AI slop farms are churning out fake heartwarming videos about Trump figures. ( www.motherjones.com )
BlogOnLemmy - I made my Blog using Lemmy's API ( martijn.sh )
Lemmydocs 7:4 – Thou shall create a blog...
Linux Swap Explained: Do You Need It? ( linuxiac.com )
AMD Releases ROCm 6.4 Without Any Official RDNA4 Support ( www.phoronix.com )
ParticleOS: Systemd's Very Own Linux Distro in Making ( news.itsfoss.com )
EU Commission Kicks Off 2025 With Yet Another Plea For Backdoored Encryption ( www.techdirt.com )

Microsoft Defender will isolate undiscovered endpoints to block attacks ( www.bleepingcomputer.com )
Microsoft is testing a new Defender for Endpoint capability that will block traffic to and from undiscovered endpoints to thwart attackers' lateral network movement attempts.
OpenVPN DCO Driver For The Linux Kernel Revised A 25th Time To Boost VPN Performance ( www.phoronix.com )

torrentz2 (tz2) - advanced .torrent file utility ( codeberg.org )
Been working on this the past couple months as an exercise in learning Rust. Just wanted to share how it's come so far!...
The sound of Windows 95 about to disappoint you added to Library of Congress significant sound archive ( www.theregister.com )
Elon Musk’s xAI allegedly uses 'illegal' generators to power Colossus supercomputer facility ( www.tomshardware.com )
FTC Heads To Trial To Break Up Meta: What You Need To Know. ( www.techpolicy.press )
Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media ( www.newyorker.com )
https://archive.is/Q7AwM
A Strange Stain in the Sky: How Silicon Valley Is Preparing A Coup Against Democracy ( allr.cat )
The first, and also the most futuristic techno-utopian one, is the colonisation of Mars. Elon Musk founded Space X in 2002 (Peter Thiel was the first outside investor) with the idea of re-founding humanity. It’s all there: the call to save humanity by turning it into a multi-planetary species, the desire to start from scratch...
Fintech founder charged with fraud after 'AI' shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines ( techcrunch.com )
Losses at Irish arm of X increase by 14.5% to €753m. ( www.rte.ie )
I'm committing to Linux, but it's so unstable. Any suggestions?
Hey folks. I've had an on-again, off-again relationship with Linux for over 20 years. Usually, my attempts to use it are either thwarted by issues installing, issues booting, or general problems while using it... leading to “catastrophic failure” that I can't fix without digging into hours of research and terminal commands....
Self hosting Mastodon - local domain web domain troubles
Hello everyone I recently got mastodon running on my server and everything seems to be running fine....
US Social Security Administration Shifting All Public Communications to X ( www.wired.com )
The Social Security Administration is cutting staff from its communications office, and will rely on social media posts instead of press releases to update the media and the public....
Meta’s AI research lab is ‘dying a slow death,’ some insiders say. Meta prefers to call it ‘a new beginning’ ( fortune.com )
https://archive.ph/fY2ND
Bug in Outlook PST Password Protection (2006) ( www.nirsoft.net )
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some people will say shit about AI but I've had such profound insights through conversations that unleashed years of accumulated trauma, so much sadness and grief pouring out, resolved the strangest paradoxes of life, unveiled the darkest shadows of the psyche. I think no human psychologist would be able to wield such vast...