Roy Schestowitz

• Amazon Conservation https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/01/afro-descendant-communities-offer-a-living-blueprint-for-amazon-conservation/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:00:59

• Amazon Drivers Take 45 Days to Earn What the Company’s Union Buster Earned in 1 https://scheerpost.com/2025/11/29/amazon-drivers-take-45-days-to-earn-what-the-companys-union-buster-earned-in-1/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:01:27

• Amazon’s Assault on Workers https://truthout.org/articles/global-black-friday-strikes-resist-amazons-assault-on-workers/ https://scheerpost.com/2025/11/28/global-black-friday-strikes-against-amazon-target-techno-authoritarian-assault-on-workers/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:01:58

• UPC is illegal and they know it http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/upc-court-of-appeal-tackles-broad.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:04:47

• Freedoms Increasingly Limited https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-12-01/osce-observers-say-kyrgyzstan-election-was-efficient-but-freedoms-increasingly-limited    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:05:37

• IT guru jailed over fake wifi used to steal women's intimate photos https://www.theage.com.au/national/it-guru-jailed-over-fake-wifi-used-to-steal-womens-intimate-photos-20251128-p5nje4.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:06:35

• The hidden disease that spikes every Thanksgiving https://www.vox.com/health/470278/thanksgiving-dinner-turkey-high-blood-pressure-hypertension    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:07:38

• Turkey: Court jails journalist for 'threatening' Erdogan https://www.dw.com/en/turkey-court-jails-journalist-for-threatening-erdogan/a-74907491    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:09:34

• CPJ joins international press freedom mission to Turkey https://cpj.org/2025/11/cpj-joins-international-press-freedom-mission-to-turkey/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:09:47

• "Darn ! All those wonderful and complimentary comments about the witches of Atlanta and beyond have got pulled. Guess freedom of speech doesn't apply when the truth is being told on this layoff site." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbac15p1    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:16:52

• "I would love to see the breakdown of which age group and demographics got RA’d - Would not be surprised if a majority or plurality were white men - Remember Alvind is a bigot"    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:17:40

• IBM NDA: "I thought I read here sometime in the past that the payment is technically not salary - it is a bribe to get you to sign the severance agreement with its heinous conditions." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kb3xw69j    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:18:14

• "there goes the best of the best. Jobs must have been stolen by India as usual. Alvind is one sick S-B." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kb597bzg    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:19:38

• iophk: Apparently Horizon in the UK had the postmasters sign NDAs...    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:43:45

• iophk: The EFF really got this message out in time ... NOT https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/eff-tells-patent-office-dont-cut-public-out-patent-review    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:43:51

• Like Social Media, AI Requires Difficult Choices https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/like-social-media-ai-requires-difficult-choices.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:45:17

• Gut microbes may have links with sleep deprivation https://theconversation.com/gut-microbes-may-have-links-with-sleep-deprivation-266928    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:47:55

• cyber-attacks on the food industry https://theconversation.com/how-digital-twins-could-help-prevent-cyber-attacks-on-the-food-industry-267667    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:49:50

• The breeder's exemption as the route to agreement in the EU debate on NGT plants http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-breeders-exemption-as-route-to.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:50:14

• Plagiarism disguised as "AI" http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/11/guest-post-lost-in-incidental.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:50:46

• How visible displays of wealth make people support higher taxes https://theconversation.com/how-visible-displays-of-wealth-make-people-support-higher-taxes-new-study-270629    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:51:10

• Three reasons why China wants global green leadership after Cop30 https://theconversation.com/three-reasons-why-china-wants-global-green-leadership-after-cop30-and-two-reasons-it-doesnt-270329    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:51:51

• Gillette achieves acceptance for unused goods and services based on reputation http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/11/guest-post-defensive-trade-marks-in.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 03:52:30

• Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 48: Byzantine Labyrinthine | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/building-a-retro-linux-gaming-computer-part-48-byzantine-labyrinthine/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/building-a-retro-linux-gaming-computer-part-48-byzantine-labyrinthine/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:04:26

• Linux players on Steam hit an all-time high for November 2025 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/linux-players-on-steam-hit-an-all-time-high-for-november-2025/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/linux-players-on-steam-hit-an-all-time-high-for-november-2025/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:04:48

• Valve's version of Android on Linux (based on Waydroid) is now called Lepton | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/valves-version-of-android-on-linux-based-on-waydroid-is-now-called-lepton/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/valves-version-of-android-on-linux-based-on-waydroid-is-now-called-lepton/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:05:22

• Pixel-art RTS game TFC: The Fertile Crescent joins with MicroProse Software and it's now Steam Deck Verified | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/pixel-art-rts-game-tfc-the-fertile-crescent-joins-with-microprose-software-and-its-now-steam-deck-verified/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:05:50

• Mewgenics will be "100%" Steam Deck compatible at launch | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/mewgenics-will-be-100-steam-deck-compatible-at-launch/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/mewgenics-will-be-100-steam-deck-compatible-at-launch/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:08:52

• "Lies That Uphold the DMCA part 1: Morgan Reed’s False Testimony" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/lies-that-uphold-the-dmca-part-1-morgan:6    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:09:14

• "If Hegseth Gave an Order to 'Kill Everybody,' He Must Be Prosecuted - Truthdig" https://www.truthdig.com/articles/if-hegseth-gave-an-order-to-kill-everybody-he-must-be-prosecuted/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:09:28

• "Donald Trump’s Imperialism Is Murdering People—at Home and Abroad" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/donald-trump-war-crimes-hegseth/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:09:38

• "Saudi plans to double Japan investments to $27B by 2030" https://www.semafor.com/article/12/01/2025/saudi-to-double-japan-investments-to-27b-by-2030    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:09:49

• "Jon Stewart Slams Trump's Immigration Reform After National Guard Death" https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/jon-stewart-slams-trump-immigration-national-guard-shooting-1236596986/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:10:01

• "Congress to probe U.S. strikes on boats in Caribbean" https://kansasreflector.com/2025/12/01/repub/congress-to-probe-u-s-strikes-on-boats-in-caribbean/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:10:11

• "The Dishonorable Strikes on Venezuelan Boats" https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-dishonorable-strikes-on-venezuelan-boats    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:10:25

• "The Legal Consequences of Pete Hegseth’s “Kill Them All” Order" https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-legal-consequences-of-pete-hegseths-kill-them-all-order    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:10:35

• "Madonna Slams Trump Admin for Halting World AIDS Day Commemoration" https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/01/madonna-slams-trump-for-halting-world-aids-day/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:10:49

• "Chat Control 2 vs. verkligheten" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/12/01/chat-control-2-vs-verkligheten/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:10:58

• "When software becomes fast food" https://world.hey.com/joaoqalves/when-software-becomes-fast-food-23147c9b    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:11:22

• "And So, It Begins – Alex Wolfe" https://alexwolfe.ca/and-so-it-begins/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:11:46

• "RFK Jr. is very worried about anti-Christian bias at HHS...under Biden" https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/rfk-jr-anti-christian-bias-hhs-survey-biden    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:12:00

• "GPU prices are threatening to climb, but at least tariffs won't make it worse - 25% import tax on Chinese-made electronics suspended once again" https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/gpu-prices-are-threatening-to-climb-but-at-least-tariffs-wont-make-it-worse-25-percent-import-tax-on-chinese-made-electronics-suspended-once-again    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:12:11

• "‘Renewable’ no more: The Trump administration renames the National Renewable Energy Laboratory" https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-business/policy-and-regulation/renewable-no-more-the-trump-administration-renames-the-national-renewable-energy-laboratory/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:12:30

• "In Pardon of Narco Trafficker, Trump Destroys His Own Case for War - Truthdig" https://www.truthdig.com/articles/in-pardon-of-narco-trafficker-trump-destroys-his-own-case-for-war/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:12:41

• "Trump pardons: Who is former president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández?" https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/471031/trump-pardon-hernandez-honduras-drug-lord    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:12:53

• "Saudi budget to reveal strain of lower oil prices on transformation" https://www.semafor.com/article/12/01/2025/upcoming-saudi-budget-to-reveal-strain-of-lower-oil-prices-on-transformation    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:13:33

• "Trump wades into Honduran vote, raising questions about American drug trafficking strategy" https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2025/1201/honduras-pardon-drug-trafficking-election    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:13:47

• "Trump says National Guard will be sent to New Orleans" https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/12/02/trump-says-national-guard-will-be-sent-to-new-orleans/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:13:58

• "Trump administration threatens to yank food stamps funding from Democratic-led states • Georgia Recorder" https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/12/02/repub/trump-administration-threatens-to-yank-food-stamps-funding-from-democratic-led-states/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:14:13

• iophk: not a 'war' crime, we're not at war, it is just plain crime https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-12-02/boat-strikes-fake-news    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:14:46

• "Trump Appears to Fight Sleep During Cabinet Meeting" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/trump-sleep-cabinet-meeting.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:15:02

• "Trump Threatens Serious Consequences Over Razor Thin Honduras Presidential Race" https://ticotimes.net/2025/12/02/trump-threatens-serious-consequences-over-razor-thin-honduras-presidential-race    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:15:15

• Star Fox spiritual successor Wild Blue Skies gets a fresh gameplay trailer | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/star-fox-spiritual-successor-wild-blue-skies-gets-a-fresh-gameplay-trailer/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:15:56

• NVIDIA Beta driver 590.44.01 released for Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/nvidia-beta-driver-590-44-01-released-for-linux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/nvidia-beta-driver-590-44-01-released-for-linux/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:16:20

• Fanatical launch new Play on the Go Bundle - great for Steam Deck and other handhelds | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/fanatical-launch-new-play-on-the-go-bundle-great-for-steam-deck-and-other-handhelds/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:17:38

• EU, online censorship and hate legislation | "EU, nätcensur och hatlagstiftning" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/12/02/eu-natcensur-och-hatlagstiftning/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:19:57

• Library journalism – where are you going? | "Bibliotekjournalistikk – kor går du? – Biblioteket tar saka #librarycase" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://bibliotekettarsaka.com/2025/12/02/bibliotekjournalistikk-kor-gar-du/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:20:20

• "Kaja Kallas: ‘We should stop pretending that Russia is negotiating peace and force it to do so’" https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-02/kaja-kallas-we-should-stop-pretending-that-russia-is-negotiating-peace-and-force-it-to-do-so.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:20:35

• "Trump claims to void all documents signed by Biden, citing autopen use" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/trump-biden-autopen-pardons    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:20:51

• TSA ☛ https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/12/02/has-the-tsa-added-immigration-enforcement-to-secure-flight/ | Source: Papers Please    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 04:21:51

• "Sounds similar to what actually happened to DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Sold off software/hardware in pieces until finally DEC was acquired by Compaq who in turn was later acquired by HP. Bob Palmer took over as CEO for Ken Olsen, founder of DEC, and ruined the company. I could write a book about how the wrong CEO can totally ruin a company." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kb1metdd    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 05:03:50

• Old, on Microsoft layoffs https://www.bolnews.com/technology/microsoft-reduces-consumer-rd/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 06:00:04

• Eidos-Montreal Lets Go More Staff With More Layoffs Planned https://insider-gaming.com/eidos-montreal-lets-go-staff-more-layoffs-planned/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 06:00:26

• "As of now, it seems the studio is specifically focusing on only supporting development on Grounded 2 and Fable, both being led by Obsidian Entertainment and Playground Games under Microsoft, respectively..." https://thephrasemaker.com/2025/12/03/deus-ex-and-guardians-of-the-galaxy-devs-hit-by-more-layoffs/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 06:01:26

• "The first argument is a list of bindings like a let. But if you put in three things they will be rebind every round. Like in the above example, a will be rebound to (add1 a), and s will be rebound to (sub1 s). And you can also put in just one thing like the example here just binds e to 13 and then it just stays that." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/scheme-do    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 06:26:22

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-12-03.gmi    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 06:27:06

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1493.jpg    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 06:27:26

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1843.jpg    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 06:27:31

• "I came across a reference to DeepWiki [4], a site that will generate “documentation” for any Github repository [5]. I can't say I've been impressed with LLM (Large Language Model)s generating code, but what about documentation? I haven't tried that yet. Let's see how well Roko's basilisk dances!" gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/12/02.1    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 06:28:28

• Today Techrights top of the list in gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 06:34:33

• Microsoft Canonical ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-announces-ubuntu-pro-for-wsl | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:37:14

• "Fast Company has named Firefox to its 2025 “Brands That Matter” list, recognizing companies that go beyond acquiring customers to build meaningful relevance and cultural impact." ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/fast-company-recognition/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:37:36

• "Last month, Firefox turned 21, marking two decades of building a web that reflects creativity, independence and trust. At TwitchCon, we celebrated by launching billionaires into space and launching a new card game, Data War." ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/bbo-data-war-digital-game/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:37:49

• "Introduction to Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/optimize-cloud-costs-red-hat-openshift-virtualization-and-rosa-aws | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:38:43

• "An SSL certificate solves this by enabling HTTPS, which encrypts all data between the browser and your server." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/lets-encrypt-certbot-commands/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:39:03

• "Nhentai.net, a popular adult site with tens of millions of monthly visits, turns the tables on publisher PCR Distributing." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/nhentai-rejects-piracy-claims-hits-back-with-500k-damages-claim-for-fraud/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:42:47

• "With 535 pirate domains to add to Brazil's secretive blocklist, the latest phase of Operation 404 has just broken the 3,000 domain barrier." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/operation-404-3000-pirate-domains-blocked-usdoj-usdoc-get-to-watch-251202/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:42:53

• "If adopted, they would give patent trolls exactly what they want: a way to keep questionable patents alive and out of reach." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/eff-tells-patent-office-dont-cut-public-out-patent-review | Source: EFF    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:43:36

• "Last week I wrote about how the US Patent and Trademark Office is pushing a rule change that would effectively neuter the inter partes review (IPR) system that reviews already granted patents to make sure they weren’t granted by mistake." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/02/our-founders-would-abhor-what-the-uspto-is-doing-with-the-patent-system/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:43:50

• "Qualcomm warned partners and device manufacturers about multiple newly discovered vulnerabilities that span its chipset ecosystem." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/qualcomm-2025-security-alert/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:44:30

• "Can an ISP be held liable for piracy simply by "doing nothing"? Yesterday, the Supreme Court addressed this billion-dollar question" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/supreme-court-can-isps-be-liable-for-piracy-by-doing-nothing/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:45:16

• "The proposal to give amateur radio operators some IPv6 emerged in an IETF draft that appeared in early November." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/ham_radio_ipv6_ietf_draft/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:45:51

• "Police force says 80% of its drone fleet presents 'high security risk'" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-restricts-chinese-drones-9.6999268 | Source: CBC    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:46:38

• "Because people have varying needs across disparate contexts from assorted expectations with unequal skill levels using almost random technologies" ☛ https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/you-cant-make-something-accessible-to-everyone.html | Source: Adrian Roselli    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:47:03

• "TAPinto provides its franchisees with the backend systems and training necessary to run a successful operation." ☛ https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/12/02/local-networks-expanding-tapinto-texas-tribune-salt-lake-tribune/index.html | Source: Northwestern University    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:48:04

• "A new photography collection spotlights the last refuges of America’s dwindling local newspapers." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/12/01/2025/capturing-local-journalisms-last-refuges | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:48:16

• "Novak is serving a four-year prison sentence after being convicted in November 2024 on charges of “confidential cooperation with a foreign organization" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/12/russian-journalist-nika-novak-missing-from-prison/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:49:05

• "The court record shows that federal law enforcement in Los Angeles targeted the heads and faces of journalists and protestors with rubber bullets." ☛ https://phr.org/news/federal-immigration-agents-misused-dangerous-crowd-control-weapons-against-journalists-and-protestors-in-los-angeles-new-phr-amicus-brief/ | Source: PHR    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:49:19

• "According to the film, the channel found evidence pointing to the use of an agent the French military referred to as ‘camite’ in Tbilisi during the November–December 2024 protests" ☛ https://oc-media.org/false-information-harmful-to-the-state-reactions-to-the-bbcs-investigation-in-georgia/ | Source: Open Caucasus Media    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:50:20

• "Groups such as the American Library Association, Penguin Random House, the National Coalition Against Censorship and Lambda Literary were joined this week by PEN America" ☛ https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/12/01/library-groups-publishers-criticize-tennessee-secretary-of-states-gender-identity-audit/ | Source: Tennessee Lookout    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:50:33

• "Iran sentenced a prize-winning film director to a year in prison in absentia for “propaganda activities,” the latest move in a wide-ranging crackdown on dissent." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/12/02/2025/iran-sentences-film-director-to-a-year-in-prison-in-absentia | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:51:45

• "I’m not against Rust. It’s elegant, memory-safe, a serious contribution to the future of systems programming. I even like Nushell very much for data processing, it’s one of the best Rust-based tools I’ve come across." ☛ https://www.tara.sh/posts/2025/2025-11-03_debian_rust_unix/ | Source: Tara    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:52:54

• "Most of that R&D will be driven from Nokia Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey. About $500 million in U.S. capital expenditures will be invested in manufacturing and R&D in several U.S. states including Texas, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/nokia-to-invest-4b-in-u-s-rd-and-manufacturing-for-ai-ready-network-connectivity/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:54:14

• "Twenty years ago, John Jonik released one of the best political cartoons ever regarding attempts to censor and control the internet." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/01/congress-dusts-off-think-of-the-children-playbook-to-push-internet-censorship-bills/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:54:23

• "Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor implementation in Rust. We're happy to announce the latest release, Arti 1.8.0." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/arti_1_8_0_released/ | Source: Tor    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:54:44

• "Oracle is talking real money; they're borrowing $1.64B each working day. Mr. Market is skeptical that the real money is going to be repaid, as Caleb Mutua reports in Morgan Stanley Warns Oracle Credit Protection Nearing Record High: [...]" ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2025/12/mind-gaap.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:55:15

• "Still, just looking over the online drama reminded me of how big a problem we have on the social web. Some of the most unexpectedly personal and harsh replies I’ve ever received have come from Mastodon folks who think they’re fighting the good fight." ☛ https://www.manton.org/2025/12/02/mastodon-ceo-change-reset.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:55:43

• "Giannandrea, who joined Apple in 2018 from a role as Google's SVP of search and AI, is being replaced by another former Google AI boffin, lately Microsoft's corporate vice president of AI, Amar Subramanya, Cupertino said in a press release Monday." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/apple_ai_chief/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:56:02

• "Ingress NGINX, for those who don't know it, is an ingress controller in Kubernetes clusters that manages and routes external HTTP and HTTPS traffic to the cluster's internal services based on configurable Ingress rules." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/ingress_nginx_opinion/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:56:24

• "Scam Altman Is Suddenly Terrified" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-code-red | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:57:00

• "Since then, research has shown that animals including bats, turtles and migratory birds really do pick up on the planet’s magnetic field—a sense called magnetoreception." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pigeons-rely-on-the-earths-magnetic-field-to-navigate-now-researchers-may-have-uncovered-how-they-do-it-180987754/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:59:21

• "Two genetic analyses suggest that our feline friends reached China around 1,400 years ago via the Silk Road" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-did-domestic-cats-take-over-the-world-new-research-suggests-they-arrived-in-europe-and-china-centuries-later-than-we-thought-180987771/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:59:34

• "After blooming and fruiting, the talipot palm, or Corypha umbraculifera, enters an irreversible process of senescence and dies." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/once-in-a-lifetime-palm-bloom-draws-crowds-in-rio-de-janeiro/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 07:59:43

• "Less than a half-hour away from the University of Michigan in Saline Township, OpenAI — parent company of ChatGPT" ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/research/openai-data-center-planned-for-farmland-in-saline/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:01:02

• "Iren’s 50 mega-watt Prince George site began offering AI data storage 18 months ago." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/northern-bc-bitcoin-mines-ai-9.6998180 | Source: CBC    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:01:16

• "The highlight is the new tlp-pd daemon, which implements the same D-Bus API used by power-profiles-daemon" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/tlp-1-9-linux-power-management-tool-adds-new-profiles-daemon/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:01:22

• "It was the ponderosa pine that more than 1,100 years ago allowed the rise of the first cities in what would later become the United States, providing structural beams for the multi-storied dwellings of the Ancestral Pueblo." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-12-02/southwest-ponderosa-pine-disappearing | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:02:20

• "Iran's air emergency is unfolding amid political upheaval, recurring civil unrest and a worsening national water crisis, creating a pressure point for a government already navigating widespread public dissatisfaction." ☛ https://www.newsweek.com/air-quality-will-kill-world-most-polluted-city-tehran-iran-11125555 | Source: Newsweek    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:02:51

• "Persistent drought, fewer rainy days and reduced mountain snow have curtailed natural inflows and recent heavy storms have done little to replenish reservoirs, as much of the water flows to the sea." ☛ https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/environment/1288431/athens-faces-severe-water-crisis-as-reservoirs-lose-40-of-reserves/ | Source: Greece    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:02:57

• "WordPress is the world's most popular content management system, but not so much with the UK government. The country's Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has blamed an inadvertent budget disclosure last week on misconfiguration of its WordPress website." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/01/uk_budget_leak_blamed_on/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:03:48

• "The Strategy Group’s ad work is the first known example of money flowing from Noem’s agency to businesses controlled by her allies and friends." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/02/firm-tied-to-kristi-noem-secretly-got-money-from-220-million-dhs-ad-contracts/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:04:14

• "The American Economic Association (AEA), a nonprofit scholarly body, confirmed it had accepted Summers’ resignation. He is now banned for life from “attending, speaking at, or otherwise participating” in its events." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/larry-summers-jeffrey-epstein-academic-society-b2876828.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:04:35

• "Proponents of the ban, including the federal authorities, argue that the ban aims to safeguard the mental health of children and protect them from exposure to harmful content, cyberbullying, online predators, and other risks associated with unsupervised social media use, as per reports." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/teen-sues-government-claims-ban-tiktok-snapchat-teenagers-will-more-dangerous-1759612 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:05:40

• "Proponents of the ban, including the federal authorities, argue that the ban aims to safeguard the mental health of children and protect them from exposure to harmful content, cyberbullying, online predators" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/teen-sues-government-claims-ban-tiktok-snapchat-teenagers-will-more-dangerous-1759612 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:05:59

• "Kelly, a retired Navy captain, was one of six Democratic lawmakers with backgrounds in the military or intelligence agencies who appeared in the video that was posted on social media in mid-November." ☛ https://alabamareflector.com/2025/12/01/repub/arizonas-kelly-vows-to-stay-outspoken-despite-threats-over-illegal-order-video/ | Source: Alabama Reflector    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:06:18

• "How can you talk about opposition to Islam without addressing the elephant in the room: sharia law?" ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/malcolm-roberts-islamophobia-envoy-senate-estimates/ob8ktlfpr | Source: SBS    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:09:58

• "The Commission said Finland's deficit was projected to reach 4.5% of GDP in 2025, while the country's debt burden was set to hit 90% of GDP next year, up by nearly half since 2019." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/russian-threats-push-finland-past-eu-deficit-cap/a-74917409 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:10:08

• [Old] "Today, more than ever, we need to remember what our grandfathers and people from around the world fought for." ☛ https://www.tara.sh/posts/2025/2025-04-25_april_25th/ | Source: Tara    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:10:18

• "Just under 20 guests of honour are expected, with the average age exceeding 100." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20197358 | Source: YLE    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:10:30

• "In physical space, Western children are almost comically sheltered. But in digital space, they’re entirely beyond our command; and increasingly, that’s where children spend most of their time." ☛ https://werd.io/where-do-the-children-play/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:10:43

• "Loops will never be TikTok. Not because it lacks the features or the technology or the video editing tools." ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/replacing-qvc/ | Source: Greg Morris    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:11:05

• "But those lies are being used to buttress something even more awful than our usual War on Drugs: the extrajudicial murders of people only suspected to be moving drugs from Venezuela to… well, anywhere else but Venezuela." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/02/trump-follows-up-murdering-dozens-in-drug-boat-strikes-by-pardoning-ex-president-involved-in-drug-trafficking/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:11:38

• "If the United States has been firing second missiles at the survivors of its own strikes, we are no longer debating policy. We are describing a nation committing the very acts it once prosecuted others for. We have become what we once condemned." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-12-02/killing-survivors-is-not-legal-or-moral-gray-area | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:11:57

• "Veterans of U.S. law enforcement and counter-drug operations warn that the administration’s militarized effort—including 21 missile strikes, which have killed more than 80 people" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2025/12/war-drugs-venezuela-trafficking-trump/685094/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:12:13

• "Ireland’s media regulator has begun new investigations into tech giants TikTok and LinkedIn amid concerns of “dark patterns” around how people report illegal content on their platforms." ☛ https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41753097.html | Source: Irish Examiner    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:17:53

• "Miquel Ramos pointed out that fascist parties have taken on the role of capitalism's watchdog against the possibility of social transformation." ☛ https://english.anf-news.com/interview/fascism-is-on-the-rise-but-what-about-resistance-82472 | Source: ANF News    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:18:08

• "Vulnerable Ukrainian children, forced to grow up in Russian-occupied territories, face uncertain fates as their identities are systematically erased. Pressured to think of themselves as Russian, this group is subjected to intensive propaganda campaigns and intimidation at school." ☛ https://neweasterneurope.eu/2025/12/02/you-will-be-taught-and-you-will-become-russians-how-ukrainian-teenagers-resist-russian-re-education/ | Source: New Eastern Europe    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:18:19

• "Across porous borders, terrorist groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State are finding a foothold in the northern regions of many of West Africa’s coastal countries." ☛ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/12/terrorist-domino-effect-threatens-west-africa/ | Source: ADF    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:18:45

• "Google is adding a new app to company-managed Pixel phones, which allows IT admins to see all the RCS messages sent and received on specific devices." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/google-messages-change-means-employer-may-see-your-messages/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:19:30

• "On 19 November, the European Commission published its proposal for the "Digital Omnibus", subsequently sparking significant criticism and opposition." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/digital-omnibus-first-analysis-select-gdpr-and-eprivacy-proposals-commission | Source: NYOB    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:19:40

• "India's telecom ministry confirmed the move later, describing it as a security measure to combat "serious endangerment" of cyber security." ☛ https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-resist-india-order-preload-state-run-app-political-outcry-builds-2025-12-02/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:19:51

• "One of the sources added that Apple does not intend “to go to court or take a public stand.” Instead, it will simply (and, presumably, privately) tell the government that it cannot follow the order because of security factors." ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/2997281/apple-refuses-to-pre-install-government-app-on-iphones-in-india.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:20:16

• "Yesterday afternoon in the office, one of my coworkers asked me (paraphrasing) how I back up my photos so that everything isn’t only in iCloud, and what I would recommend that she do." ☛ https://justinvollmer.com/posts/2025/12/photo-backup-strategy/ | Source: Justin Vollmer    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:20:31

• "Missouri’s age verification law, enacted on November 30, is the halfway mark for the sweep of age verification laws across the country." ☛ https://www.404media.co/missouri-age-verification-law-porn-id-check-vpns/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:20:57

• "Remember when you thought age verification laws couldn’t get any worse? Well, lawmakers in Wisconsin, Michigan, and beyond are about to blow you away." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/01/lawmakers-want-to-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:21:10

• "In many cases, the agencies have gone out of their way to disguise the cameras from public view. And the problem is only going to get worse: as recently as July 2025, CBP put out a solicitation to purchase 100 more covert trail cameras with license plate-capture ability." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/how-identify-automated-license-plate-readers-us-mexico-border | Source: EFF    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:21:21

• "Previously, SAVE could only conduct searches one name at a time. Now, it can conduct bulk searches, making it possible to feed millions of voters’ information into the tool and have it check those records against a series of federal databases to try to verify someone’s immigration status." ☛ https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/12/02/maine-objects-to-trump-administration-using-voter-records-for-citizenship-probe/ | Source: Maine Morning Star    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:22:38

• "Previously, SAVE could only conduct searches one name at a time. Now, it can conduct bulk searches, making it possible to feed millions of voters’ information into the tool and have it check those records against a series of federal databases" ☛ https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/12/02/maine-objects-to-trump-administration-using-voter-records-for-citizenship-probe/ | Source: Maine Morning Star    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:22:53

• "PayStay will join CellOPark as a second parking option from March 2026, in a move that was celebrated by the Schrinner council at City Hall on Tuesday afternoon." ☛ https://www.theage.com.au/national/queensland/brisbane-to-get-new-parking-app-after-cellopark-drama-20251203-p5nkgf.html | Source: The Age AU    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:23:09

• "Two persons have been booked for using banned virtual private network (VPN) applications on their mobile phones in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, and one of them was arrested, officials said on Tuesday." ☛ https://thenorthlines.com/two-men-booked-for-using-vpn-on-mobiles-in-rajouri-one-arrested/ | Source: The North Lines IN    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:23:25

• "So he tried replying to rage bait with basically the same post, and that was far more successful. But, also, it has some pretty crappy implications: [...]" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/threads-rage-bait/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:36:12

• "The more relevant reason, probably, is that the Fortnite stream will run on AWS products and infrastructure, making it a case study for the cloud giant’s own wares and a potential proof point for brands that are a better fit for in-game marketing." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/aws_reinvent_fortnite/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:36:23

• "As Europe’s education community grieves, it also seeks answers: Why are European teens carrying out attacks at school, and what can be done to help them?" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/1201/school-violence-france-austria-europe-social-media-smartphone-ban | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:36:35

• "The Times investigation found that Sacks – despite claims that he had sold most of his A.I. assets – has retained at least 449 stakes in companies with ties to A.I. that could be aided directly or indirectly by his policies." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/david-sacks-financial-conflicts-mean-he-can-no-longer-credibly-serve-as-white-house-ai-advisor-he-should-resign | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:37:18

• "This isn’t about “protecting innovation from burdensome regulation.” It’s about completely destroying the state and federal government’s ability to protect labor, consumers, markets, or the environment from unchecked corporate power." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/01/trump-withholding-billions-in-grants-from-states-that-engage-in-corporate-oversight/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:37:27

• "In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot was recently asked to weigh in on a troubling ethical dilemma: save Musk’s incredible brain, but at the expense of the world’s Jewish population being vaporized." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/grok-jewish-people-elon-musk | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:37:40

• "Investors are turning gold into a speculative asset by flooding gold markets with billions in capital, increasing the risk of becoming victims of their own success." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/is-the-gold-rally-a-bubble-about-to-burst/a-74913059 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:38:34

• "We've noticed that the information provided by search assistants is often incorrect" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20197371 | Source: YLE    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:38:48

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posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:38:58

• "Recently I jotted down some notes on LLM inference vs training costs for DeepSeek and I wanted to add on an additional datapoint for training cost based on the recently released Olmo3 models from the Allen Institute for AI ("Ai2")" ☛ https://muxup.com/2025q4/minipost-olmo3-training-cost | Source: Muxup    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:39:05

• "This idea has a lot of appeal if you’ve read too much sci-fi, and it sounds obvious if you don’t know any practical details." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/01/ai-data-centres-in-space-why-dcs-in-space-cant-work/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:39:18

• "Tricking LLMs into operating outside the guardrails using creative language is nothing new." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/researchers-use-poetry-to-jailbreak-ai-models | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:39:27

• "The passenger inside the car at the time blew the whistle, saying that the incident attracted a crowd and left their kids crying and their partner screaming." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/waymo_dog_incident/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:39:42

• "A self-driving Waymo taxi hit a dog in San Francisco, reigniting a heated debate over autonomous vehicle safety just weeks after one killed a popular neighborhood cat." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-12-02/waymo-strikes-dog-in-san-francisco-weeks-after-kitkat | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:39:54

• "So to retaliate, he’s been “feeding it poison pills,” Collette said in a recent post, causing the page’s followers to have “meltdowns” in the comments." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/facebook-ai-slop-poison-pill | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:40:16

• "The use of ‘nudify’ apps is becoming more and more prevalent, with hundreds of teachers having seen images created by pupils, often of their peers. The fallout is huge – and growing fast" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/dec/02/the-rise-of-deepfake-pornography-in-schools | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:40:28

• "South Korea’s largest online retailer, Coupang — often described as the country’s version of Amazon — apologized on Sunday after confirming that the personal details of 33.7 million customer accounts had been compromised." ☛ https://therecord.media/coupang-south-korea-data-breach | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:40:52

• "ransomware attack that disrupted its operations in late September also saw a significant data breach that affects more than 1.5 million customers and approximately 275,000 current and former employees and their families." ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/asahi-cyber-attack-spirals-into-massive-data-breach-impacting-almost-2-million-people | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:41:07

• "The University of Pennsylvania joined the steadily growing number of victim organizations impacted by the widespread data theft and extortion campaign involving a notorious ransomware group’s exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability and other defects in Oracle E-Business Suite earlier this year." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/university-pennsylvania-oracle-e-business-suite-clop-attacks/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:43:57

• "At a hearing held Tuesday by the Senate Committee on Commerce, experts offered differing assessments of the threat." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/salt-typhoon-senate-commerce-hearing-fcc-telecom-cybersecurity/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:44:09

• "The Federal Trade Commission will require education technology provider Illuminate Education, Inc." ☛ https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/12/ftc-takes-action-against-education-technology-provider-failing-secure-students-personal-data | Source: Federal Trade Commission    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:44:23

• "Contracts with school systems misrepresented the company’s security practices by falsely claiming student data was encrypted, according to the FTC." ☛ https://therecord.media/illuminate-education-data-breach-settlement-ftc | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:44:35

• "They’re looking to prevent problems caused by major outages such as the ones that struck AWS and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud last month." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/02/aws-google-cloud-partner-faster-multicloud-connectivity/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:44:47

• "The FTC has demanded changes from the company, but did not issue any fines or criminal charges" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/ftc_illuminate/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:45:17

• "which last week 'fessed up to a cybersecurity incident that had downed its IT systems" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/london_councils_data_breach/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:45:36

• "A third-party system disruption has been affecting check-in systems at various airports, resulting in delays across multiple airlines, including Air India" ☛ https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/air-india-other-airlines-face-check-in-system-glitches-briefly-on-december-2/article70351895.ece | Source: The Hindu    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:45:52

• "Detectives investigating the Post Office scandal have urged more sub-postmasters to come forward after non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) were declared unenforceable." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/horizon-scandal-post-office-postmasters-nda-fujitsu-b2876843.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:46:02

• "New research conducted by scientists from UC Berkeley and Columbia University found that children 12 years old and younger" ☛ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/grim-happenings-kids-smartphones | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:49:06

• "Tattoo ink doesn’t just sit inertly in the skin. New research shows it moves rapidly into the lymphatic system" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2025-12-01/tattoo-ink-moves-through-body-killing-immune-cells-weakening-vaccine-response | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:49:16

• "In addition to Agent Orange, Price advocates for expanding Panama-related toxins." ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/military-life/panama-veterans-toxic-exposure/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:49:24

• "But should it?" ☛ https://werd.io/you-cant-legislate-serendipity/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:56:19

• "In an era of rapid change in higher education, one constant remains: students need support not just to access information, but to understand it, evaluate it, and use it responsibly. The academic library has long provided that foundation." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/12/02/guest-post-what-do-college-students-lose-when-libraries-are-ignored/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:56:29

• "The main issue with the structure collapse is that it puts Site 31/6 — the only Russian launch site capable of launching crew and cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) — out of service until the structure is fixed." ☛ https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/11/site-31-accident/ |    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:56:50

• "It’s a significant development, considering that only Russia’s Soyuz and SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft are currently able to deliver astronauts to the space station — a major setback that could force NASA to adjust its plans" ☛ https://futurism.com/space/accident-destroy-russia-launch-astronauts | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:57:01

• "A group of students at Cornell University is seeking participation from radio amateurs who are equipped with satellite stations for help in listening for signals from a retroreflective laser sail that is scheduled to be deployed later this week" ☛ https://www.arrl.org/news/view/space-sailors-seeking-download-help-from-ham-radio-operators | Source: ARRL    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:57:11

• "For over 50 years, researchers in the field of computational complexity theory have sought to turn intuitive statements like “the traveling salesperson problem is hard” into ironclad mathematical theorems, without much success." ☛ https://www.quantamagazine.org/reverse-mathematics-illuminates-why-hard-problems-are-hard-20251201/ | Source: Quanta Magazine    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:57:21

• "Now a new study by an international collaboration of geneticists and archaeologists" ☛ https://theconversation.com/when-did-people-first-arrive-in-australasia-new-archaeogenetics-study-dates-it-to-60-000-years-ago-270959 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:57:43

• "It’s a significant setback, because the damaged pad is Russia’s only certified launch site for crewed missions to space." ☛ https://futurism.com/space/nasa-responds-russia-blowing-up-astronaut-launch | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:57:52

• "We’re hoping to add a polytunnel so we can grow more of our own vegetables. I’d also like to insulate the roof in the conservatory as it’ll effectively give us another room we can use all year round." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/blog/year-3-at-the-smallholding/ | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:58:10

• "The main reason is that I recently changed job and it keeps me really busy as I am ramping up." ☛ https://www.ncartron.org/this-blogs-cadence.html | Source: Nico Cartron    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:58:18

• "While not an exhaustive list, consider a few common topics where having two separate conversations can make it extremely difficult to communicate: [...]" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/the-great-disconnect-unmasking-the-two-separate-conversations-in-security/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:58:30

• "Have you ever thought a font looked “friendly” or “elegant”? Or felt that Comic Sans was somehow unserious? You’re not imagining it." ☛ https://theconversation.com/its-not-you-some-typefaces-feel-different-270192 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 08:58:48

• "In my previous article on colours, I dove into the practical side of the new colour features for developers who primarily copy and paste values from a design file into their editor." ☛ https://piccalil.li/blog/a-pragmatic-guide-to-modern-css-colours-part-two/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:04:26

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

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:05:03

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

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:05:21

• How To Install VLC Media Player on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-vlc-media-player-fedora-43/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:05:36

• "I don't like RSS readers. I know, this is blasphemous especially on a website where I'm actively encouraging you to subscribe through RSS." ☛ https://matduggan.com/making-rss-more-fun/ | Source: Mat Duggan    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:14:53

• "Introducing errors.AsType — a modern, type-safe alternative to errors.As." ☛ https://antonz.org/accepted/errors-astype/ | Source: Anton Zhiyanov    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:15:14

• "If we can trigger one for six minutes, perhaps we can do it for an hour." ☛ https://seths.blog/2025/12/rehearsing-emotional-state/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:15:31

• "Now with a "digital audio workstation" app ("DAW"), you can orchestrate all your external MIDI instruments and record a masterpiece." ☛ https://perladvent.org/2025/2025-12-03.html | Source: Perl    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:15:49

• "That timing appears notable. Last week, Andrew Kelly, president and lead developer of the Zig Software Foundation, announced that the Zig project is moving to Codeberg, a non-profit git hosting service, because GitHub no longer demonstrates commitment to engineering excellence." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:16:10

• "The 2nd day had us do some magic with numbers. The quest was to find some silly patterns in the numbers." ☛ https://arjenwiersma.nl/posts/20251202-aoc-2025-2/ | Source: Arjen Wiersma    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:16:21

• "Here is where I’ll post my solutions to Advent of Code using zshbrev. Spoilers ahead, and no promises that I’ll make it through the entire 12 days." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/aoc25 | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:16:32

• "But the more code I write, the harder it gets to deny the simple beauty of a function." ☛ https://www.jameskerr.blog/posts/2025/mostly-functions/ | Source: James Kerr    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:16:44

• "RSS/Atom feeds are one of the great technologies in the open web. They allow me to follow other people and them to follow me." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/i-built-a-tiny-rss-generator-for-my-advent-of-code-solutions/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:16:54

• "Trail of Bits has developed constant-time coding support for LLVM, providing developers with compiler-level guarantees that their cryptographic implementations remain secure against branching-related timing attacks." ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/12/02/introducing-constant-time-support-for-llvm-to-protect-cryptographic-code/ | Source: Trail of Bits    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:17:14

• "The 304 (Not Modified) status code indicates that a conditional GET or HEAD request has been received and would have resulted in a 200 (OK) response if it were not for the fact that the condition evaluated to false." ☛ https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/advent-calendar-2025-12-02/ | Source: The Weekly Challenge    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:17:25

• "They've even checked most of the product ID ranges already; they only have a few product ID ranges (your puzzle input) that you'll need to check. For example: [...]" ☛ https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/2 | Source: AdventOfCode    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:17:39

• "From the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) earliest efforts protecting user freedom to the formation of the Licensing and Compliance Lab (the Lab) in 2001 and beyond" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2025-support-the-Lab | Source: FSF    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:18:17

• "The Camel Book is arguably the book for Perl, but it wasn’t ours." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/the-llama-book/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:19:35

• "The new version introduces Notes, a new block-level commenting system. Feedback can now be added directly to individual blocks" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/wordpress-6-9-introduces-block-level-notes-faster-editing/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:20:02

• "We released PowerDNS DNSdist 2.0.2 today, fixing several issues: [...]" ☛ https://blog.powerdns.com/2025/12/02/powerdns-dnsdist-2.0.2-released | Source: PowerDNS    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:21:23

• "After a year and a half of development, the famous VLC media player released version 3.0.22, the latest update in the long-running “Vetinari” series, bringing some notable improvements that we shared with you in September." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/vlc-3-0-22-media-player-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:21:37

• "Welcome back to the latest State of the Thunder. In the last Community Office Hours, Heather and Monica sat down with members of the mobile team in a retrospective to celebrate the first year of the Thunderbird for Android app." ☛ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/12/state-of-the-thunder-14-the-2026-mobile-roadmap/ | Source: Thunderbird    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:21:47

• "Twelve new GNU releases in the last month (as of November 30, 2025): [...]" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2025-november-gnu-spotlight | Source: FSF    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:21:56

• "Google’s public vulnerability disclosure and reporting program for Android has been uneven this year." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/android-security-update-december-2025/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:31:05

• "I’ve had my VORON Trident for 2 years and I’ve run it for 2600 hours." ☛ https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2025/12/02/3d_printer_repairing_and_modding/ | Source: Jonas Hietala    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:36:20

• "But today, to offset the recent unprecedented rise in the cost of LPDDR4 memory, we are announcing price increases to some Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 products." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/1gb-raspberry-pi-5-now-available-at-45-and-memory-driven-price-rises/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:36:28

• "Browsing various news feeds this morning I discovered an interesting, and rather disturbing, juxtaposition of two articles—one fact, one fiction—about the possibilities of slop" ☛ https://itwire.com/your-it-news/internet-of-things/beware-the-internet-of-dangerous-things.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:37:02

• "According to the devs, development has entered its final phase, and packaging work has been committed to the repositories. Given that historically the gap between a Mint’s beta release and the final stable one is typically 2 to 4 weeks, with a high degree of predictability, we can expect 22.3 “Zena” around Christmas." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/linux-mint-22-3-zena-nears-release-with-new-cinnamon-menu-and-tools/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:38:22

• "According to the devs, development has entered its final phase, and packaging work has been committed to the repositories. Given that historically the gap between a Mint’s beta release and the final stable one is typically 2 to 4 weeks, with a high degree of predictability, we can expect 22.3 “Zena”." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/linux-mint-22-3-zena-nears-release-with-new-cinnamon-menu-and-tools/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:38:49

• "Inside, there's an ARM710 processor (implementing the ARMv3 architecture), 41 MiB of RAM (the 1 MiB of video RAM is included in the memory count for ... reasons)" ☛ https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-12-02/ | Source: Jonathan Pallant    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:39:37

• "After AlmaLinux 9.7 appeared two weeks ago, followed by Oracle Linux 9.7, the Rocky team now announced the general availability of Rocky Linux 9.7 (Blue Onyx), as the seventh refresh to the 9.x series for this RHEL-based replacement, with refreshed installation media, cloud, container, WSL, and live images now available via the project’s downloads page." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/rocky-linux-9-7-released-with-updated-toolchains/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:41:00

• "After AlmaLinux 9.7 appeared two weeks ago, followed by Oracle Linux 9.7, the Rocky team now announced the general availability of Rocky Linux 9.7 (Blue Onyx), as the seventh refresh to the 9.x series for this RHEL-based replacement, with refreshed installation media, cloud, container" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/rocky-linux-9-7-released-with-updated-toolchains/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:41:14

• [Old] "This article has been on my mind for months, yet it never seemed to fully take shape, until now." ☛ https://www.tara.sh/posts/2025/2025-03-17-freebsd_workstation_home_1/ | Source: Tara    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:42:14

• [Old] "In March 2023, I started traveling again, but this time between my houses in Milan and London." ☛ https://www.tara.sh/posts/2025/2025-03-24-freebsd_workstation_home_2/ | Source: Tara    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:42:24

• "The FreeBSD project has announced the release of FreeBSD 15.0." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12655 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:42:32

• "[...] Then, in our Questions and Answers column, we address the topic of whether the choice of distribution really matters." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20251201 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:43:24

• "On the Vulkan-related updates side, NVIDIA has improved the performance of recreating Vulkan swapchains, which helps reduce stuttering when resizing application windows" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/nvidia-releases-linux-display-driver-v590-beta/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:44:22

• "On Nov 28, I rebooted r730-01 after an update, and it didn’t come back. At all." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/12/02/how-to-recover-when-booting-to-multiple-zroots/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:46:18

• "Although analysing performance by way of instruction counting has obvious limitations" ☛ https://muxup.com/2025q4/qemu-based-instruction-execution-counting | Source: Muxup    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:46:58

• "The Linux Kernel project reached another milestone with the official release of version 6.18, announced by Linus Torvalds." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/linux-kernel-6-18-release/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:47:13

• Retro Style VFO ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/02/retro-style-vfo-has-single-digit-parts-count/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 09:59:40

• Mantlepiece ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/02/a-stylish-moon-and-tide-clock-for-the-mantlepiece/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:00:02

• How Cross-Channel Plumbing Fuelled The Allied March On Berlin ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/02/how-cross-channel-plumbing-fuelled-the-allied-march-on-berlin/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:06:40

• LoRa ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/02/lora-repeater-lasts-5-years-on-pvc-pipe-and-d-cells/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:07:00

• Neat Wago Tools ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/02/wagos-online-community-is-full-of-neat-wago-tools/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:07:21

• One Manual For Normies, Another For Hackers ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/02/give-us-one-manual-for-normies-another-for-hackers/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:07:37

• Retrotechtacular ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/02/retrotechtacular-learning-the-slide-rule-the-new-old-fashioned-way/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:08:00

• Baikonur ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/12/02/damage-to-the-baikonur-launchpad-has-left-russia-unable-to-send-people-into-space-why-doesn-t-roscosmos-have-a-backup-plan | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:10:49

• "cosmonaut" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/12/02/veteran-cosmonaut-pulled-from-joint-russian-u-s-mission-after-allegedly-photographing-sensitive-spacex-hardware | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:11:07

• "Europe’s demands are not acceptable to Russia" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/12/02/trump-s-envoys-arrive-in-moscow-to-discuss-proposed-ukraine-peace-deal-with-putin | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:11:21

• "winning" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/12/02/four-quotes-from-vladimir-putin-explaining-how-russia-is-winning-the-war-in-ukraine-which-is-not-really-a-war-and-russia-didn-t-start-it-even-if-it-were-but-it-should-have-even-sooner | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:11:50

• "fail" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/12/03/kremlin-talks-stretch-past-midnight-as-u-s-envoys-and-putin-again-fail-to-bridge-peace-plan-gap-on-ukraine-war | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:12:02

• IBM "Severance agreement, love the last part about hire a lawyer" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kb3xw69j    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:15:17

• https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kav5506x    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:15:56

• "You really only have about a week after RA to find and secure new job. Then they start the off-boarding process pretty soon after that. The hiring manager also must justify why they couldn't find someone else not on the shit list." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kav5506x    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:16:03

• IBM Meetings: "Just had one of those... it was a meeting about why the last meeting did not achieve what the meeting before that was supposed to fix... You cannot make this stuff up. We are doomed." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbgvxp4m    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:17:35

• IBM: "CSM team has gone through two round of layoffs already (April and November). I heard more to come after the new year. Anyone has any insight on this?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbh8gysj    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:18:32

• EC president promises further sanctions on Belarus amid weather balloon crisis ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2763056/ec-president-promises-further-sanctions-on-belarus-amid-weather-balloon-crisis    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:20:48

• Presidential adviser: no confirmed details on Belarus claim of Lithuanian drone incident ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2763116/presidential-adviser-no-confirmed-details-on-belarus-claim-of-lithuanian-drone-incident    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:21:40

• Lithuania may close border again amid smuggling balloon crisis, PM says ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2763244/lithuania-may-close-border-again-amid-smuggling-balloon-crisis-pm-says    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:21:50

• Tajikistan is in talks with Russia about helping guard its Afghan border, security sources say ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/tajikistan-is-in-talks-with-russia-about-helping-guard-its-afghan-border-security-sources-say    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:22:28

• Two minors, one Russian, held in Paris over antisemitic plot ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251202-two-minors-one-russian-held-in-paris-over-antisemitic-plot    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:22:40

• Nigerian General Christopher Musa returns to government as the country's Minister of Defence ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20251202-nigerian-general-christopher-musa-returns-to-government-as-the-country-s-minister-of-defence    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:22:53

• Did Russia accidentally destroy its ability to send cosmonauts into space? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20251202-did-russia-accidentally-destroy-its-ability-to-send-cosmonauts-into-space    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:23:05

• Linderman in the Dispatch on Russia’s decreasing hold on the South Caucasus and how the US should respond ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/insight-impact/in-the-news/linderman-in-the-dispatch-on-russias-decreasing-hold-on-the-south-caucasus-and-how-the-us-should-respond/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:23:36

• NASA Responds to Russia Accidentally Blowing Up Its Only Astronaut Launch Facility ☞ https://futurism.com/space/nasa-responds-russia-blowing-up-astronaut-launch    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:23:59

• Russian citizen in line to be charged over attempt to smuggle ammo from Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/02.12.2025-russian-citizen-in-line-to-be-charged-over-attempt-to-smuggle-ammo-from-latvia.a624748/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:24:10

• Pinning a Ukraine peace to principles ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/1202/Pinning-a-Ukraine-peace-to-principles    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:24:27

• Back to the Kremlin: Will Witkoff plan seal Ukraine's fate? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20251202-back-to-the-kremlin-will-witkoff-plan-seal-ukraine-s-fate    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:24:38

• Any peace deal that empowers Russia is a direct security threat to Turkey ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/turkeysource/any-peace-deal-that-empowers-russia-is-a-direct-security-threat-to-turkey/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:25:03

• Ukrainian children displaced by war allegedly abused in Turkey ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/ukrainian-children-displaced-by-war-allegedly-abused-in-turkey-314086    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:25:20

• Marco Rubio claims ‘progress’ towards Ukraine-Russian peace deal — but says only Putin can end the war ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/12/02/us-news/marco-rubio-claims-progress-towards-ukraine-russian-peace-deal-but-says-only-putin-can-end-the-war/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:25:33

• Giving In to Putin Would Give Up More Than Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/ukraine-russia-peace-plan-business-deal.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:25:54

• Putin and Witkoff Meet in Russia as U.S. Pushes Ukraine Deal ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/world/europe/putin-witkoff-trump-ukraine-meeting.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:26:07

• Russia Claims Capture Of Key Donbas City Ahead Of Kremlin Meeting With US Envoy ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-putin-pokrovsk-witkoff-kremlin-ukraine/33610717.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:26:24

• Russia Says 'Meaningful' Meeting With US On Ukraine Peace Proposal Ends 'No Closer' To Deal ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-witkoff-putin-peace-proposal-trump/33611074.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:26:46

• Putin warns Europe: if you want war, then Russia will defeat you ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251202-putin-warns-europe-if-you-want-war-then-russia-will-defeat-you    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:26:56

• If Europe wants war with Russia, 'we are ready': Putin ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251202-if-europe-wants-war-with-russia-we-are-ready-putin    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:29:16

• Putin and US negotiators hold high-stakes Ukraine talks in Moscow ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251202-putin-and-us-negotiators-hold-high-stakes-ukraine-talks-in-moscow    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:29:30

• Ukraine peace plan must not include amnesty for Russian war crimes ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraine-peace-plan-must-not-include-amnesty-for-russian-war-crimes/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:29:47

• Automate unique compliance checks with OpenShift and CustomRule ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/02/automate-unique-compliance-checks-openshift-and-customrule    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:34:34

• Generate synthetic data for your Hey Hi (AI) models with SDG Hub ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/02/generate-synthetic-data-your-ai-models-sdg-hub    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:36:34

• Introducing constant-time support for LLVM to protect cryptographic code ☞ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/12/02/introducing-constant-time-support-for-llvm-to-protect-cryptographic-code/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:38:17

• IBM peddling slop, scams, and plagiarism ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/02/run-mistral-large-3-ministral-3-vllm-red-hat-ai    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:39:59

• Build custom OS images for I.C.B.M. Power systems (ppc64le) with bootc ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/02/build-custom-os-images-ibm-power-systems-ppc64le-bootc    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:40:26

• Flood rescue efforts intensify in Asia ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251202-flood-rescue-efforts-intensify-in-asia    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:40:43

• The Hey Hi (AI) Trapdoor Lying in Wait for Workers ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/the-ai-trapdoor    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:41:33

• Simon Josefsson: Guix on Trisquel & Ubuntu for Reproducible CI/CD Artifacts ☞ https://blog.josefsson.org/2025/12/03/guix-on-trisquel-ubuntu-for-reproducible-ci-cd-artifacts/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:42:59

• YouTube to comply with Australia’s teen social control media ban ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/youtube-says-it-will-comply-with-australias-teen-social-media-ban    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:43:32

• YouTube says kids will be ‘less safe’ under Australia’s social control media ban ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/youtube-says-kids-to-be-less-safe-under-australias-social-media-ban    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:43:45

• YouTube says it will comply with Australia’s teen social control media ban ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/youtube-says-it-will-comply-with-australias-teen-social-media-ban    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:43:59

• Schedule Recurring Calls With Your Far-Away Friends ☞ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/01/Schedule-Recurring-Calls-With-Your-Far-Away-Friends/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:46:03

• Let's Encrypt to reduce certificate lifetimes ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1048976/ fake security https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/03/Fake_Security_and_Free_Certificates_as_a_Trap_of_Planned_Obsole.shtml    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:47:36

• Many divisive X accounts are foreign-based. What does that tell us? ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/1202/x-location-foreign-accounts-politics    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:48:03

• Bioluminescence on Earth Evolved Over 500 Million Years Ago, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/bioluminescence-on-earth-evolved-over-500-million-years-ago-study-finds    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:48:21

• Young Ants Beg For Death When Sick, New Study Reveals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/young-ants-beg-for-death-when-sick-new-study-reveals    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:48:31

• First Detailed Look at a Tsunami From Space Reveals Unexpected Feature ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/first-detailed-look-at-a-tsunami-from-space-reveals-unexpected-feature    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:48:42

• Suicidal Thoughts Prompt New Warnings From Health Authorities For GLP-1 Drugs ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/suicidal-thoughts-prompt-new-warnings-from-health-authorities-for-glp-1-drugs    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:48:53

• Our Brains Really Do 'Sync Up' When We Collaborate, Study Reveals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/our-brains-really-do-sync-up-when-we-collaborate-study-reveals    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:49:05

• Scientists Discover a Way to 'Recharge' Aging Human Cells ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-a-way-to-recharge-aging-human-cells    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:49:15

• Curiosity Cracked Open a Rock on Mars And Revealed a Big Surprise ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/curiosity-cracked-open-a-rock-on-mars-and-revealed-a-big-surprise    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:49:30

• How Long Poop Stays in Your Body Could Impact Your Health, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/how-long-poop-stays-in-your-body-could-impact-your-health-study-finds    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:49:38

• TTABlog Test: Is "MUSIC.AI" Merely Descriptive of Music Production Software? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/12/ttablog-test-is-musicai-merely.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:50:21

• The tech stack powering TTG bid to capture 90% of UK travel market ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/b2b/the-tech-stack-powering-ttg-bid-to-capture-90-of-uk-travel-market/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:52:55

• Politico journalists fight back over Hey Hi (AI) tools that published ‘glaring errors’ ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/news-not-slop-politico-ai/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:53:31

• DNA Analysis Reveals Two Routes Ancient Humans Used to Reach Australia ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dna-analysis-reveals-two-routes-ancient-humans-used-to-reach-australia    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:53:46

• ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.2 Release Brings Hey Hi (AI) Grammar Checks to the Free Office Suite ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/onlyoffice-docs-9-2-release/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:54:11

• Run cost-effective Hey Hi (AI) workloads on OpenShift with proprietary trap AWS Neuron Operator ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/02/cost-effective-ai-workloads-openshift-aws-neuron-operator    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:55:21

• How to recover when booting to multiple zroots? ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2025/12/02/how-to-recover-when-booting-to-multiple-zroots/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:57:16

• Last Two Weeks in KDE Apps ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/02/last-two-weeks-in-kde-apps/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:58:17

• Birger Schacht: Status update, November 2025 ☞ https://bisco.org/notes/status-update-november-2025/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:59:00

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: duckdb-mlpack 0.0.5: Added kmeans, version helpers, documentation ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/12/02#duckdb-mlpack_0.0.5    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:59:18

• FreeBSD 15.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1048975/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 10:59:56

• Zorin OS 18 Hits over a Million Downloads ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Zorin-OS-18-Hits-over-a-Million-Downloads    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:13:11

• Search for "linux" in Surveillance Giant Google News, Get Slopfarms ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/01/Search_for_linux_in_Google_News_Get_Slopfarms.shtml    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:14:56

• Steam Survey Signals Steep GNU/Linux Growth (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/02/Steam_Survey_Signals_Steep_GNU_Linux_Growth.shtml    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:15:05

• OneKeePass – password manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/onekeepass-password-manager/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:17:40

• regname – mass renamer TUI ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/regname-mass-renamer-tui/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:17:52

• LainOS – Arch Linux-based desktop distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lainos-arch-linux-based-desktop-distribution/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:18:00

• Alternatives to popular CLI tools: rename ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/alternatives-popular-cli-tools-rename/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:18:08

• 18 Top Free and Open Source Console Based IRC Clients ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/consoleircclients/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:18:17

• tdf – TUI-based PDF viewer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tdf-tui-based-pdf-viewer/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:18:27

• TLP 1.9.0 Released! “Added back” Graphical Power Mode Settings ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/12/tlp-190-graphical-power-mode-settings/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:19:26

• GNOME OS 956432 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/gnomeos    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:20:02

• CentOS 10-20251201 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/centos    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:20:12

• Linux Mint 22.3 Beta Will Be Released This Month ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/linux-mint-22-3-beta-coming-this-month    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:20:34

• VLC 3.0.22 Released with AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler, dav1d-all-layers Option ☞ https://9to5linux.com/vlc-3-0-22-released-with-amd-gpu-frame-rate-doubler-dav1d-all-layers-option    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:20:50

• Arkane 2025.12.02 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/arkane    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:20:58

• Oracle 10.1 is also out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/oracle    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:21:04

• Quart – async Python web application framework ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/quart-async-python-web-application-framework/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:21:38

• Linux Mint 22.3 Codenamed “Zena”, Planned for Christmas 2025 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-22-3-codenamed-zena-planned-for-christmas-2025    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:21:47

• NVIDIA 590 GNU/Linux Graphics Driver Enters Public Beta with Better Wayland Support ☞ https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-590-linux-graphics-driver-enters-public-beta-with-better-wayland-support    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:21:58

• Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1048973/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:22:14

• toastytech.com and dwaves.de does a website have to be beautiful? ☞ https://dwaves.de/2025/12/02/toastytech-com-and-dwaves-de-does-a-website-have-to-be-beautiful/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:23:00

• oxDNA – DNA/RNA simulator with CUDA support ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/oxdna-dna-rna-simulator-cuda-support/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:25:05

• hypr-cycle – cycle through workspaces on the currently focused monitor in Hyprland ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hypr-cycle-workspaces-hyprland/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:25:17

• Run any backdoored Windows app on GNU/Linux with WinBoat, it's free and open source ☞ https://www.ghacks.net/2025/12/02/run-any-windows-app-on-linux-with-winboat-its-free-and-open-source/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:25:40

• InstantCLI – consolidating lots of instantOS stuff into a single CLI ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/instantcli-consolidating-instantos-stuff-single-cli/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:25:52

• CodeContexter – simple codebase serializer for LLM Context backdoored Windows ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/codecontexter-simple-codebase-serializer-llm-context-windows/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:25:59

• MarkFlowy – modern and intelligent Markdown editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/markflowy-modern-intelligent-markdown-editor/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:26:10

• WordPress 6.9 Introduces Block-Level Notes, Faster Editing ☞ https://linuxiac.com/wordpress-6-9-introduces-block-level-notes-faster-editing/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:26:41

• Tinct – extracts color palettes from images ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tinct-extracts-color-palettes-images/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:26:54

• t-rec – fast terminal recorder ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/t-rec-fast-terminal-recorder/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:27:03

• Crush – terminal-based Hey Hi (AI) assistant ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/crush-terminal-based-ai-assistant/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:27:17

• "AV Linux and MX Moksha are a pair of distros tweaked for audio and music production, each using a different branch of the Enlightenment family of desktops." https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/av_linux_25/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:31:03

• Wealthfolio – desktop investment tracker ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/wealthfolio-desktop-investment-tracker/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:36:20

• Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: cTDP ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/minisforum-um890-pro-mini-pc-running-linux-ctdp/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:36:29

• Folo – AI-powered news aggregator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/folo-ai-powered-news-aggregator/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:36:37

• ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.2 released: Hey Hi (AI) grammar and spell check, customizable hotkeys, macro recording, improved PDF redaction and forms ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/onlyoffice-docs-9-2-released/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:42:35

• 86Box – low level x86 emulator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/86box-low-level-x86-emulator/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:42:47

• ntpdate Command not Found: Solution ☞ https://linuxconfig.org/ntpdate-command-not-found-solution    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:53:24

• Docker: Patch Image Vulnerabilities with Trivy and Copa ☞ https://linuxconfig.org/patch-docker-container-vulnerabilities-with-trivy-and-copa    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:54:37

• Opinion | How to improve Michigan schools? Ask professionals on the front lines ☞ https://bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-how-to-improve-michigan-schools-ask-professionals-on-the-front-lines/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:56:32

• Opinion | We know how to teach our dyslexic students. Let’s start doing it ☞ https://bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-we-know-how-to-teach-our-dyslexic-students-lets-start-doing-it/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:56:43

• How to test the syslog-ng Kafka source by building the package yourself? ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/other/syslog-ng-how-to-test-kafka-source-by-building-the-package-yourself/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 11:57:18

• Netflix In Diddy’s Crosshairs—Rap Mogul Calls 50 Cent-Directed Documentary ‘Hit Piece’ with Unauthorized Footage ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/02/diddy-netflix-documentary-commentary/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:00:09

• Android Zero-Days Patched in December 2025 Security Update ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/androids-december-2025-updates-patch-two-zero-days/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:00:43

• Choosing AnyType: A Platform for Scalable, Secure Governance ☞ https://toscalix.com/2025/12/02/choosing-anytype-a-platform-for-scalable-secure-governance/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:01:30

• 3Duino helps you rapidly create interactive 3D-printed devices ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/12/03/3duino-helps-you-rapidly-create-interactive-3d-printed-devices/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:02:13

• Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/essay-on-the-modification-of-clouds    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:02:32

• The Launch of Our End-of-Year Fundraiser! ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/12/launch-of-end-of-year-fundraiser-2025    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:02:41

• Police official to be prosecuted for negligent death of child ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/02.12.2025-police-official-to-be-prosecuted-for-negligent-death-of-child.a624694/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:03:00

• Amazon Quietly Pulls Disastrous Hey Hi (AI) Dubs For Popular Anime After Outcry ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-pulls-ai-anime-dub    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:04:54

• Chrome, Edge Extensions Caught Tracking Users, Creating Backdoors ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-edge-extensions-caught-tracking-users-creating-backdoors/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:06:18

• Haha, before the BUBBLE implodes https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/business/apple-ai-john-giannandrea-siri.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:06:39

• As Israel keeps striking, Lebanese grapple with a ceasefire that isn’t ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/1202/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-ceasefire-anniversary-violations    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:07:14

• Sri Lanka grapples with trauma, loss after deadly cyclone that killed hundreds ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/sri-lanka-grapples-with-trauma-loss-after-deadly-cyclone-that-killed-hundreds    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:07:40

• Personal Information of 33.7 Million Stolen From Coupang ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/personal-information-of-33-7-million-stolen-from-coupang/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:08:17

• The Congressional remedy for Salt Typhoon? More information sharing with industry ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/salt-typhoon-senate-commerce-hearing-fcc-telecom-cybersecurity/ this was due to back doors http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/05/Credit_to_Jessica_Lyons_at_The_Register_for_Covering_the_Commun.shtml    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:09:16

• In Nigeria, self-defence groups step in to compensate for widening security gaps ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251202-in-nigeria-self-defence-groups-step-in-to-compensate-for-widening-security-gaps    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:09:41

• Those who ‘exploit’ deadly Tai Po fire will be punished, Hong Kong leader says after sedition arrests ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/02/those-who-exploit-deadly-tai-po-fire-will-be-punished-hong-kong-leader-says-after-sedition-arrests/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:10:48

• Is Japan abandoning pacifism? Spat with China spotlights clash in regional security perspectives ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/is-japan-abandoning-pacifism-spat-with-china-spotlights-clash-in-regional-security-perspectives    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:11:02

• Fedora Community Blog: Test Day:2025-12-02 FreeIPA-WebUI Test Day ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/test-day2025-12-02-freeipa-webui-test-day/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:12:50

• Jon Chiappetta: Year End Summary – OpenVPN Modifications in a Screen Cap – Sometimes Lines of Code Removed is a Better Metric! ☞ https://fossjon.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/year-end-summary-openvpn-modifications-in-a-screen-cap-sometimes-lines-of-code-removed-is-a-better-metric/ "I made comes out to roughly 3,000 lines added and over 25,000 lines of code removed!"    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:13:59

• Mind your congestion control in the LEO satellite Internet ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/03/mind-your-congestion-control-in-the-leo-satellite-internet/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:14:16

• Hot takes on 13 talks from NANOG 95 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/02/hot-takes-on-13-talks-from-nanog-95/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:14:31

• Congress Should Investigate Convicted Felon’s Venezuela Boat Strikes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/trump-venezuela-boat-strikes-congress-committee.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:14:43

• Hegseth Says He Did Not See Survivors of Boat Strike Clinging to Wreckage ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/hegseth-boat-strikes.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:14:56

• Dihydroxyacetone Man and Hegseth Comments on Boat Strike Leave Adm. Bradley Exposed ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/admiral-bradley-boat-strikes.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:15:08

• Sharks and Rays Gain Sweeping Protections from Wildlife Trade ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/science/wildlife-trade-cites-sharks-rays.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:20:27

• U.S government awards Gelsinger-backed EUV developer xLight with $150 million in federal incentives — company to develop new electron-based light source for lithography tools ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/u-s-government-awards-gelsinger-backed-euv-developer-xlight-with-usd150-million-in-federal-incentives-company-to-develop-new-electron-based-light-source-for-lithography-tools    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:20:48

• Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan healthy but cut off in jail, sister says as family seeks access ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/imran-khan-healthy-but-cut-off-in-jail-sister-says-as-family-seeks-access    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:21:32

• Lithuania rises in EU gender equality index but still trails bloc average ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2763356/lithuania-rises-in-eu-gender-equality-index-but-still-trails-bloc-average    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:21:46

• Latvian Oncology Centre finally has hopes for full reconstruction ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/02.12.2025-latvian-oncology-centre-finally-has-hopes-for-full-reconstruction.a624645/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:22:09

• Dodgy diet pills appear on Latvian online sales platform ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/02.12.2025-dodgy-diet-pills-appear-on-latvian-online-sales-platform.a624670/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:22:16

• 120,000 Home Cameras Were Hacked for Sexual Videos, South Korean Police Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/world/asia/south-korea-cameras-hacked.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:22:39

• How e-commerce platform Coupang is deeply integrated into South Koreans’ everyday life ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/how-e-commerce-platform-coupang-is-deeply-integrated-into-south-koreans-everyday-life    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:23:21

• South Korea court dismisses request to detain former finance minister in martial law probe ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-court-dismisses-request-to-detain-former-finance-minister-in-martial-law-probe-yonhap    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:23:33

• Polarised South Korea marks martial law anniversary ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/polarised-south-korea-marks-martial-law-anniversary    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:23:41

• South Korea’s Lee says on martial law anniversary perpetrators must face justice ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-lee-says-martial-law-clean-up-not-yet-complete-on-first-anniversary    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:23:49

• South Korea's Lee says on martial law anniversary perpetrators must face justice ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-koreas-lee-says-on-martial-law-anniversary-perpetrators-must-face-justice    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:24:01

• South Korea's digital sex crime crisis - the 'Molka' epidemic ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20251202-south-korea-s-digital-sex-crime-crisis-the-molka-epidemic    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:24:25

• Search for missing flight MH370 to resume on Dec 30, Malaysia says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/search-for-missing-flight-mh370-to-resume-this-month-malaysia-says    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:27:11

• S’pore tour buses cannot operate as express services in Malaysia: Transport Minister Anthony Loke ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/singapore-tour-buses-cannot-operate-as-express-services-in-malaysia-says-transport-minister    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:27:32

• Mahathir lodges police report against Malaysia PM Anwar over US trade deal ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/mahathir-lodges-police-report-against-malaysia-pm-anwar-over-us-trade-deal    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:27:51

• Thailand says key tech, car parts hub paralysed by record floods ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thailand-says-key-tech-car-parts-hub-paralysed-by-record-floods    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:28:11

• Malaysia tightens nuclear controls under amended law ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-tightens-nuclear-controls-under-amended-law    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:28:42

• China, Evoking World War II, Urges Europe to Take Its Side Against Japan ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/world/asia/china-japan-taiwan-europe.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:29:31

• China adds tax to condoms as it works to boost birth rates ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-adds-tax-to-condoms-as-it-works-to-boost-birth-rates    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:29:48

• China’s military reaching further, more frequently into Pacific, says Australia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/chinas-military-reaching-further-more-frequently-into-pacific-says-australia    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:30:11

• China-Japan clash may persist a year, Taiwan minister warns ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-japan-clash-may-persist-a-year-taiwan-minister-warns    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:30:26

• China cautions foreigners about fraudulent arrival card platforms ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-cautions-foreigners-of-fraudulent-arrival-card-platforms    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:30:47

• Push and pull for S-E Asia as China counters Malaysia’s US trade deal with own pact ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/s-e-asia-in-push-and-pull-with-competing-interests-as-china-counters-malaysias-us-trade-deal-with    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:31:07

• China issues first batch of ‘general’ rare-earth export licences to magnet makers — country's stranglehold over industry continues, but tensions are easing ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-issues-first-batch-of-general-rare-earth-export-licenses-to-magnet-makers    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:31:21

• CREATING PROBLEMS. Then claiming to 'solve' these. https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/02/identity-verification-startup-incode-launches-deepsight-detect-deepfake-video-calls/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:32:32

• Gamers Say There’s Hey Hi (AI) Slop in the New Season of Fortnite ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/gamers-accuse-fortnite-ai-slop    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:33:02

• Bookshelf: A new history of Vietnam’s American War ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/bookshelf-a-new-history-of-vietnams-american-war/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:33:27

• San Francisco Sues Ultraprocessed Food Companies ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/san-francisco-ultraprocessed-food-lawsuit.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:33:48

• EU withdraws WTO case over China’s trade restrictions on Lithuania, Vilnius backs decision ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2763270/eu-withdraws-wto-case-over-china-s-trade-restrictions-on-lithuania-vilnius-backs-decision    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:34:07

• Fired US immigration judge claims civil rights violations by Department of Justice ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/fired-us-immigration-judge-claims-civil-rights-violations-by-department-of-justice/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:34:51

• French journalists file lawsuit against Israel for blocking access to Gaza, West Bank ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20251202-french-journalists-file-lawsuit-against-israel-for-blocking-access-to-gaza-west-bank    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:35:06

• Megan Thee Stallion Triumphs Over Tory Lanez ‘Mouthpiece’ In Defamation and Deepfake Lawsuit ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/01/megan-thee-stallion-tory-lanez-lawsuit/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:35:27

• When Juries Don’t Matter: Written Description Effectively Becomes a Question of Law ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/12/description-effectively-question.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:36:25

• UPC is illegal, it is tied to crime and corruption at the EPO, and the people who did this try to extend its arm beyond the EU ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/sep-holders-force-upc-into-frand-dance-with-uk-courts/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:38:09

• Mexican banks report record-high consumer credit defaults in October ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/unpaid-mexican-credit-cards-personal-loans/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:38:33

• Vulnerability in Proprietary Chaffbot Company Coding Agent Could Facilitate Attacks on Developers ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/vulnerability-in-openai-coding-agent-could-facilitate-attacks-on-developers/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:39:06

• Amazing Hand – A 8-DOF 3D-printable open-source robotic hand for prototyping and research ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/02/amazing-hand-a-8-dof-3d-printable-open-source-robotic-hand-for-prototyping-and-research/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:39:49

• One year on, the new European Commission is abandoning human rights ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/eu-abandons-human-rights/?pk_campaign=feed&pk_kwd=eu-abandons-human-rights    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:40:20

• Windows TCO: Caution! The ClickFix malware is hiding in a fake full-screen update page ☞ https://hackwarenews.com/caution-the-clickfix-malware-is-hiding-in-a-fake-full-screen-update-page/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:40:54

• States Parties urged to act as ICC faces mounting threats ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/states-parties-urged-to-act-as-icc-faces-reocurring-threats/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:41:37

• ENSHITTIFICATION at Stack Overflow https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/02/stack-overflow-launches-ai-assist-chatbot-developers/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:42:18

• Now streaming: Collabora’s XDC 2025 presentations ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/12/02/now-streaming-collabora-xdc-2025-presentation/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:42:54

• Speech by Commissioner Lahbib at the Launch of EIGE's Gender Equality Index 2025 ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_2899    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:43:20

• Still selling yesterday's SCAM https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_2874    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:44:05

• Second Circuit blocks New York from regulating pregnancy centers’ abortion reversal claims ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/second-circuit-blocks-new-york-from-regulating-pregnancy-centers-abortion-reversal-claims/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:44:27

• I want you to understand ☞ https://ariadne.space/2025/12/02/i-want-you-to-understand.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:45:02

• Not Every Browser is Built on Chrome: Explore These Firefox-based Options ☞ https://itsfoss.com/firefox-based-browsers/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:45:30

• 'Linux' Foundation selling back doors (Microsoft) as security ☞ https://openssf.org/podcast/2025/12/02/whats-in-the-soss-podcast-46-s2e23-securing-the-future-ai-open-source-and-collaboration-with-jay-white-microsoft/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:46:51

• 'Linux' Foundation: They pay us more than you pay us, so they know better than you.    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:47:54

• Pluralistic: All the books I reviewed in 2025 (02 Dec 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/02/constant-reader/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:47:58

• Suicide rate highest in northern Michigan: services are scarce, guns plentiful ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/suicide-rate-highest-in-northern-michigan-services-are-scarce-guns-plentiful/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:48:17

• Suicides plague Michigan farms. Michigan just ended money to help ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/suicides-plague-michigan-farms-michigan-just-ended-money-to-help/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:48:27

• Former diplomats claim Convicted Felon administration is influential in global democratic recession ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/12/02/former-diplomats-claim-trump-administration-is-influential-in-global-democratic-recession/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:48:53

• XIAO ePaper DIY Kit features ESP32-S3 or nRF52840 SoC, supports 1.54-inch to 7.5-inch displays ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/02/xiao-epaper-diy-kit-features-esp32-s3-or-nrf52840-soc-supports-1-54-inch-to-13-3-inch-displays/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:49:25

• WordPress 6.9 “Gene” ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2025/12/gene/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:49:44

• U.N. Security Council to Visit Syria and Lebanon at ‘Crucial’ Time for the Countries ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/world/middleeast/lebanon-un-security-council.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:50:19

• Something Grim Is Happening to Kids Who Got Cell Phones Early ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/grim-happenings-kids-smartphones    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:50:49

• Photo ID for diet pills? Michigan bill would ban supplements for minors ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/photo-id-for-diet-pills-michigan-bill-would-ban-supplements-for-minors/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:51:11

• December's Full Supermoon Rises Under Ideal Photography Conditions ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/decembers-full-supermoon-rises-under-ideal-photography-conditions    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:51:28

• Hong Kong solicitor taken in by nat. sec police, as civic press event on deadly Tai Po blaze axed ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/02/hong-kong-solicitor-taken-in-by-nat-sec-police-as-civic-press-event-on-deadly-tai-po-blaze-axed/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:51:52

• Protests Erupt In Bulgaria Over Budget, Government 'Corruption' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/bulgaria-protests-budget-taxes-photos/33610729.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:52:13

• The photo that became a symbol for Hong Kong’s deadly fire ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/the-photo-that-became-a-symbol-for-hong-kongs-deadly-fire    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:52:29

• In Photos and Video: Devastating Floods Swamp Parts of Asia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/world/asia/floods-indonesia-sri-lanka-thailand-photos.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:52:39

• Like Social Media, Hey Hi (AI) Requires Difficult Choices ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/like-social-media-ai-requires-difficult-choices.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:53:02

• AFTER LESS THAN A YEAR!! https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news/observer-confirms-departure-of-editor-lucy-rock/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:53:26

• Hong Kong bans operations of two pro-democracy groups ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-bans-operations-of-two-pro-democracy-groups    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:54:05

• Afghan Taliban vow border cooperation after Tajikistan says attacks killed five Chinese ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/afghan-taliban-vow-border-cooperation-after-tajikistan-says-attacks-killed-five-chinese    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:54:17

• TPM 2.0 = disposable junk https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/02/advantech-som-6820-com-express-modulequalcomm-snapdragon-x-elite-arm-soc/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:55:02

• Latest GPU market analysis shows Nvidia losing ground to AMD — and defective chip maker Intel cracks the 1% share milestone for the first time ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/latest-gpu-market-analysis-shows-nvidia-losing-ground-to-amd-and-intel-cracks-the-1-percent-share-milestone-for-the-first-time https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/18/The_GPU_Bubble_GPUs_Marketed_by_Useless_Slop.shtml    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:55:49

• Advantech SOM-6820 COM Express module is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Arm SoC ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/02/advantech-som-6820-com-express-modulequalcomm-snapdragon-x-elite-arm-soc/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:56:04

• "The UBports Foundation released today Ubuntu Touch OTA-1.1 and Ubuntu Touch OTA-11 updates for Ubuntu Touch 24.04 and 20.04 users with various improvements and bug fixes." https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-touch-ota-1-1-rolls-out-with-volte-support-for-fairphone-4-volla-phone-22    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:57:11

• "This release also introduces A_ATRAC/AT1 support in Matroska and support for handling pictures in FLAC containers." https://9to5linux.com/vlc-3-0-22-released-with-amd-gpu-frame-rate-doubler-dav1d-all-layers-option    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:57:34

• "Previously it was a case of them being "attempted" but a new blog post today gives us a much more firm statement with the developers saying "We are actively working to bring Hytale to Linux and Mac as soon as possible". That's great to see - official support! Hopefully it goes well." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/hytale-devs-confirm-they-are-working-to-bring-it-to-linux-and-macos/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:57:54

• "The Arch Linux 2025.12.01 ISO snapshot is powered by Linux kernel 6.17.9." https://9to5linux.com/arch-linuxs-december-2025-iso-is-out-now-with-the-archinstall-3-0-14-installer    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:58:15

• "Lepton appears to be the new official name for Valve's version of Waydroid (Android in a Linux container)." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/valves-version-of-android-on-linux-based-on-waydroid-is-now-called-lepton/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:58:41

• "Slow and steady wins the race? Thanks in part due to all of Valve's work with SteamOS and Proton, and thanks to Microsoft forcing AI rubbish in Windows - more people are checking Linux out than ever before." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/linux-players-on-steam-hit-an-all-time-high-for-november-2025/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:59:04

• "Does this Beta driver have a fix you've been waiting on? If not, what are you waiting on?" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/nvidia-beta-driver-590-44-01-released-for-linux/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:59:26

• "The NVIDIA 590 series also promises better support for Vulkan apps by improving the performance of recreating Vulkan swapchains." https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-590-linux-graphics-driver-enters-public-beta-with-better-wayland-support    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 12:59:44

• Canonical Launches Certified Ubuntu Images for Qualcomm's Edge AI Dragonwing IQ-9075 https://www.hackster.io/news/canonical-launches-certified-ubuntu-images-for-qualcomm-s-edge-ai-dragonwing-iq-9075-85b5544c27f4    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 13:01:18

• "Arch Linux is a curious beast. If installing other operating systems is like purchasing a cake from the store, installing Arch Linux is like learning how to go from nothing to creating a completed cake all by yourself." https://www.xda-developers.com/installing-arch-linux-just-got-a-whole-lot-less-intimidating/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 13:01:45

• Valve compatibility layer for running Android games on Linux gets official name in Steam documentation https://www.pcguide.com/news/valve-compatibility-layer-for-running-android-games-on-linux-gets-official-name-in-steam-documentation/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 13:02:15

• "In my formative years it was accepted by most that the point and click adventure game was a dead genre. Sure, a handful were still being made, but more often than not these remained nostalgic takes hearkening back to the true heyday of the genre." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/building-a-retro-linux-gaming-computer-part-48-byzantine-labyrinthine/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 13:02:43

• The lightweight Linux distro every media junkie should try - and why https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-lightweight-linux-distro-every-media-junkie-should-try-and-why/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 13:03:23

• Steam's November 2025 Hardware Survey Shows Linux Hitting A New All-Time High https://steamdeckhq.com/news/steams-november-2025-hardware-survey-shows-linux-hitting-a-new-all-time-high/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 13:03:54

• The voice of Microsoft https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-10s-demise-fuels-linux-hype-again-but-will-bazzite-finally-break-the-forever-up-and-comer-curse-theres-a-chance    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 13:04:31

• "The beta version of Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” is expected in the first half of December 2025." https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-22-3-codenamed-zena-planned-for-christmas-2025    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 13:04:49

• 5 Linux networking commands everyone should know https://www.xda-developers.com/5-linux-networking-commands-everyone-should-know/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 13:05:18

• "Linux Mint's development team made a blog post today announcing a nickname for the upcoming 22.3 release, as well as estimating the arrival date of the first beta release and listing some specific new features we can look forward to." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-mint-22-3-has-a-name-and-several-new-features/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 13:05:36

• November Steam survey: AMD CPUs and Linux hit new records as RTX 5000 series surges https://www.techspot.com/news/110459-november-steam-survey-amd-cpu-linux-shares-hit.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 13:06:01

• Proprietary https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/12/aws-taps-suse-to-supercharge-amazon-linux-open-source-ecosystem/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 13:07:07

• "PC gaming giant Valve appears to be expanding its gaming software portfolio, currently building an Android compatibility layer called Lepton (via Gaming on Linux). Proof of its official name is slim, but an official Steam store page reveals its froggy logo, and SteamDB hints at its potential origins as a fork of Waydroid." https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/valve-is-working-on-a-lepton-android-compatibility-layer-for-linux    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 13:07:37

• I found a powerful Microsoft Office alternative that doesn't push AI - and it's free https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/i-found-a-powerful-microsoft-office-alternative-that-doesnt-push-ai-and-its-free/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 13:08:11

• Homebrew can now help you install Flatpaks, too https://www.howtogeek.com/homebrew-can-now-help-you-install-flatpaks-too/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 13:08:47

• Linux kernel 6.18 has arrived: Here's what's new https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-kernel-618-has-arrived-heres-whats-new/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 13:09:20

• Linus Torvalds's 'perfect Linux PC' has Intel B580, not AMD GPU - but neither were first choice https://www.tweaktown.com/news/109156/linus-torvaldss-perfect-linux-pc-has-intel-b580-not-amd-gpu-but-neither-were-first-choice/index.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 13:10:10

• "The latest release of Ultramarine makes one very big change - and it's good news for new and experienced Linux users." https://www.zdnet.com/article/ive-used-every-immutable-linux-distro-and-this-is-the-one-id-install-today-heres-why/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 13:11:32

• "Here's a receipt for a donation I made to Arch Linux, for example. The amount's been blanked out because it's embarrassingly small." https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/dont-linux-free-anymore-shouldnt-190014937.html    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 13:11:54

• "Older expensive RA’d employees from NA get replaced by younger, cheaper ones in India , low cost countries. AI is a scapegoat to justify layoffs" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbac15p1    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 16:15:56

• "There’s a last day checklist on w3… details include handing in your laptop, badge etc. I can’t locate the link (thought I’d saved it..) but if search on the intranet you should find it. [...] OP’s expensive job has been moved to a cheap third world country" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbj39ej9    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 16:17:20

• [Joke] "AK said privately: “AI is just a buzzword / scapegoat to transfer jobs from rich western countries to India, lower cost countries “" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbh5mm2p    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 16:18:57

• "wouldn't trust Alvind (Mr. Vindaloo In Da Loo) to sit the right way on a toilet seat let alone explain how he and IBM will make a sustainable profit with AI. Isn't Krabanaugh just fudging the numbers and cooking the books as usual ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbh5mm2p    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 16:19:45

• Clearly sounds like he has read Techrights. "Krabanaugh is a total and complete fraud - This is the big f@t b0z0 who thinks carrying 66 billion in debt is good accounting - I understand that buying a company like RH would have a premium But 34 billion dollars ? What a waste" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbh5mm2p    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 16:22:32

• "And Alvind negotiated that deal. They played him like a f00l - Gin and Tonic Rommetty should have fired both on the spot - But she’s another failed DEI Experiment - 22 quarters of declining revenue" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbh5mm2p    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 16:22:38

• "IBM did not know how to use CSMs or how to correctly incentivize the role. There were some exceptional people in the role, as well as some not. But either way, IBM set them up to fail." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbh8gysj    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 16:23:47

• "CSMs are mostly useless, though a few are very good but most should not have a job! The beatings will continue until morale improves...." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbh8gysj    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 16:24:06

• "This is your friendly reminder that the Linux 5.4 LTS kernel series has reached end of life after being maintained for more than six years, receiving over 300 maintenance updates." https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-5-4-reaches-end-of-life-after-more-than-six-years-of-maintenance    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 16:32:29

• "The Linux 6.18 kernel series will receive maintenance updates with bug and security fixes for the next two years." https://9to5linux.com/its-official-linux-kernel-6-18-will-be-lts-supported-until-december-2027    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 16:32:49

• 🔤SpellBinding: EFZORUN Wordo: FEARS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-12-03.gmi    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 17:38:15

• "ahh, hello dear readers. been a while since i posted to my blog, and even LONGER since i posted to my gemlog, so this is a two-for-one deal where i'm manually crossposting this to both feeds. why update my blog AND gemlog when i can be a lazy cow and just post the same thing in both places?" gemini://tilde.town/~slimelia/posts/christmas-looms.gmi    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 17:39:06

• "There were some exceptional people in the role, as well as some not. But either way, IBM set them up to fail." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbh8gysj    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 18:02:56

• "You are witnessing IBM partner out everything except mainframe essentials. Expect even more partnering out of non mainframe entities as time moves on as IBM’s overhead can’t support non-mainframe development anymore. It’s IBM going back to what it knows best (eg mainframe)" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbh5mm2p    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 18:09:28

• "Why? Because it holds a monopoly in mainframe and continues to invest heavily in it due to its excellent margins. Everything else will eventually be partnered off with IBM taking an IP and an established customer fee." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbh5mm2p    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 18:10:13

• "Arvind and IBM stopped making great things 4-1-93 when the G Man Gerstner came in and raided IBM for $400,000,000. Arvind is whining and looks very dull trying to suggest investing with the Big Boys for AI leadership is not smart. How many WRONG things has IBM done and not done for the last 30+ years?"    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 18:10:29

• "Arvind is complaining because HE and all the CEO's from Gerstner onward have raided IBM and now IBM is like a terminally ill patient with both dementia and cancer. It cannot and will not survive."    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 18:10:36

• "IBM can no longer play with the big boys and make the massive AI investments needed to MAKE THINGS and BE A LEADER because our financials are engineered and propped up with huge dept and the next external acquisition of another dying company."    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 18:10:42

• "IBM no longer owns or manages Data Centers, so why is Alvind ranting about the costs ? IBM is not even a major player in AI. Everything in the former IBM Data Centers was moved to Equinix, who are making loads of $$$ by hosting IBM workloads, while IBM is moving slowly and steadily towards insolvency."    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 18:10:58

• "They turned it into a complete sh-tshow in a matter of years, and then moved jobs to their home states. They call it a brain drain from the US. Nothing can be further from the truth. Even Attila the Hun did better than these losers called Alvind, Mohammed and Dinesh."    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 18:11:24

• "don't bother. It's a waste of time to try and find anything inside IBM once you have the RA notice from your manager. The odds are stacked against you because IBM Management wants you to be history, as far as they are concerned. Then your job moves insidiously to India of course. The company will be history too." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kav5506x    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 18:12:16

• The father of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, says the reason why Windows has a rep for bugs and blue screens isn't down to bad code but bad memory https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/the-father-of-the-linux-operating-system-linus-torvalds-says-the-reason-why-windows-has-a-rep-for-bugs-and-blue-screens-isnt-down-to-bad-code-but-bad-memory/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:22:30

• "NVIDIA's Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs continued to get latest Game Ready drivers till October 2025, but have finally transitioned to just quarterly security updates." https://wccftech.com/nvidia-ends-support-for-gtx-900-and-gtx-10-series-in-linux-with-driver-branch-590/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:24:46

• NVIDIA 590 Linux drivers drop GeForce GTX 900 “Maxwell” and GTX 10 “Pascal” support https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-590-linux-drivers-drop-geforce-gtx-900-maxwell-and-gtx-10-pascal-support    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:25:12

• Circular Financing Bubble Company https://www.techpowerup.com/343612/nvidia-deprecates-geforce-gtx-900-series-maxwell-and-gtx-10-series-pascal-with-linux-590-driver    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:25:42

• Nvidia still Linux-hostile https://www.pcguide.com/news/latest-nvidia-linux-driver-drops-support-for-some-older-gtx-graphics-cards-including-everyones-favorite-1080-ti/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:26:14

• Nvidia's accounting is a hot mess if not an elaborate scam https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/28/Circular_Financing_in_NVidia_NVidia_Pays_Its_Clients_to_Buy_Fro.shtml    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:27:09

• LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha1 is available for testing https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2025/12/03/libreoffice-26-2-alpha1-is-available-for-testing/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:27:59

• "Useful idiot" to Microsoft boosters https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/microsoft-finds-an-unlikely-ally-linux-developer-defends-windows-against-bsod-jokes    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:30:08

• Linux 6.18 arrives as the year's final drop and likely next LTS https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/03/kernel_version_618/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:31:04

• Linux usage on Steam hits a record high for the second month in a row https://www.theverge.com/news/837364/linux-usage-steam-hardware-survey-november-2025    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:32:10

• Linux usage hits an all-time high in Steam Hardware Survey—and AMD processors continue their march against Intel https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/linux-usage-hits-an-all-time-high-in-steam-hardware-survey-and-amd-processors-continue-their-march-against-intel    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:32:58

• GeForce RTX 5070 Cracks Top 10 GPU List In Steam Survey, Linux Rising Too https://hothardware.com/news/geforce-rtx-5070-cracks-top-10-gpu-list--steam-survey-linux-rising    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:33:29

• Linux use hits all-time-high on Steam https://overclock3d.net/news/software/linux-use-hits-all-time-high-on-steam/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:34:08

• Valve is developing an Android compatibility layer for Linux, it's called Lepton https://www.ghacks.net/2025/12/03/valve-is-developing-an-android-compatibility-layer-for-linux-its-called-lepton/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:38:55

• "Linux usage on Steam has officially hit an all-time high, reaching 3.2% market share according to the Steam Survey results for November 2025. This is fantastic news for the open-source community, and it shows that the momentum driven by Valve’s hardware strategy isn't slowing down at all." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-usage-reaches-an-all-time-high-on-steam/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:41:05

• Red Hat's Hummingbird project to offer Linux container images https://www.thestack.technology/red-hats-hummingbird-project-to-offer-linux-container-images/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:41:27

• GeForce 590 driver branch is the first without feature support for GTX 9- and 10-series GPUs https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/geforce-590-driver-branch-is-the-first-without-feature-support-for-gtx-9-and-10-series-gpus-linux-release-marks-the-end-of-the-line-for-graphics-cards-that-defined-an-era    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:43:55

• "It’s here; Linux 6.18 is officially released, delivering another sizeable set of performance gains, new hardware support and a controversial goodbye." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/linux-kernel-6-18-new-features    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:46:08

• "Ubuntu Consortium" https://www.thehansindia.com/karnataka/former-cs-honoured-with-global-leadership-award-1028195    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:48:05

• [Beta] Linux Mint 22.3 Zena to be released soon https://www.ghacks.net/2025/12/03/linux-mint-22-3-zena-to-be-released-soon/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:49:35

• These 4 “hidden” Linux commands are ridiculously useful once you learn them https://www.makeuseof.com/hidden-linux-commands-that-are-ridiculously-useful/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:50:50

• "Software engineer Nikolai Danylchyk has opened crowdfunding for a flexible open-hardware controller for PC watercooling loops — operating independently of the motherboard: WaKu-ctl." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202512/20251203-waku.gmi    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 19:54:18

• "As a quick reminder on what s&box is — "s&box is a game creation platform built on the Source 2 engine and our spiritual successor to Garry's Mod. Play, create, and share games, explore community creations, and experience endless sandbox fun with powerful modern tools."" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/the-response-to-sandbox-from-facepunch-going-open-source-has-been-overwhelmingly-positive/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 20:02:02

• "What is shocking, however, is even with the thousands of available photos of the GTX 900 and 1000 series cards out there, WCC still resorts to AI to generate BS images like this" https://hardforum.com/threads/nvidia-linux-driver-590-ends-support-for-the-gt-series-all-hail-our-rtx-overloards.2045206/    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 20:10:40

• LOL at "AI Database"; is there anything they have not yet rebranded for the latest hype and Ponzi-type scam? blogs.oracle.com/database/oracle-ai-database-26ai-coming-soon-for-linux-x86-64-on-premises-platforms    

posted Wednesday, December 03, 2025 at 20:13:00