Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said Ukraine’s real victory lies in survival. He underlined that the war was started by a single aggressor, not by Ukraine, Europe, or NATO. Only that aggressor can stop it. #UkraineWar

Radxa launches NX4 SoM with Rockchip RK3576(J) industrial SoC and NX4IO carrier board

Radxa NX4 is a 260-pin SO-DIMM SoM built around the Rockchip RK3576(J) octa-core Cortex-A72/A53 industrial SoC with a 6 TOPS NPU for edge AI workloads. It supports up to 16GB LPDDR5 memory along with optional SPI flash, eMMC 5.1 (up to 256GB), or UFS 2.0 storage (up to 1TB). Radxa has also introduced the NX4 IO carrier board for the module with an HDMI video output, two 4-lane MIPI CS…
cnx-software.com/2026/01/13/ra

Very interesting article by @ploum .

Maybe your #DigitalIndependenceDay should be about moving off github?

> Big institutions like my Alma Mater or entire countries have no excuse to still use American monopolies. This is either total incompetence or corruption, probably a bit of both.

How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem

ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteachin

🆕 A Stone Age game controller has been found, indicating that our ancestors were already playing video games much earlier than previously known :xbox_360_controller:

“Folks have warned for years about the mission creep of surveillance infrastructure systems like (automated license plate readers) and this propensity for them to be abused, and we’re seeing those risks manifest today,” EFF’s Sarah Hamid told the Press Democrat.
pressdemocrat.com/2026/01/09/f

Age verification mandates. They're everywhere! But does anyone really want them? 🙅‍♀️

We're breaking these laws down, from what they do and how they harm civil liberties. Join us live next week! eff.org/livestream-age

Amazon’s Ring doorbell camera system won the “Worst in Show” for privacy at #CES2026 for “doubling down on privacy invasion and supporting the misconception that more surveillance always makes us safer,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn told @AssociatedPress. apnews.com/article/ces-worst-s

Federal agents shot and killed a community member who was observing an ICE raid in Minneapolis this morning. Reports that she was shot in the face multiple times. On the ground reports that feds refused access for medical assistance and physicians who were otg attempting to administer aid and check her pulse.

In the videos of the shooting circulating social media, it is clear she was attempting to drive away. She posed no threat to agents or anyone else. This was cold blooded murder. DHS is already lying about the murder and attempting to justify their actions.

Abolish ICE

apnews.com/article/minnesota-i

PureOS just asked me if I wanted to enable Mozilla Location Services which makes me feel really sad 😟

This actually great service got discontinued by Mozilla recently because they wanted to spend more money on AI bullshit instead or something.

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Come join me and Allie Brosh for the first ever screening of “My Dog: The Paradox.”

theoatmeal.com/blog/dog_parado

Fewest errors so far with (fresh install) Ubuntu 25.10 on intel MacPro after some fiddling and futzing.

Fixed:
1. magicmouse_hid error
2. brcmf not loading used 6.12 lts t2 kernel instead required zfs-dkms re-install for some reason
3. after resume from suspend the touchpad now actually activates without turning it off an on using a systemd service and script call to rrmod, modprobe the magicmouse_hid driver
4. switched from pipewire to pulseaudio

The last coal plant delivering electricity to California has closed.
California's energy system is now coal free.

climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/di

Why is seahorse and pam authentication on debian and ubuntu such a mess lately? No automatic gdm keyring unlock after login, forgets the login keychain and create new keychain (Login default, creates login keychain with no passwords), when creating a default keychain with empty password its even less reliable

Russia’s oil giant Rosneft reports a 70 % drop in net income for the first 9 months of 2025, down to 277 billion roubles (~ US $3.57 billion). The company cited high interest rates, lower oil prices, a stronger rouble, and rising “anti‑terror security” costs as major pressures.

Real reason: Ukrainian sanctions.

Thanks to Taym Haddadi we have noticed that is now possible to make PRs to the Servo repository on GitHub from Servo itself! 🎉

📢 BREAKING 📢
We're suing the departments of Justice and Homeland Security to get answers about ICE-spotting app takedowns. Read more about our FOIA lawsuit: eff.org/press/releases/eff-dem

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