Here we go again. It looks like some kind of security issue -- perhaps ransomware involved -- but nobody's talking: London Hospitals Hit by Critical Incident https://www.itprotoday.com/attacks-breaches/london-hospitals-hit-by-critical-incident-impacting-transfusions
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Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 01:15:41 JST Christine Hall
It looks as if everyone is covering this Linux story: Linux Shoots Past The 2% Threshold For The Steam Survey, AMD CPU Use Breaks 75% - Phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Steam-2024-Above-2
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Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 00:20:43 JST Christine Hall
"By 'greater diversity of thought,' he means pushing facts-optional right wing grievance porn and propaganda pretending to be journalism, in a bid to further distract the public from issues of substance, and fill American heads with pudding. But it sounds like Ramaswamy couldn’t even do that successfully. For one thing, Buzzfeed simply isn’t relevant as a news company any longer": Vivek Ramaswamy Buys Pointless Buzzfeed Stake So He Can Pretend He’s ‘Fixing Journalism’ https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/31/vivek-ramaswamy-buys-pointless-buzzfeed-stake-so-he-can-pretend-hes-fixing-journalism/
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"Some five million additional systems have started putting additional strain on Fedora's mirror resources since March and appear to be coming from Amazon's cloud ": Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors - Phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/news/AWS-Cloud-Breaks-Fedora-Mirrors
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"Two weeks ago a report showed how U.S. wireless price competition ground to a halt immediately in the wake of the Sprint and T-Mobile merger.
What did we learn from this experience? Absolutely nothing. T-Mobile, the second biggest wireless carrier in the U.S., announced this week it would be paying $4.4 billion to buy most of U.S. Cellular, the nation’s fourth biggest wireless carrier": More Pointless Wireless Consolidation As T-Mobile Buys U.S. Cellular For $4.4 Billion https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/30/more-pointless-wireless-consolidation-as-t-mobile-buys-u-s-cellular-for-4-4-billion/In conversation from mastodon.opencloud.lu permalink Attachments
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Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 02:08:24 JST Christine Hall
Have I ever told you that I hate what Twitter (or X or TwitterX or whatever) has become? I don't wish harm on people, so I'll explain that I think it would do Musk some good if he were to go irreversibly broke.
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The usual suspects have rounded themselves up: Tech giants form an industry group to help develop next-gen AI chip components | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/30/tech-giants-form-new-group-in-effort-to-wean-off-of-nvidia-hardware/
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"While the early Internet had a bias toward freedom, AI so far has a bias toward control. Crooks and liars are finding value in AI tools well ahead of consumers and salesmen": A Boomer’s Lessons, the Web vs. AI https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/a-boomers-lessons-the-web-vs-ai
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Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 07:24:08 JST Christine Hall
"Last week at Google IO, Google made it clear that they’re moving forward with what it calls 'AI overviews,' in which Google’s own Gemini AI tech will try to generate answers at the top of search pages": Decentralized Systems Will Be Necessary To Stop Google From Putting The Web Into Managed Decline https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/21/decentralized-systems-will-be-necessary-to-stop-google-from-putting-the-web-into-managed-decline/
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Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 06:00:58 JST Christine Hall
Just from reading the headline, this suggestion sounds like a good one to me: Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Wants Us to Stop Treating AI Like Humans https://www.itprotoday.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-s-satya-nadella-wants-us-stop-treating-ai-humans
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Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 00:29:13 JST Christine Hall
Employers are looking for Linux and open-source-savvy people. And what are Linux and open-source-savvy job hunters looking for, according to the 2024 Open Source Professionals Job Survey Report?: More than money, open-source pros want these 2 things from their next jobs https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/more-than-money-open-source-pros-want-these-2-things-from-their-next-jobs/#ftag=RSSbaffb68
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Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 01:08:24 JST Christine Hall
One of the things they're going to be fighting is crypto [currency] scams. Wait! Isn't cryptocurrency in and of itself already a scam? Asking for a friend: Meta, Match, Coinbase and others team up to fight online fraud and crypto scams | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/21/meta-match-coinbase-and-others-team-up-to-fight-online-fraud-and-crypto-scams/
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Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 23:19:41 JST Christine Hall
"It's amazing, and a little sad, to think that something created in 1989 that changed how people used and viewed the then-nascent Internet had nearly vanished by 2024": Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/archie-the-internets-first-search-engine-is-rescued-and-running/
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Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 16:49:33 JST Christine Hall
Actually, just the act of using Windows should be enough to woo you away from Windows: These cool KDE Plasma features could woo you from Windows https://www.zdnet.com/article/these-cool-kde-plasma-features-could-woo-you-from-windows/
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Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 03:51:31 JST Christine Hall
Just in case you needed to set your watch: Ubuntu 24.10 Release Date Set for October 10, 2024 - OMG! Ubuntu https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/ubuntu-24-10-release-date
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Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 06:20:04 JST Christine Hall
Man, the scariest, it-will-never-happen aspects of B-grade '50s sci-fi is becoming a reality right before our eyes: Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/robot-dogs-armed-with-ai-targeting-rifles-undergo-us-marines-special-ops-evaluation/
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Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 00:52:35 JST Christine Hall
"As part of an investigation into people involved in the pro-independence movement in Catalonia, the Spanish police obtained information from the encrypted services Wire and Proton, which helped the authorities identify a pseudonymous activist, according to court documents obtained by TechCrunch": Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/08/encrypted-services-apple-proton-and-wire-helped-spanish-police-identify-activist/
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Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 08:01:21 JST Christine Hall
Knowing that the next release is a major point release makes upgrading to this one a little less sweet, no?: GIMP 2.10.38: The Last Stable Update before the 3.0 Release https://linuxiac.com/gimp-2-10-38-image-manipulation-program/
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Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 00:42:15 JST Christine Hall
Built-in obsolescence may not be fashionable, but it sure is profitable: Microsoft issues reminder about end of support for Office 2016 and Office 2019 https://betanews.com/2024/04/17/microsoft-issues-reminder-about-end-of-support-for-office-2016-and-office-2019/
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Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 00:36:58 JST Christine Hall
Lots of bug fixes, and GParted no longer forces 1 MB gap when moving partition boundary: GParted 1.6 Open-Source Partition Editor Improves exFAT Support and Fixes Bugs - 9to5Linux https://9to5linux.com/gparted-1-6-open-source-partition-editor-improves-exfat-support-and-fixes-bugs
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