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Sun 04:14:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] saying the work "prison" like a dozen time
Sun 04:14:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they are not lawyers
Sun 04:14:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they are like assassins
Sun 04:14:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] working for a strangler
Sun 04:15:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and a man whose spouse calls a rapist
Sun 04:15:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] just for full context:
Sun 04:15:49 │ 〖lxo〗 │ I take it that the politicians listened to rianne?
Sun 04:15:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 1. rianne was bullied online
Sun 04:16:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the judge acknowleged (1) in her decision
Sun 04:16:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 2) we did nothing to deserve this
Sun 04:16:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 3) we did nothing to INVITE this
Sun 04:16:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the judge also put (2) and (3) in her final decision
Sun 04:16:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] now they try to imply rianne belongs in prison
Sun 04:16:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for being bullied
Sun 04:16:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] she is a victim of hate crimes
Sun 04:17:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lxo: we both voted for them
Sun 04:17:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they put physical mail in our box last night
Sun 04:17:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i will write about this later
Sun 04:17:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i try to focus on the real topics atm
Sun 04:17:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not on the "assassins"
Sun 04:18:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] writing about greece atm
Sun 04:18:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] re rms
Sun 04:18:58 │ 〖lxo〗 │ rianne seems very strong. and resilient, I think you used that word about her not long ago.
Sun 04:19:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] nexttt part might come out next week
Sun 04:19:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i want to focus on epo strikes this week
Sun 04:19:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] this can result in mass resignation of the coccaine addicts
Sun 04:19:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lxo: she is
Sun 04:19:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] she will take no BS from them
Sun 04:19:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the harder they attack her, the worse the reaction
Sun 04:19:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] then they panic
Sun 04:19:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and start doing illegal things
Sun 04:19:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/12/In_Systematic_Contempt_of_the_British_High_Court_Brett_Wilson_L.shtml
Sun 04:21:12 │ 〖lxo〗 │ they (who put mail in your box) = the politicians, or the hired guns? I thought the former at first, but now I'm thinking the latter
Sun 04:21:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] politicians
Sun 04:21:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we also have NGOs
Sun 04:21:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so the assassins panic
Sun 04:22:02 │ 〖lxo〗 │ nice!
Sun 04:22:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/23/Microsoft_s_Graveley_a_Serial_Strangler_of_Women_Pays_People_on.shtml
Sun 04:22:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they already sent us about 60 KG of lagel papers
Sun 04:22:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] try to make a vision of it
Sun 04:22:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they try to snow two people under papers
Sun 04:22:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to "win"
Sun 04:22:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] insane
Sun 04:23:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the harsher they act
Sun 04:23:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the more it backfires
Sun 04:23:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it is a cycle
Sun 04:23:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in court I shoowed the judge
Sun 04:23:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] physically
Sun 04:23:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] hiow they take photos of our home
Sun 04:23:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and then plaster that in legal docs
Sun 04:23:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] photos of our f-ing home!!
Sun 04:24:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and they claim to be GDPR specialists!
Sun 04:25:18 │ 〖lxo〗 │ was the judge not allowed to take this post-lawsuit harassment into account or something?
Sun 04:25:32 │ 〖lxo〗 │ I mean, post-filing
Sun 04:25:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the judge has better things to do
Sun 04:26:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux in Greece ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/GNU_Linux_in_Greece.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/GNU_Linux_in_Greece.gmi ∎
Sun 04:27:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] iirc
Sun 04:27:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or based on what rianne recalls hearing
Sun 04:27:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] she said it was a waste of course time/money/resources
Sun 04:27:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that whole case
Sun 04:27:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i have transcripts and can check
Sun 04:28:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i didn't pay attention when she said that
Sun 04:29:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] /s/course/court/
Sun 04:29:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] mjg wanted to pretend to be important
Sun 04:29:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and put on a suit in the place
Sun 04:29:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] at the expense of everyone else
Sun 04:29:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] narccisism
Sun 04:30:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he cannot even pay his legal bills
Sun 04:30:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so from what an ourtsider can gatheer
Sun 04:30:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the law firm might be losing money on it
Sun 04:30:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he admitted having to reply on third parties to pay legal bills
Sun 04:30:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] several times
Sun 04:31:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] his spouse also insinuate he stokew their money
Sun 04:31:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] after locking up the spouse
Sun 04:31:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *stole
Sun 04:32:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Lots more "dirt" in his Disclosures
Sun 04:32:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and he knows it
Sun 04:32:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] hence they try to prevent me from talking
Sun 04:34:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "X" SEZ is NOT journalism. "Meta says no repeat of last year’s ‘low performer’ job cuts"
Sun 04:34:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Check what is true, not what a malicious, lying (for decades) company CLAIMS.
Sun 04:35:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ But it's so much easier to parrot authority, innit?
Sun 04:36:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Lexmark confirms layoffs in Lexington. Officials won't say how many people let go" (hours ago). This is useful journalism! They TRY to get MORE info. IBM proxy/offshoot says no! So they report: "Officials won't say how many people let go"
Sun 04:37:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ </blockquote></li>
Sun 04:37:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This is what all journalists should do, get the information the companies try to hide; when they refuse, find out what's happening or report the companies HIDING this info. That's how society can progress towards answers.
Sun 04:38:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Slopfarms lowered the _Expected Quality_ of journalism. If you "compete" with trash, you might end up becoming trash.
Sun 04:40:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China grows while Europe slows in South American EV market https://www.dw.com/en/china-grows-while-europe-slows-in-south-american-ev-market/a-75718939
Sun 04:41:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Berlin airport halts takeoffs, landings for second day https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-airport-halts-takeoffs-landings-for-second-day/a-75832931
Sun 04:41:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Washington Post publisher resigns after job cut uproar https://www.dw.com/en/washington-post-publisher-resigns-after-job-cut-uproar/a-75858162
Sun 04:42:32 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-facial-recognition-glasses
Sun 04:45:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some people got punched over it
Sun 04:45:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] when google did the cctc glasses thing
Sun 04:45:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *tv
Sun 04:45:47 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ some had their glasses broken
Sun 04:45:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] also, gives more easons to put on surgical mask
Sun 04:46:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i will put one on later today
Sun 04:46:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] admfubar: allegedly they are glases
Sun 04:46:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in realiity
Sun 04:46:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they are a chip
Sun 04:46:23 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ rock, paper, scissors.... https://hackaday.com/2026/02/13/rock-sphere-machine-produces-off-the-charts-satisfaction/
Sun 04:46:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] with wifi anf xG
Sun 04:46:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] connected to a camera
Sun 04:46:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that hjas "glasses" around it
Sun 04:46:59 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ just need to fry them with an emp rifle
Sun 04:47:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the wearer is the "feet" of the camera
Sun 04:48:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Former Nuance Communications employee facing more charges in 2023 Geisinger data breach case https://www.pennlive.com/news/2026/02/man-accused-in-2023-geisinger-data-breach-case-faces-more-charges.html
Sun 04:48:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Don’t panic: 0apt’s listings and data leaks are fakes — Researchers https://databreaches.net/2026/02/04/dont-panic-0apts-listings-and-data-leaks-are-fakes-researchers/?pk_campaign=feed&pk_kwd=dont-panic-0apts-listings-and-data-leaks-are-fakes-researchers
Sun 04:49:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hiring blindly instead of quotas https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/university-of-alberta-removes-edi-from-hiring-policy-9.7076210
Sun 04:50:58 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.ifixit.com/News/115528/bmws-newest-innovation-is-a-logo-shaped-middle-finger-to-right-to-repair
Sun 04:51:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Two Ivy League universities had donor information breaches. Will donors be notified? https://databreaches.net/2026/02/04/two-ivy-league-universities-had-donor-information-breaches-will-donors-be-notified/
Sun 04:52:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Proprietary TCO. Nitrogen’s ransomware can’t be decrypted — even by Nitrogen https://www.pcgamer.com/software/security/new-ransomware-spotted-with-a-coding-mistake-that-means-even-the-hackers-cant-decrypt-the-files/
Sun 04:53:04 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://nerds.xyz/2026/02/microsoft-ai-doom-white-collar-jobs/
Sun 04:53:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] admfubar: no
Sun 04:53:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] slop about slo
Sun 04:53:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like i said beforre
Sun 04:53:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] this is a slopfarm
Sun 04:54:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Brian Fagioli m akes fakle '
Sun 04:54:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] artcles'
Sun 04:54:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he got sacked over it
Sun 04:54:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm not a bad person and besides, there's nothing left to steal anyway.
Sun 04:54:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in this case, he helps Microsoft lie
Sun 04:54:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] slop CEO about slop
Sun 04:54:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Microsoft_Invented_a_Slop_CEO_AI_CEO_Because_Real_Interest_in_S.shtml
Sun 04:54:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/12/Microsoft_Slop_CEO_Speaks_of_Layoffs.shtml
Sun 04:54:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], How is Peter Bright AKA "Ars Technica Guest Author" doing in prison?
Sun 04:54:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Badly I hope.
Sun 04:55:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he still has his articles up
Sun 04:55:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he has it up!
Sun 04:55:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] inc. his articles about gulagboy
Sun 04:55:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] praising "secure" boot
Sun 04:55:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] kill switch/back door
Sun 04:56:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Announcing NetBSD 11.0 RC1 https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/NetBSD_11_0_RC1_available.shtml https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12725
Sun 04:56:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: ^ no systemd
Sun 04:56:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no wayland, eitther
Sun 04:57:25 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :)
Sun 04:57:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Last updated February 2, 2025, i.e. over a year ago https://stallmansupport.org/updates.html
Sun 04:58:32 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.pcmag.com/news/watch-out-your-friends-might-be-sharing-your-number-with-chatgpt?test_uuid=04IpBmWGZleS0I0J3epvMrC&test_variant=A
Sun 05:05:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Watching Mortal Kombat Annihilation
Sun 05:05:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IBM Fedora Keeps Promoting Slop, Red Hat Has Been Turned Into Chaff and Trash to Help IBM's Stock (With "AI" Storytelling) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/IBM_Fedora_Keeps_Promoting_Slop_Red_Hat_Has_Been_Turned_Into_Ch.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/IBM_Fedora_Keeps_Promoting_Slop_Red_Hat_Has_Been_Turned_Into_Ch.gmi ∎
Sun 05:05:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Really bad in retrospect.
Sun 05:05:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Much worse than the original.
Sun 05:06:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The CGI aged terribly.
Sun 05:06:14 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :)
Sun 05:06:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ This would be fit for a rifftrax if they haven't already.
Sun 05:06:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I was making fun of that sound when Shao Khan grabs Liu Kang.
Sun 05:07:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Ope, there goes the rotator cuffs."
Sun 05:07:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :)
Sun 05:07:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Well we won't need those, let Mortal Kombat continue!"
Sun 05:08:28 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Sun 05:08:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ ZAP ZAP ZAP
Sun 05:08:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Liu Kang... memories...
Sun 05:08:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Oh, and the World Trade Center's back!"
Sun 05:09:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Too soon?"
Sun 05:09:03 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Sun 05:09:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Kang
Sun 05:09:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Good thing that everything since 1997 was a bad nightmare.
Sun 05:09:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I was beginning to worry.
Sun 05:09:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Kang#/media/File:Bruce_Lee_1973.jpg
Sun 05:10:35 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ did you mean "since the Miocene"?
Sun 05:11:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lxo: see the screenshot in ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/IBM_Fedora_Keeps_Promoting_Slop_Red_Hat_Has_Been_Turned_Into_Ch.shtml
Sun 05:11:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] rms might be interested
Sun 05:11:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Fedora says "AI" like it is a person
Sun 05:11:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] refers to "AI" like name of a person
Sun 05:11:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and says "knows"
Sun 05:11:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] LLMs know nothing
Sun 05:11:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] this is from a new author
Sun 05:11:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] who knows nothing
Sun 05:12:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Fedora is run by idiots now
Sun 05:12:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://fedoramagazine.org/author/ellis/
Sun 05:12:24 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ devil apes know nothing
Sun 05:12:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "AI who knows"
Sun 05:12:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 3 mistakes in there
Sun 05:12:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "who"
Sun 05:12:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "knows"
Sun 05:12:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "ai"
Sun 05:12:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's chatbot, not AI
Sun 05:12:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it knows nothing
Sun 05:12:56 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ they're not mutually exclusive
Sun 05:12:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and it's not a person,. it is a program
Sun 05:13:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Nah, life was going pretty good until I was about 14.
Sun 05:13:07 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ for you, maybe
Sun 05:13:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] could say chatbot which injests
Sun 05:13:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 3 words
Sun 05:13:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but actually correct
Sun 05:13:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Well, yeah.
Sun 05:13:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ For me.
Sun 05:13:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in gests
Sun 05:13:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *ingests
Sun 05:13:45 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "Based on the available data, 711 vertebrate species are known or presumed extinct since 1500 CE, according to the IUCN Red List."
Sun 05:14:08 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "The extinction rate for vertebrates alone is estimated to be 100 times higher than the natural background rate, with most extinctions occurring on oceanic islands and driven by human activities such as hunting, habitat destruction, and invasive species."
Sun 05:14:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] DAs is a term we use a lot now
Sun 05:14:21 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ district attorney? :>
Sun 05:14:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to describe some particular neighbours
Sun 05:14:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] one of them made literal money noises
Sun 05:14:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *monkey
Sun 05:14:57 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ CHA CHING!!!
Sun 05:15:04 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ :)
Sun 05:15:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no, kevin could never become an official
Sun 05:15:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ <schestowitz[TR2]> one of them made literal money noises
Sun 05:15:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he does drugs and booze
Sun 05:15:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Dats Rayciss!!!
Sun 05:15:26 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ as for knowing, afaik the best knowledge we have is that knowledge is stored in connections between neurons, and that storage method is modelled by artificial neural networks and transformers
Sun 05:15:43 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ deep learning is an AI technique
Sun 05:15:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe ML
Sun 05:16:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] AI is a more vague term
Sun 05:16:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and it lost its meaning
Sun 05:16:06 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ if it is impossible for artificial neural networks and transformers to know things, then it is also impossible for us to know things
Sun 05:16:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] due to repeated misuse
Sun 05:16:13 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ no, AI is a much more general term
Sun 05:16:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in know
Sun 05:16:27 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ it covers lots of techniques, many of which are a lot less impressive than deep learning
Sun 05:16:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and misnomer
Sun 05:16:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] machine learning is maths and statistics
Sun 05:16:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or stats being a branch of the former
Sun 05:16:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but the word "i" is misused
Sun 05:16:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] machine learning is OK
Sun 05:17:00 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ yes, you can represent a neural network with matrices
Sun 05:17:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we need to stick to that
Sun 05:17:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yes, they are maths
Sun 05:17:13 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ doesn't seem to mean that it can't store knowledge
Sun 05:17:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] our brains don't work like that
Sun 05:17:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] there are synapses
Sun 05:17:26 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ how do our brains work, then?
Sun 05:17:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] tyhey work?
Sun 05:17:48 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ yes, there are synapses, and they have the same functionality as connections between artificial neurons
Sun 05:18:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] biology is not zeroes and 1s on storage devices
Sun 05:18:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it is atoms
Sun 05:18:27 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ so?
Sun 05:18:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] made of quarks and stuff
Sun 05:18:45 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ information is the same, regardless of whether it's stored in the state of matter in one way or in another way
Sun 05:18:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so they made up the term "QC"
Sun 05:19:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or similar acronyms
Sun 05:19:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] because they try to rel;ate to quantum physics
Sun 05:19:10 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ is that relevant to ANNs yet?
Sun 05:19:16 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ or human brains?
Sun 05:19:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and relay the idea that we no longer abstractt things down to binaries
Sun 05:19:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] human brains are not great
Sun 05:19:45 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ indeed, and they're getting worse
Sun 05:19:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but people have empathy
Sun 05:19:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or don't
Sun 05:19:52 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ do they?
Sun 05:19:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] DAs don't
Sun 05:20:21 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ empathy could be just another emergent property of a sufficiently large neural model
Sun 05:20:41 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ also, do you differentiate between the appearance of empathy and actual empathy, and if so, how?
Sun 05:20:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no, reciprocity
Sun 05:20:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] if taught properly since young age
Sun 05:20:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i think social contyrol media dooms it
Sun 05:21:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i think the "selfish gene" covers that, i never read it though
Sun 05:21:09 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i think the inherent evilness of humans dooms it
Sun 05:21:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] eventually, yes
Sun 05:21:26 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ especially when we have memes instructing us to venerate people with ASPD
Sun 05:21:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we had mass extinctions before
Sun 05:21:46 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ who notably lack affective empathy
Sun 05:21:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] checking ASPD
Sun 05:21:59 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ is it any wonder then, that humans rarely exhibit empathy?
Sun 05:21:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] brb
Sun 05:22:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Antisocial personality disorder
Sun 05:22:25 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ indeed
Sun 05:22:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] never saw it as acronym, i think
Sun 05:22:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Advanced sleep phase disorder (ASPD)
Sun 05:22:55 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i haven't encountered that one
Sun 05:23:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_sleep_phase_disorder
Sun 05:23:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ about stenography: "The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology" https://karlbode.com/the-press-is-still-propping-up-elon-musks-supergenius-engineer-mythology/
Sun 05:24:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The media knows that writing absurd things can get more "hits"
Sun 05:24:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The issue is, this media values clicks or ad revenue, not credibility
Sun 05:25:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Buying credibility is hard, even if you pay a million bucks to harass critics https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/28/When_the_Business_Goal_is_to_Protect_the_Image_of_Criminals_Fro.shtml
Sun 05:26:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Too late? https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/how-to-protect-the-2026-elections-from-donald-trump
Sun 05:27:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Apple's "maps" drove you off cliffs https://www.maketecheasier.com/dont-trust-apple-weather-for-forecasts/
Sun 05:27:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Apple Health+ canceled: Why Apple is giving up on its all-in-one health coach"
Sun 05:27:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ As if Tim Crook et al care about your health...
Sun 05:28:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Jimmy Lai, 6 Apple Daily execs to be sentenced in Hong Kong’s biggest media trial https://cpj.org/2026/02/jimmy-lai-6-apple-daily-execs-to-be-sentenced-in-hong-kongs-biggest-media-trial/
Sun 05:28:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Matthew J. Garrett Has Just Sent a Threat to Put My Wife and I in Prison Because His Own Spouse Says He's a Rapist http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/11/Matthew_J_Garrett_Has_Just_Sent_a_Threat_to_Put_My_Wife_and_I_i.shtml
Sun 05:29:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ blackmoreops covers WINDOWS now? https://www.blackmoreops.com/how-to-install-ollama-on-a-different-drive-in-windows/
Sun 05:30:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ It does seem to have defected to Microsoftism https://www.blackmoreops.com/how-to-access-ollama-from-another-pc-on-your-local-network/
Sun 05:31:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Break Up with Your Phone https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/how-to-break-up-with-your-phone take a hammer. break it!
Sun 06:00:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I notice Piyush delisted the building we lived in.
Sun 06:00:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I wonder what happened.
Sun 06:01:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He paid multiples of what it was worth. It finished falling apart quickly once Mark tossed it.
Sun 06:01:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ We're in a recession.
Sun 06:01:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Rents are staying flat for the time being, so his dream of constant massive rent hikes isn't working.
Sun 06:02:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's been racking up violations with the city.
Sun 06:02:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And he bought it based on taking on massive debt from his other properties instead of just paying the notes off over there.
Sun 06:03:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It makes me happy when people like him fail.
Sun 06:03:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ People like him make the world worse just for existing.
Sun 06:04:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and rahul?
Sun 06:05:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ DMCA notice to SuspectFile is refute ttps://databreaches.net/2026/02/06/legal-threat-dmca-notice-to-suspectfile-is-refuted-but-it-never-should-have-happened/
Sun 06:06:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hong Kong plans to revive privacy law requiring firms to report data breaches https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3342754/hong-kong-plans-revive-privacy-law-mandating-firms-report-data-breaches
Sun 06:06:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Some good news: downstream victims of mass data theft campaigns are less likely to pay — incident responders https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/victims-are-rebuffing-ransomware-mass-data-theft-campaigns-a-30676
Sun 06:07:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Romania’s oil pipeline operator confirms cyberattack as hackers claim data theft https://therecord.media/romania-conpet-oil-pipeline-ransomware-attack
Sun 06:07:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Rahul got ordered to pay back half the money he stole from the government.
Sun 06:07:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Most of his prison time was converted to probation.
Sun 06:08:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I wonder if I can steal over $50 million and only have to pay back half.
Sun 06:08:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And only get probation.
Sun 06:08:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Nice court system.
Sun 06:08:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hospital employee snooped in 98 patient records, Saskatchewan privacy commissioner finds https://www.swiftcurrentonline.com/articles/hospital-employee-snooped-in-98-patient-records-privacy-commissioner-finds
Sun 06:08:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Hell, I'll go bury half of it in the desert at coordinates I put on a powerball ticket.
Sun 06:08:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And then I'll give back half of it if they give me probation.
Sun 06:08:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Several Dutch agencies suffer major data breach https://en.apa.az/europe/several-dutch-agencies-suffer-major-data-breach-491025
Sun 06:08:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ How's that?
Sun 06:09:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] bribery
Sun 06:09:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i have a story about that
Sun 06:09:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for the distant future
Sun 06:09:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the us legal system is easy to buy/bribe
Sun 06:11:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], The most lucrative opportunity in my life passed me by because I'm too honest.
Sun 06:11:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I could have just done like everyone else.
Sun 06:11:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Walk into Chase bank.
Sun 06:11:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Tell them there was a business that was impacted by COVID. A business that doesn't exist. Maybe several.
Sun 06:11:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Walk out with millions in loans, the government wouldn't figure out for a couple years.
Sun 06:11:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Wire it all out of the country.
Sun 06:12:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Use my passport to disappear.
Sun 06:12:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And drink margaritas on a beach.
Sun 06:12:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That was the only opportunity that Trump ever provided anyone.
Sun 06:15:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], It's a well known fact by everyone that's not an idiot...
Sun 06:15:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That COVID-19, although bad, was far from the worst pandemic people have ever seen.
Sun 06:15:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The 1918 flu was much worse.
Sun 06:15:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And in 1918, the government didn't pass anything like the CARES Act.
Sun 06:16:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They needed to shut everything down and pass corrupt "loan" programs with absolutely no safeguards.
Sun 06:16:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The criminals could go loot them.
Sun 06:16:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It was designed that way.
Sun 06:16:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Absolutely nothing should have been shut down.
Sun 06:16:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The government doesn't suffer. We do.
Sun 06:17:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The consequence of the COVID shutdowns has been 5 years of unrelenting inflation and other economic problems.
Sun 06:17:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] excused away
Sun 06:17:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] price of eggs etc
Sun 06:17:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The government debt went up over 25% just from the COVID programs and GDP loss.
Sun 06:17:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And then they get mental defectives like rich urban professionals that did not have any of their income taken from them...
Sun 06:17:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ To defend the shutdowns.
Sun 06:18:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because they can put everyone else in harm's way.
Sun 06:18:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ People like me and Mandy.
Sun 06:18:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ measles https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/measles-unvaccinated-public-health-advice-9.7080188 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/no-desks-no-strategy-experts-say-government-s-latest-return-to-office-order-ignores-reality-9.7077299
Sun 06:18:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Nobody cares if we die.
Sun 06:18:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So they say "You can go to work."
Sun 06:18:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "JWZ will sit on his ass at home and take 47 COVID shots even though you can't get COVID hiding in your house...."
Sun 06:19:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "And he'll pontificate about COVID, which isn't affecting him.
Sun 06:19:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And you get all these yuppies like him.
Sun 06:19:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Mostly on the Left Coast.
Sun 06:19:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yuppy scum.
Sun 06:20:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I agree with that graffiti in the movie American Psycho.
Sun 06:20:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] what did it say?
Sun 06:20:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "DIE YUPPIE SCUM!!!!"
Sun 06:20:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The second time I got COVID it wasn't THAT bad.
Sun 06:21:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I sat in a beanback and watched James Clavell's Shōgun.
Sun 06:21:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "did you get the epstein?" https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-epstein-barr-virus-triggers-ms-in-some-people/a-75790721
Sun 06:22:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] my first time was not bad
Sun 06:22:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it lasted about 1.5 days
Sun 06:22:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], The politicians thought so much of it that they were reopening hair salons and restaurants, just for them, and having parties.
Sun 06:22:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the first few hours were just uncomfortable
Sun 06:22:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but i worked online throughout
Sun 06:22:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ While they were shouting at us "For God's sake stay in your house!"
Sun 06:23:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I rather enjoyed it for a while.
Sun 06:23:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ No traffic.
Sun 06:23:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ People too scared to go to the park.
Sun 06:24:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Just sitting in their house like Governor 400 lb Health Expert said to do.
Sun 06:24:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Had the whole place to myself.
Sun 06:24:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ declines https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/detroit-three-decline-report-9.7071248
Sun 06:25:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/private-menopause-clinics-in-canada-9.7067244
Sun 06:25:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] men-opause
Sun 06:26:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ <li><h5><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/lithium-alberta-mining-brines-9.7068876"><span class="date">2026-02-03</span> [Older] How a new, more sustainable lithium mining process could kick off the industry in Western Canada</a></h5></li>
Sun 06:26:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], So much for "free healthcare".
Sun 06:26:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How a new, more sustainable lithium mining process could kick off the industry in Western Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/lithium-alberta-mining-brines-9.7068876
Sun 06:26:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it is free when times are good
Sun 06:26:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] afterwards not so much
Sun 06:26:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as as food gets pricey
Sun 06:26:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] people eat worse
Sun 06:27:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and getg ill more
Sun 06:27:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so it's a loop
Sun 06:27:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Even me, I got in with an orthopedic surgeon in the end of July, by October 1st I got a transplant and the other surgeries.
Sun 06:27:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Now my arm works like 99%.
Sun 06:27:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Was maybe 60% with a lot of pain.
Sun 06:27:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I've paid the hospital maybe $3,000 in co-pays.
Sun 06:27:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Worth every penny
Sun 06:28:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Yeah, the fastest selling meal in America right now is Hamburger Helper.
Sun 06:28:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Saw a news article the other day.
Sun 06:28:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Hamburger Helper got real popular during the bout of hyperinflation and layoffs in the 70s.
Sun 06:28:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Some people developed a habit of making it now and then even in the 90s when things were better again.
Sun 06:29:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I used to make Tuna Helper quite a bit.
Sun 06:29:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Tuna is cheaper than ground beef.
Sun 06:29:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Throw some peas in it or something.
Sun 06:29:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Typically Hamburger Helper is not for dinner when money is abundant.
Sun 06:30:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Scientist using dogs in controversial study explains for the first time what was going on https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/scientist-using-dogs-in-controversial-study-explains-for-the-first-time-what-was-going-on-9.7071014
Sun 06:31:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nearly 1,300 customers affected by Canada Computers data breach, company says https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-computers-data-breach-scope-9.7074605
Sun 06:31:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Canada's Carney Wins Admiration Globally but Struggles to Lower Food Costs at Home https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-02-05/canadas-carney-wins-admiration-globally-but-struggles-to-lower-food-costs-at-home
Sun 06:33:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "do we have to pay extra to get rid of copilot... it is like some sort of std" 3 hours ago in Microsoft Layoffs https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kggtsgsq
Sun 06:34:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ EU seeks self-reliance as US, China dominate defense sector https://www.dw.com/en/eu-seeks-self-reliance-as-us-china-dominate-defense-sector/a-75730393
Sun 06:36:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Global economy needs nature to thrive https://www.dw.com/en/global-economy-needs-nature-to-thrive/a-75873269
Sun 06:38:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hong Kong media dealt blow by Jimmy Lai’s 20-year sentence https://www.dw.com/en/hong-kong-media-dealt-blow-by-jimmy-lai-s-20-year-sentence/a-75876162
Sun 06:41:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ crypto [sic] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/crypto-mining-hacking-cyber-crime-us-extradition-james-roach-9.7074161
Sun 06:45:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Rail strike https://www.dw.com/en/spain-rail-strike-begins-as-drivers-protest-safety-failures/a-75871995
Sun 07:05:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Ezurio Carbon AM62 Targets Industrial Linux with TI Sitara AM62x ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Ezurio_Carbon_AM62_Targets_Industrial_Linux_with_TI_Sitara_AM62.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Ezurio_Carbon_AM62_Targets_Industrial_Linux_with_TI_Sitara_AM62.gmi ∎
Sun 07:06:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Bit-Brick K1 Pro Adds 6 TOPS NPU and Dual NVMe to Compact SBC ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Bit_Brick_K1_Pro_Adds_6_TOPS_NPU_and_Dual_NVMe_to_Compact_SBC.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Bit_Brick_K1_Pro_Adds_6_TOPS_NPU_and_Dual_NVMe_to_Compact_SBC.gmi ∎
Sun 07:11:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], The mindset of the people running the economy is to extract whatever they can regardless of the long term costs and problems it creates.
Sun 07:13:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Sun 07:21:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linux Mint 23 adds home encryption option for new users ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Linux_Mint_23_adds_home_encryption_option_for_new_users.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Linux_Mint_23_adds_home_encryption_option_for_new_users.gmi ∎
Sun 07:23:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Fedora made me realize Windows was the problem with my workflow ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Fedora_made_me_realize_Windows_was_the_problem_with_my_workflow.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Fedora_made_me_realize_Windows_was_the_problem_with_my_workflow.gmi ∎
Sun 07:45:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Android_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sun 09:04:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "South Korea's copyright agency is recruiting 25 people to monitor foreign-language piracy sites for illegal copies of Korean movies" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/south-korea-seeks-multilingual-talent-to-hunt-down-k-content-piracy/ | Source: Torrent Freak
Sun 09:05:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Copyright owners increasingly claim more draconian copyright law and policy will fight back against big tech companies." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/copyright-kills-competition/ | Source: Techdirt
Sun 09:05:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It’s important to note that camera manufacturers patent designs all the time, and that it's never a guarantee something will come into fruition." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/lenses/nikon-patent-raises-my-hopes-that-my-favorite-dslr-lens-will-come-to-z-mount-cameras-at-last | Source: Digital Camera World
Sun 09:06:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/is-netflix-making-us-stupid/a-75876174 | Source: Deutsche Welle
Sun 09:07:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One of numerous figures in Iran’s fractious exiled opposition, he was greeted by loud cheers as he arrived." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iranian-protests-europe-munich/33678410.html | Source: RFERL
Sun 09:09:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Register MS = infantile storytelling about "AI". Disclosure: The Register MS is paid to promote the "AI" Ponzi scheme.
Sun 09:10:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Thanks to AI [sic], white-collar workers are discovering what blue-collar workers learned a half-century ago: they’re disposable." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/02/class-white-collar-workers-ai-capitalism/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
Sun 09:19:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Here’s the truth: As written, the SAVE Act would require documentary proof of citizenship — a passport, birth certificate, naturalization certificate" ☛ https://nevadacurrent.com/2026/02/13/if-you-like-chaos-with-your-disenfranchisement-youll-love-the-us-save-act-and-nv-voter-id-combo/ | Source: Nevada Current
Sun 09:24:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Iran’s government most likely tracked the protesters through location data emitting from their phones, researchers later concluded." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/iran-protests-surveillance-facial-recognition.html | Source: New York Times
Sun 09:25:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Journalists in the Chinese finance hub told AFP they were already operating within political “red lines” since the demise of outlets like Apple Daily." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/14/hong-kong-journalists-face-precarious-future-after-jimmy-lai-jailed/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press
Sun 09:25:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "All these articles and videos bring in the views despite lacking the substance implied by either their publisher or, in the case of these video interviews, their length and serious tone." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ceo-said-a-thing/ | Source: Nick Heer
Sun 09:25:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There's a few rules for this brand of journalism. One, you can't include any useful context that might shed helpful light on whether what the executive is saying is true." ☛ https://karlbode.com/the-press-is-still-propping-up-elon-musks-supergenius-engineer-mythology/ |
Sun 09:26:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Lemon, independent journalist Georgia Fort, and seven others were indicted on charges of Conspiracy Against Right of Religious Freedom, 18 USC § 241, and with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, 18 U.S.C. § 248(a)(2)." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/journalist-don-lemon-pleads-not-guilty-in-minnesota-first-amendment-case/ | Source: JURIST
Sun 09:27:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "ensure that the people who protect and serve our commonwealth every day can do so without any interference, any impediments" ☛ https://kentuckylantern.com/2026/02/12/advancing-bill-would-criminalize-harassing-law-enforcement-ice-agents-and-medics/ | Source: Kentucky Lantern
Sun 09:27:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Despite dropping the appeal, the administration continues investigating the UC system and other campuses as part of its campaign to reshape higher education." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-02-13/trump-drops-appeal-of-court-order-blocking-uc-ucla-settlement | Source: Los Angeles Times
Sun 09:27:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This soon turns a year old https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Brett_Wilson_LLP_Reported_to_the_Solicitors_Regulation_Authorit.shtml
Sun 09:28:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "‘We know where you live.’" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/us/minneapolis-ice-agents-protester-home-visits.html | Source: New York Times
Sun 09:28:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The free-speech-as-highest-good view also misunderstands the purpose of free speech in a free society at an even more fundamental level." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-02-13/free-speech-1st-amendment-charlie-kirk | Source: Los Angeles Times
Sun 09:29:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I was never informed of the acts of misconduct that I allegedly committed before or during the meeting" ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/13/student-who-launched-petition-urging-probe-into-deadly-tai-po-fire-says-cuhk-expelled-him-weeks-before-graduation/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press
Sun 09:29:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "While students began gathering on the North Campus to protest, riot police units were seen positioned at the campus gate." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/student-access-blocked-police-deployed-ahead-of-erdogan-s-visit-to-bogazici-university-316695 | Source: BIA Net
Sun 09:29:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "An Iranian dissident journalist, Kaveh Taheri, was arrested by Turkish police on 26 January and sent to a deportation centre." ☛ https://spectator.com/article/why-erdogan-wants-to-help-iran/ |
Sun 09:30:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/russia-poisoned-alexei-navalny-with-dart-frog-toxin-european-nations-say/ | Source: Court House News
Sun 09:30:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Representatives of five countries — the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany, and the Netherlands" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/02/14/russia-killed-opposition-leader-alexey-navalny-using-a-rare-dart-frog-toxin-european-countries-say | Source: Meduza
Sun 09:32:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Normally, the NPF backs improvements on park lands, such as habitat restoration and trail renovation." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-250th-anniversary-america/ | Source: The Nation
Sun 09:32:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Temple of War: People and Ideas That Made the Russian Invasion Possible" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/02/13/putin-s-temple-of-war-was-just-the-beginning-russia-is-building-churches-mosques-and-even-underground-chapels-to-convince-the-nation-that-the-invasion-of-ukraine-is-sacred | Source: Meduza
Sun 09:32:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The CIA’s Chinese-language video, published on the agency’s YouTube channel on Thursday, appears to target disaffected officers and appeals for information on China’s leaders and armed forces." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/14/beijing-vows-measures-after-cia-chinese-language-recruitment-ad/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press
Sun 09:33:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ old: "Inside Modern Intel Architecture W W/ Bill Binney & Dr. Katherine Horton" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=hSTodbDwXxk good: bill binney is still around; bad: the content of his warnings
Sun 09:34:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Grafana Labs sells an observability platform based on the open-source Grafana project." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/13/grafana-labs-reportedly-raising-funding-9b-valuation/ | Source: Silicon Angle
Sun 09:34:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The State-run transport undertaking had called for tender for retrofitting old diesel buses into electric buses on September 15, 2025." ☛ https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/telangana-begins-retrofitting-diesel-buses-to-electric-for-greener-transport/article70629530.ece | Source: The Hindu
Sun 09:35:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "the administration’s move may well backfire. Legal experts say that regulating carbon dioxide is well-supported by the text of the Clean Air Act" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trump-just-killed-the-epas-ability-to-fight-climate-change/ | Source: Truthdig
Sun 09:35:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Without enough males to sustain breeding, population growth could quickly vanish, though it’s hard to predict when this tipping point could arrive." ☛ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sea-turtle-population-collapse | Source: Science News
Sun 09:35:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The endangerment finding was rooted in an overwhelming body of scientific evidence that illustrates how greenhouse gases threaten public health" ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2026/02/13/rep-dingell-calls-endangerment-finding-repeal-unlawful-promises-to-fight-in-congress/ | Source: Michigan Advance
Sun 09:36:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "That “slackening” includes the elimination of federal consumer carbon pricing, the conclusion of green home retrofit funding and the cancellation of the oil and gas emissions cap, the report says." ☛ https://www.theenergymix.com/canada-not-on-track-to-hit-net-zero-by-2050-or-meet-any-climate-targets-study/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc
Sun 09:36:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The changes could alter the interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere, disrupt major ocean circulation systems that help regulate climates around the world, and potentially affect marine ecosystems." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-02-ocean-saltiest-regions-freshening-circulation.html | Source: Omicron Limited
Sun 09:36:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The scramble for copper exposes geopolitical rivalries as industrial heavyweights -- including China, the United States, Canada, Europe, India and Gulf states -- compete to secure supplies." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/world-copper-rush-promises-new-riches-for-zambia-1472101019 | Source: RTL
Sun 09:37:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The millions of documents recently (and chaotically) released by the Department of Justice have left Americans reading myriad e-mails and text messages that seem to describe" ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/the-epstein-files-reveal-what-trump-knew | Source: New Yorker
Sun 09:37:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A blogger in Siberia faces criminal charges after posting a video documenting unsanitary conditions at a morgue, according to a lawyer familiar with the case." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/02/14/a-russian-blogger-documented-horrific-conditions-at-a-local-morgue-and-police-promptly-beat-him-up-and-threw-him-in-jail | Source: Meduza
Sun 09:38:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Law firms that exist to help criminals attack the reports of crimes should not exist. They are, in effect, participating in crimes and cover-up thereof.
Sun 09:38:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The folks behind Jmail are at it again with a clone of Wikipedia that turns the treasure trove of data in Epstein’s emails into detailed dossiers on his associates." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/879508/jikipedia-epstein-email-encyclopedia | Source: The Verge
Sun 09:39:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This hidden figure is said to possess intricate knowledge of the mechanisms Epstein used to manipulate power structures." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mysterious-figure-behind-epstein-legacy-1779031 | Source: International Business Times
Sun 09:40:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "have been at an impasse for months on a compromise plan that could replace the river’s operating guidelines set to expire at the end of 2026." ☛ https://nevadacurrent.com/2026/02/13/colorado-river-states-miss-deadline-compromise-nowhere-in-sight/ | Source: Nevada Current
Sun 09:40:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "try to impose a long-term solution" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-02-13/states-miss-colorado-river-deadline | Source: Los Angeles Times
Sun 09:41:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The statement said major social media platforms would be urged to establish task forces, strengthen staffing and increase online inspections, particularly during the upcoming nine-day holiday." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/13/china-cracks-down-on-anti-marriage-social-media-content-during-lunar-new-year-holiday/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press
Sun 09:41:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "According to TikTok, the Local Feed is intended to help users stay connected to their local community, showing posts based on location," ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/12/tiktok-us-precise-location-local-feed/ | Source: Digital Music News
Sun 09:42:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The new feature also ties into TikTok’s push to attract small businesses to its app, not only as content producers but as advertisers." ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/tiktok-launches-an-opt-in-local-feed-in-the-u-s-leveraging-users-precise-location/ | Source: TechCrunch
Sun 09:49:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "While the Beijing-based company has been embroiled in a range of legal and privacy rows linked to the social media app for years" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/all-in-on-ai-what-tiktok-creator-bytedance-did-next-1276315090 | Source: RTL
Sun 09:50:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Why is Discord even pushing for age verification to begin with?" ☛ https://soatok.blog/2026/02/14/is-end-to-end-encryption-optional-for-large-groups/ | Source: Dhole Moments
Sun 09:50:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "How To Hunt Down Someone Who Wanted An Abortion." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/cops-criticize-flock-safety-after-its-caught-handing-out-access-to-federal-agencies/ | Source: Techdirt
Sun 09:50:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "teen-appropriate experience" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/discord-voluntarily-pushes-mandatory-age-verification-despite-recent-data-breach | Source: EFF
Sun 09:52:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "And sure, you could argue, that wouldn’t be an issue if you simply use the company’s devices on your porch. Not even that’s a safe bet, however." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ring-cameras-surveillance-privacy | Source: Futurism
Sun 09:53:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A commercial about a lost dog being reunited with his family ignited concerns that a “Search Party” feature posed privacy risks. Ring parted ways with the tech company Flock Safety." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/business/amazon-ring-flock-partnership-super-bowl.html | Source: New York Times
Sun 09:53:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Maybe this doesn't sound so bad to you; after all, if they lose out on tracking that generates money, they should be compensated, right?" ☛ https://blog.avas.space/pay-or-ok/ | Source: Ava
Sun 09:53:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For one, it is still considering the scope of which faces its glasses ought to recognize: [...]" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-ray-bans-facial-recognition/ | Source: Nick Heer
Sun 09:53:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Ring maintains a Community Requests program with another major police surveillance tech company called Axon." ☛ https://therecord.media/ring-ends-partnership-with-flock-superbowl-ad | Source: The Record
Sun 09:54:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "influencers across social media have been claiming that Ring is providing a direct link to ICE." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled | Source: The Verge
Sun 09:54:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Since late 2025, the State Department had acquired about 7,000 Starlink terminals, the WSJ said, citing U.S. officials." ☛ https://www.telesurenglish.net/u-s-secretly-sent-6000-starlink-terminals-to-iran/ | Source: teleSUR
Sun 09:55:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "That makes the whole picture even more challenging" ☛ https://therecord.media/nato-must-impost-costs-russia-china-cyber-hybrid-deputy-secretary | Source: The Record
Sun 09:56:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Threat actors are exploiting security gaps to weaponize Windows drivers and terminate security processes in targeted networks, and there may be no easy fixes in sight." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/microsoft-under-pressure-defenses-byovd-attacks | Source: Dark Reading
Sun 09:56:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Europe’s power grids, hospitals, financial systems, satellites and military command networks are all deeply dependent on digital infrastructure — and increasingly exposed, she warned." ☛ https://therecord.media/eu-cyber-critical-infrastructure-tech | Source: The Record
Sun 09:56:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If adopted and released to the public, it would violate the privacy rights of millions of people and cost the company billions of dollars in legal battles." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/seven-billion-reasons-facebook-abandon-its-face-recognition-plans | Source: EFF
Sun 09:56:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This means that You Tube is no longer accessible in Russia. The WhatsApp domain has also disappeared from Roskomnadzor's servers." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/youtube-whatsapp-blocked-in-russia/a-75940102 | Source: Deutsche Welle
Sun 09:57:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Meta Russia had already been designated as an extremist organisation, and WhatsApp had complained about what it said was an attempt to fully block its service." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/russia-bans-whatsapp/277633/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)
Sun 09:57:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Social media harms continue to top the political agenda, as eight countries – Spain, France, Denmark, Italy, Greece, Finland, Germany, and the United Kingdom" ☛ https://peoplevsbig.tech/press-release-eu-polling/ |
Sun 09:57:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Authorities have seized assets worth 7 million dollars. The operation marks the first time that the revenue earned through adult content is deemed proceeds of crime." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/sixteen-detained-over-laundering-onlyfans-income-316680 | Source: BIA Net
Sun 09:57:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The throughline there, Wenner said on Semafor’s Mixed Signals podcast" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/02/12/2026/rolling-stone-scion-on-investing-in-track-star-and-the-anti-algorithmic-future-of-music-media | Source: Semafor Inc
Sun 09:58:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This isn’t an unprecedented move, but it raises concerns about the future of the early-[Internet] staple. How will it maintain its human-powered identity amid AI’s chokehold on the [Internet]?" ☛ https://www.vox.com/culture/478731/wikipedia-ai-meta-amazon-elon-musk-tiktok | Source: Vox
Sun 09:59:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Too many players have mistaken the AI boom for a chance to buy credibility rather than to build capability." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/02/13/2026/the-ai-bubble-will-burst-the-middle-east-isnt-ready | Source: Semafor Inc
Sun 09:59:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "“We’re going to roll out agentic AI,” State Department CIO Kelly Fletcher said Thursday during the FedScoop-produced GDIT Emerge event in Washington, D.C. “We’re going to continue to embed AI in our systems.”" ☛ https://fedscoop.com/state-department-agentic-ai-statechat-chatbots/ | Source: Scoop News Group
Sun 10:00:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Last fall, I wrote about how the fear of AI was leading us to wall off the open [Internet] in ways that would hurt everyone." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/news-publishers-are-now-blocking-the-internet-archive-and-we-may-all-regret-it/ | Source: Techdirt
Sun 10:00:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Conversations about AI’s impact mainly focus on efficiency and scale or on policy and ethics." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/13/guest-post-the-human-heart-of-science-navigating-ai-anxiety-in-the-academic-world/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing
Sun 10:00:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Charlie is joined by Stu Mackenzie, the front man of the prolific Australian band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, to talk about making music in the algorithmic age." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/02/is-ai-ruining-music/685992/ | Source: The Atlantic
Sun 10:00:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "At first, I thought it was a mistake. I tried different browsers, devices and networks. I cleared the cache, reinstalled the app and even changed the settings back and forth. Nothing helped." ☛ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04064-7 | Source: Nature
Sun 10:01:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Blundering Husband Asks Claude AI to "Organize" Wife's PC, Accidentally Erases Her Cherished Family Photos" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/claude-wife-photos | Source: Futurism
Sun 10:01:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "According to analyses by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) institute, prices for these chips rose by 50% last year" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/ai-chip-shortage-semiconductor-industry-smartphone-prices-apple-iphone-samsung/a-75925338 | Source: Deutsche Welle
Sun 10:02:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Lenovo has warned about mounting pressure on PC shipments as a worsening memory-chip shortage grips the industry." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/chip-shortage-hits-pcs-as-ai-swallows-the-worlds-memory-supply/277618/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)
Sun 10:02:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "You might think making rules requires knowledge, even expertise, and checking the facts on the ground. But the heads of the DOT don’t have time for that nonsense: [...]" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/13/lets-vibe-regulate-us-transport-with-gemini/ | Source: Pivot to AI
Sun 10:02:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "William Gibson is, again, right: The future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed." ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/02/14/1500 | Source: Rui Carmo
Sun 10:03:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The usual argument goes like this. Agents exercise discretion. They interpret ambiguous input. They pick tools. They sequence actions." ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1129 | Source: Unmitigated Risk
Sun 10:03:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The alliance includes companies such as Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Alphabet's Google, India's Reliance Jio Platforms" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-ericsson-lead-global-tech-alliance-for-digital-trust/articleshow/128316750.cms | Source: India Times
Sun 10:04:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "criminalizing abortion as murder and drawing strong condemnation from human rights groups" ☛ https://www.telesurenglish.net/puerto-rico-criminalizes-abortion/ | Source: teleSUR
Sun 10:04:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Factorial experiments are very common in agriculture and they are usually laid down to test for the significance of interactions between experimental factors." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/02/testing-for-interactions-in-nonlinear-regression/ | Source: Rlang
Sun 10:04:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A deep dive into automating Cigna's claims portal with AI and browser automation, and how the technical struggles revealed accessibility failures that likely violate federal law." ☛ https://www.provos.org/p/had-to-write-a-script-to-submit-to-cigna/ | Source: Niels Provos
Sun 10:05:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When Professor Farber started his career in the mid-1950s, at Bell Laboratories, computers were practically islands unto themselves." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/technology/david-farber-dead.html | Source: New York Times
Sun 10:05:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Just within the past year we’ve accomplished some major financial milestones that makes all of this possible." ☛ https://initialcharge.net/2026/02/all-in-family/ | Source: Mike Rockwell
Sun 10:06:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One star, dubbed M31-2014-DS1, stood out like a sore thumb — brightening in 2015, fading roughly a year later, and eventually disappearing from view, even in optical light." ☛ https://futurism.com/space/star-disappear-black-hole | Source: Futurism
Sun 10:06:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "At work, I forked an old package that converts .tex files to WordPress-compatible HTML and updated it to generate modern Gutenberg markup for the WordPress block editor." ☛ https://cagrimmett.com/2026/02/13/latex-to-gutenberg-conversion/ | Source: Chuck Grimmett
Sun 10:06:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Now
Sun 10:06:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Now, a new mathematical study suggests that an unusual state of matter known as a time crystal could offer a more stable and potentially simpler way to measure time." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/time-crystals-replace-quantum-clocks | Source: Interesting Engineering
Sun 10:07:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "world's foremost historians on Abraham Lincoln, while his knowledge of the American Civil War was among the most extensive in academia." ☛ https://telex.hu/english/2026/02/12/hungarian-born-historian-who-became-expert-on-lincoln-has-died | Source: Telex (Hungary)
Sun 10:07:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "most of the advice in Andrea's post is correct and reasonable, and we should do more of it" ☛ https://www.jmduke.com/posts/how-id-grow-buttondown.html | Source: Justin Duke
Sun 10:17:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "DNS queries seem like a more reliable indication of the popularity of your favorite Linux distro than Distrowatch’s infamous ranking." ☛ https://blog.paranoidpenguin.net/2026/02/a-look-at-the-traffic-originating-from-my-tor-exit-relays/ | Source: Roger Comply
Sun 10:17:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The below is transcribed from a 1991 talk by John Cleese titled Creativity in Management. I encourage you to watch the 30-minute recording on YouTube." ☛ https://timotijhof.net/posts/2026/john-cleese-on-creativity-transcript/ | Source: Timo Tijhof
Sun 10:18:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One that keeps haunting me is “Honor thy error as a hidden intention”, which basically boils down to taking a “mistake” and seeing where it leads you if you had meant to do it." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/honor-thy-error/ | Source: Hackaday
Sun 10:23:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 15/02/2026: How Alexey Navalny Was Executed by Putin, Erdogan Helping Iran ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Links_15_02_2026_How_Alexey_Navalny_Was_Executed_by_Putin_Erdog.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Links_15_02_2026_How_Alexey_Navalny_Was_Executed_by_Putin_Erdog.gmi ∎
Sun 10:24:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It doesn’t dive deep into emojis but focuses more on text encoding. Some facts, for example, about Hangul encoding were new to me." ☛ https://victor.kropp.name/blog/2026/utf-8-explained/ | Source: Victor Kropp
Sun 10:24:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When designing and producing Raspberry Pi devices, we consider as many potential use cases as possible" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/certifying-third-party-antennas-for-use-with-raspberry-pi-compute-modules/ | Source: Raspberry Pi
Sun 10:25:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There is an open issue asking to revert this change." ☛ https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2026-02-14-fish-shell-delete-behavior.html | Source: Data Swamp
Sun 10:26:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "RubyGems, PyPI, crates.io, Hex, Hackage, CRAN, and LuaRocks all use flat namespaces: one global pool of names, first-come-first-served. You pick a name, and if nobody has it, it’s yours." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/14/package-management-namespaces.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt
Sun 10:26:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As a maintainer of several OneBusAway projects, I regularly ask contributors to rebase their branches before merging. The response is often hesitation or outright fear." ☛ https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/01/git-rebase-for-the-terrified/ |
Sun 10:26:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Pystd is an experiment on what a C++ standard library without any backwards compatibility requirements would look like. Its design goals are in order of decreasing priority: [...]" ☛ https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/02/whats-cooking-with-pystd-experimental-c.html | Source: Jussi Pakkanen
Sun 10:27:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What do you think the output of the var_dump at the top of the code snippet will be? I'll give you a little bit to work this out in your head." ☛ https://svenluijten.com/articles/understanding-php-yield-and-yield-from-directives | Source: Sven Luijten
Sun 10:27:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Where do great research ideas come from in computer science education?" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/embodied-machine-learning-from-research-ideas-to-classroom-activities/ | Source: Raspberry Pi
Sun 10:28:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I didn't have the guts to replace my main blog at baty.net yet. Too much work." ☛ https://baty.blog/the-all-new-batyblog | Source: Jack Baty
Sun 10:28:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Static blogs using Markdown files are great, but I like to post a lot of images, and SSGs make that more difficult." ☛ https://baty.blog/blog-management-fatigue | Source: Jack Baty
Sun 10:29:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Miniflux is a minimalist, open-source RSS feed reader that you can host yourself." ☛ https://christiano.dev/post/self_hosted_rss/ | Source: Christiano Anderson
Sun 10:29:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As a practical thing, if you want people using blocked syndication feed readers to have a chance to see your explanation" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/FeedReaderErrorsProblem | Source: University of Toronto
Sun 10:29:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ com
Sun 10:30:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Logseq won me over by fixing the exact issues that started to frustrate me in Google Keep." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/i-thought-google-keep-enough-until-i-tried-open-source-app/ | Source: Android Police
Sun 10:31:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The first Mobile Progress Report of 2026 provides a high-level overview to our mobile plans and priorities for the coming year." ☛ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/02/mobile-progress-report-february-2026/ | Source: Thunderbird
Sun 10:32:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to run faster, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor chip." ☛ https://www.righto.com/2026/02/8087-instruction-decoding.html | Source: Ken Shirriff
Sun 10:32:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "ST’s VL53L5CX is a very small 8×8 grid ranging sensor that can perform distance measurements at a distance of up to 4 meters." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/14/real-time-3d-room-mapping-with-esp32-vl53l5cx-sensor-and-imu/ | Source: Hackaday
Sun 10:32:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "According to the Robotera website, the L7 features 55 degrees of freedom, the number of independent movements a robot can make. Its arm features seven degrees of freedom, while its hand alone is said to boast 12." ☛ https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/robot-sword-china | Source: Futurism
Sun 10:33:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This was purely an experiment for the lolz. Here’s what I did and why you shouldn’t." ☛ https://blog.hofstede.it/rhel-on-zfs-root-an-unholy-experiment/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn
Sun 10:36:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I recently upgraded my servers to FreeBSD 15, and as part of it, I reinstalled all the packages." ☛ https://www.ncartron.org/fixing-baikal-not-working-anymore-after-upgrading-to-freebsd-15.html | Source: Nico Cartron
Sun 10:36:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Pentium III is i686. Debian is not doing 32 bit no more. The machine is low on resources, so looking at alternatives." ☛ https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/openbsd-on-a-very-old-laptop/ | Source: Darren Goossens
Sun 10:38:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Today I ran across another article that talked in passing about "retained mode"" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/RepaintModeGUI | Source: University of Toronto
Sun 10:39:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For all the abilities of modern Linux, there are some apps – especially paid commercial ones – that still require Windows." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/14/winapps_and_winboat/ | Source: The Register UK
Sun 10:40:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The LMS7002M supports dual-channel transmit and receive paths with channel bandwidths from 0.5 MHz to 90 MHz." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/xsdr-packs-2x2-mimo-artix-7-fpga-and-3-8-ghz-tuning-into-m-2-2230-form-factor/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
Sun 10:41:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "On the compute side, RK3576 combines quad Cortex-A72 cores clocked up to 2.2GHz with quad Cortex-A53 cores up to 1.8GHz." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/bit-brick-k1-pro-adds-6-tops-npu-and-dual-nvme-to-compact-sbc/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
Sun 10:42:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Opinion poll: 47% want to ban X | "Opinionsundersökning: 47% vill förbjuda X" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/02/13/opinionsundersokning-47-vill-forbjuda-x/
Sun 10:44:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Fighting causes instead of prohibitions | "Social-Media-Debatte: Ursachenbekämpfung statt Verbote" https://netzpolitik.org/2026/social-media-debatte-ursachenbekaempfung-statt-verbote/
Sun 10:46:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ hindustantimes running spam and ads for child sex trafficking supporters, disgraceful to say the least https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/bill-gates-to-visit-mumbai-to-sign-mou-and-review-malaria-eradication-efforts-101771010602922.html http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/The_Epstein_Files_Don_t_Say_the_Ages_of_Those_Russian_Girls_Bil.shtml
Sun 10:46:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Thomas Massie tried to defund kill switches in cars & Congress voted against him" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/thomas-massie-tried-to-defund-kill:d
Sun 11:12:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNOME 49.4 Released with Improvements for Nautilus, GNOME Shell, and Mutter ☞ https://9to5linux.com/gnome-49-4-released-with-improvements-for-nautilus-gnome-shell-and-mutter
Sun 11:12:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ REMnux 8 GNU/Linux Toolkit for Malware Analysis Is Out to Celebrate 15th Anniversary ☞ https://9to5linux.com/remnux-8-linux-toolkit-for-malware-analysis-is-out-to-celebrate-15th-anniversary
Sun 11:12:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Vim 9.2 Is Out with Comprehensive Completion, Wayland Support, and More ☞ https://9to5linux.com/vim-9-2-is-out-with-comprehensive-completion-wayland-support-and-more
Sun 11:17:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Google Promoting Slop, Not Journalism ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Google_Promoting_Slop_Not_Journalism.shtml
Sun 11:19:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Vim 9.2 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1058744/
Sun 11:21:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FreeBSD 14.4-BETA2 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/freebsd
Sun 11:37:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Malaysia’s frontline cops now equipped with body-worn cameras ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-frontline-cops-now-equipped-with-body-worn-cameras
Sun 11:39:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China top court says drivers responsible despite autonomous technology ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-top-court-says-drivers-responsible-despite-autonomous-technology
Sun 11:43:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ There's One Simple Method to Lower Alcohol Intake, And It Works ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-one-simple-method-to-lower-alcohol-intake-and-it-works
Sun 11:46:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Intel fined $3 million by India’s antitrust regulator over discriminatory CPU warranty policy ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-fined-usd3-million-by-indias-antitrust-regulator-over-discriminatory-cpu-warranty-policy-says-intel-abused-its-dominant-position-in-the-boxed-processor-market
Sun 11:46:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-facial-recognition-glasses
Sun 11:47:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Another Proprietary Chaffbot Company Researcher Just Quit in Disgust ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-researcher-quit-ads
Sun 11:49:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Rights group finds 50 Morocco companies remain unpaid for Saudi renovation job since 2024 ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/rights-group-finds-50-morocco-companies-remain-unpaid-for-saudi-renovation-job-since-2024/
Sun 11:51:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Updates to My Commenting System ☞ https://kevquirk.com/updates-to-my-commenting-system
Sun 11:52:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ De-mystifying XMPP: Insights from a Mentorship Session ☞ https://shibe-bit.github.io/Learnings/XMPPandHTTP
Sun 11:53:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Bits from Debian: DebConf 26 Registration and Call for Proposals are open ☞ https://bits.debian.org/2026/02/debconf26-registration-opens.html
Sun 11:54:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Malaysia’s Bersatu files police reports over official Facebook (Farcebook) page hijacking ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-bersatu-files-police-reports-over-official-facebook-page-hijacking
Sun 11:57:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ X Is In Such Dire Straits That Its Head of Product Says It Can’t Afford to Display the Color Blue ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/twitter-x-color-blue
Sun 11:57:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Over 300 Malicious Chrome Extensions Caught Leaking or Stealing User Data ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/over-300-malicious-chrome-extensions-caught-leaking-or-stealing-user-data/
Sun 11:58:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ MICROSOFT SPAM disguised as "journalism" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/technology/they-are-in-love-but-dont-speak-the-same-language.html
Sun 11:58:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft Added Hey Hi (AI) to Notepad and It Created a Security Failure Because the Hey Hi (AI) Was Stupidly Easy for Hackers to Trick ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-added-ai-notepad-security-flaw
Sun 12:03:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Explainer: How national security judges sentenced Jimmy Lai, from health records to foreign collusion ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/15/explainer-how-national-security-judges-sentenced-jimmy-lai-from-health-records-to-foreign-collusion/
Sun 12:04:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Python Mutable References with Caching ☞ https://soumyadghosh.github.io/website/blog/python-mutable-reference-caching/
Sun 12:06:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Deskflow | Seamless Multi-Computer Control ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2026/02/14/deskflow-seamless-multi-computer-control/
Sun 12:11:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iFixIt calls BMW’s new anti-consumer security screws 'a logo-shaped middle finger to right to repair,' ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/manufacturing/ifixit-calls-bmws-new-anti-consumer-security-screws-a-logo-shaped-middle-finger-to-right-to-repair-adafruit-3d-prints-a-solution-bmws-connector-reverse-engineered-using-patent-filing-as-a-design-blueprint
Sun 12:12:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent monopoly dispute — Nokia wins patent monopoly ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/acer-and-asus-halt-pc-and-laptop-sales-in-germany-amid-h-264-codec-patent-dispute-nokia-wins-patent-ruling-forcing-tech-giants-to-license-hevc-codec
Sun 12:15:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Niko Matsakis: Sharing in Dada ☞ https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/02/14/sharing-in-dada/
Sun 12:16:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] hi, Goblin
Sun 12:18:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Android 17 Beta 1 released with H.266/VVC support, camera improvements, and more ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/14/android-17-beta-1-released-with-h-266-vvc-support-camera-improvements-and-more/
Sun 12:20:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Script convert limine.cfg to limine.conf ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/script-convert-liminecfg-to-limineconf.html
Sun 12:27:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ubuntu 24.04.4 Released with Kernel 6.17, Mesa 25.2 & Numerous Fixes ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/ubuntu-24-04-4-released-with-kernel-6-17-mesa-25-2-numerous-fixes/
Sun 12:28:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ REMnux 8 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/remnux
Sun 12:28:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Anonymous Threats Against My Wife and Against Yours Truly ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/13/Anonymous_Threats_Against_My_Wife_and_Against_Yours_Truly.shtml
Sun 12:29:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Will Lockett's Newsletter: Abusive Monopolist Microsoft became Microslop and backdoored Windows users are "flocking" to GNU/Linux "to escape the mess" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Will_Lockett_s_Newsletter_Microsoft_became_Microslop_and_Window.shtml
Sun 12:29:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Proxmox VE Series Part 2: Installing Proxmox ☞ https://www.linux.org/threads/proxmox-ve-series-part-2-installing-proxmox.59024/
Sun 12:30:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Sidecar – development workflow in one shell ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sidecar-development-workflow-one-shell/
Sun 12:30:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 10 Best Free and Open Source Perl Static Site Generators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-perl-static-site-generators/
Sun 12:37:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Parallelizing Game HEY HI: A Deep Dive into Multi-Threading Libraries for Search Algorithms ☞ https://pavanportfolio.droptools.site/blog/research
Sun 12:45:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ envx – environment variable manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/envx-environment-variable-manager/
Sun 12:45:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 6 Best Free and Open Source Photo Geotagging Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-photo-geotagging-tools/
Sun 12:45:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Raffi – application launcher ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/raffi-application-launcher/
Sun 12:45:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 5 Useful Free and Open Source TUI Notes Apps ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/useful-free-open-source-tui-notes-apps/
Sun 12:46:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Celebrating “I love Free Software day” ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/14/celebrating-i-love-free-software-day/
Sun 12:47:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install OpenRGB on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-openrgb-almalinux-10/
Sun 12:48:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Dozzle on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-dozzle-linux-mint-22/
Sun 12:50:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install qBittorrent on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-qbittorrent-debian-13/
Sun 12:51:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft is Lobbying Brussels via Opensource.org and OSI ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/14/Microsoft_is_Lobbying_Brussels_via_Opensource_org_and_OSI.shtml
Sun 12:51:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Rise of YouTube politicians tests South Korea’s democratic resilience ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/rise-of-youtube-politicians-tests-south-koreas-democratic-resilience
Sun 12:56:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Introducing geoboundaries ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/02/introducing-geoboundaries/
Sun 12:57:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Fitting time-to-event models with an environmental covariate ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/02/fitting-time-to-event-models-with-an-environmental-covariate/
Sun 12:57:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Default password for root is "woofwoof" ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/default-password-for-root-is-woofwoof.html
Sun 12:58:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Limine 10.7.0 patched to support ext4 ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/limine-1070-patched-to-support-ext4.html
Sun 12:58:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Wget Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/wget/
Sun 13:01:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ HackerOS is what a GNU/Linux enthusiast’s OS should be ☞ https://thenewstack.io/hackeros-is-what-a-linux-enthusiasts-os-should-be/
Sun 13:02:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ly – display manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ly-display-manager/
Sun 13:02:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Betula – self-hosted personal link collection manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/betula-self-hosted-personal-link-collection-manager/
Sun 13:05:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ OpenMeters – audio metering/visualization program ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/openmeters-audio-metering-visualization-program/
Sun 13:05:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Bloop – build server for the Scala programming language ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bloop-build-server-scala/
Sun 13:05:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ zond – network mapping and discovery tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/zond-network-mapping-and-discovery-tool/
Sun 13:08:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ mintCast 478 – The Anti-Windows Cast ☞ https://mintcast.org/478-the-anti-windows-cast/
Sun 13:12:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Barry Kauler on Limine 10.7.0 and Default Password in EasyOS ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Barry_Kauler_on_Limine_10_7_0_and_Default_Password_in_EasyOS.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Barry_Kauler_on_Limine_10_7_0_and_Default_Password_in_EasyOS.gmi ∎
Sun 13:12:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Sun 13:14:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): FreeBSD and OpenBSD Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/FreeBSD_and_OpenBSD_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/FreeBSD_and_OpenBSD_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sun 13:14:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Adafruit, ESP32, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Open_Hardware_Modding_Adafruit_ESP32_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Open_Hardware_Modding_Adafruit_ESP32_and_More.gmi ∎
Sun 13:14:12 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ the evil corpses are fighting among themselves
Sun 13:15:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sun 13:17:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and “I love Free Software day” ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_I_love_Free_Software_da.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_I_love_Free_Software_da.gmi ∎
Sun 13:17:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Standards/Consortia: XMPP, UTF-8, and Antenna Kit ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Standards_Consortia_XMPP_UTF_8_and_Antenna_Kit.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Standards_Consortia_XMPP_UTF_8_and_Antenna_Kit.gmi ∎
Sun 13:19:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sun 13:23:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 15/02/2026: Roy Medvedev Dead at 100, Rise of "YouTube Politicians" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Links_15_02_2026_Roy_Medvedev_Dead_at_100_Rise_of_YouTube_Polit.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Links_15_02_2026_Roy_Medvedev_Dead_at_100_Rise_of_YouTube_Polit.gmi ∎
Sun 13:26:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Google Noise began linking to another slopfarm, https://www.mixvale.com.br
Sun 13:26:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ It says "Reference links researched: https://ubuntu.com/blog https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/ https://9to5linux.com/ " - that means plagiarised not, researched
Sun 13:27:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The GNOME Project released GNOME 49.4 today as the fourth point release of the latest GNOME 49 “Brescia” desktop environment series with more bug fixes and improvements." https://9to5linux.com/gnome-49-4-released-with-improvements-for-nautilus-gnome-shell-and-mutter
Sun 13:28:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat – or WinApps sails a similar course" https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/14/winapps_and_winboat/
Sun 13:29:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <psydroid3> the evil corpses are fighting among themselves
Sun 13:29:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] BSDs you mean?
Sun 13:33:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux 7.0 may receive a self-repairing feature that automatically fixes your XFS filesystem https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-7-0-impressive-self-repairing-feature-fixes-your-filesystem/
Sun 13:34:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I’m going back to the 2000s this weekend by installing this classic Linux distro ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/I_m_going_back_to_the_2000s_this_weekend_by_installing_this_cla.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/I_m_going_back_to_the_2000s_this_weekend_by_installing_this_cla.gmi ∎
Sun 13:34:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ $150 Steam Machine: Mining surplus becomes a Linux console with 60 FPS | igor´sLAB ⚓ https://www.igorslab.de/en/150-dollar-steam-machine-mining-clearance-item-becomes-a-linux-console-with-60-fps/
Sun 13:35:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Mesa 26.0 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/11/Mesa_26_0_Open_Source_Graphics_Stack_Officially_Released_Here_s.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/11/Mesa_26_0_Open_Source_Graphics_Stack_Officially_Released_Here_s.gmi ∎
Sun 13:36:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 5 powerful Python one-liners that will make you a better coder https://www.howtogeek.com/cool-one-liners-that-show-how-powerful-python-is/
Sun 13:37:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AerynOS is the atomic Linux distro nobody is talking about https://www.xda-developers.com/aerynos-is-the-atomic-linux-distro-nobody-is-talking-about/
Sun 13:37:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Why my favorite Linux distro is slowing down - and I'm thrilled about it https://www.zdnet.com/article/whats-coming-next-for-linux-mint/
Sun 13:40:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding - “People who go all in on AI agents now are guaranteeing their obsolescence." -- Jeremy Howard" gemini://tobykurien.com/microblog.gmi
Sun 13:53:16 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrtJAw57Wkw
Sun 14:00:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ unemployment rate detached from facts on the ground https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/job-numbers-january-2026-9.7077050
Sun 14:03:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ international student https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-person-international-student-9.7076884
Sun 14:05:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] psydroid2: seems like slop video
Sun 14:05:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lots of slop in it
Sun 14:05:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so I stopped
Sun 14:05:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but
Sun 14:05:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] can you get us/me url re 18% down for vista 11?
Sun 14:05:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] from a source that can be referenced?
Sun 14:08:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ geoengineering https://www.dw.com/en/why-scientists-warn-of-privately-funded-geoengineering/a-75716067
Sun 14:13:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Don't use Microsoft https://www.howtogeek.com/visual-studio-code-is-eating-up-hundreds-of-gigabytes-on-linux/
Sun 14:14:01 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ schestowitz-pi, I don't think the voice is slop and I just found the video, so I started watching it. I think the important part is that there are a lot of GNU/Linux deployments happening right now and Microsoft is panicking
Sun 14:14:11 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ schestowitz[TR2]: ^^
Sun 14:14:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Discover the all-in-one Linux toolbox that handles JSON, JWT, Cron, and image conversion in a single, private interface." https://www.howtogeek.com/this-linux-tool-boosted-my-developer-productivity/
Sun 14:14:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yes
Sun 14:14:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but maybe you can find a url for this\
Sun 14:14:40 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ TR contributors should be able to find more information about regions where they are located
Sun 14:14:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i would be very interested
Sun 14:14:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i saw none of those claims from SMFT
Sun 14:14:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] being enlightened would help coverage
Sun 14:14:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as i was unaware
Sun 14:15:00 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ I don't have the time for that now, but maybe later this week
Sun 14:15:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they call it "client"
Sun 14:15:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and lump topgether many things
Sun 14:15:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not just windows
Sun 14:15:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so that it's hard tyo fugure out what goies up and what goes down
Sun 14:16:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Your workflow is begging for Linux Mint applets." https://www.howtogeek.com/must-have-linux-mint-applets-for-students-and-working-professionals/
Sun 14:17:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "LibreOffice is one of the best alternatives to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, and now it's rolling out a major update. LibreOffice 26.2 has arrived with some new features, compatibility improvements with Microsoft Office, and faster performance." https://www.howtogeek.com/libreoffices-first-big-update-for-2026-has-arrived/
Sun 14:18:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Nothing beats the command-line when it comes to searching files. Here are some handy commands you can learn to find your files 10X faster." https://www.howtogeek.com/the-fastest-ways-to-find-files-from-the-command-line-on-linux/
Sun 14:19:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): LibreOffice 26.2 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/LibreOffice_26_2_Open_Source_Office_Suite_Officially_Released_T.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/04/LibreOffice_26_2_Open_Source_Office_Suite_Officially_Released_T.gmi ∎
Sun 14:19:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Too many distros are solving the same solved problems, and it’s turning choice into confusion." https://www.howtogeek.com/if-linux-is-going-to-thrive-some-distros-must-go/
Sun 14:21:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "An operating system that's truly mine." https://www.howtogeek.com/tried-replacing-windows-with-linux-mint-heres-how-it-went/
Sun 14:21:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Linux doesn’t just look different, it ages better, keeps workflows stable, and teaches skills that carry across servers, containers, and VMs." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-advantages-you-only-notice-after-you-switch/
Sun 14:22:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i will check jnow
Sun 14:23:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "windows 11 18% decline microsoft" nets nothing relevant in google
Sun 14:23:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it could be justy 'hallucinated ' disino in slop video
Sun 14:24:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some slop says no evidence of it
Sun 14:24:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that's why i avboid slop
Sun 14:24:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it introduces lies
Sun 14:24:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and then it can waste time
Sun 14:24:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to check if they are true
Sun 14:24:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and they might not be
Sun 14:25:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Open source saves money, but it can cost time and energy. After enough broken automations and weird edge cases, I now chase reliability." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-used-to-chase-open-source-purity-but-now-i-chase-reliability/
Sun 14:25:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Learn the ABCs of BSD." https://www.howtogeek.com/difference-bsd-and-linux/
Sun 14:26:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A much better experience on modern Linux distributions." https://www.howtogeek.com/wayland-support-is-coming-to-intellij-idea-pycharm-and-other-ides/
Sun 14:29:45 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ I think there should be more information on the ground from people who are located in Brazil, China, Japan and South Korea
Sun 14:29:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Make your ancient Mac feel new again." https://www.howtogeek.com/installed-ubuntu-on-my-old-macbook-air-and-i-wish-id-done-it-sooner/
Sun 14:30:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "You don't need to live in the Linux terminal." https://www.howtogeek.com/tips-for-using-linux-without-touching-the-command-line/
Sun 14:30:35 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ as Microsoft may have done a good job of keeping reports of migrations to GNU/Linux out of the news outlets
Sun 14:30:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Switching between channels and servers should be a bit snappier now." https://www.howtogeek.com/discord-is-getting-a-speed-boost-on-desktop-platforms/
Sun 14:32:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "At last, a flagship Linux distro is supporting an RVA23-based SoC." https://www.howtogeek.com/ubuntu-coming-to-spacemit-k3-rva23-risc-v-soc/
Sun 14:32:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The coreutils tools include ls, cp, mv, chmod, and many more. Find out what this collection is, why it matters, and how to use it." https://www.howtogeek.com/what-are-the-gnu-core-utilities-and-why-should-i-care-about-them/
Sun 14:33:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Did you know you can check the maximum speed of a USB port with one command?" https://www.howtogeek.com/uses-for-the-lsusb-command-on-linux/
Sun 14:36:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Customizing the bootloader is much easier than you might think. You can download and install community themes with one-line commands." https://www.howtogeek.com/default-grub-looks-so-ugly-heres-how-to-give-it-a-makeover/
Sun 14:37:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "These small distros can have some surprisingly major uses." https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-tiny-linux-distros-are-worth-keeping-on-a-usb-stick/
Sun 14:37:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Discover the true power of Emacs applications beyond mere text editing. From advanced email workflows to simplistic feed readers, Emacs does it all." https://www.howtogeek.com/emacs-packages-that-replace-everyday-apps-email-notes-to-dos-rss/
Sun 14:38:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Here's your ticket to make your own retro platform game, right on your Linux desktop." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-to-try-this-weekend-february-6/
Sun 14:38:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Pull fresh Unsplash wallpapers and rotate them on GNOME automatically with a Python script plus a systemd service and timer." https://www.howtogeek.com/build-a-wallpaper-changer-on-ubuntu-with-python-and-systemd/
Sun 14:39:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "How Linux Mint turns your mouse’s right-click button into the most productive tool." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-mint-isnt-just-for-beginners-and-this-hidden-cinnamon-feature-proves-it/
Sun 14:39:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Linux Mint has a collection of powerful secret weapons that most people completely ignore." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-mint-cinnamon-spices/
Sun 14:55:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Never Give Up ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Never_Give_Up.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Never_Give_Up.gmi ∎
Sun 15:04:04 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/15/if_microsoft_made_a_car/
Sun 15:07:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – "Mix Vale" is a Slopfarm ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Mix_Vale_is_a_Slopfarm.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Mix_Vale_is_a_Slopfarm.gmi ∎
Sun 15:12:52 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/15/gpt5_bests_human_judges_in/
Sun 15:26:17 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/vending-machine-ai-price-fixing
Sun 15:30:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – When It Comes tom Rust, Keep All the Eyes on the Ball (Technical and Legal Perils, Sustainability Questions) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/When_It_Comes_tom_Rust_Keep_All_the_Eyes_on_the_Ball_Technical_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/When_It_Comes_tom_Rust_Keep_All_the_Eyes_on_the_Ball_Technical_.gmi ∎
Sun 15:48:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – He Did Not Have Enough Souls ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/He_Did_Not_Have_Enough_Souls.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/He_Did_Not_Have_Enough_Souls.gmi ∎
Sun 15:59:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <admfubar> https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/15/gpt5_bests_human_judges_in/
Sun 15:59:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] seems like marketing spam
Sun 15:59:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for a site paid to promote slop
Sun 15:59:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux and ChromeOS Hit 5% in Anguilla ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/GNU_Linux_and_ChromeOS_Hit_5_in_Anguilla.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/GNU_Linux_and_ChromeOS_Hit_5_in_Anguilla.gmi ∎
Sun 15:59:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they would measure wrong metrics
Sun 16:00:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Eric Posner and researcher Shivam Saran
Sun 16:00:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/radical-markets/
Sun 16:01:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Eric A. Posner
Sun 16:01:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] same guy
Sun 16:01:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "This 2018 book by Eric Posner, a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, and Glen Weyl, senior principal researcher at Microsoft"
Sun 16:10:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Register MS is Promoting Slop, Promotion Connected to Microsoft (Trying to Replace Judges With Microsoft) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/The_Register_MS_is_Promoting_Slop_Promotion_Connected_to_Micros.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/The_Register_MS_is_Promoting_Slop_Promotion_Connected_to_Micros.gmi ∎
Sun 16:11:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] admfubar: ^
Sun 16:11:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ty for the headsup
Sun 16:11:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- futurism.com | AIs Controlling Vending Machines Start Cartel After Being Told to Maximize Profits At All Costs
Sun 16:11:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they refer to slop as a human
Sun 16:11:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "AIs"
Sun 16:11:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like it's a person/s
Sun 16:11:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] That's pure BS
Sun 16:12:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and looks like infantile framing
Sun 16:12:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ikt is not sentient
Sun 16:37:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Spread the Word About EPO Strikes and Patent Injustices in Europe ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Spread_the_Word_About_EPO_Strikes_and_Patent_Injustices_in_Euro.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Spread_the_Word_About_EPO_Strikes_and_Patent_Injustices_in_Euro.gmi ∎
Sun 16:50:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raised About 1.5 Million Dollars This Winter, Almost 50% More Than in All of 2024 Combined ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Raised_About_1_5_Million_Dollars_T.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Raised_About_1_5_Million_Dollars_T.gmi ∎
Sun 17:04:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Puff Pieces Won't Solve SRA Problems ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Puff_Pieces_Won_t_Solve_SRA.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Puff_Pieces_Won_t_Solve_SRA.gmi ∎
Sun 17:09:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows fell to third place in Macao https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/macao/#monthly-200902-202602 http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/18/Android_With_Linux_Rises_to_Record_Highs_in_Hong_Kong_and_in_Ma.shtml
Sun 17:26:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Microsoft Windows' Decline, as Seen From Maldives ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Microsoft_Windows_Decline_as_Seen_From_Maldives.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Microsoft_Windows_Decline_as_Seen_From_Maldives.gmi ∎
Sun 17:38:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Firefox measured around 10% in German, an anomaly https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/germany/#monthly-200902-202602 same in France
Sun 17:45:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft Has Fallen to New Lows in Hong Kong This Year ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Microsoft_Has_Fallen_to_New_Lows_in_Hong_Kong_This_Year.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Microsoft_Has_Fallen_to_New_Lows_in_Hong_Kong_This_Year.gmi ∎
Sun 17:57:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Small is Beautiful (in Cascading Style Sheets/Inheritance Rules) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Small_is_Beautiful_in_Cascading_Style_Sheets_Inheritance_Rules.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Small_is_Beautiful_in_Cascading_Style_Sheets_Inheritance_Rules.gmi ∎
Sun 18:01:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We went to an art exhibition, had lunch, and went to the National Gallery for even more art. They have a whole room of Rembrandts!" gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2026-02-15_What_day_was_it_yesterday_.gmi
Sun 18:03:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ On entanglement gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/garden/entanglement
Sun 18:11:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Keeping the Site Fast in Spite of Annoying Bots ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Keeping_the_Site_Fast_in_Spite_of_Annoying_Bots.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Keeping_the_Site_Fast_in_Spite_of_Annoying_Bots.gmi ∎
Sun 18:18:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ bruce perens is active, but only in Microsoft's LinkedOut it seems, which is... kind of absurd.
Sun 18:21:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Also in MElon's bad site actually https://x.com/BrucePerens and his own site has been practically offline for weeks
Sun 18:23:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ without being in charge of his own platform, he will be subjected to manipulation
Sun 18:28:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Immutable Linux distros solve a problem most home users don't have https://www.xda-developers.com/immutable-linux-distros-solve-a-problem-most-home-users-dont-have/
Sun 18:29:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I found a free tool that makes setting up NixOS instances incredibly simple https://www.xda-developers.com/free-tool-makes-easy-set-up-different-nixos-instances/
Sun 18:30:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Steam says a lot of games aren't compatible with Proton, but you can sometimes make them work anyway https://www.xda-developers.com/steam-says-many-games-arent-proton-compatible-but-you-can-make-them-work/
Sun 18:33:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Wayland might be the future of Linux, but I’m not leaving X11 yet ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Wayland_might_be_the_future_of_Linux_but_I_m_not_leaving_X11_ye.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Wayland_might_be_the_future_of_Linux_but_I_m_not_leaving_X11_ye.gmi ∎
Sun 18:33:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Because everything is better while it's running in your terminal." https://www.xda-developers.com/this-cool-linux-app-lets-you-play-youtube-music-from-your-terminal/
Sun 18:33:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's still good, but not the best." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-mint-isnt-the-answer-for-windows-refugees-anymore/
Sun 18:35:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Proxmox is overkill for your first server, and that's exactly why you should learn it https://www.xda-developers.com/proxmox-is-overkill-for-your-first-server-and-you-should-learn-it/
Sun 18:36:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I switched from Arch to something boring, but I still want to switch back https://www.xda-developers.com/switched-from-arch-something-boring-still-want-switch-back/
Sun 18:37:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Proxmox's best feature isn't virtualization; it's the backup system https://www.xda-developers.com/proxmox-best-feature-backups/
Sun 18:38:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Proprietary + Microsoft = https://www.xda-developers.com/nasty-vs-code-snap-bug-devouring-gigabytes-of-storage-not-purging-deleted-files/
Sun 18:38:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ trash solidarity
Sun 18:39:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A lot of exciting developments happened in January alone." https://www.xda-developers.com/2026-will-be-the-year-of-gaming-on-linux/
Sun 18:39:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Vanilla OS 2 lets me run Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch apps at the same time https://www.xda-developers.com/vanilla-os-2-lets-run-ubuntu-fedora-arch-and-android-apps-same-time/
Sun 18:40:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Are we going to say anything about Dr. Oz's idea.
Sun 18:40:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Of replacing rural doctors with "AI"?
Sun 18:41:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Or "just have a machine scan the baby you're pregnant with and you don't even see the image and the machine just says whether the baby is fine"?
Sun 18:41:11 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ Lo tak meta satak Oz
Sun 18:41:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] great idea
Sun 18:41:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The whole point of going to those visits is to let the doctor tell you how the baby is developing.
Sun 18:41:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] what is this "AI" he speaks of?
Sun 18:41:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] chatbots?
Sun 18:41:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yes.
Sun 18:42:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.npr.org/2026/02/14/nx-s1-5704189/dr-oz-ai-avatars-replace-rural-health-workers
Sun 18:42:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ His idea is get rid of medical assistants and increase the patient load for rural doctors by 5x.
Sun 18:43:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Before Valve brought Proton to light for the Steam Deck, Linux gaming was at the mercy of developers and tools like WINE" https://www.xda-developers.com/nvidia-razer-are-now-taking-linux-more-seriously/
Sun 18:44:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "No more guessing." https://www.xda-developers.com/keeping-an-eye-on-your-laptop-battery-on-cosmic-just-got-a-ton-easier/
Sun 18:44:21 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ isn't Proton a version of WINE?
Sun 18:44:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yes, and I like it.
Sun 18:44:49 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 15 194319 < 𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS> "Before Valve brought Proton to light for the Steam Deck, Linux gaming was at the mercy of developers and tools like WINE"
Sun 18:44:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Proton works on ChromeOS as part of Steam for ChromeIS.
Sun 18:44:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ *ChromeOS
Sun 18:45:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So you absolutely can play Windows games on your Chromebook, provided it's fast enough to run them.
Sun 18:45:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I decided it was time to put my Proxmox box to good use, and create a Linux VM that I could use for these utilities. The result was a cleaner workstation, and tools that work better for my use case." https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-tools-i-replaced-with-a-single-linux-vm/
Sun 18:45:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Windows API is now complete enough on Linux that you really don't need Windows to run most Windows programs.
Sun 18:46:09 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ sounds like time to extend the API again
Sun 18:46:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They did.
Sun 18:46:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There was an API called XAudio2.
Sun 18:46:40 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ maybe yet another GUI toolkit and yet another way to deliver applications
Sun 18:46:43 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ maybe even yet another language
Sun 18:46:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Microsoft changed all their Bethesda games to use that and the sound did not work until Wine implemented it.
Sun 18:46:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux distros are finally competing on design, and it shows https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distros-finally-competing-design-shows/
Sun 18:46:50 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ just to keep people on their toes!
Sun 18:46:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Even though the original engines just opened DirectSound and played MP3s.
Sun 18:47:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And that worked fine.
Sun 18:47:12 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i love it when a bethesda game looks at an optimus laptop and decides it has 0 GPU-s and refuses to start
Sun 18:47:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then when Wine could play sound, Microsoft updated Windows 10 silently.
Sun 18:47:27 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ even after microslop bought them
Sun 18:47:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And it made subtle pointless changes that broke the API again.
Sun 18:47:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ For several years, Windows 10 supported the API both ways you would use it.
Sun 18:48:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Microsoft warned that some of that would be removed in a future version.
Sun 18:48:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But they never did say exactly when, and then you updated Windows 10, and the old API was gone.
Sun 18:48:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 15 194648 < 𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS> Linux distros are finally competing on design, and it shows https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distros-finally-competing-design-shows/
Sun 18:48:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ By that time, it affected Wine, but everything on Windows was updated.
Sun 18:48:44 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ sounds like it's time for microslop/dehomag to pull the reins again
Sun 18:49:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I think Microsoft gave a 10 year warning or something like that.
Sun 18:49:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ In oligarchic societies, money decides outcomes or outcomes lean towards money, gravitate towards what oligarchs demand
Sun 18:49:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But the changes were pointless.
Sun 18:49:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They did not free up any space or make the API work better.
Sun 18:49:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Not quite https://www.xda-developers.com/appimages-are-just-exe-files-for-linux-and-nobody-explains-it-that-simply/
Sun 18:49:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They were really just removing CLSIDs.
Sun 18:50:02 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ make the API work better?
Sun 18:50:03 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://66.media.tumblr.com/202e7b85f5340abcf0065e27543f57e4/tumblr_inline_pnf37qT5GR1t1k0l9_540.gif
Sun 18:50:28 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ > nobody explains it that simply
Sun 18:50:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 6 GNOME extensions that made me stop missing Windows entirely https://www.xda-developers.com/gnome-extensions-made-me-stop-missing-windows-entirely/
Sun 18:50:31 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ because they aren't
Sun 18:50:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Well, the main change between the DirectSound API and XAudio2, is that you have to use WMA with XAudio2.
Sun 18:50:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You could use any codec Windows supported with DirectSound.
Sun 18:51:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Including MP3.
Sun 18:51:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You could also shove an Ogg Vorbis codec in and use that if you wanted to.
Sun 18:51:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Promoting Microsoft much? https://www.xda-developers.com/i-let-ai-guide-my-entire-journey-through-switching-from-windows-to-linux/
Sun 18:52:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's almost here, too." https://www.xda-developers.com/kde-plasma-660-will-fix-the-most-annoying-part-of-logging-in-with-biometrics/
Sun 18:53:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ On a technical level the WMA codecs are not *bad* they just don't do anything the average user would want that can't be accomplished by an open standard.
Sun 18:53:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Anon: "the US is no longer an oligarchy, though it was one for several decades. in January 2025 it pivoted to a kakistocracy and has been gutted to the point it is unlikely to survive long, The Kremlin has heavy business investments in each one of the insiders in the regime, both male and female, but the males are _*all*_ active participants in Epstein's activities."
Sun 18:53:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They were designed so that Microsoft could gain patents on them and the ASF container would use their proprietary DRM.
Sun 18:54:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "GOG is hitting the ground running with its FOSS support." https://www.xda-developers.com/gog-has-already-started-working-on-linux-gaming-as-it-says-theyre-a-big-fan-of-the-os/
Sun 18:54:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The codecs use most of the MPEG-LA patents on the corresponding AAC profiles.
Sun 18:54:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But some of Microsoft's as well.
Sun 18:54:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Out of the two, AAC was the more obvious choice.
Sun 18:54:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It also adds some nice tweaks for some handheld consoles." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-619-is-out-now-and-it-gives-old-amd-gpus-a-30-speed-boost/
Sun 18:55:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ What held AAC back was that there was never a good open source encoder for it.
Sun 18:55:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There still isn't.
Sun 18:55:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's looking sleek so far." https://www.xda-developers.com/appmanager-is-a-gear-lever-alternative-with-a-macos-aesthetic-and-it-just-hit-version-300/
Sun 18:55:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ ffmpeg claims their AAC encoder is okay now, but it's really not.
Sun 18:55:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If you look at the development logs, they adapted some code from the LAME MP3 encoder, but they never optimized it fully.
Sun 18:56:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's just better than their older encoder.
Sun 18:57:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ LAME code doesn't apply cleanly to AAC because MP3 isn't really a pure frequency domain codec. It is also a time domain codec.
Sun 18:57:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Get these apps after booting Linux for first time." https://www.makeuseof.com/open-source-apps-i-install-immediately-after-installing-linux/
Sun 18:58:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And that's not a good thing. It gains some of the problems of both, and has to apply additional filtering to suppress undesirable artifacts, which themselves cause artifacts and lower compression efficiency.
Sun 18:58:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Sorry, but I moved on from Ubuntu, because it frankly doesn't fit me anymore." https://www.makeuseof.com/reasons-im-not-going-back-to-ubuntu/
Sun 18:58:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There was a time domain codec based on MPEG-1 Layer II, called Musepack, which was quite good.
Sun 18:58:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It was incredibly fast to encode and decode and roughly comparable to Ogg Vorbis in compression efficiency.
Sun 18:59:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Repetition disguised as discipline exposed by a simple Linux command." https://www.makeuseof.com/automated-annoying-daily-linux-tasks-saved-hours-every-week/
Sun 18:59:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Its memory requirements were also very small even for embedded systems.
Sun 18:59:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But it hasn't been actively developed in years.
Sun 18:59:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Opus is a patent mess full of covenants not to sue.
Sun 19:00:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ All the patents that may have applied to Musepack are certainly expired by now.
Sun 19:00:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I think the main one of concern was a Philips patent on Clear Voice Detection.
Sun 19:00:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This free app replaced my entire office suite without any learning curve https://www.makeuseof.com/using-libre-office-instead-of-microsoft-office/
Sun 19:00:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You don't just get a license to use Opus Patents however you want.
Sun 19:01:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You're only protected if you are making a conforming implementation of Opus.
Sun 19:01:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In my search to replace most of the paid programs on my PC with open-source alternatives, LibreOffice checked all the boxes for things that I needed. It gives me a chance to write and create documents and export them in .docx, pdf, or other Microsoft-accessible file formats."
Sun 19:01:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can't do anything else. You can't even go on to extend Opus.
Sun 19:02:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And many of those patents will be in effect until nearly 2040.
Sun 19:02:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The guy behind Opus left Mozilla, he now works, I think, at Amazon Web Services.
Sun 19:04:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], A men's haircut now starts at $31 at Hair Cuttery.
Sun 19:04:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): This lightweight Linux distro made my 10-year-old laptop usable again ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/This_lightweight_Linux_distro_made_my_10_year_old_laptop_usable.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/This_lightweight_Linux_distro_made_my_10_year_old_laptop_usable.gmi ∎
Sun 19:04:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And they also want you to leave a tip.
Sun 19:05:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So you might as well say like $40 after tip and taxes.
Sun 19:05:56 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://apina.biz/212506.png?mode=sfw
Sun 19:06:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Games: 150 Steam Machine, Proton, Nvidia and Razer ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Games_150_Steam_Machine_Proton_Nvidia_and_Razer.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Games_150_Steam_Machine_Proton_Nvidia_and_Razer.gmi ∎
Sun 19:06:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems: Immutable Options, NixOS, Arch, Vanilla OS, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/GNU_Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_Immutable_Options.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/GNU_Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_Immutable_Options.gmi ∎
Sun 19:08:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Recent Proxmox Coverage at Valnet ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Recent_Proxmox_Coverage_at_Valnet.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/Recent_Proxmox_Coverage_at_Valnet.gmi ∎
Sun 19:09:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/today_s_leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/today_s_leftovers.gmi ∎
Sun 19:11:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The $15 haircut is gone pretty much unless you go to a beauty school and have it done by a student.
Sun 19:12:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ My God, everything is so expensive lately.
Sun 19:14:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 15/02/2026: Slop, Politics, and Gemini ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Links_15_02_2026_Slop_Politics_and_Gemini.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/Links_15_02_2026_Slop_Politics_and_Gemini.gmi ∎
Sun 19:22:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ BrasIRC a new and steadily growing IRC network https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=BrasIRC
Sun 19:25:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "IBM’s job 1 = lower costs no matter what how it impacts the company. So I believe your band 10 was most likely why the computer picked you. (You are expensive vs a new hire (especially if the new hire was in India))" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1
Sun 19:25:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ""Back in the day" (when I was still an employee), dismissals took place quarterly. January, April, July, October...over and over again." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1
Sun 19:26:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Top performing band 10 and got RA'd went to the office and actually worked on location 3 days a week. I am a white male ... Meanwhile people who go to the office once a month and are on teams meeting all day did not get RA'd. Guess the reason" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1
Sun 19:26:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Thanks for sending me the location of the device in NYC. Will be "out of town" for a few days." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1
Sun 20:40:38 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.firstpost.com/tech/as-electricity-costs-rise-everyone-wants-data-centers-to-pick-up-their-tab-but-how-13979499.html
Sun 20:45:14 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ definitely trained by rfk and wonderful wizard of oz.... https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/us-government-grok-nutrition
Sun 20:46:18 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Sun 20:46:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KaOS Linux Drops KDE Plasma After 12 Years for Niri/Noctalia to Escape systemd ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/KaOS_Linux_Drops_KDE_Plasma_After_12_Years_for_Niri_Noctalia_to.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/KaOS_Linux_Drops_KDE_Plasma_After_12_Years_for_Niri_Noctalia_to.gmi ∎
Sun 20:47:09 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/future-society/justin-bieber-bored-ape-nft-worth
Sun 20:53:38 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ really i wasnt sorry.... laughed a lot though...
Sun 20:56:56 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ and you thought fracking was bad... will till your water glows in the dark... https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/How-Deep-Fission-is-Slashing-Nuclear-Costs-by-80-Percent.html
Sun 21:12:15 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-barbed-wire-fence-telephone-networks/
Sun 21:48:15 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ rock'em sock'em robots... https://restofworld.org/2026/chinese-robot-boxing-unitree-rek/
Sun 21:54:41 │ 〖lxo〗 │ schestowitz-pi, "when it comes tom rust", is "tom rust" supposed to be some wordplay I didn't get, or is it just a plain typo in the title?
Sun 22:01:16 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ prolly a typo
Sun 22:01:46 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/airbnb-says-a-third-of-its-customer-support-is-now-handled-by-ai-in-the-u-s-and-canada/
Sun 22:02:35 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://techcrunch.com/video/why-top-talent-is-walking-away-from-openai-and-xai/
Sun 22:03:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Reminds me of Little Nicky.
Sun 22:03:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Every morning in Hell, Hitler gets a pineapple up the ass.
Sun 22:03:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And the devil makes him go back and get the biggest one.
Sun 22:04:11 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ doesnt that tickle your tenga... https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/sex-toys-maker-tenga-says-hacker-stole-customer-information/
Sun 22:04:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I was talking to my boyfriend about the IRS. I mentioned Wesley Snipes.
Sun 22:04:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He "forgot" to file his income taxes on $38 million dollars.
Sun 22:04:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Just slipped his mind somehow and he ended up in prison for three years over that.
Sun 22:05:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Now, I do understand why people hate paying taxes.
Sun 22:05:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The government doesn't take its own finances seriously.
Sun 22:05:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They add $1 trillion in debt every 90 days, usually with programs and things that hurt and kill people.
Sun 22:06:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They could close most of that gap by not under-taxing the rich, or just cutting the parts of the budget that hurt people.
Sun 22:06:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Or both.
Sun 22:06:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then you forget to pay them $100 and they want an in-person audit that costs them $4,000.
Sun 22:06:54 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :)
Sun 22:07:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They spend a lot of their audit budget on people that are not worth auditing.
Sun 22:07:35 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ > doesnt that tickle your tenga...
Sun 22:07:39 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ it tickles my Tei Tenga
Sun 22:07:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ People who claim the earned income credit, which is for poor people.
Sun 22:07:46 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ also known as Butt End Of Space
Sun 22:07:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They get audited over a couple hundred bucks.
Sun 22:08:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Costs the government more than 20 times what they get back.
Sun 22:08:46 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 15 230603 < IsambardPrince> They could close most of that gap by not under-taxing the rich, or just cutting the parts of the budget that hurt people.
Sun 22:08:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The government could just end the Earned Income Credit. They say that nearly 30% of the payments shouldn't go out.
Sun 22:09:05 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/copyright-kills-competition/
Sun 22:09:07 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ some nazi voters have already admitted that they voted for adolf diddler specifically because they thought he'd hurt the "right" people
Sun 22:09:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If they ended the EITC and raised the standard deduction, then more people at the bottom wouldn't even have to file a tax return at all.
Sun 22:09:15 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ hurting people is the whole fucking point
Sun 22:09:21 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ that is what our society does.
Sun 22:09:28 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ that is what the state is all about.
Sun 22:09:58 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/cops-criticize-flock-safety-after-its-caught-handing-out-access-to-federal-agencies/
Sun 22:12:07 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/02/07/ai-texas-ice-mn-tech
Sun 22:12:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ For some reason, the government of Indiana passed some sort of commission that pretends it can just take the worst part of Illinois, and they want that for some reason so their state can be even poorer than it is now with more people that are a public charge than what they already have over there.
Sun 22:14:24 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://thenewstack.io/statistical-language-r-is-making-a-comeback-against-python/
Sun 22:15:26 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ cant wait to see what indiana's tourism ads will be like with that addition...
Sun 22:16:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's like Putin setting up a commission to vote on expanding into Ukraine.
Sun 22:16:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Indiana law claims that in order to actually do anything, Illinois has to appoint 4 members of the commission.
Sun 22:17:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Indiana gets 5 for some reason.
Sun 22:17:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So it appointed the 5 commission members, and they're having public hearings, but they don't have a quorum to vote on anything, because Illinois didn't appoint anyone.
Sun 22:17:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And even if it did, then both state legislatures would have to agree on it, and so would Congress.
Sun 22:18:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So they have these hearings, and Republican activists from downstate Illinois are attending them.
Sun 22:18:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And they're griping about Illinois.
Sun 22:20:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ <admfubar> cant wait to see what indiana's tourism ads will be like with that addition...
Sun 22:20:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ About a third of Illinois is places where almost nobody lives or even goes to.
Sun 22:20:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ We have elections and they color code the map and it looks like there's a lot of Republicans because a lot of the counties are "red".
Sun 22:21:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But then you look and there's millions of people in each of the counties up north.
Sun 22:21:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And some of those "red" colored counties have like 4,000 voters.
Sun 22:21:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can win all counties in Illinois except Cook County and still lose a statewide election.
Sun 22:21:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It has happened, recently.;
Sun 22:22:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ After Rod Blagojevich was impeached and convicted, Pat Quinn replaced him as Governor.
Sun 22:22:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He faced a very tight election, losing every county except Cook County.
Sun 22:22:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And he just barely won that election.
Sun 22:23:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Since then, that's unlikely to happen again for a lot of reasons.
Sun 22:23:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Most of the collar counties have been moving towards the Democrats since then.
Sun 22:24:48 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ Better Dead Than Red
Sun 22:24:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, All the iPhone and Apple Card ads never use the word "the".
Sun 22:25:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's never "the Apple Card" or "the iPhone".
Sun 22:25:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It says "Get iPhone 17."
Sun 22:25:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Or "Get Apple Card".
Sun 22:25:35 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ the crApple ads i get come from cultists 99% of the time, not the media
Sun 22:25:50 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "Get iPhone 17." sounds like an infection
Sun 22:25:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There's probably a reason here. Psychologically when you add the word "the", it reminds people it's just an inanimate object.
Sun 22:26:13 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ it's like "Get Cancer™."
Sun 22:26:46 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i don't think people in gypsyland are rich enough to be worth translating crApple ads for
Sun 22:26:58 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and most of them barely even understand hungarian, let alone other languages
Sun 22:51:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.ecoticias.com/en/all-u-s-social-security-numbers-may-need-to-be-changed-following-a-massive-breach-that-is-already-being-investigated-as-a-national-threat/27158/
Sun 22:51:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I prefer the Tyler Durden version.
Sun 22:51:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The entire data center is blown up.
Sun 22:51:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Everyone's credit reports are wiped.
Sun 22:52:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Nobody owes the banks anything.
Sun 22:52:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ <@MinceR> "Get iPhone 17." sounds like an infection
Sun 22:52:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Get gonorrhea. It's good for the environment and okay for you!
Sun 22:53:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, They claim that gonorrhea is now resistant to more antibiotics.
Sun 22:53:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But knowing the US healthcare system, that may be true, or they might be saying it is so that they can upcode the required treatment to get more money.
Sun 22:54:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Getting a shot of antibiotics in the doctor's office codes as "oh, about $2,000, plus the visit".
Sun 22:54:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ A bottle of Cipro costs about $20.
Sun 22:55:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The UK is immunizing people at high risk of contracting gonorrhea with the Meningitis B vaccine.
Sun 22:55:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The two are similar enough that the MenB series is about 40% effective against gonorrhea.
Sun 22:55:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Not enough to say you won't get it, but enough to get better numbers as far as total infections across an entire country.
Sun 22:56:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's not bad advice to get vaccinated against anything that can spread sexually that does have a vaccine.
Sun 22:56:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Many have a vaccine, most don't.
Sun 22:56:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ HPV, Hepatitis A and B, Meningitis.
Sun 22:56:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Those make a lot of sense if you're sexually active.
Sun 22:57:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ One of the things that makes the various other STDs more dangerous is that where there's one, there's often more.
Sun 22:57:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That's because they make you more susceptible to also contracting something else, like HIV.
Sun 23:05:50 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ https://www.ownlife.dev/articles/the-great-escape-why-developers-are-finally-ditching-windows-for-linux
Sun 23:15:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Auto-Loans/Will-I-get-approved-for-130k-auto-loan/td-p/6843500
Sun 23:15:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, "I'm planning to finance a car that costs as much as I make in two years."
Sun 23:15:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Will I be APPROVED?"
Sun 23:16:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "I already have a mortgage, a student loan, and credit cards with balances."
Sun 23:16:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "This is probably a good idea, right?"
Sun 23:17:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I have to get a Mercedes, gotta be a Mercedes! Mercedes Mercedes! SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!!!!
Sun 23:18:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, My doctor in Chicago rode the city bus, didn't even have a car.
Sun 23:18:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Said it helped her pay her student loans back faster.
Sun 23:19:13 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Sun 23:21:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, The Chevy dealer said I was due for an oil change a few weeks ago.
Sun 23:21:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Asked how much.
Sun 23:22:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They said "$120".
Sun 23:22:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I said, "Why would I do that when Walmart is $26.88?"
Sun 23:23:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Criterion releases Monty Python's Life of Brian in April.
Sun 23:24:01 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://apina.biz/212481.png?mode=sfw
Sun 23:24:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I preordered that.
Mon 00:03:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, After T-Mobile bought out Sprint they said come in for two free phones.
Mon 00:03:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So I upgraded both our phones since the credit applied immediately under that promotion.
Mon 00:03:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then the carrier subsidy came off immediately.
Mon 00:04:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So I ported them both out to a prepaid carrier.
Mon 00:04:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And walked off with two brand new phones.
Mon 00:04:08 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 00:04:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I hate T-Mobile.
Mon 00:04:41 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ same
Mon 00:04:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I had to port out anyway because they noticed I wasn't 55.
Mon 00:04:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I had a 55+ plan that Sprint gave me as a retention offer.
Mon 00:05:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Brandon Lobster said he'd report me for committing some sort of crime.
Mon 00:05:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I said I told the agent I wasn't 55 yet and he said that he didn't care and he gave me the plan.
Mon 00:05:35 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 00:06:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So I had the plan for a couple years under T-Mobile, then in February one year they noticed and said if I didn't come in by April with some ID, they'd raise my bill.
Mon 00:06:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then I got the email about the free phones.
Mon 00:06:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So I got two free phones and ported them out and canceled T-Mobile.
Mon 00:07:20 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Mon 00:07:32 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ they got what they deserved
Mon 00:07:40 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ well, a small part of what they deserve
Mon 00:07:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You get what you fucking deserve! -Joker
Mon 00:07:48 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 01:20:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, T-Mobile was charging me $55 for two lines on the 55+ plan.
Mon 01:20:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Mandy said he's moving out before the lease ends.
Mon 01:20:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Whatever.
Mon 01:20:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But...
Mon 01:20:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I can log in and take his phone number back.
Mon 01:20:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I can put it in the second SIM card slot for my phone.
Mon 01:20:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then his iPhone won't work and he can't get his phone number back.
Mon 01:21:07 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 01:22:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, That ought to be a surprise.
Mon 01:26:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TBD8HTssRA
Mon 01:26:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, At this upscale restaurant, the average bill per person runs up to $20 per person, or more.
Mon 01:27:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ (1985)
Mon 01:27:30 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 01:27:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ At $150, it said that they had to call the bank.
Mon 01:28:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, You can barely eat at Outback Steakhouse for that for two people.
Mon 01:28:24 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ wasn't it per person?
Mon 01:28:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, The idea of an upscale restaurant costing $20 a person is ludicrous, in 2026.
Mon 01:28:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Try about $80-90 per person.
Mon 01:29:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Even a chain steakhouse can cost $50-60 per person. It just depends.
Mon 01:29:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I went to an Outback Steakhouse on a date Christmas Eve, and after tax and tip our bill was $106.
Mon 01:30:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Burger King is roughly $10-12 a person, and that's if you use your Walmart+ discount of 25%.
Mon 01:30:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Things have gotten out of control.
Mon 01:30:52 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ come on up to the lab, er, smell whats in the air... https://hackaday.com/2026/02/15/nobody-can-complain-when-you-fart-if-its-for-science/
Mon 01:31:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In 2006 without any coupons, I could go to Burger King for about $7.
Mon 01:31:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And that wasn't even trying to save money.
Mon 01:31:25 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "You think that’s air you’re breathing now...?"
Mon 01:31:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If I got off work late at night and was REALLY hungry, $7 got a triple Whopper and fries and a drink.
Mon 01:31:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Everything has doubled, except the paychecks.
Mon 01:32:16 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ since my transplant.. i've been conducting all sorts of science....
Mon 01:32:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The landlord's idea of affordable is that if you get a one bedroom apartment that was meant for recovering alcoholics in the 70s, you should be able to afford it if you find two roommates and you all work full time.
Mon 01:32:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Of course, there's the cockroaches.
Mon 01:33:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can eat those. Brandon Lobsta says they're a good source of protein.
Mon 01:33:09 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ free protein !!!
Mon 01:33:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And at the rate they reproduce you'll never be out of food.
Mon 01:33:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ O Lord, thank you for this wonderful bounty!
Mon 01:36:35 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ well isnt that special...... https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/15/exl3harris_exec_sold_8_zeroday/
Mon 01:38:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpyk4teeUhY
Mon 01:38:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ How Credit Cards Are Made – Inside Secret Factories
Mon 01:39:19 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.osnews.com/story/144405/why-do-i-not-use-ai-at-osnews/
Mon 01:47:38 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/02/13/1649236
Mon 01:57:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AKn-zJMIwY
Mon 01:57:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Why Owning Nothing Is So Expensive
Mon 01:58:49 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ being poor is expensive
Mon 02:01:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, The video is Spirited Away.
Mon 02:01:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The one he's playing on DVD.
Mon 02:01:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Recognized it immediately.
Mon 02:01:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Studio Ghibli, I think, still doesn't stream anything.
Mon 02:02:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Could be wrong.
Mon 02:03:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They mention HBO.
Mon 02:03:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yes, at first it was good.
Mon 02:03:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It had first run movies.
Mon 02:03:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They got people subscribing to it.
Mon 02:03:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then they enshittified it.
Mon 02:03:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ By the 2000s it was playing movies that were 20-30 years old and all the good ones were on Pay Per View.
Mon 02:04:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I mean streaming isn't new in concept, because we've had Pay Per View on cable since the decoder boxes.
Mon 02:04:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The cable companies found out that they could run all the latest movies, and even porn and sporting events, and only put them on Pay Per View.
Mon 02:04:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And you had to call and pay extra.
Mon 02:07:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, A mattress topper that costs $3000 and then you have to subscribe for $17 a month.
Mon 02:08:05 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Mon 02:19:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 15th, 2026 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_February_15th_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_February_15th_2026.gmi ∎
Mon 02:23:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I don't subscrive to anything.
Mon 02:23:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ *subscribe
Mon 02:23:45 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/02/16/0139206/ars-technicas-ai-reporter-apologizes-for-mistakenly-publishing-fake-ai-generated-quotes
Mon 02:26:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Is it just me or does Marc Andreeson look a lot like Beldar Conehead?
Mon 02:27:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBI_FLYfwmM
Mon 02:29:39 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ well, he does look like he's a conehead
Mon 02:30:13 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ his face doesn't resemble Beldar's (or Dan Aykroyd's) though
Mon 02:35:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I think what's going on with software subscriptions and banks is that they've gotten so good at mindfucking the average person.
Mon 02:35:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's just a total mindfuck.
Mon 02:35:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because the deal is so bad that no sane or intelligent person would ever say yes to it.
Mon 02:35:43 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ maybe the average's person's mind has gotten easier to fuck
Mon 02:35:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I think so.
Mon 02:44:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If Bitcoin prices do take a big fall so quickly after the last big drop then it may permanently tarnish the reputation of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies too. If new users become scared of buying Bitcoins then the existing users will find it harder to convert their coins back to cash when necessary." https://danielpocock.com/en/iran-conflict-bitcoin-gold-silver/
Mon 02:45:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I did get a tax audit one year.
Mon 02:46:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It was the first year I filed. Mom said give my tax forms to Brian, her dumbass second husband.
Mon 02:46:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He filled out the state form and took the out of state resident rate.
Mon 02:46:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techpol + social irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-150226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-150226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-150226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-150226.txt
Mon 02:46:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I got a letter from INDOR saying I owed them $46.
Mon 02:46:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 15, 2026 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_February_15_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_February_15_2026.gmi ∎
Mon 02:46:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They weren't like, super pissed or anything, it was obviously just a mistake on the form.
Mon 02:47:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techrights irc ■ Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-150226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-150226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-150226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-150226.txt
Mon 02:47:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Mon 02:48:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Mon 02:48:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 boycottnovell irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-150226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-150226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-150226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-150226.txt
Mon 02:49:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techbytes irc ■ Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-150226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-150226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-150226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-150226.txt
Mon 02:49:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-02-15.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-02-15.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
Mon 02:50:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-02-15.txt
Mon 02:50:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, That credit card guy I watch is explaining the tiers of American Express.
Mon 02:50:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I don't think Maricel is smart enough to Product Change her old Everyday card to the Blue Cash Everyday, not that the rewards program matters much. She owes the bank so much interest from revolving a balance that the rewards don't even matter.
Mon 02:50:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ She's at the American Express tier where as long as she pays them something, no lawsuit....this month.
Mon 02:52:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Banks start you out low and go slow. First a "minimum payment" of $40 doesn't seem oppressive, but it's all interest, then you keep spending.
Mon 02:52:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Eventually your minimum payment is like $600 a month and it's all interest and you can no longer spend because all your money is going to that.
Mon 02:52:32 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 02:53:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They're perfectly happy to facilitate your excess spending because they know in the end you won't be able to buy anything, just keep paying them not to sue you.
Mon 02:53:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This reminds me of the "New Collar" initiative under Ginni. "Turns out we do need some people onshore in the same time zone who can speak English." Sounds like this time they're hiring people with actual degrees though, since Band 6. Sadly, they will be treated as disposable, just a crutch for the main employees in India, discarded after a couple of years." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kha4h3ef
Mon 02:54:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Maricel lacked the self-control to move to the highest tiers of American Express.
Mon 02:54:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They gave her an Everyday card and she maxed it out and made minimum payments.
Mon 02:54:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "the layoff in November 2024 was not a surprise to many. The Indian id1ot at the top and his cabal need more cuts than the 15/70/15 performance scheme and cook the books to stay in the grace of Wall Street. The AI and Quantum Computing charade does not fool anybody." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1
Mon 02:54:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ From their point of view, people who do that don't have any money and you can't trust them with anything else.
Mon 02:56:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Also, that pisses a lot of banks off so that anything you do pay off, they reduce your credit limit by the same amount so yo ucan't make any more charges. It's called "balance chasing". You make payments, they lower your credit limit to like $50 over what you owe them, every month.
Mon 02:56:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Someone on FICO Forums complained that Citibank was doing it to them.
Mon 02:57:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, About two months before I defaulted on all my credit cards, Citi put an email in my box saying they increased my credit line by $2500.
Mon 02:57:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :)
Mon 03:06:57 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/13/colorado-river-crucial-deadline
Mon 03:12:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ tech companies by size: many are Japanese and Chinese
Mon 03:14:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "GAFAM" is in Wikipedia now :)
Mon 03:24:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-16.gmi
Mon 03:25:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1918.jpg
Mon 03:26:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I feel overly dramatic about this phase of my life. I am not sure why. It was a bit of a party weekend, so I am a bit drained." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/begin
Mon 03:29:52 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-ai-threatens-business-software.html
Mon 03:33:47 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ and hilarity ensues... https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-india-ai-city-staggering-scale.html
Mon 03:35:00 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-atom-thin-ferroelectric-transistor-polarization.html
Mon 03:35:40 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-smartphones-young-people-flip-cameras.html
Mon 03:48:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Debt of Broadcom Grew by More Than 50%, Broadcom is Deeper in Debt Than Google ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Debt_of_Broadcom_Grew_by_More_Than_50_Broadcom_is_Deeper_in_Deb.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Debt_of_Broadcom_Grew_by_More_Than_50_Broadcom_is_Deeper_in_Deb.gmi ∎
Mon 03:49:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ieee propping up ponzi economics is... sad
Mon 03:49:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they should know better
Mon 03:50:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] this one seems interesting https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-smartphones-young-people-flip-cameras.html
Mon 03:50:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Burned out by smartphones, young people are choosing flip phones, cameras and MP3 players instead https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-smartphones-young-people-flip-cameras.html
Mon 03:51:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "v"
Mon 03:51:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Alarm clocks, maps, books, flashlights, watches, radios, MP3 players, Palm Pilots, remote controls, cameras, handheld recorders and other devices have all been gradually absorbed into a single one: the smartphone."
Mon 03:51:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] a watch can work too
Mon 03:51:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] doesn't need charging every day
Mon 03:53:52 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ there probably were flip phones that were smartphones
Mon 03:54:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cybershow's "Helen and Andy review recent episodes and plans for 2026 (with potty-mouth warning)" https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=59
Mon 03:57:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Any space will do https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/place/
Mon 04:07:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: yes, i thought the same
Mon 04:07:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but the trend matters
Mon 04:07:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they want less
Mon 04:18:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Dr. Andy Farnell on How Universities and Culture of Education Got Crushed by "Technofascist Nightmare" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Dr_Andy_Farnell_on_How_Universities_and_Culture_of_Education_Go.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Dr_Andy_Farnell_on_How_Universities_and_Culture_of_Education_Go.gmi ∎
Mon 04:33:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – More People in Chad Move to GNU/Linux ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/More_People_in_Chad_Move_to_GNU_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/More_People_in_Chad_Move_to_GNU_Linux.gmi ∎
Mon 04:51:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft Amutable Already Reveals That Its Focus Is Not Linux, It'll Promote "Remote Attestation" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Microsoft_Amutable_Already_Reveals_That_Its_Focus_Is_Not_Linux_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Microsoft_Amutable_Already_Reveals_That_Its_Focus_Is_Not_Linux_.gmi ∎
Mon 05:00:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "NPR’s David Greene is suing Google over its AI podcast voice." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/879610/nprs-david-greene-suing-google-ai-podcast | Source: The Verge
Mon 05:00:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Among other features, Google’s NotebookLM allows users to generate a podcast with AI hosts." ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/15/longtime-npr-host-david-greene-sues-google-over-notebooklm-voice/ | Source: TechCrunch
Mon 05:00:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "David Greene had never heard of NotebookLM, Google’s buzzy artificial intelligence tool that spins up podcasts on demand" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/15/david-greene-google-ai-podcast/ | Source: The Washington Post
Mon 05:01:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Gemini protocol is an interesting way to try to carve out some corner of the Internet for non-commercial use" ☛ https://kevinboone.me/gemini_2026.html | Source: Kevin Boone
Mon 05:01:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One of those letters came from 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya from Colombia. Her letter was written on a piece of notebook paper" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-maria-antonia-guerra-story | Source: Pro Publica
Mon 05:02:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "During the same period, 25,845 civilian injuries have been recorded." ☛ https://www.en-hrana.org/day-50-of-the-protests-intensification-of-security-prosecutions-and-uncertainty-regarding-the-status-of-detainees/ | Source: Human rights Activists News Agency
Mon 05:05:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "While in Germany the provider of data linking and data analysis software for authorities with surveillance powers is successful with at least some state customers." ☛ https://www.heise.de/en/news/Palantir-vs-the-Republik-US-analytics-firm-takes-magazine-to-court-11176508.html | Source: Heise
Mon 05:05:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Of course, this has brought more international attention to Republik’s stories than they would otherwise have received: [...]" ☛ https://werd.io/palantir-vs-the-republik-us-analytics-firm-takes-magazine-to-court/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller
Mon 05:05:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In 2016, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution confirming the importance of internet access for human rights" ☛ https://netzpolitik.org/2026/internet-shutdowns-in-africa-a-human-rights-and-democratic-crisis/ | Source: Netzpolitik
Mon 05:06:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Is on-premise the new cloud? I’m beginning to think yes." ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1135 | Source: Unmitigated Risk
Mon 05:06:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Peter Steinberger, the creator of the tantalizing-but-risky personal AI agent OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/open_ai_grabs_openclaw/ | Source: The Register UK
Mon 05:07:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I pity my colleagues who are so desperate for heroes that they have to settle for a man who espoused sexist and racist views" ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2026/02/15/tribute-to-late-charlie-kirk-illuminates-division-in-kansas-politics-on-meaning-of-free-speech/ | Source: Kansas Reflector
Mon 05:17:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Chinese Hackers Hijack Notepad++ Updates" https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/chinese-hackers-hijack-notepad++-updates:b
Mon 05:17:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Überwachungstechnologie: Wie hartnäckig Palantir die Schweiz umwarb – Republik" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://www.republik.ch/2025/12/08/wie-hartnaeckig-palantir-die-schweiz-umwarb
Mon 05:17:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft-bribed site "incorrectly presents Snyk as an authority rather than a passle of marketeers" https://thenewstack.io/deno-sandbox-security-secrets/
Mon 05:18:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "AI Fatigue" https://bjhess.com/posts/ai-fatigue
Mon 05:20:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ hindustantimes still helps to cover up for pedophiles' child trafficking https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/bill-gates-to-visit-andhra-pradesh-today-hold-talks-with-naidu-on-health-artificial-intelligence-101771210015764.html see http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/The_Epstein_Files_Don_t_Say_the_Ages_of_Those_Russian_Girls_Bil.shtml
Mon 05:20:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ debugger https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/naeste-gang-du-hader-din-debugger
Mon 05:49:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): The 'Bird Kitchen' ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/The_Bird_Kitchen.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/The_Bird_Kitchen.gmi ∎
Mon 06:07:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – They Will Call Smart People "Luddites" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/They_Will_Call_Smart_People_Luddites.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/They_Will_Call_Smart_People_Luddites.gmi ∎
Mon 06:37:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Social Control Media is Just a Digital Weapon ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Social_Control_Media_is_Just_a_Digital_Weapon.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Social_Control_Media_is_Just_a_Digital_Weapon.gmi ∎
Mon 06:42:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ There's no "Free" platform for speech (free speech is expensive), and based upon collective thinking and experience, social control media is working against you, not FOR you http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Social_Control_Media_is_Just_a_Digital_Weapon.shtml
Mon 06:52:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ More austerity? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpqwl10lvr2o
Mon 06:55:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Unsurprisingly, the questionable splurge turned out to be a hilariously bad investment." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/justin-bieber-bored-ape-nft-worth | Source: Futurism
Mon 07:00:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Overpopulation ☛ https://futurism.com/science-energy/epstein-climate-change-population | Source: Futurism
Mon 07:04:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This was a power grab that could not be undone. Data is like a genie. It cannot be put back in the bottle." ☛ https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-us-coup-one-year-on | Source: Carole Cadwalladr
Mon 07:05:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As Christophe notes" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/16/ten-years-of-lets-encrypt/ | Source: APNIC
Mon 07:05:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "WAV and Republik’s findings have generated debate across Europe, especially in Germany." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/22/mps-question-uk-palantir-contracts-security-concerns-investigation | Source: The Guardian UK
Mon 07:07:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft's Vidal infiltrated OSI via Microsoft bribes. It's ever so revealing he is a Microsoft mole: https://github.com/agenda-tech-brasil/agenda-tech-brasil
Mon 07:08:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "My point is: These things are older than the recent UK, Australia and select few US states legal mandates of age verification." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/verification/ | Source: Ava
Mon 07:28:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – "AboutCode" is a Microsoft Proxy and Microsoft's Acquisition of the OSI Advances Via OSI Moles ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/AboutCode_is_a_Microsoft_Proxy_and_Microsoft_s_Acquisition_of_t.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/AboutCode_is_a_Microsoft_Proxy_and_Microsoft_s_Acquisition_of_t.gmi ∎
Mon 07:32:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The “K9-X” unit functions as a kind of first responder only." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/robot-dogs-are-on-going-on-patrol-at-the-2026-world-cup-in-mexico/ | Source: Wired
Mon 07:32:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Thiel’s venture capital firm, Founders Fund, led Persona’s $150 million Series C funding round and $200 million Series D funding round" ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/roblox-reddit-and-discord-users-compelled-to-use-biometric-id-system-backed-by-palantir-co-founder-peter-thiel/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup
Mon 07:32:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The move is part of the authorities’ plan to expand an existing surveillance system, which will cost over HK$4 billion from taxpayers." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/16/hong-kong-police-eyes-adding-facial-recognition-to-cctv-cameras-by-year-end-as-part-of-hk4-billion-expansion-plan/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press
Mon 07:33:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Low-Cost BeaglePlay SBC Gains Fully Upstream PowerVR Graphics with Vulkan 1.2 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Low_Cost_BeaglePlay_SBC_Gains_Fully_Upstream_PowerVR_Graphics_w.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Low_Cost_BeaglePlay_SBC_Gains_Fully_Upstream_PowerVR_Graphics_w.gmi ∎
Mon 07:34:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Review: Noid Linux 20260120 and AgarimOS 2026.01.17 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Review_Noid_Linux_20260120_and_AgarimOS_2026_01_17.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Review_Noid_Linux_20260120_and_AgarimOS_2026_01_17.gmi ∎
Mon 07:41:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Mon 07:43:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Techrights Community Never Needed Money, Only Goodwill ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/The_Techrights_Community_Never_Needed_Money_Only_Goodwill.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/The_Techrights_Community_Never_Needed_Money_Only_Goodwill.gmi ∎
Mon 07:45:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If the open social web is an alternative social network — Twitter but without the corporate structure — then why will it succeed" ☛ https://werd.io/growing-the-open-social-web-2/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller
Mon 07:45:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code" ☛ https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/ | Source: Scott Shambaugh
Mon 07:46:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Everyone is talking about what LLMs will offer them. Unfortunately, there is little discussion on what they will take away." ☛ https://asindu.xyz/a-single-reason-to-not-vibe-code |
Mon 07:47:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "My passion has always been programming - one way or another, it always has been and all my life choices led me back to it." ☛ https://whynot.fail/human/ai-is-slowly-munching-away-my-passion/ |
Mon 07:47:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But what if those people are an aberration?" ☛ https://ezhik.jp/ai-slop-terrifies-me/ |
Mon 07:47:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Late in 2022, some of us got access to a technical breakthrough: AI." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/02/15/ai-igniting-the-spark-to-end-stagnation/ | Source: Daniel Lemire
Mon 07:48:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "His current stance came after Stenberg called a stop to cURL’s bug bounty program." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/curls-daniel-stenberg-ai-is-ddosing-open-source-and-fixing-its-bugs/ | Source: The New Stack
Mon 07:48:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Official Ubuntu 26.04 ‘Resolute Raccoon’ mascot revealed ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Official_Ubuntu_26_04_Resolute_Raccoon_mascot_revealed.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Official_Ubuntu_26_04_Resolute_Raccoon_mascot_revealed.gmi ∎
Mon 07:48:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Machine Learning has transformed modern sports analytics." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/02/machine-learning-for-sports-analytics-in-r-a-complete-professional-guide/ | Source: Rlang
Mon 07:48:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "nothing for humans here." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/welcome-bots/ | Source: Don Marti
Mon 07:51:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Is Linux a suitable platform for writers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Is_Linux_a_suitable_platform_for_writers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Is_Linux_a_suitable_platform_for_writers.gmi ∎
Mon 07:53:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But who actually gets to keep that value?" ☛ https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163 |
Mon 07:53:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Steve reports needing more sleep due to the cognitive burden involved in agentic engineering, and notes that four hours of agent work a day is a more realistic pace: [...]" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/the-ai-vampire/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison
Mon 07:54:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I’ll just consider it one of my contributions to the social fabric." ☛ https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-15-of-autistic-service/ | Source: Bix Frankonis
Mon 07:54:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In Sweden, this crisis is not a sudden rupture but a slow political shift: welfare retrenchment, austerity-driven reforms, marketization, and an intensifying moralization of family life." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/02/mothers-nordic-welfare-state-social-reproduction/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
Mon 07:56:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): All About Ubuntu ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/All_About_Ubuntu.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/All_About_Ubuntu.gmi ∎
Mon 07:59:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For someone who’s rather particular about their keyboards and displays" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/the-lenovo-400-wireless-mouse/ | Source: Ruben Schade
Mon 07:59:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It’s been a while since my boss told me I needed to start hiring for my team. While I was at it" ☛ https://www.jampa.dev/p/lessons-learned-after-10-years-as |
Mon 08:00:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I sometimes assign open problems as extra credit problems. Some thoughts: [...]" ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/02/assigning-open-problems-in-class.html | Source: Computational Complexity
Mon 08:00:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As a visiting professor I saw the change across a lot of institutions over 35 years." ☛ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/place/ | Source: The Cyber Show
Mon 08:01:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I don't feel like breadcrumbs are the most accurate description of the UI element." ☛ https://thomasrigby.com/posts/breadcrumbs-is-completely-the-wrong-analogy/ | Source: Thomas Rigby
Mon 08:01:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If I can make a suggestion on what to write about, a general breakdown of where your income comes from is not nearly as interesting as knowing what you did to form the business in the first place, and why" ☛ https://lmika.org/2026/02/16/what-to-talk-about-when.html | Source: Leon Mika
Mon 08:08:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 16/02/2026: cURL’s Daniel Stenberg Asserts That Slop is DDoSing Free Software, But Still Uses a Plagiarism and GPL-Violating Blender (Microsoft GitHub) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Links_16_02_2026_cURL_s_Daniel_Stenberg_Asserts_That_Slop_is_DD.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Links_16_02_2026_cURL_s_Daniel_Stenberg_Asserts_That_Slop_is_DD.gmi ∎
Mon 08:10:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): This is the advanced feature every new Linux user needs to know ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/This_is_the_advanced_feature_every_new_Linux_user_needs_to_know.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/This_is_the_advanced_feature_every_new_Linux_user_needs_to_know.gmi ∎
Mon 08:15:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): On The Inside: This writer's daily driver is a Linux laptop ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/On_The_Inside_This_writer_s_daily_driver_is_a_Linux_laptop.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/On_The_Inside_This_writer_s_daily_driver_is_a_Linux_laptop.gmi ∎
Mon 08:15:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Linux Foundation Continues Falling Off a Cliff in Geminispace ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Linux_Foundation_Continues_Falling_Off_a_Cliff_in_Geminispace.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Linux_Foundation_Continues_Falling_Off_a_Cliff_in_Geminispace.gmi ∎
Mon 08:16:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I installed this Linux distro on my gaming PC, and it runs Windows games better than Windows ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/I_installed_this_Linux_distro_on_my_gaming_PC_and_it_runs_Windo.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/I_installed_this_Linux_distro_on_my_gaming_PC_and_it_runs_Windo.gmi ∎
Mon 08:25:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Let's set aside the visual design of the admin for a second, because arguing about visual design is not compelling prose." ☛ https://www.jmduke.com/posts/outgrowing-django-admin.html | Source: Justin Duke
Mon 08:25:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "To test this out, I wrote a Python function to create a classical linked list: [...]" ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/02/15/how-bad-can-python-stop-the-world-pauses-get/ | Source: Daniel Lemire
Mon 08:29:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "HA! That's a good one: "Can you request deletion of your contributions if you leave?" YeahRIGHT. Best of luck with that. " https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khj73vkk
Mon 08:31:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/16/Android_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 08:50:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IBM Reduces the Thresholds for Acceptance (and the Salaries) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/IBM_Reduces_the_Thresholds_for_Acceptance_and_the_Salaries.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/IBM_Reduces_the_Thresholds_for_Acceptance_and_the_Salaries.gmi ∎
Mon 08:56:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🗃️ Task Completed by Avoidance: "Today I avoided an important task." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/tasks-completed-by-avoidance/
Mon 08:57:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Avoidance is productive, just not in the intended direction. Energy is neither created nor destroyed - only redirected into lower risk activities. If I optimize enough peripheral systems, perhaps the central issue will resolve itself out of respect."
Mon 09:10:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Techrights' Architecture ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Techrights_Architecture.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Techrights_Architecture.gmi ∎
Mon 09:24:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Happy Birthday (or Anniversary) to SoylentNews ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Happy_Birthday_or_Anniversary_to_SoylentNews.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/16/Happy_Birthday_or_Anniversary_to_SoylentNews.gmi ∎
Mon 09:26:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows near all-time low https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/cayman-islands/#monthly-200902-202602 https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/cayman-islands/#monthly-200902-202602
Mon 09:30:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "The challenge isn’t the technology. The challenge is that my team is almost entirely volunteers, scattered across time zones from Seattle to Europe to Asia." ☛ https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2025/12/what-volunteer-open-source-taught-me-about-remote-teams/ | Source: Aaron Brethorst
Mon 09:30:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Even in 2026, with many new concurrency features available, std::shared_mutex is still a valuable and practical tool." ☛ https://www.cppstories.com/2026/shared_mutex/ |
Mon 09:30:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I try to keep an open but keen mind when reading these posts" ☛ https://www.jmduke.com/posts/harness-engineering.html | Source: Justin Duke
Mon 09:30:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In applications today we represent "things" as rows in a table. A row for each book in a Goodreads dataset." ☛ https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/02/15/generating-vector-embeddings-locally.html | Source: Consensus Labs LLC
Mon 09:31:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Most of my blog posts are lessons learned. I’m trying to achieve something, and I document the process I used to do it." ☛ https://blog.frankel.ch/migrating-jekyll-hugo/ | Source: Nicolas Fränkel
Mon 09:33:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Let’s take a tour of all the ways to paste in Vim, starting with Normal mode and then moving to Insert mode." ☛ https://batsov.com/articles/2026/02/15/how-to-vim-many-ways-to-paste/ | Source: Bozhidar Batsov
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