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**LMDE 7 “Gigi” released! - Linux Mint**
I didn't even remember there *was* a Linux Mint Debian Edition. Version 7 is out, based on Debian 13.
"Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint would be able to continue to deliver the same user experience, and how much work would be involved, if Ubuntu was ever […]

**More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.**
"The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days […]

**Believing misinformation is a “win” for some people, even when proven false**
People who'd rather win an argument (or just disagree to be contrarian) than be right.
Not surprisingly, it tends to correlate with an authoritarian mindset. Which means those who want to be authoritarian leaders can […]

**When Picasso Saved Matisse’s Paintings From the Nazis**
"On his way out of the studio Abetz noticed a photograph of Guernica. “Ah, Monsieur Picasso,” he said, adjusting his monocle, “so it was you who did that.” “No,” replied Picasso as he closed the door, “you did.”"

#history #Picasso […]

**Some Free Sticker Designs and Where to Print Them - Doc Pop's Weblog**
"Here's a collection of free to use sticker designs by Doc Pop, plus suggestions on who to use for print on demand sticker manufacturing."
Includes "Move purposefully nd fix things," a sandwich hero, a BSG quote on military […]

**How to get the Windows 10 ESU Enrollment Back**
Apparently it doesn't check the system's eligibility every time you launch Windows Update, or even every time you boot.
I also found that it checks *per-user*, and it was cheerfully offering the teenager a chance to enroll the box in it even […]

**ASAN Condemns Administration's Rampant Misinformation about Autism, Acetaminophen, and Vaccines; Calls for Respectful, Fact-Based Approach**
"On September 22nd, President Trump, RFK, and other members of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) leadership held a press conference that […]

Meshtastic An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices

**Meshtastic**
"An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices"

#MeshNetwork #connectivity #networking

**RSL: Really Simple Licensing**
An XML standard to indicate whether or not you approve of AI uses of your site (or specific parts of it), and under what licensing conditions if so.
Like robots.txt, so the less scrupulous AI crawlers will keep scraping your writing and photos.

#WebDev #AI […]

**The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas**
"The “debate me bro” playbook is simple and effective: demand that serious people engage with your conspiracy theories or extremist talking points. If they decline, cry “censorship!” and claim they’re “afraid of the […]

**China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool**
"China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool"
Apparently Microsoft hasn't followed up on their own experiment, though they considered it […]

Want an Energy-Efficient Data Center? Build It Underwater Microsoft wants to submerge data centers to keep them cool and to harvest energy from the sea

**Want an Energy-Efficient Data Center? Build It Underwater**
2017: "Microsoft wants to submerge data centers to keep them cool and to harvest energy from the sea"
I should look up whether this approach panned out at all.

#underwater #Energy #DataCenters #cooling

**Hurricane Katrina Showed How Quickly It Can All Fall Apart | Defector**
" I rewatched a few of his earlier movies, including his sweeping 2006 documentary about Hurricane Katrina, When the Levees Broke. More than any other event of the 21st century—including 9/11 and the 2008 financial […]

The Parity Public License the free for open software license

**The Parity Public License**
"Parity is a public LICENSE for software that requires users who build with your software to share their work with the community, too."

#SoftwareLicenses #ParityPublicLicense

**The Thousands of Atomic Bombs Exploded on Earth**
"From Orbital Mechanics, a visualization of the 2153 nuclear weapons exploded on Earth since 1945."

#history #visualization #NuclearWeapons #NuclearTesting

**Personal Book Archival with Calibre and Kobo**
How to use Calibre and its plugins, plug Calibre-Web and Tailscale, to build a personal ebook library safe from DRM-induced deletion and sync it with a Kobo eReader.

#ebooks #DRMfree #Kobo #Calibre #HowTo #Tailscale

LaudatioC Font | wfonts.com - download free LaudatioC Regular FriedrichPoppl(1982)|FixedbyViktarAutushka,Miensk,Bielarus',. : LaudatioC: 2001 LaudatioC Version 1. 0; 2001; initial release LaudatioC LaudatioC is a trademark of the Friedrich Poppl (1982) | Fixed by Viktar Autushka, Miensk, Bielarus',.

**LaudatioC Font**
Similar to Poppl Laudatio Condensed, the font used for the Debian logo.

#fonts #Debian #Linux #logo

Rogue Ad-free video game news, guides, opinions, history, culture, previews, interviews, and reviews written by humans, for humans

**Rogue**
"Ad-free video game news, guides, opinions, history, culture, previews, interviews, and reviews written by humans, for humans"

#gaming

Network Of Time Connecting and sharing the appearances that tell the stories of encounters between notable people and historical figures.

**Network Of Time**
"Connecting and sharing the appearances that tell the stories of encounters between notable people and historical figures."

#history #photography #privacy #panopticon #BaconNumber

Web Browsers without AI Are there any web browsers that don't have AI in them?

**Web Browsers without AI**
With just about every major web browser integrating some sort of "AI," this site decided it's easier to list web browsers *without* it. At this point it's just Vivaldi and Orion.

#WebBrowser #AI #Vivaldi #OrionBrowser

Byte - a visual archive

**Byte - a visual archive**
Every page of every issue of Byte Magazine, mapped visually

#magazine #RetroComputing #ByteMagazine

**What Happens When an Entire Scientific Field Changes Its Mind**
"In retrospect, one can’t be surprised that the first experiment to carefully examine the aether failed to find it. But it would be extremely surprising if, after decades of experimental verification, quarks were shown not to […]

**Radioactive Shrimp**
"Do I know exactly how this happened? No and it is likely to be a while until we get any definitive answers, if ever. But I do have a pretty good idea what happened by which I understand the established processes and how they fail."- Funranium Labs

#FoodSafety […]

**ASCII Smuggler**
LLM prompt injection vulnerability using Unicode to hide text.

#LLM #AI #ComputerSecurity #Unicode #ASCII

LibreWolf should delete all AI code In future releases FireFox have plans to add AI . This is a threat for security and unnecessary option. Please do not allow AI code to be used in LibreWolf.

**LibreWolf AI discussion**

#WebBrowser #AI #LibreWolf #Firefox #Mozilla

**Gulf of Tonkin incident**
"The original American report blamed North Vietnam for both incidents, but the Pentagon Papers, the memoirs of Robert McNamara, and NSA publications from 2005 proved material misrepresentation by the US government to justify a war against Vietnam."

#history #war […]

Sketchbook of a GPS Artist

**Sketchbook of a GPS Artist**

#art #cycling #GPS #maps

**smolweb HTML specification**
"smolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate."

#HTML #SmallInternet #spec #smolweb

**Thread on Ladybird and"politics"**

#LadybirdBrowser #WebBrowser #politics

**List of Internet Software for Linux**
Arch wiki, breaks down apps by type and subtype (ex: console web browsers, gui web browsers based on Chromium, etc.)

#ArchLinux #Linux #WebBrowser