Wayland-Only Budgie 10.10 Desktop Preview Released
At the start of the year developers behind the Budgie desktop environment hoped for shipping Budgie 10.10 in Q1-2025. We are now in Q4 without a stable release but at long last a preview version is at least available. Budgie 10.10 is the point at which Budgie is going all-in on Wayland in leaving behind the X11 desktop session support… ⌘ Read more

iPadOS 26.2 Beta 3 Adds New Drag and Drop Multitasking Functionality
In the initial version of iOS 26, Apple removed Slide Over and Split View multitasking in favor of a new window-based multitasking system. A replacement for Split View was available in an added tiled mode, but Slide Over was entirely gone.

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iPad users missed Slide … ⌘ Read more

next-20251117: linux-next
Version:next-20251117 (linux-next)Released:2025-11-17 ⌘ Read more

Liberté d’expression : l’Occident tenté par la censure ?
Il y a deux conditions préalables pour introduire une sévère censure sur les réseaux sociaux. La première consiste à obtenir un support suffisant d’une partie importante de la population. La seconde condition nécessite l’introduction d’outils techniques qui permettent de rendre cette censure possible. Or, même si l’on aurait pu croire que l’Occident se poserait en […] ⌘ Read more

Apple Exploring Touch-Sensitive Layers Built Into Official iPhone Cases
Apple is developing official iPhone cases that act like secondary touch interfaces for future devices, claims a new rumor out of China.

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According to known Weibo-based leaker Instant Digital, Apple is looking to make protective cases for its Pro models that directly integrate touch-based … ⌘ Read more

6.18-rc6: mainline
Version:6.18-rc6 (mainline)Released:2025-11-16Source:linux-6.18-rc6.tar.gzPatch:full ( incremental) ⌘ Read more

Kysáč si pripomenul sté výročie narodenia Andreja Ferka
V nedeľu 16. novembra 2025 si Kysáč dôstojne pripomenul sté výročie narodenia svojho významného rodáka – lekára, básnika, partizána a kultúrneho pracovníka Andrejа Ferka. Spomienkové podujatie sa začalo odhalením pamätnej tabule na dome, v ktorom sa Ferko narodil, a pokračovalo bohatým kultúrno-umeleckým programom venovaným jeho životu, dielu a odkazu. ⌘ Read more

“A partir de 17 de novembro, os estudantes vão parar as suas escolas em protesto como último aviso ao governo. Vamos mostrar que não consentimos que vendam o nosso futuro, e que estamos dispostos a parar as nossas escolas e não ser governáveis por quem está a condenar a nossa vida.

Dia 22 de novembro, se o governo nada tiver feito, convocamos toda a sociedade a sair às ruas, lado a lado para exigir o futuro a que todos temos direito e marchar até à Assembleia da República em Lisboa.”

#CriseClimática #GreveClimática #Lisboa

https://greveclimaticalisboa.org/2025/10/o-nosso-futuro-nao-esta-a-venda-marcha-22-nov/

We had a nice family day in Schwäbisch Gmünd: https://lyse.isobeef.org/schwaebisch-gmuend-2025-11-16/

Solar and Wind are Covering ALl New Power Demand in 2025
An anonymous reader shared this report from Electrek:

Solar and wind are growing fast enough to meet all new electricity demand worldwide for the first three quarters of 2025, according to new data from energy think tank Ember.

The group now expects fossil power to stay flat for the full year, marking the first time since the pandemic that fossil generatio … ⌘ Read more

Mac Pro Reportedly on ‘Back Burner’ and ‘Largely Written Off’ at Apple
Apple’s high-end Mac Pro desktop computer is currently “on the back burner,” according to the latest word from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

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In his [Power On newsletter today](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-11-16/apple-s-iphone-road-map-iphone-air-2-iphone-18-mac-pro-future-tes … ⌘ Read more

Could C# Overtake Java in TIOBE’s Programming Language Popularity Rankings?
It’s been trying to measure the popularity of programming languages since 2000 using metrics like the number of engineers, courses, and third-party vendors. And “The November 2025 TIOBE Index brings another twist below Python’s familiar lead,” writes TechRepublic. “C solidifies its position as runner-up, C++ and Java lose … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Hm, same startup delay. (Go is not an option for me anyway.)

It’s hard to tell why all this is so slow. Maybe in this particular case it has something to do with fonts: strace shows the program loading the fontconfig configs several times, and that takes up a bulk of the startup time. 🤔 (Qt6 or Java don’t do that, but they’re still slow to start up – for other reasons, apparently.)

To be fair, it’s “just” the initial program startup (with warm I/O caches). Once it’s running, it’s fine. All toolkits I’ve tried are. But I don’t want to accept such delays, not in the year 2025. 😅 Imagine every terminal window needing half a second to appear on the screen … nah, man.

Copy-and-Paste Now Exceeds File Transferring as the Top Corporate Data Exfiltration Vector
Slashdot reader spatwei writes: It is now more common for data to leave companies through copying and pasting than through file transfers and uploads, LayerX revealed in its Browser Security Report 2025. This shift is largely due to generative AI (genAI), with 77% of employees pasting data into AI … ⌘ Read more

Virtual reality had its chance. It blew it
I’ve spent more time this year thinking about virtual reality than actually using it. That should tell you everything you need to know about VR’s state of play in 2025. ⌘ Read more

#UGT #GreveGeral

“O aviso, contudo, é claro: se nas reuniões marcadas para 19 de novembro e 10 de dezembro o executivo voltar a apresentar um documento semelhante ao apresentado recentemente - que Mário Mourão classifica como “inócuo” - a central sindical ponderará “marcar dois dias de greve em vez de um”.”

https://expresso.pt/economia/trabalho/2025-11-15-secretario-geral-da-ugt-ameaca-alargar-greve-geral-para-dois-dias-se-o-governo-mantiver-proposta-b85666b5

While Meta Crawls the Web for AI Training Data, Bruce Ediger Pranks Them with Endless Bad Data
From the personal blog of interface expert Bruce Ediger:

Early in March 2025, I noticed that a web crawler with a user
agent string of

meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)

was hitting my blog’s machine at an unreasonable rate.

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Report: Tim Cook to Step Down as Apple CEO ‘as Soon as Next Year’
Apple is preparing for Tim Cook to step down as CEO of the company “as soon as next year,” according to the Financial Times.

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The company’s board of directors and senior executives “recently intensified preparations for Cook to hand over the reins,” the report said.

Whil … ⌘ Read more

Impôts sur la fortune : distractions avant une dévaluation
Un article de Henry Bonner Les élus, les médias et même la plupart des entreprises veulent plus d’aides, de subventions et de programmes de la part du gouvernement. Au lieu des coupes de budgets, ils préfèrent les taxes ou les dettes. Ainsi, après un récent vote des parlementaires, le gouvernement prépare une taxe sur les […] ⌘ Read more

Top Stories: Apple Silicon Turns 5, iPhone Pocket, and More
It’s hard to believe we’re halfway through November already, as 2025 rapidly draws to a close with no firm signs of several smaller hardware updates we’ve been hoping to see before the end of the year, although we did get one surprising new iPhone accessory this week.

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This week also saw the fifth anniversary of the very successful Apple silicon effort on t … ⌘ Read more

The Age photos of the week, November 15, 2025
The week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age ⌘ Read more

Slovensko bez hraníc č. 8
Úrad pre Slovákov žijúcich v zahraničí (ÚSŽZ) predstavil nové, novembrové vydanie spravodajcu Slovensko bez hraníc, ktoré prináša aktuálne informácie o činnosti úradu, významných udalostiach a aktivitách krajanov na všetkých kontinentoch. Najnovšie číslo (8/2025) je dostupné vo formáte pdf na webovej stránke ÚSŽZ. ⌘ Read more

Small wineries worried about ‘onerous’ costs of consumer recycling scheme
Container Deposit Schemes are loved by consumers for getting a little cash back, but wineries say the financial and administrative burden outweighs any environmental boon. ⌘ Read more

Apple’s 2026 Mac Plans
Most of Apple’s Macs are slated to get M5 chips across 2026, and there’s a possibility we’ll even see the first M6 chips toward the end of the year. Updates are planned for everything from the MacBook Air to the Mac Studio.

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The ‌MacBook Air‌ will be one o … ⌘ Read more

The Economic Impact of Brexit
Abstract of a working paper [PDF] published by NBER: This paper examines the impact of the UK’s decision to leave the European Union (Brexit) in 2016. Using almost a decade of data since the referendum, we combine simulations based on macro data with estimates derived from micro data collected through our Decision Maker Panel survey. These estimates suggest that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with … ⌘ Read more

How to Turn Off Journal “Time to Write” Reminders on iPhone & Apple Watch
Once you use the Journal app, it will send a daily notification to your iPhone and Apple Watch (yuck) with a reminder that says “Time to Write”, nudging you to create a new journal entry for the day. If you’re annoyed by the Journal “Time to Write” alerts on your iPhone or Apple Watch, you … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/11/14/how-to-turn-off-journal-time-to-write-re … ⌘ Read more

Cette caste jacassante en lutte acharnée contre des mythes
En République Française, chaque jour qui passe donne l’occasion de voir grandir l’écart entre le monde réel et celui fantasmé par la caste jacassante. Cette dernière, composée de la « noblesse » politicienne et du « clergé » médiatique, dépeint avec obstination un monde complètement différent de celui que vit le peuple, baigné dans un quotidien de frustrations pratiques […] ⌘ Read more

next-20251114: linux-next
Version:next-20251114 (linux-next)Released:2025-11-14 ⌘ Read more

Texas A&M to restrict faculty from advocating “race and gender ideology”
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WhatsApp Launching Third-Party Chat Support Across EU Countries
WhatsApp is close to rolling out third-party chat support across the European Union, as part its compliance with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).

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WhatsApp parent company Meta is required by the DMA to make its messaging platform interoperable with other third-party services, and Meta says the first apps that WhatsApp will support are [BirdyChat](http … ⌘ Read more

6.12.58: longterm
Version:6.12.58 (longterm)Released:2025-11-13Source:linux-6.12.58.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.12.58.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.58 ⌘ Read more

Parsing Integers in C
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The WA government is asking whether cannabis should be legalised. Will it listen?
The Mental Health Commission asked the question as part of its 2025 Drug Attitudes survey, but a WA MP said the response from residents was rarely acted on. ⌘ Read more

Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation
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The sky picked up a few colors for just a few minutes: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-11-13/

Apple Begins Selling Some Third-Party Accessories in ‘Dark Cherry’ Color
Apple has teamed up with a handful of accessory makers to offer charging stands, cables, a power bank, a laptop sleeve, and more in a Dark Cherry color.

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The range of Dark Cherry accessories were added to Apple’s online store this week in the U.S. and many other countries, with delivery and in-store pickup available.

Participating brand … ⌘ Read more

#musiquinta “drogas disfarçadamente, mais ou menos”

Uma música lançada em 2024 que conto ouvir ao vivo em 2025:

Marilyn Manson - As Sick As The Secrets Within

https://youtu.be/vOd8hE-xTDY

Editor’s Note: Security Human Validation
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: Even though we had several levels of security already installed, SR has been experiencing so many hacking attacks that it was getting difficult to publish it because the attacks kept screwing up the application we use to produce SR. So Beth Alexander, my wonderful web manager of many years, consulted with security specialists, and they told her we needed to add a human verification first … ⌘ Read more

Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control conspiracy theory
Dave Levitan,  Climate Science Writer  -  MIT Technology Review

_Stephan: ”king” Trump, his administration, and his Congressional vassals are doing nothing about preparing for the ongoing climate change crisis, whose crescendo is estimated to be about 14 years from now. Instead, they seek to entrap the United States in carbon energy to serve the oligarchs who have funded Trump and the Republican Congr … ⌘ Read more

Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
MARK SHERMAN,  Supreme Court Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: The Epstein Trump pedophilia story has taken over the media, so I want to focus on some other major stories getting very little media attention. This is some good news, surprising in a way, given the MAGAt majority that dominates the Supreme Court. The good news is that the C … ⌘ Read more

‘No way we’re going back’: Canadians are flying just about anywhere but the US
Ewan Gleadow,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The damage “king” Trump has done to the wellbeing of the United States is historic, and it particularly stands out in international relationships. Canadians, Europeans, Chinese, and others aren’t choosing to visit.   It has affected the tourism business, the importation by other nations of American goods, and the importat … ⌘ Read more

Common cents: US Mint to press its final penny
Associated Press Reporters,    -  Associated Press

Stephan: No more pennies. After 232 years, the little copper coins we have handled all our lives will cease to be coined. Here are the facts.

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The US Mint in [Philadelphia](htt … ⌘ Read more

China’s ‘Wolf Warrior’ Diplomacy Returns With Threat Against Japan’s Leader
A Chinese diplomat’s call to cut off the prime minister’s “filthy neck” signaled a revival of a combative style Beijing had tried to dial back. ⌘ Read more

Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a chief critic of the president and an opponent of oil exploration in the Pacific, called the proposal “dead on arrival.” ⌘ Read more

Syria’s Leaders Pledge to Join Fight Against Islamic State
Large parts of Syria were once overrun by the terrorist group Islamic State. The country’s new government has just committed to a global effort to fight the group. ⌘ Read more

How France Remembers the November 2015 Terrorist Attacks in Paris
A decade ago, Islamic State militants killed 130 people in an assault that shocked France. Some survivors are still struggling, but for many of their compatriots, memories of the attacks are growing more distant. ⌘ Read more

Study provides new forecasts of remote islands’ vulnerability to sea level rise
In the summer of 2022, 20 islands in the Maldives were flooded when a distant swell event in the Indian Ocean coincided with an extremely high tide level. ⌘ Read more

South Asia on Edge
There are no known links between two bomb attacks in India and Pakistan, but they come as tensions between the countries are already high. ⌘ Read more

How France Remembers the November 2015 Terrorist Attacks in Paris
A decade ago, Islamic State militants killed 130 people in an assault that shocked France. Some survivors are still struggling, but for many of their compatriots, memories of the attacks are growing more distant. ⌘ Read more

iPhone 16e Has Apparently ‘Failed’ Just Like iPhone Air
Apple’s entry-level iPhone 16e model is selling poorly, just like the iPhone Air, according to an Asia-based leaker.

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The Weibo user known as “ Fixed Focus Digital” said that the ‌iPhone 16e‌ is not selling well a … ⌘ Read more