Techrights Recent IRC Comments
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Sat 14:51:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 16 Best Free and Open Source File Synchronization Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-file-synchronization-tools/
Sat 14:51:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iodéOS – Android operating system free from Surveillance Giant Google trackers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/iodeos-android-operating-system-google-trackers/
Sat 14:51:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Zorin OS 18 Downloads Skyrocket in the Last 48 Hours ☞ https://linuxiac.com/zorin-os-18-downloads-skyrocket-in-the-last-48-hours/
Sat 14:51:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Wine 10.17 Released with Default EGL Renderer and Updated Mono Engine ☞ https://linuxiac.com/wine-10-17-released-with-default-egl-renderer/
Sat 14:52:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Fingerprint Websites With WhatWeb - A Practical, Hands-On Guide ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/whatweb-fingerprint-websites/
Sat 14:53:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LHB GNU/Linux Digest #25.31: syslog guide, snippet manager, screen command more ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/newsletter/25-31/
Sat 14:53:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Arch Linux: NVIDIA Drivers Installation ☞ https://linuxconfig.org/arch-linux-nvidia-drivers-installation
Sat 14:54:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Talos Linux: Bringing Immutability and Security to Kubernetes Operations ☞ https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/10/talos-linux-kubernetes/
Sat 14:54:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Sidero Labs to Extend Scope of Talos GNU/Linux Platform for Kubernetes ☞ https://cloudnativenow.com/features/sidero-labs-to-extend-scope-of-talos-linux-platform-for-kubernetes/
Sat 15:04:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Credit Where It's Due: LinuxConfig.org Quit Doing LLM Slop, Back to Original and Real Articles ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/Credit_Where_It_s_Due_LinuxConfig_org_Quit_Doing_LLM_Slop_Back_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/Credit_Where_It_s_Due_LinuxConfig_org_Quit_Doing_LLM_Slop_Back_.gmi ∎
Sat 15:05:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ David Bremner: Hibernate on the pocket reform 13/n ☞ https://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner//blog/posts/hibernate-pocket-13/
Sat 15:06:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ A Personal Message from an Open Source Contributor ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/a-personal-message-from-an-open-source-contributor-5/
Sat 15:06:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ What’s new for Python in 2025? ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/whats-new-for-python-in-2025/
Sat 15:08:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Over on YouTube [Applied Science] shows us how to make an f/0.38 camera lens using an oil immersion microscope objective." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/17/f-0-38-camera-lens-made-with-oil-immersion-microscope-objective/ | Source: Hackaday
Sat 15:08:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Remi Collet: 📝 Valkey version 9.0 ☞ https://blog.remirepo.net/post/2025/10/17/Valkey-version-9.0
Sat 15:09:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/42 ☞ https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2025/10/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2025-42/
Sat 15:10:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ TTAB Deems Bottle Trade Dress a Mere Refinement of Existing Designs and so Not Inherently Distinctive ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/10/ttab-deems-bottle-trade-dress-mere.html
Sat 15:14:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: putler is "coming to town"
Sat 15:14:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ho ho ho
Sat 15:15:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Allwinner T153-based industrial SoM and SBC feature a mix of Arm Cortex-A7 and RISC-V cores ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/17/allwinner-t153-based-industrial-som-and-sbc-feature-a-mix-of-arm-cortex-a7-and-risc-v-cores/
Sat 15:16:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LMDE 7 LV Setup per Daniel Wayne Armstrong (VENV) ☞ https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2025/10/lmde-7-lvm-setup-per-daniel-wayne.html
Sat 15:17:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Oligarchy = oligarchs on the currency, not presidents etc https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/new-us-usd1-coins-to-feature-steve-jobs-and-cray-1-supercomputer-us-mints-2026-american-innovation-program-to-memorialize-computing-history
Sat 15:18:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It was Elliot and Dan on the podcast today, taking a look at the best the week had to offer in terms of your hacks." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/17/hackaday-podcast-episode-342-poopless-prints-radio-in-your-fillings-and-one-hyperspectral-pixel-at-a-time/ | Source: Hackaday
Sat 15:18:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ California Regulates Hey Hi (AI) Companions + Proprietary Chaffbot Company Investigates Its Critics + The Hard Fork Review of Slop ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/podcasts/california-regulates-ai-companions-openai-investigates-its-critics-the-hard-fork-review-of-slop.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/technology/sam-altman-sister-lawsuit.html
Sat 15:19:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This Week in GNOME: #221 Virus Season ☞ https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/10/twig-221/
Sat 15:24:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GIMP 3.0.6: What’s New, What’s Not — With Screenshots ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/10/gimp-3-0-6-whats-new-whats-not-with-screenshots/
Sat 15:24:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Boosting Voltage With Just A Wire" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/17/2025-component-abuse-challenge-boosting-voltage-with-just-a-wire/ | Source: Hackaday
Sat 15:25:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Sam Thursfield: Status update, 17/10/2025 ☞ https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/status-update-17-10-2025/
Sat 15:25:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Russell Vought ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/russ-vought-trump-shadow-president-omb | Source: Pro Publica
Sat 15:27:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Malaysia govt proposes banning smartphones for under-16s to tackle school violence ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-govt-proposes-banning-smartphones-for-under-16s-to-tackle-school-violence
Sat 15:27:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Fentanylware (CheeTok) USA Deal Still Isn’t Over The Finish Line — And Congress Is Asking Questions ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/17/trumps-tiktok-usa-deal-not-finished/
Sat 15:28:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ TikTok comedian Steve Bridges dies suddenly at age 41 ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/10/17/entertainment/tiktok-comedian-steve-bridges-dies-suddenly-at-age-41/
Sat 15:28:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ openSFI Is A Very Interesting Collaboration Between AMD & defective chip maker Intel For Better Firmware Unification ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSFI
Sat 15:35:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 3 Obscure but Cool Linux Apps to Install This Weekend (October 17 - 19) https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-to-install-this-weekend-october-17/
Sat 15:36:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This release also improves virtual libraries by allowing users to define their search expressions more comfortably in a multi-line edit box." https://9to5linux.com/calibre-8-13-open-source-e-book-manager-improves-library-export-on-linux
Sat 15:37:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Free Steam playtest for upcoming extraction shooter kicks off with a bang — runs on Linux despite Easy Anti-Cheat https://www.notebookcheck.net/Free-Steam-playtest-for-upcoming-extraction-shooter-kicks-off-with-a-bang-runs-on-Linux-despite-Easy-Anti-Cheat.1141002.0.html
Sat 15:40:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Running GNU/Linux Applications in Windows and Vice Versa ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Running_GNU_Linux_Applications_in_Windows_and_Vice_Versa.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Running_GNU_Linux_Applications_in_Windows_and_Vice_Versa.gmi ∎
Sat 15:42:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/today_s_howtos.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/today_s_howtos.1.gmi ∎
Sat 15:43:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Databases: PostgreSQL and duckdb ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Databases_PostgreSQL_and_duckdb.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Databases_PostgreSQL_and_duckdb.gmi ∎
Sat 15:43:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_Arduino_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_Arduino_and_More.gmi ∎
Sat 15:43:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Picks, Updates ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_and_Fedora_Picks_Updates.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_and_Fedora_Picks_Updates.gmi ∎
Sat 15:45:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sat 15:47:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNOME: A GNOME Foundation Update, This Week in GNOME, and Sam Thursfield's Status Update ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/GNOME_A_GNOME_Foundation_Update_This_Week_in_GNOME_and_Sam_Thur.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/GNOME_A_GNOME_Foundation_Update_This_Week_in_GNOME_and_Sam_Thur.gmi ∎
Sat 15:47:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): OpenSUSE Leftovers and Outlines ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/OpenSUSE_Leftovers_and_Outlines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/OpenSUSE_Leftovers_and_Outlines.gmi ∎
Sat 15:48:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Security_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Security_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sat 15:50:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sat 15:50:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Servers: Kubernetes, Docker, and Talos Linux ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Servers_Kubernetes_Docker_and_Talos_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Servers_Kubernetes_Docker_and_Talos_Linux.gmi ∎
Sat 15:52:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Thunderbird, HackerBox, Internet Archive, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Thunderbird_HackerBox_Internet_Archive_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Thunderbird_HackerBox_Internet_Archive_and_More.gmi ∎
Sat 15:54:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 18/10/2025: Russell Vought in Charge, US Government Leans to Russia Again ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/Links_18_10_2025_Russell_Vought_in_Charge_US_Government_Leans_t.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/Links_18_10_2025_Russell_Vought_in_Charge_US_Government_Leans_t.gmi ∎
Sat 15:56:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ pikkunetti gemini://sampsa.smol.pub/pikkunetti
Sat 15:57:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🖼️ xkcd: Planetary Rings #3156 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3156.gmi
Sat 15:58:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A short log of troubleshooting adventures with my Lenovo ThinkStation P510. What started as a simple click and no power mystery turned into a proper PSU replacement story." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/lenovo-p510-psu-troubles-temporary-and-permanent-fix/
Sat 15:59:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "After the post linked above about the Lenovo P510 refusing to power on, I thought I had solved the issue by reseating the GPU and RAM and holding the power button for a while to clear things out." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/lenovo-p510-psu-troubles-temporary-and-permanent-fix/the-temporary-fix-wasnt-enough-psu-replacement/
Sat 15:59:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🔤SpellBinding: ADILOTU Wordo: FOOTY gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-10-18.gmi
Sat 16:00:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Steam Next Fest (October 2025) — Day 5 gemini://envs.net/~silv/gemlog/steam_next_fest_(october_2025)_—_day_5.gmi
Sat 16:01:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I recently ran into a frustrating issue with my Lenovo ThinkStation P510: The PSU would click when plugged in, but the system wouldn't power on. No fans, no lights, just a single faint click and silence." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/lenovo-p510-psu-troubles-temporary-and-permanent-fix/lenovo-p510-psu-click-no-power-until-press-reseat-fix/
Sat 16:34:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Defeating LLM Abuse (State-of-the-Art Plagiarism) in the Area of Linux and GNU, Free Software, BSD, Security and So On ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/Defeating_LLM_Abuse_State_of_the_Art_Plagiarism_in_the_Area_of_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/Defeating_LLM_Abuse_State_of_the_Art_Plagiarism_in_the_Area_of_.gmi ∎
Sat 16:37:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 18/10/2025: "Planetary Rings", Steam, and PSU Replacement ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/Gemini_Links_18_10_2025_Planetary_Rings_Steam_and_PSU_Replaceme.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/Gemini_Links_18_10_2025_Planetary_Rings_Steam_and_PSU_Replaceme.gmi ∎
Sat 16:44:52 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 18 171448 < schestowitz[TR2]> MinceR: putler is "coming to town"
Sat 16:45:02 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ yeah, and the alleged "town" will probably grind to a halt for 3 days or so
Sat 16:45:19 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ because the pedophile faggots can't just go to felcsut or debrecen to suck each other's pricks
Sat 16:45:31 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and all the roads must be closed down while they have their parade of evil
Sat 16:45:47 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and of course they haven't announced when it will happen, it's going to be a surprise
Sat 16:50:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Term "AI" is Not New and What Today's Media Calls "AI" Isn't Even AI ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/The_Term_AI_is_Not_New_and_What_Today_s_Media_Calls_AI_Isn_t_Ev.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/The_Term_AI_is_Not_New_and_What_Today_s_Media_Calls_AI_Isn_t_Ev.gmi ∎
Sat 16:56:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: so ho ho ho indeed
Sat 16:56:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] putin will land thru some chimney
Sat 16:57:39 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ he won't fit
Sat 16:57:47 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ unless he's rotated so he's lying horizontally...
Sat 17:01:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no point going to AK again
Sat 17:01:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they already mapped that american base
Sat 17:01:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] when he took a spy plane to there
Sat 17:01:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] anchorage iirc
Sat 17:01:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] now he does budapest
Sat 17:01:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and his other useful idiot let'sm
Sat 17:02:56 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ putler didn't receive detailed maps of budapest from his gypsy fuck-buddy?
Sat 17:54:11 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (audio) https://apina.biz/210623.mp4?mode=sfw
Sat 18:08:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Experience the power of a lean, mean Linux machine that doesn't compromise on performance." https://www.makeuseof.com/smallest-fastest-linux-distro-works-for-everyday-stuff/
Sat 18:09:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "My dying Dell Inspiron runs like new with this forgotten Linux distro." https://www.makeuseof.com/50mb-linux-os-dsl-for-old-pc/
Sat 18:10:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I replaced Google Keep for my whole family with a free and open-source alternative https://www.makeuseof.com/replaced-google-keep-for-family-with-free-open-source-alternative/
Sat 18:11:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "You don’t need a new laptop, just the right OS." https://www.makeuseof.com/old-windows-laptop-fast-again-lightweight-os/
Sat 18:12:13 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ https://old.reddit.com/r/Layoffs/comments/1o9lhen/fired_from_microsoft/
Sat 18:12:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Plain Arch is great, but CachyOS makes all the right improvements" https://www.xda-developers.com/cachyos-best-arch-based-linux-distro/
Sat 18:13:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Tired of juggling multiple audio systems on Linux? This development unifies them all, offering a seamless experience like never before." https://www.xda-developers.com/goodbye-to-linux-audio-headaches-pipewire-simplifies-everything/
Sat 18:13:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ You should use Proxmox Backup Server if you have a PVE home lab https://www.xda-developers.com/you-should-use-proxmox-backup-server-if-you-have-a-pve-home-lab/
Sat 18:14:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Terminal vs. Command Line vs. Shell vs. Console: Are They Really Different? https://www.howtogeek.com/terminal-vs-command-line-vs-shell-vs-console/
Sat 18:14:53 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ yes
Sat 18:15:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It isn't as intuitive as a user interface, but it is more powerful." https://www.howtogeek.com/423709/how-to-see-all-devices-on-your-network-with-nmap-on-linux/
Sat 18:16:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This man is NOT back. They just UPDATE or REPOST his 2023 articles now. https://www.howtogeek.com/author/david-mckay/
Sat 18:18:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Bazzite and CachyOS should be primary considerations for gamers looking to get out from under Microsoft" https://www.xda-developers.com/if-youre-choosing-a-linux-distro-for-gaming-try-these-two-first/
Sat 18:18:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 4 Proxmox mistakes I made early on that I won't repeat again https://www.xda-developers.com/proxmox-mistakes-i-made-early-on-that-i-wont-repeat-again/
Sat 18:19:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ You Should Try This Open-Source Document Converter https://www.howtogeek.com/you-should-try-this-open-source-document-converter/
Sat 18:21:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It can be hard choosing a smart home platform at first glance, but if you look a little closer, then it’s clear that one stands out: Home Assistant. This is especially true given the context of cloud reliance. You only need to look at competing, proprietary platforms to see why." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-tried-running-my-smart-home-without-the-cloudheres-what-happened/
Sat 18:22:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 7 Open-Source Apps That Will Let You Cancel Pricey Subscriptions https://www.howtogeek.com/open-source-apps-that-will-let-you-cancel-pricey-subscriptions/
Sat 18:23:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Another operating system says farewell to 32-bit x86." https://www.howtogeek.com/the-first-freebsd-15-beta-is-here-and-it-drops/
Sat 18:24:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Just Starting Out in Bash Scripting? Here's How to Do It Right https://www.howtogeek.com/easy-tips-you-can-do-to-polish-your-bash-scripts/
Sat 18:25:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Find anything instantly" https://www.xda-developers.com/fsearch-like-everything-for-linux-its-amazing/
Sat 18:25:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Valve's neglect of long-standing issues hinders the Linux gaming revolution." https://www.xda-developers.com/steam-linux-annoying-bugs-need-fixed-asap/
Sat 18:26:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Here are some tweaks I always make to GNOME after installing a Linux distro." https://www.xda-developers.com/gnome-tweaks-that-i-cant-live-without/
Sat 18:27:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 4 Ways to Pinpoint Inevitable Network Outages on Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/ways-to-pinpoint-inevitable-network-outages-on-linux/
Sat 18:27:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Firefox 144 Arrives With New Tab Features, Profile Management, and More https://www.howtogeek.com/mozilla-firefox-144-new-tab-features-profile-management-more/
Sat 18:29:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Firefox 144 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/13/Firefox_144_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_This_Is_What_s_New.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/13/Firefox_144_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_This_Is_What_s_New.gmi ∎
Sat 18:29:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ UGREEN's New Entry-Level NAS Devices Can Replace Your Google Photos Subscription https://www.howtogeek.com/ugreen-nasync-arm-products-launch/
Sat 18:30:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A new Debian release means a new Linux Mint release." https://www.howtogeek.com/lmde-7-is-here-without-32-bit-support/
Sat 18:30:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's not easy, but it is fun." https://www.xda-developers.com/things-transition-windows-linux/
Sat 18:31:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Breaking my own network on purpose taught me more about resilience than any guide or tutorial ever could." https://www.xda-developers.com/using-linux-simulate-internet-outages-home-lab-best-bad-idea/
Sat 18:31:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Steam Decks' sleep mode is the superior sleep mode, and it should be available on all Windows and Linux devices." https://www.xda-developers.com/valves-steam-deck-sleep-mode-needs-to-come-to-windows-linux/
Sat 18:32:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ These 6 Tweaks Make the GNOME File Manager More Useful https://www.howtogeek.com/these-tweaks-make-the-gnome-file-manager-more-useful/
Sat 18:32:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Tired of being tethered to your PC or a portable monitor for Pi maintenance?" https://www.howtogeek.com/how-i-use-my-raspberry-pis-terminal-from-my-android-phone/
Sat 18:34:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "App management on Linux can be confusing for new users, and Flatpak simplifies it." https://www.xda-developers.com/5-reasons-why-linux-beginners-should-be-using-flatpak/
Sat 18:34:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "With immutability comes a great environment for new users to get used to Linux" https://www.xda-developers.com/why-an-immutable-distro-is-the-perfect-starting-point-for-new-linux-users/
Sat 18:35:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One door closes, and another door opens." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distro-you-should-use-windows-10-support-ends-today/
Sat 18:35:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 4 Proxmox changes I made that delivered 90% of my reliability gains https://www.xda-developers.com/proxmox-changes-i-made-that-delivered-90-of-my-reliability-gains/
Sat 18:37:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Moving to Free Software and Self-Hosting of Data ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Moving_to_Free_Software_and_Self_Hosting_of_Data.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Moving_to_Free_Software_and_Self_Hosting_of_Data.gmi ∎
Sat 18:39:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Valnet Pieces About Proxmox Management for Personal Use (Mistakes, Backups, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Valnet_Pieces_About_Proxmox_Management_for_Personal_Use_Mistake.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Valnet_Pieces_About_Proxmox_Management_for_Personal_Use_Mistake.gmi ∎
Sat 18:41:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Bash Scripting; Terminal vs. Command Line vs. Shell vs. Console ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Bash_Scripting_Terminal_vs_Command_Line_vs_Shell_vs_Console.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Bash_Scripting_Terminal_vs_Command_Line_vs_Shell_vs_Console.gmi ∎
Sat 18:41:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Instructionals/Technical Articles and Moving Away From Proprietary Traps ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Instructionals_Technical_Articles_and_Moving_Away_From_Propriet.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Instructionals_Technical_Articles_and_Moving_Away_From_Propriet.gmi ∎
Sat 18:56:37 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/6rccJQJ = https://imgur.nerdvpn.de/gallery/6rccJQJ
Sat 19:53:49 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (audio) https://apina.biz/210622.mp4?mode=sfw
Sat 21:57:53 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ wait till elon gets in on this act!!!... https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/woman-nasa-equipment-crashes
Sat 22:05:55 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/future-society/tech-bros-huel-lead
Sat 23:02:31 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/10/18/0213223/apple-samsung-report-underwhelming-sales-of-their-new-thin-smartphones
Sun 01:46:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techpol + social irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-181025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-181025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-181025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-181025.txt
Sun 01:47:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techrights irc ■ Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-181025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-181025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-181025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-181025.txt
Sun 01:48:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 boycottnovell irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-181025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-181025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-181025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-181025.txt
Sun 01:49:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techbytes irc ■ Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-181025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-181025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-181025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-181025.txt
Sun 01:49:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-10-18.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-10-18.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
Sun 01:50:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-10-18.txt
Sun 02:08:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 18, 2025 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_October_18_2025.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_October_18_2025.gmi ∎
Sun 02:08:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Sun 02:08:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Sun 02:08:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Sun 02:18:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For some strange reason "Odin" rhymes with "Transforming" when I read that title... must be some sort of slight of mind :) Anyways!" gemini://mygemini.space/gemlogs/17/posts/77
Sun 02:18:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-10-19.gmi
Sun 02:20:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Is it you, dear reader? Is it one of the people following along on fedi? As soon as I posted that my setup had been working fine for weeks without requiring any intervention, I find that it’s in fact not working fine." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-10-19-every-time
Sun 02:20:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iPod gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/nm03/2025/OCT2025/entry-2
Sun 02:21:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1798.jpg
Sun 02:21:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1448.jpg
Sun 03:03:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): A Satirical Guide to Surviving the Subscription Economy ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/A_Satirical_Guide_to_Surviving_the_Subscription_Economy.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/A_Satirical_Guide_to_Surviving_the_Subscription_Economy.gmi ∎
Sun 03:04:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Anything LF touches turns to dust, inc. Linux.com. No posts at all for over a month in this case and it's just PR https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/
Sun 03:05:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ oVirt Lives On: A Stronger, Community-Driven Future blogs.oracle.com/authors/simon-coter "For many, oVirt’s roots with Red Hat established it as a cornerstone open source virtualization platform - powering thousands of workloads worldwide"
Sun 03:07:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Making drivers for its own hardware, which it sells, is not generosity; releasing source code is about others doing bug-fixing work for them https://www.fudzilla.com/news/61851-intel-questions-open-source-generosity
Sun 03:09:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Unix as a Second Language has been killed by IDG https://www.networkworld.com/blog/unix-as-a-second-language/ - LAST https://www.networkworld.com/article/4011151/parameter-expansion-on-linux.html that was in June.
Sun 03:10:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ computing.co.uk is a spamfarm these days, and no real articles, unless someone pays them to do it https://www.computing.co.uk/search?query=linux&date=this_year&type=&full_category=&per_page=24&sort=recent
Sun 03:24:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The 'Modern' Web of Fake Security and Easy Censorship of Whole Domains ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/The_Modern_Web_of_Fake_Security_and_Easy_Censorship_of_Whole_Do.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/The_Modern_Web_of_Fake_Security_and_Easy_Censorship_of_Whole_Do.gmi ∎
Sun 03:29:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Reads like partially LLM slop https://www.suse.com/c/the-desktop-ai-revolution-powered-by-suse-and-nvidia/
Sun 03:41:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – All the Latest Half Dozen Articles by Mehedi Hasan (UbuntuPIT) Only Admit at the End That He's Using LLM Slop ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/All_the_Latest_Half_Dozen_Articles_by_Mehedi_Hasan_UbuntuPIT_On.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/All_the_Latest_Half_Dozen_Articles_by_Mehedi_Hasan_UbuntuPIT_On.gmi ∎
Sun 03:43:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft is doing GREAT https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2025-10-17/microsoft-portugal-laying-off-staff/903811
Sun 03:44:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Paramount Mega Layoffs...
Sun 04:01:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Why the FSF No Longer Recommends Debian, as Explained by Richard Stallman This Month ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Why_the_FSF_No_Longer_Recommends_Debian_as_Explained_by_Richard.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Why_the_FSF_No_Longer_Recommends_Debian_as_Explained_by_Richard.gmi ∎
Sun 04:14:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – LLM Slop Could Not Rise to Prominence Without Media Complicity and Artificial Hype ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/LLM_Slop_Could_Not_Rise_to_Prominence_Without_Media_Complicity_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/LLM_Slop_Could_Not_Rise_to_Prominence_Without_Media_Complicity_.gmi ∎
Sun 04:34:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Tux Machines Never Deletes Factual Pages ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Tux_Machines_Never_Deletes_Factual_Pages.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Tux_Machines_Never_Deletes_Factual_Pages.gmi ∎
Sun 04:48:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – US Government: 6.1% of Site Visitors Use GNU/Linux ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/US_Government_6_1_of_Site_Visitors_Uses_GNU_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/US_Government_6_1_of_Site_Visitors_Uses_GNU_Linux.gmi ∎
Sun 04:53:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 19/10/2025: "Firma Odin Is Transforming" and Bot Attacks While "AFK" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Gemini_Links_19_10_2025_Firma_Odin_Is_Transforming_and_Bot_Atta.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Gemini_Links_19_10_2025_Firma_Odin_Is_Transforming_and_Bot_Atta.gmi ∎
Sun 05:01:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – A List of 63 Known Gemini Clients (Software to Browse Geminispace Content With Gemini Protocol) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/A_List_of_63_Known_Gemini_Clients_Software_to_Browse_Geminispac.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/A_List_of_63_Known_Gemini_Clients_Software_to_Browse_Geminispac.gmi ∎
Sun 05:23:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – 25 Years Ago, an Explanation of How Reducing Free Software to 'Apps' Would Interfere With Freedom Goals ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/25_Years_Ago_an_Explanation_of_How_Reducing_Free_Software_to_Ap.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/25_Years_Ago_an_Explanation_of_How_Reducing_Free_Software_to_Ap.gmi ∎
Sun 05:48:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – As Economies Crumble Free as in Beer Will Matter, Not Just Free as in Freedom/Libre (Libertad) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/As_Economies_Crumble_Free_as_in_Beer_Will_Matter_Not_Just_Free_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/As_Economies_Crumble_Free_as_in_Beer_Will_Matter_Not_Just_Free_.gmi ∎
Sun 08:51:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I have 4 new storage devices to create 2 new zpools, each a two-vdev mirror. Let’s go." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/10/17/creating-the-new-zpools/ | Source: Dan Langille
Sun 08:52:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "after publishing this entry, I realized the command is zpool replace, not zfs replace, as the title suggests." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/10/18/moving-a-zpool-to-new-devices-after-the-syncoid-copy-oh-wait-zfs-replace/ | Source: Dan Langille
Sun 08:52:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Suppose that you have a filesystem that uses some form of a journal to provide durability (as many do these days) and you have a bunch of people (or processes) writing and updating things all over the filesystem that they want to be durable" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/JournalCanSerializeFsyncWrites | Source: University of Toronto
Sun 08:52:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you read my recent posts, I’m replacing an existing zpool with new devices. At first, I went to copy the old zpool to a new zpool." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/10/18/zfs-setting-compression-and-adding-new-vdevs/ | Source: Dan Langille
Sun 08:54:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There is a lot of chatter about CSS resets in the web sphere recently." ☛ https://pawelgrzybek.com/the-css-reset-again/ | Source: Paweł Grzybek
Sun 08:54:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "With recent firmware updates this camera has gained a few interesting features for doing this, the first one is that it has an USB webcam mode and the second is the REST api for controlling the camera." ☛ https://blog.brixit.nl/using-a-blackmagic-design-camera-as-wildlife-camera/ | Source: Martijn Braam
Sun 08:54:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Folks who were ahead of the curve on what we’d now call “responsive design” would sometimes proudly show off that you could use any resolution, in the same way as they’d proudly state that you could use any browser!" ☛ https://danq.me/2025/10/18/best-viewed-at-your-resolution/ | Source: Dan Q
Sun 08:55:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The New York Times recently introduced a new daily puzzle called Pips. You place a set of dominoes on a grid, satisfying various conditions." ☛ https://www.righto.com/2025/10/solve-nyt-pips-with-constraints.html | Source: Ken Shirriff
Sun 08:55:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Pips is The New York Times' daily puzzle where you have to place dominos onto a board within a set of region restrictions." ☛ https://healeycodes.com/solving-nyt-pips-puzzle | Source: Andrew Healey
Sun 08:57:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One of the massive problems with software development today, especially in the CachyOS and Linux world in general is that nobody does the documentation." ☛ https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/cachyos/ | Source: Logikal Solutions
Sun 08:57:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This indicates that we should only allow removing A if the conflicts could not be solved by upgrading it" ☛ https://blog.jak-linux.org/2025/10/18/sound-removals/ | Source: Julian Andres Klode
Sun 08:57:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The GIMP team has officially announced that the popular open-source image editor is now available as a Snap package" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/gimp-officially-launches-its-new-snap-package-for-linux-users/ | Source: Linuxiac
Sun 08:58:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Going to a dumb phone feels a lot like this. For some, it will work just fine. It will be a revelation." ☛ https://mtwb.blog/posts/2025/tech/dumb-phones-are-a-fad/ | Source: Matthew Weber
Sun 08:58:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Are you friends with Amy again?" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-Home-Forum/2025/1017/phone-number-technology-family | Source: CS Monitor
Sun 09:00:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "PeaZip, a versatile cross-platform open-source file archiver utility, has just unveiled its latest release, version 10.7." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/peazip-10-7-file-archiver-adds-image-thumbnails-on-linux/ | Source: Linuxiac
Sun 09:05:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One (so far) surviving part of "Privacy Sandbox" is Google’s continued participation in Meta and Mozilla’s adfraud-in-the-browser feature, now known as just "Attribution."" ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/the-end-ish-of-google-privacy-sandbox/ | Source: Don Marti
Sun 09:05:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Should you use UUIDs as the primary key in your database? You might have heard they are terrible for performance, which is often true for traditional UUIDv4." ☛ https://aiven.io/blog/exploring-postgresql-18-new-uuidv7-support |
Sun 09:06:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I thought I would document what steps I went through. I’ve begun writing this on September 24th and worked on it in my spare time until clicking the publish button." ☛ https://mandarismoore.com/2025/10/17/restarting-theme-development.html | Source: Mandaris Moore
Sun 09:06:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Here is a chart I drew of homicides per 100,000 population on the vertical axis versus income or consumption inequality on the horizontal." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/inequality-and-homicide-within-country-and-between-country-by-ellis2013nz/ | Source: Rlang
Sun 09:07:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In Python, when you write if x > 5: print("big"), you’re using special syntax baked into the language." ☛ https://ryelang.org/blog/posts/if-as-function-blogpost-working-on-it_ver1/ |
Sun 09:08:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So far so good, a classic C footgun – we’ve all been there." ☛ https://mazzo.li/posts/undefined-behavior.html | Source: Francesco Mazzoli
Sun 09:08:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Once everything turns out to be working nicely for a little while I will also migrate over my blog and then start shutting down my Github and Gitlab accounts." ☛ https://arjenwiersma.nl/posts/20251018-your-own-cloud/ | Source: Arjen Wiersma
Sun 09:08:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The OCaml language offers a distinct approach to compile-time code generation in the form of extension points and AST rewriters, which we’ll explore in this article." ☛ https://citizen428.net/blog/introduction-ocaml-extension-points/ | Source: Michael Kohl
Sun 09:09:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Forgejo team has announced the release of Forgejo 13.0, the latest version of the self-hosted Git forge software, introducing security improvements, new moderation tools, and enhanced usability across the platform." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/forgejo-13-0-released-with-content-moderation-and-global-2fa-enforcement/ | Source: Linuxiac
Sun 09:10:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A little update about Doing Presentations. I got a kind offer from Julián Rodriguez Orihuela to translate the site into Spanish." ☛ https://gilest.org/notes/dp-en-espanol.html | Source: Giles Turnbull
Sun 09:10:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!" ☛ https://robert.ocallahan.org/2025/10/money.html | Source: Robert OCallahan
Sun 09:10:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One of the perils of being a so-called “perfectionist” is that I’m never content to leave things be." ☛ https://mihobu.lol/whats-new-202510 | Source: Michael Burkhardt
Sun 09:10:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It’s at this stage that I admit I’ve never had one of my own, though I used to mess with them when I’d see them." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/i-found-a-rubiks-cube/ | Source: Ruben Schade
Sun 09:10:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For some, it represents the end of an era. Others, such as the musician Hannah Diamond, suggest that era may have been over some time ago." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/18/no-one-makes-money-from-them-with-mtv-channels-switching-off-is-the-music-video-under-threat | Source: The Guardian UK
Sun 09:12:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Let me first explain why the naive categorical model of dependent types doesn’t work very well for identity types." ☛ https://bartoszmilewski.com/2025/10/18/modeling-identity-types/ | Source: Bartosz Milewski
Sun 09:12:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So I’ve been trying something new: I’m reading without taking notes, highlighting important lines, or even trying to remember everything I read." ☛ https://ankursethi.com/blog/just-read/ | Source: Ankur Sethi
Sun 09:12:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "After years of climbing the ladder in cyber, I’ve learned that sometimes the best move isn’t up. It’s stepping back to make life sustainable again." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/blog/career-snakes-ladders/ | Source: Kev Quirk
Sun 09:13:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Luxury isn’t about quality, suitability or performance. Luxury isn’t a more accurate watch or a faster processor. Luxury is a marker that we can afford to do something others might consider wasteful." ☛ https://seths.blog/2025/10/attention-is-a-luxury-good/ | Source: Seth Godin
Sun 09:13:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Don't you just love a good second act? There’s something so inspiring about watching someone switch career paths and find their true calling." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/age-is-just-a-number-these-photography-icons-all-found-success-with-a-camera-after-a-first-career | Source: Digital Camera World
Sun 09:13:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In other words, whatever the people using ChatGPT felt was going on inside their brains, the scans showed there wasn’t much happening up there." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-living-in-a-golden-age-of-stupidity-technology | Source: The Guardian UK
Sun 09:14:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In response to my question about getting started with typewriters, the shopkeeper gave me some advice" ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/10/18/typewriters-and-labyrinths | Source: James G
Sun 09:15:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The basic idea is to shift your body’s internal clock by timing your exposure to light, exercise, and melatonin around your body’s daily minimum temperature (your lowest temperature in a 24-hour cycle, usually 2-3 hours before you wake up)." ☛ https://chrisholdgraf.com/blog/2025/jet-lag/ | Source: Chris Holdgraf
Sun 09:15:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Many people attempt experiments with assorted nootropics, but I find they’re often difficult to attain value from." ☛ https://vale.rocks/posts/nootropics | Source: Declan Chidlow
Sun 09:15:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Earlier this week, a bombshell analysis by Consumer Reports found that popular meal replacement drinks — a long-time favorite of tech bros — contain more lead in a single serving than a healthy adult should eat in a day." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/tech-bros-huel-lead | Source: Futurism
Sun 09:15:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The psychological conditioning produced by 1990s devices such as Tamagotchi is relevant, and even uncanny, when facing the trends of the 2020s and potentially beyond." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/how-tamagotchis-trained-millennials-for-the-era-of-needy-media/ | Source: The Walrus
Sun 09:16:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Instagram on Friday unveiled safety features for teenagers who use its artificial intelligence chatbots amid growing concerns over how the chatbots are affecting young people’s mental health." ☛ https://www.ekathimerini.com/nytimes/1284235/instagram-unveils-teen-safety-features-for-ai-chatbots/ | Source: Greece
Sun 09:16:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The notification about the hack came in a phone call from Kevin Mandia, the founder of the cybersecurity firm Mandiant, to SolarWinds’ then CEO Kevin Thompson." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/19/global-cyber-attack-russian-hack-solarwinds-stress-health | Source: The Guardian UK
Sun 09:16:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The tech giant says the vulnerability can be exploited to leak sensitive information such as user credentials, tamper with file contents, or cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition by forcing a crash within the server." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/highest-ever-severity-score-assigned-by-microsoft-to-asp-net-core-vulnerability/ | Source: Security Week
Sun 09:17:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Even though Apple's web hosting services are long gone, you can still use iWeb and save your finished site to a local folder or FTP server." ☛ https://www.spacebar.news/making-iweb-website-2025/ |
Sun 09:17:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "OpenAI has been flat broke its whole existence. In late 2025, it’s even more flat broke than that. Sam’s been frantically lining up about a trillion dollars’ worth of deals. Well, deals to make a deal." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/17/chatgpt-sales-are-flat-so-altman-offers-openai-adult-chat/ | Source: Pivot to AI
Sun 09:17:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "After crunching the numbers to exclude armies of data-scraping AI bots, the Wikimedia Foundation says that between March and August of this year, the number of Wikipedia page views coming from real humans declined by 8% year-on-year." ☛ https://www.pcmag.com/news/wikipedia-ai-generated-summaries-are-hurting-our-traffic | Source: PC Mag
Sun 09:18:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In response, major art museums are wrestling with what, within the kaleidoscope, counts as art, and are trying to teach the public to see beyond spectacle. In so doing, they are creating a canon that artists, collectors and audiences will treat as a guide to what matters and why." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/arts/design/artificial-intelligence-art-museums.html | Source: New York Times
Sun 09:18:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As local news outlet WalesOnline reports, the swimmers attempted to wade back from Sully Island, a rocky outcropping thousands of feet offshore, shortly before the tide came back in." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/drown-chatgpt-tide | Source: Futurism
Sun 09:18:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I deactivated both of my Meta social media accounts today — Instagram and Facebook." ☛ https://aj.bourg.family/2025-10-18-deactivating/ | Source: AJ Bourg
Sun 09:18:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Once again, I am mystified by Apple’s decision to drop its suit against NSO Group." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/nso-group-whatsapp-ban/ | Source: Nick Heer
Sun 09:19:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The best results, however, typically involve taking steps to help repair relationships and address underlying causes for the harmful behaviour." ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/ai-bullying-fears-raised-as-10-million-tipped-into-new-school-plan/mjli4ehx3 | Source: SBS
Sun 09:19:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Australia has a new plan to keep kids safe online. On the surface, it sounds simple, maybe even sensible. The government is banning anyone under sixteen from having a social media account." ☛ https://hey.paris/posts/socialmediaban/ | Source: Paris Buttfield-Addison
Sun 09:19:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is “exploring another Mac change” in addition to bringing multitouch to the display." ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/2945142/sorry-mac-users-it-looks-like-face-id-is-still-years-away.html | Source: Macworld
Sun 09:19:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The partnership comes just days after a letter revealed that government agencies, including parts of ICE, had access to Flock’s network of cameras." ☛ https://www.pcmag.com/news/ring-wants-you-to-share-your-camera-footage-with-police-again | Source: PC Mag
Sun 09:20:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "most invasive feature." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2945470/ring-lets-police-ask-for-security-videos-heres-how-to-opt-out.html | Source: PC World
Sun 09:20:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There would be no real privacy left – even doctors and patients communicate this way." ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2717233/eu-shelves-child-protection-proposal-over-fears-of-mass-surveillance | Source: LRT
Sun 10:05:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "US is sliding into authoritarianism" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/18/no-kings-protests-events-states | Source: The Guardian UK
Sun 10:08:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Her main concern, shared by other local opponents, is the amount of municipal drinking water the 200,000-square foot data centre would need for its cooling system." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data-centre-canada-water-use-9.6939684 | Source: CBC
Sun 10:08:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For us humans, things will become grave even earlier." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2778408/nasa-supercomputers-calculated-when-life-will-end-on-earth-heres-our-deadline.html | Source: PC World
Sun 10:09:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The new EU legislation targets power units of all types, referring to them as External Power Supplies (EPS)." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/power-bricks-and-wall-warts-must-be-usb-c-by-2028-new-eu-legislation-also-adds-power-rating-labels-for-power-units-and-cables | Source: Tom's Hardware
Sun 10:09:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Bitcoin shed more than $10,000 in a matter of minutes" ☛ https://www.citationneeded.news/anatomy-of-a-crypto-meltdown/ | Source: Molly White
Sun 10:10:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Ruby Central, the non-profit that recently seized some Ruby open source tools from maintainers" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/18/ruby_central_taps_ruby_core/ | Source: The Register UK
Sun 10:10:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Welcome to my first blog in my Rust Rabbit Holes series!" ☛ https://beej.us/blog/data/rust-trait-impl/ | Source: Beej
Sun 10:12:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Media freedom in Turkey continues to suffer as the politicized judiciary extends arbitrary detentions and judicial control measures" ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/prolonged-detentions-and-judicial-control-tighten-pressure-on-journalists-312628 | Source: BIA Net
Sun 10:12:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Few parliamentary groups support using public funds to prop up STT, the Finnish News Agency, according to a survey by Uutissuomalainen." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20189113?origin=rss | Source: YLE
Sun 10:15:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ If there is a connection between the McGovern (GNOME, Debian) and Ruby Central affair and the current Ruby Central affair (using Microsoft GitHub to take control, probably in the name of control over political speech), it would help greatly. Their official messages mince so many words to make it look like nobody pulls strings.
Sun 10:16:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable | Source: Pro Publica
Sun 10:16:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Music has been an integral part of protests movements across generations, the present one being no exception." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/no-kings-playlist-anti-authoritarian-songs-protests-1235449753/ | Source: Rolling Stone
Sun 10:18:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/apple-strikes-five-year-deal-for-formula-1-rights/ | Source: Six Colors
Sun 10:18:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Apple is paying about $140 million per year for F1 rights, sources told CNBC." ☛ https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/apple-f1-media-deal-streaming.html | Source: CNBC
Sun 10:19:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Shortly after this announcement was made, I got an email from F1 TV, informing me of basically the same information" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/apple-just-closed-their-f1-deal-and-i-think-its-good-news-for-me/ | Source: Matt Birchler
Sun 10:19:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Citing the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, the band - forced to use Slipknot1.com for nearly 25 years - seeks to retake URL bearing their name" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/slipknot-lawsuit-slipknot-com-domain-bootleg-merch-1235449965/ | Source: Rolling Stone
Sun 10:20:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Artificial intelligence (AI) major OpenAI said users will not be able to use the likeness of Martin Luther King Jr when generating videos with its model, Sora." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/openai-pauses-video-generations-of-martin-luther-king-jr-after-disrespectful-depictions/articleshow/124621646.cms | Source: India Times
Sun 10:21:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Rampant piracy will face a two-pronged strategy, including enhanced enforcement measures targeting areas where piracy causes the most damage." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/direct-sales-direct-anti-piracy-action-underpin-japans-plan-for-explosive-growth-251017/ | Source: Torrent Freak
Sun 10:21:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Rightsholders can breathe a sigh of relief after a California federal court concluded that Cloudflare can be compelled to comply with DMCA subpoenas." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/manga-pirate-site-operator-fails-to-dodge-dmca-subpoena-over-cloudflare-cache/ | Source: Torrent Freak
Sun 10:21:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "WME has notified OpenAI it does not have permission to use any of WME’s clients. Disney has notified OpenAI that it could just sue under copyright if OpenAI does not desist." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/18/how-openai-dodged-hollywood-on-sora-2/ | Source: Pivot to AI
Sun 10:21:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "According to Fitch, AI tools are enabling users to create and distribute music at unprecedented speeds, flooding digital service providers (DSPs) platforms and intensifying competition for listener-based revenues." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/ai-music-boom-may-hit-artist-royalties-warns-fitch-ratings/articleshow/124621399.cms | Source: India Times
Sun 10:23:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Why Signal's Post-Quantum Makeover is an Amazing Engineering Achievement" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/16/1538252
Sun 10:23:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "FSF Librephone" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/16/1534249
Sun 10:25:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ “One out of every three farms shutting down in the state of Arkansas is going to affect that budget that’s sitting there in front of you,” she told Finance and Administration Secretary Jim Hudson. “And if we don’t start looking and forecasting out for that just in case the tsunami is coming, then we are failing the people of Arkansas.”
Sun 10:25:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Arkansas lawmakers urge feds to help farmers stay afloat in struggling industry | Arkansas Advocate" https://arkansasadvocate.com/2025/10/17/arkansas-lawmakers-urge-feds-to-help-farmers-stay-afloat-in-struggling-industry/
Sun 10:26:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ One of Norway's greatest writers has died - aged 70 | "En af Norges største forfattere er død - 70 år | Nyheder | DR" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/en-af-norges-stoerste-forfattere-er-doed-70-aar
Sun 10:33:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Proton Experimental brings fixes for Assassin's Creed Shadows, Age of Empires: Definitive Edition and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/proton-experimental-for-oct-17-brings-fixes-for-assassins-creed-shadows-age-of-empires-definitive-edition/
Sun 10:36:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cambodia and South Korea form joint task force to combat online scamming ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodia-south-korea-form-joint-task-force-to-combat-online-scamming
Sun 10:42:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Creating the new zpools ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2025/10/17/creating-the-new-zpools/
Sun 10:42:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GIMP Officially Launches Its New Snap Package for GNU/Linux Users ☞ https://linuxiac.com/gimp-officially-launches-its-new-snap-package-for-linux-users/
Sun 10:43:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ PeaZip 10.7 File Archiver Adds Image Thumbnails on GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxiac.com/peazip-10-7-file-archiver-adds-image-thumbnails-on-linux/
Sun 10:44:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Inequality and homicide, within-country and between country by @ellis2013nz ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/inequality-and-homicide-within-country-and-between-country-by-ellis2013nz/
Sun 10:45:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Forgejo 13.0 Released with Content Moderation and Global 2FA Enforcement ☞ https://linuxiac.com/forgejo-13-0-released-with-content-moderation-and-global-2fa-enforcement/
Sun 10:46:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I found a Rubik’s Cube ☞ https://rubenerd.com/i-found-a-rubiks-cube/
Sun 10:48:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Two People Almost Drown After Asking Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot When Low Tide Was ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/drown-chatgpt-tide
Sun 10:48:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Does Hey Hi (AI) Count as Art? Ask the Curators ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/arts/design/artificial-intelligence-art-museums.html
Sun 11:05:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ US states sue Convicted Felon administration for termination of $7B solar energy grant ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/24-us-states-sue-trump-administration-for-termination-of-solar-energy-grant-worth-7b/
Sun 11:06:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cox v. Sony Music: Supreme Court Schedules Legal Arguments for December ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/17/cox-v-sony-schedule-december-2026/
Sun 11:16:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Broken Phone To Cinema Camera With A Lens Upgrade ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/18/broken-phone-to-cinema-camera-with-a-lens-upgrade/ | Source: Hackaday
Sun 11:17:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I Tested Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta: A Few Hits and Misses But Mostly on Right Track ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/cosmic-beta/
Sun 11:18:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ In China, climate litigation starts with the state, shutting out NGOs, activists ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/19/in-china-climate-litigation-starts-with-the-state-shutting-out-ngos-activists/
Sun 11:19:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Jensen says Nvidia’s China Hey Hi (AI) GPU market share has plummeted from 95% to zero — the Chinese market previously amounted to 20% to 25% of the chipmaker's data center revenue ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/jensen-huang-says-nvidia-china-market-share-has-fallen-to-zero
Sun 11:20:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Direct-save to working-partition fixed ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202510/direct-save-to-working-partition-fixed.html
Sun 11:21:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Fix for fscrypt folder on rw layer in overlayfs ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202510/fix-for-fscrypt-folder-on-rw-layer-in-overlayfs.html
Sun 11:22:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dracut in Ubuntu 25.10: What it is and Why it Matters (or Doesn’t) ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/what-is-dracut-ubuntu
Sun 11:22:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Of Note: UbuntuPIT Aware of Critics of Slop, Adds Disclosure of Use of LLMs ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/Of_Note_UbuntuPIT_Aware_of_Critics_of_Slop_Adds_Disclosure_of_U.shtml
Sun 11:23:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ unifont @ Savannah: Unifont 17.0.02 Released ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10820
Sun 11:25:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Sound Removals ☞ https://blog.jak-linux.org/2025/10/18/sound-removals/
Sun 11:28:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): digiKam 8.8 Adds Support to Automatically Use Monitor Color Profiles on Wayland ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/digiKam_8_8_Adds_Support_to_Automatically_Use_Monitor_Color_Pro.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/digiKam_8_8_Adds_Support_to_Automatically_Use_Monitor_Color_Pro.gmi ∎
Sun 11:29:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ PeaZip 10.7 Open-Source Archive Manager Introduces an Image Viewer ☞ https://9to5linux.com/peazip-10-7-open-source-archive-manager-introduces-an-image-viewer
Sun 11:29:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LLM slop/plagiarism ☞ https://ubuntupit.com/peazip-10-7-0-launches-with-new-file-manager-and-image-viewer/
Sun 11:30:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Laptop GNU/Linux Considerations ☞ https://euroquis.nl/kde/2025/10/18/framework.html
Sun 11:30:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Wine-Staging 10.17 is out
Sun 11:31:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Found a reason why overlayfs is flakey ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202510/found-a-reason-why-overlayfs-is-flakey.html
Sun 11:32:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ North Korean state-sponsored hackers slip unremovable malware inside blockchains to steal cryptocurrency — EtherHiding embeds malicious JavaScript payloads in smart contracts on public blockchains ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/north-korea-hiding-malware-inside-blockchain-smart-contracts
Sun 11:33:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This Week in Plasma: Plasma 6.5 is nigh and KDE is 29 years old; help us celebrate! ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/10/18/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.5-is-nigh-and-kde-is-29-years-old-help-us-celebrate/
Sun 11:34:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Top selfhosted Docker Apps on Unraid Server Homelab ☞ https://www.blackmoreops.com/top-selfhosted-docker-apps-unraid-server/
Sun 11:35:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ RP2350 Tiny and Tiny XL boards clone Solder Party’s RP2350 stamp layouts at nearly half the price ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/19/rp2350-tiny-and-tiny-xl-boards-clone-solder-party-rp2350-stamp-modules/
Sun 11:36:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ TGS 2025: A Conversation with Alibaba Cloud ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/tgs2025-a-talk-with-alibaba-cloud/index.html
Sun 11:36:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Ball X Pit - 2025-10-18 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2025-10-18-edition/index.html
Sun 11:41:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ MIT Grads Allegedly Googled “Money Laundering” Before Pulling Off $25 Million Crypto Heist ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/mit-grads-crypto-heist
Sun 11:42:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ No Kings! Power belongs to the people ☞ https://blog.slackware.nl/no-kings-power-belongs-to-the-people/
Sun 11:44:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Richard Stallman Near the European Patent Office (EPO) in 3 Days From Now ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/Richard_Stallman_Near_the_European_Patent_Office_EPO_in_3_Days_.shtml
Sun 11:45:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNOME 49: Best New Features ☞ https://www.debugpoint.com/gnome-49-features/
Sun 11:46:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Skrooge 25.10.0 released ☞ https://skrooge.org/news/2025-10-18-skrooge_25.10.0_released/
Sun 11:46:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dorothy Kabarozi: Deploying a Simple HTML Project on Linode Using Nginx ☞ https://dorothykabarozi.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/deploying-a-simple-html-project-on-linode-using-nginx/
Sun 11:47:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install PlayOnLinux on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-playonlinux-debian-13/
Sun 11:48:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install PeaZip on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-peazip-fedora-42/
Sun 11:48:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Lollypop Music Player on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-lollypop-music-player-linux-mint-22/
Sun 11:48:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Wireshark on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-wireshark-fedora-42/
Sun 11:49:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KDE Gardening 2025 ☞ https://cullmann.dev/posts/kde-gardening-2025/
Sun 11:51:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "IP" is a misleading term. Copyrights are limited to one type of thing. ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/10/laws-conference-2025.html
Sun 11:57:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Air China flight safely diverted to Shanghai after battery fire in cabin ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/air-china-flight-safely-diverted-to-shanghai-after-battery-fire-in-cabin
Sun 11:58:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There are some times when a picture, or better yet a video, really is worth a thousand words, and [heinz]’s dual-disk polar 3D printer is one of those projects." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/18/a-toolchanging-inverse-scara-3d-printer/ | Source: Hackaday
Sun 11:59:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Self-Charging LED Flasher" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/18/2025-component-abuse-challenge-a-self-charging-led-flasher-by-burkhard-kainka/ | Source: Hackaday
Sun 12:00:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "From 1945 to 1955, a British aeronautical company called Napier & Son produced not just one but two versions of an intricate hybrid piston engine, which they named the Napier Nomad." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/18/was-the-napier-nomad-the-most-complex-aero-engine-ever-made/ | Source: Hackaday
Sun 12:01:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In the past week, a few forum and Reddit threads have popped up, with people stating that JLCPCB has emailed them with a notice, saying their accounts are set up for terminations after an assessment by JLCPCB’s “Risk Control Team”." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/19/jlcpcb-locking-accounts-mentions-risky-ip-addresses-activities/ | Source: Hackaday
Sun 12:01:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Afghan journalist killed in border clashes raises alarms over press freedom in conflict zones ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/afghan-journalist-killed-in-border-clashes-raising-alarms-over-press-freedom-in-conflict-zones/
Sun 12:02:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Raspberry Pi Pico is a very capable board, but it’s still a surprise to see bit-banged 100 MBit/s Fast Ethernet implemented on one." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/18/bit-banged-100-mbit-s-ethernet-transmission-on-raspberry-pi-pico/ | Source: Hackaday
Sun 12:03:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pixel perfection ☞ https://notmart.org/blog/2025/10/pixel-perfection/
Sun 12:05:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ freebsd
Sun 12:05:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ freebsd
Sun 12:05:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FreeBSD 15.0-BETA2 is released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/freebsd
Sun 12:08:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Upgrade to Fedora 42 from Fedora 41 Workstation (GUI and CLI) ☞ https://www.debugpoint.com/upgrade-fedora-42-from-fedora-41/
Sun 12:08:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Kevin Fenzi: infra weekly recap: mid October 2025 ☞ https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2025/10/18/infra-weekly-recap-mid-october-2025/
Sun 12:12:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ End of Vista 10 Also Good News for the BSDs ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/End_of_Vista_10_Also_Good_News_for_the_BSDs.shtml
Sun 12:12:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Credit Where It's Due: LinuxConfig.org Quit Doing LLM Slop, Back to Original and Real Articles ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/Credit_Where_It_s_Due_LinuxConfig_org_Quit_Doing_LLM_Slop_Back_.shtml
Sun 12:13:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 10 Days Ago Richard Stallman Gave a Long Interview in French (linuxfr.org) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/10_Days_Ago_Richard_Stallman_Gave_a_Long_Interview_in_French_li.shtml
Sun 12:13:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Defeating LLM Abuse (State-of-the-Art Plagiarism) in the Area of GNU/Linux and GNU, Free Software, BSD, Security and So On (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/Defeating_LLM_Abuse_State_of_the_Art_Plagiarism_in_the_Area_of_.shtml
Sun 12:14:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows 10 refugees flock to GNU/Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever" ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-refugees-flock-to-linux-in-what-devs-call-their-biggest-launch-ever/
Sun 12:16:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GIMP devs take official control of Snap package from Snapcrafters ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/gimp-devs-take-official-control-of-snap-package-from-snapcrafters/
Sun 12:18:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KDE team puts finishing touches on Plasma 6.5 as stable release date approaches ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/kde-team-puts-finishing-touches-on-plasma-65-as-stable-release-date-approaches/
Sun 12:20:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ But the CORE issues remain UNSOLVED https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-rc2-Rust http://techrights.org/o/2022/09/21/going-rusty-faster/
Sun 12:21:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Happy 29th birthday to KDE! ☞ https://pointieststick.com/2025/10/16/happy-29th-birthday-to-kde/
Sun 12:21:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Science, Not Fast Food/Junk Food (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/Science_Not_Fast_Food_Junk_Food.shtml
Sun 12:22:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ SDesk 2025.10.17 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/sdesk
Sun 12:22:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending October 17 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/10/foss-forces-top-five-articles-for-the-week-ending-october-17/
Sun 12:23:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ From Scholar to Booster of Slop (and Even Slop in His Own Blog) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/From_Scholar_to_Booster_of_Slop_and_Even_Slop_in_His_Own_Blog.shtml
Sun 12:26:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ It’s Still Ludicrously Easy to Generate Copyrighted Characters on Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-copyrighted-characters
Sun 12:27:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ A Manufacturer’s Guide to Right to Repair Compliance ☞ https://www.repair.org/blog/2025/10/18/a-manufacturers-guide-to-right-to-repair-compliance
Sun 12:27:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ D3po 1.0.0 is here! ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/d3po-1-0-0-is-here/
Sun 12:28:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Why I left Budgie ☞ https://serebit.dev/posts/why-i-left-budgie/
Sun 12:33:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ HiGlass – tool for exploring and compare genomic contact matrices and tracks ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/higlass-exploring-compare-genomic-contact-matrices-tracks/
Sun 12:36:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Barry Kauler on Distro Development ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Barry_Kauler_on_Distro_Development.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Barry_Kauler_on_Distro_Development.gmi ∎
Sun 12:38:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Some people are so poor that all they have is Facebook likes
Sun 12:38:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Even if you have a million Facebook "likes", you are still poor
Sun 12:38:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Sun 12:38:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Some people are so unpopular and lonely that all they have is Facebook 'friends'
Sun 12:39:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ <ul>A facebook "star" is only a star in Zuckerbergdom. Lucifer is only a superstar in hell.
Sun 12:39:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Life is too short for 'Facebook life'
Sun 12:40:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ And people with a real life as too busy to bother with social control media (looking to compensate for a failure IRL)
Sun 12:43:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Desktop/Laptop: Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta (System76), GNU/Linux Considerations, and "Windows 10 Refugees Flock to GNU/Linux" ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Desktop_Laptop_Pop_OS_24_04_LTS_Beta_System76_GNU_Linux_Conside.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Desktop_Laptop_Pop_OS_24_04_LTS_Beta_System76_GNU_Linux_Conside.gmi ∎
Sun 12:43:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KDE: Skrooge, KDE Gardening, and Pixel Perfection (Qml) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/KDE_Skrooge_KDE_Gardening_and_Pixel_Perfection_Qml.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/KDE_Skrooge_KDE_Gardening_and_Pixel_Perfection_Qml.gmi ∎
Sun 12:45:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Games: Pips, Proton Experimental, Steam, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Games_Pips_Proton_Experimental_Steam_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Games_Pips_Proton_Experimental_Steam_and_More.gmi ∎
Sun 12:48:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): BSD and Linux Kernel: ZFS, ZPool, and fsync() ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/BSD_and_Linux_Kernel_ZFS_ZPool_and_fsync.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/BSD_and_Linux_Kernel_ZFS_ZPool_and_fsync.gmi ∎
Sun 12:48:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sun 12:50:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: RP2350, Raspberry Pi Pico, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Open_Hardware_Modding_RP2350_Raspberry_Pi_Pico_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Open_Hardware_Modding_RP2350_Raspberry_Pi_Pico_and_More.gmi ∎
Sun 12:53:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sun 12:55:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sun 12:57:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 19/10/2025: Cambodia Scam Centres, Slop Hurting Wikipedia Traffic ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Links_19_10_2025_Cambodia_Scam_Centres_Slop_Hurting_Wikipedia_T.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Links_19_10_2025_Cambodia_Scam_Centres_Slop_Hurting_Wikipedia_T.gmi ∎
Sun 13:16:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Openwashing https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2025/10/17/dreamforce-together-ai-open-source.html
Sun 13:16:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): OK153-S: New single-board computer with Linux features both ARM and RISC-V processors ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/OK153_S_New_single_board_computer_with_Linux_features_both_ARM_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/OK153_S_New_single_board_computer_with_Linux_features_both_ARM_.gmi ∎
Sun 13:18:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "it's no secret nerds smell horrible. if you've ever been to a convention of any kind, be it anime, gaming, cybersec, or software industry, you know these dudes can reek." gopher://baud.baby:70/0/phlog/fs20251019.txt
Sun 13:20:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🔤SpellBinding — FGHLURO Wordo: JULEP gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-10-19.gmi
Sun 13:36:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Best Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Sun 13:47:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU Web Site Down Due to Heavy Demand or More DDoS by LLM Bots ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/GNU_Web_Site_Down_Due_to_Heavy_Demand_or_More_DDoS_by_LLM_Bots.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/GNU_Web_Site_Down_Due_to_Heavy_Demand_or_More_DDoS_by_LLM_Bots.gmi ∎
Sun 13:51:58 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://apina.biz/211283.jpeg?mode=sfw
Sun 13:52:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): NebiOS is an Ubuntu-based Distro With a Brand New DE Written for Wayland from Ground Up ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/NebiOS_is_an_Ubuntu_based_Distro_With_a_Brand_New_DE_Written_fo.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/NebiOS_is_an_Ubuntu_based_Distro_With_a_Brand_New_DE_Written_fo.gmi ∎
Sun 13:57:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Slopwatch: The Serial Slopper, LinuxSecurity, and Google News ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Slopwatch_The_Serial_Slopper_LinuxSecurity_and_Google_News.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Slopwatch_The_Serial_Slopper_LinuxSecurity_and_Google_News.gmi ∎
Sun 14:02:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ lay
Sun 14:03:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "After IBM, Microsoft, and Micron, now Dell to lay off an undisclosed number of staff in China"
Sun 14:22:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A typical Tom may keep going on and on about how 98.7% of the project management tasks can be done by AI. Although, he's not using AI like that himself. In fact, he's not really a project manager. To be honest, he's never been involved in any real project. By the way, he doesn't know much about AI either, which makes it really cute." gemini://nader.pm/meet-ai-fanboys-tom-dick-and-harry/
Sun 14:23:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Steam Next Fest (October 2025) — Day 6 gemini://envs.net/~silv/gemlog/steam_next_fest_(october_2025)_—_day_6.gmi
Sun 14:23:32 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://crzysdrs.net/dv/victim/253-my-reign-as-the-most-effective-tribes-2-suicide-pilot-was-traumatically-cut-short-when-i-lived-for-over-five-consecutive-minutes/
Sun 14:27:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 19/10/2025: Scentjacking 101, Slop Hype Boosters, and Steam Next Fest ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Gemini_Links_19_10_2025_Scentjacking_101_Slop_Hype_Boosters_and.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Gemini_Links_19_10_2025_Scentjacking_101_Slop_Hype_Boosters_and.gmi ∎
Sun 14:31:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ .NET crap in Microsoft's proprietary jail uses the term "Stallman" for its name https://github.com/cosmorishav9/wpstallman
Sun 14:35:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Even more Blizzard workers have voted to unionise, this time around 100 devs who work on Hearthstone https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/even-more-blizzard-workers-have-voted-to-unionise-this-time-around-100-devs-who-work-on-hearthstone
Sun 15:03:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Alacritty 0.16 Terminal Emulator Released with Unicode 17 Support ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Alacritty_0_16_Terminal_Emulator_Released_with_Unicode_17_Suppo.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Alacritty_0_16_Terminal_Emulator_Released_with_Unicode_17_Suppo.gmi ∎
Sun 15:04:13 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ from the Microsoft University of Michigan
Sun 15:04:14 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ https://rishavmitra.com/
Sun 15:12:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Node.js 25 Released with V8 14.1, New Permissions ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Node_js_25_Released_with_V8_14_1_New_Permissions.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Node_js_25_Released_with_V8_14_1_New_Permissions.gmi ∎
Sun 15:18:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/Android_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Sun 15:29:42 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) https://files.catbox.moe/yns5o4.jpg
Sun 18:49:46 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I wonder what happened to cat important.
Sun 18:55:48 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ Mom left today but left a pot roast in the slow cooker.
Sun 18:57:21 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ My pain is nearly gone. I'm down to a 100 mg celebrex and potentially a couple acetaminophen 500s a day.
Sun 18:58:07 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I had enough narcotics exactly but ran out of them right when no longer needed.
Sun 18:58:42 │ 〖Isambard_Prince〗 │ I had 5 vicodins left from something else in reserve just in case but did not need them.
Sun 19:47:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Psychiatrist confession: Germanwings crash & Debian toxic culture recognized before suicides ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Psychiatrist_confession_Germanwings_crash_Debian_toxic_culture_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Psychiatrist_confession_Germanwings_crash_Debian_toxic_culture_.gmi ∎
Sun 19:53:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hearthstone and Warcraft Rumble devs join the over 1900 Blizzard workers to unionize: 'We deserve to be heard and respected' https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/hearthstone-and-warcraft-rumble-devs-join-the-over-1900-blizzard-workers-to-unionize-we-deserve-to-be-heard-and-respected/
Sun 19:56:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k77r9dqd\
Sun 19:56:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Sun 19:56:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Office workers should never be paid more than essential frontline workers who make the world run smoothly. Ever. Watching the uprising coming.
Sun 19:56:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] These companies need to track ASAP exactly what employees do all day. Every hour. Because A LOT of things are finished in 15 mins and then they play minesweeper or read books or games or leave and go wherever on company $$$$. These jobs are not worth more than 10k and that's high.
Sun 19:56:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Black tie & ball gown meetings to say leverage and circle-back? Big houses and BMW's?
Sun 19:56:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Meanwhile go to the nearest hospital or firehouse.
Sun 19:56:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] This entire website is LOL
Sun 19:56:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Sun 19:56:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Isambard_Prince: congrats
Sun 19:57:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] psydroid2: LIV 3 losses in a row
Sun 19:58:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] a month ago, who would have guessed?
Sun 19:58:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] after 18 games in a row undefeated
Sun 20:02:28 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ the first comment sums it up well.... https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/16/1547215
Sun 20:04:29 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ yeah that'll stop them... https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/spyware-maker-nso-group-blocked-from-whatsapp/
Sun 20:15:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] EV typically contain more computers
Sun 20:15:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] inside the cars
Sun 20:15:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they do not HAVE to
Sun 20:15:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but they DO
Sun 20:15:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that makes them more expensive to repair
Sun 20:16:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so in the lifetime of the car it'll be "high maintenance"\
Sun 20:16:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] this "EV yuppie" thing was OK 10 years ago
Sun 20:16:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] now the economy is nowhere near what it was before the pandemic
Sun 20:18:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Symptoms of Upcoming Microsoft Layoffs in XBox ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Symptoms_of_Upcoming_Microsoft_Layoffs_in_XBox.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Symptoms_of_Upcoming_Microsoft_Layoffs_in_XBox.gmi ∎
Sun 21:06:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Richard Stallman Back at the "Rudolf-Diesel" Hörsal "MW 2001" in About 40 Hours ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Richard_Stallman_Back_at_the_Rudolf_Diesel_Horsal_MW_2001_in_Ab.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Richard_Stallman_Back_at_the_Rudolf_Diesel_Horsal_MW_2001_in_Ab.gmi ∎
Sun 21:11:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lxo: if you have contacts on tap
Sun 21:11:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] can u confirm gnu.org is down due to malicious bots?
Sun 21:11:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and now genuine visitors?
Sun 21:11:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it has been like this for days
Sun 21:14:57 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ gnu.org seems to be up now...
Sun 21:15:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe i hit some firewall then
Sun 21:15:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] testing:
Sun 21:15:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html
Sun 21:15:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] there is some mechanism there
Sun 21:15:46 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ that just about popped open for me
Sun 21:15:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in the middle
Sun 21:16:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.gnu.org
Sun 21:16:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] with false positives
Sun 21:16:57 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ i'd say do a trace and see where it stops for you
Sun 21:17:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but let me tell you..
Sun 21:17:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's not just me
Sun 21:17:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and it's on and off
Sun 21:18:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] earlier i saw other sites struggling to connect to it
Sun 21:18:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and it also did return pages
Sun 21:18:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but VERY slowly
Sun 21:20:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] seems like they use ip blacklists
Sun 21:20:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not just throttling
Sun 21:20:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] based on an interview/coverage
Sun 21:20:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like clownflare-less clownflare
Sun 21:20:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and without JS
Sun 21:21:18 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ have you tried using tor?
Sun 21:21:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ages ago
Sun 21:21:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but it would miss the point
Sun 21:23:37 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ what point would that be?
Sun 21:23:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] tor to bypass blacklists
Sun 21:24:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] also, many clownflared sites block tor
Sun 21:24:45 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ well yes... but the point is to see if the site was up and not just blocked for you...
Sun 21:24:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – For Some, the GNU Web Site is Not Accessible This Week ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/For_Some_the_GNU_Web_Site_is_Not_Accessible_This_Week.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/For_Some_the_GNU_Web_Site_is_Not_Accessible_This_Week.gmi ∎
Sun 21:28:48 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ have you done a traceroute to see where the issue is?
Sun 21:36:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Fake Numbers, Fake Claims, Fake Economy, and Media Grifters That Prop Up Fraud ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Fake_Numbers_Fake_Claims_Fake_Economy_and_Media_Grifters_That_P.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Fake_Numbers_Fake_Claims_Fake_Economy_and_Media_Grifters_That_P.gmi ∎
Sun 21:37:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] admfubar: my server and desktop don't have it installed
Sun 21:37:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and i don't want to add it
Sun 21:37:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] just for a very rare usage
Sun 21:37:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] my guess is
Sun 21:38:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] their router has some rules
Sun 21:38:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like, block after 100 reqs from IP
Sun 21:38:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so you might get to fsf ip block
Sun 21:38:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or boston somewhere
Sun 21:38:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and then it stops
Sun 21:38:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they would not use a third party like clownflare
Sun 21:44:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ordination of Fr Billy Maurice Honzounnon, Sainte-Irénée, Lyon https://danielpocock.com/en/ordination-father-billy-maurice-honzounnon-sainte-irenee/
Sun 21:54:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Moving on from eBay, I've joined Red Hat, where I'm excited to work on the AI Catalyst Platform team." https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eitan-geiger_today-was-the-last-day-for-many-at-ebays-activity-7385757460814270464-o0vH/
Sun 21:59:25 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://engrish.com/2024/03/we-got-everything-you-need/
Sun 22:16:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IBM Red Hat Has Re-calibrated or Adjusted to Bubble Economics, False Promises, and Slop/Plagiarism ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/IBM_Red_Hat_Has_Re_calibrated_or_Adjusted_to_Bubble_Economics_F.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/IBM_Red_Hat_Has_Re_calibrated_or_Adjusted_to_Bubble_Economics_F.gmi ∎
Sun 22:48:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Slop Turns People Off (LLMs Lack Intelligence, They're Just Plagiarism Powerhouses That Fail to Deliver Any Real, Measurable Value) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Slop_Turns_People_Off_LLMs_Lack_Intelligence_They_re_Just_Plagi.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Slop_Turns_People_Off_LLMs_Lack_Intelligence_They_re_Just_Plagi.gmi ∎
Sun 22:51:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 10 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based Food and Drink Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-web-based-food-drink-software/
Sun 22:51:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ DOSBox Staging – DOS/x86 emulator with advanced features ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dosbox-staging-dos-x86-emulator-advanced-features/
Sun 22:51:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ssh3 – faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3 ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ssh3-faster-rich-secure-shell/
Sun 22:51:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ HTTPDirFS – HTTP Directory Filesystem ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/httpdirfs-http-directory-filesystem/
Sun 22:51:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Anagramarama – make words from a jumble of letters ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/anagramarama-make-words-jumble-letters/
Sun 23:11:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 19th, 2025 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_October_19th_2025.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_October_19th_2025.gmi ∎
Sun 23:25:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – 19 Years in Numbers: Techrights' Anniversary Countdown and Retrospective ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/19_Years_in_Numbers_Techrights_Anniversary_Countdown_and_Retros.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/19_Years_in_Numbers_Techrights_Anniversary_Countdown_and_Retros.gmi ∎
Sun 23:43:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – OpenSource or "Open Source" as a Brand is Dying, Let's Get Back to Talking About Software Freedom ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/OpenSource_or_Open_Source_as_a_Brand_is_Dying_Let_s_Get_Back_to.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/OpenSource_or_Open_Source_as_a_Brand_is_Dying_Let_s_Get_Back_to.gmi ∎
Mon 00:00:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Today (a Day Before Richard Stallman Talk at TUM) There's a Patent Propaganda Event at TUM ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Today_a_Day_Before_Richard_Stallman_Talk_at_TUM_There_s_a_Paten.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Today_a_Day_Before_Richard_Stallman_Talk_at_TUM_There_s_a_Paten.gmi ∎
Mon 00:12:33 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ > psydroid2: LIV 3 losses in a row
Mon 00:12:33 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ 4 with the CL game
Mon 00:16:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Intel i386 turns 40 years old — 275,000 transistors running at 16MHz changed personal computing forever https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/intel-386-at-40
Mon 00:16:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] psydroid2: ha! i did not pay attention
Mon 00:17:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the mighty amorim... too good for "reds"
Mon 00:18:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Asus ROG Xbox Ally X: YouTuber installs Bazzite Linux to recreate a SteamOS-like experience, but it may not be a good idea https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-ROG-Xbox-Ally-X-YouTuber-installs-Bazzite-Linux-to-recreate-a-SteamOS-like-experience-but-it-may-not-be-a-good-idea.1141852.0.html
Mon 00:20:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I discovered this one Linux feature and it makes Windows look embarrassing ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/I_discovered_this_one_Linux_feature_and_it_makes_Windows_look_e.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/I_discovered_this_one_Linux_feature_and_it_makes_Windows_look_e.gmi ∎
Mon 00:20:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Why I run a headless Linux VM just to track my smart devices’ bad behavior https://www.xda-developers.com/headless-linux-vm-track-smart-devices-bad-behavior/
Mon 00:21:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I Gave The Linux cd Command Superpowers, Here's How https://www.howtogeek.com/i-gave-the-linux-cd-command-superpowers/
Mon 00:21:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Exploring a new Ubuntu-based distro. By the way, it's been some time since we had a new distro based on Ubuntu." https://news.itsfoss.com/nebios/
Mon 00:48:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft's Killing of Vista 10 Seems to Have Resulted in More Articles About GNU/Linux (But Also FUD) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Microsoft_s_Killing_of_Vista_10_Seems_to_Have_Resulted_in_More_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Microsoft_s_Killing_of_Vista_10_Seems_to_Have_Resulted_in_More_.gmi ∎
Mon 00:51:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ NECK TEST gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2025-10-20Neck_Test.txt
Mon 00:52:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I have almost nothing. After I finished my master's degree, I moved a lot. Across the country twice, and then again a month after I arrived in the city. I had very little money. I had to travel light." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/10-19.gmi
Mon 00:53:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1449.jpg
Mon 00:54:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1799.jpg
Mon 01:13:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Liberation From 'The Feed' ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Liberation_From_The_Feed.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Liberation_From_The_Feed.gmi ∎
Mon 01:31:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft Lunduke: Freedom of Speech Means Spreading What I Have to Say and Banning People I Disagree With ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Microsoft_Lunduke_Freedom_of_Speech_Means_Spreading_What_I_Have.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Microsoft_Lunduke_Freedom_of_Speech_Means_Spreading_What_I_Have.gmi ∎
Mon 01:46:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techpol + social irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-191025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-191025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-191025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-191025.txt
Mon 01:47:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techrights irc ■ Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-191025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-191025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-191025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-191025.txt
Mon 01:48:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 boycottnovell irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-191025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-191025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-191025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-191025.txt
Mon 01:49:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techbytes irc ■ Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-191025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-191025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-191025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-191025.txt
Mon 01:49:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-10-19.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-10-19.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
Mon 01:50:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-10-19.txt
Mon 01:55:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Campaign of FUD Against Framework Laptops and GNU/Linux (Using Microsoft's Attack on Linux, 'Secure Boot') ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Campaign_of_FUD_Against_Framework_Laptops_and_GNU_Linux_Using_M.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Campaign_of_FUD_Against_Framework_Laptops_and_GNU_Linux_Using_M.gmi ∎
Mon 01:58:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Sunday, October 19, 2025 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_October_19_2025.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_October_19_2025.gmi ∎
Mon 02:00:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Mon 02:03:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Mon 02:05:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Starting November 3, 2025, LinkedIn will use user data by default to train AI https://old.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/1oapk19/starting_november_3_2025_linkedin_will_use_user/
Mon 02:20:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft's LinkedIn is Losing Money, Traffic, and Hope; Now It Wants to Sell Its Users' Lifeblood (and Data) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Microsoft_s_LinkedIn_is_Losing_Money_Traffic_and_Hope_Now_It_Wa.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Microsoft_s_LinkedIn_is_Losing_Money_Traffic_and_Hope_Now_It_Wa.gmi ∎
Mon 02:34:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc2 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Kernel_prepatch_6_18_rc2.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Kernel_prepatch_6_18_rc2.gmi ∎
Mon 02:40:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Less Eating, More Feeding ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Less_Eating_More_Feeding.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Less_Eating_More_Feeding.gmi ∎
Mon 02:41:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] hi calvinballer
Mon 02:42:07 │ 〖calvinballer〗 │ hello
Mon 02:43:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] just thought i'd sayhi :)
Mon 02:57:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Counting Unhatched Eggs Is Not Counting Chickens ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Counting_Unhatched_Eggs_Is_Not_Counting_Chickens.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Counting_Unhatched_Eggs_Is_Not_Counting_Chickens.gmi ∎
Mon 03:00:22 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ now that is enshittifitation!!! https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/kohler-unveils-a-camera-for-your-toilet/
Mon 03:00:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Brett Wilson LLP Versus Women Victims of Violent Men ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Everything_here_will_persist_as_normal.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Everything_here_will_persist_as_normal.gmi ∎
Mon 03:02:12 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/17/broadband-monopolies-are-mad-because-california-wont-let-them-rip-off-apartment-dwellers/
Mon 03:04:24 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ someone is gonna get poked where the sun dont shine.... https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/17/pokemon-co-flails-responding-to-pocketpairs-examples-of-prior-art-in-patent-lawsuit/
Mon 03:09:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Garrett boasts about flying next week. Hopefully (for him) a one-way ticket because if he gets arrested, then the ticket "back" is a fare wasted.
Mon 03:10:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ And he does no favours to himself by posting in public things full with the word f--k. He only demonstrates he lacks reputation and good standing to begin with.
Mon 03:11:13 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-11s-october-update-just-broke-the-windows-recovery-environment-usb-keyboards-and-mice-unusable-in-windows-re-after-latest-bug-hits
Mon 03:11:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ And magically he claims to already know what judges will decide (even before they did).
Mon 03:13:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] wow, well done microsoft
Mon 03:13:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] YOU HAD ONLY ONE JOB
Mon 03:13:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and ONE OS to update
Mon 03:13:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Vista 11
Mon 03:14:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Like a moth to a flame, Windows has attracted yet another bug. In the latest October update, the recovery environment renders your USB keyboard and mouse unresponsive, making it impossible to interact with your PC. Microsoft has already taken note of the issue and plans to fix it in a future update."
Mon 03:14:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] how did it manage THAT?
Mon 03:14:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ??
Mon 03:26:29 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ prolly the old usb bug that they had issues with a few years back has resurfaced
Mon 03:26:37 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/openais-embarrassing-math/
Mon 03:45:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml
Mon 03:46:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/13/GPT_5_is_Another_Microsoft_Dead_Cat_Trying_to_Bounce.shtml
Mon 03:50:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – In Many Cases and in Many Different Ways, Technology Became Less Durable and Less Reliable Over Time ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/In_Many_Cases_and_in_Many_Different_Ways_Technology_Became_Less.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/In_Many_Cases_and_in_Many_Different_Ways_Technology_Became_Less.gmi ∎
Mon 03:55:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-10-20.gmi
Mon 04:12:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ France's computer security agency ANSSI (Agence Nationale de la Securite) inside Debian now. It's like French NSA/GCHQ. https://danielpocock.com/en/paris-love-nest-debian-from-lycee-lakanal-ens-cachan-crans-nepotism/ https://www.intelligenceonline.com/government-intelligence/2018/06/13/anssi-strengthens-international-cooperation,108313542-bre
Mon 04:33:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Half a Year After Brian Fagioli Got Kicked Out of BetaNews for Slop He's Still Doing LLM Slop and Slop Images Targeting 'Linux' (Plagiarising Original Works) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Half_a_Year_After_Brian_Fagioli_Got_Kicked_Out_of_BetaNews_for_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Half_a_Year_After_Brian_Fagioli_Got_Kicked_Out_of_BetaNews_for_.gmi ∎
Mon 04:45:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45637667
Mon 04:46:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "I actually agree with his conclusion. In my experience, rap is the only(?) genre of "music" that for the most part lacks a melodic structure. It (in my experience) is mostly rhythmic, which IMO is not very pleasant to listen to, because there isn't much to listen to. So while maybe I wouldn't refer to it as c...rap all the time, I think the phrase mostly expresses my feelings about the genre as a whole."
Mon 04:47:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Cell phones are tracking and surveillance devices. They all enable the phone system to record where the user goes, and many (perhaps all) can be remotely converted into listening devices." https://www.stallman.org/rms-lifestyle.html
Mon 04:48:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As for Indonesian, I eventually reached the point where I could speak it all the time when in Indonesia, but since 2010 I have not had time to keep up the practice."
Mon 04:49:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I hate being bored, and since I want to get a lot done, I don't like losing time. So I always carry a computer and a book. When I have a few minutes to wait and can sit down, I get work done. When I have to stand, or the wait isn't long enough to do anything useful on the computer, I read."
Mon 04:49:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When I wait for my baggage in an airport, I generally do one of these two things. I notice the people around me, waiting anxiously for their bags and getting nothing done. They would be happier if they did as I do."
Mon 04:53:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime! https://blog.jupyter.org/gnu-octave-meets-jupyterlite-compute-anywhere-anytime-8b033afbbcdc
Mon 04:55:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Install Party in 2 days https://www.bxlug.be/spip.php?page=calendrier-mini&date=2025-10-22
Mon 04:56:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "With software there are only two possibilities: either the users control the program or the program controls the users." --Richard Stallman
Mon 05:00:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=A6hoKAjRpTg
Mon 05:02:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Seems the installfests are a regular thing now https://www.bxlug.be/spip.php?page=calendrier
Mon 05:23:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The "Infinite Bread" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/The_Infinite_Bread.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/The_Infinite_Bread.gmi ∎
Mon 05:50:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Barry Kauler Explains That Puppy Linux and EasyOS Exclude Systemd to Keep Things Simple ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Barry_Kauler_Explains_That_Puppy_Linux_and_EasyOS_Exclude_Syste.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Barry_Kauler_Explains_That_Puppy_Linux_and_EasyOS_Exclude_Syste.gmi ∎
Mon 05:53:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] whatA___: https://news.tuxmachines.org/browse/latest.shtml
Mon 05:53:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you ask, we dlivered.
Mon 05:57:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Stable kernels: Linux 6.17.4, Linux 6.12.54, Linux 6.6.113, Linux 6.1.157, and Linux 5.15.195 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Stable_kernels_Linux_6_17_4_Linux_6_12_54_Linux_6_6_113_Linux_6.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Stable_kernels_Linux_6_17_4_Linux_6_12_54_Linux_6_6_113_Linux_6.gmi ∎
Mon 06:11:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Review: Kubuntu 25.10 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Review_Kubuntu_25_10.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Review_Kubuntu_25_10.gmi ∎
Mon 06:14:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Mon 06:15:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Is that too glib an answer? How about "yes, but not because of this"? I have a long list of reasons why I believe humanity is right on the cusp of "Irreversibly Screwed", and "Billionaire Apocalypse Bunkers" is (...checking...) #86 on that list. For context, "Alarmist Click-Bait News Media" is #17, and "Billionaires Exist" is #4 on my list." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/16/1551203#1421398
Mon 06:21:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Zorin OS 18 Downloads Skyrocket in the Last 48 Hours ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Zorin_OS_18_Downloads_Skyrocket_in_the_Last_48_Hours.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Zorin_OS_18_Downloads_Skyrocket_in_the_Last_48_Hours.gmi ∎
Mon 06:22:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Apple is the Company of Dictators and Worse ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Apple_is_the_Company_of_Dictators_and_Worse.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Apple_is_the_Company_of_Dictators_and_Worse.gmi ∎
Mon 06:25:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Sometimes, while working on complex code bases that are executed in UNIX systems, we need to have different processes communicate with each other." ☛ https://memorici.de/posts/make-or-break-stdio/ |
Mon 06:25:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I see that our SATA SSDs do expose some of this information
Mon 06:26:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Tired of your WiFi vanishing mid call, leaving you staring at a spinning wheel of movie? I've been there—furious, fumbling for my phone's hotspot like it's 2015." ☛ https://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20251018 | Source: Vincent Delft
Mon 06:26:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I see that our SATA SSDs do expose some of this information" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SSDWritePerfMetricsWish | Source: University of Toronto
Mon 06:26:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I used Linux exclusively for five months instead of Windows, and I was surprised by what I didn't miss ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/I_used_Linux_exclusively_for_five_months_instead_of_Windows_and.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/I_used_Linux_exclusively_for_five_months_instead_of_Windows_and.gmi ∎
Mon 06:27:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ">[...] Before we dive into those details, we begin with a look at Kubuntu 25.10." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20251020 | Source: Distro Watch
Mon 06:27:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The first public release of DOSBox Pure Unleashed, a new version of the DOS emulator by Psyraven, was made available on Saturday evening." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/dosbox-pure-unleashed-is-ready-for-windows-mac-and-linux-computers-after-five-years-in-development-enhanced-standalone-release-no-longer-restricted-to-being-a-retroarch-core | Source: Tom's Hardware
Mon 06:28:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Admittedly this is as much the fault of FreeBSD’s useful features than NetBSD’s utility." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/i-have-more-netbsd-than-freebsd-installs/ | Source: Ruben Schade
Mon 06:29:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): User Flags Possible Malware Incident on Xubuntu.org ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/User_Flags_Possible_Malware_Incident_on_Xubuntu_org.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/User_Flags_Possible_Malware_Incident_on_Xubuntu_org.gmi ∎
Mon 06:30:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Other time, you don’t want either to apply immediatly all the update, even if they are mostly innocuous (i.e. I’m looking at you shellcheck’s haskell dependencies)." ☛ https://etienne.pflieger.bzh/a-ecrit/filter-packages-to-upgrade-on-archlinux.html | Source: Étienne Pflieger
Mon 06:31:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Proxmox Virtual Environment is a Debian-based system that focuses on providing enterprise-grade LXC and KVM management capabilities" ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/os/linux/distributions/proxmox | Source: Rui Carmo
Mon 06:32:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Xubuntu-Safe-Download.zip" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/user-flags-possible-malware-incident-on-xubuntu-org/ | Source: Linuxiac
Mon 06:32:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I was pretty satisfied with my setup, in general. But zigbee nuances makes it not work in some cases. And I’ll explain why and a solution." ☛ https://vegard.blog.engen.priv.no/?p=562 | Source: Vegard
Mon 06:33:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One of the most noticeable changes in the new version is the addition of Unicode 17 support, expanding character coverage to include the latest symbols and scripts." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/alacritty-0-16-terminal-emulator-released-with-unicode-17-support/ | Source: Linuxiac
Mon 06:34:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "RSS feeds are one of my favorite features of the Internet of Yore. Simply put, they allow you to subscribe to sites you like, into an aggregator." ☛ https://blog.balthazar-rouberol.com/curating-and-filtering-rss-feeds | Source: Balthazar Rouberol
Mon 06:34:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I proposed my talk Debugging Python which was accepted in the Friday morning block." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/pycon-finland-2025-recap/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala
Mon 06:35:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Regular readers know that I maintain gssr and gssrdoc, two packages for R." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/gssrdoc-updates/ | Source: Rlang
Mon 06:35:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "We've seen attack after attack on information and media access over the past few years." ☛ https://www.spacebar.news/data-hoarding-more-important-than-ever/ | Source: Spacebar.News
Mon 06:36:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We intend to release the latest stable Ruby version (currently Ruby 3.4) every two months following the most recent release. Ruby 3.4.8 is scheduled for December and 3.4.9 for February." ☛ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/10/07/ruby-3-4-7-released/ | Source: Ruby
Mon 06:36:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "You may think this isn’t serious. I’m seeing indentation errors in blog articles, which weren’t there before. And I’ve made a couple of mistakes myself." ☛ https://alexn.org/blog/2023/11/08/in-scala-3-use-4-spaces-for-indentation/?pk_campaign=rss | Source: Alexandru Nedelcu
Mon 06:38:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Daily Builds Now Available for Download ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Ubuntu_26_04_LTS_Daily_Builds_Now_Available_for_Download.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Ubuntu_26_04_LTS_Daily_Builds_Now_Available_for_Download.gmi ∎
Mon 06:40:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One of the “25 lessons” I presented at LoopConf this year was “Software can be finished”." ☛ https://rosswintle.uk/2025/10/software-can-be-finished/ |
Mon 06:40:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In large code bases, we are often stuck with unpleasant designs that are harming our performance." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/19/speeding-up-c-functions-with-a-thread_local-cache/ | Source: Daniel Lemire
Mon 06:40:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The thesis of the book: despite its reputation, coupling is not something fundamentally bad that we need to remove but an attribute that we should manage strategically." ☛ https://olano.dev/blog/balancing-coupling/ | Source: Facundo Olano
Mon 06:41:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Find the number that is closest to zero and return its distance to zero." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/team-zero.html | Source: Arne Sommer
Mon 06:41:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Fedora 43 Workstation: Best New Features ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Fedora_43_Workstation_Best_New_Features.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Fedora_43_Workstation_Best_New_Features.gmi ∎
Mon 06:42:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "With data in Postgres, I would query Supabase's API during 11ty builds." ☛ https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/evolving-my-personal-music-scrobbler | Source: Cory Dransfeldt
Mon 06:42:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The funny thing is I've done a lot of other stuff that people know about, but I'm more proud of the fact that I pushed for 100Mb and it actually happened" ☛ https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-July/032268.html | Source: The Unix Heritage Society
Mon 06:42:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What really struck me wasn’t one of her photographs, but it was watching people watching her photographs through their phones." ☛ https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-10-19-layers-of-glass | Source: Eliseo Martelli
Mon 06:43:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I do have a tendency to be too nostalgic about the past, while being aware of the inevitable downsides." ☛ https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/10/19/weeknotes/ | Source: Phil Gyford
Mon 06:43:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Convenience is the be-all and end-all for consumer technology. If using a device isn’t completely intuitive and frictionless, the mass market will lose interest." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/why-smart-glasses-keep-failing-its-not-the-tech/272999/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)
Mon 06:45:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This mundane view explains why we aren’t seeing any technosignatures, or evidence of alien technology from afar." ☛ https://futurism.com/space/galaxy-aliens-fermi-nasa | Source: Futurism
Mon 06:45:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For now, my point is that while some people seem to imagine that concerns about the effect of technology on jobs and wages are a novel insight" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/technology-and-jobs | Source: Paul Krugman
Mon 06:45:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It’s the biggest battlefield innovation in a generation." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-10-19/drones-are-changing-the-face-of-war-and-attracting-multi-million-dollar-investments.html | Source: El País
Mon 06:46:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A spokesperson for the airline confirmed that its IT system was impacted by the recent hacking campaign allegedly launched by Russian cybercriminal group Clop." ☛ https://therecord.media/regional-airline-envoy-oracle | Source: The Record
Mon 06:46:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "My posts on this blog, are ultimately controlled by Ghost and what they choose the platform to do." ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/beware-the-hidden-middlemen/ | Source: Greg Morris
Mon 06:46:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "You can imagine how a sexualized chatbot that nearly always tells the user what they want to hear may lead to a whole host of problems" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/column/802022/ai-sexting-openai-chatbot-chatgpt | Source: The Verge
Mon 06:47:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Once again, these systems are not making judgments like we think they do. They are predicting the next token, and not much more." ☛ https://bentsai.org/posts/the-simulation-of-judgment-in-llms | Source: Ben Tsai
Mon 06:47:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As flagged by 404 Media, a user noticed while browsing the r/FamilyMedicine subreddit that the site’s “Reddit Answers” AI was proffering “approaches to pain management without opioids.” On its face, that’s a nice idea, since over prescription of opioid painkillers led to a severe and ongoing addiction crisis." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/reddit-ai-recommends-heroin | Source: Futurism
Mon 06:47:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A good chunk of people probably just don’t return to Twitter at all after following an external link." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/802480/x-is-changing-how-it-handles-links-to-try-and-keep-you-in-the-app | Source: The Verge
Mon 06:48:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "the ISP will still see that you've connected to a VPN (they can see the VPN server's IP address and the VPN protocol being used), and can still see how much data you're transferring." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/online-habits-could-be-weaponized-until-now/ | Source: Android Police
Mon 06:48:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "They went through our whole RV." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/snowbirds-u-s-registration-9.6943354 | Source: CBC
Mon 06:49:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Apple did not respond to a request for comment on my experience with Live Translation." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/apple-airpods-live-translation/684582/ | Source: The Atlantic
Mon 06:49:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Group theory is to mathematics what Perl scripting is to system administration: it doesn't get much respect but knowing it is an essential" ☛ https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2025-October/067919.html | Source: GnuPG
Mon 06:57:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Overpopulation ☛ https://anfenglishmobile.com/ecology/water-crisis-deepens-it-has-become-a-strategy-of-war-81793 | Source: ANF News
Mon 06:58:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "actively looking into" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/police-looking-into-whether-prince-andrew-enlisted-officer-to-dig-up-dirt-on-accuser-giuffre/ | Source: Court House News
Mon 06:59:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "That real world has become especially abusive to EVs." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/transportation/801780/gm-ev-battery-lab-lmr-range-cost | Source: The Verge
Mon 06:59:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "An autumn walk" ☛ https://kedara.eu/autumn-walk | Source: Ruben Verweij
Mon 07:00:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Elephants at the Oregon Zoo got to crush and eat giant pumpkins to the delight of a crowd." ☛ https://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2025/10/oregon-zoo-elephants-squish-sizable-squashes-for-a-delighted-audience.html | Source: The Oregonian
Mon 07:00:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This tradition goes back to 1999, when Hoffman’s Dairy Garden of Canby left a prize-winning 828-pound pumpkin as an offering of enrichment for the elephants." ☛ https://kpic.com/news/local/tula-tu-oregon-zoo-elephants-squish-a-squash |
Mon 07:00:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "An Oregon Zoo tradition since 1999, the world's largest animals enjoyed demolishing extra-large pumpkins for everyone's amusement." ☛ https://katu.com/news/local/pachyderms-play-with-pumpkins-at-the-oregon-zoos-squishing-of-the-squash-event-today-elephants-squish-squash |
Mon 07:01:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Though his building permits refer to basements, according to the New York Times, some of his neighbours call it a bunker. Or a billionaire's bat cave." ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly17834524o | Source: BBC
Mon 07:01:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Faking magnitude ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/technology/openai-broadcom-chips-deal.html | Source: New York Times http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml
Mon 07:02:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Neither of us is wrong. And that’s precisely the problem—and the possibility." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/on-moral-witness-and-coalition-politics | Source: Mike Brock
Mon 07:02:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Leaders of Native tribes are calling for the city to take less water and are pushing for negotiations on water rights." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-18/owens-valley-tribes-water | Source: Los Angeles Times
Mon 07:02:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For well over a week, users in Spain have been reporting problems with ddns.net, a dynamic DNS service offered for free by NOIP.com." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/isp-blocking-of-no-ips-dynamic-dns-enters-week-2-251019/ | Source: Torrent Freak
Mon 07:04:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Open source-washing i en svær tid | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/open-source-washing-i-en-svaer-tid
Mon 07:04:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Shrapnel fell onto CHP vehicle during U.S. military live-fire demo over I-5" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-19/u-s-military-live-fire-demonstration-dropped-shrapnel-on-chp-vehicle
Mon 07:06:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ An important point: Hate and threats are completely different things. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/10/19/hat-och-hot-ar-helt-olika-saker/
Mon 07:14:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Richard Stallman to Give Another Talk Today in Bavaria (Bavarian Academy of Science) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Richard_Stallman_to_Give_Another_Talk_Today_in_Bavaria_Bavarian.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Richard_Stallman_to_Give_Another_Talk_Today_in_Bavaria_Bavarian.gmi ∎
Mon 08:37:24 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ Duolingo is offline due to a clown outage at Amazon
Mon 08:37:56 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ the clown must have taken a holiday as well
Mon 09:21:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] is it holiday?
Mon 09:22:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "GIGABYTE has announced the AI TOP ATOM personal AI supercomputer designed for on-premises AI development." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/gigabyte-ai-top-atom-introduces-nvidia-grace-blackwell-gb10-performance-for-the-desktop/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
Mon 09:22:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Geopositioning" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/hackerbox-0119-geopositioning-explores-gps-and-mapping/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
Mon 09:23:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Orange Pi has unveiled the Orange Pi 4 Pro, a compact single-board computer designed for high-performance edge applications." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/orange-pi-previews-compact-sbc-with-eight-core-allwinner-a733-soc/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
Mon 09:24:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Install LMDE 7 Step-by-Step https://www.linuxtechi.com/how-to-install-lmde-7-step-by-step/
Mon 09:27:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ DOSBox Pure Unleashed is ready for Windows, Mac, and GNU/Linux computers after five years in development — enhanced standalone release no longer restricted to being a RetroArch core ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/dosbox-pure-unleashed-is-ready-for-windows-mac-and-linux-computers-after-five-years-in-development-enhanced-standalone-release-no-longer-restricted-to-being-a-retroarch-core
Mon 09:27:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ User Flags Possible Malware Incident on Xubuntu.org ☞ https://linuxiac.com/user-flags-possible-malware-incident-on-xubuntu-org/
Mon 09:28:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Alacritty 0.16 Terminal Emulator Released with Unicode 17 Support ☞ https://linuxiac.com/alacritty-0-16-terminal-emulator-released-with-unicode-17-support/
Mon 09:29:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ gssrdoc Updates ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/gssrdoc-updates/
Mon 09:29:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Speeding up C++ functions with a thread_local cache ☞ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/19/speeding-up-c-functions-with-a-thread_local-cache/
Mon 09:30:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Reddit’s Hey Hi (AI) Suggests That People Suffering Chronic Pain Try Opioids ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/reddit-ai-recommends-heroin
Mon 09:32:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ DMV’s Hey Hi (AI) System Says Woman Doesn’t Have a Human Face ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/dmv-visual-difference-ai
Mon 09:33:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Vert Is a File Format Converter You Can Quickly Deploy With Docker ☞ https://thenewstack.io/vert-is-a-file-format-converter-you-can-quickly-deploy-with-docker/
Mon 09:33:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Hey Hi (AI) Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-industry-traumatizing-contractors
Mon 09:34:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This helps Microsoft monopoly and proprietary spyware by making it more commonplace ☞ https://idroot.us/install-vscodium-linux-mint-22/
Mon 09:34:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Postfix on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-postfix-rocky-linux-10/
Mon 09:39:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install KDE ISO Image Writer on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-kde-iso-image-writer-linux-mint-22/
Mon 09:40:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install PeaZip on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-peazip-rocky-linux-10/
Mon 09:40:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install IntelliJ IDEA on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-intellij-idea-rocky-linux-10/
Mon 09:40:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Caddy on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-caddy-almalinux-10/
Mon 09:42:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ A List of 63 Known Gemini Clients (Software to Browse Geminispace Content With Gemini Protocol) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/A_List_of_63_Known_Gemini_Clients_Software_to_Browse_Geminispac.shtml
Mon 09:42:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ OpenSource or "Open Source" as a Brand is Dying, Let's Get Back to Talking About Software Freedom ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/OpenSource_or_Open_Source_as_a_Brand_is_Dying_Let_s_Get_Back_to.shtml
Mon 09:44:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.0.23 released ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202510/easyos-excalibur-series-version-7023-released.html
Mon 09:44:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ gFTP now in Easy Excalibur ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202510/gftp-now-in-easy-excalibur.html
Mon 09:45:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Once upon a time, backdoored Windows looked good ☞ https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/96987.html
Mon 09:47:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 42 (Oct 13 – 19, 2025) ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linuxiac-weekly-wrap-up-week-42-oct-13-19-2025/
Mon 09:48:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Node.js 25 Released with V8 14.1, New Permissions ☞ https://linuxiac.com/node-js-25-released-with-v8-14-1-new-permissions/
Mon 09:48:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ fortbite – command-line calculator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fortbite-command-line-calculator/
Mon 09:49:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Scratchmark – organized Markdown editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/scratchmark-organized-markdown-editor/
Mon 09:49:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ trackplot – visualize various next-generation sequencing data ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/trackplot-visualize-various-next-generation-sequencing-data/
Mon 09:50:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ssh2incus – SSH server for Incus instances ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ssh2incus-ssh-server-incus-instances/
Mon 09:50:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 11 Best Free and Open Source OpenAPI Linter Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-openapi-linter-tools/
Mon 09:50:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ wyeb – vim-like webkit2gtk web browser ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/wyeb-vim-like-webkit2gtk-web-browser/
Mon 09:51:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Draw Pen – simple screen annotation ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/draw-pen-simple-screen-annotation/
Mon 09:51:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ US Government: 6.1% of Site Visitors Use GNU/Linux (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/US_Government_6_1_of_Site_Visitors_Uses_GNU_Linux.shtml
Mon 09:51:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Slopwatch: The Serial Slopper, LinuxSecurity, and Surveillance Giant Google News ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Slopwatch_The_Serial_Slopper_LinuxSecurity_and_Google_News.shtml
Mon 09:51:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Defeating LLM Abuse (State-of-the-Art Plagiarism) in the Area of GNU/Linux and GNU, Free Software, BSD, Security and So On ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/Defeating_LLM_Abuse_State_of_the_Art_Plagiarism_in_the_Area_of_.shtml
Mon 09:51:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 10 Days Ago Richard Stallman Gave a Long Interview in French (linuxfr.org) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/10_Days_Ago_Richard_Stallman_Gave_a_Long_Interview_in_French_li.shtml
Mon 09:52:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Disclosure: This article was written with editorial oversight and verified facts using AI assistance." So it is SLOP. https://ubuntupit.com/bazzite-42-20251018-launches-with-enhanced-gaming-performance-and-expanded-compatibility/
Mon 09:57:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Omarchy 3.1.0 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/omarchy
Mon 09:57:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Lingmo 3.0.5 is out also ☞ https://distrowatch.com/lingmo
Mon 09:59:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AnotterKiosk ☞ https://kittenlabs.de/anotterkiosk/
Mon 10:00:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ digiKam 8.8.0 is released ☞ https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-10-19-8.8.0_release_announcement/
Mon 10:00:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ digiKam 8.8 Adds Support to Automatically Use Monitor Color Profiles on Wayland ☞ https://9to5linux.com/digikam-8-8-adds-support-to-automatically-use-monitor-color-profiles-on-wayland
Mon 10:00:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 19th, 2025 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-october-19th-2025
Mon 10:00:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ For Some, the GNU Web Site is Not Accessible This Week ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/For_Some_the_GNU_Web_Site_is_Not_Accessible_This_Week.shtml
Mon 10:03:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ All the Latest Half Dozen Articles by Mehedi Hasan (UbuntuPIT) Only Admit at the End That He's Using LLM Slop ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/All_the_Latest_Half_Dozen_Articles_by_Mehedi_Hasan_UbuntuPIT_On.shtml
Mon 10:04:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Xubuntu Website Compromised, Served Malware Downloads ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/xubuntu-website-malware-hack http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/10/Xubuntu_Site_Compromised.shtml
Mon 10:04:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GIMP Announce Official Snap Package for Ubuntu ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/official-gimp-snap-package-announced
Mon 10:04:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ NebiOS is an Ubuntu-based Distro With a Brand New DE Written for Wayland from Ground Up ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/nebios/
Mon 10:10:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Colin Watson: Mistaken dichotomies about dgit ☞ https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/dgit-dichotomies.html
Mon 10:13:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Exton 251019 "Debian PIXEL" is released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/exton
Mon 10:14:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Science, Not Fast Food/Junk Food ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/Science_Not_Fast_Food_Junk_Food.shtml
Mon 10:15:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The defective chip maker Intel i386 turns 40 years old — 275,000 transistors running at 16MHz changed personal computing forever ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/intel-386-at-40
Mon 10:16:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Chris' Smart Home Disaster | LINUX Unplugged 637 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/637/
Mon 10:16:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Otto Kekäläinen: Could the XZ backdoor have been detected with better Git and Debian packaging practices? ☞ https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/xz-backdoor-debian-git-detection/
Mon 10:23:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ What happened to "generic", "agentic", and "advanced"? Does the ponzi scheme around "HEY HI" run of adjectives yet?
Mon 10:27:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Psychiatrist confession: Germanwings crash & Debian toxic culture recognized before suicides ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Psychiatrist_confession_Germanwings_crash_Debian_toxic_culture_.shtml
Mon 10:28:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ tiktok bytedance inside Linux now https://www.phoronix.com/news/Multi-Kernel-Linux-v2
Mon 10:31:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Jon Chiappetta: Split VPN Tunnelling and Routing Based on Packet Protocol and Port for Improved Network Performance and App Compatibility ☞ https://fossjon.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/split-vpn-tunnelling-and-routing-based-on-packet-protocol-and-port-for-improved-network-performance-and-app-compatibility/
Mon 10:31:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Fedora 43 Workstation: Best New Features ☞ https://www.debugpoint.com/fedora-43-features/
Mon 10:32:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Today (a Day Before Richard Stallman Talk at TUM) There's a Patent Propaganda Event at TUM ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Today_a_Day_Before_Richard_Stallman_Talk_at_TUM_There_s_a_Paten.shtml
Mon 10:40:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Richard Stallman to Give Another Talk Today in Bavaria (Bavarian Academy of Science) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Richard_Stallman_to_Give_Another_Talk_Today_in_Bavaria_Bavarian.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Richard_Stallman_to_Give_Another_Talk_Today_in_Bavaria_Bavarian.gmi ∎
Mon 10:41:45 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/Why_the_FSF_No_Longer_Recommends_Debian_as_Explained_by_Richard.shtml
Mon 10:42:02 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ What happened to Gnuinos or Exe GNU/Linux?
Mon 10:42:46 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ The only Debian that I'd use since it's been sterilized from *some* proprietary blobs
Mon 10:43:17 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ (sure it will cripple some functionality since firmwares depend on secretive malware)
Mon 10:44:01 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ as Dr. RMS said back in 2014: trade convenience (or whatever it is) for Freedom
Mon 10:44:06 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ in TEDx
Mon 10:50:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] iirc, exe had a release some years ago
Mon 10:50:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not sure about Gnuinos
Mon 10:51:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Sunday stable kernels ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1042567/
Mon 10:58:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China accuses US of cyber breaches at national time centre ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-accuses-us-of-cyber-breaches-at-national-time-centre
Mon 11:02:42 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ http://gnuinos.org/mirror/daedalus/
Mon 11:02:49 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ Not 10 days ago
Mon 11:03:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China accuses US of waging cyberattacks on national time centre ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/19/china-accuses-us-of-waging-cyberattacks-on-national-time-centre/
Mon 11:13:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Filming At The Speed Of Light" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/19/filming-at-the-speed-of-light-about-one-foot-per-nanosecond/ | Source: Hackaday
Mon 11:18:39 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ new puff piece: 299 792 458 frames per second
Mon 11:22:08 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ Currently CPU WR is still shy of 9.19263177 Hz (look here http://valid.x86.fr/records.html)
Mon 11:22:18 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ wait, GHz
Mon 11:22:48 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ this atomic clock rate is still the ABSOLUTE Barrier
Mon 11:24:07 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ possibly already to the atomic level
Mon 11:40:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Game Of Theseus Gets Graphics Upgrade, Force Feedback 30 Years On: "Indycar Racing 2 was a good game, back in 1995; in some ways, it was the Crysis of the Clinton years, in that most mortals could not run it to its full potential when it was new." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/19/game-of-theseus-gets-graphics-upgrade-force-feedback-30-years-on/ | Source: Hackaday
Mon 11:40:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We don’t know about you, but one of the biggest hassles of having a 3D printer at home or in the ‘shop is the space it takes up. Wouldn’t it be useful if you could fold it down?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/19/corexy-3d-printer-has-a-scissor-lift-z-axis-so-it-folds-down/ | Source: Hackaday
Mon 11:41:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows 11's October update just broke the backdoored Windows Recovery Environment — USB keyboards and mice unusable in backdoored Windows RE after latest bug hits ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-11s-october-update-just-broke-the-windows-recovery-environment-usb-keyboards-and-mice-unusable-in-windows-re-after-latest-bug-hits
Mon 11:43:17 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ Backdoored Winblows TCO
Mon 11:45:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ $165 Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro board offers 2x 10GbE SFP+ cages, 7x 10GbE/2.5GbE/GbE RJ45 ports, WiFi 7 support ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/10/20/banana-pi-bpi-r4-pro-board-offers-2x-10gbe-sfp-cages-6x-10gbe-2-5gbe-gbe-ports-wifi-7-support/
Mon 11:46:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Install Pi-hole in your Raspberry PI with Docker ☞ https://peppe8o.com/install-pi-hole-in-your-raspberry-pi-with-raspberry-pi-os-lite/
Mon 11:46:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ West Kowloon Cultural District axes LGBTQ play after complaints it ‘defames Hong Kong’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/20/west-kowloon-cultural-district-axes-lgbtq-play-after-complaints-it-defames-hong-kong/
Mon 11:47:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Gaza Aid Deliveries Struggle, Despite Cease-Fire ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/world/middleeast/gaza-food-delivery.html
Mon 11:52:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Mon 11:53:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Debian: Proxmox VE, Colin Watson, and Otto Kekäläinen: ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Debian_Proxmox_VE_Colin_Watson_and_Otto_Kekalainen.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Debian_Proxmox_VE_Colin_Watson_and_Otto_Kekalainen.gmi ∎
Mon 12:06:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – They Should Have Listened to Techrights Over a Month Earlier (Xubuntu Site Compromised) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/They_Should_Have_Listened_to_Techrights_Over_a_Month_Earlier_Xu.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/They_Should_Have_Listened_to_Techrights_Over_a_Month_Earlier_Xu.gmi ∎
Mon 12:12:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 12:13:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 12:13:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linuz Devices, Open Hardware, and Gadgets ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Linuz_Devices_Open_Hardware_and_Gadgets.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Linuz_Devices_Open_Hardware_and_Gadgets.gmi ∎
Mon 12:15:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 12:17:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 20/10/2025: Louvre Museum Reveals Weakness, About 7 Million Protest US Turning Into Oligarchy/Monarchy ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Links_20_10_2025_Louvre_Museum_Reveals_Weakness_About_7_Million.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Links_20_10_2025_Louvre_Museum_Reveals_Weakness_About_7_Million.gmi ∎
Mon 15:32:12 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], the whole world that depends on the AWS clown has come crumbling down
Mon 15:32:22 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ I wonder what RMS has to say about that
Mon 15:32:37 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ "I told you so, those clowns are evil!"
Mon 15:32:49 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://engrish.com/2024/04/if-youre-on-fire-wait-for-further-instructions/
Mon 15:56:47 │ 〖ZedHedTed〗 │ it would be nice if this served as a wake up call not to use the clown and especially not centralize it all to 1 server
Mon 15:56:55 │ 〖ZedHedTed〗 │ that you don't control\
Mon 15:58:09 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ it would be nice if the bare apes learned from something
Mon 16:07:21 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ PCLinuxOS had the same http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/30/PCLinuxOS_Had_Functional_Backups_Before_the_House_Fire_the_Site.shtml
Mon 16:08:03 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ PCLOS host got burnt
Mon 16:18:55 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://engrish.com/2024/04/we-were-going-to-call-it-panacea/
Mon 16:28:31 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Campaign_of_FUD_Against_Framework_Laptops_and_GNU_Linux_Using_M.shtml
Mon 16:28:51 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ oh no, what about the RISC-V motherboard that doesn't even have UEFI?!
Mon 16:31:30 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ they haven't managed to stuff it in there somehow yet?
Mon 16:31:38 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ with a side of MICROS~1 Pluton?
Mon 16:32:28 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ or 6502 for that matter
Mon 16:32:39 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ x86 today is bloat ass dumpster fire now
Mon 16:32:57 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ with DRM built in (TPM IME AMDPSP UEFI you name it)
Mon 16:33:03 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ but the iceberg?
Mon 16:33:15 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ it was Nintendo that came with hardware-level DRM
Mon 16:33:20 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ 10NES CIC chip
Mon 16:34:08 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ Nintendo knew they need a "Secure (sic) Boot" since 6502 do not have DRM inside
Mon 16:35:11 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/20/Ageism_in_Tech.shtml
Mon 16:35:49 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ New technology is an insult especially if GAFAM is involved
Mon 16:36:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Another buzzword debunked: workflow orchestration gopher://hoi.st:70/0/posts/2025-10-20-another-buzzword-debunked-workflows.txt
Mon 16:36:17 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ (or BINARY FATA MORGANA for those who HATE proprietaries so much so they won't buy new stuff)
Mon 16:36:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ John L. Godlee — Bike tag gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/~johngodlee/posts/personal/2025-10-19_bike_tag.gmi
Mon 16:37:02 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ I avoid it if I can get away with it
Mon 16:37:18 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ the hardware we have is already plentiful
Mon 16:37:47 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ unless your software developers are more like garbage collectors
Mon 16:38:03 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ stuffing garbage wherever and whenever they can
Mon 16:38:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🔤SpellBinding: ADELURQ Wordo: TEASE gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-10-20.gmi
Mon 16:39:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Steam Next Fest (October 2025) — Day 7 gemini://envs.net/~silv/gemlog/steam_next_fest_(october_2025)_—_day_7.gmi
Mon 16:39:20 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ garbage collecting as in C++'s "resource acquisition is initialization"
Mon 16:40:15 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ "smart (sic) pointer", dynamic dead code destructor, whatever it is
Mon 16:40:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ RMS talk in Bavaria about to finish now
Mon 16:42:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Richard Stallman contándonos en @dominiodigital sobre LA NUBE." https://x.com/maxifirtman/status/1980246786246836296
Mon 16:42:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AWS? Is that a webhost? What does the S stand for?
Mon 16:44:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Excuse https://www.techspot.com/news/109922-ai-really-behind-layoffs-or-convenient-excuse-companies.html
Mon 16:45:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Some critics argue that AI has become a convenient scapegoat for firms laying off workers – much like return-to-office mandates, which some say amount to quiet firing in disguise."
Mon 16:47:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k7kw4gcw
Mon 16:47:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Mon 16:47:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] What’s wrong with an AI company making AI-made AI with AI hardware and AI software running AI cloud environments and AI orchestration? We’ve hired the best AI solution technologists and AI product managers to collaborate on AI strategies and the implementation of AI. In an ever evolving AI world, it’s important to deliver on AI solutions so that our AI customers can run their AI applications. Synergy AI agents are the future
Mon 16:47:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] , which is why we’re working the next big thing: AGI, artificial general intelligence, an AI agent capable of AI AI.
Mon 16:47:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Thank you for time.
Mon 16:47:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Mon 16:48:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "AWS’s outage this morning proves your point" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k779yxj8
Mon 16:48:58 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ AWS means pain
Mon 16:55:08 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/19/A_Satirical_Guide_to_Surviving_the_Subscription_Economy.shtml
Mon 16:55:38 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html
Mon 17:01:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Is this Linux mini PC a viable alternative to Windows? Here's why it worked out for me ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Is_this_Linux_mini_PC_a_viable_alternative_to_Windows_Here_s_wh.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Is_this_Linux_mini_PC_a_viable_alternative_to_Windows_Here_s_wh.gmi ∎
Mon 17:03:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Death of Elias Diem: FSFE mailing list archives hidden ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Death_of_Elias_Diem_FSFE_mailing_list_archives_hidden.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Death_of_Elias_Diem_FSFE_mailing_list_archives_hidden.gmi ∎
Mon 17:06:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 7 Is Now Available for Download ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/11/LMDE_Linux_Mint_Debian_Edition_7_Is_Now_Available_for_Download.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/11/LMDE_Linux_Mint_Debian_Edition_7_Is_Now_Available_for_Download.gmi ∎
Mon 17:07:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "On top of that, I show you how to easily upgrade your LMDE 6 installations to LMDE 7 and tell you all about the new laptop from TUXEDO Computers. Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for October 19th, 2025." https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-october-19th-2025
Mon 17:07:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ A high-performance, versatile text editor available on macOS and Linux https://actiward.net/a-high-performance-versatile-text-editor-available-on-macos-and-linux/
Mon 17:08:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Standalone app includes experimental support for Windows 9X gaming." https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/dosbox-pure-unleashed-is-ready-for-windows-mac-and-linux-computers-after-five-years-in-development-enhanced-standalone-release-no-longer-restricted-to-being-a-retroarch-core
Mon 17:08:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Five months ago, I made my first splash into the world of open-source operating systems when I gave Linux Mint a try as a Windows fanboy. At first, it was just a fun side project, after seeing PewDiePie do the same thing and wanting to see what all the fuss was all about." https://www.xda-developers.com/used-linux-exclusively-five-months-instead-of-windows/
Mon 17:09:00 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Apple_is_the_Company_of_Dictators_and_Worse.shtml
Mon 17:09:20 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ GAFAM kissing the "Dictator-who-must-not-be-named"
Mon 17:09:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): CRUX – lightweight Linux distribution ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/CRUX_lightweight_Linux_distribution.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/CRUX_lightweight_Linux_distribution.gmi ∎
Mon 17:09:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): SuperTuxKart 1.5 Open-Source Kart Racing Game Released with Major Changes ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/SuperTuxKart_1_5_Open_Source_Kart_Racing_Game_Released_with_Maj.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/SuperTuxKart_1_5_Open_Source_Kart_Racing_Game_Released_with_Maj.gmi ∎
Mon 17:11:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Kwort – minimalist and fast Linux distribution ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Kwort_minimalist_and_fast_Linux_distribution.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Kwort_minimalist_and_fast_Linux_distribution.gmi ∎
Mon 17:21:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Jellyfin 10.11 Media Server Arrives with Backup Support, FFmpeg 7.1, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Jellyfin_10_11_Media_Server_Arrives_with_Backup_Support_FFmpeg_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Jellyfin_10_11_Media_Server_Arrives_with_Backup_Support_FFmpeg_.gmi ∎
Mon 17:21:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Amazon Web Shenanigans ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Amazon_Web_Shenanigans.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Amazon_Web_Shenanigans.gmi ∎
Mon 17:22:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.gmi ∎
Mon 17:28:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Our Uptime This Year Was Better Than AWS (Also a Lot Cheaper) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Our_Uptime_This_Year_Was_Better_Than_AWS_Also_a_Lot_Cheaper.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Our_Uptime_This_Year_Was_Better_Than_AWS_Also_a_Lot_Cheaper.gmi ∎
Mon 17:29:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Android_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 17:35:59 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) (video) (audio) https://imgur.com/gallery/yRmYr5b = https://imgur.artemislena.eu/gallery/yRmYr5b
Mon 17:42:06 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/Science_Not_Fast_Food_Junk_Food.shtml
Mon 17:42:38 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ too bad it didn't use that one Shantae (WayForward) masterpiece (jk) called "Microshaft Winblows"
Mon 17:42:48 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 17:46:32 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ instead "it's just a cookie" (of today's enshittified web)
Mon 17:49:08 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ http://postopen.org/about-post-open
Mon 17:49:29 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ I have yet to see some "librewashing shills" also make "post-GPL"
Mon 17:49:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 17:50:22 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ isn't that what "ethical source" was supposed to be?
Mon 18:01:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Rejecting 'Snoop-Phones' and Turning "Old" Phones (or Tablets) Into Freedom-Respecting Appliances ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Rejecting_Snoop_Phones_and_Turning_Old_Phones_or_Tablets_Into_F.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Rejecting_Snoop_Phones_and_Turning_Old_Phones_or_Tablets_Into_F.gmi ∎
Mon 18:06:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Soylent Update https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=25/10/20/098210 Jan is from Manchester
Mon 18:09:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ In 2022 we published a 12 part series, based on inside leaks, showing that the EPO compels examiners to grant software patents so as to fake growth http://techrights.org/o/2022/07/23/epo-shape-of-things-to-come/ This might be worth mentioning in tomorrow's talk, where EPO staff might be in the audience
Mon 18:12:32 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Rejecting_Snoop_Phones_and_Turning_Old_Phones_or_Tablets_Into_F.shtml
Mon 18:12:38 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ "Akira Urushibata"
Mon 18:13:21 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ I have yet to see him campaigning in Japan for pure software freedom
Mon 18:14:18 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ boycotting Nintendo, ZUN (Touhou), Vocaloid, Idolmaster, Kadokawa (Amagami, KanColle), Type-Moon (Fate)
Mon 18:14:46 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ as well as the BINARY FATA MORGANA
Mon 18:18:36 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ pixiv and nicovideo are their SCM (Social Control Media)
Mon 18:19:12 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ ...and what other malwares tightly interwined with the Japanese culture?
Mon 18:20:00 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ (note that I use the term "malware" in accordance to GNU - any software where its developers deny end-users access to source code)
Mon 18:23:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Users beware: Xubuntu website serving malware instead of OS downloads https://cybernews.com/security/xubuntu-site-compromise-hackers-peddle-malware/
Mon 18:24:39 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/10/Xubuntu_Site_Compromised.shtml
Mon 18:24:46 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ wait the timing
Mon 18:25:13 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ it's before date when the coup of President Arrandelle (?) happen
Mon 18:26:06 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ which is also the time when Microshaft UEFI shut down GNU/Linux (or non-Winblows for that matter) from ever booting
Mon 18:32:25 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ now currently xubuntu.org is dead
Mon 18:36:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Slopwatch: Google News Promoting Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Slopwatch_Google_News_Promoting_Fear_Uncertainty_Doubt_FUD.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Slopwatch_Google_News_Promoting_Fear_Uncertainty_Doubt_FUD.gmi ∎
Mon 18:53:48 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ stanky ranking... https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/hiring_firing_microsoft_plummer/
Mon 18:56:20 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ access to source code is not the only thing that matters
Mon 18:57:35 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/18/Digital_Sanitation_Good_Practices.shtml
Mon 18:59:00 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ The "War against Cash"
Mon 18:59:25 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ the FUD where QR payment credit card are more convenient
Mon 18:59:29 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ more secure (sic)
Mon 18:59:54 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ no, it's "you own nothing and be happy"
Mon 18:59:58 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ IT'S A SCAM
Mon 19:00:57 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ ...on the other side
Mon 19:00:58 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/copilot_viva_insights_column/
Mon 19:01:11 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ http://rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/rapporten/2018/11/07/data-protection-impact-assessment-op-microsoft-office
Mon 19:01:47 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ It was long overdue for EU to ditch Microshaft (7 years! 2018 research, 2025 action to move to LibreOffice)
Mon 19:09:37 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/microsoft_valuelicensing_tribunal/
Mon 19:12:01 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://www.reddit.com/r/insanefbmarketplace/comments/1npwhr8/oh_boy_somewhere_in_alabama/
Mon 19:20:00 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ not there is someone that knows tech!!! https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2025/10/17/vatican_seminar_calls_for_global/
Mon 19:23:09 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ he'll get 'bit' by this.... https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/17/boris_johnson_loves_chatgpt/
Mon 19:31:20 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ not that is security! ... https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/bitlocker-reportedly-auto-locks-users-backup-drives-causing-loss-of-3tb-of-valuable-data-windows-automatic-disk-encryption-can-permanently-lock-your-drives
Mon 19:34:10 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/thermal-paste/stinky-thermal-paste-emits-acidic-vapors-corrodes-copper-glues-heatsinks-to-processors-and-permanently-damages-coolers-sgt-4-tim-is-a-chemically-reactive-blend-finds-investigation
Mon 19:42:31 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ Windows TCO
Mon 19:42:58 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ A(nother) reason why format your drive with Ext4 (or whatever GNU has to offer)
Mon 19:43:14 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ AVOID PROPRIETARY NTFS/APFS/BitLockers
Mon 19:47:51 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ http://dylanbaileywrites.medium.com/sonshi-style-an-obscure-way-japanese-programmers-type-680bd871ac34
Mon 19:48:08 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ Is he (in the photo) RMS knock off of some kind or something
Mon 19:48:58 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/25_Years_Ago_an_Explanation_of_How_Reducing_Free_Software_to_Ap.shtml
Mon 19:49:18 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ "exploit software freedom without retribution"
Mon 19:49:27 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ That's Android for today
Mon 19:49:42 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ look at how Gulag went Crapple now
Mon 19:50:30 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ no sideloading
Mon 19:54:12 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://tedium.co/2025/10/20/computers-fcc-rf-interference-history/
Mon 19:54:57 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/20/buggy-software-update-bricks-some-jeep-hybrid-vehicles/
Mon 19:59:08 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ Gulag is the new crApple
Mon 20:50:15 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.discovermagazine.com/staying-up-past-midnight-might-make-us-more-impulsive-and-cynical-48160
Mon 20:56:30 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ Really shows how easy it would be for [Amazon founder Jeff] Bezos and [Oracle founder Larry] Ellison to just turn off the internet if they wanted to, for any reason
Mon 20:57:01 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ we should build another one anyway
Mon 20:59:52 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/inventor-vibe-coding-doesnt-work
Mon 21:01:35 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/dmv-visual-difference-ai
Mon 21:01:56 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/future-society/space-armor-debris
Mon 21:03:08 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-industry-traumatizing-contractors
Mon 21:08:58 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/20/word-processing-heavy-metal-style/
Mon 21:23:15 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://imgur.com/gallery/x90NfCN = https://imgur.nerdvpn.de/gallery/x90NfCN
Mon 21:29:11 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/20/moxa-routers-hard-coded-credentials-cve-2025-6950/
Mon 22:35:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k7qrcqs6
Mon 22:35:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Mon 22:35:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Office workers should never be paid more than essential frontline workers who make the world run smoothly. Ever. Watching the uprising coming.
Mon 22:35:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] These companies need to track ASAP exactly what employees do all day. Every hour. Because A LOT of things are finished in 15 mins and then they play minesweeper or read books or games or leave and go wherever on company $$$$. These jobs are not worth more than 10k and that's high.
Mon 22:35:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Dressing up black tie & dresses in meetings to say leverage and circle-back? Big houses and BMW's?
Mon 22:35:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Meanwhile go to the nearest hospital or firehouse.
Mon 22:37:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Layoffs apparently https://egw.news/halo/news/30153/next-halo-game-reportedly-wont-use-generative-ai-i-DkkrTHc8L
Mon 22:39:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Was testing and QA laid off? Quality appears to be suffering. Non-production level code is shipping. Was QA and testing replaced with Copilot? https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/microsoft_bug_keyboard_mouse/ " https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k81k12yq "But Dak is the real MVP! This is our year baby!"
Mon 22:40:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ More IBM layoffs. "Any ideas on what art of the business?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k6b7d7xw
Mon 22:40:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Companies moving off the mainframe are just plain stupid... But there are stupid people everywhere... so... Good luck!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k779yxj8
Mon 22:41:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I started IBM in 1981 and left after 5 years. I sensed it coming way back when. No regrets." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0540gdg
Mon 22:45:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "My dream came true, a crisp autumn evening spent on my stoop carving pumpkins with the kids. My son really took a liking to it but it got a bit late, so I'll finish up the middle pumpkin tomorrow evening." gemini://tiredof.technology/gemlog/2025-10-20-pumpkin-carving.gmi
Mon 22:46:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "FreeBSD not only publishes images for install media, but also VM-images. I downloaded FreeBSD-15.0-BETA2-amd64-zfs.qcow2.xz Which is the qcow2 image of the FreeBSD 15.0 BETA2 VM, with ZFS as file system." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/freebsd-150beta2-vmimage-in-qemu.txt
Mon 22:48:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AI Canada gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-10-20-ai-canada "Again, I am begging you to understand two things: that any computer anywhere in the world can be operated remotely from any other computer anywhere in the world, and that landlords are a dead weight loss to society."
Mon 22:53:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 20/10/2025: Pumpkin Carving, "Hey Hi", and Other Buzzwords ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Gemini_Links_20_10_2025_Pumpkin_Carving_Hey_Hi_and_Other_Buzzwo.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Gemini_Links_20_10_2025_Pumpkin_Carving_Hey_Hi_and_Other_Buzzwo.gmi ∎
Mon 23:01:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Cloud computing is a trap." - Richard Stallman. AWS: hold ma beer!
Mon 23:03:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://x.com/LefterisJP/status/1980196064327258535
Mon 23:03:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "AWS is down and then the internet stops working.
Mon 23:03:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] But the blockchain, it never goe ... wait a minute. Scratch that.
Mon 23:03:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] This sector is a joke.
Mon 23:03:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Everyone preaching decentralization and censorship resistance but in reality ... it's all 100% reliant on the cloud."
Mon 23:08:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Xubuntu downloads section injection threatens users with crypto infection https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/xubuntu_website_compromised/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/They_Should_Have_Listened_to_Techrights_Over_a_Month_Earlier_Xu.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/10/Xubuntu_Site_Compromised.shtml
Mon 23:14:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Xubuntu's website was hacked to spread a malware, fixed now https://www.ghacks.net/2025/10/20/xubuntus-website-was-hacked-to-spread-a-malware-fixed-now/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/10/Xubuntu_Site_Compromised.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/They_Should_Have_Listened_to_Techrights_Over_a_Month_Earlier_Xu.shtml
Mon 23:18:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): How I turned a Gaming Mini-PC into my first home server ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/How_I_turned_a_Gaming_Mini_PC_into_my_first_home_server.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/How_I_turned_a_Gaming_Mini_PC_into_my_first_home_server.gmi ∎
Mon 23:20:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I found the new Asmi Linux fast and fun to use - if you're not afraid of a little setup work ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/I_found_the_new_Asmi_Linux_fast_and_fun_to_use_if_you_re_not_af.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/I_found_the_new_Asmi_Linux_fast_and_fun_to_use_if_you_re_not_af.gmi ∎
Mon 23:21:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ F5 Breach Exposes BIG-IP Source Code — Nation-State Hackers Behind Massive Intrusion https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/f5-breach-exposes-big-ip-source-code.html
Mon 23:24:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 doesn’t support Android’s Linux Terminal, making Qualcomm the only vendor to not support it." https://www.androidauthority.com/snapdragon-chips-android-linux-terminal-3608648/
Mon 23:25:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): These Are My Favorite Portable Linux Apps to Keep on a Flash Drive ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/These_Are_My_Favorite_Portable_Linux_Apps_to_Keep_on_a_Flash_Dr.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/These_Are_My_Favorite_Portable_Linux_Apps_to_Keep_on_a_Flash_Dr.gmi ∎
Mon 23:26:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New InstallAware Application Porting Toolkit Effortlessly Bridges Windows Applications to GNU/Linux and macOS. https://aijourn.com/new-installaware-application-porting-toolkit-effortlessly-bridges-windows-applications-to-gnu-linux-and-macos/
Mon 23:26:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Kubuntu Focus NX Gen 3 comes preloaded with one of my favorite Linux distributions and takes only minutes to set up." https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-this-linux-mini-pc-a-viable-alternative-to-windows-
Mon 23:26:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Kubuntu Focus NX Gen 3 comes preloaded with one of my favorite Linux distributions and takes only minutes to set up." https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-this-linux-mini-pc-a-viable-alternative-to-windows-heres-why-it-worked-out-for-me/
Mon 23:27:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Windows 10's demise could be Linux's gain if the flood of defectors is anything to go by ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Windows_10_s_demise_could_be_Linux_s_gain_if_the_flood_of_defec.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Windows_10_s_demise_could_be_Linux_s_gain_if_the_flood_of_defec.gmi ∎
Mon 23:29:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Use This Linux Tool to Stay Invisible Online https://www.maketecheasier.com/carburetor-tor-tool/
Mon 23:30:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ InstallAware launches new toolkit that lets Windows apps be easily ported to GNU/Linux or macOS https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/installaware-launches-new-toolkit-that-lets-windows-apps-be-easily-ported-to-gnu-linux-or-macos/
Mon 23:30:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): As Windows 10 Support Ends, Majority Of Users Are Migrating To Linux ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/As_Windows_10_Support_Ends_Majority_Of_Users_Are_Migrating_To_L.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/As_Windows_10_Support_Ends_Majority_Of_Users_Are_Migrating_To_L.gmi ∎
Mon 23:30:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Open Source Streaming Server Jellyfin Just Dropped a Big Update ⚓ https://www.howtogeek.com/jellyfin-10-11-0-released/ ䷉ Source: HowTo Geek | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.howtogeek.com/jellyfin-10-11-0-released/
Mon 23:33:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Applications: Jellyfin, Carburetor, and InstallAware ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Applications_Jellyfin_Carburetor_and_InstallAware.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Applications_Jellyfin_Carburetor_and_InstallAware.gmi ∎
Mon 23:39:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's unfortunate, even if it looks like nobody got their Dunning-Krugerrands stolen. We rather like Xubuntu, and have for a long time, going back a decade." https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/xubuntu_website_compromised/ Techrights warned about this 40+ days ago
Mon 23:57:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Google News is Now Promoting a Parasitic Slopfarm Called "findarticles.com", Where Plagiarism of "Linux" Articles is Rampant ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Google_News_is_Now_Promoting_a_Parasitic_Slopfarm_Called_findar.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Google_News_is_Now_Promoting_a_Parasitic_Slopfarm_Called_findar.gmi ∎
Tue 00:12:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – More Publishers and Companies Nowadays Say "GNU/Linux", Not "Linux" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/More_Publishers_and_Companies_Nowadays_Say_GNU_Linux_Not_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/More_Publishers_and_Companies_Nowadays_Say_GNU_Linux_Not_Linux.gmi ∎
Tue 00:23:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): The Real Xubuntu Story is a Story of Neglect by Microsoft Canonical ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/The_Real_Xubuntu_Story_is_a_Story_of_Neglect_by_Microsoft_Canon.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/The_Real_Xubuntu_Story_is_a_Story_of_Neglect_by_Microsoft_Canon.gmi ∎
Tue 00:27:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – When Prominent GNU/Linux Distros Are Run by Spies ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/When_Prominent_GNU_Linux_Distros_Are_Run_by_Spies.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/When_Prominent_GNU_Linux_Distros_Are_Run_by_Spies.gmi ∎
Tue 00:45:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – An Update About Soylent News, With Jan Rinok "Back in the Saddle" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/An_Update_About_Soylent_News_With_Jan_Rinok_Back_in_the_Saddle.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/An_Update_About_Soylent_News_With_Jan_Rinok_Back_in_the_Saddle.gmi ∎
Tue 00:47:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] kolie2: Techrights – An Update About Soylent News, With Jan Rinok "Back in the Saddle" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/An_Update_About_Soylent_News_With_Jan_Rinok_Back_in_the_Saddle.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/An_Update_About_Soylent_News_With_Jan_Rinok_Back_in_the_Saddle.gmi ∎
Tue 00:47:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] can you pass along to #soylent ?
Tue 00:47:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] I cannot access the channel
Tue 00:47:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's for logged-in-only again
Tue 00:48:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and I don't want to make an account in that network
Tue 01:05:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Richard Stallman is Having a Good Week Already (Stallman Was Right About 'Clown Computing') ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Richard_Stallman_is_Having_a_Good_Week_Already_Stallman_Was_Rig.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Richard_Stallman_is_Having_a_Good_Week_Already_Stallman_Was_Rig.gmi ∎
Tue 01:20:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Google’s Pixel 10 can now run Linux apps better than other Android phones https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-10-linux-apps-gpu-acceleration-3608754/
Tue 01:21:31 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ pity they can't handle memory cards as well as other Android phones
Tue 01:32:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Vista 10 Died One Week Ago and GNU/Linux is Gaining ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Vista_10_Died_One_Week_Ago_and_GNU_Linux_is_Gaining.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Vista_10_Died_One_Week_Ago_and_GNU_Linux_is_Gaining.gmi ∎
Tue 01:37:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Diablo Boss Rod Fergusson Leaves Blizzard"
Tue 01:38:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Hiring and firing at the Windows giant more The Bachelor than Survivor" https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/hiring_firing_microsoft_plummer/
Tue 01:44:10 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i thought the boss of Diablo was Diablo
Tue 01:44:30 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ UNIX: Real computer scientist
Tue 01:44:46 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ Microsoft: grab-patent-troll
Tue 01:45:21 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ also with Flandre-Illya shenanigans
Tue 01:45:43 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ that Microsoft-connected sites are NDAed from ever spilling
Tue 01:46:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techpol + social irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-201025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-201025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-201025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-201025.txt
Tue 01:47:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techrights irc ■ Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-201025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-201025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-201025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-201025.txt
Tue 01:48:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 boycottnovell irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-201025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-201025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-201025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-201025.txt
Tue 01:49:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techbytes irc ■ Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-201025.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-201025.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-201025.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-201025.txt
Tue 01:49:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-10-20.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-10-20.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
Tue 01:50:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-10-20.txt
Tue 01:50:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Vista 11 is Sinking While Microsoft is PIPing (Mass Layoffs But Silent Layoffs) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Vista_11_is_Sinking_While_Microsoft_is_PIPing_Mass_Layoffs_But_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Vista_11_is_Sinking_While_Microsoft_is_PIPing_Mass_Layoffs_But_.gmi ∎
Tue 01:55:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Over time, Microsoft Lunduke looks more and more like Peter Bright
Tue 01:55:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 20, 2025 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_October_20_2025.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_October_20_2025.gmi ∎
Tue 01:55:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Tue 01:57:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Tue 02:09:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – People Who Attempt to Take Down Correct Information Need a Doctor a Day ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/People_Who_Attempt_to_Take_Down_Correct_Information_Need_a_Doct.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/People_Who_Attempt_to_Take_Down_Correct_Information_Need_a_Doct.gmi ∎
Tue 02:12:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft kills 9.9-rated ASP.NET Core bug – 'our highest ever' score https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/microsoft_aspnet_core_vulnerability/
Tue 02:16:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Vista 11 DOWN https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-200902-202510 or, MOST LIKELY, statcounter is badly broken this year
Tue 02:24:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – analytics.usa.gov Says Less Than 14% of Web Requests (to Government Sites) Come From Vista 11 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/analytics_usa_gov_Says_Less_Than_14_of_Web_Requests_to_Governme.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/analytics_usa_gov_Says_Less_Than_14_of_Web_Requests_to_Governme.gmi ∎
Tue 02:29:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Register MS Selling Slop for Microsoft (Vapourware, Ponzi Scheme, False Claims) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/The_Register_MS_Selling_Slop_for_Microsoft_Vapourware_Ponzi_Sch.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/The_Register_MS_Selling_Slop_for_Microsoft_Vapourware_Ponzi_Sch.gmi ∎
Tue 02:29:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Wow so sad! Also selling RTP site, expect the same. Terrible the CEO doesn’t value the land or employees!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k7hgfv3z
Tue 02:30:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "maybe IBM AGI can make some HGI (Human General Intelligence) and shove it down (or up) that co-k su-ka RT." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k7kw4gcw
Tue 02:43:26 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/10/20/1524254/peanut-allergies-have-plummeted-in-children-study-shows
Tue 02:45:47 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/10/20/148243/are-we-living-in-a-golden-age-of-stupidity
Tue 02:46:06 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ yes
Tue 02:46:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] :)
Tue 02:50:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – A Lot of Techrights is Built on Perl ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/A_Lot_of_Techrights_is_Built_on_Perl.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/A_Lot_of_Techrights_is_Built_on_Perl.gmi ∎
Tue 02:51:56 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=25/10/20/098210
Tue 02:53:03 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/18/1749235&from=rss
Tue 02:56:09 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ where's the beef?? ... https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674216792/
Tue 03:02:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Insane, Deliberately Dishonest, or Just Another Bigot? ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Insane_Deliberately_Dishonest_or_Just_Another_Bigot.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Insane_Deliberately_Dishonest_or_Just_Another_Bigot.gmi ∎
Tue 03:21:54 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://restofworld.org/2025/philippines-offshoring-automation-tech-jobs/
Tue 03:26:58 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/20/because-things-just-arent-dystopian-enough-blacklisted-spyware-firm-nso-group-has-just-been-purchased-by-a-hollywood-producer/
Tue 03:51:46 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/
Tue 03:52:55 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ :)) https://xkcd.com/3157/
Tue 04:57:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] didn't open, but
Tue 04:58:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] blaming brain drain seems like the BS about "replaced by AI"
Tue 04:58:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] AWS is flaky
Tue 04:58:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] fixing it might take longer
Tue 04:58:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] if you lose KEY people
Tue 04:58:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not # of people
Tue 04:58:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- restofworld.org | Offshoring automation: Filipino tech workers power global AI jobs - Rest of World
Tue 04:58:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not automation
Tue 04:58:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not CLOP
Tue 04:58:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] seems like the answer is iin the title\
Tue 04:58:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's about
Tue 04:58:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 1. offhsoring
Tue 04:59:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 2. low cost workers
Tue 04:59:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] nothing to do with efficiency
Tue 04:59:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] just more exploitation of human beings
Tue 05:49:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Unity Layoffs in 2025... key people let go. Microsoft Mono fiasco.
Tue 05:59:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Astra SL2600 processors from Synaptics combine Arm cores and RISC-V Coral NPU ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Astra_SL2600_processors_from_Synaptics_combine_Arm_cores_and_RI.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Astra_SL2600_processors_from_Synaptics_combine_Arm_cores_and_RI.gmi ∎
Tue 06:02:34 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh5BzoAVtmg
Tue 06:04:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Tue 06:17:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Uptime Kuma 2.0 Arrives with MariaDB Support, Modern UI Refresh ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Uptime_Kuma_2_0_Arrives_with_MariaDB_Support_Modern_UI_Refresh.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Uptime_Kuma_2_0_Arrives_with_MariaDB_Support_Modern_UI_Refresh.gmi ∎
Tue 06:31:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Implementing Search for Tux Machines Would Help Find Old Articles ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Implementing_Search_for_Tux_Machines_Would_Help_Find_Old_Articl.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Implementing_Search_for_Tux_Machines_Would_Help_Find_Old_Articl.gmi ∎
Tue 06:44:08 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ the long overdue thingy thanks to the "gotta snatch 'em all" slop
Tue 06:44:51 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ I still do the "tedious" thingy tho: vamoozing thru chronological index and using CTRL+F just to find that damn article
Tue 06:45:16 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ the same GSEM slop is bringing down the FSF
Tue 06:50:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] aha
Tue 06:50:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] search will come soon
Tue 06:51:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it is password-protected, for now
Tue 06:52:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Every Morning ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Every_Morning.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Every_Morning.gmi ∎
Tue 07:04:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): News Cycles Perish, But GNU/Linux is Getting More (Relative) Limelight ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/News_Cycles_Perish_But_GNU_Linux_is_Getting_More_Relative_Limel.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/News_Cycles_Perish_But_GNU_Linux_is_Getting_More_Relative_Limel.gmi ∎
Tue 07:16:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – "No Kings" in the Software World (GAFAM Should Not Exist, Either) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/No_Kings_in_the_Software_World_GAFAM_Should_Not_Exist_Either.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/No_Kings_in_the_Software_World_GAFAM_Should_Not_Exist_Either.gmi ∎
Tue 07:22:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Sompi: ping
Tue 07:24:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Talk by Richard Stallman Will be Live-streamed in Less Than 10 Hours ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Talk_by_Richard_Stallman_Will_be_Live_streamed_in_Less_Than_10_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Talk_by_Richard_Stallman_Will_be_Live_streamed_in_Less_Than_10_.gmi ∎
Tue 07:42:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Next Week We Launch Search at Techrights ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Next_Week_We_Launch_Search_at_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Next_Week_We_Launch_Search_at_Techrights.gmi ∎
Tue 08:16:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe, by Richard Stallman ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe_by_Richard_S.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/A_radical_proposal_to_keep_your_personal_data_safe_by_Richard_S.gmi ∎
Tue 08:21:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FSF: 10 staff, 9 in board, 9 voting members https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board/
Tue 08:25:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ OFTC culled many users/bots this year https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=OFTC
Tue 08:26:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Libera.Chat flat https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=Libera.Chat
Tue 08:27:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ freenode linearly down over time https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=freenode
Tue 08:28:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Like DALnet https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=DALnet
Tue 08:29:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Still over a quarter users/online usernames in large networks https://netsplit.de/
Tue 08:29:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ (Still over a quarter MILLION)
Tue 08:34:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Deborah Hendersen was laid off in May from Microsoft's Xbox division, according to a report by Business Insider. She was among the 9,000 employees affected in a sweeping company-wide reduction." https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/techie-laid-off-from-microsoft-after-14-years-shares-how-she-landed-a-job-at-meta-101760955003090.html
Tue 08:49:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Plagiarism With LLM Slop: Hindustan Times (HT Digital Streams Limited) Has Become a Slop Factory/Hub ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Plagiarism_With_LLM_Slop_Hindustan_Times_HT_Digital_Streams_Lim.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Plagiarism_With_LLM_Slop_Hindustan_Times_HT_Digital_Streams_Lim.gmi ∎
Tue 08:59:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Atelier Ryza, Atelier Ryza 2 and Atelier Ryza 3 DX release November 13 and all Steam Deck Verified | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/atelier-ryza-atelier-ryza-2-and-atelier-ryza-3-dx-release-november-13-and-all-steam-deck-verified/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Tue 09:00:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Wine 10.17 brings a Mono upgrade, better ANSI ODBC driver support, OpenGL changes and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/wine-10-17-brings-a-mono-upgrade-better-ansi-odbc-driver-support-opengl-changes-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Tue 09:01:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Wine 10.17 Released with Default EGL Renderer and Updated Mono Engine ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Wine_10_17_Released_with_Default_EGL_Renderer_and_Updated_Mono_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/18/Wine_10_17_Released_with_Default_EGL_Renderer_and_Updated_Mono_.gmi ∎
Tue 09:03:34 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ mono is dead https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/03/Microsoft_is_Aiming_to_Kill_Both_Mono_and_WINE_in_One_Fell_Swoo.shtml
Tue 09:03:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GE-Proton 10-21 brings fixes for Blue Protocol, Black Desert, Battle.net, Ubisoft Connect | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/ge-proton-10-21-brings-fixes-for-blue-protocol-black-desert-battle-net-ubisoft-connect/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Tue 09:03:42 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ oh wait wine is dead
Tue 09:03:59 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ there is "Code of Censorship" SLAPPed inside
Tue 09:04:08 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ killed by Microsoft Mono
Tue 09:04:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it is taking up their time and manhours
Tue 09:04:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] gardening mono for microsoft
Tue 09:04:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Making retro DOS gaming simple - the standalone DOSBox Pure Unleashed is out now | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/making-retro-dos-gaming-simple-the-standalone-dosbox-pure-unleashed-is-out-now/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Tue 09:04:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/One_of_the_best_Android_Auto_dongles_now_plays_nice_with_Apple_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/One_of_the_best_Android_Auto_dongles_now_plays_nice_with_Apple_.gmi ∎
Tue 09:05:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nexus Mods app adds new context menus, Stardew Valley FOMOD support, and work towards Bethesda games | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/nexus-mods-app-adds-new-context-menus-stardew-valley-fomod-support-and-work-towards-bethesda-games/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Tue 09:06:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Shit-Posting All the Way to SCOTUS" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/20/shit-posting-all-the-way-to-scotus/
Tue 09:07:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Get some lovely chilled games in the Momcore: Games For a Busy Life Humble Bundle | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/get-some-lovely-chilled-games-in-the-momcore-games-for-a-busy-life-humble-bundle/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux |
Tue 09:08:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "it comes with Native Linux support, along with being optimized for the Steam Deck too. Recently Valve put it back through verification and swapped it over to the Native version from Proton." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/made-in-the-spirit-of-day-of-the-tentacle-and-sam-max-adventure-game-splittown-released-recently/
Tue 09:08:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It doesn't look like much with some of the simplest pixel art around but Coal LLC is a like a black hole that freezes your life when you hit play." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/coal-llc-has-annoyingly-absorbed-my-entire-attention/
Tue 09:08:53 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ shit posting the http://stallman.org/glossary.html#scrotus
Tue 09:09:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "EdenSpark seemed like a pretty exciting announcement for game developers and the open source community, until you read about the AI generation involved." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/gaijin-announced-edenspark-an-open-source-ai-assisted-platform-for-making-games/
Tue 09:09:50 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ an openwashed slop assisted deplatform for whatever
Tue 09:10:08 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ https://stallman.org/glossary.html#trump
Tue 09:10:34 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ This Stallman take here is the reason why I call the Troll "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named"
Tue 09:11:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we call him cheeto
Tue 09:11:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] with variation
Tue 09:11:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but the bots extract titles from pages
Tue 09:11:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so his surname still shows up a lot
Tue 09:15:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Meduza is turning 11! And here are six (!) ways to support our work, even if you can’t donate." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/21/meduza-is-turning-11-and-here-are-six-ways-to-support-our-work-even-if-you-can-t-donate | Source: Meduza
Tue 09:15:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Censorship ☛ https://thedissenter.org/brazen-censorship-against-student-journalists-at-indiana-university/ | Source: The Dissenter
Tue 09:16:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Games: EdenSpark, Coal LLC, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Games_EdenSpark_Coal_LLC_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Games_EdenSpark_Coal_LLC_and_More.gmi ∎
Tue 09:18:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 3 Keys for Successful Autoscaling Kubernetes ☞ https://cloudnativenow.com/editorial-calendar/kubecon-cloudnativecon-na-2025/3-keys-for-successful-autoscaling-kubernetes/
Tue 09:19:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Minikube on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-minikube-debian-13/
Tue 09:19:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 7 Common Kubernetes Pitfalls (and How I Learned to Avoid Them) ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/10/20/seven-kubernetes-pitfalls-and-how-to-avoid/
Tue 09:21:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "According to the doctrine of Fair Use (17 USC 107), I may use portions of a copyrighted work without permission of the copyright holder for a variety of purposes, including research, scholarship, and teaching." ☛ https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~kuipers/opinions/fair-use.html | Source: University of Michigan
Tue 09:21:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "OpenAI said today that it has released new policies around its artificial intelligence tool Sora 2" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/20/open-ai-crack-deepfakes-backlash-hollywood/ | Source: Silicon Angle
Tue 09:26:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Monopolies: "Two days from today, October 22nd, was Google’s deadline to begin opening up its app store, stop forcing developers to use Google Play Billing, let them set their own prices" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/803143/googles-new-deadline-for-epic-consequences-is-october-29th | Source: The Verge
Tue 09:26:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Apple and Google capitulated. Apple also capitulated to Trump by removing apps that collect hand-verified, double-checked videos of ICE violence." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/#huawei-with-american-characteristics | Source: CoryDoctorow
Tue 09:27:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2944521/apple-tv-and-peacock-are-bundling-up.html | Source: PC World
Tue 09:27:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "My post simply provided some examples of people who might find it difficult to "just" use physical media instead of online services." ☛ https://thomasrigby.com/posts/re-owning-physical-media-is-privilege/ | Source: Thomas Rigby
Tue 09:28:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Web We’ve Built: Celebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived." ☛ https://itwire.com/your-it/internet-archive-celebrates-one-trillion-web-pages-preserved.html | Source: IT Wire
Tue 09:31:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "On one hand, it's important to protect the right to express diverse opinions and ideas, even if they are controversial or unpopular." ☛ https://flower.codes/2025/10/20/banned-books.html | Source: Zach Flower
Tue 09:31:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The announcement came after Graham Linehan, the comedy writer who was arrested at Heathrow by five armed officers over messages posted on social media" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/20/graham-linehan-hate-crime-case-dropped/ | Source: The Telegraph UK
Tue 09:34:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A new Ipsos UK survey for Anthropy reveals that while television remains the most trusted news source for Britons, younger people in particular are regularly getting their news from online influencers." ☛ https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/half-16-34-year-olds-trust-news-online-influencers-even-concerns-about-widespread-fake-news |
Tue 09:34:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Today it might be the world being flat, or that you need to do a different form of exercise to be healthy. Yet tomorrow you perhaps don't need to drink water or not believing who won the election." ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/the-truth-doesnt-matter/ | Source: Greg Morris
Tue 09:34:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Let’s be precise about what Weiss is doing. She’s not asking whether 60 Minutes is actually biased." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/bari-weiss-and-the-tyranny-of-false | Source: Mike Brock
Tue 09:35:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "inference acceleration through its proprietary LPU architecture" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/20/ibm-partners-nvidia-rival-groq-accelerate-ai-deployment/ | Source: Silicon Angle
Tue 09:36:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But recently, the site has become a favorite target of Elon Musk, congressional Republicans and right-wing influencers, who all claim that Wikipedia is biased." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/magazine/jimmy-wales-interview.html | Source: New York Times
Tue 09:36:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Turkish telecom regulator, the Information and Communication Technologies Authority" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/turkiye-raises-nearly-3b-in-5g-spectrum-auction/ | Source: Inside Towers
Tue 09:37:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Let’s be direct about what Mike Solana is: a cynic who’s convinced himself he’s the hero." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-piratewires-method | Source: Mike Brock
Tue 09:45:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Cargo bikes have been around for more than a century — and they're popular elsewhere on the globe. But until a few years ago, they were all but forgotten in North America. Now they're making a comeback." ☛ https://www.npr.org/2025/10/18/nx-s1-5532087/why-some-parents-are-ditching-minivans-for-cargo-bikes | Source: NPR
Tue 09:45:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Ellis Ranch Loop Road is still there. Millions of people drive up it every year. They look down on the city, and marvel at the view." ☛ https://computer.rip/2025-10-20-ascent-to-sandia-crest-2.html | Source: J B Crawford
Tue 09:45:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Do not turn off" ☛ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/10/20/switch/ | Source: Rachel
Tue 09:46:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Scientists at the University of Surrey have discovered a simple tweak that could boost sodium-ion battery performance, by leaving water inside a key component rather than removing it." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/energy/sodium-ion-battery-breakthrough-surrey | Source: Interesting Engineering
Tue 09:46:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Bárcenas also claimed that a recent lack of clean water even led to a bout of hepatitis spreading rapidly over the summer of 2025." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/microsoft-denies-mexico-data-center-linked-to-water-shortages-local-illnesses-and-power-outages-stomach-bugs-and-even-hepatitis-reported-in-region-as-1-5-gigawatt-ai-data-center-buildout-looms | Source: Tom's Hardware
Tue 09:47:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In country after country, activists, residents and environmental organizations have banded together to oppose data centers." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/technology/ai-data-center-backlash-mexico-ireland.html | Source: New York Times
Tue 09:48:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "404 Media says that it has reviewed spreadsheets posted to the hacking group's Telegram channel containing the alleged personal data of 680 DHS officials" ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/hundreds-masked-ice-agents-doxxed-hackers-personal-details-posted-telegram | Source: Bitdefender
Tue 09:52:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The NSA gained initial access to China’s National Time Service Center systems in April 2023 by using credentials lifted from employees’ mobile devices" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/china-mss-nsa-cyberattack-timekeeping-service/ | Source: Scoop News Group
Tue 09:55:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KDE Plasma 6.5 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/KDE_Plasma_6_5_Desktop_Environment_Officially_Released_This_Is_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/KDE_Plasma_6_5_Desktop_Environment_Officially_Released_This_Is_.gmi ∎
Tue 09:56:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "After years of trying to force the online advertising and browser markets to use its new system, Google has thrown in the towel." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2947095/google-privacy-sandbox-user-tracking-initiative-is-officially-dead.html | Source: PC World
Tue 09:56:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Cameras are behind smart home advancements from navigating robot vacs to smart fridges that know what's on the shelves – but a new spin-off from Kohler has announced a new unusual smart home product: a toilet camera." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/are-you-enough-of-a-camera-nerd-to-put-one-on-your-toilet-the-kohler-dekoda-wants-to-look-in-your-loo-to-track-your-poo | Source: Digital Camera World
Tue 09:56:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The device also requires a subscription for ongoing AI analysis, priced between $70 and $156 per year, depending on the selected plan." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/ai-toilet-health-monitor-launch | Source: Interesting Engineering
Tue 09:56:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "At the same time, she reduced the $167.3 million in punitive damages a jury awarded against NSO Group in May." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/whatsapp-wins-injunction-against-nso-group-spyware-damages-reduced/ | Source: Scoop News Group
Tue 09:57:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The first step to ending our dependence on China is admitting we have a problem." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/palantir-chief-takes-a-jab-at-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-people-decrying-china-hawks-are-useful-idiots-the-first-step-to-ending-our-dependence-on-china-is-admitting-we-have-a-problem | Source: Tom's Hardware
Tue 09:58:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub) in there ☛ https://linuxiac.com/jellyfin-10-11-media-server-arrives-with-backup-support-ffmpeg-7-1-and-more/ | Source: Linuxiac
Tue 09:59:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows TCO ☛ https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-opinion/how-ransomware-economics-drives-the-global-cybercrime-industry.html | Source: IT Wire
Tue 10:00:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In an X announcement posted by a brand-new @XHandles account, the platform announced that it will soon allow users to request and even bid for inactive handles" ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/x-new-revenue-stream-inactive-handles/ | Source: Android Police
Tue 10:02:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The conclusion I’m coming to is just stick to your subscriptions and do your best to not use recommendations or for you." ☛ https://ljpuk.net/2025/10/21/you-cant-block-a-channel-on-youtube/ | Source: Lee Peterson
Tue 10:02:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "horror of YouTube" ☛ https://gilest.org/notes/youtube-horror.html | Source: Giles Turnbull
Tue 10:07:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The OODA loop—for observe, orient, decide, act—is a framework to understand decision-making in adversarial situations." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/agentic-ais-ooda-loop-problem.html | Source: Bruce Schneier
Tue 10:07:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The programme was rushed out. The Korean government spent more than 1.2 trillion won ($850 million) on the programme." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/19/south-korea-blows-850m-on-failed-ai-school-textbooks/ | Source: Pivot to AI
Tue 10:08:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "To put it another way, if we want to see good, well behaved browsers, feed readers, URL fetchers, crawlers" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/WeShouldBlockForSocialReasons | Source: University of Toronto
Tue 10:08:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Amazon Web Services suffered a cascade of failures Monday across its US-EAST-1 Region, causing multiple outages across a dizzying array of cloud services, including AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Appflow, Amazon Aurora DSQL Service and others." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/a-cascade-of-failures-a-breakdown-of-the-massive-aws-outage/ | Source: The New Stack
Tue 10:09:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took down multiple online services for several hours this morning, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, ChatGPT, Epic Games Store, Epic Online Services, and more." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/802486/aws-outage-alexa-fortnite-snapchat-offline | Source: The Verge
Tue 10:09:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The outages stemmed from Amazon's DynamoDB database application programming interfaces in US-EAST-1, and AWS said in status updates that the problem was specifically related to DNS resolution issues." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/what-that-huge-aws-outage-reveals-about-the-internet/ | Source: Wired
Tue 10:10:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When the DNS fault occurred, connected systems failed to locate database resources, triggering cascading errors in Amazon Lambda, EC2 and API Gateway operations." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/amazon-web-services-disaster-what-went-wrong-why-it-could-happen-again-1749025 | Source: International Business Times
Tue 10:11:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "AWS traced the source of the problem to something called the “DynamoDB endpoint in the US-East-1 Region,” in a pair of jargon-laden updates." ☛ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/what-to-know-about-the-amazon-web-services-outage | Source: PBS
Tue 10:12:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The file you just created won’t be synchronized until/unless you quit and restart Drive Client on machB." ☛ https://blog.kamens.us/2025/10/20/yet-another-synology-drive-client-for-linux-data-loss-bug/ | Source: Jonathan Kamens
Tue 10:16:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Outages happen. Things go down. People are people. The real question is what we can learn from the experience. I can think of a few things: [...]" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/aws-outage-last-night/ | Source: Ruben Schade
Tue 10:16:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "After installing update KB5066835, USB keyboards and mice no longer work in Windows Recovery. Microsoft is working on a fix." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2947195/windows-11-october-update-breaks-keyboard-and-mice-microsoft-warns.html | Source: PC World
Tue 10:16:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "introduced some suspicious behavioral changes" ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/self-propagating-glassworm-vs-code-supply-chain | Source: Dark Reading
Tue 10:17:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "nearly every American" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/salt_typhoon_european_telco/ | Source: The Register UK http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/05/Credit_to_Jessica_Lyons_at_The_Register_for_Covering_the_Commun.shtml
Tue 10:18:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One of the main skills you develop as you grow up is handling your own emotions. Maturity means emotional regulation – not absence or denial of emotion, but regulation." ☛ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-inevitability-of-anger/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason
Tue 10:23:20 │ 〖Sompi〗 │ schestowitz[TR2]: pong
Tue 10:35:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We have excluded others actively and passively. This is true with in American society and in libraries." ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/10/belonging-is-never-given-it-takes.html | Source: Becky Spratford
Tue 10:35:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I am writing to ask for advice. I am one year away from graduating with a BS in computer science and am considering graduate school." ☛ https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~kuipers/opinions/no-military-funding.html | Source: University of Michigan
Tue 10:37:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "Suppose you have a favorite hypothesis about the world; call it H1. You have used H1 in a number of different contexts to explain interesting observations. You would like to show that H1 is scientifically correct." ☛ https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~kuipers/opinions/null-hypothesis.html | Source: University of Michigan
Tue 10:37:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "9-16-25 is the only such triple that is also a valid date. This kind of mathematical alignment only happens once every 100 years. The next occurrence will be September 16, 2125." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/10/sept-16-2025-was-pythagorean-day.html | Source: Computational Complexity
Tue 10:37:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The past month has been a whirlwind of new tech stuff for me." ☛ https://baty.blog/2025/10/i-hit-a-tech-wall/ | Source: Jack Baty
Tue 10:38:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I grew up loving software." ☛ https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/i-never-thought-i-could-be-a-maker/ | Source: Matthew Brunelle
Tue 10:38:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Evidently, you can still craft pages in it that are accessible, readable, and search engine indexable if you use the elements in ways that make semantic sense." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/my-retro-corner-has-overtaken-my-blog/ | Source: Ruben Schade
Tue 10:38:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "the induced desires that advertising in its tentacles and social media create in us" ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2025/10/19/the-stages-of-taste/ | Source: Tracy Durnell
Tue 10:39:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Major outlets said the President dumped "brown liquid" that "appeared to be feces" in an AI-generated video. They refused to call a spade a spade, or poop, poop." ☛ https://www.404media.co/trump-no-kings-ai-poop-jet-video/ | Source: 404 Media
Tue 10:43:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Kubernetes: Autoscaling, Minikube on Debian 13, and Common Kubernetes Pitfalls ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Kubernetes_Autoscaling_Minikube_on_Debian_13_and_Common_Kuberne.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Kubernetes_Autoscaling_Minikube_on_Debian_13_and_Common_Kuberne.gmi ∎
Tue 10:43:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security Leftovers and Windows TCO ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Security_Leftovers_and_Windows_TCO.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Security_Leftovers_and_Windows_TCO.gmi ∎
Tue 10:48:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 21/10/2025: 'The Lost Art' of Neon Signs and Twitter (X) to Enable Identity Theft (or Handle Theft) as a Service ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Links_21_10_2025_The_Lost_Art_of_Neon_Signs_and_Twitter_X_to_En.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Links_21_10_2025_The_Lost_Art_of_Neon_Signs_and_Twitter_X_to_En.gmi ∎
Tue 11:04:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Techrights to Publish More EPO Leaks Next Week ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Techrights_to_Publish_More_EPO_Leaks_Next_Week.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Techrights_to_Publish_More_EPO_Leaks_Next_Week.gmi ∎
Tue 11:16:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Buying Food for Winter ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Buying_Food_for_Winter.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Buying_Food_for_Winter.gmi ∎
Tue 11:36:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Mission:Libre Has Taken Off (Project by Carmen Maris) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Mission_Libre_Has_Taken_Off_Project_by_Carmen_Maris.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Mission_Libre_Has_Taken_Off_Project_by_Carmen_Maris.gmi ∎
Tue 11:48:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Amazon Web Shenanigans Perfectly Timed for Today's Talk by Richard Stallman ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Amazon_Web_Shenanigans_Perfectly_Timed_for_Today_s_Talk_by_Rich.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Amazon_Web_Shenanigans_Perfectly_Timed_for_Today_s_Talk_by_Rich.gmi ∎
Tue 11:55:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Maybe. I think it is fair to be concerned about this being another thing people have to think about when buying a laptop. But, in my experience, less technically adept people still believe they need specific cables and chargers, even when they do not." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/normal-users-power-adapter-brouhaha/ | Source: Nick Heer
Tue 11:55:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Compare IP address prefixes the same way IANA does." ☛ https://antonz.org/accepted/netip-prefix-compare/ | Source: Anton Zhiyanov
Tue 11:56:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "we don’t need to spend a lot of time interrogating how SQL injection or a buffer overflow violates our threat model." ☛ https://alexgaynor.net/2025/oct/20/motion-to-dismiss/ | Source: Alex Gaynor
Tue 11:56:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "This post is an introduction to consistent hashing" ☛ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/consistent-hashing | Source: Eli Bendersky
Tue 12:08:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Halloweendows Next Friday ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Halloweendows_Next_Friday.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Halloweendows_Next_Friday.gmi ∎
Tue 12:17:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Proprietary Software in the Loo ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Proprietary_Software_in_the_Loo.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/Proprietary_Software_in_the_Loo.gmi ∎
Tue 12:24:10 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ http://gnu.org/philosophy/bug-nobody-allowed-to-understand.html
Tue 12:27:19 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ The Bug Nobody Allowed To Understand "hides its unreliability by hiding the code"
Tue 12:31:04 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ ...and I was right in this IRC back then
Tue 12:31:21 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ "don't trust the binaries, ALWAYS VERIFY the Source Code"
Tue 12:34:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The African Lion and the American Cowards ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/The_African_Lion_and_the_American_Cowards.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/The_African_Lion_and_the_American_Cowards.gmi ∎
Tue 12:36:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and check the binaries are made from that source code
Tue 12:36:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] inter alia, use a free compiler
Tue 12:38:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For the past decade now, I've done a Christmas release for mod_blog (only missing the years 2019 and 2023), just beacuse." ☛ https://boston.conman.org/2025/10/20.1 | Source: Sean Conner
Tue 12:38:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 2025
Tue 12:38:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Hence the title: you can write code that will run in the browser, or you can write code that calls the browser to run." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/more-control-equals-less-performance/ | Source: Jim Nielsen
Tue 12:38:34 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ Oh yeah, I forgot about the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" where the backdoor is put in the compiler itself
Tue 12:39:11 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ Someone paranoid enough will write in Assembly directly in hex machine code (true hardcore)
Tue 12:40:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Uptime Kuma ☛ https://linuxiac.com/uptime-kuma-2-0-arrives-with-mariadb-support-modern-ui-refresh/ | Source: Linuxiac
Tue 12:40:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] nsa has more staff then debian
Tue 12:40:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and red hat
Tue 12:40:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and suse
Tue 12:40:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] combined
Tue 12:40:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so it's them against you
Tue 12:40:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] plus, nsa is one of many
Tue 12:40:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in lots of counries
Tue 12:41:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Over 8 TB of data to use means “some kind of” unlimited data transfers, right? I have no idea how much time it would take to make use of it with normal use." ☛ https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2025/10/20/the-end-of-my-prepaid/ | Source: Marcin Juszkiewicz
Tue 12:42:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I love the Orange Pi Zero. It’s tiny, uses very little power and it’s just neat! It’s also the subject of the very first post on my blog, which makes it a bit special." ☛ https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/10/20/project2038/ | Source: Herman Õunapuu
Tue 12:42:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Someone managed to insert a compromised file into the downloads section of the website for Xubuntu, the official Ubuntu flavor with the Xfce desktop environment." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/xubuntu_website_compromised/ | Source: The Register UK
Tue 12:43:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "About four years ago I wrote an entry about how your SMART drive database of attribute meanings needs regular updates." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/LongRangeCalendarNeed | Source: University of Toronto
Tue 12:43:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This post collects some notes on using LaTeX to render mathematical documents and formulae, mostly focused on a Linux machine." ☛ https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/notes-on-using-latex-to-generate-formulae/ | Source: Eli Bendersky
Tue 12:43:43 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ "African Lion" and "American Cowards"
Tue 12:43:43 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ madagascar movie reference?
Tue 12:43:43 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ with dubois being the hired gun to catch the lion in question
Tue 12:44:02 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/Links_21_10_2025_The_Lost_Art_of_Neon_Signs_and_Twitter_X_to_En.shtml#m2110442507
Tue 12:44:52 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ Whenever Winblows screws up, for some reason there is no [ed: Backdoored Windows TCO] mark (like the KB5066835 blunder recently)
Tue 12:45:19 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ most of which goes to Tux Machine instead
Tue 12:46:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Enable Backports Repositories on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/enable-backports-repositories-debian-13/
Tue 12:46:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Darktable on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-darktable-rocky-linux-10/
Tue 12:51:16 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ or to be broad enough beyond just Windows, [ed: Proprietary Software TCO] or [ed: Bug Nobody Allowed to Understand] mark any time there is a blunder in the proprietary software
Tue 12:51:39 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ (latter courtesy of Dr. RMS)
Tue 12:53:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Zeek Network Security on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-zeek-network-security-rocky-linux-10/
Tue 12:53:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install ProjectSend on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-projectsend-almalinux-10/
Tue 12:53:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install LunarVim on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-lunarvim-debian-13/
Tue 12:56:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Install LMDE 7 Step-by-Step ☞ https://www.linuxtechi.com/how-to-install-lmde-7-step-by-step/
Tue 12:57:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/21/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Tue 12:57:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to grow publishing revenue in a world of declining traffic ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/how-to-grow-publishing-revenue-in-a-world-of-declining-traffic/
Tue 12:58:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Use Proprietary Chaffbot Company Whisper Voice-to-Text with NVIDIA GPU on Debian/Ubuntu ☞ https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-use-openai-whisper-voice-to-text-with-gpu-on-debian-ubuntu
Tue 12:58:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I Used This Open Source Library to Integrate OpenAI, Claude, Gemini to Websites Without API Keys ☞ https://itsfoss.com/puter-js-ai-without-api/
Tue 12:59:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nanocoder – local-first CLI coding agent ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/nanocoder-local-first-cli-coding-agent/
Tue 13:01:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft Lunduke: Freedom of Speech Means Spreading What I Have to Say and Banning People I Disagree With (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Microsoft_Lunduke_Freedom_of_Speech_Means_Spreading_What_I_Have.shtml
Tue 13:01:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dev snapshot: Godot 4.6 dev 2 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-6-dev-2/
Tue 13:02:28 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ "agence nationale de la securite" French NSA
Tue 13:03:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Suno and Udio Face New Copyright Suits from Indie Artists: ‘No Technological Innovation, Regardless of How Transformative, Can Legally or Ethically Justify Widespread Infringement’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/20/suno-udio-lawsuit-indies/
Tue 13:19:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] more like gchq
Tue 13:19:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or cesg
Tue 13:19:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in the uk
Tue 13:19:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] debian has other connections to it
Tue 13:19:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] at a very high level
Tue 13:35:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Late Night Linux – Episode 356 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-356/
Tue 13:35:20 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/21/People_Who_Attempt_to_Take_Down_Correct_Information_Need_a_Doct.shtml
Tue 13:35:27 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ the ThoughtPolice bandwagon
Tue 13:37:53 │ 〖whatA___〗 │ http://github.com/servo/servo/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/07/Rust_is_Starting_to_Seem_More_Like_Microsoft_hosted_Digital_Mao.shtml
Tue 13:37:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux User Space Episode 6:02B: The Cosmic B-Side ☞ https://www.linuxuserspace.show/602b
Tue 13:39:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ All Things Open Has More in Store for 2025, Including an Added Measure of Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/10/all-things-open-has-more-in-store-for-2025-including-an-added-measure-of-ai/
Tue 13:39:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 246: Mohamed Zohiri on the Rise and Emerging Regulation of Stablecoins ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/10/law-bytes-podcast-episode-246/
Tue 13:41:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Fall in China's exports of rare earth magnets stokes supply chain fears ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/Fall-in-Chinas-exports-of-rare-earth-magnets-stokes-supply-chain-fears
Tue 13:42:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1042680/
Tue 13:43:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Birger Schacht: A plea for ☞ https://bisco.org/notes/a-plea-for-dialog/
Tue 13:45:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ With SpaceX Behind Schedule, NASA Will Seek More Moon Lander Ideas ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/science/nasa-moon-lander-spacex.html
Tue 13:48:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 10 South Koreans arrested, two rescued in Cambodia scam crackdown ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-police-issue-warrants-for-45-scam-centre-suspects
Tue 13:48:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ South Korean park asks social control media users to remove posts promoting off-limits cliff ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-park-asks-social-media-users-to-remove-posts-promoting-off-limit-cliff
Tue 13:50:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Australia Could Be a Rare Earths Alternative to China for the U.S. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/world/australia/australia-rare-earths-china-trump.html
Tue 13:52:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc2 ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1042593/
Tue 13:52:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pete Zaitcev: Time flies ☞ https://zaitcev.livejournal.com/269356.html
Tue 13:56:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Servo Blog: Servo 0.0.1 Release ☞ https://servo.org/blog/2025/10/20/servo-0.0.1-release/
Tue 13:57:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Announcing Istio 1.26.6 ☞ https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.26.x/announcing-1.26.6/
Tue 13:57:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Announcing Istio 1.27.3 ☞ https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.27.x/announcing-1.27.3/
Tue 13:58:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ISTIO-SECURITY-2025-002 ☞ https://istio.io/latest/news/security/istio-security-2025-002/
Tue 13:59:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Announcing the release of AgensGraph v2.16.0 ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/announcing-the-release-of-agensgraph-v2160-3149/
Tue 13:59:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Many Online Services and Websites Affected by an proprietary trap AWS Outage, (Mon, Oct 20th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32386
Tue 14:00:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ SuperTuxKart 1.5 release ☞ https://blog.supertuxkart.net/2025/10/supertuxkart-15-release.html
Tue 14:04:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dinfo – detailed information about a directory ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dinfo-detailed-information-directory/
Tue 14:04:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Rill – operational BI tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rill-operational-bi-tool/
Tue 14:04:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Jimmy – convert your notes to Markdown ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/jimmy-convert-notes-markdown/
Tue 14:06:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Xubuntu's website was hacked to spread a malware, fixed now ☞ https://www.ghacks.net/2025/10/20/xubuntus-website-was-hacked-to-spread-a-malware-fixed-now/
Tue 14:06:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ teleport – modern SSH server ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/teleport-modern-ssh-server/
Tue 14:06:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Kwort – minimalist and fast GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/kwort-minimalist-fast-linux-distribution/
Tue 14:06:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 13 Best Free and Open Source Food and Drink Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/foodanddrink/
Tue 14:07:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC: AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bosgame-m4-plus-mini-pc-amd-ryzen9-7940hs/
Tue 14:07:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ CRUX – lightweight GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/crux-lightweight-linux-distribution/
Tue 14:07:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Kalorite – lightweight audio player ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/kalorite-lightweight-audio-player/
Tue 14:07:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Xubuntu website compromised to deliver crypto malware to backdoored Windows 10 refugees ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/xubuntu-website-compromised-to-deliver-crypto-malware-to-windows-10-refugees/
Tue 14:08:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 14 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Camera Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cameratools/
Tue 14:09:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux 6.18 sees large second release candidate, but everything is on track ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-618-sees-large-second-release-candidate-but-everything-is-on-track/
Tue 14:12:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc2 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Kernel_prepatch_6_18_rc2.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/20/Kernel_prepatch_6_18_rc2.gmi ∎
Tue 14:12:31 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ ACTION loves the Orange Pi RV2 more than he ever could love the Orange Pi Zero
Tue 14:13:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Barry Kauler Explains That Puppy GNU/Linux and EasyOS Exclude Systemd to Keep Things Simple ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Barry_Kauler_Explains_That_Puppy_Linux_and_EasyOS_Exclude_Syste.shtml
Tue 14:13:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Campaign of FUD Against Framework Laptops and GNU/Linux (Using Microsoft's Attack on Linux, 'Secure Boot') ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Campaign_of_FUD_Against_Framework_Laptops_and_GNU_Linux_Using_M.shtml
Tue 14:14:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft's Killing of Vista 10 Seems to Have Resulted in More Articles About GNU/Linux (But Also FUD) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/20/Microsoft_s_Killing_of_Vista_10_Seems_to_Have_Resulted_in_More_.shtml
Tue 14:14:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ US Government: 6.1% of Site Visitors Use GNU/Linux ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/19/US_Government_6_1_of_Site_Visitors_Uses_GNU_Linux.shtml
Tue 14:15:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Lenspect – New Malware Scanner App for GNU/Linux Desktop ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/10/lenspect-new-malware-scanner-app-for-linux-desktop/
Tue 14:16:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LMDE 7 Now Available ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/LMDE-7-Now-Available
Tue 14:17:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I have more NetBSD than FreeBSD installs ☞ https://rubenerd.com/i-have-more-netbsd-than-freebsd-installs/
Tue 14:17:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AWS outage last night ☞ https://rubenerd.com/aws-outage-last-night/
Tue 14:18:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Uptime Kuma 2.0 Arrives with MariaDB Support, Modern UI Refresh ☞ https://linuxiac.com/uptime-kuma-2-0-arrives-with-mariadb-support-modern-ui-refresh/
Tue 14:18:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 15.2.0-0 on Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub : New Upstream, Simpler OpenMP ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/10/20#rcpparmadillo_15.2.0-0
Tue 14:19:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft SEZ ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/microsoft-denies-mexico-data-center-linked-to-water-shortages-local-illnesses-and-power-outages-stomach-bugs-and-even-hepatitis-reported-in-region-as-1-5-gigawatt-ai-data-center-buildout-looms
Tue 14:20:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1450.jpg
Tue 14:20:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1800.jpg
Tue 14:21:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ RMS talk starts in 1.5 hours https://net.in.tum.de/events/richard_stallman_25.html https://tum.live/w/rms/62370
Tue 14:22:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Even though Speedata Publisher is available as a Debian repo, you may want to have need of the PRO version, while the recommended way to get it is to pay and support the project there is also an alternative possibility: to compile it by yourself. Here the instructions tested at October 10th, 2025." gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~freezr/gemlog/2025-10-20-speedata-publisher-pro-on-devuan-5.gmi
Tue 14:23:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Last year, I took a shot at doing advent of code in Lua. Because text is a universal interface, AoC provides inputs as text files that need to be parsed. when using a dynamically typed programming language like Lua, this can create issues when trying to compare values if you don't explicitly call type casting." gemini://tilde.town/~hush/gemlog/2025-10-20-types.gmi
Tue 14:24:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It wasn't in mod_blog [2] per se, but in the hook [3] running after an entry has been added, and therein is the bug—the entry was successfully added, but the hook failed." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/10/20.2
Tue 14:25:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For the past decade now, I've done a Christmas release for mod_blog [1] (only missing the years 2019 and 2023), just beacuse. I was poking around the codebase looking for changes I could make for Christmas this year, and well, I got a bit impatient and have just now released a version in time for Halloween." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/10/20.1
Tue 14:26:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I had two large sets of json output that should be the same. Do they match?" gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2025-10-21_Comparing_json.gmi
Tue 14:26:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Delta Chat gemini://idiomdrottning.org/om-delta-chat
Tue 14:27:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-10-21.gmi
Tue 14:31:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🔤SpellBinding: EINOSTX Wordo: IMBUE gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-10-21.gmi
Tue 14:32:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🖼️ xkcd: Emperor Palpatine #3157 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3157.gmi
Tue 14:33:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ StarGrid has arrived, a Brand-New Palm OS Strategy Game in 2025! gemini://blog.captaintouch.com/posts/2025-10-21-stargrid-has-arrived,-a-brand-new-palm-os-strategy-game-in-2025.gmi "No Palm OS device at hand? No problem, just play it on your browser thanks to the CloudPilot emulator."
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