Roy Schestowitz

• "Lithuania’s media watchdog continues its crusade against individual file-sharers. New data reveals that dozens of users on private trackers Linkomanija " ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/lithuanian-watchdog-fines-torrent-tracker-users-for-pirating-local-blockbuster/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:24:49

• "We needn’t guess how Google feels about the allegations; the search mainstay moved to dismiss the “legally defective” suit last month." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/05/penske-google-lawsuit-amended/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:25:11

• "For MultiChoice, the development lands in the middle of an already-sensitive situation, with its DStv platform at risk of losing up to 12 Warner Bros Discovery channels across all bouquets" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/netflix-warner-bros-talks-raise-fresh-headaches-for-multichoice/275289/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:25:45

• "First, whenever I come across a pre-order for a band I love, I buy it right away." ☛ https://www.timbornholdt.com/blog/bandcamp-friday-haul | Source: Tim Bornholdt    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:25:52

• "In letters sent on Friday to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple head Tim Cook, committee leaders singled out ICEBlock, an app previously used to monitor U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/us-lawmakers-press-google-apple-to-remove-apps-tracking-immigration-agents/articleshow/125799845.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:26:28

• "The Iranian judiciary on December 6 said it had arrested two organizers of a marathon after some women competed in the event without wearing the mandatory hijab" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-marathon-arrest-kish-hijab-women/33615070.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:26:46

• "America was the beacon of light." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/handmaids-tale-margaret-atwood-desert-island-discs-b2879404.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:27:22

• "Lawyer Bahar Eryılmaz explained that most legal applications are filed with the Ministry of Justice," ☛ https://english.anf-news.com/women/women-prisoners-face-continuous-violations-of-their-rights-82524 | Source: ANF News    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:27:54

• "In July 2024 the group's logistics services unit was accused of circumventing labour and tax laws, relying on cooperatives or limited liability companies that supplied it with workers" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/amazon-pays-italy-210-million-to-end-tax-labour-probe/articleshow/125785403.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:28:13

• "Blood quantum refers to the fractional amount of tribal affiliation in an individual’s ancestry. It is central to individual identity and highly controversial." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2025/12/crow-tribe-looks-to-reset-the-clock-on-blood-quantum-requirements-expand-enrollment.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:28:44

• "The crime? Remembering that Americans once owned things." ☛ https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/are-you-an-american | Source: Michael Green    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:29:16

• "More moves to reorganize Army take effect today" https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2025/12/more-moves-to-reorganize-army-take-effect-today/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:30:12

• "Saudi Arabia's New PlayMaker Studios Launch With Production Underway" https://variety.com/2025/film/global/saudi-arabia-playmaker-studios-epic-unbroken-sword-1236601122/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:30:24

• "Trump's Terrorists" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/06/trumps-terrorists/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:30:34

• "Trump’s national security strategy names a new enemy: European liberals" https://www.vox.com/politics/471443/trump-national-security-strategy-europe    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:30:50

• "Salute or push back? When a military order’s legality is in question." https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2025/1206/drug-boat-strike-military-legal-illegal-orders    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:31:02

• "Remembering a Kentucky family's sacrifice 84 years after Pearl Harbor • Kentucky Lantern" https://kentuckylantern.com/2025/12/05/two-sons-two-wars-a-kentucky-familys-sacrifice-begins-dec-7-1941/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:31:17

• "Chat Control 2: Nu är det match igen!" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/12/05/chat-control-2-nu-ar-det-match-igen-2/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:31:28

• Those other times back then… | "De der andre tider dengang… | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/de-der-andre-tider-dengang    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:32:14

• "Only Europe can save Ukraine from Putin and Trump – but will it?" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/06/europe-ukraine-putin-trump-eu    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:33:17

• "How blue hair stopped being cool" https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/society/2025/12/how-blue-hair-stopped-being-cool    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:33:30

• "Trump warns European nations are under threat of ‘civilisational erasure’ and will be ‘unrecognisable’ in the next 20 years - The Zambian Observer" https://zambianobserver.com/trump-warns-european-nations-are-under-threat-of-civilisational-erasure-and-will-be-unrecognisable-in-the-next-20-years/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:33:51

• "Turkey extends its Russian gas contracts for one more year—22 billion cubic meters through 2026— - The Zambian Observer" https://zambianobserver.com/turkey-extends-its-russian-gas-contracts-for-one-more-year-22-billion-cubic-meters-through-2026/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:34:04

• "Putin Lives by a Code Trump Doesn’t Understand" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2025/12/putin-trump-misunderstanding/685167/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:34:15

• misinformation https://www.centraloregondaily.com/news/local/police-warn-ai-generated-blog-posts-from-scanner-traffic-spread-misinformation/article_f20ed4dc-0ba6-4be0-818e-d89b4ba0ee48.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:34:33

• "One of the most disturbing stories I saw this disgusting week highlighted new research from Pew showing that news consumption is on the decline across all political parties and age groups." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/are-most-americans-even-following-what-trump-is-doing/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:37:51

• "The report concluded that the GRU is responsible for the death of a British citizen on her own soil" ☛ https://zambianobserver.com/putin-personally-approved-the-chemical-weapons-operation-in-salisbury-to-kill-the-skripals/ | Source: The Zambian Observer    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:38:19

• "It was successful. Way too successful for the taste of some, as it quickly became apparent that many Donald Trump-touting troll accounts, such as MAGA NATION, TRUMP_ARMY_, and CharlieK_news" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/bots_bias_bunk/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:38:48

• "Based on the latest expansion plan for the Arizona site announced in March, TSMC plans to build six Fab 21 modules" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/tsmc-could-be-inching-closer-to-making-all-american-chips-report-says-it-is-accelerating-an-advanced-packaging-facility-in-arizona | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:39:35

• "If Srouji leaves, he would be just the latest in a string of high-profile shakeups in the company’s C-suite" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/839700/apples-chip-chief-might-be-the-next-exec-to-leave | Source: The Verge    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:39:57

• "Back in 1997, Netflix was literally just a website where you ordered DVDs and they showed up in red envelopes a couple days later." ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/12/netflix-just-won-the-streaming-wars-with-82-7-billion-warner-bros-takeover/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:40:11

• "follows a weeks-long bidding war where Netflix seized the lead with a nearly US$28/share offer that eclipsed Paramount Skydance’s nearly $24 bid" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/netflix-to-buy-warner-bros-discovery-in-industry-defining-megadeal/275307/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:40:40

• "Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's TV and film studios and streaming division for $72 billion US" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/us-netflix-warner-bros-acquisition-9.7004170 | Source: CBC    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:41:08

• "Netflix Buys Warner Bros." ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/12/05/netflix-buys-warner-bros/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:41:17

• "This week, I encountered a big, exciting theory that is still in the "long and complicated" phase, with so many moving parts that I'm having trouble keeping them straight in my head." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/06/big-nascent-important/#riley-and-brenner | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:41:34

• "And Gruber doesn't pull any punches in describing Alan Dye's impact on Apple in his writeup of the news that Meta has hired Dye away from Apple" ☛ https://chrisenns.com/2025/12/walking-on-broken-glass/ | Source: Chris Enns    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:41:52

• "The Wednesday filing from the American Federation of Government Employees and the American Foreign Service Association, a proposed plaintiff" ☛ https://fedscoop.com/federal-worker-unions-allege-state-department-rifs-violate-shutdown-resolution/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:42:16

• "With the world’s soccer fans watching, Gianni Infantino, the great toady to the globe’s oligarchs, handed a made-up award to the increasingly violent US president." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/fifa-trump-infantino-peace-prize/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:43:05

• "Netflix Inc. has inked an agreement to acquire several Warner Bros Discovery Inc. units for $72 billion in cash [sic] and stock." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/05/netflix-acquire-key-warner-bros-assets-blockbuster-72b-deal/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:43:17

• "The agreement - announced on Friday - follows a weeks-long bidding war where Netflix seized the lead with a nearly $28-a-share offer that eclipsed Paramount Skydance's nearly $24 bid" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/netflix-to-buy-warner-bros-discoverys-studios-streaming-unit-for-72-billion/articleshow/125789271.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:43:27

• "The system, involving researchers from around the world, uses tiny transmitters placed on animals including birds, zebras, sea turtles, and even insects, to track their interactions" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/bobs-blog-icarus-launched-9.7005159 | Source: CBC    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:43:53

• "They have a USB-C connector for recharging, so you don’t need a separate charger like you do for NiMH batteries." ☛ https://blog.didierstevens.com/2025/12/06/quickpost-usb-c-rechargeable-batteries/ | Source: Didier Stevens    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:44:21

• "One hundred years ago, electric-powered trolleys rattled along metal tracks through the streets of Ann Arbor. It was a world with no blue buses, no horns honking after a near-collision and no smog radiating from the backs of pickup trucks." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/ann-arbor/from-trolleys-to-theride-the-evolution-of-public-transit-in-ann-arbor/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:44:30

• 12/06/quickpost-usb-c-rechargeable-   

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:44:49

• "Mr Kanyungu says the 100 solar milling plants dotted in all the districts in the province have enhanced access to affordable mealie meal and other food supplements for the local communities." ☛ https://www.lusakatimes.com/2025/12/06/solar-milling-plants-in-north-western-province-making-a-difference/ | Source: Lusaka ZM    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:44:56

• "a bizarre game of cat-and-mouse that highlights how lucrative mining the digital token can be — if the power is on someone else’s dime, at least." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/bitcoin-miners-stealing-billion-electricity | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:45:11

• "Alongside energy, water and computer chips, the supply squeeze is being felt further up the chain, too" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/why-copper-markets-are-feeling-the-pinch | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:45:52

• "The Lantern filed the lawsuit on Nov. 26 after Attorney General Russell Coleman’s office rejected the nonprofit news outlet’s appeal of UK’s decision." ☛ https://kentuckylantern.com/2025/12/05/kentucky-lantern-sues-uk-for-records-related-to-internal-governance-change/ | Source: Kentucky Lantern    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:46:34

• "The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a Friday email to staff telling them to not speak to news reporters in an unauthorized capacity." ☛ https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025/12/cisa-tells-staff-not-speak-reporters-internal-email-shows/409884/ | Source: Nextgov    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:46:47

• "As federal data becomes less available, our journalists are doing shoe-leather reporting to provide readers with the precise numbers." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-reporters-data-immigration | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:46:58

• Overpopulation ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-water-crisis-import-neighbors/33613589.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:47:36

• "Supreme Court limited who presidents can fire." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2025/1205/supreme-court-slaughter-ftc-humphreys | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:48:02

• "Oprah Winfrey welcomed Australia’s under-16 social-media ban, saying it will help children develop healthier social skills and avoid harmful online content." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/oprah-winfrey-praises-australias-social-media-ban-for-children/articleshow/125780941.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:48:13

• "The cost of an unjust peace in Ukraine? An emboldened China" ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/the-cost-of-an-unjust-peace-in-ukraine-an-emboldened-china/ | Source: Atlantic Council    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:48:33

• "Moscow ‘continuously reinforcing’ its presence in the region, says Swedish chief of operations Capt Marko Petkovic" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/06/swedish-navy-chief-russia-baltic-presence-ukraine-peace | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:48:44

• "The brains of neurotypical children under the age of five years old experience a turbo-charged growth spurt that takes them from drooling infants to potty-trained kids ready to learn their ABCs in school." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/social-media-children-brain-rot | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:48:57

• "There’s just one tiny wrinkle: the AI facial recognition cameras have a tendency to misidentify non-white people." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/police-uk-surveillance-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:54:17

• "Whether you're logging into your bank, health insurance, or even your email, most services today do not live by passwords alone." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/06/multifactor_authentication_passkeys/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:54:31

• "Digital status does not affect all migrants equally" ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/stressed-fearful-and-excluded-new-research-exposes-harms-of-digitalising-immigration-status/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:54:42

• "X is the first company to be fined under the EU's Digital Services Act, a law intended to force large internet companies to protect their platforms against manipulation and illicit content." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/elon-musks-x-hit-with-140-million-fine-in-europe/articleshow/125800084.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:55:03

• "the social media platform owned by the world's richest person was slapped with a fine of 120 million euros ($140 million) on Friday for breaking the bloc's digital rules." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/after-fine-against-x-musk-says-eu-should-be-abolished/articleshow/125812457.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:55:13

• "Elon Musk's social media company X was fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by EU tech regulators on Friday for breaching EU online content rules" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/eu-fines-x-140-million-for-breaching-online-content-rules-tiktok-settles-with-concessions/articleshow/125788203.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:55:21

• " its laws do not target any nationality and that it is merely defending its digital and democratic standards, which usually serve as the benchmark for the rest of the world." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/elon-musk-x-fine-tech-regulators-9.7004932 | Source: CBC    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:55:34

• "Hidden deep inside the operating system is a forensic trail called Shellbags, silently recording the folders you open" ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/12/windows-file-explorer-is-secretly-tracking-you/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 02:55:42

• Windows TCO ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/asus_supplier_hack/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:48:56

• "YouTube is Awful. I'm Not Posting There Anymore" ☛ https://thelibre.news/youtube-is-awful-please-use-youtube-though/ | Source: LibreNews    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:49:20

• "Meta has signed AI content licensing deals with major publishers including People Inc, CNN and Fox News." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/people-inc-signs-ai-licensing-deal-with-meta/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:49:55

• "Right. Anyway, Google has changed this dumb and bad experiment" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/05/google-ai-mangles-news-headlines-in-discover-feed/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:50:13

• "Beyond the bugs I mentioned in last week’s post, I’ve recently been plagued with a ChatGPT Mac bug of my own, where every time I start a new chat" ☛ https://allenpike.com/2025/why-is-the-chatgpt-app-bad | Source: Allen Pike    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:50:41

• "This essay is not written with the assistance of an LLM. You can be rest-assured. That every word you’re reading came from my finger-tips." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-personal-note-from-the-circus | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:50:52

• "As per Scientific American in mid 2024, at least 60 000 scientific papers were written using large language models." ☛ https://thelibre.news/why-is-science-full-of-ai/ | Source: LibreNews    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:51:04

• "Ultimately, the creator economy is one of attention." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/839494/ai-literacy-tiktok | Source: The Verge    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:51:23

• "Google’s forays into exposing users to dubious generative AI features have an incredibly poor track record." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-replacing-news-headlines-ai-nonsense | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:51:39

• "Kirchner’s situation is clearly extreme" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anti-ai-activist-danger | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:51:52

• "Now, police in Oregon are warning that AI apps like CrimeRadar are generating misinformation based on hallucinated police radio chatter" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-mangling-police-radio-chatter-misinformation | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:52:15

• "You kind of have to sympathize with some of these so-called AI agents." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-deletes-entire-drive | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:52:57

• "What we found was alarming. Grok was eager to draw up creepy step-by-step stalking instructions, all the way down to the specific spyware apps to install on a target’s phone and computer." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-creepy-instructions-stalking | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:53:14

• "In an announcement Thursday night, the FAA said the Virginia-based technology firm will be the integrator for the project." ☛ https://fedscoop.com/peraton-oversee-multi-billion-dollar-faa-air-traffic-control-modernization/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:53:43

• "Like many Flemish eighties/nineties kids, Dag Sinterklaas is permanently burned into my brain as part of my youth" ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/12/sinterklaas-likes-playing-on-the-game-boy/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:53:51

• "The BrickStorm malware, initially observed in a 2023 attack targeting MITRE, was designed to masquerade as legitimate vCenter processes and has tunneling and file management functionality." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/us-organizations-warned-of-chinese-malware-used-for-long-term-persistence/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:54:02

• "Others suggested the company's doomed foray into mobile devices during the era of Windows Phone, or various operating system milestones (or millstones, depending on where you were in the support chain)." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/06/microsoft_sweater_competition/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:54:14

• "Pool said as VA modernizes its underlying technology infrastructure, it will “bake in” these zero trust capabilities." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/ask-the-cio/2025/12/at-va-cyber-dominance-is-in-cyber-compliance-is-out/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:54:24

• "But the tech giant’s controversial attempts to shoehorn AI into every aspect of the software appear to have turned off a staggering number of users from upgrading." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/windows-users-refusing-upgrade-windows-11-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:54:37

• "The results suggest that people with debilitating chronic tinnitus experience heightened vigilance and react to normal, everyday sounds as though they were threats." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/tinnitus-triggers-your-bodys-fight-or-flight-response-study-finds | Source: Science Alert    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:55:30

• "The stakes are significant: Premiums for the 22 million affected Americans would increase by 114 percent on average, according to KFF, a nonprofit health-policy-research organization." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/obamacare-aca-premiums-congress-trump/685164/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:55:38

• "Before diving into the solution, it’s worth understanding why a Yubikey can survive a trip through the washing machine in the first place." ☛ https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/yubicowashingmachine/ | Source: Tymscar    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:55:58

• "More than a month ago, I wrote about listening to full albums again, a post that gathered some interesting conversations and emails from people who shared their thoughts about it" ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/innioasis-y1-review/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:56:32

• "By using the monitor as a central USB hub, you can shorten cable runs, organize devices efficiently, and increase accessibility." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2997294/clever-use-of-usb-ports-on-the-monitor.html | Source: PC World    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:56:43

• "All primary schools in Mali are now using local languages like Bambara for teaching." ☛ https://zambianobserver.com/mali-suspends-teaching-of-french-revolution-in-schools/ | Source: The Zambian Observer    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:57:19

• "If all of that doesn’t get your attention, you may already be infected, if not afflicted, by wanton and unconscionable" ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2025/12/05/on-extracting-yourself-from-the-exxtractors/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:57:28

• "Now, researchers have finally dated some of the murals by analyzing the radiocarbon in paint and mineral deposits." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-discover-the-shocking-age-of-the-mysterious-pecos-river-rock-art-180987797/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:57:49

• "But around 3,900 years ago, the culture began to decline, and eventually, it collapsed altogether" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-did-this-advanced-ancient-civilization-collapse-new-research-suggests-climate-change-played-a-role-180987799/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:57:58

• "Scientists can estimate the rate at which mutations occur in a specific DNA sequence, compare the same sequence in multiple species, and work backwards to estimate when those species last shared an ancestor. " ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/complex-life-may-be-a-billion-years-older-than-we-thought | Source: Science Alert    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:58:12

• "To begin resolving when eukaryotic cells emerged, the team created a phylogenetic tree with multiple taxa of eukaryotes, bacteria, and archaea by estimating their evolutionary rate using 62 genes." ☛ https://www.the-scientist.com/duplicated-genes-point-to-an-earlier-start-to-complex-life-73824 | Source: LabX Media Group    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:58:39

• "I got tired of emailing papers so as soon as the web became a thing in 1993, I put all my papers online and have maintained it since." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/12/finding-papers-before-web.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:58:56

• "One I visited recently was the dual Rutherford and McPherson collections located in McGill’s physics department." ☛ https://heliomass.com/posts/2525-the-mcgill-physics-collections/ | Source: Heliomass    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:59:08

• "Researchers already knew that artificial satellites interfered with ground-based observatories." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/more-than-500000-satellites-are-set-to-orbit-earth-by-2040-they-may-end-up-photobombing-the-images-captured-by-space-telescopes-180987796/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:59:19

• "Our eagle usually accompanied us on the bloody field" ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/12/05/the-101st-airborne-and-the-history-of-the-real-screaming-eagle/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:59:45

• "For a given problem domain, you can eventually become proficient enough to solve all the solvable problems within that domain." ☛ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/03/Technical-Escape-Velocity/ | Source: Ben Congdon    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 06:59:55

• "I've toyed with various ideas, and a few of them have actually seen the light of day. So I thought now was a good time to run through where I'm currently writing, and what to expect from each." ☛ https://chrishannah.me/where-i-write-on-the-internet/ | Source: Chris Hannah    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:00:10

• "And I wanted to test how comfortable I could become sending voice notes, and whether it would meaningfully change how I communicate." ☛ https://carlbarenbrug.com/voice | Source: Carl Barenbrug    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:00:28

• "Only the young can fully exploit the human body's potential. To wait is too late." ☛ https://www.arscyni.cc/file/skate_now.html | Source: Angelino Desmet    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:00:38

• "Linux represents an alternative path. It's not perfect - far from it, actually." ☛ https://afranca.com.br/linux-freedom-and-philosophy/ | Source: Andre Franca    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:00:50

• "A wax figure of US President Donald Trump was removed from a museum in San Antonio, Texas in 2021." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/donald-trumps-statue-removed-texas-museum-visitors-kept-hitting-it-1760847 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:01:02

• "Rebane demonstrated the technique at BSides Tallinn in October and has now published a summary of her approach." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/css_svg_clickjacking/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:01:15

• "For the record: I love dogs. I pet them on the street, I follow them on Instagram, I die when they ignore me." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/why-were-treating-dogs-like-people-and-people-like-dogs/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:01:31

• "If someone wants to build a service, on top of AP, that only displays content of a certain type, they should be able to do so." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/on-open-protocols | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:05:23

• "A string is good if there are no repeated characters." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/good-shuffle.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:05:45

• "But let's rewind for a bit of background first." ☛ https://blog.daniel-beskin.com/2025-11-13-point-of-learning-fp |    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:06:12

• "In other words, “What we have now is good enough, but we’ll take a look later.”" ☛ https://avittig.medium.com/the-good-enough-lie-in-engineering-andrew-vittiglio-93e0c2e415e5 | Source: Andrew Vittiglio    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:06:30

• [Old] "Here's a simple example of Icon -- a program that reads lines from standard input and prints the lines in reverse order (last line first; first line last): [...]" ☛ http://www.mitchellsoftwareengineering.com/icon/ |    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:06:43

• [Old] "In Icon, values, not variables, are typed. Built-in data types include numerics, character sets, strings, sets, lists, associative tables, records, and procedures." ☛ https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/intro.htm | Source: University of Arizona    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:06:59

• [Old] "Icon emphasizes high-level string processing and a design philosophy that allows ease of programming and short, concise programs." ☛ https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/docs/ipd266.htm | Source: University of Arizona    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:07:11

• [Old] "Icon was first released in 1979 as a modern successor to SNOBOL4, and it continued to evolve for the next two decades." ☛ https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ | Source: University of Arizona    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:07:29

• "Nevertheless, you should move as fast as you can." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/05/why-speed-matters/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:07:45

• "I’ve been learning Haskell for a few years now and I am really liking a lot of the features, not least the strong typing and functional approach." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/haskell-is-a-great-language-for-data-science/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:07:55

• "At Øredev I met my pal Fredrik, who told me about this presentation he had just been to." ☛ https://www.martingunnarsson.com/posts/advent-of-code-rockstar-2025-1/ | Source: Martin Gunnarsson    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:08:27

• "This principle is the main idea for solving this problem." ☛ https://yordi.me/advent-of-code-2025-day-3/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:08:39

• "But I digress. Let's look at the puzzles." ☛ https://yordi.me/advent-of-code-2025-day-6/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:08:49

• "[...] We address this issue by introducing openESM, an open-source database of openly available experience sampling datasets in a harmonized format." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/introducing-openesm-a-database-of-openly-available-experience-sampling-datasets-including-r-python-interface/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:09:21

• "A little more than a year ago I consolidated most of my self-hosting to Coolify." ☛ https://mattstein.com/thoughts/year-with-coolify/ | Source: Matt Stein    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:14:31

• "Installing Linux on this old MacBook has re-opened a can of worms that I had been really glad to have mostly closed for the last few years" ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/posts/trying-to-find-a-text-editor-i-like | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:14:58

• "On Nov. 29, Lachlan Davidson, a security consultant for the New Zealand-based security firm Carapace, reported the vulnerability" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/react-server-components-vulnerability-found/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:15:26

• "Cloudflare informed customers soon after the public disclosure of CVE-2025-55182 that web application firewall (WAF) protections had been rolled out." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/cloudflare-outage-caused-by-react2shell-mitigations/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:15:45

• "(RCE) vulnerability that impacts the React Server Components (RCS) protocol versions 19.0.0, 19.1.0, 19.1.1, and 19.2.0 of three packages (react-server-dom-webpack, react-server-dom-parcel, and react-server-dom-turbopack)" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/react2shell-under-attack-china-nexus-groups | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:16:03

• "Multiple security firms are responding to active exploitation in the wild as a scrum of reports conclude the malicious activity is limited to scanning and attempts instead of actual attacks." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/attackers-exploit-react-server-vulnerability/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:16:25

• "The React2Shell vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-55182, affects React Server Components in React 19.x and Next.js versions 15.x and 16.x when using the App Router." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/react2shell-flaw-exploited-by-chinese-groups/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:16:37

• "observed active exploitation attempts by multiple China state-nexus threat groups, including Earth Lamia and Jackpot Panda." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/aws_beijing_react_bug/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:16:48

• "No matter the browser, I kept running into the same fundamental problem: you have to think extra hard about how to craft the right prompt" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-powered-browsers-failing | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:17:04

• "ESP32-C6-Devkit-Lipo have two USB-C connectors – one with Debug UART for programming with automatic handshaking and boot mode enter, and one with JTAG for programming and debugging" ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/new-open-source-hardware-board-with-esp32-c6-wifi-6-bluetooth-5-le-zigbee-thread-matter-and-lipo-ups/ | Source: Olimex    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:19:04

• "The first step was to re-engineer Debian container images with Guix, and I realized these were useful on their own, and warrant a separate project." ☛ https://blog.josefsson.org/2025/12/07/reproducible-guix-container-images/ | Source: Simon Josefsson    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:19:33

• "Gursewak Sokhi has announced the release of Oracle Linux 10.1, an updated release of the company's enterprise-class Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux: [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12658 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:19:55

• "I mean, it basically works, and TBH not much seems to have changed." ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/posts/trying-out-linux-again-on-an-old-mac | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:20:17

• "Way back (well, six months ago, anyway), when I was wiring up a Gremlin Blasto arcade board" ☛ https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/12/oblast-better-blasto-game-for-commodore.html | Source: Old VCR    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:20:38

• "the Popover API and Invoker Commands API for popovers work identically by using HTMLElement attributes to show, hide, or toggle the popover." ☛ https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/7/ | Source: Markup from Hell    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:21:14

• "CSS clamp() is cool and you should use it." ☛ https://cassidoo.co/post/css-clamp/ | Source: Cassidy Williams    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:21:22

• "I've been hearing a lot about CSS nesting, but I figured that it was still years away from being ready for use even on a site like this." ☛ https://www.seanmcp.com/articles/css-nesting-is-almost-ready/ | Source: Sean McPherson    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:21:30

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

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:21:47

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

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:22:06

• "This was another busy week in the Linux ecosystem and wider FOSS community, with an update on the way for Linux Mint, growing Steam marketshare, and much more. Here are the biggest stories you might have missed." https://www.howtogeek.com/the-next-linux-mint-freebsds-big-upgrade-and-more-linux-news-roundup/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:26:56

• "Sure you can search in the Linux terminal. And sure, you don't have to do that if you don't want too. Use a graphical interface for your comfort." https://itsfoss.com/linux-gui-search-tools/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:27:21

• "Like most people who get into Linux, I have done a lot of distro hopping since 2019. I have tried almost every mainstream distro, along with plenty of odd    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:27:47

• "Like most people who get into Linux, I have done a lot of distro hopping since 2019. I have tried almost every mainstream distro, along with plenty of odd ones that I wouldn't recommend anyone to install on their main PC." https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-distros-i-trust-on-my-main-pc/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:27:55

• "The Linux phone features 12GB RAM, up to 2TB storage, a 6.36-inch FullHD AMOLED display, and a user-replaceable 5,500mAh battery." https://9to5linux.com/new-jolla-phone-now-available-for-pre-order-as-an-independent-linux-phone    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:28:44

• "The first Linux distribution I ever seriously used was Red Hat 5.2 (prior to the creation of Fedora). Back then, it was the best option for just about everyone." https://www.zdnet.com/article/fedora-vs-arch-linux-how-to-choose-your-next-linux-distro-and-which-one-i-use/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:29:19

• Probably SLOP https://betanews.com/2025/12/05/tuxedo-unveils-gemini-17-gen4-linux-laptop-for-high-performance-workloads/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/22/It_Looks_Like_the_Chief_at_BetaNews_Continues_the_LLM_Slopfest_.shtml    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:30:28

• This Linux distro is a new spin on my old favorite - and it's delightful https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-linux-distro-is-a-new-spin-on-my-old-favorite-and-its-delightful/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:31:36

• "Google Ads that has generated nearly $25 million in revenue has curious ties to a Kremlin-connected oligarch" ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/12/drones-to-diplomas-how-russias-largest-private-university-is-linked-to-a-25m-essay-mill/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:33:34

• "The device is powered by the Intel Processor N150, a quad-core CPU within the Alder Lake-N family." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/palm-sized-mini-pc-nas-offers-four-m-2-bays-and-dual-2-5gbe-ports/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:34:12

• "The core of the system is the Infineon PSoC Edge E84, which combines a 400 MHz Arm Cortex-M55 processor with Helium DSP extensions and a 200 MHz Cortex-M33 core." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/psoc-edge-e84-based-handheld-runs-rt-thread-for-local-machine-learning/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:34:36

• "The new lineup includes the OSM iMX93, OSM iMX91, Lino iMX93, and Lino iMX91." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/toradex-introduces-coin-sized-modules-powered-with-nxp-i-mx-93-and-i-mx-91-processors/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 07:34:46

• Olga Tokarczuk Recommends Visionary Science Fiction ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/books/book-currents/olga-tokarczuk-recommends-visionary-science-fiction    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:07:00

• Scientists Impressed by “Fire Amoeba” That Can Survive Incredible Temperatures ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/fire-amoeba    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:07:27

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-12-08.gmi    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:09:32

• [japan] [jp] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-12-07.gmi    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:10:29

• Hamas says it will hand over weapons to a Palestinian authority 'if the occupation ends' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20251206-hamas-says-it-will-hand-over-weapons-to-a-palestinian-authority-if-the-occupation-ends    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:14:10

• Malaysian PM Anwar to cut costs for small businesses after poor Sabah state polls ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-pm-anwar-to-cut-small-business-costs-after-poor-sabah-state-polls    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:14:26

• Deadly floods claim over 900 lives in Indonesia as survivors struggle to obtain aid ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20251206-indonesia-flood-death-toll-passes-900-disaster-agency    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:14:45

• Amin Bandali: Reading and writing emails in GNU Emacs with Gnus ☞ https://kelar.org/~bandali/2025/12/06/emacsconf-2025-gnus.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:15:10

• What I’m reading, week 49 2025 ☞ https://rubenerd.com/what-im-reading-week-49-2025/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:16:14

• Tag soup ☞ https://rubenerd.com/tag-soup/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:16:31

• Hollywood unions alarmed by Netflix's $72 billion Warner Bros deal ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251206-hollywood-unions-alarmed-by-netflix-s-72-billion-warner-bros-deal    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:17:03

• Angst Turns to Anger in Hollywood as DRM spreader Netflix Hooks Warner Bros. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/business/media/hollywood-reaction-netflix-warner-bros.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:17:24

• What to Know About Netflix’s $83 Billion Deal for Warner Bros. Discovery ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/business/netflix-warner-bros-what-to-know.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:17:33

• Before the Web ☞ https://jxself.org/before-the-web.shtml    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:18:00

• TIL: SQLite's 'WITHOUT ROWID' ☞ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/05/TIL-SQLites-WITHOUT-ROWID/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:18:49

• Kiwi TCMS: Kiwi TCMS 15.2 ☞ https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2025/12/06/kiwi-tcms-152/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:19:32

• IBM Red Hat's Wayland: we're about REMOVING choice. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flowblade-2.24-Released    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:20:19

• Rights group condemns armed groups’ increased abuses targeting Indigenous communities in Colombia ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/rights-group-condemns-armed-groups-increased-abuses-targeting-indigenous-communities-in-colombia/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:21:05

• "Really enjoyed a couple posts over in gopherspace that I thought I'd share. The first is a post that just details this person's offline-centric use of smartphones, which I found inspiring. Many off the applications were new or fresh-feeling to me (apps to ease the process of getting/browsing wikis and technical documentation, apps for offline navigation, etc), and I enjoyed imagining making using of them." gemini://koneida.com/unfiltered.gmi    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:23:02

• "Really enjoyed a couple posts over in gopherspace that I thought I'd share. The first is a post that just details this person's offline-centric use of smartphones, which I found inspiring. Many off the applications were new or fresh-feeling to me (apps to ease the process of getting/browsing wikis and technical documentation, apps for offline navigation, etc)" gemini://koneida.com/unfiltered.gmi    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:23:12

• 🔤SpellBinding — GHMNTPO Wordo: FICUS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-12-07.gmi    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:24:26

• Mientras tanto gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/eñe/35217    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:24:51

• "The new version of RetiGemiProxy compress data, server made the redirect instead of client (more speed), Public Server availlable without certificated, Private server with certificated, multiples connections on the server." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Reticulum/35225    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:25:39

• "One interesting consequence, though, is that the right earbud always ends up a bit wonky from how I wear it. These earbuds have replaceable silicone fins, intended to keep it secure while I wear them." gemini://envs.net/~silv/gemlog/those_earbuds_are_doing_well.gmi    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:27:23

• "2025 was a fairly busy year with 20 blog posts, a lot of updates to my docker swarm, some new simple CGI scripts." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/2025-a-year-in-review-at-sava-rocks/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:28:18

• The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Has More Reasons Than Cocainegate to Vote for Real Change in the European Patent Office ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/05/The_Administrative_Council_of_the_European_Patent_Organisation_.shtml    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:37:50

• European Patent Office Issues: Points to Raise or Factoids to Share With Delegates of the EPO's Administrative Council ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/06/European_Patent_Office_Issues_Points_to_Raise_or_Factoids_to_Sh.shtml    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:37:57

• "And more specifically, it is set to introduce a new Terminus 10×18 console bitmap font, offering a clearer, more balanced option for users who rely on text-mode consoles." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-6-19-will-introduce-the-terminus-10x18-console-bitmap-font/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:43:18

• "I cracked open the source code for Campfire, Writebook, and Fizzy and traced the evolution of their CSS architecture. What started as curiosity became genuine surprise." ☛ https://www.zolkos.com/2025/12/03/vanilla-css-is-all-you-need | Source: Rob Zolkos    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:46:33

• "Suppose, not hypothetically, that you have a third party tool that you need to run periodically." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdScriptsEasyLogCapture | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:46:47

• "Without deliberately planning it, we've wound up running an assortment of DNS server software on an assortment of DNS servers." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OurMixedDNSServers | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:46:57

• "To build instantly loading websites was always my goal. For years, however, this remained an aspirational target rather than a technical reality for the open web." ☛ https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/web-performance-2025-the-shift-from-optimization-to-prediction/ | Source: Web Performance Calendar    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:47:14

• "Benjamin Särkkä kritisk till nytt förslag: ”EU skapar en nyckel som öppnar alla lås” | Inrikes | Svenska Yle" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://yle.fi/a/7-10089207    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:47:49

• "Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly Asks DOJ for Signs of Life" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/07/judge-colleen-kollar-kotellys-knock-knock-not-a-joke/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:48:02

• "The Inaugural FIFA Peace Laureate - by Jay Nordlinger" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/the-inaugural-fifa-peace-laureate    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:48:16

• "Affordability, Part II - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/affordability-part-ii    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:48:27

• microsoft really fears open standards and the platform independence those bring https://www.macworld.com/article/3001030/a-lifetime-license-for-microsoft-office-costs-less-than-2-years-of-microsoft-365.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:48:42

• "Sunday thought: Really, truly, the end of Trump is near" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-really-truly-the-end    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:48:54

• "The pajama pilot over Pearl Harbor" https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/12/07/the-pajama-pilot-over-pearl-harbor/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 08:49:20

• iophk: the subset of speech allowed on x.com is /not/ free speech https://femtejuli.se/2025/12/07/eu-vs-x-nar-politiken-vill-ha-makten-over-det-fria-ordet-online/    

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

• "After enjoying years of relative freedom to do whatever they liked with their Amazon Fire TV Sticks" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/bypass-amazon-fire-tv-stick-piracy-ban-and-see-what-happens-next-251207/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:14:29

• "For over a decade, Humble Bundle has offered DRM-free media for a great price, while also supporting charity. Even years later, I can’t get their “jingle” out of my head: [...]" ☛ https://kerrick.blog/posts/2025/humble-bundle-abandons-history-of-drm-free-media/ | Source: Kerrick Long    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:14:54

• "He makes great points about the fault-tolerant nature of web technology" ☛ https://werd.io/the-web-runs-on-tolerance/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:15:33

• "Russian authorities said Thursday they have imposed restrictions on Apple’s video calling service FaceTime" ☛ https://apnews.com/article/russia-internet-crackdown-facetime-restrictions-06301be480510b18ae02039c6524cd80 | Source: Associated Press    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:15:42

• "But according to the claim from the account linked to Novak’s close acquaintances, the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service has confirmed that she remains in the same penal colony" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/nika-novak-russia-prison-ukraine-war-human-rights-journalism/33615073.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:16:10

• "The activation of the new unit is the latest in several moves by the different military branches this year to reorganize and prioritize information and electronic warfare." ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-information-warfare-squadron/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:17:57

• "Yet as the social media account Right Wing Cope observed, the same frame in the video bears little resemblance to the one in the preview." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/immigrant-influencer-ai-racism | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:18:08

• "While one in 25 might not sound like a ton, it shakes out to four percent of the study’s total population" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-voters-persuade-chatbot | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:18:24

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

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:19:21

• Book Review: Antimemetics ☞ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/06/Book-Review-Antimemetics/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:20:56

• 2025 Year in Review ☞ https://macwright.com/2025/12/07/year-in-review.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:21:28

• Iustin Pop: Yes, still alive! ☞ https://k1024.org/posts/2025/2025-12-07-yes-still-alive-but-life-is-crazy/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:25:46

• HardenedBSD 15-build-5 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/hardenedbsd    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:29:43

• Iced 0.14 Released    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:29:56

• Iced 0.14 Released For Popular Rust Cross-Platform GUI Library ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Iced-0.14-Rust-GUI-LIbrary    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:30:20

• Open Source Adapter ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/07/wavebird-controller-soars-once-more-with-open-source-adapter/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:30:54

• "Let’s write a type-safe table in Rust where the values can be of different types." ☛ https://scvalex.net/posts/75/ | Source: Alexandru Scvorțov    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:31:43

• "The mafia — that ancient confederation of thieves and killers — has a stronger moral operating system than the American business aristocracy now presiding over our decline" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-mafia-believed-in-a-leviathan | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:35:12

• "This is not a world with an ideology." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-great-specialization-of-civilizations | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:35:19

• "One of the most important concepts to master in Rust is ownership and borrowing." ☛ https://blog.frankel.ch/yet-another-rust-ownership-tutorial/ | Source: Nicolas Fränkel    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:36:03

• "10 Qualities the 8th CEO of Apple Should Have." ☛ https://parkerortolani.blog/2025/12/05/take-a-risk-apple-give.html | Source: Parker Ortolani    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:36:13

• "As Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports, Apple is entering one of the most turbulent periods of Tim Cook's era, as several senior leaders and advanced engineers exit the company." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/apples-chief-chip-architect-for-the-last-decade-has-reportedly-talked-to-ceo-tim-cook-about-leaving | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:36:28

• "Paramount’s $30-per-share bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, backed by tech billionaire Larry Ellison" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-12-06/paramount-larry-ellison-hollywood-warner-bros-netflix-skydance-sarandos | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:36:59

• "The goal is to elect a handful of independent candidates to the House of Representatives in 2026, using AI to identify districts where independents could succeed and uncover diamond in the rough candidates." ☛ https://www.npr.org/2025/12/01/g-s1-98267/ai-independent-candidates-congress-two-party-control | Source: NPR    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:37:12

• "So far, the Independent Center has identified 40 House seats that don’t fit a hyper-partisan profile, theoretically allowing an independent candidate to challenge the typical Democrat-Republican paradigm." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/politics-two-party-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:37:24

• "Companies are bundling AI and raising software prices because they don’t have a choice." ☛ https://molodtsov.me/2025/12/ai-price-hike/ | Source: Yury Molodtsov    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:38:15

• "Budget airline IndiGo" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/12/07/2025/india-faces-mass-air-travel-crisis | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:38:26

• "Police arrested an elderly man and seized 30 bitcoin mining machines in a raid on several premises around Jalan Air Putih, here yesterday that were operating through illegal electrical connections." ☛ https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2025/12/07/mystery-electricity-spike-in-balik-pulau-leads-police-to-hidden-bitcoin-mine/201075 | Source: Malay Mail    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:38:37

• "While other states, including Michigan and Wisconsin, have made pension fund investments in cryptocurrency" ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/12/07/repub/texas-becomes-the-first-state-to-buy-bitcoin-as-more-states-eye-cryptocurrencies/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:38:50

• "The history of railways in Šiauliai began in 1871, when the railway station was built and the first train arrived in the city." ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2756272/renewed-railway-museum-opens-in-lithuania-s-siauliai | Source: LRT    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:39:03

• "Only power banks with the serial numbers 000G21, 000H21, 000I21 and 000L21, are included in the recall." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/powerbanks-amazon-recalled-fire-risks-b2879781.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:39:12

• "During the summer of 2025, Iran experienced an exceptional heat wave, with daytime temperatures across several regions, including Tehran" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/why-tehran-is-running-out-of-water-iran-climate-change-drought-extreme-weather/ | Source: Wired    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:39:34

• "He explains that many of these metals exist in significant quantities on the deep-sea floor, yet there has been little clarity on how they could be responsibly extracted or what consequences such activity might have for the environment." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/science/new-species-below-water-surfaces-sea | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:39:43

• "The research shows that we have a latent reservoir of antimicrobial resistance that is far more widespread around the world than we had expected" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/grim-signals-of-future-antimicrobial-resistance-found-lurking-in-sewage | Source: Science Alert    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:39:54

• "Those 75,000 detainees without a criminal history between January 20 and October 15 represent more than a third of the total 220,000 detainees in the immigration operations carried out" ☛ https://www.telesurenglish.net/trumps-first-9-months-ice-arrested-75000-with-no-criminal-record/ | Source: teleSUR    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:40:27

• "The seemingly retaliatory revocation of the European Commission’s ad account is unlikely to materially change things for either X or the EU." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/839742/x-cuts-off-the-european-commissions-ad-account | Source: The Verge    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:41:39

• "Which, by the way, is why the European Commission should not be doing anything on X in the first place." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ec-x-advertising-platform/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:41:48

• "But today only 12 are still alive — all centenarians — and this year none were able to make the pilgrimage to Hawaii to mark the event Sunday." ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/12/08/soon-no-pearl-harbor-survivors-will-be-alive/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:41:58

• "Computers, which entered the mass market in 1977, promised to help resolve these problems." ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/12/07/far-right-extremists-have-been-organizing-online-since-before-the-internet-ai-is-the-next-frontier/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:42:14

• "ISIS cells in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor have intensified their attacks on the positions of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)." ☛ https://english.anf-news.com/rojava-syria/isis-attacks-sdf-position-in-deir-ez-zor-82543 | Source: ANF News    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:42:33

• "The children were among 315 pupils and staff who were kidnapped from a Catholic boarding school in late November." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/nigeria-100-abducted-schoolchildren-released-reports/a-75053737 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:42:43

• "Some 50 escaped shortly afterward, leaving 265 thought to be in captivity" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/100-kidnapped-nigerian-schoolchildren-released-un-source-presidency-978378573 | Source: RTL    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:42:54

• [Old] "And then I discovered something even more alarming - a tiny built-in microphone that isn’t clearly mentioned in the official documentation." ☛ https://telefoncek.si/2025/02/2025-02-10-hidden-microphone-on-nanokvm/ | Source: Matej Kovacic    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:43:23

• "The Right to Privacy is a brief written by Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren and published in the Harvard Law Review in 1890." ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2025/12/07/how-to-civilize-digital-life/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:47:15

• "The federal HIPAA law is meant to protect patient information generally, especially when that information travels between providers." ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/12/06/repub/privacy-concerns-linger-in-reproductive-health-care-despite-hipaa-lawsuits-dismissal/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:47:25

• "It feels like noise, it is noise. I can't relate to it anymore." ☛ https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/noise/ | Source: Simone Silvestroni    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:48:26

• "I had a bit of a blogging and social media break when I went to Vietnam." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/another-social-media-break/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:48:49

• "It isn’t clear where all the Flock annotation footage came from, but screenshots included in the documents for data annotators showed license plates from New York, Florida, New Jersey, Michigan, and California." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-surveillance-flock-philippines | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:49:57

• "OpenAI’s representatives pointed out that Tarbell, which has also supported reporting at Bloomberg, Time, The Verge, and The Los Angeles Times" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/12/07/2025/ai-critics-funded-ai-coverage-at-top-newsrooms | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:50:06

• "With many-megapixel cameras in our pockets and networks so fast that streaming hiccups piss off pre-teens, it’s easy to forget how frail digital imagery used to be." ☛ https://writing.kemitchell.com/2025/12/07/LLMs-Make-Legal-Advice-Lossy | Source: Kyle E Mitchell    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:50:22

• "Previously, I wrote about why you probably shouldn’t block AI bots from your website, and in there, hinted at bots being easy to identify, despite all appearances to the contrary." ☛ https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/surviving-the-crawlers/ | Source: Gergely Nagy    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 09:50:37

• Oracle GNU/Linux 10.1 Released With Security and Toolchain Updates ☞ https://linuxiac.com/oracle-linux-10-1-released-with-security-and-toolchain-updates/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:25:56

• Fastfetch 2.56 Arrives With Improved Config Loading and NUMA Detection ☞ https://linuxiac.com/fastfetch-2-56-arrives-with-improved-config-loading-and-numa-detection/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:26:16

• Six stable kernels for the weekend ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1049554/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:28:56

• "Once again, I’ve categorized the announcements into a handful of categories focused on the ones that matter most for security practitioners and cloud governance folks: [...]" ☛ https://www.chrisfarris.com/post/reinvent2025/ | Source: Chris Ferris    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:29:56

• "Here is a big dif­fer­ence between the classic car and the classic phone, though, and a damning one: 70 years later, I can still fire up the Thun­der­bird and drive it around town" ☛ https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/classics/ | Source: Robin Sloan    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:30:23

• "If you are an Intel employee, you might have seen my fairly long email that summarized what I did in my 3.5 years." ☛ https://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2025-12-05/leaving-intel.html | Source: Brendan Gregg    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:31:41

• "What we learn as children programs us in certain ways. These programs run subconsciously." ☛ https://anniemueller.com/posts/all-feelings-mean-something-but-it-might-be-something-dumb | Source: Annie Mueller    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:31:46

• "People think the cultural forces that led us here, will simply go away once Donald Trump is gone? Are you mad?" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-21st-century-is-a-new-dark-age | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:31:52

• "In total, I read 64 books. I strictly alternate between fact and fiction otherwise my brain gets confused." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/all-the-books-ive-read-this-year-2/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:32:01

• "In total, I read 64 books. I strictly alternate between fact and fiction otherwise my brain gets confused." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/all-the-books-ive-read-this-year-2/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:32:07

• "I’ve been re-reading Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics with the intention of writing about it for the November IndieWeb book club, but I couldn’t think of anything to say about it in time." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2025/12/06/on-revisiting-a-foundational-text/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:32:13

• "Dish (Daniël’s Swish-like activation, 2022) is an activation function that has a shape similar to GELU, Swish and Mish." ☛ https://danieldk.eu/Dish-Activation | Source: Daniël de Kok    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:32:52

• "For the last few months, I’ve been trying to come up with a nice, denotational basis for what music is. " ☛ https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/algebraic-music/index.html | Source: Sandy Maguire    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:33:14

• "One thing I quickly learned in this journey is the more things you mix on one skewer the harder it is." ☛ https://connortumbleson.com/2025/12/08/kabobs/ | Source: Connor Tumbleson    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:33:25

• "Nadia Asparouhova’s Antimemetics is, itself, antimemetic." ☛ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/06/Book-Review-Antimemetics/ | Source: Ben Congdon    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:33:38

• "In fact, I've started to believe that developing "refined taste" is one of the most reliable ways to make yourself worse off." ☛ https://www.joanwestenberg.com/dont-become-a-connoisseur/?ref=westenberg-newsletter | Source: Westenberg    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:33:49

• "I tend to find the whole “distraction free” business to be a bit of a boondoggle." ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/posts/typing-writing-long-hand-and-distractions | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:34:12

• Kevin Fenzi: infra weekly recap: early december 2025 ☞ https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2025/12/06/infra-weekly-recap-early-december-2025/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:35:40

• François Marier: Learning a new programming language with an LLM ☞ https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/learning-new-programming-language-with-ai/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:36:48

• "If I also set a width or a height, the browser now knows exactly how much space this video will take up on the page – even if it hasn’t loaded the video file yet." ☛ https://alexwlchan.net/2025/square-pixels/ | Source: Alex Chan    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:39:34

• "What's wrong with it?" ☛ https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/8/ | Source: Markup from Hell    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:39:42

• "It’s been a little over a year since I made my updated microblogging protocols comparison." ☛ https://nate.mecca1.net/posts/2025-12-07_microblog-protocols-update/ | Source: Nate    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:39:55

• "Go’s embed feature lets you bundle static assets into an executable, but it stores them uncompressed." ☛ https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2025-go-embed-compressed | Source: Vincent Bernat    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:40:40

• [Old] "One way to solve a problem is to write a program but some problems can be solved by simply connecting programs." ☛ http://www.mitchellsoftwareengineering.com/ComputingWithPipes.pdf | Source: Mitchell Software Engineering    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:41:20

• "This blog post demonstrates a semi-parametric approach that bridges classical time series modeling with risk-neutral pricing. We’ll show how to: [...]" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/arima-black-scholes-semi-parametric-market-price-of-risk-for-risk-neutral-pricing-code-preprint/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:41:59

• [Old] "I can't imagine Perl disappearing entirely in my lifetime." ☛ https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical | Source: Colin M Strickland    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:43:52

• "The majory of the work can be done in a single line. Conveniently the tr function returns the number of characters effected by the command." ☛ https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/advent-calendar-2024-12-08/ | Source: The Weekly Challenge    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:44:02

• "This post presents my solutions to the Perl Weekly Challenge 309." ☛ https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/advent-calendar-2025-12-07/ | Source: The Weekly Challenge    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:44:15

• "The data from Data::Random::Contact is actually generated from Fakenamegenerator.com." ☛ https://perladvent.org/2025/2025-12-08.html | Source: Perl    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:44:25

• "Next, he wrote a small Mojolicious application which implemented the LetterStore service." ☛ https://perladvent.org/2025/2025-12-07.html | Source: Perl    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:44:43

• "But the Raku Programming Language is no stranger to sigilless constants" ☛ https://raku-advent.blog/2025/12/07/day-7-allowing-for-fewer-dollars/ | Source: Rakulang    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:44:52

• [Old] "GNU Emacs is a full-featured text editor that contains a complete Lisp system. Emacs Lisp is used for a variety of things: [...]" ☛ http://www.mitchellsoftwareengineering.com/ProgrammingWithGNUEmacsLisp.pdf | Source: Mitchell Software Engineering    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:45:19

• "As you do. So, given a string with a "pesky foreign accent" in it, how many characters do various languages think it has?" ☛ https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/regular-expressions-2025 | Source: Colin M Strickland    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:45:30

• "Advent of Code is a great opportunity to play around with programming to learn something new." ☛ https://viralinstruction.com/posts/aoc2025/ | Source: Jakob Nybo Nissen    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:45:40

• "So, let's start off with some clarifications: [...]" ☛ https://trynova.dev/blog/oops-im-dead | Source: Nova    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:45:53

• "Now, almost 20 years later, we have more hindsight." ☛ https://blog.toast.cafe/squint | Source: Chloé Vulquin    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:51:53

• "Long story short, it is not easy to cross-compile projects in Haskell." ☛ https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/learning-ocaml/ | Source: Juan J Martínez    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:52:11

• "I'm actually not going part by part in this post today." ☛ https://yordi.me/advent-of-code-2025-day-7/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:52:49

• "This list describes the position of 20 junction boxes, one per line. Each position is given as X,Y,Z coordinates." ☛ https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/8 | Source: AdventOfCode    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:53:02

• "To repair the teleporter, you first need to understand the beam-splitting properties of the tachyon manifold. In this example, a tachyon beam is split a total of 21 times." ☛ https://adventofcode.com/2025/day/7 | Source: AdventOfCode    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:53:21

• "This was my experience when we went to Vietnam: literally my first post from over there failed to build owing to an error: [...]" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/my-blog-opens-too-many-files/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:54:08

• "Historically, data management systems have been built around the notion of pull queries: users query data which, for instance, is stored in tables in an RDBMS, Parquet files in a data lake" ☛ https://www.morling.dev/blog/you-gotta-push-if-you-wanna-pull/ | Source: Gunnar Morling    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:54:34

• "I use FreshRSS to manage all of my RSS feeds. It is wonderful." ☛ https://mtwb.blog/posts/2025/i-have-way-too-many-rss-favorites/ | Source: Matthew Weber    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:55:42

• "The sad part is that, in the years since the “Privacy Sandbox” saga started" ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/terminator-ending-for-privacy-sandbox/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:55:59

• [Old] "Over the past year, I built a web archive of over two thousand web pages – my own copy of everything I’ve bookmarked in the last fifteen years." ☛ https://alexwlchan.net/2025/learning-how-to-make-websites/ | Source: Alex Chan    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:56:10

• "But I’ve been experimenting with using org-journal as a replacement for Day One, and while it’s pretty good, there are two things that I immediately missed: [...]" ☛ https://coyotetracks.org/blog/emacs-and-shortcuts/ | Source: Watts Martin    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:58:02

• "A major addition in this release is native scrobble and listen history tracking, as Navidrome can now keep its own record of playback activity." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/navidrome-0-59-music-server-streamer-introduces-scrobble-history/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:58:22

• "The release marks a significant change in architecture support, as images are now provided exclusively for amd64 systems following Debian’s discontinuation of i386 kernel packages in Sid." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/gparted-live-1-7-0-12-stable-release-drops-32-bit-support/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:59:07

• "As a result, the long-standing i686 and i686-pae editions of GParted Live are no longer available"    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 10:59:13

• "This may look sparse in this diagram, but all these components are very close together on the PCB. C612 is the electrolytic." ☛ https://linuxjedi.co.uk/reviving-an-amiga-600-from-dead-video-to-a-clean-boot/ | Source: Andrew Hutchings    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 11:03:15

• "Yes, Linux Mint is one of (if not the) best Linux distributions for new users." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/reasons-to-love-linux-mint/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 11:03:49

• "Arch Linux’s pkgstats data provides one of the few large-scale, opt-in snapshots of how real users configure their systems." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/which-desktop-environment-do-arch-linux-users-prefer/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 11:03:58

• While not a perfect census (participation is voluntary), the long-running dataset offers a clear picture of how desktop environment and window managers’ preferences have shifted across more than a decade.    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 11:04:05

• "You would think Windows is annoying when it comes to its updates. But at least there's one entity doing the updating, and if you handle it, you're sorted. Not so in Kubuntu, or most Plasma systems, I'm afraid" ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/kde-system-notification-helper.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 11:04:13

• "Recently, especially since I installed and/or updated a bunch of systems to 24.04, I've been seeing more and more restart required prompts. But not one. Nope. A torrent. A barrage of notifications popping, one after another, sometimes three, sometimes eleven. And they would happen without my intervention, which is alarming."    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 11:04:25

• "This isn't a prank, and it isn't just a "look how small we made Linux!" gimmick." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/tiny-core-linux-16-2-still-fits-a-proper-linux-desktop-into-a-23mb-download-but-it-has-grown-1mb-since-the-last-time-we-looked-at-it | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 11:05:11

• "Since getting back into running NixOS, I have been having a whale of a time configuring my Linux machine. The declarative life is somewhat addictive." ☛ https://www.rousette.org.uk/archives/using-denix-for-a-multi-host-nix-config/ | Source: But she's a girl...    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 11:05:27

• "KDE developers continue preparing Plasma 6.6, and although there are still over two months to go before the final stable release (scheduled for February 17, 2026" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/plasma-6-6-desktop-continues-to-shape-up-with-ui-cleanups/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 11:06:13

• Audacity 3.7.6 Released with FFmpeg 8.0 & Import from Cloud Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/12/audacity-3-7-6-released-with-ffmpeg-8-0-import-from-cloud-support/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 11:27:28

• Hong Kong finance chief scraps Tokyo visit amid China-Japan row ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-finance-chief-scraps-tokyo-visit-amid-china-japan-row    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 11:28:02

• China navy conducts drills in Pacific; Japan scrambles jets ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-navy-conducts-drills-in-pacific-japan-scrambles-jets    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 11:28:14

• "Call Alvind what he is - one evil mother trucker. Alvind, his Pipmunks and his family need to burn in he-l for what they have done to IBM US employees." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbt3ax7f    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 12:53:43

• "its the new truism instead of death and taxes we have the skillless pigs at the top get better perks while the engineers at the bottom get cheapened and replaced/cut and the US debt keeps exponentially growing" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbt3ax7f "Alvind need to go on a diet. So does Krabanaugh"    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 12:54:14

• "when companies like Google, Salesforce, Palo Alto etc. buy up smaller companies, it is a win for them. When IBM buys a smaller company they overpay, over manage and make it into Vindaloo curry slop in a matter of a year or two. For Alvind and his Pipmunks it's just Business as usual - SSDD." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kby7g8nk    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 12:55:33

• "This is the IBM business model. I saw a comment somewhere else that summed it up well. IBM is still in business like AOL is still in business." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kby7g8nk    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 12:55:41

• "Something New Every Day, Something Relevant Every Week?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/06/something-new-every-day-something-relevant-every-week/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:37:38

• Bridging RTL-433 To Home Assistant ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/06/bridging-rtl-433-to-home-assistant/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:39:04

• "MeshCore, because being able to communicate wirelessly with others in a way that does not depend on traditional communication infrastructure is pretty compelling." https://hackaday.com/2025/12/06/lessons-learned-after-trying-meshcore-for-off-grid-text-messaging/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:39:24

• Atlas – manage your database schema as code ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/atlas-manage-database-schema-code/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:39:37

• PCLink – web-first application for secure remote PC control ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pclink-web-first-application-secure-remote-pc-control/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:40:23

• LeenFetch – system information tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/leenfetch-system-information-tool/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:40:46

• 6 Best Free and Open Source GUI Command Schedulers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-gui-command-schedulers/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:41:06

• Reasons To Love /Linux Mint ☞ https://thenewstack.io/reasons-to-love-linux-mint/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:41:28

• Issie – Interactive Schematic Simulator with Integrated Editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/issie-interactive-schematic-simulator-integrated-editor/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:42:12

• Checkstyle – Java Code Quality Tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/checkstyle-java-code-quality-tool/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:42:36

• MoneyTerm – TUI expense and budget tracker ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/moneyterm-tui-expense-budget-tracker/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:42:59

• Vincent Bernat: Compressing embedded files in Go ☞ https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2025-go-embed-compressed    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:43:40

• How to Setup Local Yum/DNF Repository on RHEL 10 ☞ https://www.linuxtechi.com/setup-local-yum-dnf-repository-rhel/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:44:47

• zprint – reformat Clojure and Clojurescript source code ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/zprint-reformat-clojure-clojurescript-source-code/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:51:48

• CSSTree – tool set for CSS ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/csstree-tool-set-css/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:52:12

• Gentoo 20251207 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/gentoo    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:56:09

• StratOS 2025.12.07 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/stratos    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:56:18

• Whonix 18.0.8.3 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/whonix    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:56:27

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

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:56:36

• is out    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:57:18

• 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 7th, 2025 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-december-7th-2025    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:57:49

• Zorin 18-r1 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/zorin    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:58:00

• gabeeOSLinux 6.12.60 is also out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/gabee    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:58:09

• trashy – fast and featureful alternative to rm ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/trashy-fast-featureful-alternative-rm/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:58:49

• csvi – terminal CSV editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/csvi-terminal-csv-editor/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:59:20

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

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 13:59:50

• c3 – to-do list app ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/c3-to-do-list-app/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:06:18

• pypykatz – Python implementation of Mimikatz ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pypykatz-python-implementation-mimikatz/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:07:01

• stylis – lightweight CSS preprocessor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/stylis-lightweight-css-preprocessor/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:07:38

• Linux Kernel 6.19 Will Introduce the Terminus 10×18 Console Bitmap Font ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-6-19-will-introduce-the-terminus-10x18-console-bitmap-font/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:08:01

• Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 49 (Dec 1 – 7, 2025) ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linuxiac-weekly-wrap-up-week-49-dec-1-7-2025/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:08:09

• cljfmt – detect and fix formatting errors in Clojure code ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cljfmt-detect-fix-formatting-errors-clojure-code/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:09:05

• 9 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Volume Mixers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-terminal-based-volume-mixers/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:09:13

• MemProcFS – view physical memory as files in a virtual file system ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/memprocfs-view-physical-memory-files-virtual-file-system/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:09:22

• Kathara Sasikumar: My Journey Through the LFX GNU/Linux Kernel Mentorship Program ☞ https://katharaa.github.io/katharablog/blogs/lfx/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:09:50

• 9 GUI Search Tools for Desktop GNU/Linux Users Who Don't Want to Use Find, Grep and Xargs Commands ☞ https://itsfoss.com/linux-gui-search-tools/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:10:05

• Tinte – wallpaper utility and theme generator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tinte-wallpaper-utility-theme-generator/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:10:23

• Groonga – fulltext search engine and column store ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/groonga-fulltext-search-engine-column-store/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:10:41

• oeis-tui – TUI and CLI for browsing the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/oeis-tui-cli-browsing-on-line-encyclopedia-integer-sequences/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:10:58

• Gonzales PE – CSS parser ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/gonzales-pe-css-parser/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:14:24

• TermiRs – SSH terminal client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/termirs-ssh-terminal-client/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:14:35

• OctoType – TUI typing trainer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/octotype-tui-typing-trainer/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:14:43

• 14 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based SSH Frontends ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-terminal-based-ssh-frontends/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:29:53

• wisu – fast, minimalist directory tree viewer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/wisu-fast-minimalist-directory-tree-viewer/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:30:12

• AOSC 20251206 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/aosc Also Vendefoul 20251126 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/vendefoul And BigLinux 2025-12-05 ☞ https://distrowatch.com/biglinux    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:30:58

• Muxly – lightweight, highly customizable CLI for managing tmux sessions ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/muxly-lightweight-highly-customizable-cli-managing-tmux-sessions/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:31:13

• Fresh – terminal text editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fresh-terminal-text-editor/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:31:30

• mouseless – mouse replacement and key remapper ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mouseless-mouse-replacement-key-remapper/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:31:54

• Beszel – lightweight server monitoring platform ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/beszel-lightweight-server-monitoring-platform/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:32:02

• mommy – support tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mommy-support-tool/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:33:06

• Gopher2600 – emulator for the Atari 2600 ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/gopher2600-emulator-atari-2600/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:33:17

• Pikeru – file picker, file searcher, and image viewer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pikeru-file-picker-file-searcher-image-viewer/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:33:24

• PeaZip 10.8 File Archiver Boosts RAR and TAR Support ☞ https://linuxiac.com/peazip-10-8-file-archiver-released-with-enhanced-archive-previews/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:35:00

• Salih Emin: Fix Broken Updates: uCareSystem New Release uCareSystem v25.12 ☞ https://utappia.org/2025/12/06/fix-broken-update-linux-ucaresystem/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:37:05

• This Week in KDE Apps ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/07/this-week-in-kde-apps/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:37:51

• December Software Releases: Plasma Camera & Plasma Settings ☞ https://plasma-mobile.org/2025/12/05/releases-25-12/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:43:04

• "The Key To Plotting" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/07/the-key-to-plotting/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:45:02

• "[Voria Labs] has created a whole bunch of artworks referred to as Lumanoi Interactive Light Sculptures. A new video explains the hardware behind these beautiful glowing pieces, as well as the magic that makes their interactivity work." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/07/neat-techniques-to-make-interactive-light-sculptures/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:45:28

• Hong Kong heads to the polls for legislative elections after deadly fire ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251207-hong-kong-heads-to-the-polls-for-legislative-elections-after-deadly-fire    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:45:48

• Macron threatens tariffs on Chinese goods but seeks trade deal with EU ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251207-macron-threatens-china-with-tariffs-over-trade-surplus    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:45:59

• Concerns mount in Japan over business effects of prolonged Japan-China friction ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/concerns-mount-in-japan-over-business-effects-of-prolonged-japan-china-friction    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:46:14

• Japan summons China envoy over fighter jet incident ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-summons-china-envoy-over-fighter-jet-incident    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:46:23

• Hong Kong Holds Vote as Officials Move Against ‘Anti-China’ Elements ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/world/asia/hong-kong-fire-election-campaign.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:46:35

• Japan Says China Aimed Military Radar at Its Fighter Jets ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/world/asia/japan-china-fighter-jets.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:46:51

• Parents in Malaysia welcome under-16 social control media ban ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/parents-in-malaysia-breathe-sigh-of-relief-with-new-under-16-social-media-ban    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:47:13

• South Korea to move presidential office to roll back Yoon legacy ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-to-move-presidential-office-to-roll-back-yoon-legacy    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:47:40

• Subway Korea recalls promotional dish over excessive cadmium ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/subway-korea-recalls-promotional-dish-over-excessive-cadmium    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:47:55

• Kim Kardashian’s Doctor Finds Holes in Her Brain, Signs of “Low Activity” ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/kim-kardashian-doctor-finds-holes-brain-low-activity    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:48:21

• Experts warn your preferred sleep position could be harming your health in multiple ways ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/12/07/health/popular-sleep-positions-could-be-damaging-your-nerves-according-to-experts/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:48:35

• Ancient genetic engineers: How Mexico’s Mesoamericans bred a tiny plant into corn ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/food/domestication-of-corn-from-teosinte-in-mexico628780/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:49:13

• Pluralistic: Metabolizing the theory of "political capitalism" (06 Dec 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/06/big-nascent-important/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:49:30

• Unraveling chronic fatigue syndrome: Insights from top scientist on myalgic encephalomyelitis ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251206-unraveling-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-insights-from-top-scientist-on-myalgic-encephalomyelitis    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:53:01

• US, Ukraine Discuss Peace, But No Immediate Breakthroughs Seen In Miami Talks ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-peace-plan-witkoff-kushner-putin-zelenskyy-miami/33614965.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:53:16

• Battlefield Picture Worsening for Ukraine as Convicted Felon Pushes Peace Plan ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/world/europe/ukraine-pokrovsk-battlefield-russia.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:53:42

• 1950s mechanical calculator crumbles in the face of divide-by-zero conundrum — relic spins its gears uncontrollably in 'chaotic loop' of endless motion ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/1950s-mechanical-calculator-crumbles-in-the-face-of-divide-by-zero-conundrum-relic-spins-its-gears-uncontrollably-in-chaotic-loop-of-endless-motion    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:54:05

• Qubes 4.3.0-rc4 is ready ☞ https://distrowatch.com/qubes    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:54:20

• Russia hammers Ukraine's energy infrastructure as Florida peace talks continue ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251206-russia-hammers-ukraine-s-energy-infrastructure-as-florida-peace-talks-continue    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:54:33

• Russia allegedly still using MElon to attack Europe ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/network-providers/russia-still-using-starlink-guided-drones-in-ukraine-insists-report-starlink-mini-atop-grounded-drone-points-to-ongoing-issue-despite-u-s-dod-claims-threat-was-blunted    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:54:59

• Russia launches drone and missile attack on Ukraine amid talks ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/1206/Russia-launches-drone-and-missile-attack-on-Ukraine-amid-talks    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:55:08

• How a Soviet genius cracked the uncrackable Maya code ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/how-a-soviet-genius-cracked-the-uncrackable-maya-code/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:55:38

• German parliament passes military service law amid tensions with Russia ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/german-parliament-passes-military-service-law-amid-tensions-with-russia/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:55:52

• China and Russia hold third joint anti-missile drills on Russian territory ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-and-russia-hold-third-joint-anti-missile-drills-on-russian-territory    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:56:06

• Friendship rekindled: Cam Ranh Bay and a new phase in Moscow-Hanoi ties ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/friendship-rekindled-cam-ranh-bay-and-a-new-phase-of-moscow-hanoi-ties    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:56:18

• RapidRAW Basics – How to import and organize your photo files ☞ https://www.reallinuxuser.com/rapidraw-basics-how-to-import-and-organize-your-photo-files/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 14:56:44

• USB Video Capture Devices ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/07/usb-video-capture-devices-wow-theyre-all-bad/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:00:36

• An Animal Expert Explains Why Your Dog Keeps Hiding Everything ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/an-animal-expert-explains-why-your-dog-keeps-hiding-everything    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:01:18

• Prion-Like Brain Damage Can Occur Without Infectious Prions, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/prion-like-brain-damage-can-occur-without-infectious-prions-study-finds    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:01:38

• A Fasting-Style Diet Seems to Result in Dynamic Changes to Human Brains ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-fasting-style-diet-seems-to-result-in-dynamic-changes-to-human-brains    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:01:52

• Startling Sounds From 6,000-Year-Old Shells Hint at Their Ancient Use ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/startling-sounds-from-6000-year-old-shells-hint-at-their-ancient-use    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:02:16

• Trove of 225 'Exceptional' Egyptian Figurines Solves Long-Standing Mystery ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/trove-of-225-exceptional-egyptian-figurines-solves-long-standing-mystery    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:02:27

• Nick Vidal (Microsoft operative) speaks about "Public Good" and pushing slop for his masters ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/dpgas-annual-members-meeting-advancing-open-source-dpgs-for-the-public-good    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:04:16

• What’s In The Box: Wrapped but not streamed 2025 ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/whats-in-the-box-wrapped-but-not-streamed-2025/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:05:33

• New Preprint: Model Checking for Vector Autoregressive Models ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/new-preprint-model-checking-for-vector-autoregressive-models/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:05:59

• PeaZip 10.8 Open-Source Archive Manager Overhauls Previewing Inside Archives ☞ https://9to5linux.com/peazip-10-8-open-source-archive-manager-overhauls-previewing-inside-archives    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:06:32

• Salute or push back? When a military order’s legality is in question. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2025/1206/drug-boat-strike-military-legal-illegal-orders    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:06:52

• 18 killed in central Myanmar air strike ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/18-killed-in-central-myanmar-air-strike    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:07:03

• Prisoners Alarmed to Discover That a Startup Is Training an Hey Hi (AI) Based on Their Phone Calls ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/inmates-ai-securus-surveillance    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:07:23

• Google Caught Replacing News Headlines With AI-Generated Nonsense ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-replacing-news-headlines-ai-nonsense    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:07:47

• It's NOT FOSS ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/proton-sheets/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:08:59

• Building Chromium for Slackware (contd.) ☞ https://blog.slackware.nl/building-chromium-for-slackware-contd/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:09:19

• This Week in Science: Vampire Squid, a Galactic Tornado, And Much More! ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-week-in-science-vampire-squid-a-galactic-tornado-and-much-more    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:11:31

• Tinnitus Triggers Your Body's 'Fight or Flight' Response, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/tinnitus-triggers-your-bodys-fight-or-flight-response-study-finds    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:11:41

• Athletes Have a Mysteriously Higher Risk of Irregular Heartbeat ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/athletes-have-a-mysteriously-higher-risk-of-irregular-heartbeat    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:11:52

• Is Working From Home Good For You? A New Study Reveals The Answer. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/is-working-from-home-good-for-you-a-new-study-reveals-the-answer    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:12:05

• Laughing Gas Can Offer Immediate Relief From Depression, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/laughing-gas-can-offer-immediate-relief-from-depression-study-finds    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:12:20

• At least 18 migrants die as inflatable boat sinks off Greek island of Crete ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251206-at-least-18-migrants-die-as-inflatable-boat-sinks-off-greek-island-of-crete    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:12:44

• Georgia’s new laws criminalize peaceful protest, rights group warns ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/georgias-new-laws-criminalize-peaceful-protest-rights-group-warns/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:13:47

• China’s National Security Office in Hong Kong Summons Foreign Journalists ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/world/asia/hong-kong-fire-media-national-security.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:16:59

• ‘Don’t say we didn’t warn you’: China’s nat. sec office in Hong Kong summons international media ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/06/dont-say-we-didnt-warn-you-chinas-nat-sec-office-in-hong-kong-summons-international-media/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:17:34

• 71-year-old first to be arrested over ‘prejudicing’ nat. security case; warning issued over Tai Po fire mourning site ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/07/71-year-old-first-to-be-arrested-over-prejudicing-nat-security-case-warning-issued-over-tai-po-fire-mourning-site/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:18:05

• Kallas calls Washington EU's 'biggest ally' after US security strategy slams Europe ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251206-kallas-calls-washington-eu-s-biggest-ally-after-us-security-strategy-slams-europe    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:18:48

• Kaja Kallas says Washington EU's 'biggest ally' after US security strategy published ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251206-kaja-kallas-says-washington-eu-s-biggest-ally-after-us-security-strategy-published    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:19:01

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Security Doctrine Leaves Europe at a Strategic Crossroads ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/world/europe/trump-europe-strategy-document.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:19:12

• Dihydroxyacetone Man attacks European values in new security strategy ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251206-trump-attacks-european-values-in-new-security-strategy    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:19:22

• Standalone USB-PD Stack For All Your Sink Needs ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/06/standalone-usb-pd-stack-for-all-your-sink-needs/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:20:02

• ZX Spectrum ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/07/the-zx-spectrum-finally-got-an-fps/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:20:23

• F1 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/06/f1-light-box-helps-you-know-the-current-race-status/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:20:43

• Pico2 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/06/emulate-roms-at-12mhz-with-pico2-pio/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:23:49

• Is The Y Chromosome Vanishing? A New Sex Gene May Be The Future of Men ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/is-the-y-chromosome-vanishing-a-new-sex-gene-may-be-the-future-of-men    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:24:39

• AQEX qUPS-P-BC-2.0 UPS HAT works with large capacity, multi-chemistry batteries (Li-Ion, LiFePO4, Sodium-Ion) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/07/aqex-qups-p-bc-2-0-ups-hat-works-with-large-capacity-multi-chemistry-batteries-li-ion-lifepo4-sodium-ion/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:25:06

• Hong Kong weighs blanket smoking ban at construction sites following deadly Tai Po fire ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/06/hong-kong-weighs-blanket-smoking-ban-at-construction-sites-following-deadly-tai-po-fire/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:25:41

• Syrians celebrate as one year anniversary of Bashar al-Assad's fall approaches ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251206-syrians-celebrate-as-one-year-anniversary-of-bashar-al-assad-s-fall-approaches    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:26:12

• A 10-year study indicates that treated surfaces turn yellow more severely than untreated plastic parts — retrobrighting does more harm than good to consoles ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/a-10-year-study-indicates-that-treated-surfaces-turn-yellow-more-severely-than-untreated-plastic-parts-retrobrighting-does-more-harm-than-good-to-consoles    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:27:04

• Jonathan Dowland: thesis ☞ https://jmtd.net/log/phd/thesis/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:27:16

• "I'm a Principal Software Engineer at IBM (Formerly Red Hat)" ... they not openly and publicly just call themselves "IBM" https://jmtd.net/about/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:29:04

• UN rights chief decries 'repressive tactics' in Uganda ahead of vote ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251206-un-rights-chief-decries-repressive-tactics-in-uganda-ahead-of-vote    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:29:48

• "A Touchscreen MIDI Controller For The DIY Set" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/07/a-touchscreen-midi-controller-for-the-diy-set/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:32:35

• Chinese Navy base 3D imaged to 50cm resolution in single satellite pass ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinese-navy-base-3d-imaged-to-50cm-resolution-in-single-satellite-pass-us-spatial-intelligence-firm-boasts-accurate-high-res-3d-terrain-map-took-just-10-hours-to-create    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:33:15

• AI Researchers Say They’ve Invented Incantations Too Dangerous to Release to the Public ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-researchers-dangerous-prompts    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:33:40

• Presidential Power Gets Tested Before Supreme Court After Long Conservative Project to Shrink Agencies ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-independent-agencies.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:34:12

• This whole "AI" narrative is one of the most stupid things the media helped with or was bribed to spread in recent decades. We're meant to think computer translations, voice synthesis and online botfarms are some sort of new and revolutionary thing. What a lie!    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:35:37

• Nigeria secures release of 100 kidnapped schoolchildren as 165 remain missing ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20251207-nigeria-100-abducted-schoolchildren    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:36:41

• Social Security at 70? Why the Gold Standard Advice Works for Only a Few ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/business/social-security-70-retirement.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:36:50

• Hong Kong man arrested after posting online about deadly fire ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-man-arrested-after-posting-online-about-deadly-fire    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:37:23

• Critical flaws found in Hey Hi (AI) development tools are dubbed an 'IDEsaster' — data theft and remote code execution possible ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/researchers-uncover-critical-ai-ide-flaws-exposing-developers-to-data-theft-and-rce    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:37:42

• New Convicted Felon national security strategy recasts Americas under revived Monroe Doctrine ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/new-trump-national-security-strategy-recasts-americas-under-revived-monroe-doctrine/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:38:08

• Live: Benin arrests a dozen soldiers over coup attempt, military and security sources say ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20251207-live-apparent-coup-attempt-in-benin-govt-claims-army-has-situation-under-control    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:38:44

• What Convicted Felon’s National Security Strategy means for Australia ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/what-trumps-national-security-strategy-means-for-australia/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:38:53

• Benin: the government declares coup attempt has been 'foiled' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251207-benin-the-government-declares-coup-attempt-has-been-foiled    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:39:07

• "Time, not code generation, is the scarcest resource for open source." ☞ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/12/07/lazy-reading-for-2025-12-07/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:40:13

• ‘Everything destroyed’ as Indonesia’s Aceh grapples with disease after floods ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/everything-destroyed-as-indonesias-aceh-grapples-with-disease-after-floods    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:40:40

• powa-archivist 5.1.1 is out! ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/powa-archivist-511-is-out-3190/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:41:22

• m2m – convert YouTube video files to other formats ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/m2m-convert-youtube-video-files/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:43:09

• Paprūsė: Lithuania’s borderlands where Prussia, resistance, and history converge ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2759209/papruse-lithuania-s-borderlands-where-prussia-resistance-and-history-converge    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:55:19

• Germany parliament passes military service law amid tensions with Russia ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/german-parliament-passes-military-service-law-amid-tensions-with-russia/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:55:43

• Digital ID: ORG warns of mission creep ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/digital-id-org-warns-of-mission-creep/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:56:31

• A 180-Year Assumption About Light Was Just Proven Wrong ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-180-year-assumption-about-light-was-just-proven-wrong    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:57:00

• Russia Faces Space Mission Crisis After Severe Soyuz Launch Pad Accident ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/russia-faces-space-mission-crisis-after-severe-soyuz-launch-pad-accident    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:57:17

• Russian Drone Strike on Chernobyl Hasn’t Led to Rise in Radiation Levels ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/world/europe/chernobyl-ukraine-russian-drone-strike-radiation.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:57:27

• Ukraine's recruitment effort expands to women amid Russian invasion ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251207-ukraine-s-recruitment-effort-expands-to-women-amid-russian-invasion    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:58:46

• Dihydroxyacetone Man says Zelensky ‘isn’t ready’ to approve US peace plan to end Russia-Ukraine war ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20251208-trump-zelensky-peace-proposal    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:58:55

• Thailand launches air strikes on Cambodia as border tensions reignite ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thailand-launches-air-strikes-on-cambodia-after-soldier-is-killed    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:59:17

• Thailand launches air raids on Cambodia, threatening Convicted Felon’s peace plan ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20251208-thailand-air-strikes-cambodian-military-army    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:59:27

• Not All Targeted Killings Are the Same. Hegseth’s Boat Strikes Are Illegal. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/opinion/hegseth-boat-strikes-killings.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:59:37

• Democrats Call for Releasing Video of Deadly Boat Strike in the Caribbean ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/us/politics/democrats-boat-strike-video-release.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 15:59:44

• AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-surveillance-flock-philippines    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:00:13

• The final stretch: APNIC statement on the WSIS+20 Outcome Document Revision 1 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/08/the-final-stretch-apnic-statement-on-the-wsis20-outcome-document-revision-1/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:00:38

• Hong Kong Man Arrested After Posting Online About Deadly Fire ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/world/asia/hong-kong-fire-arrest-after-online-speech.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:01:17

• Thinness obsession prompts diet drug misuse in South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/thinness-obsession-prompts-diet-drug-misuse-in-south-korea    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:01:32

• Frederik Braun: Why the Sanitizer API is just setHTML() ☞ https://frederikbraun.de/why-sethtml.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:02:05

• New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Rythm Doctor and Routine - 2025-12-06 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2025-12-06-edition/index.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:02:34

• UN urges Syria to step up efforts against ongoing human rights abuses ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/un-urges-syria-to-step-up-efforts-against-ongoing-human-rights-abuses/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:02:59

• Syria’s civil society must take center stage in reconstruction ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/syrias-civil-society-must-take-center-stage-in-reconstruction/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:03:10

• Frederik Braun: The C3PO Bug in Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga ☞ https://frederikbraun.de/lego-star-wars-complete-saga-c3po-bug.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:04:40

• mintCast 474 – Goldilocks Zone ☞ https://mintcast.org/474-goldilocks-zone/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:05:31

• The People's Filesystem | LINUX Unplugged 644 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/644/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:06:43

• Next Stop London As Zelenskyy To Press Ukraine’s Cause With Key European Allies ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-war-russia-peace-talks-trump-putin-europe-security-guarantee/33615523.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:07:12

• US, Ukraine Discuss Peace, But No Immediate Headway Seen In Miami Talks ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-peace-plan-witkoff-kushner-putin-zelenskyy-miami/33614965.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:07:20

• New computing platform is ‘Made for Making’ — Caligra c100 Developer Terminal targets creators with distraction-free ‘computer for experts’ ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/new-computing-platform-is-made-for-making-caligra-c100-developer-terminal-targets-creators-with-distraction-free-computer-for-experts    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:07:59

• "There are plenty of well-known models among the 8-bit machines of the 1980s, and most readers could rattle them off without a thought. They were merely the stars among a plethora of others, and even for a seasoned follower of the retrocomputing world, there are fresh models from foreign markets that continue to surprise and delight." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/07/anatomy-of-a-minimalist-home-computer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:08:24

• "There are plenty of well-known models among the 8-bit machines of the 1980s, and most readers could rattle them off without a thought. They were merely the stars among a plethora of others, and even for a seasoned follower of the retrocomputing world" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/07/anatomy-of-a-minimalist-home-computer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:08:39

• iDeal 2025.12.07 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ideal    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:08:52

• 'If there's a coup, then ECOWAS will be willing to step in': West Africa bloc orders troops to Benin ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251207-if-there-s-a-coup-then-ecowas-will-be-willing-to-step-in-west-africa-bloc-orders-troops-to-benin    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:09:11

• Heathrow Airport Is Briefly Locked Down After Spray Is Used in Altercation ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/world/europe/heathrow-airport-lockdown.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:09:38

• Australia’s Social Media Ban for Under-16s Is Coming. The Teenagers Are Skeptical. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/world/asia/australia-social-media-ban-under-16.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:09:57

• [japan] [rail] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-12-06.gmi    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:57:53

• 🔤SpellBinding: EINSTUX Wordo: TRUCK gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-12-08.gmi    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 16:59:33

• "Stop using Ubuntu" https://www.howtogeek.com/stop-using-ubuntu-use-immutable-distro-instead/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 17:01:51

• Linux Foundation Welcomes Mitsubishi Electric as Gold Member During Open Source Summit Japan https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linux-foundation-welcomes-mitsubishi-electric-as-gold-member-during-open-source-summit-japan-302634547.html    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 17:02:22

• The Jolla Phone Has the Sailfish OS with No Tracking or Hidden Analytics https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/jolla-phone    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 17:13:30

• openSUSE Empowers Linux Developers With Intel NPU Access https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/12/opensuse-empowers-linux-developers-with-intel-npu-access/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 17:14:17

• "It's not user-friendly, and it won't do much that way, but it's highly extensible." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/tiny-core-linux-16-2-still-fits-a-proper-linux-desktop-into-a-23mb-download-but-it-has-grown-1mb-since-the-last-time-we-looked-at-it    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 17:14:42

• #127: I want a Steam Phone now https://overkill.wtf/127/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 17:15:07

• The start suggests there's some Microsoft spin thrown in there https://www.howtogeek.com/retro-unix-platforms-that-shaped-the-linux-we-know-today/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 17:16:19

• Xenix never had any considerable impact    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 17:16:49

• This self-hosted Linux app cut my subscription costs by $300 https://www.howtogeek.com/selfhosted-linux-app-cut-subscription-costs/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 17:17:15

• These amazing Windows apps actually started on Linux, and they’re all free https://www.howtogeek.com/great-linux-apps-for-windows/    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 17:17:48

• "The 269th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on December 7th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world." https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-december-7th-2025    

posted Monday, December 08, 2025 at 17:18:33