29:50

• "When investors find out the lying, cheating, trickery and thievery going on for the past 20 years, they will be sad. And Alvind/Chipmunks/Flabbie/Hoodie/FiveCent/and all the rest will be happy. I hope they choke on their money." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaaxz7js    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 20:29:56

• "The stock price is finding its stride now. Running downhill." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka6g0njx    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 20:30:44

• "Someone using DEI as a pejorative? No other way to describe that than racist." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka0gxw0h    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 20:32:10

• IBM layoffs in Mexico. "Guadalajara software lab got the news today. I'm shook." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9grten7    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 20:33:16

• "You don't need to waste money on R&D when executives could use that money to get more filthy rich while they layoff paycheck-to-paycheck employees. They like doing that, just like their mentor, Don Jon Trumpogomy. May each and every executive suffer from horrible, debilitating, painful, fatal illnesses and suffer for all eternity. Bitter? Me? Nah." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 20:34:11

• "With its current mission, there is no need to keep any Research labs open, other than PR to say - "look we do Research!"" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 20:34:48

• "Research used to do amazing things until Ginny changed its purpose to be more near-term, and gutted the patent incentives. As a result of this, years later, IBM has nothing much now, and nothing in the long-term pipeline .. just research for the next quarter, which is basically development, so now Research as a separate unit is redundant." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 20:34:53

• "The best researchers left for greener pastures during those long-ago times, and now other companies (Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, etc.) are reaping the rewards of true long-term Research started by former-IBMers way back then." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacy0dc9    

posted Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 20:34:58