Roy Schestowitz

• "Didn’t people sign away their rights to sue against age discrimination as part of severance package? Is that even legally enforceable?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kca2ddbp    

posted Saturday, December 13, 2025 at 21:29:47

• "LinkedIn is a giant cesspool. It's becoming facebook Political posts, Doom and gloom posts by people who sound like they are spiraling out of control. Shady recruiters. Pre packaged corporate buzzwords and unmotivating people." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbn7ncjw    

posted Saturday, December 13, 2025 at 21:30:26

• "Sales compensation - how do the modifiers work at redhat for field sales execs? for example 200k otc with 50/50 comp plan. thanks in advance" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kc9ef59e    

posted Saturday, December 13, 2025 at 21:48:10

• "FULU's open letter to Molekule CEO regarding digital locks in air filters" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/fulu's-open-letter-to-molekule-ceo:9    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 04:55:36

• "Donald Trump has just proved that he is un-American" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/13/donald-trump-just-proved-unamerican/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 04:55:46

• "USA Wants Your Social Media History If You Visit" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/11/092209    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 04:55:56

• "Alarming figures show the number of asylum seekers falsely claiming to be children has quadrupled in the past decade | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15374995/asylum-seekers-falsely-claiming-children-quadrupled-past-decade.html    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 04:56:07

• "Dick Van Dyke Turns 100 Years Old: 'It's Not Enough'" https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/dick-van-dyke-100-birthday-1235483675/ "Dick Van Dyke prepares to turn 100: 'I'm so lucky'" https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/dick-van-dyke-prepares-turn-100-im-lucky/story?id=128322788    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 04:56:22

• "'Re: Hardware choice for small form factor, 24/7 with no access' - MARC" https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=176567904210425&w=2    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 04:56:37

• "Venezuela oil tanker seized: Trump’s move spotlights the shadow fleet." https://www.vox.com/politics/472207/venezuela-oil-tanker-seized-trump-ukraine-shadow-fleet    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 04:56:49

• "The Measles Outbreak In South Carolina Is Growing" https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/the-measles-outbreak-in-south-carolina-is-growing/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 04:56:58

• "Trump’s Pressure on Ukraine" https://www.theatlantic.com/national/2025/12/trump-ukraine-washington-week/685248/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 04:57:09

• windows tco https://yle.fi/a/74-20199587 https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/GAFAM_is_a_Financial_Problem_and_Sovereignty_Risk_a_Policy_Leve.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 04:57:31

• The audiobook disappearance revisited | "Lydbok-forsvinninga revisited – Biblioteket tar saka #librarycase" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://bibliotekettarsaka.com/2025/12/12/lydbok-forsvinninga-revisited/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 04:58:19

• "A new academic study counterintuitively concludes that online piracy can boost revenue for some films." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/online-piracy-can-boost-box-office-revenue-study-suggests/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:00:22

• "The transaction warrants rigorous antitrust review under all applicable antitrust merger and monopolization laws" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/12/12/2025/opposition-to-netflix-paramount-deal-grows-in-washington | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:00:41

• "The responsibility lies with policymakers who allowed these monopolies" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/11/cory-doctorow-explains-how-to-rescue-the-internet-from-enshittification-on-the-daily-show.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:01:10

• "There's a difference between heroes ... and systems that forget people are human" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/frank-ray-brother-in-law-ice-detainment-1235483090/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:01:32

• "Before I continue, it might be worth explaining a bit about what I do in my day-to-day role to provide context about why this all came about." ☛ https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/13/ | Source: Manuel Matuzović    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:02:01

• "And the main assistive technologies are in different stages, as we will see." ☛ https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/12/ | Source: Manuel Matuzović    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:02:23

• "U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, sponsored the legislation in the House, where it passed in January." ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/12/12/repub/wounded-knee-massacre-site-protection-bill-passes-congress/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:02:43

• "building tools to track enforcement and collaborating on information." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/pins-on-map-how-chicago-students-are-tracking-immigration-raids-9805235#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:03:20

• "company did not immediately respond to a request for comment" ☛ https://gregoryhammond.ca/blog/slow-journalism/ | Source: Gregory Hammond    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:04:08

• "I figured most journalists would not disclose their sources." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/sean-diddy-combs-50-cent-film-journalist-1235482784/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:04:23

• "She told me that I was a bigot and that everyone deserved to know my hateful views on trans people." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/13/i-dared-to-question-gender-theory-at-cambridge-students/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:05:45

• "Human rights experts called Gui’s detention “arbitrary” in an opinion adopted by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) dated October and made public on Wednesday." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/14/china-defends-jailing-chinese-swedish-bookseller-gui-minhai-after-un-group-urges-release/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:06:31

• "According to the Narges Mohammadi Foundation, the arrest took place on December 11, during an event marking the seventh day after the death of Khosrow Alikordi, a prominent lawyer and human rights advocate." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-nobel-prize-laureate-narges-mohammadi-detainment/33621765.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:06:45

• "On December 1st 2025, Republican Senator Bernie Moreno of Ohio introduced the "Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025” to the US Senate." ☛ https://www.thelocal.se/20251213/i-feel-alienated-american-dual-nationals-in-europe-ready-to-renounce-citizenship | Source: The Local SE    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:07:58

• "agreed Friday to impose a three-euro duty on all small parcels imported into the bloc starting July 1, 2026" ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/13/eu-agrees-three-euro-small-parcel-tax-to-tackle-china-flood/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:08:19

• "including protest leader Maria Kalesnikava, Nobel Peace Prize-winning rights activist Ales Bialiatski" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/13/belarus-frees-protest-leader-nobel-laureate-in-deal-with-us-a91435 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:08:33

• "In return, the United States agreed to lift sanctions on Belarusian potash." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/belarus-frees-prisoners-9.7014930 | Source: CBC    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:08:56

• "including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-12-13/nobel-peace-prize-laureate-and-others-who-took-on-belarus-president-are-among-the-freed-prisoners | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:09:10

• "A close ally of Russia, Minsk has faced Western isolation and sanctions for years." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/belarus-releases-nobel-prize-laureate-bialiatski-in-exchange-for-us-sanctions-relief/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:09:32

• "What does all this mean?" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/12/why-disney-just-put-1-billion-into-openai/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:10:04

• "copyright infringement on a “massive scale” using AI" ☛ https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/disney-google-ai-copyright-infringement-cease-and-desist-letter-1236606429/ | Source: Variety    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:10:54

• "About two weeks ago I entered a discussion with the docs.rs team about, basically, why we have to look at this: [...]" ☛ https://fasterthanli.me/articles/my-gift-to-the-rust-docs-team | Source: Amos Wenger    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:11:13

• "Meanwhile, the Debian project has, at last, enabled Rust in its kernel builds; that will show up in the upcoming "forky" release." ☛ https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1050174/63aa7da43214c3ce/ | Source: LWN    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:11:22

• "I'm not trying to say that new technologies never raise gnarly new legal questions" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/13/uncle-sucker/#willing-marks | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:12:00

• "I say this because, according to the latest data, KDE has surpassed its 2025 fundraising goal by a wide margin, reaching €276K—an impressive 276% of the original €100K target." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-surpasses-2025-fundraiser-goal-with-record-community-support/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:12:37

• "Nagaraju said that new government schemes driven through digital currencies can help scale this programme." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/govt-eyes-big-push-to-digital-currency-programme-says-official/articleshow/125937071.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:12:48

• "After decades of neglect, the government has announced a 100-billion-euro investment in rail infrastructure." ☛ https://text.npr.org/g-s1-100794 | Source: NPR    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:13:23

• "The promotional video for this Superpower generator promises “42 megawatts of clean electricity”." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/boom-jet-generator/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:13:39

• "A destructive storm in 2020 prematurely shut down Iowa’s only nuclear plant." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/google-data-centers-will-bring-nuclear-power-back-to-tornado-country/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:13:54

• "shady online [cryptocurrency] casinos, lured there by a sleazy web of streamers and celebrities who are paid to essentially be casino recruiters." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/teens-betting-crypto-casino | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:14:09

• Overpopulation ☛ https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-12-13/colorado-river-water-prices | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:14:32

• "The move removes a major hurdle to using the roughly 210 billion euros in Russian sovereign assets immobilized in Europe" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/12/eu-agrees-to-indefinite-freeze-of-russian-central-bank-assets-a91431 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:15:01

• "fake electors" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics2025/1213/wisconsin-trump-fake-electors-trial | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:15:14

• "every voracious tech company" ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-builds-it-tear-it-down | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:15:34

• "Countering hybrid threats" ☛ https://www.nato.int/en/what-we-do/deterrence-and-defence/countering-hybrid-threats | Source: NATO    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:15:49

• "Russia is conducting an escalating and violent campaign of sabotage and subversion against European and U.S. targets in Europe" ☛ https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-shadow-war-against-west | Source: CSIS    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:16:03

• "The identity of every single domestic air traveler has been sent to ICE since March of this year: [...]" ☛ https://werd.io/t-s-a-is-providing-air-passenger-data-to-immigration-agents-for-deportation-effort/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:16:53

• "The Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) is coming to California." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/catalog-retail-after-drop/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:17:07

• "if I’m going to go through that, I may as well head back to Vietnam instead. I know right, it’s a hard life, but someone has to travel it!" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/social-media-history-to-enter-the-us/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:17:29

• "Under the proposed new rules, the collection of social media data would become a "mandatory" part of ESTA applications." ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/us-to-require-could-ask-foreign-tourists-to-submit-five-years-of-social-media-history/9clb4p6ym | Source: SBS    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:17:40

• "This is a flagrant violation of rights and incompatible with a free society" ☛ https://revealnews.org/article/how-a-us-citizen-was-scanned-with-ices-facial-recognition-tech/ | Source: The Center for Investigative Reporting    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:17:54

• "Nine News Queensland reported she had jumped the fence to take a photo when she slipped." ☛ https://www.theage.com.au/national/queensland/girl-dies-after-falling-off-cliff-while-trying-to-take-a-photo-20251214-p5nnj0.html | Source: The Age AU    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:18:23

• "If AI agents become the default gatekeepers, the question for BA is no longer just how to appeal to customers, but how to ensure the airline remains legible, relevant, and trusted by software acting in their stead." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/13/british_airways_fears_a_future/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:18:52

• "many business leaders were unconvinced that AI is worth the expense, while another report claimed that forecasts of future demand are based on little more than guesswork." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/12/ai_datacenter_investments_goldman/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:19:16

• "Whether intentionally or not, the cover highlights many of the reasons AI has become a polarizing political issue." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-ai-regulation/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:19:36

• "If you hunt down an archived version of it, you will instantly recognize the McDonald’s ad as unadulterated AI slop." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ai-mcdonalds-disney-slop/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:19:51

• "The letter, signed by 280 state lawmakers from across the country, shows that state legislators from both parties want to retain their ability to craft their own AI legislation, said South Dakota Democratic state Sen. Liz Larson, who co-wrote the letter." ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/12/12/repub/states-will-keep-pushing-ai-laws-despite-trumps-efforts-to-stop-them/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:20:09

• "Here’s how Apple “Permanently” locked my Apple ID." ☛ https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/ | Source: Paris Buttfield-Addison    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:20:31

• "The secrets impact a little over 100 organizations, among them are a Fortune 500 company and a major national bank." ☛ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-10-000-docker-hub-images-found-leaking-credentials-auth-keys/ | Source: Bleeping Computer    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:20:45

• "It essentially takes advantage of the fact that when RasMan is not running, any process can impersonate RasMan and execute code on an RPC endpoint - a condition the exploit depends on." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/12/microsoft_windows_rasman_dos_0day/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:21:00

• "In the UK, confectionery can only lawfully be described as milk chocolate if it contains a minimum of 20% cocoa solids and 20% milk solids." ☛ https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/toffee-crisp-and-blue-riband-are-no-longer-chocolate/712922.article |    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:21:16

• "From that perspective, why even bother getting angry?" ☛ https://lmnt.me/blog/a-matter-of-perspective.html | Source: Louie Mantia    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:21:29

• "sales of antibiotics for use in livestock surged by an alarming 15.8 percent in 2024 from the previous year." ☛ https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/472014/meat-dairy-antibiotic-resistance-fda | Source: Vox    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:21:44

• "Now, I am no connoisseur of mechanical keyboards, but I find the Air60 V2 to be delightful to type on." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/843455/mechanical-keyboard-nyphy-favorite | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:22:05

• "I take comfort in feeling myself settle. I can feel the release of strain from holding up uncertainty." ☛ https://json.blog/2025/12/13/settled.html | Source: Jason Becker    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:22:25

• "The harvest seasons, when they returned, drew on seeds I hadn't remembered planting." ☛ https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-harvest-will-come/ | Source: Westenberg    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:22:35

• "Because the dataset included 38 million obituaries, the analysis ran on a supercomputer." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-analyzed-the-obituaries-of-38-million-americans-heres-what-they-found | Source: Science Alert    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:22:49

• "Today, I want to write about one such technique, an alternative to Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs)." ☛ https://burakemir.ch/post/indexed-rpn/ |    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:23:12

• "What biological functions are driving the differences in gene co-expression?" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/functional-analysis-of-networks-with-freecount/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:23:24

• "they have pushed quantum correlations (the link between quantum objects or systems) beyond what was long considered an unbreakable bound." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/science/qubits-break-long-held-quantum-limit | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:23:42

• "I’ve never really thought about it before this morning, thinking I don’t have an online brand per se, but the truth is, when I looked closer, yes, I do." ☛ https://alexwolfe.ca/my-online-brand/ | Source: Alexandra Wolfe    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:24:01

• "I’m old enough now that I’ve decided to put my foot down on a few things, even if I’m “supposed” to otherwise enjoy them." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/things-ive-decided-to-live-without/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:24:12

• "According to Barker, VistaVision was part of the widescreen craze of the 1950s. That movement started with Cinerama" ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5601901 | Source: NPR    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:27:28

• "Typically, you don’t have to build all the plumbing by hand" ☛ https://rednafi.com/system/tap-compare-testing/ | Source: Redowan Delowar    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:28:11

• [Old] "Until recently, the data structures over which you could iterate via a for-range loop were limited to arrays" ☛ https://jub0bs.com/posts/2025-05-29-pure-vs-impure-iterators-in-go/ |    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:28:19

• "A common use of ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) curves in data science is to evaluate performance of binary classifiers." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/smoothed-roc-curves-calculus-and-curvature/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:32:19

• "Santa was playing and losing yet another game of Yahtzee with Mrs. Claus and the elves when a thought occurred to him" ☛ https://raku-advent.blog/2025/12/12/day-12-mathematicians-yahtzee/ | Source: Rakulang    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:32:57

• "Day 1, Vasco and the team listed everything the system needed to do. Then they broke it down: [...]" ☛ https://perladvent.org/2025/2025-12-13.html | Source: Perl    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:33:11

• "I think there are many." ☛ https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/97426.html | Source: Liam Proven    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:33:56

• "I guess my time has come. I just wrote one, mostly over a weekend: [...]" ☛ https://vitaut.net/posts/2025/faster-dtoa/ |    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:34:04

• "A practical way to assess platform value is to test how well it can support three essential outcomes: [...]" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/three-core-principles-for-sustainable-platform-design/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:34:40

• "I’m solving the Advent of Code 2025 in Janet. After doing the last five years in Haskell, I wanted to learn a new language this year." ☛ https://abhinavsarkar.net/notes/2025-aoc-2/?mtm_campaign=feed | Source: Abhinav Sarkar    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:34:51

• "At the time, I wrote a script to fix the FIT files and consolidate the records, and I’ve been using it since." ☛ https://hacdias.com/2025/12/13/processing-bosch-ebike-flow-fit-files/ | Source: Henrique Dias    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:35:03

• "The only way we can ignore them as implementation details is to let others" ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/im-a-tool-builder-at-heart/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:35:25

• "It is one of the few tech traditions I never get bored of, even after doing it for a long time" ☛ https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleamaoc2025/ | Source: Tymscar    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:35:35

• "Advent of Code has become a yearly thing for me." ☛ https://yordi.me/advent-of-code-2025-waking-up-with-puzzles/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:35:45

• "Today we’re going to look at what code gets generated for the ARM processor. Let’s see how our examples come out: [...]" ☛ https://xania.org/202512/05-barrel-shifting-with-arm |    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:35:53

• "I occasionally give presentations to undergraduates, and one of my favourites is taking the students on a journey of optimising a “binary to decimal” routine" ☛ https://xania.org/202512/07-division-again |    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:36:04

• "Yesterday we saw how the compiler canonicalises loops so it (usually) doesn’t matter how you write them, they’ll come out the same." ☛ https://xania.org/202512/09-induction-variables |    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:36:14

• "Let’s take a look at what happens if we use a dynamically-sized span - we’d expect it to look very similar to the std::vector version: [...]" ☛ https://xania.org/202512/10-loop-unrolling |    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:36:24

• "Actually, this “population count” operation can be pretty useful in some cases like data compression algorithms, cryptography, chess, error correction, and sparse matrix representations." ☛ https://xania.org/202512/11-pop-goes-the-weasel-er-count |    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:36:35

• "Ventoy, the popular multi-boot utility for creating bootable USB drives from ISO files, has just released a brand-new version, 1.1.09, with the most notable addition being experimental support for the Btrfs file system. However, at this stage, the implementation is deliberately limited." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/ventoy-1-1-09-released-with-experimental-btrfs-support/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:40:22

• "This additional check prevents situations where a connection profile references credentials that the intended user cannot read" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/networkmanager-1-54-3-improves-certificate-access-checks/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:40:35

• "I have an NVMe base for my Raspberry Pi 5 and it's been running for a little over a year without any issues." ☛ https://chuck.is/rpi5nvme/ | Source: Chuck Carroll    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:43:49

• "Now the trade off of course for the ESP32 is the higher power draw." ☛ https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/review-of-hackerbox-0121-mcu-lab-2025/ | Source: Matthew Brunelle    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:44:05

• "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/your-monitors-usb-ports-are-hiding-secret-powers.html | Source: PC World    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:44:18

• "All supported desktop environments have been updated. GNOME moves to version 49, bringing refreshed Kali theming and smoother visuals. Plus, the newer Showtime application has replaced the Totem video player, and the application grid now mirrors the menu structure, grouping Kali tools into folders." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kali-linux-2025-4-released-with-gnome-49-kde-plasma-6-5/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:45:58

• "GNOME has updated its Extensions Review Guidelines to address a growing problem tied to AI-generated code submissions." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/gnome-will-reject-shell-extensions-with-ai-generated-code/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:46:25

• "Almost a month after the previous 6.20 release, KDE announced the launch of Frameworks 6.21, expanding its collection of add-on libraries to Qt and enhancing functionality available to developers across various platforms." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-frameworks-6-21-is-out-with-extensive-bug-fixes/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:47:58

• "One of the most visible new changes in Plasma 6.6 will be vastly improved screen mirroring support in the Wayland session. According to KDE developers, mirroring now works reliably and smoothly, addressing long-standing limitations that previously made the feature inconsistent or difficult to use." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-6-will-enhance-display-handling-and-scaling-on-wayland/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:48:21

• "Systems built around identity-based access control tend to rely on ambient authority: policy is centralized and errors in the policy configuration or bugs in the policy engine can allow attackers to make full use of that ambient authority." ☛ https://ariadne.space/2025/12/12/rethinking-sudo-with-object-capabilities.html | Source: Ariadne Conill    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:49:14

• "But if you wanted to load CSS fast, all of the sudden you run into trouble…" ☛ https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/how-to-load-css-fast/ | Source: Web Performance Calendar    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:49:24

• "The venerable 'logger' command has been around so long it's part of the Single Unix Specification (really, logger — log messages)." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/LoggerItsAnnoyances | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:49:34

• "The HTML De-Crapulator can provide many ways to simplify markup, such as: [...]" ☛ https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/13/ | Source: Markup from Hell    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:49:46

• "Have you heard of React Server Components? Even if you don’t work with React daily, you probably have." ☛ https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/intro-to-performance-of-react-server-components/ | Source: Web Performance Calendar    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:50:43

• "Each of these provide different levels or separation and features, with PBR being the oldest one and VRFs the most recent addition (starting with kernel 4.3)." ☛ https://blog.sdn.clinic/2025/01/linux-routing-fundamentals/ |    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 05:51:03

• "The platform is based on the NVIDIA Jetson T5000 module, which is specified to deliver up to 2070 TFLOPS of AI performance using FP4 sparse precision." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/jetson-thor-industrial-pc-pairs-25gbe-networking-with-optional-gmsl2-camera-support/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 06:10:48

• "The platform is built around a tri-core processing architecture." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/healthypi-6-provides-open-source-biosignal-acquisition-for-research-and-education/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 06:11:01

• "Measuring about 63 × 109 × 22 mm, the T-Display P4 is built around the ESP32-P4, which combines a dual-core RISC-V CPU running at up to 360–400 MHz with an additional low-power RISC-V core operating at 40 MHz." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/risc-v-based-esp32-p4-handheld-integrates-amoled-display-and-lora/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 06:12:36

• Conill: Rethinking sudo with object capabilities ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1050370/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 06:47:02

• day 348 of 2025    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:15:52

• Kevin Fenzi: infra weekly recap: mid december 2025 ☞ https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2025/12/13/infra-weekly-recap-mid-december-2025/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:16:30

• Google News is Surveillance Giant Google Noise ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Google_News_is_Google_Noise.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:18:03

• UN expert raises concerns over Imran Khan’s inhumane conditions of confinement in Pakistan ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/un-expert-raises-concerns-of-imran-khans-inhumane-conditions-of-confinement-in-pakistan/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:18:29

• East Java boarding school head gets 20 years’ jail, chemical castration for sexual abuse ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/east-java-boarding-school-head-gets-20-years-chemical-castration-for-sexual-abuse    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:19:55

• "Smart Glasses OS With Cross-Compat" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/13/mentra-brings-open-smart-glasses-os-with-cross-compat/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:21:05

• IBM: We Pay You to be Obedient or Deny You What You're Entitled to If You Don't Act Obediently (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/IBM_We_Pay_You_to_be_Obedient_or_Deny_You_What_You_re_Entitled_.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:21:31

• It Seems Like I.C.B.M. is Firing 'Everybody' (Anywhere, Any Age, No Matter What Team) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/It_Seems_Like_IBM_is_Firing_Everybody_Anywhere_Any_Age_No_Matte.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:30:18

• Latest Stallman Talk (Event in Argentina) Published (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Latest_Stallman_Talk_Event_in_Argentina_Published.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:30:27

• Dealing With "Tech Cults" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Dealing_With_Tech_Cults.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:30:46

• Israel Says It Killed Senior Hamas Commander, Despite Cease-Fire ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-commander-gaza-strike.html    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:31:07

• Myanmar junta denies killing civilians in hospital strike ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmar-junta-denies-killing-civilians-in-hospital-strike    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:31:16

• Israel says it killed top Hamas weapon commander in Gaza strike ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20251213-israel-says-it-killed-top-hamas-weapon-commander-in-gaza-strike    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:31:57

• Six UN peacekeepers killed in drone attack in Sudan’s South Kordofan ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/afrique/20251213-six-un-peacekeepers-killed-in-drone-attack-in-sudan-s-south-kordofan    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:32:15

• Scientists Reveal Robot Small Enough to Travel Through Human Body ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/robot-small-travel-human-body    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:33:46

• GAFAM is a Financial Problem and Sovereignty Risk, a Policy-Level (National Level) Boycott is Needed ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/GAFAM_is_a_Financial_Problem_and_Sovereignty_Risk_a_Policy_Leve.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:34:25

• 2026 Could Very Well be Last Year of XBox, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Dropped the Ball ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/2026_Could_Very_Well_be_Last_Year_of_XBox_Microsoft_Dropped_the.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:34:33

• EPO People Power - Part XI - The Media in Europe is Ill and Complicit in Ills ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/EPO_People_Power_Part_XI_The_Media_in_Europe_is_Ill_and_Complic.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:34:43

• Scientists Investigate What Killed Off Hobbit-Like Species ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/drought-extinct-hobbit-species    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:39:40

• MAHA Moms Are Angry at the E.P.A. Lee Zeldin Is Trying to Win Them Back. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/climate/maha-moms-epa-lee-zeldin.html    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:39:56

• Bugs Fed Microplastics Grow to Ludicrous Size ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/crickets-microplastics-grow-size    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:40:31

• Scientists Discover Strong Upside for Men Getting Castrated ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/men-lifespan-castration    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:41:13

• Illinois governor signs law legalizing medical aid in dying ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/illinois-governor-signs-law-legalizing-medical-aid-in-dying-effective-2026/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:41:26

• Korea’s English Exam Was So Hard It Prompted an Apology. How Would You Do? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/world/asia/korea-english-exam-how-would-you-do.html    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:41:46

• Ex-South Korea leader Choi Sang-mok indicted in connection with martial law declaration ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/indictment-of-former-south-korea-leader-choi-sang-mok-in-connection-with-martial-law/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:42:04

• Latest Thai-Cambodian clashes expose limits of ASEAN’s conflict management tools ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/latest-thai-cambodian-clashes-expose-limits-of-aseans-conflict-management-tools    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:42:13

• Malaysia urges Thailand and Cambodia to cease military action along border ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-urges-thailand-cambodia-to-cease-military-action-along-border    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:42:33

• US to return 1MDB-linked artwork worth $38.7m to Malaysia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/us-to-return-1mdb-linked-artwork-worth-38-8m-to-malaysia    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:42:50

• New search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 driven by advanced tech: Experts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/new-search-for-missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-driven-by-advanced-tech-experts    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:43:05

• ‘Bullets were flying over my roof’: Mothers in Cambodia flee to shelters to protect their children ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/bullets-were-flying-over-my-roof-mothers-in-cambodia-flee-to-shelters-to-protect-their-kids    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:43:25

• Philippines says fishermen hurt and boats damaged by China in South China Sea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-says-fishermen-hurt-boats-damaged-by-china-in-south-china-sea    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:43:35

• Verilog ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/13/pjon-open-single-wire-bus-protocol-goes-verilog/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:44:18

• pg_ai_query v0.1.0 — First stable release with multi-model Hey Hi (AI) for PostgreSQL ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pg_ai_query-v010-first-stable-release-with-multi-model-ai-for-postgresql-3191/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:45:01

• The Young Conservatives Fixated on H-1B Visas ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/style/h1b-visa-young-conservatives-maga.html    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:47:47

• This Week in Science: Cats Meow More at Men, Depression Relief, And More! ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-week-in-science-cats-meow-more-at-men-depression-relief-and-more    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:48:18

• The Roots of Dementia Trace Back All The Way to Childhood, Experts Find ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-roots-of-dementia-trace-back-all-the-way-to-childhood-experts-find    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:48:27

• Short Videos Could Have an Insidious Effect on Children's Brains ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/short-videos-could-have-an-insidious-effect-on-childrens-brains    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:48:56

• This Insanely Long Ribbon Worm Turns Out to Be The Oldest on Record ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-insanely-long-ribbon-worm-turns-out-to-be-the-oldest-on-record    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:49:07

• Meet The Latest Deep-Sea Horror: Meat-Eating 'Death-Ball' Sponges ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/meet-the-latest-deep-sea-horror-meat-eating-death-ball-sponges    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:49:15

• As inflation weighs on voters, Convicted Felon is paying a high price, too ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/1213/affordability-trump-prices-inflation    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:49:41

• Caught in the “Ceasefire” ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/caught-in-the-c-span-ceasefire    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:50:40

• Anthropic’s Chief Scientist Says We’re Rapidly Approaching the Moment That Could Doom Us All ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-ai-scientist-doom    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:08:51

• People Are Already Creating Ghoulishly Horrifying Sora Disney Videos ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/horrifying-sora-videos-disney-characters    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:09:10

• Sora just loses a LOT of moment. It'll die like Siri and Microsoft Cortana.    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:09:49

• [LOT of money]    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:10:13

• California sues Convicted Felon administration over $100,000 H-1B visa fee ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251213-california-sues-trump-administration-over-100-000-h-1b-visa-fee    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:12:14

• Mexico’s week in review: Mexico leans into protectionism as the year draws to a close ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-week-in-review-protectionism-water-virgin-guadalupe/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:12:43

• Chile Poised for Right-Wing Victory as Crime Fears Sweep Latin America ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/world/americas/chile-election-latin-america-crime.html    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:13:37

• Several Malaysian politicians involved in South Korean cult, says minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/several-malaysian-politicians-involved-in-south-korean-cult-says-minister    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:13:58

• KDE Gear 25.12 with improved Wayland window activation for Kate & Konsole ☞ https://cullmann.dev/posts/kde-gear-25.12-with-improved-for-wayland-window-activation-for-kate-konsole/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:15:18

• "A significant fraction of people can’t handle lactose, like [HGModernism]. Rather than accept a cruel, ice cream free existence, she decided to do something you really shouldn’t try: biohacking her way to lactose tolerance." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/13/biohack-your-way-to-lactose-tolerance-through-suffering/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:18:14

• "Cats can be wonderful companions, but they can also be aloof and boring to hang out with." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/13/get-statistical-about-your-pet-with-this-cat-tracking-dashboard/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:18:28

• "keep you  ̶2̶0̶%̶ ̶c̶o̶o̶l̶e̶r̶  25% warmer on the same fuel burn" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/13/condensing-diesel-heater-hack-is-dripping-with-efficiency/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:19:01

• "Most of us are familiar with vinyl LPs, and even with the way in which they are made by stamping a hot puck of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) into a record." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/13/watch-a-recording-lathe-from-1958-cut-a-lacquer-master-record/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:19:47

• Sebastian Wick: Flatpak Pre-Installation Approaches ☞ https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/flatpak-pre-installation/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:21:05

• Zubeen Garg’s death: S’pore festival organiser among 4 charged with murder by Indian investigators ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/zubeen-garg-death-spore-festival-organiser-among-4-charged-with-murder-by-indian-investigators    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:21:50

• Explainer: Hong Kong’s national security crackdown – month 65 ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/14/explainer-hong-kongs-national-security-crackdown-month-65/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:23:34

• ClickFix Attacks Still Using the Finger, (Sat, Dec 13th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32566    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:26:04

• 3 Americans Killed in ISIS Attack in Syria, Convicted Felon Says, Vowing to Retaliate ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/world/middleeast/us-forces-attacked-syria.html    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:27:19

• Philippine Vice-President Duterte faces graft complaint ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippine-vice-president-duterte-faces-fresh-graft-complaint    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:27:50

• Rehgulasch mit Klößen ☞ https://vizZzion.org/blog/2025/12/rehgulasch-mit-klosen/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:28:11

• A Swedish furniture store in Sydney at Xmas ☞ https://rubenerd.com/a-swedish-furniture-store-at-xmas/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:31:14

• New Rule Forbids GNOME Shell Extensions Made Using Hey Hi (AI) Generated Code ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Extensions-Block-AI    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:31:24

• Vietnam blog post update ☞ https://rubenerd.com/vietnam-blog-post-update/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:32:18

• The Second Snapshot Release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is Available ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/12/the-second-snapshot-release-of-ubuntu-26-04-lts-is-available/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:33:25

• UP Xtreme ARL Hey Hi (AI) Dev Kit review – Benchmarks and Hey Hi (AI) workloads on an defective chip maker Intel Core Ultra 5 225H Arrow Lake SBC ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/14/up-xtreme-arl-ai-dev-kit-review-benchmarks-and-ai-workloads-on-an-intel-core-ultra-5-225h-arrow-lake-sbc/ "pre-installed Ubuntu 24.04 Pro operating system to report system information"    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:34:21

• Canonical and Ubuntu: Working for Microsoft, Promoting Proprietary Surveillance (Dis)Services ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Canonical_and_Ubuntu_Working_for_Microsoft_Promoting_Proprietar.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:34:29

• lukaj – interactive diff tool for SVG images ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lukaj-interactive-diff-tool-svg-images/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:35:04

• Muzi Launches Modular BASE Board System for Meshtastic Mesh Networking ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/muzi-unveils-launches-modular-base-board-system-for-meshtastic-mesh-networking/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:36:23

• James Morris: Ultraviolet GNU/Linux Talk at GNU/Linux Plumbers Conf 2025 ☞ http://blog.namei.org/2025/12/14/ultraviolet-linux-talk-at-linux-plumbers-conf-2025/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:36:56

• SystemRescue 12.03 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/systemrescue    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:38:05

• Puppy 11.2 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/puppy    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:38:15

• TrixiePup64 11.1.1 (Development discontinued) https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=14554    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:39:59

• Synex 13-u3 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/synex    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:42:49

• K8s Deployments vs StatefulSets vs DaemonSets Explained ☞ https://www.linuxtechi.com/k8s-deployments-vs-statefulsets-vs-daemonsets-explained/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:43:18

• LibrePGP – updated specification of the OpenPGP encryption standard ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/librepgp-specification-openpgp-encryption/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:47:57

• 6 Best Free and Open Source Type 1 Hypervisors ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hypervisors/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:48:06

• hgrep – grep with human-friendly search output ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hgrep-grep-human-friendly-search-output/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:48:41

• 6 Best Free and Open Source Email Encryption Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/emailencryption/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:48:53

• ChartDB – web-based database diagramming editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/chartdb-web-based-database-diagramming-editor/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:49:51

• pygitzen – Python-native terminal-based Git client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pygitzen-python-native-terminal-based-git-client/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:50:53

• g1c – Surveillance Giant Google Cloud Instances Terminal UI Manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/g1c-google-cloud-instances-terminal-ui-manager/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:52:06

• snipt – text snippet expansion tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/snipt-text-snippet-expansion-tool/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:52:47

• 10 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Family History Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/familyhistory/   &nbZeroFS – filesystem that makes S3 your primary storage ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/zerofs-filesystem-that-makes-s3-your-primary-storage/ sp;

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:55:46

• dnspyre – command-line DNS benchmark tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dnspyre-command-line-dns-benchmark-tool/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 11:55:58

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:00:14

• aqua – declarative CLI version manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/aqua-declarative-cli-version-manager/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:00:25

• rework – plugin framework for CSS preprocessing ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rework-plugin-framework-css-preprocessing/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:00:37

• CIX releases P1 CPU TRM and developer guides for GPU, Hey Hi (AI) accelerator, OS and firmware/BIOS ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/13/cix-releases-p1-cpu-trm-and-developer-guides-for-gpu-ai-accelerator-os-and-firmware-bios/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:02:10

• Fix Screen Brightness in EasySetup ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202512/fix-screen-brightness-in-easysetup.html    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:03:05

• Un-debunking the GAMLSS myth ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/un-debunking-the-gamlss-myth/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:04:16

• YouTube’s Hey Hi (AI) is Breaking the Creator Ecosystem ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/youtubes-ai-mod-enshittification/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:04:54

• OpenMediaVault 8.0-12 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/openmediavault    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:05:26

• RapidRAW Basics – How to cull your photographs ☞ https://www.reallinuxuser.com/rapidraw-basics-how-to-cull-your-photographs/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:06:15

• How To Install Apache Kafka on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-apache-kafka-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:08:19

• Belarus Frees Prominent Political Prisoners as U.S. Lifts Some Trade Sanctions ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/world/europe/belarus-frees-prisoners-trade-sanctions.html    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:08:46

• Belarus frees opposition figure Kolesnikova, Nobel laureate Bialiatski in US-brokered deal ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251213-belarusian-leader-pardons-123-prisoners-including-prominent-opposition-figures    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:09:06

• Belarus frees 123 prisoners in exchange for lifting of US sanctions ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251213-belarus-frees-123-prisoners-in-exchange-for-lifting-of-us-sanctions    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:09:20

• AfD Pushes to Publish German Information That Officials Say May Help Russia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/world/europe/germany-far-right-afd-russia-security-secrets.html    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:10:13

• Germany summons Russian ambassador over GRU-linked cyberattacks — air traffic control and elections systems targeted ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/germany-summons-russian-ambassador-over-gru-linked-cyberattacks-on-atc-and-elections    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:11:26

• Belarus Frees 123 Political Prisoners In Deal With US In Latest Bid To Mend Ties ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-prisoners-freed-us-trump/33622355.html    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:11:44

• Deliberate Lies or Glaring Distortions ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Deliberate_Lies_or_Glaring_Distortions.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:12:03

• Russian "Hybrid Attacks" Are Typically Abusive Monopolist Microsoft TCO and/or backdoored Windows TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Russian_Hybrid_Attacks_Are_Typically_Microsoft_TCO_and_or_Windo.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:12:13

• North Korean Soldiers Return From Russia’s War With Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/world/asia/north-korea-soldiers-russia-ukraine.html    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:12:43

• Russia Bombs Ukraine Port of Odesa Amid Peace Talks ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/world/europe/russia-ukraine-odesa-attack.html    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:13:06

• AMD, Intel, and TI are ‘merchants of death’ says lawyer representing Ukrainian civilians ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/amd-intel-and-ti-are-merchants-of-death-says-lawyer-representing-ukrainian-civilians-five-new-suits-complain-that-russian-drones-and-missiles-continue-to-use-high-tech-components-from-these-brands    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:13:47

• US, Ukraine To Hold High-Stakes Berlin Peace Talks After Zelenskyy's Defiant Frontline Visit ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-berlin-zelenskyy-russia-ceasefire-trump-witkoff/33622343.html    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:14:06

• Ukraine tribunal: Why Lithuania’s move may accelerate history – opinion ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2769339/ukraine-tribunal-why-lithuania-s-move-may-accelerate-history-opinion    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:14:39

• EU agrees to indefinitely freeze Russian central bank assets ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251213-eu-agrees-to-indefinitely-freeze-russian-central-bank-assets    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:15:26

• Zelensky visits troops as Ukraine claims gained ground near key city ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251213-zelensky-visits-troops-as-ukraine-claims-gained-ground-near-key-city    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:16:13

• Ukraine says it received 114 prisoners from Belarus under US-brokered deal ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251213-us-envoy-witkoff-to-meet-zelensky-european-leaders-for-ukraine-war-peace-talks-russia    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:16:23

• US federal judge orders ICE not to rearrest Kilmar Abrego Garcia ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/us-federal-judge-orders-ice-not-to-rearrest-kilmar-abrego-garcia/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:16:39

• Ivan Urgant Was Russia’s Late-Night King Until Putin’s War in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/world/europe/russia-ivan-urgant-late-night.html    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:17:34

• Six U.N. Peacekeepers Killed in Drone Strike in Sudanese Battle Zone ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/world/africa/sudan-un-peacekeepers-killed-drone-strike.html    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:18:21

• User Serviceable Parts ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/13/user-serviceable-parts/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:18:57

• The Washington Post’s Hey Hi (AI) Generated Podcasts Are Already an Error-Laden Disaster ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/washington-post-ai-podcast-disaster    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:19:32

• FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending December 12, 2025 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/12/foss-forces-top-five-articles-for-the-week-ending-december-12-2025/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:20:12

• "NTFSPlus (often stylized as NTFSPLUS) is the name of a new NTFS driver for the Linux kernel, with the goal of producing a performant, featureful, and accurate read/write driver implementation for this notoriously tricky filesystem." https://itsfoss.com/ntfsplus/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:26:07

• "Grml, a live bootable Linux distro based on Debian and designed for system administrators and users of text tools, has been updated today to version 2025.12, a release that introduces new and updated tools." https://9to5linux.com/grml-2025-12-linux-distro-is-out-based-on-debian-forky-and-linux-kernel-6-17    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:26:27

• Proprietary but 'free' https://synthanatomy.com/2025/12/nakst-integrate-virtual-analog-synthesizer-plugin-for-mac-linux-and-windows-is-now-free.html    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:27:10

• COSMIC's big release, the new Kali Linux, and more: Linux news roundup https://www.howtogeek.com/cosmics-big-release-the-new-kali-linux-and-more-linux-news-roundup/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:27:36

• I love the Linux terminal, but I still recommend the GUI https://www.makeuseof.com/i-love-the-linux-terminal-but-i-still-recommend-the-gui/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:28:04

• "This release also updates the Xfce desktop environment with support for color themes and introduces support for virtual machine guest tools." https://9to5linux.com/kali-linux-2025-4-ethical-hacking-distro-released-with-kde-plasma-6-5-gnome-49    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:28:35

• "I’m still on 8GB of RAM in 2025, and at first, it was a nightmare for all my coding projects. So, initially, I turned my terminal into a full-blown IDE just to survive since TUI apps are just lighter." https://www.makeuseof.com/i-moved-more-of-my-linux-workflow-to-the-terminal-and-now-i-    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:29:08

• "From there, I slowly started replacing more and more apps with terminal-based alternatives, not just because they are lighter, but because the workflow started feeling better to me, and I really dig the vibe of getting everything done in the terminal." https://www.makeuseof.com/i-moved-more-of-my-linux-workflow-to-the-terminal-and-now-i-cant-stop/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:29:27

• Kali Linux 2025.4 Released With 3 New Hacking Tools (Desktop Environments, Wayland & Halloween Mode) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/kali-linux-20254-released-3-new-hacking-tools-desktop-7rhue/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:29:56

• GPU Confidential Computing using Oracle Linux 9 blogs.oracle.com/linux/gpu-confidential-computing-ol9    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:31:28

• "Tails 7.3.1 has been released today as the third minor update in the Tails 7.x series of this portable Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux and designed to protect you against surveillance and censorship." https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-3-1-anonymous-linux-os-released-with-tor-browser-15-0-3-and-tor-0-4-8-21    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:31:50

• "With only options of Continue or remind me in 3 days. My question… what happens in 3 days? Does the laptop get erased and return to Linux or will there be a way to tell windows I accept responsibility for my actions." https://www.thurrott.com/forums/microsoft/windows/thread/lets-finish-setting-up-your-pc    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:33:00

• Attack in Australia. Is SLAPPMatt happy? What about his Australian lawyer? https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/10/02/if-you-glorify-violence/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 12:54:41

• politics https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-young-lawmakers-shake-up-politics/a-74987684    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 14:53:49

• pension package https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-fraught-pension-package-passes-cdu-test-vote/live-74976294    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 14:54:16

• Work-related deaths in Turkey hit record high in November, 13 child workers killed https://bianet.org/haber/work-related-deaths-in-turkey-hit-record-high-in-november-13-child-workers-killed-314208    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 14:55:23

• My first impression of Pop!_OS as someone who’s never used it https://www.howtogeek.com/i-tried-pop-os-for-a-week-heres-what-worked-for-me-and-what-didnt/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:13:19

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1504.jpg    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:16:04

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1854.jpg    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:16:12

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-12-14.gmi    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:16:39

• Über Tyrannenmord: Fünf Lektionen für Luigis Kritiker gemini://gemini.lost-frequencies.org/2025-12-14_Ueber_Tyrannenmord_Fuenf_Lektionen_fuer_Luigis_Kritiker.gmi    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:17:22

• wild boars https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/wild-boar-pest-nuisance-alberta-9.7001770    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:28:23

• UAE Ties https://truthout.org/articles/as-canadian-weapons-enter-sudan-activists-decry-canadas-deepening-uae-ties/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:29:07

• Winnipeg moves to scrap bird-friendly window bylaw developers argue is barrier to development https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/bird-friendly-bylaws-city-winnipeg-downtown-development-9.6996681    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:30:21

• debt-to-GDP fiscal anchor https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canadian-economy-resilient-trade-shock-imf-report-9.7004484    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:31:04

• "Hey everyone, we are jopejoe1 and Leona Maroni, the release managers of the newest release of NixOS." https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2025/nixos-2511/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:32:19

• MAX 12.5-20251115, Talos 1.12.0-beta1, ExTiX 25.12 and Kiro 25.12.01.01 are out    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:32:47

• Portugal updates cybercrime law to exempt security researchers https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/portugal-updates-cybercrime-law-to-exempt-security-researchers/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:42:59

• How the U.S. Security State Expanded, Even After Snowden Revelations https://scheerpost.com/2025/12/07/how-the-u-s-security-state-expanded-even-after-snowden-revelations/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:43:44

• tackle crime https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/saint-john-security-pilot-program-gardaworld-nest-yoga-police-crime-9.7004800    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:48:14

• surveillance https://www.michigandaily.com/news/public-safety/umich-launches-step-advisory-committee-amid-new-security-policy-and-campus-surveillance-concerns/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:50:19

• preloaded security app plan https://www.dw.com/en/indian-government-uninstalls-preloaded-security-app-plan/a-75000693    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:51:45

• Cybersecurity App on Smartphones = Surveillance https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2025-12-03/india-rolls-back-order-to-preinstall-cybersecurity-app-on-smartphones    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:52:31

• d77void 20251201, Dr.Parted 25.12, Arch 2025.12.01, and Oracle Linux 10.1 are out    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:53:33

• bird-flu https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bird-flu-alberta-poultry-farmers-9.7003591    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:54:29

• Surveillance? 'I hate my child' https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/cooney-hamber-trial-milton-9.7003688    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:55:27

• Syrian journalists enjoy freedom but also new risks https://cpj.org/2025/12/a-year-after-assads-fall-syrian-journalists-enjoy-freedom-but-also-new-risks/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 15:58:05

• End energy monopolies to counter rising energy costs in Michigan https://bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-end-energy-monopolies-to-counter-rising-energy-costs-in-michigan/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 16:00:37

• Slop patents https://patentdocs.org/2025/12/03/uspto-revokes-guidance-on-ai-assisted-inventorship-but-rules-remain-basically-the-same/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 16:01:35

• Formulation patents http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/formulation-patents-no-longer-eligible.html    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 16:01:56

• funded by Chinese banks https://nltimes.nl/2025/12/02/two-large-dutch-offshore-windfarms-funded-chinese-banks    

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

• Fire Reports https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-12-08/210-000-portable-power-banks-sold-on-amazon-recalled-after-fire-reports Amazon calls its products "Fire" and "Kindle"    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 16:03:49

• Cloudflare = Fragility https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/banks-shopify-zoom-hit-again-cloudflares-second-december-outage-reveals-your-internets-1761059    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 16:04:20

• Online banking fraud https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/online-banking-fraud-winnipeg-9.6995560    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 16:04:55

• deep-sea cables vulnerable to sabotage? https://www.dw.com/en/are-us-asia-deep-sea-cables-vulnerable-to-sabotage/a-74989581    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 16:10:54

• 19 nations https://www.dw.com/en/us-halts-immigration-processing-for-19-nations/a-74993456    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 22:20:50

• passes out drunk https://www.dw.com/en/rowdy-raccoon-raids-virginia-liquor-store-passes-out-drunk/a-75001336    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 22:21:46

• Hate and threats forcing women out of politics and top jobs https://www.dw.com/en/hate-and-threats-forcing-women-out-of-politics-and-top-jobs/a-74991652    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 22:23:14

• Cheeto Mussolini Appeasement Syndrome https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/02/like-south-africa-the-brics-suffer-from-trump-appeasement-syndrome/    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 22:23:56

• gender violence disaster https://www.dw.com/en/south-africa-s-gender-violence-disaster-what-s-next/a-74999037    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 22:24:27

• EU frees billions in bid to reduce China rare earth reliance https://www.dw.com/en/eu-frees-billions-in-bid-to-reduce-china-rare-earth-reliance/a-75004708    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 22:32:16

• Chile to ban smartphones in classrooms https://www.dw.com/en/chile-to-ban-smartphones-in-classrooms/a-75006068    

posted Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 22:33:16