Roy Schestowitz

• Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (50/2025): No December Lull https://linmob.net/weekly-update-50-2025/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:18:22

• Users Lose Downgrade Escape Route https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/apple-forces-ios-26-millions-iphones-users-lose-downgrade-escape-route-17647    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:23:33

• Italy Antitrust Agency Fines Apple $116 Million Over Privacy Feature; Apple Announces Appeal https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-12-22/italy-antitrust-agency-fines-apple-116-million-over-privacy-feature-apple-announces-appeal    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:24:10

• SLOP being used to subject women in public life to online violence https://theconversation.com/ai-tools-are-being-used-to-subject-women-in-public-life-to-online-violence-271703    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:27:44

• Introducing Marlin https://blogs.perl.org/users/toby_inkster/2025/12/introducing-marlin.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:28:44

• Foswi­ki 2.1.10 is re­leased https://blogs.perl.org/users/nuddlegg/2025/12/foswiki-2110-is-released.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:28:59

• Unicode: The Good, the Bad, and the (mostly) Ugly https://blogs.perl.org/users/mark_leighton_fisher/2025/12/unicode-the-good-the-bad-and-the-mostly-ugly-1.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121224081332/http://98.245.80.27/tcpc/OSCON2011/gbu.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:29:47

• Mid-life upgrade to the MailBox suite completed https://blogs.perl.org/users/markov/2025/12/mid-life-upgrade-to-the-mailbox-suite-completed.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:30:07

• "I am developing yet another option, this time using addressable elements to generate Word Clouds in svg and html. This potentially allows dynamic manipulation and interaction with the cloud. One possible goal is to develop a deterministic tree connecting multiple such word clouds as part of an expert system." https://blogs.perl.org/users/saif/2025/12/masters-of-destiny.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:30:46

• It’s Time for New York to Take On Amazon https://jacobin.com/2025/12/amazon-drivers-misclassification-caban-unions/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:31:31

• BoA erred in rejecting extensive evidence as insufficient http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/general-court-claws-back-overly-strict.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:33:20

• Keep dry and carry on: High Court finds that D-ROBE infringes DRYROBE http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/keep-dry-and-carry-on-high-court-finds.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:33:43

• How the world's first global trader, Jakob Fugger, got rich https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-world-s-first-global-trader-jakob-fugger-got-rich/a-75133701    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:38:51

• Far-right Kast https://www.dw.com/en/chile-election-far-right-kast-wins-presidential-runoff/a-75152920    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:39:19

• Wrapping Up the Year With Free Software at the 39C3 https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251214-01.en.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:40:06

• The role of the Cyber Resilience Act for Free Software https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251218-01.en.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:40:29

• "Memes, spam, off-topic and low-effort content, trolling, shitposting, and baiting are not allowed in r/Linux_Gaming. This includes repetitive posting of similar content, sensationalist/misleading titles, the advertising of games without Linux support, and overly general computing news." https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1ptshh4/removed_by_moderator/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:43:30

• It said, "I dont use GNU/Linux but I use KDE/Linux or Steam/Linux - I choice to avoid the name GNU in the name because of stallman."    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:44:04

• "...and Dario is a con-man too. People should beware of doing business with this man or Alvind." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kd2h85d6    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:48:39

• "Yup he is done with ibm. He also has to be unbiased. But we should also be done with him and not welcome him back with open arms when this goes belly up on him." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kd2h85d6    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:48:44

• "Dario in highly unlikely to help others whom he knows to get inside his new organization. After all, they might learn about some dirt on him and expose him. He is no saint any more than Aunty Srineevasan in Bangalore. She is another BI--H like the Joanne the Walrus in Krabanaugh's office." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kd2h85d6    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:48:48

• Shanios 2025.12.14, SparkyLinux 2025.12, MocaccinoOS 25.12, and AnuBitux 3.5.5 released    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:57:14

• Expirion 6.2-251214, Exton 251215 "FedEX", CentOS 10-20251215, and Emmabuntüs DE6-1.00 also out    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 01:57:57

• Security Onion 2.4.200, TROMjaro 2025.12.10, PikaOS 25.12.16, Rhino 2025.4, and MidnightBSD 4.0 are out    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:00:09

• China's property crash https://www.dw.com/en/why-china-s-property-crash-must-be-kept-top-secret/a-75074157    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:01:17

• housing prices https://www.dw.com/en/spain-fines-airbnb-as-fight-against-housing-prices-continues/a-75167388    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:01:44

• Louvre workers' strike turns away thousands of visitors https://www.dw.com/en/louvre-workers-strike-turns-away-thousands-of-visitors/a-75166314    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:02:17

• Jimmy Lai verdict casts shadow over rule of law in Hong Kong https://www.dw.com/en/jimmy-lai-verdict-casts-shadow-over-rule-of-law-in-hong-kong/a-75161861    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:02:38

• Toxic smog chokes Delhi https://www.dw.com/en/india-toxic-smog-chokes-delhi-disrupts-travel/a-75157431    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:03:00

• "Apple will display more ads in App Store search results starting in 2026" - JUST WHAT WE NEED!    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:04:11

• "A massive leak reveals Apple’s roadmap through 2027 — with the foldable iPhone in sight" - YES, foldable! Just what was needed!!    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:05:01

• GNU Taler 1.3 released https://taler.net/en/news/2025-13.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:06:51

• Automakers see worst profits since 2009 https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-automakers-see-worst-profits-since-2009/live-75158691    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:08:36

• Journalism as treason https://www.dw.com/en/hong-kong-court-finds-pro-democracy-tycoon-jimmy-lai-guilty/a-75155293    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:09:00

• Why Germany's auto capitals face financial crisis https://www.dw.com/en/why-germany-s-auto-capitals-face-financial-crisis/a-75163370    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:09:28

• demand surges https://www.dw.com/en/wealthy-nations-curb-labor-migration-as-demand-surges/a-74978505    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:11:44

• UK secures return to EU Erasmus student exchange program https://www.dw.com/en/uk-secures-return-to-eu-erasmus-student-exchange-program/a-75201687    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:13:34

• Hacktivists scrape 86M Spotify tracks, claim their aim is to preserve culture https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/hacktivists_scrape_songs_spotify/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:16:15

• Very near to 300,000 now, with 400k as goal    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:17:45

• at https://my.fsf.org/donate    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:18:00

• "Hello testers, we are happy to announce that Kiwi TCMS is going to FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels." https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2025/12/17/kiwi-tcms-is-going-to-fosdem-2026/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:20:03

• Microsoft GitHub is untrustworthy; use repos instead, e.g. in one's distro https://itsfoss.com/github-binaries-tools/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:24:11

• Surfshark is one of the few to add dedicated IP to the Linux GUI app https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/12/23/3209812/0/en/Surfshark-is-one-of-the-few-to-add-dedicated-IP-to-the-Linux-GUI-app.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:25:11

• "postmarketOS 25.12 was released today as the latest version of this Linux-based operating system for mobile devices, bringing new features, support for new devices, and updated components." https://9to5linux.com/postmarketos-25-12-linux-mobile-os-rolls-out-based-on-alpine-linux-3-23    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:25:35

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-12-24.gmi    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:27:16

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1864.jpg    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:28:01

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1514.jpg    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 02:28:07

• Avram Piltch back from a month's absence, only to sell MICROSOFT https://www.theregister.com/Author/Avram-Piltch    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 03:48:59

• "Getty has been given permission to appeal parts of a ruling it lost over Stability AI’s alleged use of its images." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/ai-legal-rulings/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 05:16:25

• "Now closing out its fifth year, the initiative has routed more than $154 million directly to artists and labels since launch." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/22/bandcamp-fridays-2025-total/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 05:16:33

• "New York Times reporter and "Bad Blood" author John Carreyrou filed the lawsuit in California federal court with five other writers" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/new-york-times-reporter-sues-google-xai-openai-over-chatbot-training/articleshow/126133052.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 05:16:47

• "New legislation could simplify how visual artists register for Copyright in the US." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/commercial-photography/a-proposed-law-could-allow-photographers-to-buy-a-subscription-for-us-copyright-registration-rather-than-a-per-upload-fee | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 05:16:58

• To systemd, "modular" means breaking down oneself, not being a part of the whole. It's like a dictator saying that he "chooses" different ministers, hence it's reign by consent.    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 05:17:48

• "Rick Vargas, the senior vice president of merchandising and marketing at specialty retailer BoxLunch, said his team regularly returns to the Schulz archives to mine material that could resonate with customers." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-12-23/why-is-snoopy-everywhere-peanuts-collabs-retailers | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 05:57:25

• "Oracle founder Larry Ellison personally guarantees $40.4 billion to support his son’s Paramount bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, an $108.4 billion deal." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-12-22/larry-ellison-to-personally-back-paramount-bid-for-warner | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:04:55

• "No, A Charlie Brown Christmas isn't on Netflix." ☛ https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/this-is-the-only-way-to-watch-a-charlie-brown-christmas-for-free-this-year | Source: PC Mag    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:05:56

• "So it’s Christmas and I cannot watch pre Disney+ Doctor Who in Australia via streaming. So is it actually Christmas?" ☛ https://superdavey.com/posts/2025-12-23-so-its-christmas-and | Source: Superdavey    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:06:03

• "They did this through user accounts set up by a third party and not by accessing Spotify’s business systems, they added." ☛ https://therecord.media/spotify-disables-scraping-annas | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:06:11

• "Spotify, the largest music streaming platform in the world with hundreds of millions of active users, and an extensive library of music has allegedly been hacked by Anna's Archive." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/streaming/pirate-archivist-group-scrapes-spotifys-300tb-library-posts-free-torrents-for-downloading-investigation-underway-as-music-and-metadata-hit-torrent-sites | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:14:34

• "Along with the files, the hacktivists sorted the song metadata and analyzed it in their blog post." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/spotify-hackers-activists-data | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:14:44

• "Avalle is the vice president of the Guild" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/conde-nast-upheaval-signals-a-new-level-of-corporate-war-on-media-workers/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:15:13

• "Doctor Death" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-23/doctor-death-the-journalist-who-has-witnessed-105-executions-in-florida.html | Source: El País    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:15:32

• "executions" ☛ https://english.anf-news.com/human-rights/nearly-340-executions-reported-in-iran-in-one-month-82764 | Source: ANF News    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:15:44

• "Once you begin surrendering to Trump, he always wants more. You can’t appease a tyrant." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/farewell-to-60-minutes | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:17:44

• "Detaining a journalist without disclosing charges, denying access to a lawyer, and preventing family visits raises serious concerns about due process and press freedom in Jordan" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/12/jordanian-journalist-arrested-on-arrival-denied-lawyer-and-family-visits/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:26:09

• "Carr opened a fake investigation into the network last February, claiming the station had violated ambiguous public interest standards." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/23/fcc-boss-brendan-carr-bullied-bay-area-am-radio-station-for-telling-locals-the-truth/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:26:33

• "killed a 60 Minutes story about Trump’s illegal deportations to a Salvadoran concentration camp—hours before it was set to air." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/23/support-techdirt-where-bari-weiss-is-not-our-editor-in-chief/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:28:33

• "The move marks the first known case of a Russian journalist being stripped of their citizenship for their reporting on the full-scale invasion of Ukraine." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/24/russian-investigative-journalist-roman-anin-stripped-of-citizenship-a91530 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:29:12

• "A portion of a postponed 60 Minutes segment critical of the Trump administration's deportation policies was temporarily available to watch Monday through a Canadian network." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cbs-60-minutes-report-el-salvador-cecot-global-9.7025912 | Source: CBC    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:32:46

• "Bari Weiss apparently yanked a 60 Minutes piece on Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador's CECOT prison because it was not friendly enough to the Trump Administration." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/22/that-cancelled-60-minutes-piece-is-up-on-canadian-tv.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:32:57

• "if they refrain from providing information to the media and remain silent, the detainees will be released." ☛ https://english.anf-news.com/human-rights/iran-threatens-families-of-detained-activists-82763 | Source: ANF News    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:33:24

• "Mobile [Internet] access will be restricted in annexed Crimea for the duration of Russia’s war in Ukraine as a security measure" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/23/annexed-crimea-joins-russias-ulyanovsk-in-restricting-internet-until-wars-end-a91521 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:33:41

• "They’re threatening to sue people for watching journalism about torture." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/bari-weiss-and-david-ellison-threaten | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:34:05

• "The change does not affect existing drones, but prevents all foreign-made drones announced after December 22 2025, from entering the US." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/drones/the-us-has-now-banned-all-new-foreign-made-drones-what-does-that-mean-for-american-drone-pilots | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:34:54

• "SoftBank Group Corp. needs to come up with $22.5 billion by the end of the year to make good on a commitment to its artificial intelligence partner OpenAI Group PBC." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/22/report-softbank-scrambles-find-22-5b-openai-end-year/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:35:26

• "Hunt said Microsoft will combine AI and algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/microsofts-bold-goal-replace-1b-lines-of-c-c-with-rust/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:35:40

• "One of the researchers the State Department says is banned and now deportable, is Imran Ahmed, who runs the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/850067/us-sanctions-thierry-breton-content-moderation-censorship | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:35:58

• "USDS and 18F were genuine success stories. Obama-era programs that brought engineers from Silicon Valley into government to help all Americans by modernizing creaking federal systems." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/23/trump-admin-reinvents-us-digital-services-program-after-elon-musk-fired-all-their-actual-tech-experts/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:36:12

• "The five Europeans were identified by Sarah Rogers, the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, in a series of social media posts." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20251224-us-bars-five-europeans-over-alleged-pressure-on-tech-firms-to-censor-speech | Source: France24    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:36:26

• "immoral, unlawful, and un-American" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/us-bans-ex-eu-commissioner-others-over-social-media-rules/a-75291190 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:36:40

• "uncrewed aircraft systems" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/849460/fcc-foreign-drone-ban-dji-congress-deadline | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:37:08

• "Intersect’s website states that its completed and ongoing energy infrastructure projects represent 10.8 gigawatts of power generation capacity." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/22/alphabet-acquires-renewable-energy-company-intersect-4-75b/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:37:23

• "Before the 1979 Revolution, Iran Air (known as the “Homa”) was one of the fastest-growing and most prestigious airlines in the world." ☛ https://www.vintag.es/2025/12/iranian-flight-attendants.html | Source: Vintage Everyday    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:37:36

• "The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/top-doj-official-halts-crypto-enforcement-while-holding-over-150000-in-crypto-assets/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:37:51

• "The Fisk power plant is among a growing number of ⁠so-called "peaker" electric generating units being pressed into duty across the U.S." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/ai-data-centers-are-forcing-obsolete-peaker-power-plants-back-into-service/articleshow/126141115.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:38:06

• "A former coal mine in western Maryland has recently been transformed into the state’s largest solar farm and now generates enough electricity to supply power to more than 30,000 homes." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/energy/abandoned-coal-mine-solar-farm | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:38:17

• "It was a dazzling sight to behold as the destruction streaked across the sky, like something from science fiction." ☛ https://futurism.com/space/elon-musk-starship-explosion-endangered-airline-passengers | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:38:30

• "The documents include records of Epstein’s private jet flights and social contacts from that period, in which Trump’s name is cited among several public figures." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/epstein-files-donald-trump-president-love-for-young-girls-larry-nassar-letter-ghislaine-maxwell-shocking-revelations-101766538559620.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:38:44

• "The most concrete new detail is an internal email dated January 7, 2020" ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/trump-in-new-epstein-files-jet-flights-to-mar-a-lago-subpoena-5-takeaways-9912679 | Source: NDTV    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:39:03

• "Earthjustice" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/this-ojibwe-band-is-suing-to-stop-a-pipeline-from-polluting-their-wetland-home/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:39:23

• "Even before the Department of Justice’s release of a major collection of files pertaining to late billionaire sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein," ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/photos-deleted-epstein-files | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:39:58

• "The Trump administration's Epstein file dump has turned into a slow-motion train wreck with the U.S. Department of Justice" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/23/doj-releases-and-removes-epstein-documents-implicating-trump.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:40:10

• "However, errors in the way files were processed and uploaded have permitted people with moderate technical skills to circumvent redactions, exposing previously blocked text." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/incompetent-trump-administration-filing-error-allows-public-unredact-epstein-files-1765246 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:40:24

• "The coalition of states, led by Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield" ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/12/23/repub/democratic-states-sue-trump-administration-for-attempts-to-defund-consumer-watchdog-agency/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:40:44

• "Epstein Flight Records" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-12-23/trump-traveled-on-epsteins-plane-many-more-times-than-previously-thought-according-to-new-documents.html | Source: El País    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:41:07

• "Trump and Epstein shared flights with two people whom the DOJ described as “possible witnesses” in a criminal case against Ghislaine Maxwell" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/doj-releases-new-epstein-files-with-disclaimer-attempting-to-exonerate-trump/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:41:39

• "These details alone are a lot to take in. That they are just a few needles of newsworthy information in a PDF haystack is dizzying." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/holiday-epstein-purgatory/685435/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:41:54

• "The claim is part of an unclassified FBI intake form from October 2020 ... and the document says someone called the FBI National Threat Operations Center Unit to report potential information related to Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell." ☛ https://www.tmz.com/2025/12/23/trump-accused-rape-jeffrey-epstein-files/ | Source: TMZ    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:42:21

• "The most concrete new detail is an internal email dated January 7, 2020, in which a New York prosecutor said flight records showed Trump took eight trips on Epstein’s private jet between 1993 and 1996" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/trump-in-the-epstein-files-five-takeaways-from-latest-release-1819931831 | Source: RTL    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:42:51

• "underlining his close ties to the disgraced financier who was already a convicted sex offender when the more serious trafficking case began." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/thousands-of-new-epstein-linked-documents-released-by-us-justice-dept-2004561931 | Source: RTL    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:43:16

• "the newly released files include several references to Trump, who has sought to distance himself as much as possible from Epstein and his crimes." ☛ https://www.telesurenglish.net/newly-released-epstein-files-cite-multiple-flights-with-trump-in-the-1990/ | Source: teleSUR    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:43:31

• "reveal investigators identified potential co-conspirators whose names have not been publicly revealed" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-epstein-plane-doj-files-b2889315.html | Source: The Independent UK https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/20/Did_Bill_Gates_Lobby_to_Blur_the_Face_of_the_Young_Woman_He_Ope.shtml    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:44:35

• "It was launched in 2016 by Chinese tech company ByteDance for the local market, where it is called Douyin. The international version, TikTok, was released in 2017." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/21/tiktok-what-to-knonw/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:45:06

• "TikTok refugees" ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/rednote-welcomed-people-fleeing-tiktok-is-a-wave-of-under-16-refugees-possible/j4ca99snb | Source: SBS    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:45:15

• "TikTok remains in the States, owned by the same Chinese company lawmakers warned would gravely endanger US national security" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/845838/2025-year-end-government-doge | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:45:31

• "Tuesday’s report, which cites two people familiar with the company’s plans" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/23/tiktok-parent-bytedance-beef-ai-spending-23b-next-year/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:46:03

• "stringent on paper but increasingly difficult to enforce in practice once hardware passes through layers of intermediaries." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidias-biggest-sea-customer-exposes-the-limits-of-us-ai-export-controls | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:46:14

• "The Notice therefore concludes that tariffs on Chinese chips are appropriate, but not urgent because the document sets them at zero percent until mid-2027." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/us_china_chip_tariffs/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:46:25

• "Britain’s vote to leave the EU came off the backs of net migration numbers that were the highest on the record." ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/12/britain-is-blind-on-immigration-statistics | Source: New Statesman    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:47:50

• "attempt to use the military on Americans" ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/473434/supreme-court-trump-national-guard | Source: Vox    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:47:58

• "Samir Hashmi, a New Jersey resident, was part of the Rutgers Muslim Student Association during the late 2000s." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/nypd-sued-over-possible-records-collected-through-muslim-spying-program/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:48:05

• "Asked what Chaos Theory reveals about Russia’s military objectives in Ukraine" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/12/23/architects-of-chaos-theory | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:48:11

• "TPUSA wanted to project that it is still a force to be reckoned with, still the center or conservative youth organizing." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/tpusa-america-fest-right-candace-owens-1235489753/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:48:19

• "Proton Moving Out of Switzerland" ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/12/22/proton-moving-out-of-switzerland/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:48:44

• "Chinese web giant Baidu on Monday announced that a pilot of its Apollo Go robo-ride service will take place in the UK’s capital sometime in the first half of 2026, with help from Uber." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/london_robo_taxi_trials_2026/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:48:54

• "In October, California passed an age-verification regulation that Apple and Google supported because it was less onerous than other state laws." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/technology/texas-app-age-law-blocked.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:58:36

• "The core of the problem lies in a direct and irreconcilable legal conflict." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/europe_gets_serious_about_cutting/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 06:58:46

• Windows TCO: "rendered its online services inaccessible." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/cyberattack-disrupts-frances-postal-service-banking-during-christmas-rush/articleshow/126123399.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:00:05

• Windows TCO: "Denmark Accuses Russia of Conducting Two Cyberattacks" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/denmark-accuses-russia-of-conducting-two-cyberattacks.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:00:15

• Also Windows TCO: "It's not clear exactly what has befallen the screen." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/pizzaexpress_bork/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:00:38

• Windows TCO: "According to the most recent update from La Poste, the DDoS attack was still ongoing as of today." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/23/ddos-attack-knocks-frances-postal-service-la-poste-offline-holiday-peak/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:02:42

• at 9:55 UTC https://arenan.yle.fi/1-74447953    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:02:59

• Windows TCO: "In a statement on Monday, La Poste said that a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) incident knocked key digital systems offline." ☛ https://therecord.media/la-poste-france-ddos-disruption-days-before-christmas | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:03:09

• "For years, this ICE team had run like a routine government communications shop, dispensing public service announcements and news releases few Americans would see." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/ice-social-media-blitz/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:03:47

• "Put your math hats on for a minute, and let’s take a look at what this beef from mid-October was about." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/23/1130393/how-social-media-encourages-the-worst-of-ai-boosterism/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:03:58

• "lawsuit against state media regulator Roskomnadzor and the Digital Development Ministry over call restrictions on both messaging apps, Russian media reported Tuesday." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/12/23/telegram-and-whatsapp-users-file-class-action-lawsuit-against-roskomnadzor-a91525 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:04:21

• "Super Learner is an ensemble machine learning algorithm that optimally combines predictions from multiple candidate algorithms to create a single ensembled model." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/my-messy-notes-on-building-a-super-learner-peeking-under-the-hood-of-nnls/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:04:43

• "Here in the Middle West, we’ve already enjoyed two excellent snowstorms." ☛ https://www.jamesreeves.co/holiday-lullaby/ |    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:04:54

• "Lately, I’ve been thinking about the many metaphors we use as shorthand for describing and understanding large language models (LLMs)." ☛ https://seanvoisen.com/thinking/2025-12-21-a-bestiary-of-ai-metaphors/ | Source: Sean Voisen    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:05:04

• "The company made 80 times as many reports to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children during the first six months of 2025 as it did in the same period a year prior." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/openai-child-safety-reports-ncmec/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:07:05

• "The background is the sharp increase in demand for HBM memory for AI data centers" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3019586/pc-prices-could-rise-by-8-in-2026-due-to-memory-shortages.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:07:17

• "The ride-hailing service remained offline Sunday afternoon and tow truck operators said they had been towing Waymos for hours overnight." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/us/waymo-suspended-service-in-san-francisco-after-problems-during-power-outage.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:08:00

• "As prices for DDR5 RAM get ever higher and availability becomes ever scarcer" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/unlucky-amazon-shopper-orders-ddr5-memory-but-gets-ddr4-hidden-under-the-heatspreader-ram-sold-as-new-was-a-switcharoo | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:08:10

• "companies now only need two, plus a large language model (LLM)." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/software-developers-ai-jobs | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:08:21

• "Stanford computer science graduates are discovering their degrees no longer guarantee jobs as AI coding tools now outpace entry-level programmers." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-12-19/they-graduated-from-stanford-due-to-ai-they-cant-find-job | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:08:49

• "Economic analysts and historians of previous industrial frenzies" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/artificial-intelligence-ai-bubble-bursts-humans-take-back-control | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:09:04

• "If I were to locate the moment slop broke through into popular consciousness, I’d pick the video of rabbits bouncing on a trampoline that went viral this summer." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/23/1130396/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-ai-slop/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:09:27

• "Waymo vehicles should be able to call up a human agent for a remote response if they get confused or are unable to operate." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/waymo-robotaxi-san-francisco-blackout/685393/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:10:00

• [Old] "It's unclear why the notarization requirements are so lax, and whether that will change in the future." ☛ https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/notarization2.html | Source: Lap Cat Software    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:15:10

• "security theater" ☛ https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/12/5.html | Source: Lap Cat Software    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:15:24

• "The company which popularized robot vacuum cleaners around the world has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy." ☛ https://www.engadget.com/home/what-happened-to-irobot-can-happen-to-anyone-164500625.html?guccounter=1 | Source: Engadget    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:16:10

• "As the year draws to an end now is a good time to review where we are with Europe’s cloud situation, and what has been achieved." ☛ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-european-cloud-2025/ | Source: Bert Hubert    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:16:26

• "Many iOS apps collect data about their users to deliver personalized ads." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/22/apple-fined-116m-italy-att-privacy-feature-ios/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:16:41

• "I’m looking forward to Apple’s blog post about how easier Bluetooth pairing will put users at risk. The notification forwarding was previously announced" ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/12/23/ios-26-3-proximity-pairing-in-eu/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:16:52

• "It’s also hard not to see this move as a way to juice the numbers for iOS 26 adoption, given how widely panned the release has been." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/upgrading-to-ios-26-to-fix-security-issues/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:17:10

• "A list of things I might dump in 2026: [...]" ☛ https://mark.hysted.com/things-i-might-dump-in-2026 | Source: Mark Hysted    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:18:21

• "This caution follows a recent survey revealing that over a third of adults had turned to AI chatbots for help with their wellbeing." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/mental-health-nhs-chatbots-ai-b2889744.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:18:34

• "Since memory makes up about a fifth of a ‌PC's total component ‍costs, this hits manufacturers hard" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/how-ai-boom-is-pressuring-videogame-console-industry-in-race-for-memory-chips/articleshow/126124668.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:18:56

• "As memory prices continue to rise, it is time engineers reconsidered their applications and toolchains' voracious appetite for memory" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/memory_software_opinion/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:19:14

• "These classes are seen as important developmental building blocks — teaching children skills such as emotional intelligence, building resilience, cooperation and active listening." ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/this-country-has-been-crowned-the-worlds-happiest-for-decades-experts-reveal-why/ry4x69t97 | Source: SBS    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:20:36

• "The Hjortspring boat was nearly 66 feet long, and it could hold 24 men with their weapons and gear." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-mysterious-hjortspring-boat-that-sank-in-denmark-2400-years-ago-is-still-revealing-its-secrets-180987880/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:21:02

• "I sometimes wish I’d grown up in the era of written letters, or that email and long-form written correspondences were more fashionable than they currently are." ☛ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/22/Letters-Are-Still-an-Option/ | Source: Ben Congdon    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:21:27

• "Last night, I spent a couple of hours closing out random accounts in my password manager." ☛ https://brandons-journal.com/thoughts-while-digital-cleaning | Source: Brandon    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:29:30

• "And the second is to make sure it all rhymes." ☛ https://seths.blog/2025/12/random-access/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:29:42

• "What happened was, a faucet started dripping." ☛ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/18/Humanist-Plumbing | Source: Tim Bray    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:29:53

• "Walk through any modern city and the ancient Mediterranean rises to meet you. A courthouse fronted by columns." ☛ https://machaddr.com/blog/articles/2025-12-23-greco-roman-legacy/ | Source: André Machado    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:30:06

• "This is the inverse of my recent post about stuff I'd like to dump in 2026. Here is the list of stuff I'd like to spend more time on next year." ☛ https://mark.hysted.com/things-i-will-spend-more-time-on-in-2026 | Source: Mark Hysted    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:30:17

• "Whenever possible, flour should be measured using a scale." ☛ https://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2025-12-22/nestle-vs-wakefield-comparing-two-versions-of-the-toll-house-chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe | Source: Peter Hosey    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:30:56

• "Skyrocketing prices and stagnating real wages are forcing more and more pubs to shut their doors." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/12/german-pub-bar-closures/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:31:30

• "On December 30, PostNord will deliver its last letter in Denmark." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/denmarks-postal-service-is-about-to-stop-delivering-physical-letters-after-400-years-180987918/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:32:18

• "Fifty years after the release of Pink Floyd‘s Wish You Were Here, the band returned earlier this month with a massive anniversary box set to celebrate the landmark 1975 album." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pink-floyd-wish-you-were-here-video-1235490181/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:32:39

• "BMW sees screws you can turn as a problem" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/bmw-sees-screws-you-can-turn-as-a:2 iophk: physical DRM + patents    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:33:55

• "What Did Jeffrey Epstein Know About Donald Trump?" https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/what-did-jeffrey-epstein-know-about    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:34:06

• "Trump appoints envoy to Greenland, ignites backlash from Denmark" https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/trump-appoints-envoy-to-greenland-ignites-backlash-from-denmark/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:34:15

• "Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry selected by Trump to be special envoy to Greenland | Alabama Reflector" https://alabamareflector.com/2025/12/23/repub/louisiana-gov-jeff-landry-selected-by-trump-to-be-special-envoy-to-greenland/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:34:25

• "Denmark fumes over new US envoy to Greenland" https://www.dw.com/en/denmark-fumes-over-new-us-envoy-to-greenland/a-75267414    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:34:36

• Words of warning from history | "Varningens ord från historien" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/12/23/varningens-ord-fran-historien/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:35:01

• "Justice department says some Epstein files include ‘untrue and sensationalist’ claims against Trump – US politics live" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/dec/23/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-files-andrew-ghislaine-maxwell-us-politics-live-news-updates    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:35:12

• "Creating Apps Like Signal or WhatsApp Could be 'Hostile Activity,' Claims UK Watchdog" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/21/0915233    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:35:22

• "Communities Are Rising Up Against Data Centers — and Winning" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/21/099243    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:35:33

• "(Not) Home for Christmas" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/23/not-home-for-christmas/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:35:42

• "Is Trump going to pardon Maxwell?" https://www.vox.com/podcasts/473264/ghislaine-maxwell-trump-pardon-jeff-epstein    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:35:51

• "Brace Yourselves for Trump’s New Monroe Doctrine" https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-monroe-doctrine-venezuela/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:36:00

• "Vance declines to condemn bigotry as conservatives feud at Turning Point" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-12-21/vance-declines-to-condemn-bigotry-as-conservatives-feud-at-turning-point    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:36:11

• "If you’d like a Halfway to Mars button that looks right on any reasonable device and not just your average desktop computer, download all three files and put this HTML on your page: [...]" gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/images/self-promotion/2px%20bottom%20right/Geneva%209/88×31%20(Buttons)/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:37:48

• "Here's my gaming year, according to Norn, the IRC + Discord + calendar bot I run." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-12-23-gaming    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:38:23

• "The way she was describing herself today. And describing her dog, "a dog of a girl in her twenties", and how he's the first baby of her friend group." gemini://ieve.me/squall/4.gmi    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:39:09

• "Daughter did something for the first time. She walked up the steps, gently entered my room, and just instantly treated me like I or Evy treat her when she's hurting or crying. She held my hand." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2025-12-24-love.txt    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:40:45

• "Tea is the drink of wizards, sojourners, and fearsome twelve-year olds (like I once was) alike. It has both coffee's energy and wine's allure. For those it suffices, connoiseurship of tea is more prestigious than oenophilia and can be even more expensive." gemini://beyond-mundanity.com/on_tea.gmi    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:41:28

• Here's our 2025 GOTY picks | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/heres-our-2025-goty-picks/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/heres-our-2025-goty-picks/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:49:48

• Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from GamingOnLinux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/happy-holidays-merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year-from-gamingonlinux/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:50:03

• Kubernetes v1.35: Kubelet Configuration Drop-in Directory Graduates to GA ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/12/22/kubernetes-v1-35-kubelet-config-drop-in-directory-ga/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:51:26

• "The domain industry is facing a challenge we don’t talk about enough." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/24/domain-connect-a-missing-piece-in-the-dns-toolbox/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:52:02

• "Today’s post is something of a follow-up." ☛ https://austingil.com/every-css-named-color-organized-by-palette/ | Source: Austin Gil    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:54:03

• Dolphin Emulator 2512 fixed SD & added Logitech Microphone Emulation ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/12/dolphin-2512-logitech-microphone-emulation/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:54:59

• "The biggest thing for me this year was the new LernerPython site." ☛ https://lerner.co.il/2025/12/23/reuvens-2025-in-review/ | Source: Reuven Lerner    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:55:52

• "You are given an array of strings." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/binary-match.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:57:58

• "Note: this is a "script" for a podcast that I recently recorded, as such it's more conversational and less technical than the usual content of this blog. Not a single code block in sight..." ☛ https://blog.daniel-beskin.com/2025-12-22-the-compiler-is-your-best-friend-stop-lying-to-it | Source: Daniel Beskin    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:58:16

• "In preparation for a future project, I was thinking about at the unix find utility." ☛ https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/12/23/ | Source: Chris Wellons    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:58:29

• "I just published a new gem: ratatui_ruby, which offers Ratatui bindings for Ruby." ☛ https://kerrick.blog/posts/2025/ratatui-bindings-for-ruby/ | Source: Kerrick Long    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:58:43

• [Old] "I’m working on a somewhat intricate C++ project (a persistent storage manager)" ☛ https://jens.mooseyard.com/2021/09/16/easy-type-safe-integer-types-in-c-/ |    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:59:04

• [Old] "Today I’d like to talk about generating random trees. First, some imports and such (this post is literate Haskell)." ☛ https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/random-binary-trees-with-a-size-limited-critical-boltzmann-sampler-2/ |    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:59:17

• "Now back to the coding adventures. Here they go: [...]" ☛ https://susam.net/code-2025.html | Source: SusamPal    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:59:35

• "Every package manager has its own lockfile format. Gemfile.lock, package-lock.json, yarn.lock, Cargo.lock, poetry.lock, composer.lock, go.sum." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/23/could-lockfiles-just-be-sboms.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 07:59:50

• "To fix this, all you need to do is enable the extension in PhpStorm's settings: [...]" ☛ https://svenluijten.com/articles/enable-intellisense-for-php-extensions-in-phpstorm | Source: Sven Luijten    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:00:04

• "Fabrice Bellard, founder of QEMU and FFmpeg, has published Micro QuickJS, a minimal JavaScript engine targeting embedded and low-memory environments." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/qemu-and-ffmpeg-founder-introduces-micro-quickjs-javascript-engine/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:00:15

• "Lastly, when courts pick and choose which parts of a statute to retain, they leave portions of the statute functioning as they had been." ☛ https://alexgaynor.net/2025/dec/22/unsafe-defaults-statutory-severability/ | Source: Alex Gaynor    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:01:18

• "Despite some outliers, “open source” did not meaningfully exist as a concept before 1998." ☛ https://openpath.quest/2025/osi-really-did-initiate-open-source/ | Source: Chad Whitacre    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:01:33

• [Old] "If you talk to your company’s lawyer or legal department early on — before you start your project, or at least at a time that you can later plausibly claim not to have started it on" ☛ https://jens.mooseyard.com/1997/04/13/they-made-me-an-offer-i-couldnt-refuse/ |    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:01:50

• "The US legal profession was just one of the pillars of American democracy that was targeted in the early days of the second Trump administration." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/fight-against-presidential-targeting-law-firms-2025-review | Source: EFF    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:02:07

• "Description: Missing data poses a challenge in many applied research settings." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/a-practical-introduction-to-multiple-imputation-of-missing-data-with-the-r-package-mice-workshop/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:02:57

• "And 2026 is just around the corner and we'll kick off the year right out of the gate on 15.1. with a meetup at Valohai." ☛ https://archipylago.dev/blog/merry-christmas/ | Source: Archipylago    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:03:07

• "In my last post, I argued that WordPress needs to become a “Base AI”" ☛ https://joost.blog/vibe-coding-trap-design-system/ | Source: Joost de Valk    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:05:47

• "They seeded the comments with Mozilla employees being really excited about the feature!" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/23/firefox-browser-falls-to-ai-what-do-we-do-now/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:06:34

• "So, this past weekend, in a very short time (it took me about twenty minutes)" ☛ https://mzll.it/2025/12/even-if-you-are-lazy/ | Source: Luigi Mozzillo    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:07:00

• "In my links I have now added a new category, "Feed aggregator" for this." ☛ https://box.matto.nl/new-category-in-the-links.html | Source: MJ Fransen    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:07:18

• "Since at some point during 2025, all the other authors in the project have now added more lines in total to the curl repository than I have." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/23/a-curl-2025-review/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:07:28

• "This is a reading of RFC 9111 (2022), the latest iteration of the HTTP Caching standard." ☛ https://danburzo.ro/http-caching-refresher/ | Source: Dan Cătălin Burzo    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:07:38

• "Navidrome is a web-based music server and player written in Go, with a UI that’s reminiscient of iTunes." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/trying-navidrome-on-freebsd/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:08:02

• "Two things changed all that." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/23/kansas-resident-patrick-roach-successfully-sues-verizon-for-refusing-to-unlock-his-phone-and-wins/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:08:35

• "Users in Uzbekistan are being targeted by Android SMS stealer malware" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/uzbek-users-android-sms-stealers | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:08:45

• "On 30 October, the focus shifted from global to regional at the ROS-Industrial Consortium Asia Pacific Summit, held in conjunction with SWITCH and ROSCon." ☛ https://rosindustrial.org/news/2025/12/21/roscon-2025-amp-ric-ap-summit-2025-blog-series-singapores-defining-week-for-open-source-robotics | Source: ROS Industrial    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:09:27

• "Even more involved is modifying the game engine to output vectors, which has been done here or here, for Quake." ☛ https://www.xythobuz.de/osci_video_pcb.html | Source: Thomas Buck    

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

• "Once, repairing things was common. As a teenager I had a weekend job understudying TV and AV repair in a local shop. I quickly learned that repair work is quite formulaic." ☛ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/machinelove/ | Source: The Cyber Show    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:12:05

• "The subsequent discussion got me to try out dgit" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/DgitOnUbuntuEarlyNotes | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:12:25

• "Typically, over the years, I've mostly used "big names" distros for my serious workloads." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/mx-25-xfce.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:12:51

• "Initially, SUSE, later on, flavors of Ubuntu. There's one exception to this rule: MX Linux. I've used it mostly on my low-end devices, like the eeePC, and it has delivered quite admirably so far. The reason why I was willing to step out of my rather strict norm is the combination of many various qualities that MX Linux has"    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:13:06

• "Last month, we wrote about the remarkable discovery of a forgotten tape with a lost early version of Unix" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/unix_v4_tape_successfully_recovered/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:13:31

• "Tóth’s setup has received a major upgrade" ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/rats-trained-shoot-demons-doom | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:13:52

• "So now, I can have quotes like what you saw above, but also quotes like this: [...]" ☛ https://cassidoo.co/post/css-quote-attr/ | Source: Cassidy Williams    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:18:15

• "For safety you may want to do this in a copy of your repository." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/DgitForwardPortingChanges | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:18:21

• "After introducing how graphics drivers work in general" ☛ https://timur.hu/blog/2025/understanding-your-linux-open-source-drivers |    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:18:39

• "Several legacy components have been removed. The long-deprecated -old-param option is gone, and the Arm PXA CPU family has been fully removed." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/qemu-10-2-expands-risc-v-powerpc-and-s390x-emulation-capabilities/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:19:27

• "FreeBSD continues to make strides in desktop support, but Linux still holds an advantage in hardware compatibility." ☛ https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/22/void-linux-zfs-hibernation-guide/ | Source: Stefano Marinelli    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:19:37

• "Most books and courses introduce Linux through shell commands, leaving the kernel as a mysterious black box doing magic behind the scenes." ☛ https://serversfor.dev/linux-inside-out/the-linux-kernel-is-just-a-program/ |    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:19:47

• "This week Noah and Steve work on Steve's house, a new automated lock system goes in" ☛ https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/472 | Source: The Ask Noah Show    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:20:18

• The Lighthouse at the Edge of the Digital Sea ☞ https://jxself.org/lighthouse.shtml    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:23:22

• Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors ☞ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/dec/23/seven-abbott-freestyle-libre-cgm-patients-dead/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:24:11

• Nursing Home Explosion in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Leaves Multiple Injured ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/explosion-bristol-nursing-home.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:25:38

• Opinion | Congress, don’t give us a lump of lost health care coal ☞ https://bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-congress-dont-give-us-a-lump-of-lost-health-care-coal/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:25:51

• Opinion | Michigan’s auto no-fault reforms are working and saving drivers money ☞ https://bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-michigans-auto-no-fault-reforms-are-working-and-saving-drivers-money/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:25:59

• Doctor suspended from Bauska Hospital over malpractice suspicions ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/23.12.2025-doctor-suspended-from-bauska-hospital-over-malpractice-suspicions.a627699/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:26:09

• North Korea’s Kim tours hot tubs, BBQ joints at lavish new mountain resort ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/n-koreas-kim-visits-hot-tubs-bbq-joints-at-lavish-new-mountain-resort    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:26:48

• Families in South Korea want answers a year after Jeju Air crash ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/families-in-south-korea-want-answers-a-year-after-jeju-air-crash    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:27:02

• Professors in South Korea took students’ exams to avoid department shutdown ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/professors-in-south-korea-took-students-exams-to-avoid-department-shutdown    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:27:41

• Cheap childcare? South Korea’s Filipina caregiver programme found it wasn’t ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/cheap-childcare-south-koreas-filipina-caregiver-programme-found-it-wasnt    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:28:21

• iophk: The Telegraph is blocking an increasing number of articles using javascript. Opening the page source shows only a few lines of metadata whereof one links to an external javascript, nothing else.    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:29:04

• Thailand-Cambodia border meeting in doubt over venue row ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodia-asks-thailand-to-move-border-talks-to-malaysia    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:29:14

• Malaysia’s PM Anwar calls for respect, patience after Najib’s house arrest bid denied ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-pm-anwar-calls-for-respect-patience-after-najibs-house-arrest-bid-denied    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:29:21

• Global passenger processing system at Malaysia airports restored after temporary disruptions ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-airports-says-global-passenger-processing-system-experiencing-temporary-disruptions    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:29:35

• Malaysia downplays Nilai homemade blast amid regional jitters over recent attacks ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-downplays-nilai-homemade-blast-amid-regional-jitters-over-recent-attacks    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:29:57

• Man finds snake in Malaysia toilet ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/man-finds-snake-in-malaysia-toilet    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 08:30:09

• The Hague dispatch: international tribunal finds Taliban’s treatment of women amounts to crimes against humanity ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/the-hague-dispatch-international-tribunal-finds-talibans-treatment-of-women-constitutes-crimes-against-humanity/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:22:00

• China Delays Plans for Mass Production of Self-Driving Cars After Accident ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/business/china-autonomous-cars-driving.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:22:23

• Disputed Myanmar election wins China’s vote of confidence ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/disputed-myanmar-election-wins-chinas-vote-of-confidence    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:22:56

• China’s second attempt at completing a reusable rocket test fails ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-second-attempt-at-completing-a-reusable-rocket-test-fails    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:23:17

• China implies US hypocrisy over nuclear disarmament ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-implies-us-hypocrisy-over-nuclear-disarmament    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:23:27

• China delays plans for mass production of self-driving cars after accident ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-delays-plans-for-mass-production-of-self-driving-cars-after-accident    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:26:37

• US delays announcement of China chip tariffs until 2027 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-delays-announcement-of-china-chip-tariffs-until-20271    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:27:00

• Ten former Samsung employees ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ten-former-samsung-employees-arrested-for-industrial-espionage-charges-for-giving-china-chipmaker-10nm-tech-executives-and-researchers-allegedly-leaked-dram-technology-to-china-based-cxmt-resulting-in-trillions-of-losses-in-korean-won    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:27:50

• Nvidia prepares shipment of 82,000 Hey Hi (AI) GPUs to China as chip war lines blur — H200 shipments with 25% tax to begin as US loosens restrictions ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/nvidia-prepares-h200-shipments-to-china-as-chip-war-lines-blur    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:28:12

• China condemns US seizure of Venezuela oil tankers ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/china-condemns-us-seizure-of-venezuela-oil-tankers/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:33:08

• China’s foreign affairs ministry in Hong Kong summons UK, US representatives over remarks on Jimmy Lai conviction ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/23/chinas-foreign-affairs-ministry-in-hong-kong-summons-uk-us-representatives-over-remarks-on-jimmy-lai-conviction/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:33:45

• EU condemns China’s dairy duties as ‘unjustified’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/23/eu-condemns-chinas-dairy-duties-as-unjustified/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:34:19

• Opinion: Could Mexico make America great again? A primer on China ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/opinion/opinion-could-mexico-make-america-great-again-china/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:35:00

• postmarketOS 25.12 Brings GNOME 49, Plasma Mobile 6.5, and Phosh 0.51 ☞ https://linuxiac.com/postmarketos-25-12-brings-gnome-49-plasma-mobile-6-5-and-phosh-0-51/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:36:11

• Kubernetes v1.35: Fine-grained Supplemental Groups Control Graduates to GA ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/12/23/kubernetes-v1-35-fine-grained-supplementalgroups-control-ga/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:36:50

• Docker Update Tool Watchtower Reaches End of Maintenance ☞ https://linuxiac.com/docker-update-tool-watchtower-reaches-end-of-maintenance/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:44:05

• Destination Linux 447: GNU/Linux Hits 5%! 2025 Year in Review & 2026 Bold Predictions (ft. Máirín Duffy) ☞ https://destinationlinux.net/447    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:45:04

• which Command in GNU/Linux with Examples ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/which-command-in-linux-with-examples/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:50:55

• How to Use the Batch Command in GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-use-the-batch-command-in-linux/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:51:04

• How to equip Canada’s defense industrial base to meet NATO’s Hague summit commitments ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/how-to-equip-canadas-defense-industrial-base-to-meet-natos-hague-summit-commitments/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:51:37

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

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:52:29

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

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:52:44

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

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:52:59

• How To Install Lua Scripting Language on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-lua-scripting-language-debian-13/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:53:30

• 'Linux' Foundation Makes $300 Million in 2025, Spends 2.6% on Linux, Says "AI is the Future" ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-foundation-makes-300-million    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:53:52

• “Times are getting tougher”: Rote Hilfe Berlin on repression by Convicted Felon and two German banks ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2025/12/23/times-are-getting-tougher-rote-hilfe-berlin-on-account-terminations-by-two-german-banks/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:54:44

• Entry/Exit System: New EU super-database launches with outages and other problems ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2025/12/23/entry-exit-system-new-eu-super-database-launches-with-outages-and-other-problems/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:54:53

• Recommended Reading: The Trademark Reporter, November-December 2025 Issue ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/12/recommended-reading-trademark-reporter.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:55:38

• GNOME Files (Nautilus) extension for git gui/gitk ☞ https://yingtongli.me/blog/2025/12/23/nautilus-git.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:56:15

• Mary Bono Files Appeal Following Momentous Cher Copyright Victory ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/22/mary-bono-appeal-cher-victory/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:56:59

• After release, some 20 Belarusian political prisoners plan to stay in Lithuania ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2784238/after-release-some-20-belarusian-political-prisoners-plan-to-stay-in-lithuania    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:57:20

• "Internet restrictions tighten" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/12/23/blind-russians-lose-access-to-accessibility-app-be-my-eyes-as-internet-restrictions-tighten | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:57:55

• The Strange Case of the Russian Snickers in U.K. Convenience Shops ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/world/europe/russian-snickers-candy-britain-trade.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:58:25

• Denmark Accuses Russia of Conducting Two Cyberattacks ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/denmark-accuses-russia-of-conducting-two-cyberattacks.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:58:49

• Lithuanian court jails three for defacing anti-Soviet partisan monument ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2784124/lithuanian-court-jails-three-for-defacing-anti-soviet-partisan-monument    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:59:13

• Ukraine Withdraws From Eastern Town, Complicating Negotiating Stance ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/world/europe/ukraine-russia-peace-plan-strikes.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:59:41

• Ukrainians discouraged by corruption, yet encouraged there’s a solution ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/1222/ukraine-corruption-battle-war-progress-zelenskyy    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 10:59:52

• Myanmar nationals caught with 10 drones in Bangkok: Police ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmar-nationals-caught-with-10-drones-in-bangkok-police    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:00:11

• Russia Strikes Kyiv, Energy Targets As Zelenskyy Warns Of Possible Christmas Attacks ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-war-attacks-kyiv-zelenskyy/33630709.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:00:21

• Russia attacks Ukraine energy sector with drones and missiles strikes ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251223-russia-attacks-ukraine-energy-sector-with-drones-and-missiles-strikes    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:00:34

• 'Carol of the Bells' also known as the Ukrainian Christmas anthem ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251223-carol-of-the-bells-also-known-as-the-ukrainian-christmas-anthem    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:00:46

• France probes cyberattack on postal service claimed by pro-Russian hackers ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20251223-france-probes-cyberattack-on-postal-service-claimed-by-pro-russian-hackers    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:00:54

• Pope calls for Christmas Day truce, laments Russia’s rejection ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251223-pope-calls-for-christmas-day-truce-laments-russia-rejection    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:01:08

• Ukraine withdraws troops from eastern town amid deadly Russian strikes ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251223-ukraine-withdraws-troops-deadly-russian-strikes    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:01:22

• Letters Are Still an Option ☞ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/22/Letters-Are-Still-an-Option/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:02:29

• Jonathan Dowland: Remarkable ☞ https://jmtd.net/log/remarkable/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:03:26

• U.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/technology/trump-rubio-european-tech-disinformation-digital-services-act.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:04:32

• Modder builds giant Game Boy featuring a dreamy electroluminescent screen driven by custom graphics adapter ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/modder-builds-giant-game-boy-featuring-a-dreamy-electroluminescent-screen-driven-by-custom-graphics-adapter-diy-retro-console-is-fully-functional-with-working-buttons    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:05:14

• HackyPi 2.0 hacking tool gets ESP32-S3 for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/23/hackypi-2-0-hacking-tool-esp32-s3-for-wi-fi-and-bluetooth-connectivity/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:09:35

• CrowPanel Advanced 7inch Review – Part 1: ESP32-P4 HMI Hey Hi (AI) display hands-on with LVGL factory firmware ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/23/crowpanel-advanced-7inch-review-part-1-esp32-p4-hmi-ai-display-hands-on-with-lvgl-factory-firmware/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:09:50

• "Everyone loves tiny microcontroller boards, and the ESP32-C3 Super Mini boards are no exception." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/23/be-wary-of-flash-less-esp32-c3-super-mini-boards/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:10:26

• Americans Won’t Ban Kids from Social Media. What Can We Do Instead? ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/americans-wont-ban-kids-from-social-media-what-can-we-do-instead    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:10:59

• US bars five Europeans over alleged pressure on tech firms to censor speech ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20251224-us-bars-five-europeans-over-alleged-pressure-on-tech-firms-to-censor-speech    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:11:17

• Procedural Fairness in Patent Pleading: Federal Circuit Vacates Adnexus Dismissal ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/12/procedural-fairness-dismissal.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:11:52

• Should Abandoned Applications Be Presumed Enabling? Supreme Court Asks for Response ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/12/abandoned-applications-presumed.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:13:11

• Spam that is paid for; disguised as some sort of rankings ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/juve-patents-ones-to-watch-2025-the-full-overview/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:13:54

• US firms secure Asian implementers interim licence against Nokia in the UK ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/us-firms-secure-asian-implementers-interime-licence-against-nokia-in-the-uk/ http://techrights.org/wiki/Nokia/    

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

• UPC is illegal and JUVE knows it; some of the Judges are just corporate operatives in an unconstitutional tribunal run by patent extremists, facilitated by corrupt officials ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/legal-commentary/upc-adds-five-more-legally-qualified-judges-to-its-ranks/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:15:36

• Youth Hostels, Blood Banks, Yoga: How One Far-Right Network Spread Across the World ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/opinion/india-far-right-rss-hindu.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:16:23

• Lender fined by consumer watchdog ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/banks/23.12.2025-lender-fined-by-consumer-watchdog.a627610/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:16:53

• DDoS attack knocks France’s postal service La Poste offline during holiday peak ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/23/ddos-attack-knocks-frances-postal-service-la-poste-offline-holiday-peak/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:17:27

• Cyberattack Disrupts France’s Postal Service and Banking During Christmas Rush ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cyberattack-disrupts-frances-postal-service-and-banking-during-christmas-rush/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:17:42

• How in-place pod resizing boosts efficiency in OpenShift ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/23/how-place-pod-resizing-boosts-efficiency-openshift    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:18:44

• Domain Connect: A missing piece in the DNS toolbox ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/24/domain-connect-a-missing-piece-in-the-dns-toolbox/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:26:12

• A curl 2025 review ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/23/a-curl-2025-review/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:26:31

• That Tux Machines and Techrights are under attack by lawfare funded by third parties is neither a secret nor just a theory. But the important thing is, people are aware.    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:27:20

• That the sites are under attack and that the SRA is failing to deal with "hired guns" Brett Wilson LLP will be covered in a long series around Feb 2026.    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:28:35

• A New Look for Ruby's Documentation ☞ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/12/23/new-look-for-ruby-documentation/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:29:02

• EPO corruption coverage will resume next week. This is our priority.    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:29:50

• The IPv4 address swamp: The new normal ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/23/the-ipv4-address-swamp-the-new-normal/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:30:12

• Texas Age-Verification Law for App Stores Is Blocked, a Win for Fashion Company Apple and Surveillance Giant Google ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/technology/texas-app-age-law-blocked.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:30:52

• Parrot 7.0 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/parrot    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:35:05

• Italy Antitrust Agency Fines Fashion Company Apple $116 Million Over Privacy Feature; Fashion Company Apple Announces Appeal ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/italy-antitrust-agency-fines-apple-116-million-over-privacy-feature-apple-announces-appeal/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:36:08

• Medicaid paid more than $207 million for dead people. A new law could help fix that ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2025/12/medicaid-paid-more-than-207-million-for-dead-people-a-new-law-could-help-fix-that/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:36:50

• AFCON: Lookman strike gives Nigeria winning start against Tanzania ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/sport/20251223-afcon-lookman-strike-gives-nigeria-winning-start-against-tanzania    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:37:06

• Microsoft TCO ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/23/shai-hulud-malware-turns-developers-unwitting-distributors-npm-supply-chain-attacks/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:37:56

• Requiring iOS 26 to fix security issues ☞ https://rubenerd.com/upgrading-to-ios-26-to-fix-security-issues/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:42:14

• How to Install COSMIC Desktop on Ubuntu 24.04 (PPA) ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/install-cosmic-desktop-ubuntu-24-04-ppa    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:43:12

• Ghostty Terminal Adopts a Non-Profit Funding Model ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/ghostty-terminal-non-profit-fiscal-sponsorship    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:43:31

• Christmas Comes Early With elementary OS 8.1 Release ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/elementary-os-8-1-release/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:43:56

• GNUnet News: GNUnet 0.26.2 ☞ https://gnunet.org/en/news/2025-12-0.26.2.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:51:23

• "Can a long-obsolete Linux phone from 2009 be of use in 2025? [Yaky] has a Nokia N900, and is giving it a go." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/23/the-nokia-n900-updated-for-2025/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:51:52

• kirill – JSON validator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/kirill-json-validator/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:52:40

• postmarketOS 25.12 GNU/Linux Mobile OS Rolls Out Based on Alpine GNU/Linux 3.23 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/postmarketos-25-12-linux-mobile-os-rolls-out-based-on-alpine-linux-3-23    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:53:15

• Community Analysis: AGL BI Journey ☞ https://toscalix.com/2025/12/23/community-analysis-agl-bi-journey/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:53:39

• elementary OS 8.1 is Out, Now Uses Wayland by Default ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/elementary-os-8-1-is-out-and-it-now-uses-wayland-by-default    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:54:00

• Besgnulinux 3-2 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/besgnulinux    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:54:10

• Manjaro 25.1.0-rc1 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/manjaro    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:54:32

• Facebook deploys the Steam Deck's Linux scheduler across its data centers ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-deploys-the-steam-decks-linux-scheduler-across-its-data-centers-valves-low-latency-scheduler-perfect-for-managing-metas-workloads-at-massive-data-centers    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:55:44

• Vipnix 20251223 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/vipnix    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:56:15

• Gnoppix 26 is out as well☞ https://distrowatch.com/gnoppix    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:56:23

• Legacy AMD GPUs receive 30% performance boost in Linux with new drivers ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/legacy-amd-gpus-receive-30-percent-performance-boost-thanks-to-latest-linux-kernel-update-finally-drops-obsolete-radeon-graphics-driver-for-gcn-1-0-and-gcn-1-1-cards-after-more-than-two-decades    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:56:45

• Elementary OS 8.1 arrives with GNU/Linux 6.14 kernel and smoother multitasking ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/elementary-os-81-arrives-with-linux-614-kernel-and-smoother-multitasking/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:57:07

• Winux 11: A GNU/Linux Distribution Designed for backdoored Windows Users ☞ https://www.linux.org/threads/winux-11-a-linux-distribution-designed-for-windows-users.58122/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:58:10

• hyprdrover – lightweight session manager for the Hyprland compositor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hyprdrover-lightweight-session-manager-hyprland-compositor/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:58:49

• ascii-chat – video chat in your terminal ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ascii-chat-video-chat-terminal/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:58:56

• DankMaterialShell – desktop shell ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dankmaterialshell-desktop-shell/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:59:13

• Fingwit – configure fingerprint authentication ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fingwit-configure-fingerprint-authentication/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:59:31

• Websitino – lightweight static file server ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/websitino-lightweight-static-file-server/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:59:45

• Austin TUI – Top-like Interface for Austin ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/austin-tui-top-like-interface-austin/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 11:59:58

• demongrep – fast, local semantic code search ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/demongrep-fast-local-semantic-code-search/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:00:12

• 9 Best Free and Open Source IDEs for Kubernetes ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-ide-kubernetes/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:00:31

• buf – flash ISOs to create bootable USB drives ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/buf-flash-isos-create-bootable-usb-drives/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:00:46

• termframe – terminal output SVG screenshot tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/termframe-terminal-output-svg-screenshot-tool/    

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

• Apple fined $116M in Italy over ATT privacy feature in iOS ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/22/apple-fined-116m-italy-att-privacy-feature-ios/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:02:22

• Prog8 – structured programming language ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/prog8-structured-programming-language/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:02:32

• ck – semantic code search ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ck-semantic-code-search/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:03:39

• Stryde – application launcher ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/stryde-application-launcher/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:03:46

• Redress – tool for analyzing stripped binaries ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/redress-tool-analyzing-stripped-binaries/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:03:54

• xLights – sequencer for lights ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/xlights-sequencer-lights/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:04:02

• Isoken Ibizugbe: Everybody Struggles ☞ https://isokenibizugbe.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/everybody-struggles/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:04:31

• Here's Our Prediction for the Future of Desktop GNU/Linux in 2026 ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-future-prediction-2026/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:06:52

• Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1051758/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:07:10

• "The One With The Ultimate Portable Split" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/23/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-ultimate-portable-split/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:11:47

• "[It’s Triggy!] had a problem to solve. His grandma was having issues with hand tremors, which made the basic tasks of daily life difficult to perform." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/23/tackling-tremors-with-diy-technology/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:12:42

• "Breathe Easy While Printing With This VOC Calculator" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/23/breathe-easy-while-printing-with-this-voc-calculator/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:20:01

• "Thus, he set about turning this cheap piece of old electronics into a stylish Bluetooth speaker." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/23/old-fm-radio-upcycled-into-classy-bluetooth-speaker/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:20:09

• Scientists Released Caged Mice Into The Wild, And an Incredible Thing Happened ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-released-caged-mice-into-the-wild-and-an-incredible-thing-happened    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:20:46

• Palm Beach Rallies Behind a Restaurant Manager Held at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/style/jose-gonzalez-alligator-alcatraz-palm-beach.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:21:03

• To Lam, reformist risk-taker, seeks to extend his hold on Vietnam ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/to-lam-reformist-risk-taker-seeks-to-extend-his-hold-on-vietnam    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:22:26

• “No Other Choice” Eliminates the Competition with Style ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-current-cinema/no-other-choice-eliminates-the-competition-with-style    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:22:59

• France races to avoid US-style government shutdown after budget talks collapse ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251223-france-races-to-avoid-us-style-government-shutdown-after-budget-talks-collapse    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:23:11

• Nearly 2,000 pounds of sausage recalled after inch-long metal scrap found by consumer ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/12/23/lifestyle/nearly-2000-pounds-of-sausage-recalled-after-inch-long-metal-scrap-found-by-consumer/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:23:49

• Titan May Not Be an 'Ocean World' After All – The Truth Is Stranger ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/titan-may-not-be-an-ocean-world-after-all-the-truth-is-stranger    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:24:53

• New Drug Stalls Alzheimer's Development in Breakthrough Trial ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-drug-stalls-alzheimers-development-in-breakthrough-trial    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:25:02

• US Official Time Standard Slowed Down Last Week Following Massive Storm ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/us-official-time-standard-slowed-down-last-week-following-massive-storm    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:25:23

• Plague Victims Among More Than 20 Skeletons Found at Tower of London ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/plague-victims-among-more-than-20-skeletons-found-at-tower-of-london    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:25:36

• First-Ever Superkilonova May Have Been Spotted in Bizarre Star Explosion ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/first-ever-superkilonova-may-have-been-spotted-in-bizarre-star-explosion    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:25:47

• Tiny Molecule Made by Gut Bacteria Could Cut Type 2 Diabetes Risk ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/tiny-molecule-made-by-gut-bacteria-could-cut-type-2-diabetes-risk    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:26:00

• An Anatomy Professor Explains The Bizarre Biology of Elves ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/an-anatomy-professor-explains-the-bizarre-biology-of-elves    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:26:10

• DNA Revealed a Surprise Twist About Christopher Columbus ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dna-revealed-a-surprise-twist-about-christopher-columbus    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:26:21

• Humans May Actually Have Over 30 Senses, Scientists Say ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-may-actually-have-over-30-senses-scientists-say    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:26:33

• Fusion Reactors Might Create Dark Matter Particles, Physicists Show ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/fusion-reactors-might-create-dark-matter-particles-physicists-show    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 12:26:42

• "Christmas charity event organisers shocked by number of people in need" https://yle.fi/a/74-20201428    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:15:07

• "A report by Statistics Finland published earlier this year showed that nearly one million people were at risk [sic] of poverty or social exclusion."    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:16:05

• Pulled ’60 Minutes’ Report, Briefly Streamed in Canada, Is All Over the Internet Now ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/business/media/60-minutes-cbs-news.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:18:55

• Intel's Fab 52 is bigger and better equipped than TSMC's Arizona facilities — Intel's production volume dwarfs TSMC's operations in the U.S. ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/intels-fab-52-is-bigger-and-better-equipped-than-tsmcs-arizona-facilities-intels-production-volumes-dwarf-tsmcs-operations-in-the-u-s    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:19:35

• Report: SoftBank scrambles to find $22.5B for Proprietary Chaffbot Company before the end of the year ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/22/report-softbank-scrambles-find-22-5b-openai-end-year/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:20:15

• IOW, the money they promise does not exist!    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:20:52

• Gen Z Terrified of Losing Their Humanity to Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/gen-z-brain-humanity-ai    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:21:36

• AI Is a Godsend for Criminals Forging Fake Art ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-fraud-fine-art    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:21:51

• The European Cloud Situation at the end of 2025 ☞ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-european-cloud-2025/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:22:22

• Australia’s New South Wales set to pass tougher gun laws after Bondi attack ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-state-set-to-pass-tougher-gun-laws-after-bondi-attack    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:22:35

• Australian state passes tougher gun, anti-terror laws after Bondi Beach shooting ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-state-passes-tougher-gun-anti-terror-laws-after-bondi-beach-shooting    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:23:02

• US dispatch, day 8: prosecution withdraws Luigi Mangione interrogation statements over Pennsylvania recording law concern ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/us-dispatch-day-8-prosecution-withdraws-luigi-mangione-interrogation-statements-over-pennsylvania-recording-law-concern/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:23:43

• Running for union chair is ‘legally protected right,’ reporter Selina Cheng says in trial against former employer ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/24/running-for-union-chair-is-legally-protected-right-reporter-selina-cheng-says-in-trial-against-former-employer/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:24:17

• Nonstop laughing for 20 minutes: Japan’s ritual for good fortune ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251223-nonstop-laughing-for-20-minutes-japan-s-ritual-for-good-fortune    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:24:55

• JNIM Attack Represents Grave Threat to Nigerian Security ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/12/jnim-attack-represents-grave-threat-to-nigerian-security/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:26:58

• Police step up security ahead of Christmas, New Year in Indonesia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/police-step-up-security-ahead-of-christmas-new-year-in-indonesia    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:27:10

• US smart home company accused of rebranding footage-leaking Chinese cameras — Nebraska AG to sue Resideo over selling banned security cameras ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/us-smart-home-company-accused-of-rebranding-footage-leaking-chinese-cameras-nebraska-ag-to-sue-resideo-over-selling-banned-security-cameras    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:29:05

• Louvre installs metal bars over infamous gallery window after $102M jewel heist ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20251223-louvre-installs-metal-bars-over-infamous-gallery-window-after-102m-jewel-heist    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:31:28

• Sudan's prime minister takes his peace plan to the UN ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20251223-sudan-s-prime-minister-takes-his-peace-plan-to-the-un    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:34:25

• Kidnapping for ransom in the Sahel: analysis of 24 years of data shows a new trend ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/security/human-security/kidnapping-for-ransom-in-the-sahel-analysis-of-24-years-of-data-shows-a-new-trend/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:34:43

• Terror threat in Nigeria: what the killing of a general tells us about the fight against ISWAP ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/security/civil-security/terror-threat-in-nigeria-what-the-killing-of-a-general-tells-us-about-the-fight-against-iswap/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:35:04

• FCC bans sale of foreign-made drones over national security concerns ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/23/fcc-bans-sale-foreign-made-drones-national-security-concerns/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:40:33

• 3.5 Million Affected by University of Phoenix Data Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/3-5-million-affected-by-university-of-phoenix-data-breach/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:40:57

• 574 Arrested, $3 Million Seized in Crackdown on African Cybercrime Rings ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/574-arrested-3-million-seized-in-crackdown-on-african-cybercrime-rings/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:41:17

• Microsoft TCO ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/npm-package-with-56000-downloads-steals-whatsapp-credentials-data/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:41:47

• Feds Seize Password Database Used in Massive Bank Account Takeover Scheme ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/feds-seize-password-database-used-in-massive-bank-account-takeover-scheme/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:42:17

• Emmanuel Kasper: Configuring a mail transfer agent to interact with the Debian bug tracker ☞ https://00formicapunk00.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/configuring-a-mail-transfert-agent-to-interact-with-the-debian-bug-tracker/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:43:32

• Man Describes How Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Led Him Straight Into Psychosis ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/man-chatgpt-psychosis    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:44:08

• Italy fines Fashion Company Apple $116 million for breach of competition law ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/italy-fines-apple-116-million-for-breach-of-competition-law/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:45:09

• Trying Navidrome on FreeBSD ☞ https://rubenerd.com/trying-navidrome-on-freebsd/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:46:17

• Getting started with OpenShift Hey Hi (AI) for Data Protection ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/23/getting-started-openshift-apis-data-protection    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:48:42

• Daniel Kahn Gillmor: Hey Hi (AI) and Secure Messaging Don't Mix ☞ https://dkg.fifthhorseman.net/blog/2025-ai-and-secure-messaging.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:49:13

• Linux Matters: Give me the Aux ☞ https://linuxmatters.sh/71/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:49:49

• Former Roomba C.E.O. Reminisces on 2008’s Viral ‘Shark Cat’ Meme ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/technology/100000010606225/former-roomba-ceo-reminisces-on-2008s-viral-shark-cat-meme.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:50:25

• Is Australia’s Social Media Ban for Kids a Good Idea? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/technology/100000010606588/is-australias-social-media-ban-for-kids-a-good-idea.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:50:43

• The Year in Review: Top Ten Posts ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/12/the-year-in-review-top-ten-posts-4/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:51:09

• Reclaiming Russia’s ‘historical lands’: How far do Putin’s imperial ambitions extend? ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/reclaiming-russias-historical-lands-how-far-do-putins-imperial-ambitions-extend/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:51:43

• Syria ministers meet Putin to discuss defence, economic cooperation, SANA says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/syria-ministers-meet-putin-to-discuss-defence-economic-cooperation-sana-says    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:51:55

• A Primer in Optimization + The Hitchhiker’apos;s Guide to Linear Models ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/a-primer-in-optimization-the-hitchhikeraposs-guide-to-linear-models/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:53:44

• R and Shiny Services Custom R Packages and Scalable Shiny Applications ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/r-and-shiny-services-custom-r-packages-and-scalable-shiny-applications/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 16:53:51

• How social control media encourages the worst of Hey Hi (AI) boosterism ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/23/1130393/how-social-media-encourages-the-worst-of-ai-boosterism/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:01:07

• Elementary OS 8.1 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1051773/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:02:11

• New PostgreSQL Contributors December 2025 ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/new-postgresql-contributors-december-2025-3200/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:03:23

• Pgpool-II 4.7.0 is now released. ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgpool-ii-470-is-now-released-3201/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:03:31

• Nissan Confirms Impact From Red Bait Data Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/nissan-confirms-impact-from-red-hat-data-breach/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:04:03

• Auvidea X242 – An NVIDIA Jetson Thor T5000 industrial carrier board with dual 10GbE, PCIe x16, CSI-2 camera support ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/23/auvidea-x242-an-nvidia-jetson-thor-t5000-industrial-carrier-board-with-dual-10gbe-pcie-x16-csi-2-camera-support/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:04:33

• 4-inch round HDMI display offers USB touchscreen for Raspberry Pi, AIDA64, Smart Home, Art projects ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/23/4-inch-round-hdmi-display-offers-usb-touchscreen-for-raspberry-pi-aida64-smart-home-art-projects/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:04:50

• "To the surprise of almost nobody, the unprecedented build-out of datacenters and the equipping of them with servers for so-called ‘AI’ has led to a massive shortage of certain components." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/23/surviving-the-ram-apocalypse-with-software-optimizations/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:05:15

• Palestinian farmers in West Bank face rising Israeli settler attacks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-observers/20251223-west-bank-palestinian-farmers-rising-israeli-settler-attacks    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:05:35

• LLVM Considering An Hey Hi (AI) Tool Policy, Hey Hi (AI) Bot For Fixing Build System Breakage Proposed ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-AI-Tool-Policy-RFC after polluting GCC...    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:06:39

• LibreOffice 26.2 Gets Rid Of The "Community" Edition Branding ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-262-Drops-Community https://techrights.org/o/2021/09/16/corporate-libreoffice/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:08:07

• "it only adds "LibreOffice Community" to the version string in the about dialog, which is not really useful at this point, since final releases don't use it either" https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/79ecb59897a8ce804d347b00b2b5a36d212e6ff6%5E%21    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:10:04

• Michigan gets low marks for traffic safety laws in national report ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-gets-low-marks-for-traffic-safety-laws-in-national-report/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:10:35

• Face recognition required to set up new smartphones in South Korea from Dec 23 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/face-recognition-required-to-set-up-new-smartphones-in-s-korea-from-dec-23    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:11:37

• "Two Ubuntu-based distributions that have the same goal, but which is the one best-suited for your needs?" https://www.zdnet.com/article/lubuntu-versus-xubuntu/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:12:51

• "Ubuntu Mining" to step on another brand? https://www.marketscreener.com/news/techfinancials-inc-to-change-name-to-ubuntu-mining-and-metals-ce7d50d3dd8cf024    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:13:16

• Canonical's Ubuntu Mining your data for GAFAM https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.en.html    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:13:59

• Linux 6.19 Improves Radeon HD 7950’s Performance By 30% With AMDGPU Driver https://wccftech.com/linux-6-19-improves-radeon-hd-7950-performance-by-30-with-amdgpu-driver/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:14:58

• "The year 2025 was happening for Linux. From Rust making inroads in the kernel to AI knocking on the door, we have seen plenty. As we inch closer to the new year, there’s an opportunity to look forward with careful analysis, trend watching, and gut feeling." https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-future-prediction-2026/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:15:42

• "Aside from these changes, there are lots of improvements to the screen reader and visual accessibility improvements such as improved high-contrast. The dark mode now also includes a snooze feature for timed schedules." https://www.neowin.net/news/elementary-os-81-arrives-with-linux-614-kernel-and-smoother-multitasking/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:15:59

• "Linux users are finally getting more control and fewer login headaches" https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/surfshark-expands-dedicated-ip-to-linux-in-its-latest-desktop-update    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:16:25

• Linux 6.19 boosts old AMD GCN HD 7900 GPU performance by ~30% with AMDGPU https://videocardz.com/newz/linux-6-19-boosts-old-amd-gcn-hd-7900-gpu-performance-by-30-with-amdgpu    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:16:45

• "Microsoft has been fumbling the ball with Windows lately, and it’s hard not to notice. I’ve been seeing more and more people seriously talking about switching to Linux." https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-gaming-is-finally-great/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:17:05

• Using An E-Book Reader As A Secondary Display https://hackaday.com/2025/12/23/using-an-e-book-reader-as-a-secondary-display/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:17:26

• "This update proves that listening to users can make an already great Linux distro even better." https://www.zdnet.com/article/elementaryos-8-1-beta-update/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:18:10

• VICE 'back' just to spew out spam https://www.vice.com/en/article/surfsharks-dedicated-ip-is-now-on-linux/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:30:53

• "Something that really bugs me about our current relation to technology is the obscene, colossal waste and disrespect we have for it. So my heart sank thinking of the cost to our planet if another great hunk of white-goods goes into the earth." https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/machinelove/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:50:24

• "The Japanese (and later Chinese) appliances weren't designed to be maintained any more. Even at an apprentices wage of 25 quid a day - five bucks an hour was generous for a kid in those days - it made no sense to repair. So, from the mid 80s until just a few years ago, repair was not an option." https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/machinelove/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:52:00

• " So here's singing the praises of the Indeset/Hotpoint IDC85 for; simplicity; no digital components; no internet nonsense; no complex electronics; serviceable design"    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:56:08

• "Now our devices are cold slabs. They are the exploitative weapons of "tech bros" who delight as their machinations harm other people. Extraction, surveillance, manipulation and intrusion are their purpose. Silicon Valley 'values' have not merely betrayed billions of people, they have betrayed technology itself."    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:57:56

• "Things like "Digital Rights Management" and deliberate tricks by unethical companies to impede repair or remotely sabotage goods are scandalous and a grave harm to the ecology of our planet. They must be outlawed and the real saboteurs of technology made to pay for the damage they've done."    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:58:31

• https://www.fsf.org/ now 99k (USD) away from goal    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 17:59:31

• "Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reportedly using a new 'cricket term' for the company; tells all his top mana"    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 18:09:11

• He sure runs a RACKET and a pyramid scheme. Batting for fraud.    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 18:09:45

• Salesforce Moves Away From LLM Use Over Enterprise AI Reliability Concerns https://windowsreport.com/salesforce-moves-away-from-llm-use-over-enterprise-ai-reliability-concerns/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 18:11:05

• Hey hi? Bye-bye. https://trak.in/stories/google-starts-hiring-ex-employees-20-new-hires-are-now-ex-employees/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 18:11:34

• The real story is, chatbots and slop failed to replace the labour    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 18:12:40

• The developers of Rainbow Six Mobile have formed a union https://wnhub.io/news/hr/item-49664    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 18:13:17

• "Microsoft, Meta, and TikTok shedding employees not just in Singapore but also globally." https://vulcanpost.com/907802/reviewing-2025-in-singapore/    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 18:14:05

• "Dario in highly unlikely to help others whom he knows to get inside his new organization. After all, they might learn about some dirt on him and expose him. He is no saint any more than Aunty Srineevasan in Bangalore. She is another BI--H like the Joanne the Walrus in Krabanaugh's office." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kd2h85d6    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 18:18:41

• "Yup he is done with ibm. He also has to be unbiased. But we should also be done with him and not welcome him back with open arms when this goes belly up on him." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kd2h85d6    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 18:18:55

• "While this move, and others like it, are being publicly lauded, a more impartial assessment would treat them as cautionary signals rather than successes. The repeated reshuffling of the same group of leaders does not reflect organizational health; it suggests unresolved structural issues. In a stable and well-functioning environment, such levels of internal rotation would be unnecessary." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcmx0g24    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 18:23:54

• "It’s clear they don’t know what they are doing and haven’t for some time now." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcmx0g24    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 18:24:17

• h0h0h0.    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 20:00:52

• what is a machinegun, h0?    

posted Wednesday, December 24, 2025 at 20:02:12