Roy Schestowitz

• Shortest day    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 04:51:15

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-12-21.gmi    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 04:51:40

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1861.jpg    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 04:52:21

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posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 04:52:27

• "ikipedia has grown to contain millions of articles on every subject known to our species – an invaluable repository of human knowledge that I consider one of the modern wonders of the world. What made this system work was intercreativity – a group of people being creative. Wikipedia is probably the best single example of what I wanted the web to be." -Berners-Lee    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 05:20:22

• Budapest ☛ https://insighthungary.444.hu/2025/12/20/thousands-protest-in-budapest-over-child-abuse-case | Source: Insight Hungary    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 05:37:06

• "He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Fshsk8MCAf4 "“I Have Nothing to Hide” – The Dangerous Myth About Privacy" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Hcqh0ZSza50    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 05:38:16

• "Mozilla's New CEO: Firefox Will Become an “AI Browser”" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/18/133249    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 05:38:30

• "America and the World - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/america-and-the-world    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 05:38:49

• "Trump’s Cognitive Collapse | The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, December 20, 2025" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-cognitive-collapse-the-coffee    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 05:39:07

• "We the People will Prevail - Robert Reich" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/we-the-people-will-prevail    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 05:39:26

• "Steve Bannon Was Much Closer to Epstein Than You Realize" https://jacobin.com/2025/12/epstein-bannon-trump-elite-populism/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 05:39:35

• "Pentagon fails its 8th audit in a row" https://taskandpurpose.com/news/pentagon-fails-8th-audit/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 05:39:44

• "Pentagon fails financial audit for 8th year in a row" https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/12/19/pentagon-fails-financial-audit-for-8th-year-in-a-row/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 05:39:57

• "Trump Dishonors the Kennedy Center" https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/trump-dishonors-the-kennedy-center    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 05:40:07

• iophk: it's less the price and more the built-in surveillance that hinders sales https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/car-prices-too-high/685345/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 05:40:20

• "Science the s**t out of USA | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/science-st-out-usa    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 05:40:30

• "EU:s upphovsrättsdirektiv gav oss politisk censur" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/12/20/eus-upphovsrattsdirektiv-har-lett-till-politisk-censur/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 05:40:39

• iophk: the 'punishment' is two years of 'university' https://nltimes.nl/2025/12/20/netherlands-moves-criminalize-glorifying-terrorism    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 05:40:54

• "In spite of legal questions: Trump's name added to Kennedy Center facade, a day after change" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/trumps-name-added-to-kennedy-center-facade-a-day-after-change-410148547    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 05:41:50

• anti-fascist https://www.independent.co.uk/news/japanese-united-states-chicago-oregon-hawaii-b2888436.html    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 05:42:02

• "Microsoft cut roughly 7,000" - NOPE!! 30,000+ this year alone!! https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjmz8bs7wl    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 06:06:35

• But the media no longer cares about fact checking    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 06:06:50

• Because who cares about facts when the media is run for and by oligarchs...    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 06:07:14

• Just say HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI ... the media will call you a "visionary"    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 06:07:56

• LOL!!!! 'AI-Native'!!! Airline. https://www.slashgear.com/2053339/riyadh-air-ai-native-airline/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 06:08:37

• "While little is known about how Google processes these requests, it’s safe to say that these takedowns are not all reviewed manually." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/a-dmca-bot-war-google-search-processed-5-billion-takedown-requests-in-2025/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 06:44:21

• "Apparently, if your HTML is less than 7k, that obviously can’t be a real website, let alone something as ridiculously small as 3k." ☛ https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/help-my-website-is-too-small/ | Source: Luke Plant    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:02:06

• "Do you believe that these guys, these multibillionaires, are staying up nights worrying about what AI and robotics will do for the working families of our country, and the world?" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/bernie-sanders-ai-data-centers | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:02:45

• "Sami Ben Gharbia is a Tunisian human rights campaigner, blogger, writer and freedom of expression advocate." ☛ https://www.eff.org/pages/speaking-freely-sami-ben-gharbia | Source: EFF    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:03:03

• "Over the summer, Lee attempted to add a mandate for the sale of some public lands, excluding national parks and national monuments, to Republicans’ megabill." ☛ https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/12/19/mike-lee-backs-off-change-sell-national-parks/ | Source: Utah News Dispatch    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:03:13

• "A number of Afghan cultural figures and filmmakers consider the destruction of the historic Ariana Cinema by the Taliban government to be an erasure of Afghanistan’s cultural heritage." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/taliban-demolish-famous-kabul-cinema/33627936.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:04:00

• "The book, co-edited by digital rights activist and [Internet] shutdown specialist Felicia Anthonio and digital researcher Tony Roberts" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/digital-authoritarianism-grows-as-african-states-normalise-internet-blackouts/275786/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:04:08

• "clearly contradict national and moral values, exploit women, and violate public morality" ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-bans-hbo-max-series-about-sex-worker-314730 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:04:22

• "I began writing this post after noticing unusual behavior when another one of my articles was shared on Hacker News." ☛ https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-mysterious-forces-steering-views-on-hacker-news/ | Source: マリウス    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:06:02

• "That creates a really interesting opportunity: Airbus is doubtless not the only large European company with similar needs." ☛ https://werd.io/airbus-to-migrate-critical-apps-to-a-sovereign-euro-cloud/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:06:27

• "The pattern comes from blocks in Rust being valid expressions. For example, this code: [...]" ☛ https://notgull.net/block-pattern/ | Source: John Nunley    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:06:43

• "Reaching this goal will ensure the continued health of the projects we support, will enable us to help them do more" ☛ https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2025.html | Source: The OpenBSD Foundation    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:07:17

• "Along with my husband and two young daughters, I was here to take the Santa Claus Express to the northern city of Rovaniemi, the heart of Finnish Lapland" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/dec/20/lapland-santa-claus-express-sleeper-train-family-trip | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:07:40

• "The rapid accumulation of plastic waste is currently posing significant risks for both human health and the environment on Earth." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-12-plastic-valuable-chemicals-atom-catalysts.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:07:58

• "quite literally (atmospheric scientists’) global mothership." ☛ https://kentuckylantern.com/2025/12/19/sure-debate-what-to-do-about-climate-change-but-trumps-war-on-science-cant-end-well/ | Source: Kentucky Lantern    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:08:10

• "It was working with the US Space Force and Nasa to monitor the debris pieces, the number of which SpaceX did not reveal in its statement." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/starlink-satellite-anomaly-creates-debris-in-rare-orbital-mishap/275779/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:08:23

• "Enter “Trump,” for example, and there will be “no results found.” Search “Epstein,” and still nada. The issue was flagged by Ben Collins of The Onion notoriety, and other users took notice." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/epstein-files-release-busted | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:11:14

• "While it is unclear when and where the photo was taken, the check appears to match one previously seen in images of a birthday book Ghislaine Maxwell compiled for Epstein’s 50th birthday." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/epstein-files-release-first-donald-trump-reference-in-heavily-redacted-photo-a-22-500-novelty-check-101766183986460.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:11:28

• "Threats of prosecution loom as Democratic lawmakers rattle sabers and the Trump DOJ ignores the deadline set by Congress to release the Epstein files." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/19/lawmakers-posture-as-if-theyll-do-something-as-the-trump-administration-keeps-delaying-the-epstein-files-release.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:11:56

• "several weeks" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/19/trump-administration-is-breaking-epstein-law-it-just-signed.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:12:09

• "The Trump administration’s release of the long-awaited Epstein files didn’t provide what survivors were looking for." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/epstein-victims-trump-bondi-justice-department/685369/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:16:40

• "on her desk" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/epstein-files-release-trump-clinton-redactions/685364/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:17:22

• "It did not do this. Or anything close to it." ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/473124/epstein-files-redactions-disappointing | Source: Vox    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:17:41

• "A total of 16 photos were taken down at some point on Saturday from the website that the department created to house files — among them, one of the few that contained Mr. Trump’s image." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/trump-epstein-files-government-website.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:18:11

• "Donald Trump’s meddling in Honduras’s national election aims to return the disgraced party of the narcotrafficking ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández to power." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/12/trump-honduras-election-interference-libre/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:18:51

• "Today I want to share this model, which is far from complete and finished, to open up a discussion." ☛ https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/12/OCT-1-My-Framework-For-Digital-Sovereignty/ | Source: Jan Wildeboer    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:19:19

• "I argued these were the four ways to peacefully fight Donald Trump’s authoritarianism: [...]" ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/19/the-four-ways-to-fight-fascism-checking-in/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:19:38

• "The agreements do not mean that a deal for an American version of TikTok is done, as these investors would form only 45 percent of the new ownership." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/business/media/tiktok-deal-agreements-us-investors.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:20:17

• "In a memo, Shou Zi Chew said that parent company ByteDance Ltd. and TikTok have signed binding agreements. Oracle Inc., private equity firm Silver Lake Partners LP" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/18/tiktok-just-signed-deal-hand-us-operations-oracle-led-investor-group/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:20:56

• "The most striking transformation belongs to a seventh-grader named Tokyo Levy." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/19/new-yorks-school-phone-ban-accidentally-created-a-teen-social-revival.html | Source: BoingBoing    

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

• "What stuff are they doing? At many schools, teachers have made cards, board games, and sports equipment available during free time, and the kids have deigned to use them." ☛ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/how-new-york-public-school-phone-ban-saved-high-school.html | Source: NYMag    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:21:58

• "Western policymakers often treat “soft” humanitarian concerns—such as returning Ukrainian children from Russia—as separate from “hard” security issues" ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2779413/russia-built-a-school-to-trenches-conveyor-belt-is-the-west-ready-opinion | Source: LRT    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:22:13

• "University officials said the suspicious activity was identified last week during monitoring of the platform, which is primarily used for software development and code storage." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/university-of-sydney-cyberattack-data-breach/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:23:18

• [Old] "We needed a way to send data to our server without an internet connection. A team member came up with this fantastic idea of using DTMF tones!" ☛ https://saket.me/dtmf-tones/ |    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:23:29

• "Supporting Bill and Keonne, the Samourai Wallet developers and their loved ones" ☛ https://billandkeonne.org/ |    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:28:43

• "819% CPU usage. On a process called javae running from /tmp/.XIN-unix/. And multiple xmrig processes - that’s literally cryptocurrency mining software (Monero, specifically)." ☛ https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/my-server-started-mining-monero-this-morning/ |    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:29:49

• Windows TCO: "Denmark cyberattack allegations have escalated into a diplomatic confrontation with Russia" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/russia-denmark-cyberattack2025/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:31:17

• "I think it makes a fascinating case study to observe and learn from on so many levels." ☛ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/opinion/social-media-tulum-ceo-perspective/ | Source: Mexico News Daily    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:31:42

• "Sometimes I’m not angry enough in the post, and people foolishly mistake patience for approval." ☛ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/challenging-fate/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:31:50

• "Distributing materials that glorify terrorist violence, such as videos of attacks accompanied by approving comments" ☛ https://nltimes.nl/2025/12/20/netherlands-moves-criminalize-glorifying-terrorism | Source: NL Times    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:32:10

• "Linguist, professor, and AI skeptic Emily Bender often says that she won’t read “synthetic text.” I don’t take that strong of a stance, but I think it has an admirable, bracing clarity." ☛ https://www.overmorrow.tech/let-the-machine-do-the-dishes/ | Source: Max Leibman    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:32:25

• "Even setting aside the question of whether the resulting recipes actually produce tasty food" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-summaries-destroying-recipe-developers | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:32:45

• "Executive Summary: In late 2025 the global memory industry is grappling with an unprecedented RAM (DRAM) shortage." ☛ https://intuitionlabs.ai/articles/ram-shortage-2025-ai-demand |    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:33:08

• "If you've noticed sentiment turning sharply against generative AI—images, chatbots, and the like—you wouldn't be alone." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/20/survey-finds-very-negative-attitude-toward-gen-ai-in-games.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:38:09

• "On Wednesday, Cisco revealed that a newly identified China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT), "UAT-9686," had been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Cisco email security appliances that run on its AsyncOS software" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/cisco-vpns-email-services-threat-campaigns | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:38:40

• This server will reboot later today, resulting in short IRC outage    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:38:58

• "Cyble said in a note to clients today that CL0P appears to be readying its dark web data leak site (DLS) for a new wave of victims following its exploitation of Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerabilities that netted more than 100 victims." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/cl0p-ransomware-targets-gladinet-centrestack/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:39:08

• "Monarez is the former CDC director who was summarily fired by RFK Jr." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/19/california-brings-former-cdc-staff-on-to-do-the-work-rfk-jr-refuses-to-do-nationally/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:39:41

• "But there’s a catch: only major commodity farming operations—such as those that grow corn, cotton, peanuts, rice, wheat, and soybeans—will be eligible for more than 92 percent of the money" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/trumps-agriculture-bailout-is-alienating-his-maha-base/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:39:55

• "I love the NES, Game Boy, Super Nintendo, Genesis, and the original PlayStation, but I have an unwavering fondness for Nintendo 64." ☛ https://lmnt.me/blog/jungle-green.html | Source: Louie Mantia    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:41:02

• "People often ask me for recommendations on pedagogy. To avoid repeating myself, I’m going to make some suggestions here, and update this document over time." ☛ https://parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/pedagogy-recommendations/ |    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:41:27

• "Freshman Workshop" ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/posts/typing-is-great | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:41:37

• "A couple of retail jobs in my teen years polished my 10-key skills, and then in my early 20s, typing became my business." ☛ https://www.overmorrow.tech/typing-is-my-business/ | Source: Max Leibman    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:42:12

• "What do you do with your time? I think the modern world has afforded us all more time than we know what to do with and we’re squandering it." ☛ https://cdevroe.com/2025/12/16/2026-goal-boredom/ |    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:42:29

• "After a recent trip to Hamburg, visiting various museums and exhibitions, something struck me." ☛ https://arslan.io/2025/11/18/my-two-part-desk-setup/?ref=thenewsprint.co |    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:42:42

• "New York state banned smartphones in schools this September, and teachers are weeping tears of joy." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/high-school-flourishes-phone-ban | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:42:52

• "That’s a big shame, because the extended Euclidean algorithm can be optimized in a very similar manner, and the underlying ideas were described in a 2020 paper." ☛ https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/faster-practical-modular-inversion/ | Source: Alisa Sireneva    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:43:26

• "To enable this, the indie web must be open both technically and have a culture that supports discussion, exploration, and discourse, where we – everyone – looks at the web we have now" ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/12/20/the-indie-web-in-2030 | Source: James G    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:43:54

• "Using Windows RDP to get into a Ubuntu box, and I just wanted it to log me in to MATE instead of the default" ☛ https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/choose-your-desktop-in-rdp/ | Source: Darren Goossens    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:44:18

• "The go fix is re-implemented using the Go analysis framework — the same one go vet uses." ☛ https://antonz.org/accepted/modernized-go-fix/ | Source: Anton Zhiyanov    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:44:40

• "The podcast format captures the conversations, and makes it easy to enjoy those conversations while doing something else" ☛ https://perladvent.org/2025/2025-12-19.html | Source: Perl    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:45:08

• "Last year we started a new Perl Advent Calendar tradition, where we have a remote presentation as part of the calendar." ☛ https://perladvent.org/2025/2025-12-20.html | Source: Perl    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:45:15

• Rebooting, back soon    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 10:46:39

• "Other people might also be interested in my reasons, so I’m writing this as a blog post." ☛ https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-im-not-letting-the-juniors-use-genai-for-coding/ | Source: Luke Plant    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:03:33

• "One of the big strengths of Rust is its use of automatic memory management." ☛ https://obeli.sk/blog/when-scope-lies/ |    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:03:49

• [Old] "Over time, I’ve realized that hot-reloadable code isn’t the ultimate goal. What truly matters are fast feedback loops for validating our changes." ☛ https://saket.me/fast-feedback-loops/ |    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:04:33

• "Dart 3.0 introduced class modifiers, and at first glance, the combinations can feel overwhelming. base, final, interface, mixin. How do they all fit together? What combinations are valid? Which ones are redundant?" ☛ https://modulovalue.com/blog/understanding-dart-class-modifiers-lattices/ |    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:04:42

• "Knuth is often quoted out of context as saying premature optimization is the root of all evil." ☛ https://abseil.io/fast/hints.html |    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:05:08

• "Well, starting this project I did have some vague idea of what will happen if we combined Ruby fibers with io_uring." ☛ https://noteflakes.com/articles/2025-12-19-friday-update | Source: Sharon Rosner    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:06:16

• "Traditional GNU General Public Licenses remain in high demand in 2025. The GPL-2.0 and GPL-3.0 versions together account for over 130,000 pageviews." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/mit-and-apache-2-0-lead-open-source-licensing-in-2025/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:11:59

• "Last week, we gathered in DC with our members and speakers for our 71st meeting—the Fall 2025 Membership Meeting." ☛ https://www.cni.org/news/cni-fall-2025-plenary-videos | Source: Coalition for Networked Information    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:12:51

• "Wolf Vollprecht and I are co-organizing the Package Managers devroom at FOSDEM 2026, and the schedule is now live. We have nine talks covering supply chain security, dependency resolution" ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/20/fosdem-2026-package-managers-devroom-schedule.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:13:19

• "I’ll talk about more general (and solid) solutions later on." ☛ https://kristoff.it/blog/simplistic-comptime-sqlite/ | Source: Loris Cro    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:15:10

• "This is about how to get the NAI Global Privacy Control Signal extension for Google Chrome working." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/nai-global-privacy-control-signal-for-google-chrome/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:15:55

• "You don't start with a superstitious invocation of 'Mozilla/5.0'" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/BrowserLikeUserAgentBadIdeaNow | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:17:06

• "Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, is relatively computationally intensive in that every hour" ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/12/20/designing-for-inactive-users | Source: James G    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:17:26

• "Immich 2.4, a self-hosted photo and video management platform, introduces a new command palette, refined UI animations, shared album improvements, and more." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/immich-2-4-released-with-command-palette-and-ui-refinements/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:17:45

• "I spent six months with a flip phone. I learned that a more conscious technological future will require much more than just unplugging." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/my-dumb-journey-through-a-smartphone-world/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:20:03

• "The RP2040 and RP2350 are dual-core ARM (and now also RISC-V) microcontrollers designed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation." ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/hw/rp2040 | Source: Rui Carmo    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:20:45

• "Linux Mint 22.3 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2029." ☛ https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4973 | Source: Linux Mint    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:22:53

• "The Linux Mint team have announced the availability of Linux Mint 22.3 beta." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12673 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:23:03

• "UNIX V4 tape from the University of Utah, received by Martin Newell in June 1974 around when he modeled the Utah Teapot" ☛ https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw | Source: Internet Archive    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:23:41

• "Already last year, I told you about a special HTML element that you can use to style this scripts. Read my post HTML and CSS I didn't even know about before I started creating content." ☛ https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/21/ | Source: Markup from Hell    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:24:01

• "The page title — together with its co-star, the favicon — appears on stage in the browser tab" ☛ https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/20/ | Source: Markup from Hell    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:28:25

• "Some time ago I worked with a customer that used Ansible to deploy a multitude of applications across their individual TAP1 environments." ☛ https://louwrentius.com/sharing-group_var-variables-across-ansible-inventories.html | Source: Louwrentius    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:28:36

• "But I wondered if bandwidth isn't everything, all the time." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/big-gpus-dont-need-big-pcs | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:29:07

• "A key improvement in Incus 6.20 is reliable virtual machine snapshot support on clustered LVM." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/incus-6-20-container-and-virtual-machine-manager-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:29:49

• Valve discontinuing the last Steam Deck LCD model | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/valve-discontinuing-the-last-steam-deck-lcd-model/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:31:26

• Latest Steam stable update is live as Windows gets 64-bit | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/latest-steam-stable-update-is-live-as-windows-gets-64-bit/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/latest-steam-stable-update-is-live-as-windows-gets-64-bit/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:31:40

• "With the update to driver version 590, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs or older." ☛ https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/ | Source: ArchLinux    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:32:03

• Bondi Beach shooting: Jewish community "completely unbreakable", PM says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251220-bondi-beach-shooting-jewish-community-completely-unbreakable-pm-says    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:32:57

• Germany Building Clever System to Heat 40,000 Homes Using Device Powered by River Water ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/germany-heat-pumps-40000-homes-river    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:34:13

• Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing Hey Hi (AI) Extracting Patients’ Race Data and Being Racist With It ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/ai-cancer-diagnostic-bias    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:35:10

• Japan’s nuclear ambitions must be stopped ‘at any cost’, says North Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/north-koreas-kcna-japans-ambition-for-nuclear-weapons-should-be-curbed    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:35:34

• 31 Malaysians rescued from Myanmar job scam syndicates safely repatriated ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/31-malaysians-rescued-from-myanmar-job-scam-syndicates-safely-repatriated    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:35:58

• China's rare earths El Dorado gives strategic edge ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-rare-earths-el-dorado-gives-strategic-edge    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:39:04

• Pakistan court hands Imran Khan, wife 17-year jail terms in another graft case ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/pakistan-court-hands-imran-khan-wife-17-year-jail-terms-in-another-graft-case    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:39:44

• China envoy visits Cambodia seeking to de-escalate fighting with Thailand ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/china-envoy-visits-cambodia-seeking-to-de-escalate-fighting-with-thailand    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:39:58

• China's new nation-spanning network eclipses 100 Gbps transferring 72 terabytes across 1,000km — experimental research network designed to connect thousands of virtualized networks across the country ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-switches-on-ceni-research-network-with-72tb-transfer-test-across-1000km    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:40:20

• Ritesh Raj Sarraf: Immutable Debian ☞ https://researchut.com/blog/Immutable_Atomic_Debian/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:41:32

• EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.1 released ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202512/easyos-excalibur-series-version-71-released.html    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:42:39

• Immich 2.4 Released With Command Palette and UI Refinements ☞ https://linuxiac.com/immich-2-4-released-with-command-palette-and-ui-refinements/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:43:17

• MIT and Apache 2.0 Lead Open Source Licensing in 2025 ☞ https://linuxiac.com/mit-and-apache-2-0-lead-open-source-licensing-in-2025/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:43:23

• Kevin Fenzi: home infra weekly recap: pre holidays 2025 ☞ https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2025/12/20/home-infra-weekly-recap-pre-holidays-2025/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:45:09

• Finally upgraded the fleet to FreeBSD 15! ☞ https://rubenerd.com/finally-upgraded-to-freebsd-15/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:47:10

• GTA: Vice City is now playable right in your browser, 2002 title that once demanded Pentium 3 now runs in Chrome — requires upload of an original game file to save progress ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/gta-vice-city-is-now-playable-straight-from-a-browser-requires-upload-of-an-original-game-file-to-save-progress-2002-title-that-once-demanded-pentium-3-now-runs-in-chrome    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 11:50:44

• Testing 8 Solder Flux Pastes After Flux Killed A GeForce2 GTS ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/20/testing-8-solder-flux-pastes-after-flux-killed-a-geforce2-gts/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:00:16

• This Week in Science: 3I/ATLAS Passes Earth, a Runaway Black Hole, And More! ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-week-in-science-3i-atlas-passes-earth-a-runaway-black-hole-and-more    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:00:55

• Earth's Seasons Are Strangely Out of Sync, Scientists Discover From Space ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-seasons-are-strangely-out-of-sync-scientists-discover-from-space    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:01:02

• The First-Ever Map of The Boundary of The Sun Has Just Been Revealed ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-first-ever-map-of-the-boundary-of-the-sun-has-just-been-revealed    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:02:06

• Earth's Atmosphere Is Leaking to The Moon, And Here's Why ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-atmosphere-is-leaking-to-the-moon-and-heres-why    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:02:18

• First Contact With an Alien Civilization Could Be 'Loud'. Here's Why. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/first-contact-with-an-alien-civilization-could-be-loud-heres-why    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:02:24

• Reverse-Engineering The Intel 8087 Stack Circuitry ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/19/reverse-engineering-the-intel-8087-stack-circuitry/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:02:46

• AMD publishes first Zen 6 document detailing ground-up redesign on 2nm process node — brand-new 8-wide CPU core with strong vector capabilities ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-pubs-first-zen-6-document-for-developers-a-brand-new-8-wide-cpu-core-with-strong-vector-capabilities    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:03:51

• US imposes sanctions on two ICC judges after rejecting Israeli challenge in war crimes case ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/us-imposes-sanctions-on-two-icc-judges-after-rejecting-israeli-challenge-in-war-crimes-case/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:04:19

• U.S. Coast Guard Boards Tanker Carrying Venezuelan Oil ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/us-coast-guard-venezuela-oil-tanker.html    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:04:30

• Bangladesh tightens security after youth leader’s killing as media attacks stoke unrest fears ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/bangladesh-tightens-security-after-youth-leaders-killing-as-media-attacks-stoke-unrest-fears    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:07:14

• Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media ‘troublemaker’ in Beijing’s crosshairs ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/21/who-is-jimmy-lai/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:07:44

• Gaza famine over but situation 'remains critical', UN says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251220-gaza-famine-over-but-situation-remains-critical-un-says    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:08:06

• US forces intercept second merchant vessel off Venezuela amid blockade of sanctioned vessels ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20251220-us-forces-stop-second-merchant-vessel-off-venezuela-after-trump-announces-oil-blockade    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:08:18

• "Here’s a fun build from [RootSaid] that is suitable for people just getting started with microcontrollers and robotics — an Arduino-controlled two-wheeled robot." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/20/two-wheeled-arduino-robot-project-for-beginners/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:08:46

• This Week in Plasma: ambient light sensor support ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/20/this-week-in-plasma-ambient-light-sensor-support/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:09:18

• Registry hack enables new performance-boosting native NVMe support on backdoored Windows 11 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/registry-hack-enables-new-performance-boosting-native-nvme-support-on-windows-11-windows-server-2025-feature-can-be-unlocked-for-consumer-pcs-but-at-your-own-risk Linux does not have such issues    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:20:00

• How China Tried to Dismantle a Major Underground Church ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/world/asia/china-christian-zion-church-raid.html    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:29:09

• Bill Clinton Photos in Epstein Files Show He Can’t Escape Scandal ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/bill-clinton-epstein-files-photos-scandal.html    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:29:24

• Epstein and Maxwell Grand Jury Records Are Released ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/epstein-maxwell-grand-jury.html    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:29:35

• Sahil Dhiman: MiniDebConf Navi Mumbai 2025 ☞ https://blog.sahilister.in/2025/12/minidebconf-navi-mumbai-2025/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:30:19

• UN briefing warns recovery remains fragile in Syria amid considerable progress ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/un-briefing-warns-recovery-remains-fragile-in-syria-amid-considerable-progress/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:31:09

• Necesse: Some Early Impressions ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/necesse-review/index.html    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:31:40

• Valve discontinues the most affordable Steam Deck — $399 LCD version on the way out as new starting point is $549 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/valve-discontinues-the-most-affordable-steam-deck-usd399-lcd-version-on-the-way-out-as-new-starting-point-is-usd549    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:32:09

• Steam app is now 64-bit only on systems that support it, 32-bit support enters final countdown — 32-bit users will stop receiving updates in 2026 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/steam-begins-64-bit-transition-on-windows-as-32-bit-support-enters-final-countdown    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:32:23

• Mozilla names Anthony Enzor-DeMeo CEO and focuses on trust in the era of Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://hackwarenews.com/mozilla-names-anthony-enzor-demeo-ceo-and-focuses-on-trust-in-the-era-of-ai/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:32:48

• Engagement Blog: GUADEC 2026 will be held in A Coruña, Spain ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/engagement/2025/12/20/guadec-2026-will-be-held-in-a-coruna-spain/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:33:19

• KDE PIM Sprint 2025 in Paris ☞ https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2025/12/20/kde-pim-sprint-december-2025.html    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:34:25

• Toys Can Turn Dangerous in Seconds: How to Stay Safe This Christmas ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/toys-can-turn-dangerous-in-seconds-how-to-stay-safe-this-christmas    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:34:46

• How to Install LEMP on Debian ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-lemp-on-debian-linux/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:35:11

• How to Install Tripwire IDS on Debian ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/install-tripwire-ids-on-debian-linux/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:35:20

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

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:35:56

• With Attacks on Oil Tankers, Ukraine Takes Aim at Russia’s War Financing ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/world/europe/russia-ukraine-oil-tanker-attacks-shadow-fleet.html    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:36:17

• Windows problems in maldives https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/maldives/#monthly-200902-202512 https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/maldives/#monthly-200902-202512    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 14:37:30

• Russia strikes Ukrainian port as peace negotiations continue in US ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/1220/Ukraine-port-strike-Europe-defense-cooperation    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 14:37:59

• Zelenskyy Says US Has Proposed Direct Talks With Russia, Ukraine, As Diplomacy Accelerates ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-envoy-florida-ukraine-talks/33628629.html    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 14:38:19

• Russia Says Florida Talks 'Constructive,' Will Continue -- But Both Sides Tight-Lipped ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/dmitriev-russia-ukraine-florida-peace-talks-trump/33628796.html    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 14:38:36

• Russia built a school-to-trenches conveyor belt. Is the West ready? – opinion ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2779413/russia-built-a-school-to-trenches-conveyor-belt-is-the-west-ready-opinion    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 14:38:51

• Only US can persuade Russia to end Ukraine war, Zelensky says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251220-live-us-russian-officials-to-meet-in-florida-for-more-ukraine-talks    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:05:03

• Ukraine strikes Russian shadow fleet tanker in Mediterranean sea ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251220-ukraine-strikes-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker-in-mediterranean-sea    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:05:11

• US, Russian officials to meet in Florida for latest round of Ukraine talks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20251220-us-russian-officials-to-meet-in-florida-for-latest-round-of-ukraine-talks    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:05:20

• Eight killed in Russian strike on Odessa ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251220-eight-killed-in-russian-strike-on-odessa    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:09:34

• "The holidays are rapidly approaching, and you probably already have a topic or two to argue with your family about." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/20/retrocomputing-simulacrum-or-the-real-deal/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:09:53

• "The “Marauder’s Map” is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/20/hardware-store-marauders-map-is-clarkian-magic/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:10:25

• FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending December 19, 2025 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/12/foss-forces-top-five-articles-for-the-week-ending-december-19-2025/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:10:41

• More Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Layoffs Coming Soon ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/20/More_Microsoft_Layoffs_Coming_Soon.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:10:49

• Setup a Raspberry PI Wi-Fi Hotspot, also with Android USB tethering ☞ https://peppe8o.com/raspberry-pi-wi-fi-hotspot/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:11:21

• TikTok: Six key things to know ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/21/tiktok-what-to-knonw/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:12:06

• jdSystemMonitor: More Than Your Regular System Monitor on GNU/Linux ☞ https://itsfoss.com/jdsystemmonitor/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:15:28

• Sparky 2025.12 Special Editions ☞ https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-2025-12-special-editions/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:17:05

• Alp Lab Unveils E1M Platform with Multi-vendor Embedded Roadmap ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/alp-lab-unveils-e1m-platform-with-multi-vendor-embedded-roadmap/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:18:12

• ICORE-3576Q38 SoM packs RK3576 Hey Hi (AI) processor into a 38 mm module ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/icore-3576q38-som-packs-rk3576-ai-processor-into-a-38-mm-module/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:18:41

• Shadow of the Wyrm – single player, traditional roguelike ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/shadow-of-the-wyrm-single-player-traditional-roguelike/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:24:24

• Colorway – generate color pairings ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/colorway-generate-color-pairings/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:24:31

• Error Prone – catch common Java mistakes ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/error-prone-catch-common-java-mistakes/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:24:38

• PHP Parallel Lint – checks the syntax of PHP files in parallel ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/php-parallel-lint-checks-syntax-php-files-parallel/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:24:45

• Annobin – binary annotation and examination package ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/annobin-binary-annotation-examination-package/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:24:51

• needle – highlights Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub PRs ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/needle-highlights-github-prs/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:33:32

• 12 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Usenet Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/usenet/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:33:40

• UniFetch – fork of Neofetch ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/unifetch-fork-neofetch/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:33:46

• css-parser – fork of the cssutils project ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/css-parser-fork-cssutils-project/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:33:53

• Reahl – Python-only web framework ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/reahl-python-only-web-framework/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:34:01

• Jam.py – web front-end application generator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/jam-py-web-front-end-application-generator/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:39:50

• 11 Excellent Free and Open Source Java Natural Language Processing Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/excellent-java-natural-language-processing-tools/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:40:06

• You can force FSR 4 Redstone to work on RDNA 3 GPUs with new workaround for GNU/Linux systems — solution requires Proton compatibility to work properly ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpu-drivers/you-can-force-fsr-4-redstone-to-work-on-rdna-3-gpus-with-new-workaround-for-linux-systems-solution-requires-proton-compatibility-to-work-properly-gpu-drivers    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:40:33

• 'Linux' Foundation: The Foundation Has Almost Nothing to Do With Linux, It Just Misuses the Name "Linux" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/19/Linux_Foundation_The_Foundation_Has_Almost_Nothing_to_Do_With_L.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:40:47

• 'Linux' Foundation: Richard Stallman Developed Only a Software Licence ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/20/Linux_Foundation_Richard_Stallman_Developed_Only_a_Software_Lic.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:40:55

• My Humble Assessment of the Future of Red Hat, A Company That I.C.B.M. is Flushing Down the Loo ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/20/My_Humble_Assessment_of_the_Future_of_Red_Hat_A_Company_That_IB.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:41:02

• Scamfarms, Spamfarms, and Slopfarms in "Linux" Clothing ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/20/Scamfarms_Spamfarms_and_Slopfarms_in_Linux_Clothing.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:41:09

• NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support; main packages switch to Open Kernel Modules ☞ https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:41:44

• Aryan Kaushik: Introducing Open Forms ☞ https://www.aryank.in/posts/2025-12-21-introducing-open-forms/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:43:03

• Why doesn’t KMyMoney provide (old) binary versions ☞ https://blog.bembel.net/2025/12/why-doesnt-kmymoney-provide-old-binary-versions/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:43:41

• GNU Debugger 17.1 Released    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:43:51

• GDB 17.1 released! https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-12/msg00007.html    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:44:19

• Goodbye to the Hexham Oak and Hungry Jacks ☞ https://rubenerd.com/the-oak-and-hungry-jacks-in-hexham/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:45:44

• CNN staffers are reportedly loathing a potential takeover— but don’t expect the Ellisons to kill the news agency ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/12/20/business/cnn-staffers-are-reportedly-loathing-a-potential-paramount-skydance-takeover-but-dont-expect-the-ellisons-to-kill-the-news-agency/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:46:08

• "Mr Thomas’ doubts are fully justified. Confidentiality obligations applicable to the sale of a commercial product raise complex issues of competition law and contracts law. First, the doctrine of the exhaustion of rights in respect of IPRs incl. patents implies that the seller of a commercial product may not restrict the buyer’s freedom to resell, lease or use the product."    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:49:54

• from http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-importance-of-confidentiality-and.html?showComment=1766167525819#c7057278452856980805    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:49:58

• Google killed the 25-year-old Sega Dreamcast PlanetWeb 3.0 web browser this week — big G's services no longer respond to this quarter-century-old software ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/the-sega-dreamcasts-planetweb-3-0-browser-was-killed-by-google-this-week-big-gs-services-no-longer-respond-to-this-quarter-century-old-software    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:50:22

• Officials Deploying Hey Hi (AI) Surveillance Devices in School Bathrooms ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-surveillance-school-bathroom    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:50:42

• After 35 Years the World Wide Web, HTML, and HTTP Are Proprietary ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/21/After_35_Years_the_World_Wide_Web_HTML_and_HTTP_Are_Proprietary.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:50:51

• "A radio preacher this morning opened the spirit of joy I've been meditation on all week in a way that finally overfows my spirit into writing." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2025-12-21-joy.txt    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:53:06

• "In recent months, my Inbox has got out of control. There are just too many things landing in it. On one or two occasions in the last ten years, I've missed important things due simply to the clutter. So I've set a deadline of 30 days hence, for getting to Zero. I think it was someone here on Gemini who tipped me over into trying to re-attain this." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-12-21_getting-to-inbox-zero.gmi    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:53:56

• "The idea that two people can disagree about politics, but still be friends and have a beer together, is true to an extent. But as many have found out the hard way, there comes a point where "live and let live" doesn't work anymore, and one either has to find common ground or cut ties." gemini://nicholasjohnson.ch/2025/12/20/should-you-cut-ties-with-people-over-politics/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:56:10

• "The state is necessary to enforce laws, protect individual rights, safeguard personal property, enforce environmentally sustainable resource management, solve large-scale coordination problems, and many other critical tasks." gemini://nicholasjohnson.ch/2025/12/20/my-political-philosophy/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:57:11

• 🔤SpellBinding: DGHYTUO Wordo: FETUS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-12-21.gmi    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:57:46

• "Just a day earlier, he had grown weak and had lost his appetite. As the condition did not improve, I took him to the vet and they found a sizable tumor. He was laid to rest just hours later as we comforted him and said our final farewells." gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2025-12_not-so-merry-christmas.gmi    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 15:59:29

• Christmas Songs gemini://gem.eomuziko.com/blog/en/posts/christmas-songs/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:01:16

• U.S. Strikes on Syria Underscore Scale of Challenge for Its President ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/world/middleeast/us-strikes-syria-aftermath.html    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:02:50

• At least five killed in US retaliatory strikes on Islamic State group targets in Syria ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251219-us-strikes-islamic-state-group-targets-in-syria-us-officials-say    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:02:57

• US pounds targets across Syria: five ISIS members killed ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251220-us-pounds-targets-across-syria-five-isis-members-killed    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:03:04

• Linux On A Floppy: Still (Just About) Possible ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/20/linux-on-a-floppy-still-just-about-possible/ | Source: Hackaday    

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

• The ‘Hidden’ Microphone Inside The Sipeed NanoKVM ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/20/the-hidden-microphone-inside-the-sipeed-nanokvm/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:05:18

• Linux Mint 22.3 Beta Released, This is What’s New ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/linux-mint-22-3-beta-released    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:05:38

• Quirinux 2-1-Rev4 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/quirinux    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:05:49

• BRGV-OS 20122025 released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/brgv    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:06:09

• Taiwan President vows full inquiry into deadly subway attack ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-president-vows-full-inquiry-into-deadly-subway-attack    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:06:31

• Chimera 20251220 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/chimera    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:07:57

• EasyOS 7.1 is out as well☞ https://distrowatch.com/easyos    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:08:03

• LoongArch Promoted To Being An Official Architecture For Debian 14 ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-LoongArch64-Official    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:08:18

• Sparky 2025.12 Special Editions ☞ https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-2025-12-special-editions/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:08:48

• Mosquitoes: The most dangerous animals in the world https://www.dw.com/en/mosquitoes-the-most-dangerous-animals-in-the-world/a-75090964    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:10:51

• The new Kali Linux, another Raspberry Pi imager, Ubuntu Studio's redesign, and more: Linux news roundup https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-roundup/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:11:48

• "Wallpapers favor geometric, glowing, and semi-realistic styles; my favorites include Lobster, Minotaur, Groovy Gorilla." https://www.howtogeek.com/the-best-ubuntu-wallpapers-of-all-time-ranked/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:12:28

• Modder Runs AMD FSR 4 Redstone Frame Generation on RDNA 3 but Only on Linux https://www.techpowerup.com/344284/modder-runs-amd-fsr-4-redstone-frame-generation-on-rdna-3-but-only-on-linux    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:14:48

• NDSS 2025 - Too Subtle to Notice: Investigating Executable Stack Issues in Linux Systems → https://www.infosecurity.us/blog/2025/12/20/ndss-2025-too-subtle-to-notice-investigating-executable-stack-issues-in-linux-systems    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:15:52

• Microsoft bastardising the word "sudo" https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-made-me-a-better-windows-user-heres-how/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:18:24

• Better late than never? 53-year-old HP bus standard finally gets a Linux driver, boasting 8MB/s bandwidth https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/better-late-than-never-53-year-old-hp-bus-standard-finally-gets-a-linux-driver-boasting-8mb-s-bandwidth    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:19:05

• Proprietary and DRM https://rogueliker.com/steam-sale-roguelikes-roguelites/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:20:11

• Azulle Access Arm is a fanless Linux PC stick with an RK3576 processor for $120 and up - Liliputing ⚓ https://liliputing.com/azulle-access-arm-is-a-fanless-linux-pc-stick-with-an-rk3576-processor-for-120-and-up/ ䷉ Source: Liliputing    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:21:12

• "Most of the changes would have already been in Proton Experimental. To test it out you can opt into the Beta on Proton 10 directly in your Steam Library. Valve are interested in finding any issues that didn't happen with the current Proton 10.0-3." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/valve-put-up-a-release-candidate-for-proton-10-0-4-with-lots-more-linux-steamos-gaming-fixes/    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:22:31

• SteamOS Update Unlocks Better Performance and FPS Boosts for Linux Gaming Handheld Players https://www.techtimes.com/articles/313502/20251219/steamos-update-unlocks-better-performance-fps-boosts-linux-gaming-handheld-players.htm    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 16:23:22

• "It's this time of the year again for hot chocolate with spices. Yes, please. And nice lemonade on the other side of the table, please. Why? Well, easy, while it's cool on the North side of the East/West-Table, and dusk looking around already, it's hot and sunshine on the South side. See?" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2757    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 17:40:28

• https://www.fsf.org/ now 113k away from funding goal    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 17:55:53

• It has what he needed, so what? "RMS famously lived out of his office at MIT for a while." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46333862 See https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/10/Y_Combinator_YC_Funds_Scams_Run_by_Scammers.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 17:59:06

• RMS under many attacks these days for merely insisting that LLMs lack an understanding    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 17:59:25

• That means that slop companies (pyramid schemes basically) strongly dislike or fear him    

posted Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 17:59:47