Roy Schestowitz

• "I want to emphasize that I'm not advocating for Whitmer's teaching, or eager to put him in a good light. But I gathered a few notes from the book which are highly relevant to the discussion of Mormonism." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/your-word/20251227-0.gmi    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 05:20:54

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-12-28.gmi    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 05:21:15

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1868.jpg    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 05:22:01

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1518.jpg    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 05:22:06

• "Linux CEO"??? https://www.livemint.com/companies/people/when-linux-ceo-linus-torvalds-warned-the-world-about-nvidia-called-it-the-worst-company-weve-worked-with-11766817904450.html    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 05:55:29

• He has his birthday today    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 05:55:56

• Torvaldos !!! "Torvaldos then moved on to use the ‘F-word’ for Nvidia, while showing the company the middle finger."    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 05:56:41

• "After using Linux for nearly 30 years, I've created a list of the best Linux distributions I've used since the beginning. Here they are." https://www.zdnet.com/article/my-11-favorite-linux-distributions-of-all-time-ranked/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 05:58:43

• "LOL, I just saw on LinkedIn that ol’ “Director of process tech and 300mm Fab” up there in Albany got promoted again—to director, again. How many times is that now, five in three years? Shoot, that’s gotta be some kind of record. That fella’s got more lives than a barn cat and always manages to land on his feet." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcmx0g24    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 06:12:43

• This is SLOP and FAKE news https://dixiesunnews.com/articles/xbox-confirms-next-gen-consoles-amidst-buzzing-rumors-what-to-expect/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 06:16:59

• Viktor Orbán ☛ https://insighthungary.444.hu/2025/12/27/orban-questions-whether-russia-is-the-aggressor-in-ukraine-war | Source: Insight Hungary    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 06:29:52

• "Options to Break Free From Smart TV Ads and Tracking" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/26/1546258    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 06:30:43

• "Reddit challenges AUS Social Media law in court" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/23/0432237    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 06:30:54

• "Forrest Gump and America’s Return to Innocence" https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/forrest-gump-and-americas-return    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 06:31:05

• old: "Free Software and Platform Regulation: The impact of the Digital Market Act on Free Software" https://media.ccc.de/v/2025-11-15-free-software-and-platform-regulation FSFE [sic] http://techrights.org/o/2020/08/22/fsf-fsfe-dispute/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 06:31:31

• "Trump pardons "start at $1m," reports WSJ" https://boingboing.net/2025/12/27/trump-pardons-start-at-1m-reports-wsj.html    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 06:31:44

• "Chatkontrolle - Ctrl+Alt+Delete - media.ccc.de" https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-episode-ii-der-rat-schlagt-zuruck    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 06:31:54

• "The God of Solidarity - by Hamilton Nolan" https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-god-of-solidarity    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 06:32:05

• "Repost With Transcript: Heather Cox Richardson" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/repost-with-transcript-heather-cox    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 06:32:15

• EFF = GAFAM and CCP apologists https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/lawmakers-must-listen-young-people-regulating-their-internet-access-2025-review http://techrights.org/n/2023/12/09/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation_Incorporated_is_Run_by_for_Corpo.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 06:32:37

• Suddnly this gets promoted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46405306 https://old.reddit.com/r/hypeurls/comments/1pxbcnm/richard_stallman_at_the_first_hackers_conference/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 06:38:47

• "Richard Stallman: The Legend of Software Freedom that Saved the World | FREENET AFRICA" https://freenetafrica.com/2025/05/24/richard-stallman-the-legend-of-software-freedom/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:19:37

• "The complaint centers not merely on code reuse, but on Rockchip’s decision to relicense FFmpeg-derived code under an incompatible license" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/github-takes-down-rockchip-mpp-repository-after-ffmpeg-copyright-claim/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:24:59

• "Furthermore, as 1930 is talkies territory, music that debuted in films during the year will likewise enter the public domain in 2026." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/26/public-domain-music-2026/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:25:09

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-hacking-washing-machines | Source: CCC    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:26:10

• "Deleting that annotated example exploit allowed me to send the letter!" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/28/substack-network-error/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:26:35

• "And Rutger Bregman gave this year's very good Reith Lectures, agitating for a "moral revolution"… " ☛ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/xmas2025/ | Source: The Cyber Show    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:26:54

• "On the subway, I'm missing a lot of my normal setup. I don't have multiple monitors or a fancy keyboard. I don't even have an internet connection." ☛ https://www.scd31.com/posts/programming-on-the-subway |    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:28:57

• "Of course, the real measure of car orientation may not be ownership metrics, but instead something like vehicle-miles traveled per capita (or even time in vehicles per capita" ☛ https://json.blog/2025/12/27/how-do-we-measure-if.html | Source: Jason Becker    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:29:04

• "The program sets a declining limit on total planet-warming emissions in the state from major polluters." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/california-drops-lawsuit-seeking-to-reinstate-federal-funding-for-the-states-bullet-train/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:29:36

• iophk: SystemD keeps getting better and better: https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20251228.101226.eb20d935.en.html    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:31:00

• "Cause why not? Simply start extra instances of sshd by default… Simply do about anything that the mighty Systemd god's decide as being good for us dumb system administrators who are not able to setup some secure access to a VM or (probably) containers themselves. I don't even have any more words for this."    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:32:07

• "And that's not just baby boomers' nostalgic memory of childhood winters — FMI data shows that Decembers are becoming more frequently snowless in the south" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20201513 | Source: YLE    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:32:43

• Overpopulation ☛ https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-12-27/arizona-water-crackdown | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:35:40

• "But here’s the thing: we’re still a fighting democracy." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/stop-calculating-and-do-whats-right | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:36:22

• "According to Elon Musk, Sxam Altman, and some other “tech bros”" ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-all-sorted-by-machines-of-loving-grace-ai-cybernetics-and-fascism-and-how-to-intervene | Source: CCC    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:36:34

• [Old] "Two quick notes: first, we wrote this for engineers, not lawyers and activists." ☛ https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem/ |    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:37:01

• "Beyond the underlying mathematics of cryptographic algorithms, there is a whole other layer of implementation code, assigning meaning to the processed data." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-to-sign-or-not-to-sign-practical-vulnerabilities-i | Source: CCC    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:37:14

• CCC feed: https://media.ccc.de/c/39c3/podcast/webm-hq.xml    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:54:24

• "If you care about your privacy, you might want to start taking the bus." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/26/uber-wants-to-sell-your-data-to-the-highest-bidders.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:54:45

• "In terms of the EU's digital rulebook, it has already started in May with the deletion of a core compliance element in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)" ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-throwing-your-rights-under-the-omnibus-how-the-eu-s-reform-agenda-threatens-to-erase-a-decade-of-digital-rights | Source: CCC    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:55:10

• "There is a path forward! Many, in fact. But the impasse framing seriously limits how policymakers, technologists, advocates, and our communities understand child sexual abuse (CSA)." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-not-an-impasse-child-safety-privacy-and-healing-together | Source: CCC    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:55:33

• "Shortly after last year's talk, we were contacted about some *interesting* looking tickets someone noticed, issued by the Vetter GmbH Omnibus- und Mietwagenbetrieb" ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-all-my-deutschlandtickets-gone-fraud-at-an-industrial-scale | Source: CCC    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:56:57

• "The attack surface includes anyone who can influence any metric: maintainers who control release schedules, security researchers who control vulnerability disclosures, and anyone with a credit card and access to a botnet." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/27/how-to-ruin-all-of-package-management.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:57:20

• Social Control Media ☛ https://www.manton.org/2025/12/27/fediverse-predictions.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:58:27

• "A pretty provocative headline, no? But I think I can justify it." ☛ https://dianne.skoll.ca/writings/ai-is-bad/ |    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:59:20

• "It began as a standard maintenance project: I wanted to write a tool to find and fix broken ISBN references in Wikipedia. Using the built-in checksum, this seemed like a straightforward technical task." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-ai-generated-content-in-wikipedia-a-tale-of-caution | Source: CCC    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 10:59:46

• "Let’s check in on our current industry’s hottest trend, blockchain. The metaverse? NFTs? No, sorry, I’ll get it eventually." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/an-ai-check-in/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 11:00:12

• "But the channels, having reportedly generated a combined one billion or so views" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/26/youtube-ai-film-trailers-takedowns/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 11:01:06

• "In a way that makes it intentionally hard to switch services or add other devices." ☛ https://bastiangruber.ca/posts/mass-quitting-apple/ |    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 11:02:36

• "They fixed most of it. But the authentication bypass that lets anyone login to any account?" ☛ https://bobdahacker.com/blog/petlibro |    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 11:02:49

• "Anyone on-site can obtain subscriber lines (POTS, ISDN BRI or PRI service) and use them for a variety of services, including telephony, fax machines, modem dial-up into BBSs as well as dial-up internet access and video telephony." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-isdn-pots-telephony-at-congress-and-camp | Source: CCC    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 11:03:54

• "This talk presents a reverse engineering effort to document Espressif’s proprietary Bluetooth stack" ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-liberating-bluetooth-on-the-esp32 | Source: CCC    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 11:04:25

• "Well, it's a $4,000+ box built specifically for developers in Nvidia's ecosystem, deploying code to Nvidia servers that cost half a million dollars each." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/dells-version-dgx-spark-fixes-pain-points | Source: Jeff Geerling    

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

• "The reMarkable Paper Pro Move appears to be an answer — maybe the answer — to that dreaded mid-zone between analog and digital note-taking." ☛ https://thenewsprint.co/2025/12/27/the-remarkable-paper-pro-move/ | Source: The Newsprint    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 11:05:35

• "Today I learned something amazing: Safari supports higher than 60Hz refresh." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/how-to-enable-120hz-mode-in-safari-mac-iphone-and-ipad/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 11:07:02

• "This is the first in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2025 across their major product lines (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro, and wearables)." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/apples-2025-report-card-iphone/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 11:07:22

• "The break I took in October was liberating." ☛ https://jimmitchell.org/2025/12/26/one-simple-goal/ | Source: Jim Mitchell    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:19:56

• "New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday signed into law a bill that requires platforms to alert users of addictive features that can harm the mental health of younger users." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/new-york-governor-signs-bill-requiring-warning-labels-on-addictive-social-media-platforms/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:20:08

• "The announcement was made on the debian-devel-announce mailing list" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/debian-officially-welcomes-loong64-as-a-supported-architecture/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:21:10

• "My monitor in the office is a Dell 4K, 34-inch monitor, and that works wonderfully too." ☛ https://merecivilian.com/considering-a-32-inch-monitor/ | Source: Mere Civilian    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:21:22

• "Voight's path to becoming a CISO is anything but conventional." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-careers/mentorship-and-diversity-shaping-the-next-generation-of-cyber-experts | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:22:43

• "I think writing is one of the most valuable things you can do, and I recommend everyone try it. Here’s why: [...]" ☛ https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/12/27/why-i-write.html | Source: Drew Breunig    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:23:45

• "Like I said then, I’m going to miss a lot of things that happened during the year, but I’m OK with that." ☛ https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/and-that-was-2025/ | Source: Juan J Martínez    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:23:57

• "Now I’m 31 and the years are flying by so fast that I have to desperately seize their trailing collars so that I don’t suddenly find myself seventy without noticing. So, as is becoming tradition, what happened this year?" ☛ https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/merry-christmas-ya-filthy-animals-2025/ | Source: Lucidity    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:24:33

• "There are three key ways his advice has improved how I make coffee. First, is something that precedes the second. The taste has also been elevated." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/coffee-technique-works-for-cheap-stuff-too/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:25:09

• "The easiest way to avoid The Haneda Problem is to introduce strategic ambiguity." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/the-haneda-problem/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:25:36

• "While I was waiting for the ticket to be printed, the Metrolink arrived early." ☛ https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/27/the-two-pound-lifeboat/ | Source: Stefano Marinelli    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:26:26

• "I am writing this from an interstate hotel, where I'm recovering from the norovirus I caught from my newest (and extremely cute) niece." ☛ https://smallcypress.bearblog.dev/2025-wrap-up-and-looking-forward-to-the-future/ | Source: Small Cypress    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:26:45

• "With PTP 1588, AES67, and SMPTE 2110, we can transmit synchronous audio and video with sub-millisecond latency over the asynchronous medium Ethernet." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-excuse-me-what-precise-time-is-it | Source: CCC    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:39:38

• "We’ll start by showing what GNSS interference actually means in practice: aircraft losing navigation data, ships switching to manual control, and entire regions facing timing outages" ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-who-cares-about-the-baltic-jammer-terrestrial-navigation-in-the-baltic-sea-region | Source: CCC    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:39:54

• "Merry Christmas all! This is my annual Advent of Code post!" ☛ https://blog.jle.im/entry/advent-of-code-2025.html |    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:41:26

• "Only the engineers who work on a large software system can meaningfully participate in the design process." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/you-cant-design-software-you-dont-work-on/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:41:40

• "After all these years programming, it's fun to catch myself changing my style preferences in real-time." ☛ https://www.jmduke.com/posts/single-use-variables.html | Source: Justin Duke    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:42:08

• "For anyone else using the Ebitengine that wants to render text as an outline, I’ve had had some success using the shapes package." ☛ https://lmika.org/2025/12/28/rendering-outlined-text-in-ebitengine.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:42:19

• "You should not have to pay for software you don't want. Devices like laptops and smartphones are general purpose computers so" ☛ https://en.refund4freedom.org/ |    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:48:29

• "At 39C3, I gave a workshop about Jujutsu, a new-ish version control system that I fell in love with last year! :)" ☛ https://blinry.org/jj-workshop/ | Source: Blinry    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:49:22

• "If you are in the database field, you probably know that the Postgresus project was started with a simple goal: to provide an accessible, self-hosted user interface around the pg_dump command." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/postgresus-renamed-to-databasus-as-backup-tool-expands-beyond-postgresql/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:49:59

• "My concern is that Mozilla is too excited about a technology that has inherent downsides and ethical problems, and I would like to see better defaults and clearer risk mitigations." ☛ https://hidde.blog/mozilla-ai-kill-switch/ | Source: Hidde de Vries    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:51:04

• "Over seven months after its previous 1.4.2 bugfix release, the popular open-source vector graphics editor Inkscape has issued its latest version, 1.4.3, as the third maintenance update to the 1.4 series, which includes roughly 124 bug and crash fixes." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/inkscape-1-4-3-vector-graphic-editor-delivers-124-bug-and-crash-fixes/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:52:07

• "The release announcement includes more detail, including updates to PostgreSQL, QEMU, and LXQt. Is it silly to admit that I’m also unreasonably happy to see CDE in these sorts of announcements as well?" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/pkgsrc-2025q4-released/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:52:17

• "This is NOT a super small, credit card format SBC. We are talking about something that’s definitely larger, and that comes directly with an integrated heatsink." ☛ https://boilingsteam.com/orange-pi-6-plus-review/index.html | Source: Boiling Steam    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:53:04

• "The RP2350 is one of the first generally available microcontrollers with active security-features against fault-injection such as glitch-detectors" ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-of-boot-vectors-and-double-glitches-bypassing-rp2350-s-secure-boot | Source: CCC    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:53:11

• "QNX, a real-time operating system for embedded systems, has released the initial version of its Self-Hosted Developer Desktop" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/qnx-introduces-a-self-hosted-developer-desktop/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:54:10

• "A commentator on my early notes on dgit mentioned that they found packaging in Debian overly complicated (and I think perhaps RPMs as well) and would rather build and ship a container." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/PackagesWhyComplicated | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:54:18

• "It is a new X server project that takes a fundamentally different approach to X11. Written entirely from scratch in the Zig programming language, it is not yet another fork of the Xorg codebase and does not reuse its legacy code."    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:55:21

• "Instead, according to devs, Phoenix aims to show that the X11 protocol itself is not inherently obsolete and can be implemented in a simpler, safer, and more modern way." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/phoenix-emerges-as-a-modern-x-server-written-from-scratch-in-zig/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:55:25

• "I’ve always wanted to play one but with physical cards, it’s so freaking expensive especially these days to purchase a booster box for each set that it never seemed doable." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/we-played-a-full-scarlet-and-violet-progression-series/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:57:16

• "If you are using Firefox or a Chromium browser (for me Google Chrome 143.0.7499.170)" ☛ https://lr0.org/blog/p/pngchanges/ |    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:57:42

• "I think of client-side validation as a progressive enhancement for your users." ☛ https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/28/ | Source: Manuel Matuzović    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:57:58

• "For many years now, JavaScript has been the workhorse of the web." ☛ https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/27/ | Source: Manuel Matuzović    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:58:15

• "Due to the use of frameworks, a lot of sites nowadays have become a div and class soup that makes the HTML code unreadable and hard to troubleshoot." ☛ https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/26/ | Source: Manuel Matuzović    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:58:38

• "A few years ago I had switched variables and calculations from SASS to CSS, but I still needed SASS for nesting" ☛ https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2025-12-27-goodbye-sass/ | Source: Amit Patel    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:59:06

• "If you have any doubts, then you're the target audience of this guide." ☛ https://osteophage.dreamwidth.org/10105.html | Source: Coyote    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:59:17

• "Please select adjacent seats." ☛ https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-12-27-reverse-engineering-the-cinema-bypassing-seat-adjacency-rules-with-devtools | Source: Eliseo Martelli    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 12:59:54

• "This is no good. I don’t need to explain how bad a supply-chain attack on the 1Password browser extension would be." ☛ https://borretti.me/article/1password-dependency-breaks-syntax-highlighting | Source: Fernando Borretti    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:00:08

• "I am not a fan of injecting scripts into things that you want to be as fast as humanly possible, but here's one exception: I use the enter hook to print a little welcome message when I cd into a project: [...]" ☛ https://www.jmduke.com/posts/mise-hooks.html | Source: Justin Duke    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:00:30

• "Typography is the art of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-art-of-text-rendering | Source: CCC    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:00:58

• Before This Physicist Studied the Stars, He Was One ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/world/europe/brian-cox-astronomy-profile.html    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:01:19

• Notes from Early Flight Training ☞ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/27/Notes-from-Early-Flight-Training/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:02:13

• Kevin Fenzi: a look back at 2025 ☞ https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2025/12/27/a-look-back-at-2025/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:03:05

• On (and Contra) Chalmers on LLM Interlocutors ☞ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/26/On-and-Contra-Chalmers-on-LLM-Interlocutors/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:04:33

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

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:05:57

• Torvalds on Vizio Ruling: Software Freedom Conservancy Looks Like "a Bunch of Incompetent Assholes" ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/torvalds-on-vizio-ruling-software    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:06:16

• LibreOffice Viewer now available on Meta Quest VR headsets ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/12/27/libreoffice-viewer-now-available-on-meta-quest-vr-headsets/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:06:51

• How to Install LightZone on Ubuntu ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-lightzone-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:07:20

• How to Install Exaile on Ubuntu ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-exaile-music-player-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:07:31

• How to Install UrBackup on Ubuntu ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-urbackup-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:07:53

• How to Install Kodi on Ubuntu ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-kodi-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:08:14

• 'Digital Detox' Is a Trick. Here's How to Actually Switch Off. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/digital-detox-is-a-trick-heres-how-to-actually-switch-off    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:08:31

• Winux Tries to Mimic backdoored Windows While Staying Fully GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxiac.com/winux-tries-to-mimic-windows-while-staying-fully-linux/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:12:40

• MagOS 20251226 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/magos    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:13:00

• Rajeesh K Nambiar: A font with built-in TeX syntax highlighting ☞ https://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/a-font-with-built-in-tex-syntax-highlighting/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:13:22

• xpdig – tools to explore crossplane resources ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/xpdig-tools-explore-crossplane-resources/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:13:57

• dtrx – intelligent archive extraction tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dtrx-intelligent-archive-extraction-tool/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:14:05

• Fernflower – decompiler from Java bytecode to Java ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fernflower-decompiler-java-bytecode/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:14:19

• treemd – modern Markdown viewer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/treemd-modern-markdown-viewer/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:17:04

• Seanime – media server ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/seanime-media-server/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:17:24

• Wallpaper Splitter – apply a single image ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/wallpaper-splitter-apply-single-image/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:17:50

• hcxdumptool – capture packets from wlan devices ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hcxdumptool-capture-packets-wlan-devices/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:18:14

• Optimize Web Delivery with these Open Source Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/webdelivery/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:18:36

• Hextazy – colorful hexadecimal editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hextazy-colorful-hexadecimal-editor/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:19:03

• 11 Best Free and Open Source Python Data Validation ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-python-data-validation/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:19:27

• Live: Zelensky to meet Convicted Felon for talks on Ukraine peace plan ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251228-live-zelensky-to-meet-trump-for-talks-on-ukraine-peace-plan    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:19:52

• Zelensky Will Meet With Convicted Felon Over the Weekend to Discuss Ukraine Peace Plan ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/world/europe/zelensky-trump-ukraine-russia.html    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:20:06

• This Ukrainian Soldier Spent More Than a Year on the Front Line ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/world/europe/ukraine-russia-frontline.html    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:20:25

• Russia Pummels Kyiv Before Convicted Felon-Zelensky Meeting ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/world/europe/kyiv-ukraine-russia-trump-zelensky.html    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:20:40

• Thousands Freezing As Russian Barrage Pummels Kyiv Ahead of Zelenskyy-Dihydroxyacetone Man Peace Talks ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-kyiv-russia-drone-assault-power-heat/33634104.html    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:21:14

• Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Investigators Say They're Probing Vote-Buying Scheme By Lawmakers ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-corruption-lawmakers-investigations-vote-buying-/33634233.html    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:21:27

• Zelenskyy To Meet Convicted Felon In High-Stakes Peace Talks As Russia Ramps Up Attacks ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-trump-peace-talks-ukraine-russia-carney/33634297.html    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:21:40

• Russia attacks Kyiv ahead of Ukraine-US talks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251227-russia-attacks-kyiv-ahead-of-ukraine-us-talks    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:21:50

• Ukraine's anti-corruption agency attempts raid of parliament in new graft probe ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251227-ukraine-anti-corruption-agency-attempts-raid-parliament-new-graft-probe    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:22:07

• Russian drones, missiles pound Ukraine ahead of Zelensky's US visit ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251227-russian-drones-missiles-pound-ukraine-ahead-of-zelensky-s-us-visit    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:22:34

• Russia pummels Kyiv ahead of Zelensky-Dihydroxyacetone Man meeting ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251227-russia-pummels-kyiv-ahead-of-zelensky-trump-meeting    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:22:50

• Bit-Brick Cluster K1 – A 4-slot RISC-V cluster board for SpacemiT K1-based SSOM-K1 system-on-module ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/28/bit-brick-cluster-k1-a-4-slot-risc-v-cluster-board-for-spacemit-k1-based-ssom-k1-system-on-module/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:23:31

• FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending December 26, 2025 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/12/foss-forces-top-five-articles-for-the-week-ending-december-26-2025/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:24:08

• After Vizio Ruling, SFC Pushes Back And Torvalds Weighs In ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/12/after-vizio-ruling-sfc-pushes-back-and-torvalds-weighs-in/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:24:26

• DHS official rips Kilmar Abrego Garcia for ‘making TikToks’ while agency faces gag order ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/12/28/us-news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-ripped-by-dhs-for-making-tiktoks-during-agency-gag-order/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:25:29

• Sophie Herold: GNOME in 2025: Some Numbers ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2025/12/27/gnome-in-2025-some-numbers/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:25:58

• 6 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Electronic Medical Records Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/electronicmedicalrecords/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:27:05

• lnko – simple stow-like dotfile linker ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lnko-simple-stow-like-dotfile-linker/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:27:13

• 10 Best Free and Open Source Distraction-Free Tools for Writers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/distractionfreetools/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:27:21

• 10 Hyprland Dotfiles to Transform Your GNU/Linux Desktop Bautifully ☞ https://itsfoss.com/best-hyprland-dotfiles/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:27:53

• New Year’s resolution: Lithuanian-made medicines to be tested in space in 2026 ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2783447/new-year-s-resolution-lithuanian-made-medicines-to-be-tested-in-space-in-2026    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:31:00

• She Studied the Health Effects of Wildfires, Until the E.P.A. Cut Her Grant ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/science/trump-wildfires-vance-epa.html    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:39:39

• From city boy to wildlife maven: Videographer Chris Owen captures Hong Kong’s trove of fauna ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/28/from-city-boy-to-wildlife-maven-videographer-chris-owen-captures-hong-kongs-trove-of-fauna/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:40:10

• South Korea’s presidential office completes move back to historic Blue House ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-presidential-office-completes-move-back-to-historic-blue-house    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:40:30

• South Korea prosecutors seek 10-year sentence for ousted president ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/south-korea-prosecutors-seek-10-year-sentence-for-ousted-president/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:40:54

• This is the end. They have NO CLUE how to stop losing money. This will just turn away everyone. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-could-prioritize-sponsored-content-as-part-of-ad-strategy-sponsored-content-could-allegedly-be-given-preferential-treatment-in-llms-responses-openai-to-use-chat-data-to-deliver-highly-personalized-results    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:41:59

• Qt Hearts – classic Hearts card game ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/qt-hearts-classic-hearts-card-game/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:43:06

• Harlequin – Terminal-based SQL IDE ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/harlequin-terminal-based-sql-ide/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:43:24

• flir – parse and rewrite R code ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/flir-parse-rewrite-r-code/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:43:40

• DWARF Explorer – GUI utility for navigating the DWARF debug information ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dwarf-explorer-gui-utility-navigating-dwarf-debug-information/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:45:06

• b4n – TUI for the Kubernetes API ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/b4n-tui-kubernetes-api/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:45:42

• ibtop – real-time terminal monitor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ibtop-real-time-terminal-monitor/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:45:50

• Pyprland – customization tool for Hyprland ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pyprland-customization-tool-hyprland/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:45:59

• Linus Torvalds Blasts Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) for Attempting to 'Protect' GNU/Linux (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Linus_Torvalds_Blasts_Software_Freedom_Conservancy_SFC_for_Atte.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:46:06

• New Record for GNU/Linux in Australia (at Microsoft's Expense) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/New_Record_for_GNU_Linux_in_Australia_at_Microsoft_s_Expense.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:46:14

• Days Without Slop About "Linux" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/27/Days_Without_Slop_About_Linux.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:46:24

• " While this particular move, and others like it, are being publicly lauded and celebrated, 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."    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:47:34

• "In a stable and well-functioning environment, such levels of internal rotation would be unnecessary." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcmx0g24    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:47:40

• Families Demand Answers a Year After Deadliest Plane Crash in South Korea ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/world/asia/jeju-air-crash-investigation-anniversary.html    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:51:19

• Park Chan-wook and the Funny Thing About Stomach-Churning Horror ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/movies/park-chan-wook-no-other-choice-korea.html    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:51:50

• South Korean man accused of scalding Thai wife denies charges ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-man-accused-of-scalding-thai-wife-denies-charges    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:52:08

• Car breathalysers to be mandated for habitual drink driving offenders in South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/car-breathalysers-to-be-mandated-for-habitual-offenders-in-south-korea    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:52:20

• Cars turned into weapon against the owner/driver would be natural progression with all those "SMART" things https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/car-breathalysers-to-be-mandated-for-habitual-offenders-in-south-korea    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:53:14

• Maybe also attach anal cameras to every driver or every car. Just in case...    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:53:46

• Malaysia army chief placed on leave amid investigation: Media ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-army-chief-placed-on-leave-amid-investigation-media    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:54:17

• Malaysian PM Anwar welcomes latest Cambodia-Thailand ceasefire ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/malaysian-pm-anwar-welcomes-latest-cambodia-thailand-ceasefire    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:54:26

• Even as Najib faces two decades in jail, damaging divisions haunt Malaysia over 1MDB scandal ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/even-as-najib-faces-two-decades-in-jail-damaging-divisions-haunt-malaysia-over-1mdb-scandal    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:54:37

• Mild earthquake in Malaysia, tremors felt across Johor and Melaka ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/mild-earthquake-in-malaysia-tremors-felt-across-johor-and-melaka    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:55:08

• Former Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak convicted over 1MDB corruption scandal ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/former-malaysian-prime-minister-najib-razak-convicted-over-1mdb-corruption-scandal/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:55:27

• Former Malaysian PM Najib Razak sentenced to 15 more years in landmark corruption case ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251227-former-malaysian-pm-najib-razak-sentenced-to-15-more-years-in-landmark-corruption-case    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:55:46

• China revises aviation law to regulate drones, tighten safety rules ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-revises-aviation-law-to-regulate-drones-tighten-safety-rules    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:58:11

• China passes revised foreign trade law to bolster trade war capabilities ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-passes-revised-foreign-trade-law-to-bolster-trade-war-capabilities    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:58:23

• China issues draft rules to govern use of human-like Hey Hi (AI) systems ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-issues-draft-rules-to-govern-use-of-human-like-ai-systems    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:58:40

• China welcomes Cambodia-Thailand ceasefire, plans talks ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-welcomes-cambodia-thailand-ceasefire-plans-talks    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:59:11

• China sanctions 20 US firms over Taiwan arms sales ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/27/china-sanctions-20-us-firms-over-taiwan-arms-sales/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 13:59:48

• China’s high-speed rail network passes 50,000km mark ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/28/chinas-high-speed-rail-network-passes-50000km-mark/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:00:17

• Print Your Next LED Bezel ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/27/print-your-next-led-bezel/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:00:49

• This Week in Science: Garlic Mouthwash, a Storm Slows Time, And More! ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-week-in-science-garlic-mouthwash-a-storm-slows-time-and-more    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:01:22

• A Distinct New Type of Diabetes Is Officially Recognized ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-distinct-new-type-of-diabetes-is-officially-recognized    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:01:32

• This Rare Syndrome Induces People to See Faces That Don't Exist ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-rare-syndrome-induces-people-to-see-faces-that-dont-exist    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:01:42

• Ancient Caribbean Cave Reveals Bees That Lived Inside Bones ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-caribbean-cave-reveals-bees-that-lived-inside-bones    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:02:00

• The True Purpose of The Bayeux Tapestry May Finally Be Revealed ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-true-purpose-of-the-bayeux-tapestry-may-finally-be-revealed    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:02:28

• Bonkers New Space Station Expands to Full Size From Single Capsule ☞ https://futurism.com/space/max-space-station-expands-thunderbird    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:03:01

• TEA2208T ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/27/active-ideal-full-bridge-rectifier-using-tea2208t/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:05:09

• AI Backlash Grew Massively in 2025 ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-backlash-2025    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:05:31

• Gretl has a new release ☞ https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Gretl    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:06:27

• Vm has a new release ☞ https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Vm    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:06:36

• "This sounds like an effective display for DOOM in a pinch. [Bringus Studios] managed to find such a printer and got the classic shooter running" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/27/playing-doom-on-a-receipt-printer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:07:10

• users will have to wait until 2026 ☞ https://hackwarenews.com/firefox-promises-a-button-to-disable-ai-but-users-will-have-to-wait-until-2026/ incompetence? No! Malice.    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:08:21

• After Outcry, Firefox Promises “Kill Switch” That Turns Off All Hey Hi (AI) Features ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/outcry-firefox-promises-kill-switch-ai-features    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:08:46

• Firefox will die and Google will laugh. Because it paid for it.    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:10:22

• And Baker took home about 30 million dollars in salaries for doing this. Unbelievable.    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:10:53

• Sam Thursfield: Musical update ☞ https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/musical-update/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:11:20

• Knock, Knock: MIT’s Ethanol Engine Patents Run Out of Gas at the Federal Circuit ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/12/47472.html    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:11:47

• ESP32-C6 development board features 1.8-inch AMOLED touch display, built-in mic and speaker, IMU, RTC, and more ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/27/esp32-c6-amoled-development-board-touch-display-built-in-mic-and-speaker-imu-rtc/    

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

• Google Rapidly Deploying Huge CO2 Battery Facilities That Store 200 Megawatt Hours of Power ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/google-co2-battery-facilities    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:14:54

• "The "GNOME" codebase is up to 6,692,516 lines of code at the end of 2025" ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-2025-Code-Stats    

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

• Australian cruise ship runs aground, strikes coral reef in first trip after passenger’s death ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/12/28/world-news/australian-cruise-ship-coral-adventurer-runs-aground-two-months-after-passenger-suzanne-rees-death/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:15:59

• Saudi-Led Group in Yemen Tells Separatists to Withdraw, or Be ‘Dealt With’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/world/middleeast/yemen-saudi-arabia-airstrikes.html    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:16:12

• How Oil, Drugs and Immigration Fueled Convicted Felon’s Venezuela Campaign ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/us/politics/venezuela-trump-maduro-oil-boat-strikes-immigration.html    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:16:22

• Yemeni separatists accuse Saudi Arabia of air strikes in eastern provinces ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251227-yemeni-separatists-accuse-saudi-arabia-of-air-strikes-in-eastern-provinces    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:17:28

• US air strikes in Nigeria targeted IS group fighters trying to enter from Sahel, govt says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20251227-us-air-strikes-nigeria-targeted-is-group-fighters-trying-enter-from-sahel    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:17:42

• Saudi Arabia backs Yemen's government, urges separatists to withdraw from seized provinces ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251227-saudi-arabia-demands-yemen-separatists-withdraw-forces    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:17:59

• Yemen: 'The status quo is no longer feasible', analyst says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251227-yemen-the-status-quo-is-no-longer-feasible-analyst-says    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:18:09

• Ungoogled Chromium is back ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202512/ungoogled-chromium-is-back.html    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:18:32

• Mono boosting by OMGJoey ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/pinta-3-1-released-new-axonometric-grids    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:20:17

• Christmas Music Project: Back to When Music Was Music ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/26/Christmas_Music_Project_Back_to_When_Music_Was_Music.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:20:58

• Nobara 43 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/nobara    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:21:20

• Canaima 8.3 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/canaima    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:21:29

• HarfBuzz 12.3 Released    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:22:56

• GameStop trolls Valve's Gabe Newell for his 'inability to count to three' — playful jab for never releasing a third installment for blockbuster game franchises like Half-Life, Dota, or Counter-Strike ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/gamestop-trolls-valves-gabe-newell-for-his-inability-to-count-to-three-playful-jab-for-never-releasing-a-third-installment-for-blockbuster-game-franchises-like-half-life-dota-or-counter-strike    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:24:02

• playful jab for never releasing a third installment for blockbuster game franchises like Half-Life, Dota, or Counter-Strike ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/gamestop-trolls-valves-gabe-newell-for-his-inability-to-count-to-three-playful-jab-for-never-releasing-a-third-installment-for-blockbuster-game-franchises-like-half-life-dota-or-counter-strike    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:24:16

• Building Beautiful LED Lanterns With Black LED Acrylic ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/27/building-beautiful-led-lanterns-with-black-led-acrylic/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:24:56

• "Elegant Aimbot" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/27/moving-mousepad-is-an-elegant-aimbot/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:25:19

• Foucault Pendulum ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/27/what-to-do-when-your-foucault-pendulum-stops-swinging/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:25:41

• "There are five general senses: touch for feels, taste for food, smell for avoiding trash, hearing for sounds, and, of course, eyesight for visualizing the very waves making up that sound. [PlasmatronX] drives that last point home with his camera for sound waves" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/27/seeing-sound-for-under-200/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 14:26:15

• 3 ways to have more fun with a Linux PC this weekend (December 26 - 28) https://www.howtogeek.com/ways-to-have-fun-on-linux-this-weekend-december-26/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 15:13:03

• 3 ways to have more fun with a Linux PC this weekend (December 26 - 28) https://www.howtogeek.com/ways-to-have-fun-on-linux-this-weekend-december-26/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 15:13:26

• "Windows 12" is nonsense vapourware, "AI" is more nonsense, and this is curious-trolling, not journalism https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/dual-booting-windows-linux-total-harmony-2025    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 15:14:44

• It also overlooks what is already happening/underway    

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

• 10 Linux apps I tried in 2025 that I'm still using daily https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-i-tried-in-2025-that-are-actually-worth-installing/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 15:15:48

• New to Linux? 5 must-have apps to install on day one https://www.howtogeek.com/install-these-5-must-have-apps-on-day-one/ https://tech.yahoo.com/apps/articles/linux-5-must-apps-install-161515728.html    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 15:17:28

• Why have choice? https://www.howtogeek.com/another-x11-revival-has-arrived-but-what-is-the-point/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 15:18:49

• How to Connect to a VPN Service from the Linux Command Line https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-connect-to-a-vpn-service-from-the-linux-command-line/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 15:19:35

• "On Christmas day this week, the team behind the popular CachyOS Linux distribution published a "2025 recap" blog post looking back how the distro has changed over the year, and also previewing what's to come." https://www.howtogeek.com/cachyos-announces-upcoming-server-edition/    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 15:20:11

• Cory's presentation at 39C3;the recording is online now. "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet - 39C3" https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/event/a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 15:37:58

• Or not YET    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 15:38:14

• "After two CT scans and more cameras down the back of my nose to look at my throat, and discussion of a possible transfer to a bigger hospital, the conclusion was to open me up to drain some areas of infection" gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2025-12-28_What_What_happened_next__you_numpty_.gmi    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 15:50:23

• "I wanted to set up a streaming station featuring songs from my band but my cloud server doesn't have the storage or memory. Solution?" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/bluesman/36151    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 15:51:28

• 🔤SpellBinding: ACDWNOH Wordo: PINKS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-12-28.gmi    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 15:52:30

• "Last month I found out the EHX Superego was being discontinued. When I'm at the office, I've been listening to music on my old iPod nano." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/12-28.gmi    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 15:53:10

• "A post-American, enshittification-resistant [Internet]" https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet    

posted Sunday, December 28, 2025 at 18:02:28