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[02:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, July 16, 2026
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[02:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, July 16, 2026
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[02:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, July 16, 2026
[02:50]	TR News	Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-07-16.txt
● Jul 17
[06:05]	TR News	"Fashion is an ever-evolving expression of creativity which ties together innovation, culture, and commerce." https://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2026/07/fashion-and-copyright-what-designers-need-to-know/ | Source: US Library of Congress
[06:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blogs.loc.gov | Fashion and Copyright: What Designers Need to Know | Copyright
[06:05]	TR News	"Registering a copyright for a group of photos could cost as much as $30 more this fall, as the US Copyright Office has issued plans for an increase in fees." https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/the-us-copyright-office-could-drastically-increase-fees-for-photographers-this-fall-but-a-subscription-option-isnt-yet-off-the-table | Source: Digital Camera World
[06:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.digitalcameraworld.com | The US Copyright Office could drastically increase fees for photographers this fall but a subscription option isnt yet off the table | Digital Camera World
[06:05]	TR News	"The Creative Commons (CC) Open Heritage Companion is a practitioners guide developed to help cultural heritage institutions navigate the journey from closed to open collections." https://creativecommons.org/2026/07/16/cc-open-heritage-companion/ | Source: Creative Commons
[06:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-creativecommons.org | Introducing the CC Open Heritage Companion - Creative Commons
[06:06]	TR News	"The shareholder lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Delaware Chancery Court, seeks to block Paramounts $111 billion merger with WBD and also seeks unspecified monetary damages." https://variety.com/2026/film/news/david-larry-ellison-sued-paramount-side-deal-trump-warner-bros-1236812034/ | Source: Variety
[06:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-variety.com | Ellisons Sued by Paramount Investor Over Alleged Trump Side Deal for WB Approval
[06:06]	TR News	"After the deadline, affected systems will lose OneDrive features, security patches, and bug fixes, creating potential security vulnerabilities." https://www.pcworld.com/article/3192861/microsoft-is-cutting-onedrive-support-on-older-windows-10-pcs.html | Source: PC World
[06:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Microsoft is cutting OneDrive support on older Windows 10 PCs | PCWorld
[06:07]	TR News	"The plaintiffs sued in April, alleging that they had faced price hikes and risked losing viewing options as a result of the transaction." https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-subscribers-fail-injunction-merger-1236813567/ | Source: Variety
[06:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-variety.com | Paramount+ Subscribers Fail to Block Warner Bros. Merger
[06:07]	TR News	"Paramount Skydance has prevailed in its first court move to defend its Warner Bros. Discovery merger prompting the departure of a judge who initially had been assigned the high-profile antitrust case." https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2026-07-15/paramount-prevails-in-bid-for-new-judge-in-federal-antitrust-case | Source: Los Angeles Times
[06:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.latimes.com | Paramount prevails in bid for new judge in federal antitrust case - Los Angeles Times
[06:07]	TR News	Digital Restrictions (DRM) https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/14/anthropic-pisses-off-music-industry-attorney-donald-passman/ | Source: Digital Music News
[06:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/14/anthropic-pisses-off-music-industry-attorney-donald-passman/ )
[06:08]	TR News	"Now that the bill has passed and been signed by Governor Hochul" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/dont-repeat-nys-3d-printing-blunder | Source: EFF
[06:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.eff.org | Dont Repeat NYs 3D Printing Blunder | Electronic Frontier Foundation
[06:09]	TR News	"I like to think I'm a solid writer, but I completely suck at spelling and grammar. I just do. And no matter how many times I read something I've written, it seems like I can never see the typos and errors until after I've hit "publish"." gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2026-07-16-ai-bulk-proofreading-gemtext.gmi
[06:10]	TR News	"I've been studying an old NASA book, SP-367, INTRODUCTION TO THE AERODYNAMICS OF FLIGHT, by Talay (Langley Research Center). I am interested in the flight equations, in order to understand aviation physics better, and with the idea of running the calculation or models on my analog computer." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260716-0.gmi
[06:10]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1712.jpg
[06:10]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2069.jpg
[06:11]	TR News	"A person may write poetry to describe grief, paint an image to express fear, play music to release anger, take photographs to preserve memory, or write a play to explore painful relationships. Artistic creation gives shape to experiences that may otherwise remain trapped inside the mind." gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-07-16_techo-therapy.gmi
[06:12]	TR News	pine soap gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/pine_soap
[06:13]	TR News	"My desk at the new office is located in an interior room with no natural light. Both of my other coworkers like it that way, but as someone who regularly worked from my front porch at my last job, I can't stand it. Now I go on a walk around my neighborhood almost every evening, just so I can get some sunlight." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202607/20260716-sunlight-in-the-clouds.gmi
[06:17]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 17/07/2026: Sunlight in the Clouds, Techno-Therapy, and Sloppifying Original Text https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Gemini_Links_17_07_2026_Sunlight_in_the_Clouds_Techno_Therapy_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Gemini_Links_17_07_2026_Sunlight_in_the_Clouds_Techno_Therapy_a.gmi 
[06:17]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Gemini Links 17/07/2026: Sunlight in the Clouds, Techno-Therapy, and Sloppifying Original Text
[06:18]	TR News	Techrights IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 16, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_July_16_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_July_16_2026.gmi 
[06:18]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 16, 2026
[06:20]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Today_in_Techrights.gmi 
[06:20]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Today in Techrights
[06:20]	TR News	Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi 
[06:20]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Over at Tux Machines...
[06:23]	TR News	"Among the findings: Traffic stops led to immigration agents using their car to box in people 53 times" https://www.notus.org/immigration/ice-agents-force-aclu-report | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute
[06:23]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.notus.org | Report Details How Often Immigration Agents Used Force During Traffic Stops - NOTUS News of the United States
[06:24]	TR News	"When I conduct accessibility audits" https://piccalil.li/blog/use-cases-for-aria-expanded/ | Source: Andy Bell
[06:24]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-piccalil.li | Use cases for aria-expanded - Piccalilli
[06:25]	TR News	"Everybody should be talking about union density. Always." https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/union-density-is-the-cause-of-and | Source: Hamilton Nolan
[06:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.hamiltonnolan.com | Union Density Is the Cause of and Solution to Our Problems
[06:25]	TR News	"The use of force has become a 'default tool' for ICE officers" https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5891834 | Source: NPR
[06:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-text.npr.org | The use of force has become a 'default tool' for ICE officers, a new report finds
[06:25]	TR News	"One place it could have a swift impact is on Trumps attempt to sue the BBC for the way they edited a documentary about Trumps coup attempt." https://emptywheel.net/2026/07/16/to-beeb-adverse-or-not-to-beeb-that-is-the-question/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler
[06:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-emptywheel.net | To Beeb Adverse or Not to Beeb, That Is the Question - emptywheel
[06:26]	TR News	"The subpoenas to reporters for the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and New York Times in recent weeks seeking to identify the sources of important national security stories have received a lot of attention." https://dicktofel.substack.com/p/those-subpoenas-to-reporters-may | Source: Richard J Tofel
[06:26]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-dicktofel.substack.com | Those Subpoenas to Reporters May Not Be Quite What You Think
[06:26]	TR News	"DMCA Copyright strikes have become a rapidly growing tactic used by rogue organisations to manipulate Google Search, by corporations to stifle reporting and by repressive regimes to silence criticism." https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/us-copyright-law-has-been-weaponised-to-silence-reporting-around-the-world/ | Source: Press Gazette
[06:26]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pressgazette.co.uk | US copyright law has been weaponised to silence reporting around the world - Press Gazette
[06:29]	TR News	"One of the most criticised images depicts the Khor Virap monastery without its iconic backdrop of Mount Ararat." https://oc-media.org/armenia-begins-printing-new-biometric-passports-amid-design-and-birthplace-controversy/ | Source: Open Caucasus Media
[06:29]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-oc-media.org | Armenia begins printing new biometric passports amid design and birthplace controversy
[06:29]	TR News	"The cemeteries are full of indispensable people." https://crookedtimber.org/2026/07/16/55382/ | Source: Crooked Timber
[06:29]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-crookedtimber.org | The dispensable nation updated Crooked Timber
[06:31]	TR News	Unions File Unfair Labor Complaints Against Microsoft Over Decision To Unlawfully Fire Xbox Workers https://aftermath.site/xbox-layoffs-cwa-unfair-labor-practice-bethesda/
[06:31]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-aftermath.site | Unions File Unfair Labor Complaints Against Microsoft Over Decision To Unlawfully Fire Xbox Workers
[06:31]	TR News	Unions take legal action against Microsoft for allegedly mishandling Xbox layoffs https://gamedev.net/news/4520-unions-take-legal-action-against-microsoft-for-allegedly-mishandling-xbox/
[06:31]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Unions take legal action against Microsoft for allegedly mishandling Xbox | GameDev.net
[06:31]	TR News	"Marvel is, intentionally or not, following in DC Comics footsteps, who relocated from NYC to Burbank back in 2015 (to also report more closely to their corporate overlords)." https://blast-o-rama.com/2026/07/16/marvel-comics-names-new-editor-in-chief-will-relocate-to-hollywood/ | Source: Marty Day
[06:31]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Marvel Comics Names New Editor-in-Chief, Will Relocate To Hollywood blast-o-rama.
[06:32]	TR News	"The relocation was revealed to staff at a town hall Thursday at Marvels New York office in Midtown" https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/marvel-comics-new-york-la-1236650120/ | Source: Hollywood Reporter
[06:32]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.hollywoodreporter.com | Marvel Comics to Leave New York and Move Staffers to L.A.
[06:32]	TR News	"During BSDCan, the FreeBSD Foundation holds its annual meeting and Board elections." https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/understanding-the-foundation-boards-role-in-the-freebsd-ecosystem/ | Source: FreeBSD
[06:32]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-freebsdfoundation.org | Understanding the Foundation Boards Role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem | FreeBSD Foundation
[06:32]	TR News	"Generally, if an animal is alert to your presence, youre already too close" https://www.salon.com/2026/07/16/wild-animals-dont-exist-for-your-social-media-content/ | Source: Salon
[06:32]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Wild animals don't exist for your social media content - Salon.com
[06:33]	TR News	"Proven Safety Countermeasures" https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5893672 | Source: NPR
[06:33]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-text.npr.org | Bike lanes and speed cameras disappear from the DOT's list of proven safety measures
[06:33]	TR News	"As I mentioned on that 3801 post, the R-761 is my favourite locomotive of all time. And the R-766 is the spitting image of her. And now apparently we could book passage, locally!? Thats wild!" https://www.rubenerd.au/we-just-saw-the-r766-steam-past/ | Source: Ruben Schade
[06:33]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rubenerd.au | Rubenerd: Wait, we just saw the R-766 steam past!?
[06:33]	TR News	"The wooden ship, commissioned by Norwegian entrepreneur Sigurd Aase, is about 115 feet long and 25 feet wide and equipped with square sails and 50 long oars." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thisviking-longship-crossed-the-atlantic-before-starring-in-christopher-nolans-odyssey-as-odysseus-greek-galley-180989137/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine
[06:33]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.smithsonianmag.com | This Viking Longship Crossed the Atlantic Before Starring in Christopher Nolan's 'Odyssey' as Odysseus' Greek Galley
[06:34]	TR News	"Why can a project as massive as Microsofts planned 3,500-acre expansion avoid Wyomings Industrial Siting Council while wind farms and other major industrial facilities usually cannot?" https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/07/14/why-microsoft-can-skip-state-review-for-3-500-more-data-center-acres-in-cheyenne/ | Source: Cowboy State Daily
[06:34]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-cowboystatedaily.com | Why Microsoft Can Skip State Review For 3,500 More Data Center Acres In Cheyenne | Cowboy State Daily
[06:34]	TR News	"We discuss four case studies (Fig. 1): an alpine grassland, a subtropical rainforest, and two eucalypt woodlands." https://connectsci.au/bt/article/74/5/BT26036/275350/Scenarios-for-ecosystems-in-the-year-2100 |
[06:34]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://connectsci.au/bt/article/74/5/BT26036/275350/Scenarios-for-ecosystems-in-the-year-2100 )
[06:34]	TR News	"Under the EUs Batteries Regulation, portable batteries in products sold in the EU must generally be removable and replaceable by consumers." https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-adds-exemptions-portable-battery-removal-rules-2026-07-14_en |
[06:34]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-environment.ec.europa.eu | Commission adds exemptions to portable battery removal rules - Environment
[06:35]	TR News	 (NEW):  Understanding the Foundation Boards Role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Understanding_the_Foundation_Board_s_Role_in_the_FreeBSD_Ecosys.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Understanding_the_Foundation_Board_s_Role_in_the_FreeBSD_Ecosys.gmi 
[06:35]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Understanding the Foundation Boards Role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem
[06:35]	TR News	"So, how do you cool the million miles of metal that holds a country together? Paint." https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/white-rails-are-the-infrastructure-hack-we-didnt-know-we-needed/ | Source: Hackaday
[06:35]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-White Rails Are The Infrastructure Hack We Didnt Know We Needed | Hackaday
[06:35]	TR News	"Its not surprising that any attempt to remove plastic from here would catch, and likely kill, many marine organisms, because the waters of this region arent a trash-filled biological desert." https://therevelator.org/why-ocean-cleanup-has-not-solved-plastic-pollution/ | Source: The Revelator
[06:35]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-therevelator.org | Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasnt Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis The Revelator
[06:36]	TR News	"The documents, which were released on the whitehouse.gov website" https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/whitehousegov-website-crashes-as-trump-announces-release-of-declassified-election-integrity-documents-101784251133663.html | Source: Hindustan Times
[06:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.hindustantimes.com | WhiteHouse.gov website crashes as Trump announces release of declassified election integrity documents | Hindustan Times
[06:36]	TR News	"technologys widespread adoption" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/smartphones-might-be-playing-a-role-in-the-united-states-declining-birth-rate-new-research-suggests-180989129/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine
[06:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.smithsonianmag.com | Smartphones Might Be Playing a Role in the United States' Declining Birth Rate, New Research Suggests
[06:37]	TR News	"positive announcements about a new air defence mission in the Baltic region" https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2989202/nato-air-defence-pledge-for-baltics-promises-and-reality | Source: LRT
[06:37]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.lrt.lt | NATO air defence pledge for Baltics: promises and reality - LRT
[06:37]	TR News	"Australia does not criminalise extremist beliefs." https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/religious-motivation-needs-to-stay-in-our-terrorism-laws/ | Source: The Strategist
[06:37]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.aspistrategist.org.au | Religious motivation needs to stay in our terrorism laws | The Strategist
[06:37]	TR News	"But in both races, super PACs have spent far more money than the candidates" https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/abdul-el-sayed-outraises-haley-stevens-but-super-pacs-dominate-senate-race/ | Source: Bridge Michigan
[06:37]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bridgemi.com | Abdul El-Sayed outraises Haley Stevens, but super PACs dominate Senate race - Bridge Michigan
[06:38]	TR News	"cancer" https://truthout.org/articles/miller-labels-leftists-a-cancer-that-world-must-root-out-in-fascistic-speech/ | Source: TruthOut
[06:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-truthout.org | Miller Labels Leftists a Cancer That World Must Root Out in Fascistic Speech | Truthout
[06:38]	TR News	"decision by the Dsseldorf Six to break their silence appears to have been coordinated" https://digit.site36.net/2026/07/15/six-german-antifascists-deny-intent-to-kill-in-budapest-and-speak-out-in-court-also-politically/ | Source: Site36
[06:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-digit.site36.net | Six German antifascists deny intent to kill Nazis in Budapest and speak out in court - with strong political statements | Matthias Monroy
[06:38]	TR News	"Suddenly its OK to sound the alarm about the political power of billionaires." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/democracy-in-an-age-of-powermaxxing | Source: Paul Krugman
[06:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-paulkrugman.substack.com | Democracy in an Age of Powermaxxing - Paul Krugman
[06:39]	TR News	"How do you arrange society so that selfishness produces public benefit? With markets." https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/16/lucky-orifices/#invisible-hands | Source: CoryDoctorow
[06:39]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pluralistic.net | Pluralistic: Deranged billionaires and their syndromes (16 Jul 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[06:39]	TR News	"the enemy of God." https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marines-william-upham-trump/ | Source: Task And Purpose
[06:39]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-taskandpurpose.com | Marines condemn veterans disturbing statements about Trump
[06:39]	TR News	"The California legislature has stepped back from a plan that would have expanded its age-gating law" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/california-steps-back-dangerous-expansion-its-age-gating-law | Source: EFF
[06:39]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.eff.org | California Steps Back From Dangerous Expansion of its Age-Gating Law | Electronic Frontier Foundation
[06:40]	TR News	"Meta tried buying their AI-powered creep glasses a public image with celebrity sponsorships but the celebrities fans hate them. So do the other celebrities." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/15/meta-glasses-celebrity-backlash-the-fans-hate-them/ | Source: Pivot to AI
[06:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pivot-to-ai.com | By openings two or three minutes it.
[06:40]	TR News	"Since, as you know, arguing with robots is something of a hobby of mine, I uploaded my traditional driver's license." https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/07/today-in-youtubes-joke-of-a-fair-use-appeal-process-6/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski
[06:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/07/today-in-youtubes-joke-of-a-fair-use-appeal-process-6/ )
[06:43]	TR News	"Everything about this story is wonderful, from the activist groups name to the surgical vandalism to the not-so-subtle nod to the classic They live" https://manualdousuario.net/en/they-live-meta-glasses-kylie-jenner/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin
[06:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-manualdousuario.net | Meta glasses ad vandalized in London Manual do Usurio
[06:43]	TR News	"The debate over the governments proposed social media ban for under 16s has raised several difficult questions, including doubts about whether it will work, which services it will cover" https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/why-the-governments-plan-for-a-social-media-ban-in-bill-c-34-is-unconstitutional/ | Source: Michael Geist
[06:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.michaelgeist.ca | Why the Governments Plan for a Social Media Ban in Bill C-34 Is Unconstitutional - Michael Geist
[06:43]	TR News	"The German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt wants to grant secret services new operative powers." https://digit.site36.net/2026/07/15/new-laws-for-german-spies-governments-wants-more-powers-for-its-secret-services-bringing-them-closer-to-the-police/ | Source: Site36
[06:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-digit.site36.net | New laws for German spies: Governments wants more powers for its secret services, bringing them closer to the police | Matthias Monroy
[06:43]	TR News	"Daniel Solove argues in the Wall Street Journal (alternate link) that giving people control of their personal data is not an effective way to regulate privacy in this era." https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/protecting-privacy-in-an-ai-era.html | Source: Bruce Schneier
[06:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Protecting Privacy in an AI Era - Schneier on Security
[06:43]	TR News	"Officials envision Google competitors using the data to enhance the quality of their query results." https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/16/eu-orders-google-share-search-data-rivals-broaden-android-feature-access/ | Source: Silicon Angle
[06:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-EU orders Google to share search data with rivals, broaden Android feature access - SiliconANGLE
[06:44]	TR News	"Ignoring objections from grassroots organizations from diverse communities throughout the state and a litany of lies to the legislature from the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)" https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/07/16/gov-newsom-signs-law-to-upload-california-data-to-national-id-database/ | Source: Papers Please
[06:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-papersplease.org | Gov. Newsom signs law to upload California data to national ID database Papers, Please!
[06:44]	TR News	Windows TCO https://thecyberexpress.com/qantas-did-everything-right-yet-got-breached/ | Source: Cyble Inc
[06:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-thecyberexpress.com | Qantas Did Everything "Right" And Got Breached Anyway
[06:44]	TR News	Windows TCO: "Well, Anubis is the ancient Egyptian god of the dead" https://www.fortra.com/blog/anubis-ransomware | Source: Fortra LLC
[06:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.fortra.com/blog/anubis-ransomware )
[06:44]	TR News	"Tomorrow morning, WhatsApp goes dark, and its not just a short downtime, but it is a termination of the service." https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-day-whatsapp-goes-dark/ | Source: 
[06:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-xn--gckvb8fzb.com | . The Day WhatsApp Goes Dark
[06:45]	TR News	"But how do we wisely accompany a teenager whose self-worth is repeatedly tested by imperfect peers (in her mind at least) and the distortions of online recognition?" https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jul/17/our-sensitive-teen-daughters-self-worth-is-tested-by-social-media-and-peers-what-should-we-do | Source: The Guardian UK
[06:45]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theguardian.com | Our sensitive teen daughters self-worth is tested by social media and peers. What should we do? | Australian lifestyle | The Guardian
[06:45]	TR News	"Personally, slop isnt annoying per se: its okay for personal software, for example, to be slop." https://blog.yossarian.net/2026/07/16/README-not | Source: Eno Such
[06:45]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.yossarian.net | README, not
[06:46]	TR News	"I dont trust arguments this tidy, and neither should you." https://www.cringely.com/2026/07/16/the-auditors-opinion/ | Source: I Cringely
[06:46]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The Auditors Opinion | I, Cringely
[06:46]	TR News	"You can prompt-inject the chatbot by writing your attack like its one of the reasoning steps. So the chatbot just follows whatever you say as if it came up with the text itself" https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/16/todays-stupid-prompt-injection-just-write-like-the-ai/ | Source: Pivot to AI
[06:46]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pivot-to-ai.com | Listening they.
[06:46]	TR News	"I recommend David Gerards Pivot to AI if youre still interested in the topic. He still sometimes gets contributes from Amy Castor as well." https://www.rubenerd.au/gathering-all-my-thoughts-about-ai/ | Source: Ruben Schade
[06:46]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rubenerd.au | Rubenerd: Gathering all my thoughts about AI
[06:49]	TR News	"Someone used A.I. to write my biography. Thousands more of those books are polluting Amazon. Who is behind all this drivel?" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.html | Source: New York Times
[06:49]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.html )
[06:50]	TR News	"Education is not the only reason to limit AI use in writing and editing. Many of us believe the technology subtly encourages dishonesty among staffers." https://stanforddaily.com/2026/07/16/prohibiting-ai-content-at-the-daily/ | Source: Stanford University
[06:50]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-stanforddaily.com | Letter from the Editors: On prohibiting AI-generated content at The Daily
[06:50]	TR News	"mission-relevant actionable information." https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/07/16/navy-develops-strategy-to-weaponize-data-ai/ | Source: US Navy Times
[06:50]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.navytimes.com | Navy develops strategy to weaponize data, AI
[06:50]	TR News	"The memory is being put into data centers, which tech firms are expanding at incredible speed." https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/generative-ai-engineering-disaster/687901/ | Source: The Atlantic
[06:50]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theatlantic.com | Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster - The Atlantic
[06:51]	TR News	"Golden Gate Squircle Jail" https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/07/16/golden-gate-squircle-jail/ | Source: Michael Tsai
[06:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-mjtsai.com | Michael Tsai - Blog - Golden Gate Squircle Jail
[06:51]	TR News	"Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2026 delivered the companys largest security update to date" https://thecyberexpress.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-july-2026-622-flaws/ | Source: Cyble Inc
[06:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-thecyberexpress.com | Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2026 Fixes 622 Security Flaws
[06:52]	TR News	"The country is grappling with a large and fast-spreading outbreak of cyclosporiasis" https://www.wired.com/story/explosive-diarrhea-outbreak-about-to-get-bigger/ | Source: Wired
[06:52]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak Is About to Get Much Bigger | WIRED
[06:52]	TR News	"Twenty minutes later both of us started to feel distinctly "off."" https://www.cookingwildmushrooms.com/amanita-notes.html |
[06:52]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.cookingwildmushrooms.com | Amanita notes
[06:54]	TR News	"The processor was extremely successful, being used in many 8 bit microcomputers, including early personal computers, home & hobby computers, as well as many embedded, industrial applications." https://goliath32.com/blog/z80.html |
[06:54]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-goliath32.com - The Zilog Z80 has turned 50
[06:54]	TR News	"Honestly though, Im half tempted! This is clearly designed for industrial applications" https://www.rubenerd.au/a-beige-industrial-pc-case/ | Source: Ruben Schade
[06:54]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rubenerd.au | Rubenerd: A beige industrial PC case
[06:54]	TR News	"A leading-edge 2nm-class fab module with a capacity of roughly 20,000 wafer starts per month costs roughly $25 billion to $35 billion to build and equip" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-commits-another-100-billion-to-arizona-for-at-least-four-more-2nm-fabs | Source: Tom's Hardware
[06:54]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | TSMC commits another $100 billion to Arizona for at least four more 2nm fabs 2026 capex could hit $64 billion following another record quarterly earnings | Tom's Hardware
[06:55]	TR News	"Aldrin and Armstrong had just finished a three-hour walk on the moons Sea of Tranquility when they decided to get some sleep." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/buzz-aldrin-used-this-humble-felt-tip-pen-to-save-the-apollo-ii-astronauts-it-just-sold-for-more-than-850000-180989142/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine
[06:55]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.smithsonianmag.com | Buzz Aldrin Used This Humble Felt-Tip Pen to Save the Apollo II Astronauts. It Just Sold for More Than $850,000
[06:55]	TR News	"Sure thing, hello! Taanshi! My name is Brennan Kenneth Brown, I'm a Queer Red River Mtis writer and web developer." https://zacharykai.net/notes/pb/brennan | Source: Zachary Kai
[06:55]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-zacharykai.net | People and Blogs: Brennan Kenneth Brown | Zachary Kai
[06:55]	TR News	"A growing body of research and public commentary links the use of social media, smartphones, and algorithmic platforms to declining mental health and attention in young people." https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/draft-principles-for-safe-responsible-edtech/ | Source: Raspberry Pi
[06:55]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.raspberrypi.org | Building education technology that children can trust - Raspberry Pi Foundation
[06:56]	TR News	"FreeBSD Community member and former Core Representative, Dave Cottlehuber, was elected to the FreeBSD Foundation Board during the Annual Meeting on June 15, 2026." https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-welcomes-new-board-member-dave-cottlehuber/ | Source: FreeBSD
[06:56]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-freebsdfoundation.org | FreeBSD Foundation Welcomes New Board Member: Dave Cottlehuber | FreeBSD Foundation
[06:56]	TR News	"Academic publishing has long been dominated by commercial players. That fact is well-known, as are many of the problems." https://crookedtimber.org/2026/07/16/academic-publishing-as-a-public-good/ | Source: Crooked Timber
[06:56]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-crookedtimber.org | Academic publishing as a public good Crooked Timber
[06:56]	TR News	"Well, it's not actually in the background: the nebula is closer than the galaxy." https://maurycyz.com/astro/ngc7497/ | Source: Maury
[06:56]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-maurycyz.com | NGC 7497, etc. (Maurycy's blog)
[06:57]	TR News	"Although Einsteins Theory of Relativity is typically associated with really large and really heavy things like planets in solar systems and big things in universes in general" https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/even-chemical-bonds-obey-einsteins-relativity/ | Source: Hackaday
[06:57]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Even Chemical Bonds Obey Einsteins Relativity | Hackaday
[06:57]	TR News	"Launched in June of 2024, GOES-19 is one of four operational weather satellites that NOAA operates to provide forecast data and severe weather monitoring for the entire Western Hemisphere." https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/goes-19-goes-down-noaa-investigating/ | Source: Hackaday
[06:57]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-GOES-19 Goes Down, NOAA Investigating | Hackaday
[06:57]	TR News	"This image was captured by the 570-megapixel DOE-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on the NSF Vctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile." https://phys.org/news/2026-07-starry-night-redux-dark-energy.html | Source: Omicron Limited
[06:57]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://phys.org/news/2026-07-starry-night-redux-dark-energy.html )
[06:57]	TR News	"The Internet Archives focus for 2026 is: tools for participation. Participation must be earned by building an experience patrons want to return to." https://blog.archive.org/2026/07/15/google-summer-of-code-contributors-lead-projects-to-improve-open-library-patron-experience/ | Source: Internet Archive
[06:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.archive.org | Google Summer of Code Contributors Improve Open Librarys Patron Experience | Internet Archive Blogs
[06:58]	TR News	"Lately it's about what making software feels like now that machines make it too. That's a lot of ground for a first visit, so this page is the map." https://hugodaniel.com/start-here/ | Source: Hugo Daniel
[06:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hugodaniel.com | Start here
● Jul 17
[07:09]	TR News	"At Homebrew Website Club this week, Thomas mentioned the term tag healing during a discussion about tags." https://jamesg.blog/2026/07/16/website-superpowers | Source: James G
[07:09]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-jamesg.blog | Website superpowers - James' Coffee Blog
[07:09]	TR News	"Good tech support restores that footing without making the person feel foolish for losing it." https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/tech-support-is-mostly-trust-support/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch
[07:09]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.kylereddoch.me | Tech Support Is Mostly Trust Support - CybersecKyle
[07:09]	TR News	"Writing for the world is something which has ebbed and flowed for me over time. Ive always liked sharing my thoughts, starting with websites all the way back when I was a kid." https://lalitm.com/post/what-i-m-changing-after-a-year-of-blogging/ | Source: Lalit Maganti
[07:09]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-lalitm.com | What I'm Changing After A Year Of Blogging - Lalit Maganti
[07:09]	TR News	"It may sound a bit boring, but I think it's a great life motto. I also feel it's one of the most difficult things to master. Finding that magic middle way." https://robertbirming.com/lagom/ | Source: Robert Birming
[07:09]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-robertbirming.com | Lagom Robert Birming
[07:09]	TR News	"Bedrock civil rights milestones are at risk of withering away under the Trump administrationincluding in the physical sense." https://newrepublic.com/post/213128/donald-trump-frying-emancipation-proclamation-13th-amendment | Source: New Republic
[07:09]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-newrepublic.com | Trump Is Literally Frying a Rare Copy of the Emancipation Proclamation | The New Republic
[07:10]	TR News	 (NEW):  Vocalinux Turns Your Speech Into Text Without Giving Away Voice Data https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Vocalinux_Turns_Your_Speech_Into_Text_Without_Giving_Away_Voice.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Vocalinux_Turns_Your_Speech_Into_Text_Without_Giving_Away_Voice.gmi 
[07:10]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Vocalinux Turns Your Speech Into Text Without Giving Away Voice Data
[07:12]	TR News	"There are a lot more Black producers, writers and directors than they ever were before. Theyre all young. But we opened the doors." https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jul/16/hal-williams-dies | Source: The Guardian UK
[07:12]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theguardian.com | Hal Williams, actor best known for Sanford and Son and 227, dies aged 91 | US television | The Guardian
[07:12]	TR News	"Of course, Walsh put a finger on the scale with her initial example, but HEIC stands out as a favorite least favorite." https://unsung.aresluna.org/if-heic-has-no-haters-im-dead/ | Source: Marcin Wichary
[07:12]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-unsung.aresluna.org | If HEIC has no haters Im dead. Unsung
[07:12]	TR News	"We have a few problem USB hubs ourselves, so it might be worth doing this to any you have lying around. The first clue: most of the connectors on the PCB only have four pins." https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/a-usb-port-by-any-other-color/ | Source: Hackaday
[07:12]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-A USB Port By Any Other Color | Hackaday
[07:12]	TR News	"In our recent work, we proposed AstroTimer, a lightweight framework for sizing NonAccess Stratum (NAS) timers specifically for LEO Satellite Networks (LSNs)." https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/17/rethinking-non-access-stratum-timers-for-leo-satellite-constellations-in-5g-and-beyond/ | Source: APNIC
[07:12]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.apnic.net | Rethinking nonaccess stratum timers for LEO satellite constellations in 5G and beyond | APNIC Blog
[07:12]	TR News	"As part of my 2026 learning goals around Java on RISC-V" https://webtechie.be/post/first-test-of-java-on-banana-pi-arm-and-risc-v-plus-a-blinking-led-with-pi4j/ | Source: Frank Delporte
[07:12]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-First Test of Java on Banana Pi (ARM and RISC-V), Plus a Blinking LED with Pi4J webtechie.be
[07:13]	TR News	"So youve built your data pipeline" https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/07/five-pre-flight-checks-for-your-dashboard/ | Source: Rlang
[07:13]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Five pre-flight checks for your dashboard | R-bloggers
[07:13]	TR News	"This document describes differences between the 5.42.0 release and the 5.44.0 release." https://metacpan.org/dist/perl/view/pod/perldelta.pod | Source: Perl
[07:13]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 402 @ https://metacpan.org/dist/perl/view/pod/perldelta.pod )
[07:15]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi 
[07:15]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software
[07:16]	TR News	"For the past year and a half, the team building Roc's compiler has been rewriting our 300,000 lines of Rust code into Zig, for reasons I'll recap below." https://rtfeldman.com/rust-to-zig |
[07:16]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-rtfeldman.com | How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite is Going
[07:16]	TR News	"Now, we also know that the tendency of the AIs isnt to go and clean up code, reduce duplication, or focus on maintainability. Context windows (even the large ones!) cant hold entire modern repos. They miss things." https://www.rocketpoweredjetpants.com/2026/04/were-going-to-make-out-like-bandits/ |
[07:16]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rocketpoweredjetpants.com | NO TITLE
[07:16]	TR News	"A deep dive into queueing theory and auto-scaling for CI/CD build fleets, exploring when and how to optimize build infrastructure for both cost and developer productivity." https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/autoscaling-build-fleets-queueing-theory/ | Source: Ian Duncan
[07:16]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.iankduncan.com | The Mathematics of Build Queue Optimization and Auto-Scaling - Ian Duncan
[07:16]	TR News	"The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a widely used measure of the prices of goods and services" https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/07/how-much-have-prices-increased/ | Source: Rlang
[07:16]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-How much have prices increased? | R-bloggers
[07:17]	TR News	"Without that move by Sun, and other attempts at enshittification of Unix" https://blog.zgp.org/paleoenshittification-and-myterms/ | Source: Don Marti
[07:17]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.zgp.org | paleoenshittification and a path to adoption for MyTerms
[07:17]	TR News	"The French government said this year that it would replace Zoom and other American videoconference software" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/digital-autonomy-ai.html | Source: New York Times
[07:17]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/digital-autonomy-ai.html )
[07:17]	TR News	"96% of our funding comes from individuals just like you. Your generosity really matters." https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-fundraiser-extended-help-us-reach-our-goal | Source: FSF
[07:17]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.fsf.org | Fundraiser extended. Help us reach our goal and get an anti-surveillance cover Free Software Foundation Working together for free software
[07:18]	TR News	"If the time works for you and you love chatting about websites, I recommend checking out the event." https://jamesg.blog/2026/07/16/indieweb-asia-pacific | Source: James G
[07:18]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-jamesg.blog | Re: An IndieWeb Event for Southeast Asia / Pacific Time Zones - James' Coffee Blog
[07:18]	TR News	"I delivered this talk at EuroPython 2026, I'll update this blog post once the recording is available on EuroPython's YouTube channel." https://sethmlarson.dev/europython-2026-security-talk | Source: Seth Michael Larson
[07:18]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-sethmlarson.dev | EuroPython 2026: Learning from the notsosecret Python security cabal Seth Larson
[07:18]	TR News	"There is only one thing that is better than two days of HTTP workshop, and that is of course three days of HTTP workshop." https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/07/16/workshop-basel-day-three/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg
[07:18]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Workshop Basel day three | daniel.haxx.se
[07:18]	TR News	"Is the future of software that we check-in the AI prompts in the git repository and trust it to generate the correct code? Are specifications the new level of abstraction for source code?" https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/07/15/workshop-basel-day-two/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg
[07:18]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Workshop Basel day two | daniel.haxx.se
[07:18]	TR News	"Present in the room were representatives from all the worlds most prominent and used HTTP deployments: clients, browsers, CDNs, proxies and servers" https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/07/14/workshop-basel-day-one/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg
[07:18]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Workshop Basel day one | daniel.haxx.se
[07:19]	TR News	"Why am I writing a sequel already? Well, the answer is money. Or more accurately, keeping things free" https://brennan.day/300-minutes-a-month-cutting-my-eleventy-netlify-build-time-in-half/ | Source: Brennan
[07:19]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-300 Minutes a Month: Cutting My Eleventy Netlify Build Time in Half brennan.day
[07:20]	TR News	"I cant say I know for sure why seemingly every running instance of Chrome is perpetually outdated" https://catskull.net/is-your-browser-up-to-date.html | Source: Dave DeGraw
[07:20]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-catskull.net | Is your browser up to date?
[07:21]	TR News	"I don't read posts in my feed reader to look at styles, I do it to consume content - to read their thoughts." https://cleberg.net/blog/re-your-rss-reader-is-robbing-you.html | Source: Christian Cleberg
[07:21]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Re: Your RSS Reader Is Robbing You - cleberg.net
[07:22]	TR News	"The application reminds me of QGIS, which has a code base that is an order of magnitude larger" https://tech.marksblogg.com/little-navmap-flight-planning.html | Source: Mark Litwintschik
[07:22]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-tech.marksblogg.com | Flight Planning with Little Navmap
[07:22]	TR News	"Session management is one of those areas where the smart solution and the good solution turned out to be different things." https://metaredux.com/posts/2026/07/16/simplifying-session-management-in-cider.html | Source: Bozhidar Batsov
[07:22]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-metaredux.com | Simplifying Session Management in CIDER | Meta Redux
[07:23]	TR News	"If someone is an expert in Vim or Emacs, they probably spend a lot of time in it." https://sals.place/blog/text-editor-objectivity/ | Source: Sal
[07:23]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-sals.place | It's hard to find objective advice about text editors
[07:24]	TR News	"I live in an old building, and I cannot hear the doorbell from my home office, which is a huge pain." https://marco-nett.de/blog/getting-an-old-doorbell-onto-home-assistant/ | Source: Marco Nett
[07:24]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-marco-nett.de | Getting an old doorbell onto Home Assistant, powered by the bell itself - Marco Nett
[07:24]	TR News	"Almost all of the parts of the machine are identical to what youd find on a 3D printer" https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/07/16/this-cnc-hot-wire-cutter-was-created-specifically-for-making-airplane-wings/ | Source: Arduino
[07:24]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.arduino.cc | This CNC hot wire cutter was created specifically for making airplane wings | Arduino Blog
[07:25]	TR News	"PICO-EVB is our new evaluation board that turns your Pico into a real-world automation controller." https://olimex.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/new-industrial-grade-open-source-hardware-board-pico-evb-enables-your-raspberry-pi-pico-to-drive-relays-and-sense-high-voltage-inputs/ | Source: Olimex
[07:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-olimex.wordpress.com | New Industrial Grade Open Source Hardware board: PICO-EVB enables your Raspberry PI PICO to drive relays and sense High voltage inputs | olimex
[07:25]	TR News	"In the end, his demo has audio, triple-buffered video, and lyrics at 16.3 FPS." https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/bad-apple-on-a-karaoke-machine/ | Source: Hackaday
[07:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Bad Apple On A Karaoke Machine | Hackaday
[07:32]	TR News	"Today I took a look at the FreeBSD Security Advisory page to check the latest advisory count." https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2026/07/freebsd-released-most-security.html | Source: Tao Security Blog
[07:32]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-taosecurity.blogspot.com | FreeBSD Released the Most Security Advisories in Project History in June 2026
[07:32]	TR News	"The OPNsense project develops a FreeBSD-based specialist operating system (and a fork of pfSense) designed for firewalls and routers." https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12896 | Source: Distro Watch
[07:32]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-BSD Release: OPNsense 26.7 (DistroWatch.com News)
[07:32]	TR News	"OpenBSD development is an ever ongoing activity, and when the feature set of a new release has been set and the stabilization phase leading up to the release starts, -current becomes $NEXTRELEASE-beta." https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260716115231 | Source: Undeadly
[07:32]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-undeadly.org | OpenBSD moves to 8.0-beta in -current and snapshots
[07:32]	TR News	"The OpenBSD/loongson hardware platform has been retired. The commit message by Miod Vallat (miod@) explains the reason(s)." https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260716110034 | Source: Undeadly
[07:32]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-undeadly.org | OpenBSD/loongson hardware platform retired
[07:33]	TR News	 (NEW):  Does Linux really run faster than Windows? I tested both to find out https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Does_Linux_really_run_faster_than_Windows_I_tested_both_to_find.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Does_Linux_really_run_faster_than_Windows_I_tested_both_to_find.gmi 
[07:33]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Does Linux really run faster than Windows? I tested both to find out
[07:39]	TR News	"When you exec() something, you discard your current process's memory and address space to create create a new one for the new program." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/EarlyUnixExecArgvSizeLimit | Source: University of Toronto
[07:39]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-utcc.utoronto.ca | You're using a too-old browser
[07:39]	TR News	"A self-hosted notes app or dashboard usually begins as a process listening on a local port." https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/cyberseckyle-security-how-to-series-power-user-and-small-team-part-4-light-self-hosting-behind-a-reverse-proxy/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch
[07:39]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.kylereddoch.me | Light Self Hosting Behind a Reverse Proxy - CybersecKyle
[07:39]	TR News	"A common UI pattern on the web is having one element stick to another. Tooltips need to float above their targets, dropdown menus need to drop down from their triggers." https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/anchor-positioning/ | Source: Jason W Comeau
[07:39]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.joshwcomeau.com | Getting Started with Anchor Positioning Josh W. Comeau
[07:40]	TR News	"Even for those of us that are quite technically minded, we spend precious little time thinking about the cables that carry our signals and do all the important work we need them to do on a daily basis." https://hackaday.com/2026/07/16/hackaday-europe-2026-build-a-cable-modem-for-your-arduino/ | Source: Hackaday
[07:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Hackaday Europe 2026 Build A Cable Modem For Your Arduino | Hackaday
[07:40]	TR News	iophk: shills lose their credibility all the way around and are eventually discarded by those paying them to shill
[07:41]	TR News	Bruce Byfield was a shill for Microvell, Microsoft, Mono, OOXML and others. He became useless to them. jsullivan (FSF) became totally irrelevant without the FSF giving him air time. Same for Matt Lee.
[07:41]	TR News	 (NEW):  AMD driver causing massive performance loss on all major Linux distros https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/AMD_driver_causing_massive_performance_loss_on_all_major_Linux_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/AMD_driver_causing_massive_performance_loss_on_all_major_Linux_.gmi 
[07:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines AMD driver causing massive performance loss on all major Linux distros
[07:46]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux doesn't force me to use the terminalthese 3 tools prove it https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Linux_doesn_t_force_me_to_use_the_terminal_these_3_tools_prove_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Linux_doesn_t_force_me_to_use_the_terminal_these_3_tools_prove_.gmi 
[07:46]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Linux doesn't force me to use the terminalthese 3 tools prove it
[07:48]	TR News	iophk: yes, and now, with their credibility totally shot, no one will listen to them and thus no one will hire them any more
[07:48]	TR News	iophk: they brought it on themselves
[07:51]	TR News	Why is everyone freaking out about smart glasses? https://tech.yahoo.com/wearables/article/why-is-everyone-freaking-out-about-smart-glasses-150000123.html
[07:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-tech.yahoo.com | Why is everyone freaking out about smart glasses?
[07:51]	TR News	Coming up soon in Daily Links: Smart glasses / Cyberattack / US China popularity
[07:51]	TR News	"a filesystem is a hierarchical organisation of resources" https://www.sicpers.info/2026/07/end-of-line-replacing-mcp-with-standard-filesystem-tools/ | Source: SICP
[07:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.sicpers.info | End of Line: Replacing MCP with Standard Filesystem Tools | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers
[07:52]	TR News	"Unix Pipes under Load, Powering up a IBM Calculator from 1948" https://www.bsdnow.tv/672 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast
[07:52]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.bsdnow.tv | BSD Now 672: Kitchen Calculator
[07:53]	TR News	"Sorry; was that a problem?" https://danq.me/2026/07/16/reply-to-deleting-systems-you-dont-understand/ | Source: Dan Q
[07:53]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-danq.me | Reply to: Deleting Systems You Dont Understand Dan Q
[07:55]	TR News	"Since I didnt want an AI agent running random shell commands directly on my production server" https://www.tecmint.com/agentos-run-ai-coding-agents-secure-linux-sandbox/ | Source: TecMint
[07:55]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tecmint.com | agentOS : A Lightweight Linux Sandbox for AI Agents
[07:56]	TR News	"Built advanced merge logic combining unique hardware and subscription identifiers, such as MAC addresses" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-red-hat-solves-toughest-challenges-agentless-infrastructure-scanning | Source: Red Hat Official
[07:56]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.redhat.com | How Red Hat solves the toughest challenges in agentless infrastructure scanning
[07:56]	TR News	Interactive labs https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/interactive-labs-enterprise-lab-environments-ready-minutes-no-cost | Source: Red Hat Official
[07:56]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.redhat.com | Interactive labs: Enterprise lab environments, ready in minutes at no cost
[07:56]	TR News	"Navigating this need for operational predictability is challenging for organisations operating in highly sensitive environments" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/why-operational-resilience-and-digital-sovereignty-top-cio-agenda | Source: Red Hat Official
[07:56]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.redhat.com | Why Operational Resilience and Digital Sovereignty Top the CIO Agenda
[07:57]	TR News	Jagex Launcher Linux Beta released for Old School Runescape | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/jagex-launcher-linux-beta-released-for-old-school-runescape/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/jagex-launcher-linux-beta-released-for-old-school-runescape/
[07:57]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Jagex Launcher Linux Beta released for Old School Runescape | GamingOnLinux
[07:58]	TR News	Game on the go with the new Humble Handhelds Bundle | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/game-on-the-go-with-the-new-humble-handhelds-bundle/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/game-on-the-go-with-the-new-humble-handhelds-bundle/
[07:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Game on the go with the new Humble Handhelds Bundle | GamingOnLinux
[07:59]	TR News	Why is everyone freaking out about smart glasses? https://tech.yahoo.com/wearables/article/why-is-everyone-freaking-out-about-smart-glasses-150000123.html
● Jul 17
[08:00]	TR News	China and Xi are seen more favorably than the U.S. and Trump in many nations, new survey says | The Asahi Shimbun https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16731456
[08:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-China and Xi are seen more favorably than the U.S. and Trump in many nations, new survey says | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
[08:01]	TR News	Cyberattack at Nichirei leads to food shortages at eateries, stores https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16731347
[08:01]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Cyberattack at Nichirei leads to food shortages at eateries, stores | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
[08:02]	TR News	How hackers forced brewing giant Asahi back to pen and paper https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly64g5y744o
[08:02]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.bbc.com | How hackers forced brewing giant Asahi back to pen and paper
[08:07]	TR News	Techrights Nichirei and Asahi Beer Need to Take Cyberattacks as Hint of Opportunity to Move to Free Software https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Nichirei_and_Asahi_Beer_Need_to_Take_Cyberattacks_as_Hint_of_Op.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Nichirei_and_Asahi_Beer_Need_to_Take_Cyberattacks_as_Hint_of_Op.gmi 
[08:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Nichirei and Asahi Beer Need to Take Cyberattacks as Hint of Opportunity to Move to Free Software
[08:12]	TR News	Techrights Links 17/07/2026: Microsoft is Cutting OneDrive Coverage, Larry Ellisons Sued by Paramount Investor https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Links_17_07_2026_Microsoft_is_Cutting_OneDrive_Coverage_Larry_E.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Links_17_07_2026_Microsoft_is_Cutting_OneDrive_Coverage_Larry_E.gmi 
[08:12]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Links 17/07/2026: Microsoft is Cutting OneDrive Coverage, Larry Ellisons Sued by Paramount Investor
[08:14]	TR News	DRM: "Sony locked down the PS5. We're paying $10,000 to unlock it." https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/sony-locked-down-the-ps5.-we're-paying:8
[08:14]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-odysee.com | Sony locked down the PS5. We're paying $10,000 to unlock it.
[08:15]	TR News	Now the back doors get some openwashing... useless code... bad company https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/
[08:15]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/ )
[08:15]	TR News	"Heres How Long Trump Wants to Hide the Reflecting Pool From Americans | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/213115/donald-trump-hide-reflecting-pool-renovation-fence
[08:15]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-newrepublic.com | Heres How Long Trump Wants to Hide the Reflecting Pool From Americans | The New Republic
[08:15]	TR News	"Trump Fires Blue State Attorney After Less Than an Hour | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/213113/donald-trump-fires-democratic-attorney-less-hour
[08:15]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-newrepublic.com | Trump Fires Blue State Attorney After Less Than an Hour | The New Republic
[08:15]	TR News	"Judges seek to appoint U.S. attorney in Seattle as Trump picks term nears end | The Seattle Times" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/federal-judges-seek-to-appoint-u-s-attorney-in-seattle/
[08:15]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/federal-judges-seek-to-appoint-u-s-attorney-in-seattle/ )
[08:15]	TR News	"Trump Cant Admit That He Lost the Iran War | The Nation" https://www.thenation.com/article/world/iran-war-trump-defeat/
[08:15]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thenation.com | Trump Cant Admit That He Lost the Iran War | The Nation
[08:16]	TR News	"Lurade Moderaterna vljarna om Chat Control?" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/07/16/lurade-moderaterna-valjarna-om-chat-control/
[08:16]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-femtejuli-se.translate.goog | Lurade Moderaterna vljarna om Chat Control?
[08:17]	TR News	Datamuseum.dk's summer assignment | "Datamuseum.dk's sommeropgave | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/datamuseumdks-sommeropgave
[08:17]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www-version2-dk.translate.goog | Datamuseum.dk's sommeropgave | Version2
[08:19]	TR News	"The High Court in London heard Weston used Davies' images to create and run fake accounts between 2022 and 2026, calling herself "Sophie" and "Sophie Kadare"." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8xn9exg8yo
[08:19]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.bbc.co.uk | Catfishing victim gets payout for Tinder, TikTok and Instagram profiles - BBC News
[08:28]	TR News	Critical Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks https://www.securityweek.com/critical-adobe-coldfusion-vulnerability-exploited-in-attacks/
[08:28]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Critical Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks - SecurityWeek
[08:28]	TR News	CISA Reportedly Using Anthropics Mythos to Scan Government Software for Flaws https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-reportedly-using-anthropics-mythos-to-scan-government-software-for-flaws/
[08:28]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-CISA Reportedly Using Anthropics Mythos to Scan Government Software for Flaws - SecurityWeek
[08:29]	TR News	Critical Gitea Flaw Under Active Exploitation, Researchers Warn https://www.securityweek.com/critical-gitea-flaw-under-active-exploitation-researchers-warn/
[08:29]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Critical Gitea Flaw Under Active Exploitation, Researchers Warn - SecurityWeek
[08:29]	TR News	County Government Reportedly Paid $1 Million to Cyber Extortion Group https://www.securityweek.com/county-government-reportedly-paid-1-million-to-cyber-extortion-group/
[08:29]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-County Government Reportedly Paid $1 Million to Cyber Extortion Group - SecurityWeek
[08:30]	TR News	Choice Notes on History from Notes and Queries (1858) https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/choice-notes-from-notes-and-queries
[08:30]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-publicdomainreview.org | Choice Notes on History from *Notes and Queries* (1858) The Public Domain Review
[08:31]	TR News	KDE Plasma 6.6.6, Bugfix Release for July https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.6/
[08:31]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-kde.org | KDE Plasma 6.6.6, Bugfix Release for July - KDE Community
[08:31]	TR News	KDE Mega Sprint 2026 https://nolib.dev/posts/mega-sprint-2026/
[08:31]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-KDE Mega Sprint 2026 | nolib.dev
[08:32]	TR News	India Calls Out Meta Over Reported Child Sexual Abuse Imagery in Ads https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/world/asia/india-meta-child-abuse-imagery.html
[08:32]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/world/asia/india-meta-child-abuse-imagery.html )
[08:33]	TR News	Meta says state AGs seek $1.4T over youth safety claims https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/meta-says-state-ags-seek-1-4t-over-youth-safety-claims/
[08:33]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.jurist.org | Meta says state AGs seek $1.4 trillion over youth safety claims - JURIST - News
[08:35]	TR News	GitLost vulnerability let Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub s Hey Hi (AI) workflows leak private repositories https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/07/gitlost-vulnerability-let-githubs-ai-workflows-leak-private-repositories/
[08:35]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-'GitLost' vulnerability let GitHub's AI workflows leak private repositories - SiliconANGLE
[08:35]	TR News	LOL! Storage Bug on Abusive Monopolist Microsoft backdoored Windows 11 Could Eat Up 500 GB Disk Space https://itsfoss.com/news/windows-11-cam-bug/
[08:35]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-itsfoss.com | LOL! Storage Bug on Microsoft Windows 11 Could Eat Up 500 GB Disk Space
[08:36]	TR News	Viral Hey Hi (AI) fakes flood social control media as Iran mourns Khamenei https://www.france24.com/en/viral-ai-fakes-flood-social-media-as-iran-mourns-khamenei-1
[08:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/viral-ai-fakes-flood-social-media-as-iran-mourns-khamenei-1 )
[08:37]	TR News	Anon: reddit and hackernews are fraudulent and are microsoft / epstein class propaganda vehicles posing as tech sites.
[08:37]	TR News	...sn [soylentnews] is ok but very, very, very, very tiny, but I guess quality over quantity; that small size probably allows them to avoid more shilling and other attacks
[08:38]	TR News	More Odd DNS Records: NIMLOC, (Tue, Jul 7th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33128
[08:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-isc.sans.edu | More Odd DNS Records: NIMLOC - SANS Internet Storm Center
[08:39]	TR News	Steam Machines with the Red Line of Death get a simple, official cure: Clear the CMOS clearing the CMOS can revive flat(red)-lining cubes https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/mini-pcs/steam-machines-with-the-red-line-of-death-get-a-simple-official-cure-clear-the-cmos-clearing-the-cmos-can-revive-flat-red-lining-cubes
[08:39]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Steam Machines with the Red Line of Death get a simple, official cure: Clear the CMOS clearing the CMOS can revive flat(red)-lining cubes | Tom's Hardware
[08:40]	TR News	Proton Experimental brings fixes for Diablo IV, Marvel Rivals, RPGMaker Engine games | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/proton-experimental-brings-fixes-for-diablo-iv-marvel-rivals-rpgmaker-engine-games/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Proton Experimental brings fixes for Diablo IV, Marvel Rivals, RPGMaker Engine games | GamingOnLinux
[08:40]	TR News	Impressive grand-scale RTS game Beyond All Reason gets a major engine upgrade with ARM64 support | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/impressive-grand-scale-rts-game-beyond-all-reason-gets-a-major-engine-upgrade-with-arm64-support/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Impressive grand-scale RTS game Beyond All Reason gets a major engine upgrade with ARM64 support | GamingOnLinux
[08:41]	TR News	PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 gets 75% of all games playable on PC | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/playstation-3-emulator-rpcs3-gets-75-percent-of-all-games-playable-on-pc/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 gets 75% of all games playable on PC | GamingOnLinux
[08:43]	TR News	Valve announced the themed sale events for the first half of 2027 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-announced-the-themed-sale-events-for-the-first-half-of-2027/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-announced-the-themed-sale-events-for-the-first-half-of-2027/
[08:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Valve announced the themed sale events for the first half of 2027 | GamingOnLinux
[08:43]	TR News	SteamOS 3.8.15 brings a performance fix and SteamOS 3.8.23 Beta is out too | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/steamos-3-8-15-brings-a-performance-fix-and-steamos-3-8-23-beta-is-out-too/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-SteamOS 3.8.15 brings a performance fix and SteamOS 3.8.23 Beta is out too | GamingOnLinux
[08:53]	TR News	Techrights Richard Stallman Always Cautioned, Upfront, That His Political Views Were Wholly Separate From His Scientific Work or GNU https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Richard_Stallman_Always_Cautioned_Upfront_That_His_Political_Vi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Richard_Stallman_Always_Cautioned_Upfront_That_His_Political_Vi.gmi 
[08:53]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Richard Stallman Always Cautioned, Upfront, That His Political Views Were Wholly Separate From His Scientific Work or GNU
[08:57]		*psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell-social
● Jul 17
[09:00]		*psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social
[09:12]	TR News	Techrights Microsoft Has Just Been Sued Over Layoffs https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Microsoft_Has_Just_Been_Sued_Over_Layoffs.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Microsoft_Has_Just_Been_Sued_Over_Layoffs.gmi 
[09:12]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Microsoft Has Just Been Sued Over Layoffs
[09:17]	TR News	Techrights Teaser: Daniel Pocock is About to Go Mainstream Again https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Teaser_Daniel_Pocock_is_About_to_Go_Mainstream_Again.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Teaser_Daniel_Pocock_is_About_to_Go_Mainstream_Again.gmi 
[09:17]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Teaser: Daniel Pocock is About to Go Mainstream Again
[09:24]	TR News	To techrights this month: "Thank you - terribly sorry it took as long as it did to earn this mark, but we've got it now and it's not going anywhere anytime soon. :-)"
[09:32]	TR News	Techrights GitHub is Dying (Traffic Down Despite Bots and Slop), Microsoft Will Eventually Cull it - Just Like XBox - to Limit the Losses https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/GitHub_is_Dying_Traffic_Down_Despite_Bots_and_Slop_Microsoft_Wi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/GitHub_is_Dying_Traffic_Down_Despite_Bots_and_Slop_Microsoft_Wi.gmi 
[09:32]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights GitHub is Dying (Traffic Down Despite Bots and Slop), Microsoft Will Eventually Cull it - Just Like XBox - to Limit the Losses
[09:42]	TR News	Techrights "Market Share" of GNU/Linux Nearly Trebled in Cambodia This Month https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Market_Share_of_GNU_Linux_Nearly_Trebled_in_Cambodia_This_Month.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Market_Share_of_GNU_Linux_Nearly_Trebled_in_Cambodia_This_Month.gmi 
[09:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights "Market Share" of GNU/Linux Nearly Trebled in Cambodia This Month
● Jul 17
[10:00]	TR News	Techrights EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part XV - Nazi-Like Thinking at the European Patent Office (EPO) Not a Thing of the Past https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/EPO_Cocaine_Communication_Manager_Part_XV_Nazi_Like_Thinking_at.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/EPO_Cocaine_Communication_Manager_Part_XV_Nazi_Like_Thinking_at.gmi 
[10:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part XV - Nazi-Like Thinking at the European Patent Office (EPO) Not a Thing of the Past
[10:15]	TR News	Techrights The Register MS is Publishing Spam for Gartner Group to Spread Hype About "AI", Mentioned 30 Times in the Paid (Fake) Article https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/The_Register_MS_is_Publishing_Spam_for_Gartner_Group_to_Spread_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/The_Register_MS_is_Publishing_Spam_for_Gartner_Group_to_Spread_.gmi 
[10:15]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights The Register MS is Publishing Spam for Gartner Group to Spread Hype About "AI", Mentioned 30 Times in the Paid (Fake) Article
[10:23]	TR News	 (NEW):  Belize: GNU/Linux Up to About 10% https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Belize_GNU_Linux_Up_to_About_10.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Belize_GNU_Linux_Up_to_About_10.gmi 
[10:23]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Belize: GNU/Linux Up to About 10%
[10:35]	TR News	 (NEW):  Productivity on the Rise Again https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Productivity_on_the_Rise_Again.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Productivity_on_the_Rise_Again.gmi 
[10:35]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Productivity on the Rise Again
[10:37]	TR News	Techrights Tux Machines Moving Onwards and Upwards https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Tux_Machines_Moving_Onwards_and_Upwards.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Tux_Machines_Moving_Onwards_and_Upwards.gmi 
[10:37]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Tux Machines Moving Onwards and Upwards
[10:55]	TR News	Techrights IBM SHAREHOLDER INVESTIGATION: Potential Securities Claims Involving International Business Machines (IBM) https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/IBM_SHAREHOLDER_INVESTIGATION_Potential_Securities_Claims_Invol.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/IBM_SHAREHOLDER_INVESTIGATION_Potential_Securities_Claims_Invol.gmi 
[10:55]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights IBM SHAREHOLDER INVESTIGATION: Potential Securities Claims Involving International Business Machines (IBM)
[10:59]	TR News	"You are going to hurt yourself, overthinking about ways to justify the despicable slimy Indian way running IBM to the ground. No excuses will erase failures of the slimy Indian" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxj5zrw0
[10:59]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxj5zrw0 )
[10:59]	TR News	"A word of encouragement and prayers to the employees at IBM and the company. Hoping for the best for you and your families." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxj5zrw0
[10:59]	TR News	"Really hoping that some day boards of directors will defer bonuses to executives based on stock and financial performance. Payout should be staged in small increments at first and larger increments not given until performance meets healthy sales and profitability. Do companies outside the US do this?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxj5zrw0
[10:59]	TR News	"I hate Arvind. He completely deserves any hate I can give and frankly deserves far more than I'm able to give. Sadly, I cannot be his retribution so hopefully his shady dealings will put him in a bright orange jumpsuit - though probably not until we have a new president " https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxj5zrw0
[10:59]	TR News	"they have much stronger employment laws so its harder to fire or layoff people than it is in the US. Thats not to say that they can't layoff people, but its harder to do, takes longer, and they have to pay out more when doing it" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxj5zrw0
[10:59]	TR News	"Was there really any major benefits to Arvinds RTO policy" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxj5zrw0
● Jul 17
[11:00]	TR News	"25% this week, 33% over the last month and a half. That's something to be proud of? Maybe give Arvind another bonus?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxnjzamw
[11:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxnjzamw )
[11:00]	TR News	IBM at "$204 Right now. Fully expect $199 after the earnings call next week. Arvind's house of cards is crumbling." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxnjzamw
[11:01]	TR News	"I cannot wait to see the stock price completely plummet. Time to die, Ibm!" "This has echos of Enron tbh." "yeah I meanits only lost 25% of its value this week. . Youre an id-eee-ought and Arvind is a miserable failure and unethical POS."
[11:02]	TR News	"Fool some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time. I would like to see IBM stock decline below $100. That seems a more fair price for what little they still deliver."
[11:02]	TR News	"Wow, did I cause this when I stole the chair, microwave, and refrigerator? I currently have my eyes on a couple of speakers at one of my offices. I found a stereo system that some stupid hipster team stashed away in a back room. I hope I don't cause the company to crumble when I take them. LOL"
[11:02]	TR News	"this is fun to watch, guess the shady financial gimmicks aren't working anymore"
[11:03]	TR News	At around $100 the total "worth" of IBM will be eclipsed by its total debt
[11:25]	TR News	Techrights IBM Can Burn Pensioners to Appease Wall Street and Protect the Billionaire CEO With His Humongous Bonuses https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/IBM_Can_Burn_Pensioners_to_Appease_Wall_Street_and_Protect_the_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/IBM_Can_Burn_Pensioners_to_Appease_Wall_Street_and_Protect_the_.gmi 
[11:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights IBM Can Burn Pensioners to Appease Wall Street and Protect the Billionaire CEO With His Humongous Bonuses
[11:29]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Steam Machines, Jagex, Humble Handhelds Bundle, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Games_Steam_Machines_Jagex_Humble_Handhelds_Bundle_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Games_Steam_Machines_Jagex_Humble_Handhelds_Bundle_and_More.gmi 
[11:29]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Games: Steam Machines, Jagex, Humble Handhelds Bundle, and More
[11:31]	TR News	Microsoft Restores Player's 25-Year-Old Account With Son's Baby Photos After Nuking It Due to Hacker https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-restores-players-25-year-old-account-with-sons-baby-photos-after-nuking-it-due-to-hacker
[11:31]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.ign.com | Microsoft Restores Player's Hacked 25-Year-Old Account With Son's Baby Photos
[11:31]	TR News	Just due to backlash https://www.inkl.com/news/as-xbox-fan-goes-viral-for-losing-account-with-games-worth-thousands-of-euros-and-their-sons-baby-pictures-official-support-says-its-working-to-restore-access
[11:31]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.inkl.com | As Xbox fan goes viral for losing account with games
[11:33]	TR News	GNU/Linux up to 6% https://analytics.usa.gov/
[11:33]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-analytics.usa.gov | The US government's web traffic.
[11:54]	TR News	 (NEW):  Wayland 1.26 Is Now Available for Download with New Features and Improvements https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Wayland_1_26_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_with_New_Features_an.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Wayland_1_26_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_with_New_Features_an.gmi 
[11:54]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Wayland 1.26 Is Now Available for Download with New Features and Improvements
[11:58]	TR News	Modder builds 8,192-core GPU at home out of RISC-V microcontrollers full "graphics card" draws over 2,000 watts of power, requires a 3D printer to program https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/modder-creates-8-192-core-gpu-at-home-out-of-risc-v-microcontrollers-full-graphics-card-will-draw-over-2-000-watts-of-power-requires-a-3d-printer-to-program
[11:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Modder builds 8,192-core GPU at home out of RISC-V microcontrollers full "graphics card" draws over 2,000 watts of power, requires a 3D printer to program | Tom's Hardware
[11:58]	TR News	Woodruff: You shouldn't trust trusted publishing https://lwn.net/Articles/1081690/
[11:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Woodruff: You shouldn't trust trusted publishing [LWN.net]
[11:59]	TR News	South Korea Strengthens Law to Curb Spread of Fake News https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/world/asia/south-korea-law-fake-news.html
[11:59]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/world/asia/south-korea-law-fake-news.html )
[11:59]	TR News	Indian court orders government to unblock Cockroach partys X account https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/indian-court-orders-government-to-unblock-cockroach-partys-x-account
[11:59]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Indian court orders government to unblock Cockroach partys X account | The Straits Times
[11:59]	TR News	Sophie Herold: Accessibility in GNOME https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2026/07/07/accessibility-in-gnome/
[11:59]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blogs.gnome.org | Accessibility in GNOME Sophie's Blog
● Jul 17
[12:00]	TR News	Hylke Bons: Icon for Demostage https://planetpeanut.studio/post/2026/07/07/demostage
[12:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-planetpeanut.studio | Icon for Demostage Planet Peanut Studio
[12:00]	TR News	The power of APIs: The unsung hero of Hey Hi (AI) interface https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2026/07/07/the-power-of-apis-the-unsung-hero-of-ai-interface/
[12:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.collabora.com | The power of APIs: The unsung hero of AI interface
[12:04]	TR News	Whole or Apportioned: Sunoco Asks the Supreme Court to Rethink Lost Profits https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/07/whole-or-apportioned-sunoco-asks-the-supreme-court-to-rethink-lost-profits.html
[12:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-patentlyo.com | Whole or Apportioned: Sunoco Asks the Supreme Court to Rethink Lost Profits | Patently-O
[12:05]	TR News	Intel patent monopoly reveals new XBM memory architecture that ditches HBM's costly silicon interposer https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/intel-patent-reveals-new-xbm-memory-architecture-that-ditches-hbms-costly-silicon-interposer-backend-transistor-dram-stack-uses-ucie-links-and-built-in-repair-to-ease-ais-memory-bottleneck
[12:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Intel patent reveals new XBM memory architecture that ditches HBM's costly silicon interposer backend-transistor DRAM stack uses UCIe links and built-in repair to ease AI's memory bottleneck | Tom's Hardware
[12:05]	TR News	Munich Regional Court finds Innoscience GaN chips infringe further Infineon patent monopoly https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/munich-regional-court-finds-innoscience-gan-chips-infringe-further-infineon-patent/
[12:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.juve-patent.com | Munich Regional Court finds Innoscience GaN chips infringe further Infineon patent
[12:05]	TR News	Mewburn Ellis strengthens patent monopoly litigation team with SEP specialist https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/mewburn-ellis-strengthens-patent-litigation-team-with-sep-specialist/
[12:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.juve-patent.com | Mewburn Ellis strengthens patent litigation team with SEP specialist
[12:05]	TR News	[CE] [TH] USF Denounces Mounting Pressures on EPO Workforce https://suepo.org/usf_denounces_mounting_pressures_on_epo_workforce/d-50244
[12:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-suepo.org | 
[12:06]	TR News	ESP32-C5 devkit offers 2.8-inch capacitive touch display, dual-band Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, LiPo battery support https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/07/esp32-c5-devkit-offers-2-8-inch-capacitive-touch-display-dual-band-wi-fi-6-bluetooth-5-le-lipo-battery-support/
[12:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.cnx-software.com | ESP32-C5 devkit offers 2.8-inch capacitive touch display, dual-band Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, LiPo battery support - CNX Software
[12:07]	TR News	Why your RBAC linter misses privilege escalation chains (and how to fix it) https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/07/why-your-rbac-linter-misses-privilege-escalation-chains-and-how-fix-it
[12:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/07/why-your-rbac-linter-misses-privilege-escalation-chains-and-how-fix-it )
[12:07]	TR News	Visualize your cluster: Manage observability with Red Bait build of Perses https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/07/manage-observability-red-hat-build-perses
[12:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/07/manage-observability-red-hat-build-perses )
[12:08]	TR News	Jakub Kadlk: Fedora Package Review Process reimagined http://frostyx.cz/posts/fedora-package-review-process-reimagined
[12:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Fedora Package Review Process reimagined | FrostyX.cz
[12:09]	TR News	Prince Harry Loses Privacy Lawsuit Against Daily Mail Publisher https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/world/europe/prince-harry-lawsuit-daily-mail-uk-associated-newspapers.html
[12:09]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/world/europe/prince-harry-lawsuit-daily-mail-uk-associated-newspapers.html )
[12:09]	TR News	Prince Harry privacy trial judgment: Overwhelming victory for Daily Mail https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/prince-harry-mail-landmark-privacy-judgment/
[12:09]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pressgazette.co.uk | Prince Harry privacy judgment is victory for Mail (developing story)
[12:10]	TR News	Who will compensate Daily Mail now (costs)? The taxpayers? https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-53-mail-articles-vindicated-by-prince-harry-privacy-judgment/
[12:10]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pressgazette.co.uk | The 53 Mail articles vindicated by Prince Harry privacy judgment - Press Gazette
[12:10]	TR News	Thunderbird Blog: Desktop settings research: what we learned from your feedback https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/07/desktopsettings/
[12:10]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.thunderbird.net | Desktop settings research: what we learned from your feedback - The Thunderbird Blog
[12:11]	TR News	Anthropic Caught Secretly Spying on Users https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-caught-secretly-spying-on-users
[12:11]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Anthropic Caught Secretly Spying on Users
[12:44]	TR News	Techrights ServiceNow/ServiceLine and Slop at the EPO is Becoming a Health Risk to Staff https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/ServiceNow_ServiceLine_and_Slop_at_the_EPO_is_Becoming_a_Health.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/ServiceNow_ServiceLine_and_Slop_at_the_EPO_is_Becoming_a_Health.gmi 
[12:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights ServiceNow/ServiceLine and Slop at the EPO is Becoming a Health Risk to Staff
● Jul 17
[13:06]	TR News	Brett Wilson in trouble again https://caseboard.io/cases/e7b4d310-ab04-4c38-b276-22a670bdde47 new: https://www.law360.com/articles/2490059/reform-uk-s-tice-sues-dale-vince-in-widening-gaza-libel-row recent: http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/13/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_105_Out_of_200_When_Bad_Legal_Advice_Resu.shtml
[13:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-caseboard.io | Tice v Vince - Caseboard
[13:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Reform UK's Tice Sues Dale Vince In Widening Gaza Libel Row - Law360 UK
[13:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 105 Out of 200: When Bad Legal Advice Results in Your Client, Dale Vince, Ordered to Pay 600k - or 801,930 United States Dollar (USD) - to the Person Frivolously Sued (Lord Bailey of Paddington)
[13:26]	TR News	Techrights Daniel Pocock Running for Office Again, Clacton-on-Sea By-election https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Daniel_Pocock_Running_for_Office_Again_Clacton_on_Sea_By_electi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Daniel_Pocock_Running_for_Office_Again_Clacton_on_Sea_By_electi.gmi 
[13:26]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Daniel Pocock Running for Office Again, Clacton-on-Sea By-election
[13:30]	TR News	 (NEW):  Pocock-on-Sea: nomination for Clacton by-election, 13 August 2026 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Pocock_on_Sea_nomination_for_Clacton_by_election_13_August_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Pocock_on_Sea_nomination_for_Clacton_by_election_13_August_2026.gmi 
[13:31]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Pocock-on-Sea: nomination for Clacton by-election, 13 August 2026
[13:46]	TR News	 (NEW):  Winner Takes It All, the Loser Can Take 'Bronze' https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Winner_Takes_It_All_the_Loser_Can_Take_Bronze.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Winner_Takes_It_All_the_Loser_Can_Take_Bronze.gmi 
[13:46]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Winner Takes It All, the Loser Can Take 'Bronze'
● Jul 17
[14:06]	TR News	Techrights 27-Year IBM Veteran on IBM: "Worse than the Titanic and Perhaps Just Like Madoff, Enron, etc." https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/27_Year_IBM_Veteran_on_IBM_Worse_than_the_Titanic_and_Perhaps_J.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/27_Year_IBM_Veteran_on_IBM_Worse_than_the_Titanic_and_Perhaps_J.gmi 
[14:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights 27-Year IBM Veteran on IBM: "Worse than the Titanic and Perhaps Just Like Madoff, Enron, etc."
[14:29]	TR News	Techrights GNU/Linux Grows at the Expense of Microsoft Windows in Croatia, Now Close to 8% https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/GNU_Linux_Grows_at_the_Expense_of_Microsoft_Windows_in_Croatia_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/GNU_Linux_Grows_at_the_Expense_of_Microsoft_Windows_in_Croatia_.gmi 
[14:29]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights GNU/Linux Grows at the Expense of Microsoft Windows in Croatia, Now Close to 8%
[14:50]	TR News	System76 Refreshes the Lemur Laptop http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/System76-Refreshes-the-Lemur-Laptop
[14:50]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.linux-magazine.com | System76 Refreshes the Lemur Laptop Linux Magazine
[14:51]	TR News	flopped https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/dev-ports-linux-to-ataris-notorious-jaguar-console-from-1993-the-first-64-bit-console-features-2mb-of-ram-13-3-mhz-cpu-and-tom-and-jerry-co-processors-the-jag-was-notoriously-difficult-to-program-and-flopped
[14:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Dev ports Linux to Atari's notorious Jaguar console from 1993 the first 64-bit console features 2MB of RAM, 13.3 MHz CPU, and Tom and Jerry co-processors; the Jag was notoriously difficult to program and flopped | Tom's Hardware
[14:51]	TR News	Buzzwords, Hey Hi (AI) https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/07/ibm-debuts-compact-z17-mainframes-linuxone-servers-premises-enterprise-ai/
[14:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-IBM debuts compact z17 mainframes and LinuxONE servers for on-premises enterprise AI - SiliconANGLE
[14:52]	TR News	Security updates for Tuesday https://lwn.net/Articles/1081644/
[14:52]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
[14:52]	TR News	Markdown Cheatsheet https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/markdown/
[14:52]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Markdown Cheatsheet | Linuxize
● Jul 17
[15:03]	TR News	Linux Matters #85: Clearing the Decks https://linuxmatters.sh/85/
[15:03]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-linuxmatters.sh | Clearing the Decks
[15:03]	TR News	Pluralistic: How US states and international trustbusters can beat Big Tech (07 Jul 2026) https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/07/going-global/
[15:03]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pluralistic.net | Pluralistic: How US states and international trustbusters can beat Big Tech (07 Jul 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[15:03]	TR News	This E-Paper PDA Wants You to Ditch Your Smartphone for a Keyboard and Two Tiny Screens https://itsfoss.com/news/pocketmage-campaign/
[15:03]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-itsfoss.com | This E-Paper PDA Wants You to Ditch Your Smartphone for a Keyboard and Two Tiny Screens
[15:04]	TR News	Trademarks http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/07/guest-post-new-guidelines-on-eu.html
[15:04]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 404 @ https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/07/guest-post-new-guidelines-on-eu.html )
[15:04]	TR News	alternative facts http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/07/politicians-might-get-away-with.html
[15:04]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Politicians might get away with alternative facts, AI chatbot users dont - The IPKat
[15:05]	TR News	EQE facilitates fraud http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/07/guestpost-through-examiners-lens.html https://techrights.org/o/2020/03/16/doyen-for-a-yen/
[15:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ipkitten.blogspot.com | [GuestPost] Through the Examiners Lens: Understanding the New EQE Format - The IPKat
[15:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Series Index: Doyen for a Yen
[15:06]	TR News	The Rust Programming Language Blog: crates.io: development update https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/07/13/crates-io-development-update/
[15:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.rust-lang.org | crates.io: development update | Rust Blog
[15:07]	TR News	Security updates for Monday https://lwn.net/Articles/1082642/
[15:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Security updates for Monday [LWN.net]
[15:07]	TR News	Copr: Log Detective MCP server https://fedora-copr.github.io//posts/log-detective-mcp
[15:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-fedora-copr.github.io | Log Detective MCP server
[15:08]	TR News	Every Frame of a Black Hole Movie Is a Time Machine And Physicists Think We're Oversimplifying https://www.sciencealert.com/every-frame-of-a-black-hole-movie-is-a-time-machine-and-physicists-think-were-oversimplifying
[15:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Every Frame of a Black Hole Movie Is a Time Machine And Physicists Think We're Oversimplifying : ScienceAlert
[15:08]	TR News	Light Usually Speeds Things Up. Scientists Just Caught It Doing The Opposite in The Nanoworld https://www.sciencealert.com/light-can-act-as-a-quantum-brake-to-slow-movement-in-the-nanoworld-scientists-discover
[15:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Light Usually Speeds Things Up. Scientists Just Caught It Doing The Opposite in The Nanoworld : ScienceAlert
[15:08]	TR News	Chronic Constipation May Be a Gut-Brain Disorder, Scientists Say https://www.sciencealert.com/chronic-constipation-may-be-linked-to-your-guts-second-brain
[15:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Constipation May Be More Than a Simple Digestion Problem, Scientists Say : ScienceAlert
[15:08]	TR News	We Finally Know The Name of a Revered Maya Astronomer-Mathematician: Sak Tahn Waax https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-the-name-of-a-revered-maya-astronomer-mathematician-sak-tahn-waax
[15:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Hidden in a Guatemalan Ruin For 1,200 Years Was The Signature of a Maya Mathematical Genius : ScienceAlert
[15:08]	TR News	In Turning to Trade School, Gen Z Confronts an Enduring Stigma https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/style/gen-z-trade-school-careers-ai-college.html
[15:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/style/gen-z-trade-school-careers-ai-college.html )
[15:08]	TR News	How a Teacher Revived Backyard Baseball https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/style/backyard-baseball-video-game-teacher.html
[15:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/style/backyard-baseball-video-game-teacher.html )
[15:08]	TR News	A Drug Already Proven Safe in Humans Just Reduced Multiple Signs of Alzheimer's in Mice https://www.sciencealert.com/a-human-safe-drug-reduces-multiple-signs-of-alzheimers-in-mice
[15:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-A Drug Already Proven Safe in Humans Just Reduced Multiple Signs of Alzheimer's in Mice : ScienceAlert
[15:09]	TR News	Every Black Hole Image You've Ever Seen Is a Time Machine And Physicists Think We're Oversimplifying https://www.sciencealert.com/every-frame-of-a-black-hole-movie-is-a-time-machine-and-physicists-think-were-oversimplifying
[15:09]	TR News	Light Usually Speeds Things Up. Scientists Just Caught It Doing The Opposite https://www.sciencealert.com/light-can-act-as-a-quantum-brake-to-slow-movement-in-the-nanoworld-scientists-discover
[15:09]	TR News	Scientists Think They Know Why Some People Can't Poop And It Starts in The Gut's 'Second Brain https://www.sciencealert.com/chronic-constipation-may-be-linked-to-your-guts-second-brain
[15:11]	TR News	IBM down today. "Article is still on the front page of the online version, above-the-fold since it's been from time of publish. Sayonara, AK!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxpsn5nn#replies
[15:11]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxpsn5nn#replies )
[15:11]	TR News	"The BS machine has started it's spin cycle, trying to create the narrative that Arvind is some kind of hero and respected leader after he was responsible for erasing $70 billion of market value through his incompetence and financial gymnastics. #TOTALJOKE"
[15:12]	TR News	"Lol, this has nothing to do with AI. The Z17 cycle got off to an earlier start and so logically is seeing an earlier finish. That's all this is. Arvind can bark about AI Quantum Hybrid Cloud all day long, but IBM is just a legacy mainframe company with an Indian bodyshop pretending to do consulting attached to it."
[15:12]	TR News	"The wheels are going to come off next week on the earnings call when they issue Q3/4 guidance assuming they issue guidance at all which if they don't will be even worse."
[15:12]	TR News	WSJ is in the business of "pump" for IBM http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/19/Murdoch_s_Wall_Street_Journal_WSJ_Associates_Dependence_on_a_Po.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/19/Fake_News_From_Rupert_Murdoch_s_WSJ_Could_Not_Keep_IBM_From_Sin.shtml
[15:12]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Associates Dependence on a Ponzi Scheme With "the Future"
[15:12]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Fake News From Rupert Murdoch's WSJ Could Not Keep IBM From Sinking
[15:13]	TR News	"Arvind need to go, and bring someone else . He need to ask him self what he done till today? Look what Tim Cook do for Apple and what Arvind do for IBM?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxnnnqfw
[15:13]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxnnnqfw )
[15:15]	TR News	"IBM lost about 26% of stock it a lot of money about 60-70 billion. The layoffs will be the same about 25% Im sure . All happened also regarding the AI ." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxk3gwnw#replies
[15:15]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxk3gwnw#replies )
[15:34]	TR News	672: Kitchen Calculator https://www.bsdnow.tv/672
[15:34]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.bsdnow.tv | BSD Now 672: Kitchen Calculator
[15:34]	TR News	This CNC hot wire cutter was created specifically for making airplane wings https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/07/16/this-cnc-hot-wire-cutter-was-created-specifically-for-making-airplane-wings/
[15:35]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.arduino.cc | This CNC hot wire cutter was created specifically for making airplane wings | Arduino Blog
[15:35]	TR News	Workshop Basel day three https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/07/16/workshop-basel-day-three/
[15:35]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Workshop Basel day three | daniel.haxx.se
[15:36]	TR News	How much have prices increased? https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/07/how-much-have-prices-increased/
[15:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-How much have prices increased? | R-bloggers
[15:36]	TR News	Five pre-flight checks for your dashboard https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/07/five-pre-flight-checks-for-your-dashboard/
[15:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Five pre-flight checks for your dashboard | R-bloggers
[15:37]	TR News	Rethinking nonaccess stratum timers for LEO satellite constellations in 5G and beyond https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/17/rethinking-non-access-stratum-timers-for-leo-satellite-constellations-in-5g-and-beyond/
[15:37]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.apnic.net | Rethinking nonaccess stratum timers for LEO satellite constellations in 5G and beyond | APNIC Blog
[15:37]	TR News	FreeBSD Foundation Welcomes New Board Member: Dave Cottlehuber https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-welcomes-new-board-member-dave-cottlehuber/
[15:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-freebsdfoundation.org | FreeBSD Foundation Welcomes New Board Member: Dave Cottlehuber | FreeBSD Foundation
[15:38]	TR News	Understanding the Foundation Boards Role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/understanding-the-foundation-boards-role-in-the-freebsd-ecosystem/
[15:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-freebsdfoundation.org | Understanding the Foundation Boards Role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem | FreeBSD Foundation
[15:38]	TR News	A beige industrial PC case https://www.rubenerd.au/a-beige-industrial-pc-case/
[15:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rubenerd.au | Rubenerd: A beige industrial PC case
[15:40]	TR News	Someone Used Hey Hi (AI) to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me. I Dont Recommend Reading It. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.html
[15:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.html )
[15:40]	TR News	The Auditors Opinion https://www.cringely.com/2026/07/16/the-auditors-opinion/
[15:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The Auditors Opinion | I, Cringely
[15:41]	TR News	EU orders Surveillance Giant Google to share search data with rivals, broaden Android feature access https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/16/eu-orders-google-share-search-data-rivals-broaden-android-feature-access/
[15:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-EU orders Google to share search data with rivals, broaden Android feature access - SiliconANGLE
[15:41]	TR News	Protecting Privacy in an Hey Hi (AI) Era https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/protecting-privacy-in-an-ai-era.html
[15:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Protecting Privacy in an AI Era - Schneier on Security
[15:41]	TR News	Why the Governments Plan for a Social Media Ban in Bill C-34 Is Unconstitutional https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/why-the-governments-plan-for-a-social-media-ban-in-bill-c-34-is-unconstitutional/
[15:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.michaelgeist.ca | Why the Governments Plan for a Social Media Ban in Bill C-34 Is Unconstitutional - Michael Geist
[15:42]	TR News	Religious motivation needs to stay in our terrorism laws https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/religious-motivation-needs-to-stay-in-our-terrorism-laws/
[15:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.aspistrategist.org.au | Religious motivation needs to stay in our terrorism laws | The Strategist
[15:42]	TR News	Pluralistic: Deranged billionaires and their syndromes (16 Jul 2026) https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/16/lucky-orifices/
[15:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pluralistic.net | Pluralistic: Deranged billionaires and their syndromes (16 Jul 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[15:43]	TR News	"Microsoft's Secure Boot Has Been Broken for a Decade and No One Noticed Until Now - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/16/0231216 http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/16/UEFI_Secure_Boot_is_Not_Security_Another_Farce_Demonstrated_Thi.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2026/07/15/UEFI_Secure_Boot_Still_Not_Secure_in_2026_New_Holes_or_Bypasses.shtml
[15:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-soylentnews.org | Microsoft's Secure Boot Has Been Broken for a Decade and No One Noticed Until Now - SoylentNews
[15:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines UEFI 'Secure Boot' is Not Security, Another Farce Demonstrated This Week
[15:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights UEFI 'Secure Boot' Still Not Secure in 2026, New Holes (or Bypasses) Still Being Found
[15:43]	TR News	We Documented 1,200+ Actions by ICE. Here's What We Found. https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/we-documented-1200-actions-by-ice-heres-what-we-found
[15:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.aclu.org | We Documented 1,200+ Actions by ICE. Here's What We Found. | American Civil Liberties Union
[15:44]	TR News	US copyright monopoly law has been weaponised to silence reporting around the world https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/us-copyright-law-has-been-weaponised-to-silence-reporting-around-the-world/
[15:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pressgazette.co.uk | US copyright law has been weaponised to silence reporting around the world - Press Gazette
[15:45]	TR News	Introducing the CC Open Heritage Companion https://creativecommons.org/2026/07/16/cc-open-heritage-companion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cc-open-heritage-companion
[15:45]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-creativecommons.org | Introducing the CC Open Heritage Companion - Creative Commons
[15:47]	TR News	PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 Released! https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-19-beta-2-released-3350/
[15:47]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.postgresql.org | PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 Released!
[15:47]	TR News	Announcing Istio 1.30.3 https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.30.x/announcing-1.30.3/
[15:47]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-istio.io | Istio / Announcing Istio 1.30.3
[15:48]	TR News	Evaluating the EU Open Source Strategy: Strengths and Weaknesses https://toscalix.com/2026/07/16/evaluating-the-eu-open-source-strategy-strengths-and-weaknesses/
[15:48]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Evaluating the EU Open Source Strategy: Strengths and Weaknesses toscalix
[15:49]	TR News	Hamburg local division imposes penalty payments on Ningbo Blue Pluser in Brita case https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/hamburg-local-division-imposes-penalty-payments-on-ningbo-blue-pluser-in-brita-case/
[15:49]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.juve-patent.com | Hamburg local division imposes penalty payments on Ningbo Blue Pluser in Brita case
[15:50]	TR News	Modest Rule, Real Traps: The USPTOs Foreign-Applicant Representation Requirement Takes Effect July 20 https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/07/modest-rule-real-traps-the-usptos-foreign-applicant-representation-requirement-takes-effect-july-20.html
[15:50]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-patentlyo.com | Modest Rule, Real Traps: The USPTO's Foreign-Applicant Representation Requirement Takes Effect July 20
[15:50]	TR News	Announcing Istio 1.29.6 https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.29.x/announcing-1.29.6/
[15:50]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-istio.io | Istio / Announcing Istio 1.29.6
[15:59]	TR News	Techrights Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Why_Open_Source_Misses_the_Point_of_Free_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Why_Open_Source_Misses_the_Point_of_Free_Software.gmi 
[15:59]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software
● Jul 17
[16:02]	TR News	 (NEW):  Open Source Wont Save Us https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Open_Source_Won_t_Save_Us.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Open_Source_Won_t_Save_Us.gmi 
[16:02]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Open Source Wont Save Us
[16:23]	TR News	Techrights Why I Quit Academic Career (or Academia) Nearly 15 Years Ago https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Why_I_Quit_Academic_Career_or_Academia_Nearly_15_Years_Ago.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Why_I_Quit_Academic_Career_or_Academia_Nearly_15_Years_Ago.gmi 
[16:23]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Why I Quit Academic Career (or Academia) Nearly 15 Years Ago
● Jul 17
[17:01]	TR News	Mary-Dell Chilton Dies at 87; Helped Create First Genetically Modified Plant https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/science/mary-dell-chilton-dead.html
[17:01]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/science/mary-dell-chilton-dead.html )
[17:01]	TR News	Astronomers Find an Atmosphere on a Nearby Earthlike Planet https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/science/astronomy-exoplanet-atmosphere.html
[17:01]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/science/astronomy-exoplanet-atmosphere.html )
[17:02]	TR News	Ebola 'spreading faster than any previous outbreak' in DR Congo, WHO warns https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260716-ebola-spreading-faster-than-any-previous-outbreak-dr-congo-who-warns
[17:02]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260716-ebola-spreading-faster-than-any-previous-outbreak-dr-congo-who-warns )
[17:02]	TR News	US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announces testosterone screening for US troops https://www.france24.com/en/us-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-announces-testosterone-screening-for-us-troops
[17:02]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/us-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-announces-testosterone-screening-for-us-troops )
[17:02]	TR News	North Korea calls Seoul a puppet for its role in US maritime exercise https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-calls-seoul-a-puppet-for-its-role-in-us-maritime-exercise
[17:02]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | North Korea criticises South Korea's role in US maritime exercise | The Straits Times
[17:03]	TR News	South Koreas Naver to change no foreigners button after discrimination accusations https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-naver-to-change-no-foreigners-button-after-discrimination-accusations
[17:03]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | South Koreas Naver to change no foreigners button after discrimination accusations | The Straits Times
[17:03]	TR News	North Korean buildings near DMZ could be rocket infrastructure, experts say https://rfa.org/english/korea/2026/07/16/north-korea-rocket-shelter-buildings/
[17:03]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rfa.org | North Korean buildings near DMZ could be rocket infrastructure, experts say Radio Free Asia
[17:03]	TR News	Global Opinion Shifts Toward Favoring China Over the U.S., Poll Finds https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/asia/pew-opinion-survey-china-united-states.html
[17:03]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/asia/pew-opinion-survey-china-united-states.html )
[17:03]	TR News	Taiwan rejects Papua New Guineas decision to shut office in Port Moresby https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-says-papua-new-guinea-has-closed-taiwans-office-in-the-country
[17:03]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Taiwan rejects Papua New Guineas decison to shut office in Port Moresby | The Straits Times
[17:04]	TR News	China disapproves of British Steel nationalisation decision by UK https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-disapproves-of-british-steel-nationalisation-decision-by-uk
[17:04]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | China disapproves of British Steel nationalisation decision by UK | The Straits Times
[17:04]	TR News	Chinese police arrest Uyghur sisters and mother in Urumqi for sending goods to Turkey https://rfa.org/english/uyghur/2026/07/17/urumqi-xinjiang-china-police-turkey-arrest-mother-sisters/
[17:04]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rfa.org | Chinese police arrest Uyghur sisters and mother in Urumqi for sending goods to Turkey Radio Free Asia
[17:08]	TR News	Techrights In Defence of Courts' Privacy Policies https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/In_Defence_of_Courts_Privacy_Policies.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/In_Defence_of_Courts_Privacy_Policies.gmi 
[17:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights In Defence of Courts' Privacy Policies
[17:11]	TR News	"Z's are going to be a total disaster in 2027" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxpsn5nn#replies
[17:11]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxpsn5nn#replies )
[17:14]	TR News	"the slide continues, it is at $21. YEAH ... Six Flags fun ...." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxnjzamw#replies
[17:14]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxnjzamw#replies )
[17:34]	TR News	Techrights Layoffs at Microsoft Are Massive, Go Under the Radar for the Most Part https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Layoffs_at_Microsoft_Are_Massive_Go_Under_the_Radar_for_the_Mos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Layoffs_at_Microsoft_Are_Massive_Go_Under_the_Radar_for_the_Mos.gmi 
[17:34]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Layoffs at Microsoft Are Massive, Go Under the Radar for the Most Part
[17:49]	TR News	Techrights Farage Out, Daniel Pocock in? https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Farage_Out_Daniel_Pocock_in.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Farage_Out_Daniel_Pocock_in.gmi 
[17:49]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Farage Out, Daniel Pocock in?
[17:58]	TR News	 (NEW):  statCounter Reckons Over a Quarter of Laptops/Desktops in Yemen Run GNU/Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/16/statCounter_Reckons_Over_a_Quarter_of_Laptops_Desktops_in_Yemen.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/16/statCounter_Reckons_Over_a_Quarter_of_Laptops_Desktops_in_Yemen.gmi 
[17:58]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux Rises to About a Quarter of OS Usage in Iraq https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/GNU_Linux_Rises_to_About_a_Quarter_of_OS_Usage_in_Iraq.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/GNU_Linux_Rises_to_About_a_Quarter_of_OS_Usage_in_Iraq.gmi 
[17:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines statCounter Reckons Over a Quarter of Laptops/Desktops in Yemen Run GNU/Linux
[17:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines GNU/Linux Rises to About a Quarter of OS Usage in Iraq
[17:58]	TR News	Mexico in Numbers: How Mexico overtook Canada, Japan and China as top exporter to the US https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/mexico-in-numbers-mexico-exports-us-china-canada/
[17:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-mexiconewsdaily.com | Mexico in Numbers: How Mexico became top exporter to the US
[17:58]	TR News	Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: Latest from Sherwood News, GB News and News 12 https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalism-job-cuts-in-2026-updates/
[17:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pressgazette.co.uk | Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: Rolling updates - Press Gazette
[17:59]	TR News	Newsletter platform Beehiiv adds community features and programmatic advertising https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/newsletter-platform-beehiiv-adds-community-features-and-programmatic-advertising/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/12/Beehiiv_and_Substack_Are_Platform_Lock_in_Similar_to_Vendor_Loc.shtml
[17:59]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pressgazette.co.uk | Beehiiv adds community features and programmatic ads - Press Gazette
[17:59]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Beehiiv and Substack Are Platform Lock-in (Similar to Vendor Lock-in), Don't Use Beehiiv and Substack (and the Likes of These)
[17:59]	TR News	Behold, The World's Oldest Amber a Record of a World 385 Million Years Ago https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-oldest-amber-comes-from-a-world-150-million-years-before-dinosaurs
[17:59]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Behold, The World's Oldest Amber a Record of a World 385 Million Years Ago : ScienceAlert
[17:59]	TR News	Entirely New Monkey Species Discovered in The Congo Rainforest, And It Doesn't Look Impressed https://www.sciencealert.com/an-entirely-new-species-of-monkey-has-been-living-in-the-congo-rainforest-this-whole-time
[17:59]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Entirely New Monkey Species Discovered in The Congo Rainforest, And It Doesn't Look Impressed : ScienceAlert
● Jul 17
[18:00]	TR News	Nanoparticles Cross Blood-Brain Barrier in Mice to Shrink Deadly Glioblastoma https://www.sciencealert.com/sugar-coated-nanoparticles-shrink-deadly-brain-tumors-in-mice
[18:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Scientists Used Sugar to 'Trojan Horse' a Cancer Killer Into The Brain : ScienceAlert
[18:00]	TR News	Common Sleep Supplement May Also Ease Chronic Pain, Review of 23 Trials Reveals https://www.sciencealert.com/common-sleep-supplement-may-also-help-ease-chronic-pain-study-reveals
[18:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Common Sleep Supplement May Also Ease Chronic Pain, Review of 23 Trials Reveals : ScienceAlert
[18:00]	TR News	Endangered Australian Frog Shimmers Like an Opal (in an Unusual Place) https://www.sciencealert.com/endangered-australian-frog-discovered-to-shimmer-like-an-opal
[18:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Endangered Australian Frog Shimmers Like an Opal (in an Unusual Place) : ScienceAlert
[18:00]	TR News	For The First Time, Astronomers Detect An Atmosphere Around A Rocky 'Habitable Zone' Planet https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-astronomers-have-detected-an-atmosphere-around-a-rocky-planet-in-the-habitable-zone
[18:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-For The First Time Ever, an Atmosphere Has Been Detected Around A Rocky 'Habitable Zone' Planet : ScienceAlert
[18:00]	TR News	Ancient DNA Finally Solves a 16th-Century Murder Mystery https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-dna-finally-solves-a-16th-century-murder-mystery
[18:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Ancient DNA Finally Solves a 16th-Century Murder Mystery : ScienceAlert
[18:00]	TR News	Your Longevity May Be Shaped Before You're Even Born, Study Reveals https://www.sciencealert.com/your-longevity-may-be-shaped-before-youre-even-born-study-reveals
[18:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-International Group of Researchers Says We're Thinking About Longevity at The Wrong Stage of Life : ScienceAlert
[18:01]	TR News	Ancient Egyptian Princesses Were Skilled With Powerful Weapons, Lost Remains Reveal https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-egyptian-princesses-were-skilled-with-powerful-weapons-lost-remains-reveal
[18:01]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Bones of Ancient Egyptian Princesses Reveal They Were Kind of Badass : ScienceAlert
[18:01]	TR News	A notorious consulting firm is selling austerity. Canadas universities are buying https://breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-consulting-firm-is-selling-austerity-canadas-universities-are-buying/
[18:01]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-breachmedia.ca | A notorious consulting firm is selling austerity. Canadas universities are buying The Breach
[18:02]	TR News	Bangkok bar fire: Victims died of cyanide poisoning within minutes, autopsies show https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/bangkok-bar-fire-victims-died-of-cyanide-poisoning-within-minutes-autopsies-show
[18:02]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Bangkok bar fire: Victims died of cyanide poisoning within minutes, autopsies show | The Straits Times
[18:03]	TR News	New ITU Report Finds Community Networks Are Key to Reaching the Unconnected https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/07/new-itu-report-finds-community-networks-are-key-to-reaching-the-unconnected/
[18:03]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.internetsociety.org | New ITU Report Finds Community Networks Are Key to Reaching the Unconnected - Internet Society
[18:04]	TR News	Australia should welcome Japans intelligence restructure https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-should-welcome-japans-intelligence-restructure/
[18:04]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.aspistrategist.org.au | Australia should welcome Japans intelligence restructure | The Strategist
[18:04]	TR News	Australia to Put Environmental Brakes on Hey Hi (AI) Data Centers https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/world/australia/albanese-artificial-intelligence-guardrails.html
[18:04]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/world/australia/albanese-artificial-intelligence-guardrails.html )
[18:04]	TR News	The Quest for Technological Sovereignty in Europe (and Why Its So Hard) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/digital-autonomy-ai.html
[18:04]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/digital-autonomy-ai.html )
[18:05]	TR News	MElons Hey Hi (AI) Startup Is a Complete Disaster Behind the Scenes https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-ai-startup-disaster
[18:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Elon Musk's AI Startup Is a Complete Disaster Behind the Scenes
[18:05]	TR News	Terrified Tech Execs Are Traveling With Armed Bodyguards as Hey Hi (AI) Backlash Grows https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/tech-execs-armed-bodyguards-ai-backlash
[18:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Terrified Tech Execs Are Traveling With Armed Bodyguards as AI Backlash Grows
[18:05]	TR News	Short Sellers Are Having a Field Day Betting Against SpaceX as Shares Continue to Slip https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/short-sellers-field-day-spacex
[18:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Short Sellers Are Having a Field Day Betting Against SpaceX as Shares Continue to Slip
[18:06]	TR News	"Kathleen Williams' ruling that Convicted Felon is not adverse to the government may soon impact the BBC's efforts to defend against a frivolous lawsuit by Convicted Felon." https://emptywheel.net/2026/07/16/to-beeb-adverse-or-not-to-beeb-that-is-the-question/
[18:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-emptywheel.net | To Beeb Adverse or Not to Beeb, That Is the Question - emptywheel
[18:07]	TR News	US federal court ends decades-long school desegregation lawsuit in Louisiana https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/07/us-federal-court-ends-decades-long-school-desegregation-lawsuit-in-louisiana/
[18:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.jurist.org | US federal court ends decades-long school desegregation lawsuit in Louisiana - JURIST - News
[18:08]	TR News	Massachusetts Becomes the Latest State to Propose Strict Ticket Resale Price Caps Under Noah Kahan-Inspired Great Divide Act https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/16/massachusetts-ticketing-law-price-cap/
[18:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/16/massachusetts-ticketing-law-price-cap/ )
[18:11]	TR News	"I keep falling further down the rabbit hole, and I wonder if I'll be able to get back to 2026 again." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/nm03/2026/JUL2026/entry-3
[18:12]	TR News	"I think this hits upon a key consequence of coding with AI." gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2026/07/re-ai-bloat.gmi
[18:13]	TR News	Shoebox man incapable of distinguishing one person from another; that's why shoebox man ends up attacking relatives to punish people who criticise him. Shoebox man would not behave similarly had his parents and cousins been publicly blasted because he is a shill of GAFAM/Microsoft.
[18:15]	TR News	"If you've noticed that sava.rocks has been unusually quiet, you're not imagining things. Between work, the usual summer activities, and trying to spend a little less time in front of a screen, I simply haven't had much time to update my gemini capsule and gopher hole." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/SavaRocks/46070
[18:16]	TR News	"I'd rather publish something I've enjoyed writing than force myself to post just to keep an update schedule. This little corner of the internet has never been about chasing algorithms or engagement metrics. It'll get new posts when there's something worth saying and time to write the post." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/silence-doesnt-mean-abandoned-life-happened/
[18:20]	TR News	"Time to PIP the po-p out of Arvind and company. Where's that f'ing shill? He's got some splaining to do." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxrda09x#replies "The dance of the vultures is starting, circling around an almost dead. The sharks are smelling blood too."
[18:20]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxrda09x#replies )
[18:21]	TR News	"Lets see if the board members have leftover CHIPS ACT funds to buy more shares. The new admin made a change to the chips act in 2025 to let the semi & tech companies use the money for equity purchases... like stocks. Pshh... no wonder the stock prices went parabolic" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxpsn5nn#replies
[18:21]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxpsn5nn#replies )
[18:23]	TR News	"Andy Burnham declared new Labour leader on way to being next UK prime minister". Mancunian PM would be good for Techrights - better connections.
[18:31]	TR News	Techrights Andy Burnham as National Leader Would be Excellent for Techrights https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Andy_Burnham_as_National_Leader_Would_be_Excellent_for_Techrigh.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Andy_Burnham_as_National_Leader_Would_be_Excellent_for_Techrigh.gmi 
[18:31]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Andy Burnham as National Leader Would be Excellent for Techrights
[18:44]		*psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell-social
[18:48]	TR News	 (NEW):  Technical Computer Scientist and Free Software Expert Running for a Seat (Clacton-on-Sea by-Election) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Technical_Computer_Scientist_and_Free_Software_Expert_Running_f.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Technical_Computer_Scientist_and_Free_Software_Expert_Running_f.gmi 
[18:48]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Technical Computer Scientist and Free Software Expert Running for a Seat (Clacton-on-Sea by-Election)
[18:49]	TR News	Hong Kong Police Raid Independent Bookstores and Arrest 5 People https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/asia/hong-kong-bookstore-arrest-china.html
[18:50]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/asia/hong-kong-bookstore-arrest-china.html )
[18:50]	TR News	Czech citizen detained in China suspected of endangering national security https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/czech-citizen-detained-in-china-faces-espionage-investigation
[18:50]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Czech citizen detained in China suspected of endangering national security | The Straits Times
[18:50]	TR News	Dihydroxyacetone Man Has Dismantled Election Security Efforts. Heres How. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/us/politics/trump-election-security-cisa.html
[18:50]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/us/politics/trump-election-security-cisa.html )
[18:50]	TR News	After arrests, Hong Kong issues warning to booksellers https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/after-arrests-hong-kong-issues-warning-to-booksellers
[18:50]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | After arrests, Hong Kong issues warning to booksellers | The Straits Times
[18:50]	TR News	New Lithuanian PM's first calls and meeting go to Baltic neighbours https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2992082/new-lithuanian-pm-s-first-calls-and-meeting-go-to-baltic-neighbours
[18:50]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.lrt.lt | New Lithuanian PM's first calls and meeting go to Baltic neighbours - LRT
[18:51]	TR News	Law is clear: Booksellers must ensure books are lawful, says security chief after arrests but wont give list of banned titles https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/17/law-is-clear-booksellers-must-ensure-books-are-lawful-says-security-chief-after-arrests-but-wont-give-list-of-banned-titles/
[18:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hongkongfp.com | Booksellers must ensure books are lawful, says security chief after arrests
[18:51]	TR News	Navigating The OpenSSF is as Easy as Floating Down A Lazy River https://openssf.org/blog/2026/07/16/navigating-the-openssf-is-as-easy-as-floating-down-a-lazy-river/
[18:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-openssf.org | Navigating The OpenSSF is as Easy as Floating Down A Lazy River
[18:52]	TR News	Nightmare Eclipse Drops LegacyHive backdoored Windows Zero-Day https://www.securityweek.com/nightmare-eclipse-drops-legacyhive-windows-zero-day/
[18:52]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Nightmare Eclipse Drops 'LegacyHive' Windows Zero-Day - SecurityWeek
[18:53]	TR News	Chinas Top Cybersecurity Firms Hit by Mounting Military Procurement Bans https://www.securityweek.com/chinas-top-cybersecurity-firms-hit-by-mounting-military-procurement-bans/
[18:53]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-China's Top Cybersecurity Firms Hit by Mounting Military Procurement Bans - SecurityWeek
[18:53]	TR News	vulnerabilities
[18:53]	TR News	F5 Patches Multiple NGINX, BIG-IP Vulnerabilities https://www.securityweek.com/f5-patches-multiple-nginx-big-ip-vulnerabilities/
[18:53]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-F5 Patches Multiple NGINX, BIG-IP Vulnerabilities - SecurityWeek
[18:53]	TR News	Splunk, Zoom Patch Critical Vulnerabilities https://www.securityweek.com/splunk-zoom-patch-critical-vulnerabilities/
[18:53]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Splunk, Zoom Patch Critical Vulnerabilities - SecurityWeek
[18:54]	TR News	Two Scattered Spider Hackers Sentenced to Jail in UK https://www.securityweek.com/two-scattered-spider-hackers-sentenced-to-jail-in-uk/
[18:54]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Two Scattered Spider Hackers Sentenced to Jail in UK - SecurityWeek
[18:54]	TR News	Legacy Systems, Real-World Impacts: The Reality of OT Security https://www.securityweek.com/legacy-systems-real-world-impacts-the-reality-of-ot-security/
[18:54]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Legacy Systems, Real-World Impacts: The Reality of OT Security - SecurityWeek
[18:55]	TR News	EU trade relations with developing countries continue to create sustainable economic growth https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1625
[18:55]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ec.europa.eu | Press corner | European Commission
[18:56]	TR News	How to Install Stirling PDF on Raspberry Pi via Docker: A Real-World Performance Guide https://peppe8o.com/stirling-pdf-raspberry-pi-docker-benchmark/
[18:56]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-peppe8o.com | How to Install Stirling PDF on Raspberry Pi via Docker: A Real-World Performance Guide
[18:56]	TR News	Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Seeking Asylum Is Arrested by ICE https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/us/chinese-lawyer-wu-shaoping-ice-detention.html
[18:56]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/us/chinese-lawyer-wu-shaoping-ice-detention.html )
[18:57]	TR News	Old UEFI Shims Expose Systems to Secure Boot Bypass https://www.securityweek.com/old-uefi-shims-expose-systems-to-secure-boot-bypass/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/07/15/UEFI_Secure_Boot_Still_Not_Secure_in_2026_New_Holes_or_Bypasses.shtml
[18:57]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Old UEFI Shims Expose Systems to Secure Boot Bypass - SecurityWeek
[18:57]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights UEFI 'Secure Boot' Still Not Secure in 2026, New Holes (or Bypasses) Still Being Found
[18:57]	TR News	Server-side Drop Shadows https://blog.vladzahorodnii.com/2026/07/16/server-side-drop-shadows/
[18:57]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.vladzahorodnii.com | Server-side Drop Shadows Vlad Zahorodnii's Blog
[18:58]	TR News	Niko Matsakis: Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/07/15/battery-packs/?utm_source=atom_feed
[18:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-smallcultfollowing.com | Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby baby steps
● Jul 17
[19:00]	TR News	[GSoC 2026] Midterm progress on the Devices application https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/aquamatic123/2026-07-11_gsoc_2026_midterm_progress_on_the_devices_application/
[19:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.haiku-os.org | [GSoC 2026] Midterm progress on the Devices application | Haiku Project
[19:00]	TR News	Wanted: Government to fix the ICO https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/wanted-government-to-fix-the-ico/
[19:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.openrightsgroup.org | Wanted: Government to fix the ICO | Open Rights Group
[19:01]	TR News	Ubuntu 26.04 fixes trash dialog bug that defaulted to cancel https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/ubuntu-26-04-trash-dialog-cancel-button-fix
[19:01]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.omgubuntu.co.uk | Ubuntu 26.04 fixes trash dialog bug that defaulted to cancel - OMG! Ubuntu
[19:02]	TR News	Commission provides guidance to Surveillance Giant Google for Hey Hi (AI) interoperability on Android and sharing of Surveillance Giant Google Search data under the Digital Markets Act https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1634
[19:02]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ec.europa.eu | Press corner | European Commission
[19:03]	TR News	ClickLock Stealer Bypasses macOS Security With Social Engineering, Process Killing https://www.securityweek.com/clicklock-stealer-bypasses-macos-security-with-social-engineering-process-killing/
[19:03]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-'ClickLock Stealer' Bypasses macOS Security With Social Engineering, Process Killing - SecurityWeek
[19:09]	TR News	The game is up: how MENAs social control media regulations silence and control https://www.accessnow.org/mena-social-media-censorship/
[19:09]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.accessnow.org | How MENA's social media regulations silence and control
[19:10]	TR News	libtool @ Savannah: libtool-2.6.2 released [stable] https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10914
[19:10]	TR News	7 Best Free and Open Source Crystal Static Site Generators https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-crystal-static-site-generators/
[19:10]		*psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social
[19:11]	TR News	HackRF Pro SDR covers 100kHz to 6GHz with FPGA-based processing https://linuxgizmos.com/hackrf-pro-sdr-covers-100khz-to-6ghz-with-fpga-based-processing/
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[19:21]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Failed to load module HelloWorld. Reason: Not found!
[19:21]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Module HelloWorld has been removed until restarted!
[19:23]	TR News	Remapping the Useless Hey Hi (AI) Slop Copilot Key in GNU/Linux https://itsfoss.com/remap-copilot-key-linux/
[19:23]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-itsfoss.com | Remapping the Useless AI Slop Copilot Key in Linux
[19:23]	TR News	FOSS Weekly #26.29: Mint Goes Wayland, OpenBook Reader, Terminal Shortcut Tips, GNU/Linux Handheld Computers and More https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17381301/foss-weekly-26-29
[19:23]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-itsfoss.com | FOSS Weekly #26.29: Mint Goes Wayland, OpenBook Reader, Terminal Shortcut Tips, Linux Handheld Computers and More
[19:24]	TR News	Vocalinux Turns Your Speech Into Text Without Giving Away Voice Data https://itsfoss.com/news/vocalinux-beta-release/
[19:24]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-itsfoss.com | Vocalinux Turns Your Speech Into Text Without Giving Away Voice Data
[19:24]	TR News	Remi Collet: PHP version 8.4.24RC1 and 8.5.9RC1 https://blog.remirepo.net/post/2026/07/17/PHP-version-8.4.24RC1-and-8.5.9RC1
[19:24]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.remirepo.net | PHP version 8.4.24RC1 and 8.5.9RC1 - Remi's RPM repository - Blog
[19:24]	TR News	What Is stdin, stdout, and stderr in GNU/Linux https://linuxize.com/post/what-is-stdin-stdout-and-stderr-in-linux/
[19:24]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-What Is stdin, stdout, and stderr in Linux | Linuxize
[19:25]	TR News	sha256sum Cheatsheet https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/sha256sum/
[19:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-sha256sum Cheatsheet | Linuxize
[19:25]	TR News	pico-usb-wifi firmware converts the Raspberry Pi Pico W into a driverless USB WiFi adapter https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/16/pico-usb-wifi-converts-the-raspberry-pi-pico-w-into-a-driverless-usb-wifi-adapter/
[19:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.cnx-software.com | pico-usb-wifi firmware converts the Raspberry Pi Pico W into a driverless USB WiFi adapter - CNX Software
[19:26]	TR News	Layered sandboxing for Hey Hi (AI) agents: OpenShift and OpenShell https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/16/layered-sandboxing-ai-agents-openshift-and-openshell
[19:26]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/16/layered-sandboxing-ai-agents-openshift-and-openshell )
[19:34]	TR News	New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, including A Game about Chopping Trees - 2026-07-15 Edition https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-07-15-edition/index.html
[19:34]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-boilingsteam.com | New Steam Games with Native Linux Builds, including A Game about Chopping Trees - 2026-07-15 Edition
[19:34]	TR News	Fix sudo run as another user https://bkhome.org/news/202607/fix-sudo-run-as-another-user.html
[19:34]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bkhome.org | Fix sudo run as another user
[19:35]	TR News	End of Line: Replacing MCP with Standard Filesystem Tools https://www.sicpers.info/2026/07/end-of-line-replacing-mcp-with-standard-filesystem-tools/
[19:35]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.sicpers.info | End of Line: Replacing MCP with Standard Filesystem Tools | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers
[19:35]	TR News	OPNsense 26.7 https://distrowatch.com/opnsense
[19:35]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-DistroWatch.com: OPNsense
[19:37]	TR News	AMD driver causing massive performance loss on all major GNU/Linux distros https://www.neowin.net/news/amd-driver-causing-massive-performance-loss-on-all-major-linux-distros/?utm_source=rss
[19:37]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/amd-driver-causing-massive-performance-loss-on-all-major-linux-distros/?utm_source=rss )
[19:37]	TR News	How to Install Etherpad on Fedora 44 https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-etherpad-on-fedora-linux/
[19:37]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-How to Install Etherpad on Fedora 44 - LinuxCapable
[19:38]	TR News	How To Install OPNsense on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-opnsense-ubuntu-26-04/
[19:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-idroot.us | How To Install OPNsense on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - idroot
[19:38]	TR News	Godot Community Poll 2026 https://godotengine.org/article/godot-community-poll-2026/
[19:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-godotengine.org | Godot Community Poll 2026 Godot Engine
[19:39]	TR News	Value From the Beginning: The Book of Wisdoms Limit in 4DD Holdings v. United States https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/07/value-from-the-beginning-the-book-of-wisdoms-limit-in-4dd-holdings-v-united-states.html
[19:39]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-patentlyo.com | Value From the Beginning: The Book of Wisdom's Limit in 4DD Holdings v. United States
[19:39]	TR News	Bad Bunny Legal Team Fires Back Against Frankenstein Reggaeton Infringement Suit, Says a Copyright Claim Cannot Be Stitched Together from Three Separate Songs https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/16/bad-bunny-reggaeton-lawsuit-reconsider-motion/
[19:39]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/07/16/bad-bunny-reggaeton-lawsuit-reconsider-motion/ )
[19:40]	TR News	fundraiser
[19:40]	TR News	Right to Repair Fundraiser Goal Reached https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/jul/16/software-right-to-repair-baltobu-fundraiser-succes/
[19:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-sfconservancy.org | Right to Repair Fundraiser Goal Reached - Software Freedom Conservancy
[19:41]	TR News	Sloppy Linus https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linus-torvalds-rebukes-anti-ai-stances-in-the-linux-kernel-code-review-process-says-linux-is-not-one-of-those-anti-ai-projects-creator-embraces-ai-as-just-a-tool-and-clearly-a-useful-one
[19:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Linus Torvalds rebukes anti-AI stances in the Linux kernel code review process, says 'Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects' creator embraces AI as just a tool and 'clearly a useful one' | Tom's Hardware
[19:41]	TR News	75% of all PS3 games reportedly now run on PC via open-source emulator RPCS3 https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/open-source-ps3-emulator-says-its-now-compatible-with-over-75-percent-of-all-ps3-games-on-pc-rpcs3-announcement-comes-weeks-after-sony-announced-the-shuttering-of-the-playstation-store-for-ps3-and-ps-vita-by-july-2027
[19:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | 75% of all PS3 games reportedly now run on PC via open-source emulator RPCS3 announcement comes weeks after Sony's plan to shutter the PlayStation Store for PS3 and PS Vita by 2027 | Tom's Hardware
[19:41]	TR News	GNU/Linux Approaching 5% "Market Share" in Oceania, Almost Trebling in 12 Months https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/16/GNU_Linux_Approaching_5_Market_Share_in_Oceania_Almost_Trebling.shtml
[19:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights GNU/Linux Approaching 5% "Market Share" in Oceania, Almost Trebling in 12 Months
[19:42]	TR News	EU court dismisses final challenge to sanctions on Belarusian transit through Lithuania https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2992211/eu-court-dismisses-final-challenge-to-sanctions-on-belarusian-transit-through-lithuania
[19:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.lrt.lt | EU court dismisses final challenge to sanctions on Belarusian transit through Lithuania - LRT
[19:42]	TR News	LRT English Newsletter: Russia planning something? https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2992334/lrt-english-newsletter-russia-planning-something
[19:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.lrt.lt | LRT English Newsletter: Russia planning something? - LRT
[19:42]	TR News	Russian trio indicted for allegedly running bulletproof hosting providers that spurred cybercrime https://cyberscoop.com/russian-nationals-medialand-mlcloud-indicted-bulletproof-hosting/
[19:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Russian trio indicted for allegedly running bulletproof hosting providers that spurred cybercrime | CyberScoop
[19:42]	TR News	Cyber agencies warn critical industries about Russia-linked hackers https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2026/07/cyber-agencies-warn-critical-industries-about-russia-linked-hackers/
[19:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-federalnewsnetwork.com | Cyber agencies warn critical industries about Russia-linked hackers | Federal News Network
[19:42]	TR News	Turkey detaines two Russian tourists for 'reciting Bible' at Hagia Sophia https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-detaines-two-russian-tourists-for-reciting-bible-at-hagia-sophia-321553
[19:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bianet.org | Turkey detaines two Russian tourists for 'reciting Bible' at Hagia Sophia
[19:43]	TR News	What to Know About Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraines Ousted Defense Minister https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/who-mykhailo-fedorov-ukraine-defense-minister.html
[19:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/who-mykhailo-fedorov-ukraine-defense-minister.html )
[19:43]	TR News	Ukraines Minister of Defense, a Proponent of Drone Warfare, Is Forced Out https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/world/europe/ukraine-minister-of-defense-mykhailo-fedorov-zelensky-war-russia.html
[19:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/world/europe/ukraine-minister-of-defense-mykhailo-fedorov-zelensky-war-russia.html )
[19:43]	TR News	Ukraines Ousted Defense Minister Attacks the Militarys Old Guard https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/ukraine-fedorov-protests.html
[19:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/ukraine-fedorov-protests.html )
[19:43]	TR News	He Was a Russian Political Survivor, Until the Masked Men Appeared https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/world/europe/russia-politics-election-nadezhdin.html
[19:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/world/europe/russia-politics-election-nadezhdin.html )
[19:44]	TR News	Ukraine Was on a Roll. Then a Clash Over War Strategy Exploded Into View. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/ukraine-military-defense-minister-drones.html
[19:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/ukraine-military-defense-minister-drones.html )
[19:44]	TR News	Why Ukrainians have taken to the streets to protest a cabinet shuffle https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0716/russian-ukraine-war-fedorov-defense-minister-protests
[19:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Why Ukrainians are protesting a defense minister ouster - CSMonitor.com
[19:44]	TR News	Zelenskyy's Dismissal Of Defense Minister Fedorov Sparks Protests https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-defense-minister-fedorov-sacked-zelenskyy-cabinet-shuffle/33804467.html
[19:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | Zelenskyy's Dismissal Of Defense Minister Fedorov Sparks Protests
[19:44]	TR News	'What A Nightmare': Zelenskyy's Dismissal Of Defense Minister Sparks Fury In Ukraine https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-military-fedorov-zelenskyy-firing-ouster-defense-ministry/33804946.html
[19:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | 'What A Nightmare': Zelenskyy's Dismissal Of Defense Minister Sparks Fury In Ukraine
[19:44]	TR News	Protests Erupt Throughout Ukraine After Shock Dismissal Of Defense Minister https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-defense-minister-fired-protests-controversy-war/33805012.html
[19:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | Protests Erupt Throughout Ukraine After Shock Dismissal Of Defense Minister
[19:45]	TR News	US Senate Leadership Throws Weight Behind Renewed Russia Sanctions Push https://www.rferl.org/a/senate-russia-sanctions-legislation-graham-war/33805545.html
[19:45]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | US Senate Leadership Throws Weight Behind Renewed Russia Sanctions Push
[19:45]	TR News	Ukraine: Protests erupt after defence minister sacked https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260716-ukraine-protests-erupt-after-defence-minister-sacked
[19:45]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260716-ukraine-protests-erupt-after-defence-minister-sacked )
[19:45]	TR News	How rivalry with a top general brought down Ukraines popular defence minister Fedorov https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260716-how-rivalry-with-top-general-syrsky-brought-down-ukraine-popular-defence-minister-fedorov
[19:45]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260716-how-rivalry-with-top-general-syrsky-brought-down-ukraine-popular-defence-minister-fedorov )
[19:45]	TR News	Bitter row splits Ukraine's military leadership after defence minister ousted https://www.france24.com/en/bitter-row-splits-ukraine-s-military-leadership-after-defence-minister-ousted
[19:45]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/bitter-row-splits-ukraine-s-military-leadership-after-defence-minister-ousted )
[19:45]	TR News	Zelensky's dismissal of Ukraine's defence chief sparks political crisis https://www.france24.com/en/zelensky-s-dismissal-of-ukraine-s-defence-chief-sparks-political-crisis
[19:45]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/zelensky-s-dismissal-of-ukraine-s-defence-chief-sparks-political-crisis )
[19:45]	TR News	Report reveals extent of Kenyan deaths on Russian frontline https://www.france24.com/en/report-reveals-extent-of-kenyan-deaths-on-russian-frontline
[19:45]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/report-reveals-extent-of-kenyan-deaths-on-russian-frontline )
[19:46]	TR News	Why the ITCs Litigation Funding Disclosure Proposal Is Good Policy and Why It Needs Sharper Teeth https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/7/16/why-the-itcs-litigation-funding-disclosure-proposal-is-good-policy-and-why-it-needs-sharper-teeth
[19:46]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.unifiedpatents.com | Why the ITCs Litigation Funding Disclosure Proposal Is Good Policy and Why It Needs Sharper Teeth Unified Patents
[19:46]	TR News	How obs-mcp boosts AI-native OpenShift observability https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/16/how-obs-mcp-boosts-ai-native-openshift-observability
[19:46]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/07/16/how-obs-mcp-boosts-ai-native-openshift-observability )
[19:48]	TR News	Podcast Notes: Iain McGilchrist on The Great Simplification https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/podcast-notes-iain-mcgilchrist/
[19:48]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.jim-nielsen.com | Podcast Notes: Iain McGilchrist on The Great Simplification - Jim Nielsens Blog
[19:51]	TR News	American Oversight Launches Investigation Into White House Pandemic Preparedness https://americanoversight.org/pandemic-preparedness-white-house-foia/
[19:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-americanoversight.org | American Oversight Launches Investigation Into White House Pandemic Preparedness - American Oversight
[19:51]	TR News	Death at Michigan womens prison ruled suicide. Autopsy points to aspirin https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/death-at-michigan-womens-prison-ruled-suicide-autopsy-points-to-aspirin/
[19:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bridgemi.com | Death at Michigan womens prison ruled suicide. Autopsy points to aspirin - Bridge Michigan
[19:52]	TR News	OpenInfrared Point is an ESP32-S3 powered universal remote hub with Infrared, BLE, NFC, audio streaming (Crowdfunding) https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/16/openinfrared-point-esp32-s3-universal-remote-hub-infrared-ble-nfc-audio-streaming/
[19:52]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.cnx-software.com | OpenInfrared Point is an ESP32-S3 powered universal remote hub with Infrared, BLE, NFC, audio streaming (Crowdfunding) - CNX Software
[19:53]	TR News	Security updates for Thursday https://lwn.net/Articles/1083201/
[19:53]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]
[19:55]	TR News	TUXEDO 20260716 https://distrowatch.com/tuxedo
[19:55]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-DistroWatch.com: TUXEDO OS
[19:55]	TR News	ShredOS 2025.11_31 https://distrowatch.com/shredos
[19:56]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-DistroWatch.com: ShredOS
[19:56]	TR News	KLV-Airedale sr21 https://distrowatch.com/klv
[19:56]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-DistroWatch.com: KLV-Airedale
[19:56]	TR News	Kumander 3.0-rc1 https://distrowatch.com/kumander
[19:56]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-DistroWatch.com: Kumander Linux
[19:56]	TR News	Tomorrow is Another Strike Day at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the Media is Still Deliberately Ignoring It https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/16/Tomorrow_is_Another_Strike_Day_at_Europe_s_Second_Largest_Insti.shtml
[19:56]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Tomorrow is Another Strike Day at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the Media is Still Deliberately Ignoring It
[19:57]	TR News	Fears for Indian activists life after 18 days of hunger strike https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/fears-for-indian-activists-life-after-18-days-of-hunger-strike
[19:57]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Fears for Indian activists life after 18 days of hunger strike | The Straits Times
[19:57]	TR News	A 59-Year-Old Hunger Striker Joins a Gen Z Protest Movement in India https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/asia/india-sonam-wangchuk-cockroach-janata-party-hunger-strike.html
[19:57]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/asia/india-sonam-wangchuk-cockroach-janata-party-hunger-strike.html )
[19:58]	TR News	#PrivacyCamp26: Call for sessions https://edri.org/our-work/privacycamp26-call-for-sessions/
[19:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-edri.org | #PrivacyCamp26: Call for sessions - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
● Jul 17
[20:01]	TR News	The Digital Omnibus is going on summer break. Your rights are not. https://edri.org/our-work/the-digital-omnibus-is-going-on-summer-break-your-rights-are-not/
[20:01]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-edri.org | The Digital Omnibus is going on summer break. Your rights are not. - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
[20:01]	TR News	Proposed Europol reform dangerously erodes privacy, automates surveillance, and sidelines oversight https://edri.org/our-work/proposed-europol-reform-dangerously-erodes-privacy-automates-surveillance-and-sidelines-oversight/
[20:01]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-edri.org | Proposed Europol reform dangerously erodes privacy - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
[20:03]	TR News	How insurance organizations balance strict compliance with data agility https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-insurance-organizations-balance-strict-compliance-data-agility
[20:03]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.redhat.com | How insurance organizations balance strict compliance with data agility
[20:04]	TR News	The digital rulebook is fit for purpose: better enforcement is needed, not simplification https://edri.org/our-work/the-digital-rulebook-is-fit-for-purpose-better-enforcement-is-needed-not-simplification/
[20:04]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-edri.org | The digital rulebook is fit for purpose - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
[20:04]	TR News	EDRi-gram, 16 July 2026 https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-16-july-2026/
[20:04]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-edri.org | EDRi-gram, 16 July 2026 - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
[20:04]	TR News	Hadopi law (20092026) https://edri.org/our-work/hadopi-law-2009-2026/
[20:04]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-edri.org | Hadopi law (20092026) - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
[20:05]	TR News	Redditors Are Celebrating the Cutting Down of Flock Surveillance Towers With Based Memes https://futurism.com/future-society/redditors-flock-surveillance-alpr-vandalism-memes
[20:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Redditors Are Celebrating the Cutting Down of Flock Surveillance Towers With Based Memes
[20:06]	TR News	The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Rust 1.97.1 https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/07/16/Rust-1.97.1/
[20:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.rust-lang.org | Announcing Rust 1.97.1 | Rust Blog
[20:06]	TR News	Olimex PICO-EVB automation board adds high-voltage terminals to Raspberry Pi Pico family https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/17/olimex-pico-evb-automation-board-adds-high-voltage-terminals-to-raspberry-pi-pico-family/
[20:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.cnx-software.com | Olimex PICO-EVB automation board adds high-voltage terminals to Raspberry Pi Pico family - CNX Software
[20:07]	TR News	121: Possibilities Multiply https://mwl.io/archives/24901
[20:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-mwl.io | 121: Possibilities Multiply Michael W Lucas
[20:07]	TR News	China asks Thailand to deport Chinese journalist, rights groups warn of persecution https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/rights-groups-urge-thailand-not-to-deport-chinese-journalist-to-china
[20:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | China asks Thailand to deport Chinese journalist, rights groups warn of persecution | The Straits Times
[20:10]	TR News	Michigan poised to close revolving door for lawmaker lobbyists https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-poised-to-close-revolving-door-for-lawmaker-lobbyists/
[20:10]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bridgemi.com | Michigan poised to close revolving door for lawmaker lobbyists - Bridge Michigan
[20:12]	TR News	Ewwww.... slop https://lemire.me/blog/2026/07/16/using-ai-to-build-your-own-software/
[20:12]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/07/16/using-ai-to-build-your-own-software/ )
[20:14]	TR News	Turns Out Wayland Isn't the Input Lag Disaster Everyone Says it is https://itsfoss.com/news/x11-vs-wayland-input-latency/
[20:14]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-itsfoss.com | Turns Out Wayland Isn't the Input Lag Disaster Everyone Says it is
[20:21]	TR News	Dont Go Paperless https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/07/16/dont-go-paperless/
[20:21]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Dont Go Paperless
[20:26]	TR News	Techrights Daniel Pocock as Independent Candidate, Now in The London Standard https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Daniel_Pocock_as_Independent_Candidate_Now_in_The_London_Standa.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Daniel_Pocock_as_Independent_Candidate_Now_in_The_London_Standa.gmi 
[20:26]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Daniel Pocock as Independent Candidate, Now in The London Standard
[20:33]	TR News	"Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, confirmed that its web infrastructure was hit by a sustained, cross-border distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, disrupting services used across the Ubuntu ecosystem." https://securityboulevard.com/2026/07/ubuntu-ddos-attack-what-canonicals-outage-reveals-about-ddos-disruption/
[20:33]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://securityboulevard.com/2026/07/ubuntu-ddos-attack-what-canonicals-outage-reveals-about-ddos-disruption/ )
[20:34]	TR News	Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag performance with Linux hypervisor is on par with Windows https://en.gamegpu.com/news/igry/proizvoditelnost-assassins-creed-iv-black-flag-s-gipervizorom-na-linux-sravnyalas-s-windows
[20:34]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-en.gamegpu.com | Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag performance with Linux hypervisor is on par with Windows
[20:35]	TR News	How to Install Arch Linux https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13WW8I4Fpes
[20:35]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-@Invidious: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=13WW8I4Fpes
[20:35]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Failed to connect to vid.puffyan.us port 443 after 86 ms: Could not connect to server ( status 0 @ https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=13WW8I4Fpes )
[20:35]	TR News	Losing credibility because of bribes to LF https://www.techradar.com/pro/linus-torvalds-says-linux-is-not-anti-ai-tells-haters-to-fork-it-and-just-walk-away
[20:35]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Linus Torvalds says Linux is not "anti-AI", tells haters to 'fork it' and 'just walk away' | TechRadar
[20:36]	TR News	More slop bribes to LF, so in turn Torvalds needs to play along with slop https://aithority.com/machine-learning/opaque-joins-the-linux-foundations-appia-foundation-and-agentic-ai-foundations-to-advance-open/
[20:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-aithority.com | OPAQUE Joins the Linux Foundation's Appia Foundation and Agentic AI Foundations to Advance Open
[20:37]	TR News	10ZiG and Cendio Partner to Deliver Secure, High-Performance Linux Server-Based Computing https://www.prweb.com/releases/10zig-and-cendio-partner-to-deliver-secure-high-performance-linux-server-based-computing-302826160.html
[20:37]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.prweb.com | 10ZiG and Cendio Partner to Deliver Secure, High-Performance Linux Server-Based Computing
[20:37]	TR News	Linux doesn't force me to use the terminalthese 3 tools prove it https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-doesnt-force-you-to-use-the-terminalthese-graphical-tools-prove-it/
[20:37]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.howtogeek.com | Linux doesn't force me to use the terminalthese 3 tools prove it
[20:37]	TR News	The Linux Tax is realand it's holding desktop Linux back https://www.howtogeek.com/the-linux-tax-is-real-and-its-holding-back-open-source-desktops-more-than-anything-else/
[20:37]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.howtogeek.com | The Linux Tax is realand it's holding desktop Linux back
[20:38]	TR News	The desktop environment every Linux distro wants just got a sleek frosted glass theme https://www.xda-developers.com/the-desktop-environment-every-linux-distro-wants-just-got-a-sleek-frosted-glass-theme/
[20:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.xda-developers.com | The desktop environment every Linux distro wants just got a sleek frosted glass theme
[20:40]	TR News	Does Linux really run faster than Windows? I tested both to find out https://www.howtogeek.com/does-linux-run-faster-than-windows-i-tested-both/
[20:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.howtogeek.com | Does Linux really run faster than Windows? I tested both to find out
[20:44]	TR News	This one tweak made my Linux PC closer to a Steam machine https://www.makeuseof.com/this-one-tweak-made-my-linux-pc-closer-to-a-steam-machine/
[20:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.makeuseof.com | This one tweak made my Linux PC closer to a Steam machine
[20:46]	TR News	 (NEW):  'Secure' Boot Redundant and Only a Net Loss for Security https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/_Secure_Boot_Redundant_and_Only_a_Net_Loss_for_Security.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/_Secure_Boot_Redundant_and_Only_a_Net_Loss_for_Security.gmi 
[20:46]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines 'Secure' Boot Redundant and Only a Net Loss for Security
[20:47]	TR News	The release of a Denuvo workaround for Linux has sparked a massive shift among gamers to SteamOS. https://en.gamegpu.com/news/igry/reliz-obkhoda-denuvo-dlya-linux-sprovotsiroval-massovyj-perekhod-gejmerov-na-steamos
[20:47]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-en.gamegpu.com | The release of a Denuvo workaround for Linux has sparked a massive shift among gamers to SteamOS.
[20:48]	TR News	RX 9070 XT vs RTX 5080 Performance Comparison Windows 11 and Linux in 2026 https://en.gamegpu.com/news/zhelezo/sravnenie-proizvoditelnosti-rx-9070-xt-i-rtx-5080-v-windows-11-i-linux-v-2026-godu
[20:48]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-en.gamegpu.com | RX 9070 XT vs RTX 5080 Performance Comparison Windows 11 and Linux in 2026
[20:49]	TR News	Slop grifters milking the pyramid scheme https://inc42.com/buzz/logcat-ai-bags-2-5-mn-to-build-ai-platform-for-android-linux-engineering/
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[20:52]	TR News	Windows 11 vs Linux Gaming Test Reveals There's More to It Than FPS https://www.techpowerup.com/350791/windows-11-vs-linux-gaming-test-reveals-theres-more-to-it-than-fps?amp
[20:52]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Windows 11 vs Linux Gaming Test Reveals There's More to It Than FPS | TechPowerUp
[20:55]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: RPCS3, Godot, Denuvo Workaround, and Performance https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Games_RPCS3_Godot_Denuvo_Workaround_and_Performance.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Games_RPCS3_Godot_Denuvo_Workaround_and_Performance.gmi 
[20:55]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[20:55]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Games: RPCS3, Godot, Denuvo Workaround, and Performance
[20:55]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines today's howtos
[20:56]	TR News	 (NEW):  Security Leftovers and Windows TCO https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Security_Leftovers_and_Windows_TCO.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Security_Leftovers_and_Windows_TCO.gmi 
[20:56]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Security Leftovers and Windows TCO
[20:58]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Programming_Leftovers.gmi 
[20:58]	TR News	 (NEW):  Standards/Consortia: ITU, USB, HEIC, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Standards_Consortia_ITU_USB_HEIC_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Standards_Consortia_ITU_USB_HEIC_and_More.gmi 
[20:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[20:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Standards/Consortia: ITU, USB, HEIC, and More
● Jul 17
[21:00]	TR News	 (NEW):  Technological Sovereignty, FSF Raising Money, and Paleoenshittification https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Technological_Sovereignty_FSF_Raising_Money_and_Paleoenshittifi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Technological_Sovereignty_FSF_Raising_Money_and_Paleoenshittifi.gmi 
[21:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Technological Sovereignty, FSF Raising Money, and Paleoenshittification
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[21:05]	TR News	 (NEW):  Events/Education: Workshop Basel, EuroPython 2026, and IndieWeb Event for Southeast Asia https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Events_Education_Workshop_Basel_EuroPython_2026_and_IndieWeb_Ev.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Events_Education_Workshop_Basel_EuroPython_2026_and_IndieWeb_Ev.gmi 
[21:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Events/Education: Workshop Basel, EuroPython 2026, and IndieWeb Event for Southeast Asia
[21:05]	TR News	 (NEW):  Open Hardware/Modding: Right to Repair, ESP32, RISC-V, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Open_Hardware_Modding_Right_to_Repair_ESP32_RISC_V_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Open_Hardware_Modding_Right_to_Repair_ESP32_RISC_V_and_More.gmi 
[21:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Right to Repair, ESP32, RISC-V, and More
[21:06]	TR News	 (NEW):  BSD: OpenZFS, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and OPNsense https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/BSD_OpenZFS_OpenBSD_FreeBSD_and_OPNsense.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/BSD_OpenZFS_OpenBSD_FreeBSD_and_OPNsense.gmi 
[21:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines BSD: OpenZFS, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and OPNsense
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[21:42]	TR News	 (NEW):  Accessibility in GNOME and Icon for Demostage https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Accessibility_in_GNOME_and_Icon_for_Demostage.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Accessibility_in_GNOME_and_Icon_for_Demostage.gmi 
[21:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Accessibility in GNOME and Icon for Demostage
[21:43]	TR News	 (NEW):  KDE Mega Sprint 2026 and Server-side Drop Shadows https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/KDE_Mega_Sprint_2026_and_Server_side_Drop_Shadows.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/KDE_Mega_Sprint_2026_and_Server_side_Drop_Shadows.gmi 
[21:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines KDE Mega Sprint 2026 and Server-side Drop Shadows
[21:45]	TR News	 (NEW):  Audiocasts/Shows: Linux Matters and BSD Now https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Audiocasts_Shows_Linux_Matters_and_BSD_Now.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Audiocasts_Shows_Linux_Matters_and_BSD_Now.gmi 
[21:45]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: Linux Matters and BSD Now
[21:47]	TR News	 (NEW):  Server: Istio 1.30.3, Istio 1.29.6, and 10ZiG https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Server_Istio_1_30_3_Istio_1_29_6_and_10ZiG.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Server_Istio_1_30_3_Istio_1_29_6_and_10ZiG.gmi 
[21:47]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Server: Istio 1.30.3, Istio 1.29.6, and 10ZiG
[21:48]	TR News	Selling slop, going with a pyramid scheme's flow https://www.infoworld.com/article/4197008/red-hat-openshift-4-22-tackles-cloud-costs-ai-workloads.html
[21:48]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Red Hat OpenShift 4.22 tackles cloud costs, AI workloads | InfoWorld
[21:48]	TR News	Chris Wright sold out and sold his soul to slop boosters at IBM https://www.redhat.com/en/technically-speaking/defining-sovereign-AI
[21:48]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.redhat.com | Technically Speaking | Defining sovereign AI with open source
[21:52]	TR News	 (NEW):  IBM Red Hat Mostly Focused on Slop Plagiarism, Not Much About Linux These Days https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/IBM_Red_Hat_Mostly_Focused_on_Slop_Plagiarism_Not_Much_About_Li.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/IBM_Red_Hat_Mostly_Focused_on_Slop_Plagiarism_Not_Much_About_Li.gmi 
[21:52]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines IBM Red Hat Mostly Focused on Slop Plagiarism, Not Much About Linux These Days
[21:53]	TR News	 (NEW):  Ubuntu 26.04 Bugs (Too Busy Adding Buggy Clones That Don't Work), Ubuntu DDoS Attack Discussed https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Ubuntu_26_04_Bugs_Too_Busy_Adding_Buggy_Clones_That_Don_t_Work_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Ubuntu_26_04_Bugs_Too_Busy_Adding_Buggy_Clones_That_Don_t_Work_.gmi 
[21:53]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Ubuntu 26.04 Bugs (Too Busy Adding Buggy Clones That Don't Work), Ubuntu DDoS Attack Discussed
[21:55]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi 
[21:55]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/today_s_leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/07/17/today_s_leftovers.gmi 
[21:55]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
[21:55]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines today's leftovers
[21:56]	TR News	"I used to be a colorguard director. I used to be a very good colorguard director. I've taken kids to Indy and Dayton (iykyk). I've won awards. I've trained champions." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-07-17
● Jul 17
[22:00]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 17/07/2026: "Silence Doesn't Mean Abandoned", Revisiting PalmOS in 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Gemini_Links_17_07_2026_Silence_Doesn_t_Mean_Abandoned_Revisiti.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Gemini_Links_17_07_2026_Silence_Doesn_t_Mean_Abandoned_Revisiti.gmi 
[22:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Gemini Links 17/07/2026: "Silence Doesn't Mean Abandoned", Revisiting PalmOS in 2026
[22:03]	TR News	Techrights Links 17/07/2026: Protests Erupt Throughout Ukraine and Anthropic Caught Secretly Spying on Users https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Links_17_07_2026_Protests_Erupt_Throughout_Ukraine_and_Anthropi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/Links_17_07_2026_Protests_Erupt_Throughout_Ukraine_and_Anthropi.gmi 
[22:03]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Links 17/07/2026: Protests Erupt Throughout Ukraine and Anthropic Caught Secretly Spying on Users
[22:21]	TR News	"The BS machine is in spin cycle again, trying to defend a mo--n CEO who is responsible for 25% of the company's market value disappearing in a day. Let's just try and sweep $70 Billion under the carpet and try spin it as Arvind, the clown CEO, was being transparent and accountable when his financial gymnastics blew up in his face." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxrswtf3
[22:21]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxrswtf3 )
[22:22]	TR News	"alk about some spin. If AK and his cronies in the C-Suite forgo their bonuses for the rest of their undoubtedly extremely short tenures and take a significant pay cut, then that'll show accountability. And doesn't AK attend the WEF in Davos every year? What advice did he receive from all those geniuses? Somewhere out there one can hear the echoes of Ginni's hysterical laughter."
[22:22]	TR News	"The money to keep buying is running out. Debt keeps climbing. Buybacks have been frozen for years because the company is still digesting its last purchase. Cash meant for growth is quietly being redirected to service the last deal, not fund the next one." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxrtyhvs
[22:22]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxrtyhvs )
[22:24]	TR News	"Theres massive changes going on everywhere. Several new roles have been created and need volunteers literally by EOD. The little indian AI HR rep will be here soon to tell us he read a book once." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxrtyhvs
[22:24]	TR News	":Thats the pattern worth naming out loud: a company that has run out of things to buy, running out of ways to reshuffle what it already sold, paying for both by quietly shifting the bill onto the people closest to the customer. Another reorg wont fix that. Only shipping what was already sold will."
[22:25]	TR News	"Another reorg. Sold as agility, felt as whiplash. Leadership didnt even wait for the planned date they tore up a structure barely a year old and rebuilt it mid-year, with zero regard for what that costs the people living through it. The stated reason: boost software deployment. The real reason is simpler and darker."
[22:27]	TR News	"dropped again today. Lost almost 30% of its wealth in one week. Arvind is a failure. Hell take his $100M golden parachute back to India while IBMers and their families are made to suffer for his incompetence. What a joke that guy is." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kxnjzamw#replies
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[22:43]	TR News	Techrights IBM Already Tentatively Down for Next Week (Monday) After Its Worst-Ever Week https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/IBM_Already_Tentatively_Down_for_Next_Week_Monday_After_Its_Wor.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/07/17/IBM_Already_Tentatively_Down_for_Next_Week_Monday_After_Its_Wor.gmi 
[22:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights IBM Already Tentatively Down for Next Week (Monday) After Its Worst-Ever Week
● Jul 17
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[06:23]	TR News	"Among the findings: Traffic stops led to immigration agents using their car to box in people 53 times" https://www.notus.org/immigration/ice-agents-force-aclu-report | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute
[06:23]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.notus.org | Report Details How Often Immigration Agents Used Force During Traffic Stops - NOTUS News of the United States
[06:25]	TR News	"The use of force has become a 'default tool' for ICE officers" https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5891834 | Source: NPR
[06:25]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-text.npr.org | The use of force has become a 'default tool' for ICE officers, a new report finds
[06:37]	TR News	"positive announcements about a new air defence mission in the Baltic region" https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2989202/nato-air-defence-pledge-for-baltics-promises-and-reality | Source: LRT
[06:37]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.lrt.lt | NATO air defence pledge for Baltics: promises and reality - LRT
[06:37]	TR News	"Australia does not criminalise extremist beliefs." https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/religious-motivation-needs-to-stay-in-our-terrorism-laws/ | Source: The Strategist
[06:37]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.aspistrategist.org.au | Religious motivation needs to stay in our terrorism laws | The Strategist
[06:38]	TR News	"cancer" https://truthout.org/articles/miller-labels-leftists-a-cancer-that-world-must-root-out-in-fascistic-speech/ | Source: TruthOut
[06:38]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-truthout.org | Miller Labels Leftists a Cancer That World Must Root Out in Fascistic Speech | Truthout
[06:39]	TR News	"the enemy of God." https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marines-william-upham-trump/ | Source: Task And Purpose
[06:39]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-taskandpurpose.com | Marines condemn veterans disturbing statements about Trump
● Jul 17
[08:15]	TR News	"Heres How Long Trump Wants to Hide the Reflecting Pool From Americans | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/213115/donald-trump-hide-reflecting-pool-renovation-fence
[08:15]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-newrepublic.com | Heres How Long Trump Wants to Hide the Reflecting Pool From Americans | The New Republic
[08:15]	TR News	"Trump Fires Blue State Attorney After Less Than an Hour | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/213113/donald-trump-fires-democratic-attorney-less-hour
[08:15]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-newrepublic.com | Trump Fires Blue State Attorney After Less Than an Hour | The New Republic
[08:15]	TR News	"Judges seek to appoint U.S. attorney in Seattle as Trump picks term nears end | The Seattle Times" https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/federal-judges-seek-to-appoint-u-s-attorney-in-seattle/
[08:15]		-TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/federal-judges-seek-to-appoint-u-s-attorney-in-seattle/ )
[08:15]	TR News	"Trump Cant Admit That He Lost the Iran War | The Nation" https://www.thenation.com/article/world/iran-war-trump-defeat/
[08:15]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.thenation.com | Trump Cant Admit That He Lost the Iran War | The Nation
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[15:43]	TR News	We Documented 1,200+ Actions by ICE. Here's What We Found. https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/we-documented-1200-actions-by-ice-heres-what-we-found
[15:44]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.aclu.org | We Documented 1,200+ Actions by ICE. Here's What We Found. | American Civil Liberties Union
● Jul 17
[17:02]	TR News	North Korea calls Seoul a puppet for its role in US maritime exercise https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-calls-seoul-a-puppet-for-its-role-in-us-maritime-exercise
[17:02]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.straitstimes.com | North Korea criticises South Korea's role in US maritime exercise | The Straits Times
[17:03]	TR News	North Korean buildings near DMZ could be rocket infrastructure, experts say https://rfa.org/english/korea/2026/07/16/north-korea-rocket-shelter-buildings/
[17:03]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rfa.org | North Korean buildings near DMZ could be rocket infrastructure, experts say Radio Free Asia
[17:03]	TR News	Global Opinion Shifts Toward Favoring China Over the U.S., Poll Finds https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/asia/pew-opinion-survey-china-united-states.html
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[17:03]	TR News	Taiwan rejects Papua New Guineas decision to shut office in Port Moresby https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-says-papua-new-guinea-has-closed-taiwans-office-in-the-country
[17:04]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.straitstimes.com | Taiwan rejects Papua New Guineas decison to shut office in Port Moresby | The Straits Times
[17:04]	TR News	Chinese police arrest Uyghur sisters and mother in Urumqi for sending goods to Turkey https://rfa.org/english/uyghur/2026/07/17/urumqi-xinjiang-china-police-turkey-arrest-mother-sisters/
[17:04]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rfa.org | Chinese police arrest Uyghur sisters and mother in Urumqi for sending goods to Turkey Radio Free Asia
● Jul 17
[18:04]	TR News	Australia should welcome Japans intelligence restructure https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-should-welcome-japans-intelligence-restructure/
[18:04]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.aspistrategist.org.au | Australia should welcome Japans intelligence restructure | The Strategist
[18:44]	admfubar	https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/jd-vance-secret-service/
[18:44]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rawstory.com | A crack exposes J.D. Vance as an even bigger creep than anyone imagined - Raw Story
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[18:50]	TR News	Czech citizen detained in China suspected of endangering national security https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/czech-citizen-detained-in-china-faces-espionage-investigation
[18:50]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.straitstimes.com | Czech citizen detained in China suspected of endangering national security | The Straits Times
[18:50]	TR News	Dihydroxyacetone Man Has Dismantled Election Security Efforts. Heres How. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/us/politics/trump-election-security-cisa.html
[18:50]		-TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/us/politics/trump-election-security-cisa.html )
[18:50]	TR News	New Lithuanian PM's first calls and meeting go to Baltic neighbours https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2992082/new-lithuanian-pm-s-first-calls-and-meeting-go-to-baltic-neighbours
[18:50]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.lrt.lt | New Lithuanian PM's first calls and meeting go to Baltic neighbours - LRT
[18:56]	TR News	Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Seeking Asylum Is Arrested by ICE https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/us/chinese-lawyer-wu-shaoping-ice-detention.html
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[19:24]	admfubar	show us your clark pack...https://www.salon.com/2026/07/17/pete-hegseth-wants-to-measure-your-manhood/
[19:24]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-Pete Hegseth wants to measure your manhood - Salon.com
[19:24]	admfubar	https://scheerpost.com/2026/07/17/britains-big-brother-state-is-already-here-we-just-dont-realise-it-yet/
[19:25]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-scheerpost.com | Britains Big Brother State Is Already Here We Just Dont Realise It Yet
[19:42]	TR News	EU court dismisses final challenge to sanctions on Belarusian transit through Lithuania https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2992211/eu-court-dismisses-final-challenge-to-sanctions-on-belarusian-transit-through-lithuania
[19:42]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.lrt.lt | EU court dismisses final challenge to sanctions on Belarusian transit through Lithuania - LRT
[19:42]	TR News	LRT English Newsletter: Russia planning something? https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2992334/lrt-english-newsletter-russia-planning-something
[19:42]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.lrt.lt | LRT English Newsletter: Russia planning something? - LRT
[19:42]	TR News	Russian trio indicted for allegedly running bulletproof hosting providers that spurred cybercrime https://cyberscoop.com/russian-nationals-medialand-mlcloud-indicted-bulletproof-hosting/
[19:42]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-Russian trio indicted for allegedly running bulletproof hosting providers that spurred cybercrime | CyberScoop
[19:42]	TR News	Turkey detaines two Russian tourists for 'reciting Bible' at Hagia Sophia https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-detaines-two-russian-tourists-for-reciting-bible-at-hagia-sophia-321553
[19:42]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-bianet.org | Turkey detaines two Russian tourists for 'reciting Bible' at Hagia Sophia
[19:43]	TR News	What to Know About Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraines Ousted Defense Minister https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/who-mykhailo-fedorov-ukraine-defense-minister.html
[19:43]		-TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/who-mykhailo-fedorov-ukraine-defense-minister.html )
[19:43]	TR News	Ukraines Minister of Defense, a Proponent of Drone Warfare, Is Forced Out https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/world/europe/ukraine-minister-of-defense-mykhailo-fedorov-zelensky-war-russia.html
[19:43]		-TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/world/europe/ukraine-minister-of-defense-mykhailo-fedorov-zelensky-war-russia.html )
[19:43]	TR News	Ukraines Ousted Defense Minister Attacks the Militarys Old Guard https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/ukraine-fedorov-protests.html
[19:43]		-TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/ukraine-fedorov-protests.html )
[19:43]	TR News	He Was a Russian Political Survivor, Until the Masked Men Appeared https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/world/europe/russia-politics-election-nadezhdin.html
[19:43]		-TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/world/europe/russia-politics-election-nadezhdin.html )
[19:44]	TR News	Ukraine Was on a Roll. Then a Clash Over War Strategy Exploded Into View. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/ukraine-military-defense-minister-drones.html
[19:44]		-TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/world/europe/ukraine-military-defense-minister-drones.html )
[19:44]	TR News	Why Ukrainians have taken to the streets to protest a cabinet shuffle https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0716/russian-ukraine-war-fedorov-defense-minister-protests
[19:44]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-Why Ukrainians are protesting a defense minister ouster - CSMonitor.com
[19:44]	TR News	Zelenskyy's Dismissal Of Defense Minister Fedorov Sparks Protests https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-defense-minister-fedorov-sacked-zelenskyy-cabinet-shuffle/33804467.html
[19:44]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rferl.org | Zelenskyy's Dismissal Of Defense Minister Fedorov Sparks Protests
[19:44]	TR News	'What A Nightmare': Zelenskyy's Dismissal Of Defense Minister Sparks Fury In Ukraine https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-military-fedorov-zelenskyy-firing-ouster-defense-ministry/33804946.html
[19:44]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rferl.org | 'What A Nightmare': Zelenskyy's Dismissal Of Defense Minister Sparks Fury In Ukraine
[19:44]	TR News	Protests Erupt Throughout Ukraine After Shock Dismissal Of Defense Minister https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-defense-minister-fired-protests-controversy-war/33805012.html
[19:44]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rferl.org | Protests Erupt Throughout Ukraine After Shock Dismissal Of Defense Minister
[19:45]	TR News	US Senate Leadership Throws Weight Behind Renewed Russia Sanctions Push https://www.rferl.org/a/senate-russia-sanctions-legislation-graham-war/33805545.html
[19:45]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rferl.org | US Senate Leadership Throws Weight Behind Renewed Russia Sanctions Push
[19:45]	TR News	Ukraine: Protests erupt after defence minister sacked https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260716-ukraine-protests-erupt-after-defence-minister-sacked
[19:45]		-TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260716-ukraine-protests-erupt-after-defence-minister-sacked )
[19:45]	TR News	How rivalry with a top general brought down Ukraines popular defence minister Fedorov https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260716-how-rivalry-with-top-general-syrsky-brought-down-ukraine-popular-defence-minister-fedorov
[19:45]		-TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260716-how-rivalry-with-top-general-syrsky-brought-down-ukraine-popular-defence-minister-fedorov )
[19:45]	TR News	Bitter row splits Ukraine's military leadership after defence minister ousted https://www.france24.com/en/bitter-row-splits-ukraine-s-military-leadership-after-defence-minister-ousted
[19:45]		-TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/bitter-row-splits-ukraine-s-military-leadership-after-defence-minister-ousted )
[19:45]	TR News	Zelensky's dismissal of Ukraine's defence chief sparks political crisis https://www.france24.com/en/zelensky-s-dismissal-of-ukraine-s-defence-chief-sparks-political-crisis
[19:45]		-TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/zelensky-s-dismissal-of-ukraine-s-defence-chief-sparks-political-crisis )
[19:45]	TR News	Report reveals extent of Kenyan deaths on Russian frontline https://www.france24.com/en/report-reveals-extent-of-kenyan-deaths-on-russian-frontline
[19:45]		-TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/report-reveals-extent-of-kenyan-deaths-on-russian-frontline )
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[20:10]	TR News	Michigan poised to close revolving door for lawmaker lobbyists https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-poised-to-close-revolving-door-for-lawmaker-lobbyists/
[20:10]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-bridgemi.com | Michigan poised to close revolving door for lawmaker lobbyists - Bridge Michigan
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