●● IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, August 27, 2026 ●● ● Aug 27 [02:38] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [02:40] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-260826.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-260826.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-260826.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-260826.txt [02:40] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 [02:41] TR News Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. 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HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-260826.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-260826.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-260826.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-260826.txt [02:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 [02:46] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [02:50] TR News Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-08-26.txt ● Aug 27 [04:01] TR News mayo coleslaw gemini://gemini.mingmengtou.org/2026-08-26-mayo-coleslaw.gmi [04:02] TR News Lagrange v1.21: Inline Prompts, Gopher-over-TLS, UI Improvements gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2026/08/lagrange-1.21.gmi [04:02] TR News the ledger gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/the_ledger [04:03] TR News "As soon as I got home, I realised I was l going to have to find my ID card for work tomorrow. I didn't take it with me this morning since I couldn't find it. I subsequently had the ever loving crap kicked out of me by the receptionist when I clocked in." gemini://buster.smol.pub/conditioning [04:04] TR News Tank break gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/08/26/tankbreak.gmi [04:08] TR News Techrights https://techrights.org/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ [04:08] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights [04:08] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 27/08/2026: Conditioning, Lagrange 1.21, and Computer Games https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Gemini_Links_27_08_2026_Conditioning_Lagrange_1_21_and_Computer.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Gemini_Links_27_08_2026_Conditioning_Lagrange_1_21_and_Computer.gmi [04:08] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Gemini Links 27/08/2026: Conditioning, Lagrange 1.21, and Computer Games [04:08] TR News loliboi sides with microsofters https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/linus-torvalds-won't-stop-fighting:e [04:08] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-odysee.com | Linus Torvalds Won't Stop Fighting People In Linux [04:11] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_August_26_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_August_26_2026.gmi [04:11] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 [04:12] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [04:12] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Today in Techrights [04:13] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [04:13] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [04:17] TR News "The first proposal, sent in late July by Matthias Geiger, would expressly forbid any contributions to Debian that are created by or with the assistance of LLMs" https://lwn.net/Articles/1087134/ [04:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Debian weighs eight options in vote on LLM usage [LWN.net] [04:17] TR News Representing Python paths using pathlib https://lwn.net/Articles/1088781/ [04:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Representing Python paths using pathlib [LWN.net] [04:19] TR News "He began by asking attendees whether they had heard of bootstrappable builds and whether they were generally familiar with the idea; he seemed impressed that the majority knew the term and that roughly half of the audience knew more than that" https://lwn.net/Articles/1088279/ [04:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Bootstrappable builds: how and why [LWN.net] [04:19] TR News "The Linux kernel's user-space interface (AF_ALG) to the Crypto API has been linked to a number of recent high-profile security problems, including Copy Fail and successor vulnerabilities. It was deprecated earlier this year." https://lwn.net/Articles/1088489/ [04:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Fedora prepares for the end of AF_ALG [LWN.net] [04:20] TR News "The information of most interest in a PTE is a physical address the address of the actual memory for bottom-level entries, or the address of the next table for higher levels." https://lwn.net/Articles/1088125/ [04:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-128-Bit page tables for Arm [LWN.net] [04:21] TR News Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel https://lwn.net/Articles/1088776/ [04:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel [LWN.net] [04:23] TR News (NEW): Latest in LWN: Kernel, Debian, Fedora, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Latest_in_LWN_Kernel_Debian_Fedora_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Latest_in_LWN_Kernel_Debian_Fedora_and_More.gmi [04:23] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Latest in LWN: Kernel, Debian, Fedora, and More [04:46] TR News Techrights There's No "Next XBox" https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/There_s_No_Next_XBox.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/There_s_No_Next_XBox.gmi [04:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights There's No "Next XBox" ● Aug 27 [05:15] TR News Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 163 Out of 200: Attack on Computer Science and on Computer Security (or Associating Back Doors and Kill Switches With "Security") https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_163_Out_of_200_Attack_on_Computer_Science.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_163_Out_of_200_Attack_on_Computer_Science.gmi [05:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 163 Out of 200: Attack on Computer Science and on Computer Security (or Associating Back Doors and Kill Switches With "Security") [05:22] TR News "Anyone at confluent here? Anyone on the GTM team at confluent? Are there layoffs?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m109tbv8 https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/13/IBM_s_Bluewashing_of_Confluent_Carries_on_More_Layoffs_Coming_S.shtml [05:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m109tbv8 ) [05:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights IBM's Bluewashing of Confluent Carries on, More Layoffs Coming, Same Likely Applicable to Red Hat [05:23] TR News "As others here I'm on PIP - I'm unsure what to expect after meeting my PIP goals. Hope, everything will be ok. I really need this work to feed my family." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0zvr6k3 [05:23] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0zvr6k3 ) [05:23] TR News "IBM is in Big Trouble - Is it just a coincidence that literally 4 weeks after the giant IBM stock implosion caused by AK and his incompetent management that this board is filled with posts of people and entire teams getting put on PIPs, terminated etc ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0z9bhqx [05:23] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0z9bhqx ) [05:23] TR News "I see many people posting here is on PIP. I'll do the same. I'M ON PIP!!!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0z426cq [05:23] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0z426cq ) [05:24] TR News "Finally, I got my PIP today - Finally, I got my first PIP today. Even that I was doing lot of work and in my opinion I was top performer finally my manager decided that I deserved a PIP... Crazy company... I guess, all the posts saying RAs in September are gonna be true..." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0wkvn9n [05:24] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0wkvn9n ) [05:24] TR News "Manager asks me politely to resign... - My manager is asking me politely to resign... Should I report it? Is there any law I can use against them?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0sdvy2w [05:24] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0sdvy2w ) [05:26] TR News Albania: 5% + is GNU/Linux https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&loc=AL [05:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP&loc=AL ) [05:27] TR News 9.2% internationally https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-200902-202608 [05:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-gs.statcounter.com | Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats [05:53] TR News "I'll take angry and rude Linus over what a vast majority of the Linux developer community has turned into today." https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/linus-torvalds-won't-stop-fighting:e [05:54] TR News Because people realised the mods are IBM shills censoring IBM dissent? https://old.reddit.com/r/IBM_Employees/comments/1vz9ooy/ribm_are_looking_for_new_moderators/ [05:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-old.reddit.com | Welcome to Reddit ● Aug 27 [07:02] TR News iophk: The Meta/Facebook case played out as expected: they settled to avoid a decision and the settlement specifically avoids admission of wrongdoing. [07:12] TR News Patent Troll InterDigital Proves UPC is a Sham, Needs to be Scuttled ASAP https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/27/patent-troll-interdigital-proves-upc-is-a-sham-needs-to-be-scuttled-asap/ [07:12] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Patent Troll InterDigital Proves UPC is a Sham, Needs to be Scuttled ASAP [07:18] TR News Techrights Increasing Focus on Patent Injustices https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Increasing_Focus_on_Patent_Injustices.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Increasing_Focus_on_Patent_Injustices.gmi [07:18] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Increasing Focus on Patent Injustices [07:33] TR News Wedding Anniversary in 3 Weeks https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/27/wedding-anniversary-in-3-weeks/ [07:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Wedding Anniversary in 3 Weeks [07:44] TR News (NEW): The Next Level https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/The_Next_Level.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/The_Next_Level.gmi [07:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines The Next Level [07:47] TR News (NEW): Debian Deciding Whether to Ban Slop Plagiarism in Debian Development https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/18/Debian_Deciding_Whether_to_Ban_Slop_Plagiarism_in_Debian_Develo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/18/Debian_Deciding_Whether_to_Ban_Slop_Plagiarism_in_Debian_Develo.gmi [07:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Debian Deciding Whether to Ban Slop Plagiarism in Debian Development [07:50] TR News Techrights GNU/Linux Does Not Need Social Control Media to Succeed https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/GNU_Linux_Does_Not_Need_Social_Control_Media_to_Succeed.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/GNU_Linux_Does_Not_Need_Social_Control_Media_to_Succeed.gmi [07:50] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights GNU/Linux Does Not Need Social Control Media to Succeed [07:52] TR News (NEW): OpenOffice in 2026 - A relic from a better time https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/OpenOffice_in_2026_A_relic_from_a_better_time.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/OpenOffice_in_2026_A_relic_from_a_better_time.gmi [07:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines OpenOffice in 2026 - A relic from a better time [07:52] TR News (NEW): They Do the Same as Tux Machines https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/They_Do_the_Same_as_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/They_Do_the_Same_as_Tux_Machines.gmi [07:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines They Do the Same as Tux Machines [07:54] TR News (NEW): Dolphin 26.08 and KIO, part two: what got faster and smaller https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Dolphin_26_08_and_KIO_part_two_what_got_faster_and_smaller.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Dolphin_26_08_and_KIO_part_two_what_got_faster_and_smaller.gmi [07:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Dolphin 26.08 and KIO, part two: what got faster and smaller [07:56] TR News RMS asks for input: [GNU-linux-libre] is systemD an injustice? 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Here's what happened https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/I_ran_the_one_command_in_Linux_you_should_never_run_Here_s_what.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/I_ran_the_one_command_in_Linux_you_should_never_run_Here_s_what.gmi [08:24] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines I ran the one command in Linux you should never run. Here's what happened [08:27] TR News (NEW): 5 reasons you might want to compile your Linux kernel from source https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/5_reasons_you_might_want_to_compile_your_Linux_kernel_from_sour.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/5_reasons_you_might_want_to_compile_your_Linux_kernel_from_sour.gmi [08:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines 5 reasons you might want to compile your Linux kernel from source [08:31] TR News (NEW): Five more organizer tales: LibreLocal 2026, part three https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Five_more_organizer_tales_LibreLocal_2026_part_three.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Five_more_organizer_tales_LibreLocal_2026_part_three.gmi [08:31] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Five more organizer tales: LibreLocal 2026, part three [08:32] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [08:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [08:44] TR News RMS Asks About Problems With systemd https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/27/rms-asks-about-problems-with-systemd/ [08:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive RMS Asks About Problems With systemd [08:46] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Android_Leftovers.gmi [08:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Android Leftovers [08:49] TR News (NEW): Richard Stallman Wants to Know What's Wrong With systemd https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Richard_Stallman_Wants_to_Know_What_s_Wrong_With_systemd.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Richard_Stallman_Wants_to_Know_What_s_Wrong_With_systemd.gmi [08:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Richard Stallman Wants to Know What's Wrong With systemd [08:58] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social ● Aug 27 [09:00] *psydruid has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [09:17] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [09:21] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social ● Aug 27 [10:35] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [10:47] *FANTOM (~fantom@freenode-crc.udo.r9g5d1.IP) has joined #boycottnovell-social ● Aug 27 [11:53] TR News (NEW): Darktable 5.6.1 RAW Image Editor Improves UI Performance and Fixes More Bugs https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Darktable_5_6_1_RAW_Image_Editor_Improves_UI_Performance_and_Fi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Darktable_5_6_1_RAW_Image_Editor_Improves_UI_Performance_and_Fi.gmi [11:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Darktable 5.6.1 RAW Image Editor Improves UI Performance and Fixes More Bugs ● Aug 27 [12:41] TR News "For those whove followed the industrys bevy of social-focused copyright suits, Sony Musics allegations will look familiar." https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/24/sony-music-kroger-lawsuit/ | Source: Digital Music News [12:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/24/sony-music-kroger-lawsuit/ ) [12:41] TR News "routine tasks to specialized skills" https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/25/wikihow-sues-openai-copyright-infringement/ | Source: Digital Music News [12:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/25/wikihow-sues-openai-copyright-infringement/ ) [12:42] TR News "Cineby has published a step-by-step schedule for shutting itself down in stages. The site started by redirecting its mirror sites Cineplay and Fmovies+" https://torrentfreak.com/cineby-starts-staged-shutdown-of-its-piracy-empire/ | Source: Torrent Freak [12:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Cineby Starts Staged Shutdown of Its Piracy Empire * TorrentFreak [12:42] TR News Patents https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/25/patent-troll-slapps-lawyer-for-saying-his-shell-companies-never-pay-up-loses-now-owes-her-money/ | Source: Techdirt [12:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Patent Troll SLAPPs Lawyer For Saying His Shell Companies Never Pay Up, Loses, Now Owes Her Money | Techdirt [12:43] TR News "The settlement comes despite oodles of Trump promises that he was going to meaningfully crack down on Ticketmaster." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/25/more-details-emerge-on-how-trump-cronyism-ruined-the-attempt-to-break-up-ticketmaster/ | Source: Techdirt [12:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-More Details Emerge On How Trump Cronyism Ruined The Attempt To Break Up Ticketmaster | Techdirt [12:45] TR News Anon: XFCE4 gets really slow after around 10 to 14 days of use, still I hate having to reboot / log out but it becomes unusably slow otherwise. Maybe I should return to FVWM and just run a bare window manager. The main reason to use XFCE4 is two panels and there are other ways to have those. [12:47] TR News The issue is typically some applications that suck up and leak RAM, causing the rest to enter the file system for what should be in RAM. Getting that storage back to RAM may require shutting down the components/shells periodically, e.g. kquitapp5 plasmashell then kstart5 plasmashell [12:48] TR News "The shift towards so-called hybrid subscriptions cheaper packages that include advertising breaks" https://yle.fi/a/74-20242926 | Source: Yle [12:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-yle.fi | Finns turning to ad-supported streaming to curb costs | Yle News | Yle [12:48] TR News "Trump has falsely claimed mail-in voting is cheating, despite how often he has voted by mail himself." https://www.salon.com/2026/08/24/supreme-court-gives-trump-green-light-to-restrict-mail-in-voting/ | Source: Salon [12:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Supreme Court gives Trump green light to restrict mail-in voting - Salon.com [12:49] TR News "If voting proceeds based on these DHS lists" https://truthout.org/video/trump-is-once-again-weaponing-the-postal-service-to-try-to-undermine-mail-voting/ | Source: TruthOut [12:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-truthout.org | Trump Is Once Again Weaponing the Postal Service to Try to Undermine Mail Voting | Truthout [12:49] TR News "Parton was, indeed, a union sister for the better part of 60 yearscarrying the card of multiple labor organizations" https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/dolly-parton-obituary-unions-9-to-5/ | Source: The Nation [12:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thenation.com | Dolly Parton Was a Proud Union Sister | The Nation [12:50] TR News "tribe's request to halt the opening stages of border wall construction across their land part of a lawsuit launched earlier this summer" https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082626_bp_topd_wall/border-patrol-swat-team-blocks-arizona-tribal-police-from-trespassing-border-wall-contractors/ | Source: Tuscon Sentinel [12:50] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tucsonsentinel.com | Border Patrol SWAT team blocks Arizona tribal police from trespassing border wall contractors [12:51] TR News "Earlier this year, however, a Pentagon spokesman said the administration planned to overhaul Stars & Stripes" https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/25/pentagon-fires-chief-editor-of-stars-stripes-for-promising-to-do-independent-journalism/ | Source: Techdirt [12:51] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Pentagon Fires Chief Editor Of Stars & Stripes For Promising To Do Independent Journalism | Techdirt [12:53] TR News "Zhen, who is based in New York, was arrested during a visit to Beijing in August 2024." https://www.dw.com/en/china-dissident-artist-jailed-for-satirical-mao-sculptures/a-78502724 | Source: Deutsche Welle [12:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.dw.com | China: Dissident artist jailed for satirical Mao sculptures [12:56] TR News "The Hong Kong High Court ruled Aug. 21 that the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China" https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2026/08/25/hkaspdmc-hong-kong-china-subversion/ | Source: RFA [12:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rfa.org | Hong Kong court verdict aims to erase Tiananmen memory, 1989 student protester says Radio Free Asia [12:56] TR News "It seems that the city is washing its hands off the case and passing the burden on the county." https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/kansas-town-drops-charges-against-teacher-who-clapped-during-public-hearings-on-data-centers-says-that-case-has-been-dismissed-without-prejudice | Source: Tom's Hardware [12:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Kansas town drops charges against teacher arrested for clapping during public hearings on data centers says that case has been dismissed without prejudice | Tom's Hardware ● Aug 27 [13:06] TR News "Last fall you might remember that WaPos management fired opinion columnist Karen Attiah." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/jeff-bezos-washington-post-forced-to-rehire-columnist-fired-for-quoting-deceased-bigot-charlie-kirk/ | Source: Techdirt [13:06] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Jeff Bezos Washington Post Forced To Rehire Columnist Fired For Quoting Deceased Bigot Charlie Kirk | Techdirt [13:06] TR News (NEW): One More Business Day for August https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/One_More_Business_Day_for_August.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/One_More_Business_Day_for_August.gmi [13:06] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines One More Business Day for August [13:14] TR News 4-Week Staycation https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/27/4-week-staycation/ [13:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive 4-Week Staycation [13:16] TR News "If anyones left to run the offering. Another OpenAI executive left just yesterday Chris Malone, OpenAIs Head of Data Centers." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/26/openai-loses-even-more-executives-ahead-of-the-alleged-ipo/ | Source: Pivot to AI [13:16] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pivot-to-ai.com | Explained about the room interrupted itself for perhaps as much as half a. [13:17] TR News "So I am not out to cancel AOC, though I agree with her on vanishingly little. Her electoral career is for voters to decide." https://www.thenextmove.org/p/2020-accountability-is-mia | Source: The Next Move [13:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thenextmove.org | 2020 Accountability is MIA - by Garry Kasparov [13:17] TR News "Ive watched and read multiple reports like this, and I remain unconvinced." https://www.rubenerd.au/brexit-ten-years-on/ | Source: Ruben Schade [13:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rubenerd.au | Rubenerd: Brexit, ten years on [13:27] TR News "In practice we suspect that many are simply doing the same as they have with compliance marking and waste electronic equipment regulations" https://hackaday.com/2026/08/26/how-packaging-can-kill-an-electronics-microbusiness/ | Source: Hackaday [13:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-How Packaging Can Kill An Electronics Microbusiness | Hackaday [13:28] TR News "Retreating from China, once Nokias largest single-country market globally, would mark an acquiescence to domestic competition" https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3364425/nokia-close-almost-all-sites-mainland-china-year-end-sources-say | Source: SCMP [13:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.scmp.com | Exclusive | Nokia to close almost all sites in mainland China by year end, sources say | South China Morning Post [13:28] TR News "As part of that restructuring, the company said at first it was simplifying its operating structure in China." https://insidetowers.com/nokia-takes-steps-to-exit-china-market/ | Source: Inside Towers [13:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-insidetowers.com | Nokia Takes Steps to Exit China Market - Inside Towers [13:28] TR News "The get-together is the latest unconventional outreach by the NSA, whose very existence was once a government secret." https://therecord.media/nsa-to-host-hacker-reunion-in-bid-to-rebuild-secretive-unit | Source: The Record [13:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-therecord.media | Exclusive: NSA to host a hacker reunion in bid to rebuild secretive unit | The Record from Recorded Future News [13:29] TR News "In-person talks between high-level American and Russian officials are rare." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87vg9x5d7do | Source: BBC [13:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.bbc.com | CIA chief travels to Moscow for unannounced talks, US media reports [13:29] TR News "The tracker showed that the flight originated from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, best known for hosting Air Force One" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/25/cia-director-john-ratcliffe-moscow-russia | Source: The Guardian UK [13:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theguardian.com | CIA director John Ratcliffe reportedly on Moscow visit | CIA | The Guardian [13:29] TR News "It was not known who was on board the plane and why it was in Moscow. When asked, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he did not have information about the aircraft." https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia/mystery-us-military-plane-lands-moscow-rcna594262 | Source: NBC [13:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.nbcnews.com | CIA director flies unannounced to Moscow to hold talks, source says [13:30] TR News "Belgian and Dutch media report that European Sleeper now plans to start night trains to Malm, running from April 2028, in collaboration with the German company RDC." https://www.thelocal.dk/20260825/new-night-train-planned-between-brussels-and-malmo-via-denmark | Source: The Local DK [13:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thelocal.dk | New night train planned between Brussels and Malm, via Denmark [13:30] TR News "Visiting the office today." https://blog.pcora.eu/posts/2026-08-26-visiting-the-office-today | Source: Pedro [13:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.pcora.eu | Visiting the office today. - Pedroblog [13:31] TR News "The craft, which is roughly the length of a Boeing 747 and resembles an airship, is filled with helium and floats into the sky carrying lightweight turbines." https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3365180/china-taps-high-altitude-winds-power-generation-flying-craft-4000m | Source: SCMP [13:31] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.scmp.com | China taps high-altitude winds for power generation by flying craft to 4,000m | South China Morning Post [13:32] TR News "In proof-of-concept tests, the intense heat turned the raw materials into cement clinker within seconds, nearly 100 times faster than standard production." https://interestingengineering.com/energy/us-plasma-cement-faster-fossil-fuels | Source: Interesting Engineering [13:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-interestingengineering.com | Stanford scientists' 4,352F plasma makes low-carbon cement in seconds [13:32] TR News "Unsurprisingly, as journalist Andrew Nikiforuk described the burgeoning opposition to data centres recently in The Tyee" https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/08/26/AI-Data-Centre-Backlash/ | Source: The Tyee [13:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-thetyee.ca | As AI Data Centre Backlash Builds, What Will Smith Do? | The Tyee [13:33] TR News "Have you tried to publish a critical piece on population growth in the media? I find that such attempts usually fail." https://overpopulation-project.com/ceuta-incident-population-growth-threatens-both-poor-africans-and-climate-stability/ | Source: Overpopulation [13:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-overpopulation-project.com | Ceuta incident: Population growth threatens both poor Africans and climate stability - The Overpopulation Project [13:33] TR News "Class 1 e-bikes will be affected differently under the ordinance, because they only use a peddle-assisted motor." https://www.ksl.com/article/51616508/new-e-bike-proposal-aims-to-ban-some-bike-models-from-dirt-roads-in-salt-lake-county | Source: Deseret Media [13:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-New e-bike proposal aims to ban some bike models from dirt roads in Salt Lake County | KSL.com [13:38] TR News "For the most part, existing data centres use less than 10 megawatts (MW) of grid power each, in many cases much less" https://www.theenergymix.com/alberta-woman-maps-out-the-facts-about-power-hungry-data-centres/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc [13:38] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.theenergymix.com/alberta-woman-maps-out-the-facts-about-power-hungry-data-centres/ ) [13:38] TR News "This event was initially reported as a magnitude 4.4 earthquake. Additional analysis of nearby seismic stations" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/neighbours/nepal-disaster-caused-by-glacial-collapse-says-usgs-1982628 | Source: Deccan Chronicle [13:38] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.deccanchronicle.com | Nepal Flash Floods Caused by Glacial Collapse, Says USGS [13:46] TR News see also "Broken by design: systemd" https://ewontfix.com/14/ [13:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Recv failure: Connection reset by peer ( status 0 @ https://ewontfix.com/14/ ) [13:46] TR News "like an inland tsunami, travelling nearly 170 kilometres down the Bhote Koshi valley into Central Nepal" https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/27/search-for-1000-missing-after-deadly-nepal-tibet-floods/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press [13:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hongkongfp.com | Search for 1,000 missing after deadly Nepal-Tibet floods [13:51] TR News "The candid comments were recorded by Signal Akron journalist Doug Brown" https://www.404media.co/flocks-ceo-is-lying-to-cops-about-404-medias-reporting-on-abortion-case/ | Source: 404 Media [13:51] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.404media.co | Flocks CEO Is Lying to Cops About 404 Media's Reporting on Abortion Case [13:53] TR News "The use of apps TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat among 10-12 year olds and 13 to 15-year olds was on the rise, data from parental control app Qustodio showed" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/social-media-use-on-the-rise-among-australian-under-16s-after-ban-data/articleshow/133527664.cms | Source: India Times [13:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-economictimes.indiatimes.com | Australian under-16s social media use: Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data - The Economic Times [13:53] TR News "Australian under-16s are increasing their use of social media apps such as Instagram and Tiktok despite a world-leading ban" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/social-media-use-on-the-rise-among-australian-under-16s-after-ban-data-1764502892 | Source: RTL [13:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-today.rtl.lu | Bypassing restrictions: Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data - RTL Today [13:55] TR News TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, have agreed to pay $400 million to settle a Department of Justice lawsuit https://www.movieguide.org/news-articles/tiktok-to-pay-400-million-over-child-privacy-violations.html [13:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.movieguide.org/news-articles/tiktok-to-pay-400-million-over-child-privacy-violations.html ) [13:55] TR News "Recording devices, including smart glasses, cannot be used in libraries across Cork without permission from librarians or other staff members." https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41901367.html | Source: Irish Examiner [13:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.irishexaminer.com | New bylaws mean smart glasses cannot be used in Cork libraries without permission [13:55] TR News "The New York Times has a long article (alt link) on surveillance systems aimed at babies. They are increasingly using AI." https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/spyware-for-babies.html | Source: Bruce Schneier [13:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Spyware for Babies - Schneier on Security [13:55] TR News "Voting data is public by design, but ICE is looking for a federal contractor to help it handle voter registration and history files to find what it describes as fraud." https://www.404media.co/ice-wants-the-countrys-voter-data/ | Source: 404 Media [13:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.404media.co | ICE Wants the Countrys Voter Data [13:56] TR News "A mischief-maker in a Darth Vader suit recently endorsed Flock at a city council meeting, and it has not helped the company's fortunes." https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/08/26/flock-shock-rocks-cop-cam-vendor-as-protests-mount/5292691 | Source: The Register UK [13:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theregister.com | Flock shock rocks cop cam vendor as protests mount [13:56] TR News "Given the disinterest of both Flock and its main customers to police themselves" https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/as-flock-vandalism-goes-mainstream-one-grand-jury-says-alleged-flock-vandal-did-nothing-wrong/ | Source: Techdirt [13:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-As Flock Vandalism Goes Mainstream, One Grand Jury Says Alleged Flock Vandal Did Nothing Wrong | Techdirt [13:57] TR News "officers accused of using the system to stalk exes or romantic interests." https://www.ksl.com/article/51616576/police-officer-arrested-after-tracking-ex-girlfriend-on-flock-camera-system-over-2000-times-authorities-say | Source: Deseret Media [13:57] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Police officer arrested after tracking ex-girlfriend on Flock camera system over 2,000 times, authorities say | KSL.com [13:57] TR News "Right of access flatly denied. SCHUFA becomes thoroughly inconsistent when it comes to the right of access: on the one hand, SCHUFA claims that the previously unknown shadow database is entirely transparent." https://noyb.eu/en/shadow-database-scandal-noyb-sends-schufa-cease-and-desist-letter-interest-list-class-action | Source: NYOB [13:57] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-noyb.eu | Shadow database scandal: noyb sends SCHUFA cease-and-desist letter; interest list for class action opened [13:58] TR News "Wednesdays problem, as has so often been the case, hit Actions, GitHubs CI/CD platform for automating software builds" https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/08/26/github-actions-was-down-yet-again/5292679 | Source: The Register UK http://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Microsoft_s_Mass_Layoffs_Impact_the_Ability_to_Run_Microsoft.shtml [13:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theregister.com | GitHub Actions was down yet again [13:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Microsoft's Mass Layoffs Impact the Ability to Run Microsoft [13:58] TR News "Fortunately, NASAs flagship Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, long seen as the next great observatory, has evaded those efforts." https://futurism.com/space/nasa-test-strategy-telescopes-failed | Source: Futurism [13:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | NASA Set Up a Major Test of Its New Strategy Under Trump by Hiring a Startup to Launch a Daring Mission to Rescue a Dying Space Telescope in Orbit. The Unfortunate Result Will Have Long-Ranging Repercussions. ● Aug 27 [14:00] TR News So in mid-May they replaced all the major internal parts. http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/19/It_s_Not_Just_a_Widespread_Theory_It_s_Apparently_a_Verified_Fa.shtml and now, months later, the machine makes odd noises. As if those machines are made to fail no matter what and extended warrantees are a waste of money. [14:00] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights It's Not Just a Widespread Theory, It's Apparently a Verified Fact: Home Appliances Not Made to Last Long [14:00] TR News Windows TCO https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/water-system-hacks-fbi-iran-b3039960.html | Source: The Independent UK [14:00] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.independent.co.uk | FBI probe into water system cyberattacks expands after tech supplier is targeted | The Independent [14:01] TR News "making further false, misleading, or deceptive statements around its safety features." https://www.wired.com/story/meta-will-pay-up-to-dollar167-billion-to-settle-its-social-media-harms-case-and-thats-just-for-starters/ | Source: Wired [14:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Meta Will Pay Up to $16.7 Billion to Settle Its Social Media Harms Caseand Thats Not All | WIRED [14:01] TR News "B. The States bring this action pursuant to the authority conferred on them by applicable federal and state law." https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/23-05448-ecf-572-1-exhibit-1-mdl-consent-judgment-final-settlment-agreement-fully-executed.pdf | [14:01] TR News "The remaining $5.3 billion unlocks only if YouTube and TikTok adopt matching teen limits and matching payments." https://sqmagazine.co.uk/meta-18-billion-state-ags-teen-safety-settlement/ | Source: SQ Magazine [14:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-sqmagazine.co.uk | Meta to Pay $18 Billion in Landmark Teen Safety Deal [14:01] TR News "not exactly pocket change, but it's hardly a body blow." https://text.npr.org/2026/08/26/nx-s1-5944781/meta-settlement-child-safety-lawsuit | Source: NPR [14:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-text.npr.org | Meta, states agree to $17 billion settlement in child safety trial [14:02] TR News "Not in the news: any comment from anyone who spends their ad money, on their clients, on Meta ads." https://blog.zgp.org/the-silence-of-the-meta-advertisers/ | Source: Don Marti [14:02] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.zgp.org | the silence of the Meta advertisers [14:03] TR News "The jury trial, which took place in federal court in Oakland, California, began with opening statements just last week." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/26/meta-social-media-addiction-trial-settlement | Source: The Guardian UK [14:03] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theguardian.com | Meta agrees to major changes to Facebook and Instagram as it settles US trial over teen addiction for up to $18bn | Meta | The Guardian [14:03] TR News "will be distributed in annual instalments over a 10-year period" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd68q3wynnqo | Source: BBC [14:04] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.bbc.com | Meta to pay up to $18bn to settle claims its platforms harm children [14:04] TR News "US district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers approved the settlement on Wednesday." https://www.wired.com/story/the-meta-settlement-will-put-limits-on-instagram-for-teens-theyre-still-vulnerable/ | Source: Wired [14:04] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The Meta Settlement Will Put Limits on Instagram for Teens. Theyre Still Vulnerable | WIRED [14:04] TR News "The regulator estimated that, during the period under review, TikTok may have processed the data of at least 8 million children" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/brazil-fines-tiktok-owner-bytedance-for-unlawful-processing-of-teenagers-data/articleshow/133523806.cms | Source: India Times [14:04] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-economictimes.indiatimes.com | Brazil fines TikTok owner ByteDance for unlawful processing of teenagers' data - The Economic Times [14:04] TR News "We're not particularly interested in including AI-generated music as part of that process, particularly when it's taking up a spot from an Australian artist in the chart." https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/aria-to-ban-ai-generated-music-australian-charts/g509tctuc | Source: SBS [14:04] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.sbs.com.au | ARIA to ban AI-generated music from Australian charts [14:05] TR News "First, a PSA: Do NOT use Omarchy if you care about security of your machine even a little bit. You can't polish a turd" https://blog.happyfellow.dev/merchants-of-insecurity/ | Source: One Happy Fellow [14:05] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.happyfellow.dev | Merchants of Insecurity One Happy Fellow - blog [14:06] TR News " Minions of Avian Intelligence" https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1168/the-minions-of-avian-intelligence | Source: David Revoy [14:06] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.davidrevoy.com | The Minions of Avian Intelligence - David Revoy [14:06] TR News (NEW): Merchants of Insecurity https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Merchants_of_Insecurity.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Merchants_of_Insecurity.gmi [14:06] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Merchants of Insecurity [14:06] TR News "At first glance, the AI-written code is not incomprehensible." https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/26/what-is-the-quality-of-software-that-ai-writes/ | Source: John D Cook [14:06] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.johndcook.com | What is the quality of software that AI writes? [14:06] TR News "Brooklyn was posing the same way as he had in the picture Butler used for the missing poster." https://www.wired.com/story/ai-slop-is-ruining-the-internets-cute-animal-economy/ | Source: Wired [14:06] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-AI Slop Is Ruining Cute Animals on the Internet | WIRED [14:07] TR News "In his ruling, which applies to only certain images, a federal judge asked the Supreme Court to revisit legal precedents that predated advances in AI." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/26/federal-judge-warns-law-is-being-left-behind-by-ai-sex-abuse-images/ | Source: The Washington Post [14:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/26/federal-judge-warns-law-is-being-left-behind-by-ai-sex-abuse-images/ ) [14:07] TR News "The telling part came during the response." https://blog.talosintelligence.com/the-safety-penalty-reclaiming-operational-sovereignty-in-the-age-of-ai/ | Source: Threat Source [14:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.talosintelligence.com | The safety penalty: Reclaiming operational sovereignty in the age of AI [14:07] TR News "First, it used recently disclosed bugs in my host kernel." https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/26/vms-wont-contain-cyber-capable-agents/ | Source: Trail of Bits [14:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.trailofbits.com | VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents - The Trail of Bits Blog [14:09] TR News Seems like a very American thing to do: "In 2013, he was accused of physical abuse by an ex-girlfriend. Arrington sued the woman for defamation and she agreed to retract her accusations against him and apologize" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Arrington [14:09] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-en.wikipedia.org | Michael Arrington - Wikipedia [14:10] TR News Now he does fake-coins (scam) under the name "Arrington Capital" [14:11] TR News "The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), in collaboration with Microsoft and OpenAI, has launched an AI training program worth over 2.2 billion rupees." https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/big-tech-interference-american-schools-ai-tools-protests-138831634.html | Source: Bhaskar English [14:11] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.bhaskarenglish.in | Big Tech Interference in American Schools; AI Tools & Classroom Protests [14:11] TR News "The name is a reference to the click wheel of the venerable Apple iPod, and as you might imagine, thats precisely what clicky is built to emulate." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/26/emulating-the-ipod/ | Source: Hackaday [14:11] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Emulating The IPod | Hackaday [14:11] TR News "This fall marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of Windows XP, an event worthy of commemoration." https://www.pcworld.com/article/3221156/windows-xp-turns-25-it-still-beats-windows-8-in-market-share.html | Source: PC World [14:11] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Windows XP turns 25. It's still beating Windows 8 in market share | PCWorld [14:14] TR News following [14:15] TR News "The following year came the HP-35, the first successful handheld scientific calculator that put slide rules out to pasture." https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/08/the-calculator-transition.html | Source: Computational Complexity [14:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.computationalcomplexity.org | Computational Complexity: The Calculator Transition [14:15] TR News "I was also talking to my younger son about cassettes the other day, how long the games took to load, and how we had compilation cassettes with several games on them. So we decided to load the games from tape!" https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/loading-from-tape/ | Source: Juan J Martnez [14:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Loading from tape - usebox.net [14:15] TR News "Zooming way, way in on the disk reveals that hes actually printing the patterns of the MOD file row by row" https://hackaday.com/2026/08/26/encoding-mod-files-optically-on-paper-because-amigas-legacy-will-outlast-m-disks/ | Source: Hackaday [14:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Encoding MOD Files Optically On Paper, Because Amigas Legacy Will Outlast M-Disks | Hackaday [14:16] TR News "I have seen this happen in real time. Someone comes in for info or a book tied to a current event and they leave with something else (as well) because they forgot how much we have to offer." https://raforall.blogspot.com/2026/08/dollys-patrons-imagination-library-at.html | Source: Becky Spratford [14:16] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-raforall.blogspot.com | RA for All: Dolly's Patron's Imagination Library at Your Library [14:17] TR News "At the moment, I have one bookshelf which I am actively outgrowing. My bookshelf has three shelves, and I keep more books on the top." https://jamesg.blog/2026/08/26/how-i-organise-my-bookshelf | Source: James G [14:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-jamesg.blog | How I organise my bookshelf - with words, wonder [14:17] TR News "It also says what coaching actually is, beyond the image of an expert handing out advice." https://jeroensangers.com/2026/08/26/blind-spots-need-someone-elses.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers [14:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-jeroensangers.com | Jeroen Sangers brain tags - Blind spots need someone else's eyes [14:19] TR News "I see the same analysis paralysis in developers Ive mentored over the years, when it comes to getting started with a new language or framework." https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2026/analysis-paralysis/ | Source: Kevin Renskers [14:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.loopwerk.io | Loopwerk: Analysis paralysis sucks [14:21] TR News "Dolly sang in church from the time she was a small child and people recognized her talent." https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/dolly-parton-rip | [14:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com | Dolly Parton, RIP - Lawyers, Guns & Money [14:25] TR News Bad Engineering by Design https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/27/bad-engineering-by-design/ [14:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Bad Engineering by Design [14:25] TR News "In the meantime, we are starting to support students in England who choose an established route for extending their skills and getting that effort recognised: the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ)." https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/support-for-ai-focused-qualification-young-people-england/ | Source: Raspberry Pi [14:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.raspberrypi.org | Supporting a technical AI-focused qualification for young people in England - Raspberry Pi Foundation [14:27] TR News "A big thank you to Eliza, and to all of the book scanners, digitization staff, librarians, engineers, archivists, and volunteers who spend their days caring for the physical record and making it accessible in digital form." https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/26/book-scanning-goes-viral-again/ | Source: Internet Archive [14:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.archive.org | Book Scanning Goes ViralAgain | Internet Archive Blogs [14:27] TR News "But it's her gift of the Imagination Library program, one of Parton's most personal philanthropic projects, that has really transformed Tamworth." https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/dolly-parton-imagination-library-tamworth/ahedyrjpl | Source: SBS [14:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.sbs.com.au | It was Dolly Parton's proudest legacy. Now an Australian town must keep it alive [14:29] TR News "The Dr. Semiconductor YouTube channel only has a few videos, but the man is quickly making a name for himself." https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/mad-scientist-makes-leds-in-his-backyard-semiconductor-wizard-who-made-his-own-ram-turns-his-attention-to-blinkenlights | Source: Tom's Hardware [14:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Mad scientist makes LEDs in his backyard semiconductor wizard who made his own RAM turns his attention to using bathroom eBay laser to etch sapphire wafers | Tom's Hardware [14:29] TR News "Orthogonal polynomials are mathematically elegant as well as very useful in applications [1]. Various families of orthogonal polynomials satisfy various differential equations." https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/26/junk-solutions/ | Source: John D Cook [14:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.johndcook.com | Junk solutions [14:29] TR News "Let me tell you my favourite thing about this postcard, though: it taught me something cool." https://danq.me/2026/08/26/postcard-from-tony/ | Source: Dan Q [14:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-danq.me | A Postcard from Tony (who the heck is Tony) Dan Q [14:30] TR News "For me, the focus of my blog has shifted somewhat in the meantime." https://kiko.io/post/AuguStory-The-story-of-my-blog/ | Source: Kristof Zerbe [14:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-AuguStory - The story of my blog - kiko.io [14:30] TR News "I've tried for months to redesign my site. I was fed up with the design and I wanted something new but every time I tried I would get halfway through the home page and decide I didn't like that either." https://rknight.me/blog/tabula-rasa/ | Source: Rob Knight [14:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-rknight.me | Tabula Rasa Robb Knight [14:30] TR News "They took the time to understand my request." https://svenluijten.com/blog/we-will-not-be-processing-your-email | Source: Sven Luijten [14:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-svenluijten.com | We will not be processing your email - Sven [14:30] TR News "Curry's co-stars were quick to lavish praise on the actor, with "Rocky Horror" star Susan Sarandon calling him a "funny, sexy original."" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/entertainment/hollywood/rocky-horror-picture-show-star-tim-curry-dead-at-80-1982630 | Source: Deccan Chronicle [14:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.deccanchronicle.com | 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' Star Tim Curry Dead at 80 [14:31] TR News "Currys introduction in The Rocky Horror Picture Show is legendary. Dropping down in a glass elevator, he commands the screen before uttering a single lyric." https://www.vintag.es/2026/08/tim-curry-rocky-horror-picture-show.html | Source: Vintage Everyday [14:31] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.vintag.es | 40 Amazing Photos of Tim Curry as Frank N Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) ~ Vintage Everyday [14:31] TR News "Im not here to share the story of newsletters in general, and not just here to talk about newsletters for my favorite old computing platform, Atari computers." https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/27/a-computer-history-time-capsule/ | Source: Internet Archive [14:31] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.archive.org | A Computer History Time Capsule | Internet Archive Blogs [14:44] TR News Techrights Links 27/08/2026: "Flocks CEO Is Lying to Cops" and Microsoft's GitHub Actions Breaks Down Again (Too Many Layoffs, Loss of Knowledge) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Links_27_08_2026_Flock_s_CEO_Is_Lying_to_Cops_and_Microsoft_s_G.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Links_27_08_2026_Flock_s_CEO_Is_Lying_to_Cops_and_Microsoft_s_G.gmi [14:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Links 27/08/2026: "Flocks CEO Is Lying to Cops" and Microsoft's GitHub Actions Breaks Down Again (Too Many Layoffs, Loss of Knowledge) [14:49] TR News "However it starts, mailbox providers react the same way. They route your mail to spam or reject it at the door" https://sqmagazine.co.uk/repair-damaged-email-sender-reputation/ | Source: SQ Magazine [14:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-sqmagazine.co.uk | How to Repair a Damaged Email Sender Reputation (2026 Guide) [14:51] TR News "Suppose, not hypothetically, that you operate a multi-server Linux environment where most people get to log in to some machines" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdUserServicesAndShell | Source: University of Toronto [14:51] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-utcc.utoronto.ca | You're using a too-old browser ● Aug 27 [15:12] TR News Techrights Claims of Tens of Thousands of 'Silent Layoffs' at IBM (and Red Hat) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Claims_of_Tens_of_Thousands_of_Silent_Layoffs_at_IBM_and_Red_Ha.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Claims_of_Tens_of_Thousands_of_Silent_Layoffs_at_IBM_and_Red_Ha.gmi [15:12] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Claims of Tens of Thousands of 'Silent Layoffs' at IBM (and Red Hat) [15:13] TR News "Thousands of lines of hand-written CUDA C++, now Python. Less code, and it runs faster." https://blog.scientific-python.org/awkward/rewriting-gpu-kernels-cuda-compute/ | Source: Scientific Python Blog [15:13] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.scientific-python.org | Blog - Rewriting Awkward Array's GPU kernels in Python with NVIDIA's cuda.compute [15:13] TR News "I recently built a website to display my Pokdex Binder." https://hamatti.org/posts/v-is-for-visible-characters-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala [15:13] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hamatti.org | V is for visible characters - Python A to Z : Juha-Matti Santala [15:13] TR News "Often in programming we end up in a situation where we want to check for an output of a function and then do something to it if its truthy." https://hamatti.org/posts/w-is-for-walrus-operator-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala [15:13] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hamatti.org | W is for walrus operator - Python A to Z : Juha-Matti Santala [15:37] TR News "In previous articles" https://statsandr.com/blog/cochrans-q-test-in-r/ | Source: Stats and R [15:38] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-statsandr.com | Cochran's Q test in R, or the extension of McNemar's test for more than two groups - Stats and R [15:38] TR News "I'm regularly rewriting my history, often with the lens of improving my commit messages." https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/25/git-rebase-update-refs/ | Source: Jamie Tanna [15:38] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.jvt.me | Updating dependent branches when rebasing, automagically Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer [15:41] TR News "Tasks that were both urgent and important got finished most often. Tasks that were only important, with no deadline pressing on them, were finished least often." https://jeroensangers.com/2026/08/26/urgency-not-importance-decides-what.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers [15:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-jeroensangers.com | Jeroen Sangers brain tags - Urgency, not importance, decides what gets done [15:41] TR News "C++26 is generous with new containers were getting both std::hive and std::inplace_vector. In this post, well look at the latter." https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/08/26/cpp26-inplace-vector | Source: Sandor Dargo [15:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.sandordargo.com | C++26: std::inplace_vector | Sandor Dargo's Blog [15:41] TR News "Xinuos plans to petition for a fullbench rehearing of its case, but this kind of request has only a 0.03% success rate according to IBMs lawyers." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/decades-long-linux-ownership-dispute-effectively-dead-after-xinuos-appeal-rejected-us-court-of-appeals-halts-the-legal-wrangling-over-ibms-and-red-hats-use-of-project-monterey-unix-code | Source: Tom's Hardware [15:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Decades-long Linux ownership dispute effectively dead after Xinuos appeal rejected US Court of Appeals halts the legal wrangling over IBMs and Red Hats use of Project Monterey UNIX code | Tom's Hardware [15:42] TR News "Class actions famously result in a pittance for everyone other than the lawyers involved." https://www.rubenerd.au/im-part-of-my-first-class-action/ | Source: Ruben Schade [15:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rubenerd.au | Rubenerd: My first class action [15:43] TR News "I'm moving one service after another to European companies." https://www.erikkroes.nl/blog/going-european/ | Source: Erik Kroes http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/21/Techrights_Disconnected_From_the_United_States_Two_Years_Ago.shtml [15:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.erikkroes.nl | Going European | Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultant [15:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Techrights Disconnected From the United States Two Years Ago [15:43] TR News "You can go into the deep end way too easily with a self-hosting project. But is a less-is-more approach possible? Heres what my attempt to build a third-place box taught me" https://tedium.co/2026/08/26/self-hosting-third-place-strategy/ | Source: Tedium [15:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-tedium.co | Can Self-Hosting Be Simple? A Mini-PC Experiment [15:43] TR News "In part one and two of our reports on the LibreLocal 2026 meetups, we already highlighted fifteen different LibreLocals through the eyes of their organizers." https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-librelocal-part-3 | Source: FSF [15:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.fsf.org | Five more organizer tales: LibreLocal 2026, part three Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [15:44] TR News "WordPress has to go. The main reason chardonsbleus.org is still running WordPress is GiveWP." https://rmendes.net/articles/2026/08/26/another-reason-to-leave-wordpress/ | Source: Ricardo Mendes [15:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-rmendes.net | Another reason to leave WordPress behind - A Node on the Web [15:44] TR News "The result is that many developers are still optimizing their code for problems that WordPress Core has already solved." https://remkusdevries.com/modern-wordpress-query-performance/ | Source: Remkus de Vries [15:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-remkusdevries.com | Modern WordPress Query Performance: What Changed - Remkus de Vries [15:47] TR News "Running as an embedded library was a clever reimagining of where the work happens" https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/08/duckdb-and-the-changing-physics-of-analytics.html | Source: Dr Werner Vogels [15:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.allthingsdistributed.com | DuckDB and the changing physics of analytics | All Things Distributed [15:47] TR News "This is a post about connecting R to VistA via Octo and generating interesting statistical analysis and diagrams." https://yottadb.com/r-statistics-on-a-live-vista-instance/ | Source: YottaDB [15:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-R Statistics on a Live VistA Instance - YottaDB [15:47] TR News "This release restores the full set of interface customisation controls missing in version 6.7, as well as the last four missing privacy toggles." https://www.waterfox.com/releases/6.7.1/ | Source: Waterfox [15:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-6.7.1 - Fine Tuning - Waterfox Release [15:47] TR News "But for a long time, the UI was a very simple, blocky, and overused monospace fonts for every UI element." https://chrishannah.me/miniroll-ui-revamp/ | Source: Chris Hannah [15:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-chrishannah.me | Miniroll UI Revamp | Chris Hannah [15:48] TR News "A couple of weeks ago I wrote about detailing how itd taken me five attempts to get a working Apple II motherboard!" https://www.rubenerd.au/iigs-adventures-continue/ | Source: Ruben Schade [15:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rubenerd.au | Rubenerd: Apple II adventures continue [15:48] TR News "The reception to my second post about keeping retro motherboard builds on shelves has been far more positive than the first post, which has been lovely" https://www.rubenerd.au/using-and-powering-shelf-retrocomputers/ | Source: Ruben Schade [15:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rubenerd.au | Rubenerd: Using and powering shelf retrocomputers [15:48] TR News "Printed circuit boards were developed first for function over form." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/26/hackaday-europe-2026-pcbs-with-a-plot/ | Source: Hackaday [15:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Hackaday Europe 2026: PCBs With A Plot | Hackaday [15:49] TR News "The Haiku project has released a new development snapshot of the lightweight, single-user operating system." https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12933 | Source: Distro Watch [15:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12933 ) [15:50] TR News "SoI am still working on the online multiplayer(asynch) code and UI and UX for Ridiculous Space Battles" https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2026/08/26/challenge-code-and-ui-almost-done/ | Source: Positech Games [15:50] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.positech.co.uk | Challenge code and UI almost done! Cliffski's Blog [15:50] TR News "An inconvenient part of GPU driver development is the fact that GPUs can crash and hang for various reasons, just like CPUs." https://timur.hu/blog/2026/how-does-gpu-recovery-work-on-amd-gpus-on-linux | Source: Timur Kristf [15:50] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-timur.hu | How does GPU recovery work with AMD GPUs on Linux? | Timurs blog [15:51] TR News "Meanwhile, your smart TV might be doing more than binge-watching Netflix while you sleep." https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-482/ | Source: Graham Cluley [15:51] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-grahamcluley.com | Smashing Security podcast #482: This hacker leaked GTA 6 - and launched their own cryptocurrency Graham Cluley [15:51] TR News "Today Relay launched the public and private feeds of my new podcast, Designed in California." https://sixcolors.com/link/2026/08/designed-in-california-feeds-are-up-and-running/ | Source: Six Colors [15:51] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-sixcolors.com | Designed in California feeds are up and running Six Colors [15:52] TR News "This week Jonathan chats with Nathan Freitas of the Guardian Project! What is going on at the forefront of Open Source and privacy advocacy?" https://hackaday.com/2026/08/26/floss-weekly-episode-879-easy-like-butter/ | Source: Hackaday [15:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-FLOSS Weekly Episode 879: Easy Like Butter | Hackaday [15:53] TR News 1047 Games stop development on EMPULSE and SPLITGATE: Arena Reloaded | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/1047-games-stop-development-on-empulse-and-splitgate-arena-reloaded/ Source: GamingOnLinux [15:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-1047 Games stop development on EMPULSE and SPLITGATE: Arena Reloaded | GamingOnLinux [15:53] TR News Dead by Daylight will be testing out Denuvo Anti-Cheat and other systems soon | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/dead-by-daylight-will-be-testing-out-denuvo-anti-cheat-and-other-systems-soon/ Source: GamingOnLinux [15:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Dead by Daylight will be testing out Denuvo Anti-Cheat and other systems soon | GamingOnLinux [15:53] TR News Alien Deathstorm from Rebellion has a new trailer and release set for Spring 2027 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/alien-deathstorm-from-rebellion-has-a-new-trailer-and-release-set-for-spring-2027/ Source: GamingOnLinux [15:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Alien Deathstorm from Rebellion has a new trailer and release set for Spring 2027 | GamingOnLinux [15:58] TR News VR co-op heist game PAYDAY: Aces High is being 'developed for Steam Frame' | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/vr-co-op-heist-game-payday-aces-high-is-being-developed-for-steam-frame/ Source: GamingOnLinux | [15:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-VR co-op heist game PAYDAY: Aces High is being 'developed for Steam Frame' | GamingOnLinux [15:59] TR News Hollow Home is an upcoming narrative survival RPG set in a city under siege | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/hollow-home-is-an-upcoming-narrative-survival-rpg-set-in-a-city-under-siege/ Source: GamingOnLinux [15:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Hollow Home is an upcoming narrative survival RPG set in a city under siege | GamingOnLinux ● Aug 27 [16:01] TR News Hollywood Hustle: A Prop Collector Simulator has a fun idea for a scavenging clean-up sim | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/hollywood-hustle-a-prop-collector-simulator-has-a-fun-idea-for-a-scavenging-clean-up-sim/ Source: GamingOnLinux [16:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Hollywood Hustle: A Prop Collector Simulator has a fun idea for a scavenging clean-up sim | GamingOnLinux [16:14] TR News Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026 round-up of announcements | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/gamescom-opening-night-live-2026-round-up-of-announcements/ Source: GamingOnLinux [16:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026 round-up of announcements | GamingOnLinux [16:14] TR News Yet Another Zombie Survivors review | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/yet-another-zombie-survivors-review/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/yet-another-zombie-survivors-review/ [16:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Yet Another Zombie Survivors review | GamingOnLinux [16:14] TR News Blood Dungeon review | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/blood-dungeon-review/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/blood-dungeon-review/ [16:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Blood Dungeon review | GamingOnLinux [16:15] TR News Surveillance laws are more dangerous together than individually | "vervakningslagarna r farligare tillsammans n var fr sig" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/08/25/overvakningslagarna-ar-farligare-tillsammans-an-var-for-sig/ [16:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-femtejuli-se.translate.goog | vervakningslagarna r farligare tillsammans n var fr sig [16:15] TR News "Trump sends Saudi civil nuclear agreement to Congress for review - France 24" https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260826-trump-saudi-civil-nuclear-agreement-congress [16:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260826-trump-saudi-civil-nuclear-agreement-congress ) [16:16] TR News Hollowing out the most battle-tested and most lethal, proven leaders in a time of war means troops are less safe and were less likely to win, Representative Pat Ryan, Democrat of New York and a former Army intelligence officer, told the daily newspaper." https://newrepublic.com/post/214747/hegseth-army-purges-undermined-iran [16:16] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-newrepublic.com | Hegseths Army Purges Have Undermined Military Leadership on Iran | The New Republic [16:16] TR News Were doing generational damage to the sense that the military is an apolitical trusted organization that swears an oath to the Constitution, not to a president. https://newrepublic.com/post/214747/hegseth-army-purges-undermined-iran ("Hegseths Army Purges Have Undermined Military Leadership on Iran | The New Republic") [16:17] TR News "ArtLung: On reading obituaries for Tim Curry and Dolly Parton ~ 26 Aug 2026" https://artlung.com/blog/2026/08/26/on-reading-obits/ [16:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ArtLung: On reading obituaries for Tim Curry and Dolly Parton ~ 26 Aug 2026 [16:17] TR News "And look, its not news to anybody that Trump is ego-driven, disconnected from reality, and at the same time, somehow commands a level of deference and obedience from the entire machinery of the federal government that no president has ever had before. So this is really quite serious." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/der-untergang [16:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-paulkrugman.substack.com | Der Untergang - Paul Krugman [16:17] TR News "What I dont think people are fully aware of is just how bad it can get, given that Trump is so obviously dissociating, decompensating, that hes not all there." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/der-untergang [16:22] TR News "What Every Democratic Candidate Should be Saying" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-most-important-question-of-the [16:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-robertreich.substack.com | What Every Democratic Candidate Should be Saying [16:22] TR News IDG (funded by Microsoft) revisionism. when launched, XP was absolutely reviled by the masses, and for good reasons, not just the UI https://www.pcworld.com/article/3221156/windows-xp-turns-25-it-still-beats-windows-8-in-market-share.html [16:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Windows XP turns 25. It's still beating Windows 8 in market share | PCWorld [16:23] TR News (NEW): BcalcOS Devuan-based Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/BcalcOS_Devuan_based_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/BcalcOS_Devuan_based_Linux_distribution.gmi [16:23] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines BcalcOS Devuan-based Linux distribution [16:25] TR News "Dolly Parton was even more generous than you knew | Vox" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/500687/dolly-parton-philanthropy [16:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Dolly Parton was even more generous than you knew | Vox [16:25] TR News "Trump, 80, Appears to Forget That He Blew Up Canada Trade Talks | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/214760/trump-forget-canada-trade-talks [16:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-newrepublic.com | Trump, 80, Appears to Forget That He Blew Up Canada Trade Talks | The New Republic [16:25] TR News "Dolly Parton always explained the magic trick she was doing - Los Angeles Times" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2026-08-26/dolly-parton-appreciation [16:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.latimes.com | Dolly Parton always explained the magic trick she was doing - Los Angeles Times [16:25] TR News splitting the ticket -- again https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/08/27/Are-Too-Many-Vancouver-Progressives-Running-Mayor/ [16:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-thetyee.ca | Are Too Many Vancouver Progressives Running for Mayor? | The Tyee [16:28] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.gmi [16:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations [16:33] TR News (NEW): 5 reasons Linux is the most valuable software in the world (even though it's free) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/5_reasons_Linux_is_the_most_valuable_software_in_the_world_even.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/5_reasons_Linux_is_the_most_valuable_software_in_the_world_even.gmi [16:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines 5 reasons Linux is the most valuable software in the world (even though it's free) [16:35] TR News (NEW): The 5 best Linux alternatives to Windows in 2026 (that aren't Mint) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/The_5_best_Linux_alternatives_to_Windows_in_2026_that_aren_t_Mi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/The_5_best_Linux_alternatives_to_Windows_in_2026_that_aren_t_Mi.gmi [16:35] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines The 5 best Linux alternatives to Windows in 2026 (that aren't Mint) [16:38] TR News (NEW): Linux does these 5 things effortlessly that Windows still struggles with https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Linux_does_these_5_things_effortlessly_that_Windows_still_strug.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Linux_does_these_5_things_effortlessly_that_Windows_still_strug.gmi [16:38] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Linux does these 5 things effortlessly that Windows still struggles with [16:39] TR News Techrights Mainstream Media is Paid to Link "AI" Criticism/Boosting to Jeffrey Epstein Enablers, in Effect Showing How Corrupt This Media Became https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Mainstream_Media_is_Paid_to_Link_AI_Criticism_Boosting_to_Jeffr.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Mainstream_Media_is_Paid_to_Link_AI_Criticism_Boosting_to_Jeffr.gmi [16:39] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Mainstream Media is Paid to Link "AI" Criticism/Boosting to Jeffrey Epstein Enablers, in Effect Showing How Corrupt This Media Became [16:41] TR News ChatGPT wants to read your messages after decryption| "ChatGPT vill lsa dina meddelanden efter dekryptering" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/08/26/chatgpt-vill-lasa-dina-meddelanden-efter-dekryptering/ [16:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-femtejuli-se.translate.goog | ChatGPT vill lsa dina meddelanden efter dekryptering [16:47] TR News Techrights The Register MS Has Just Published Paid Spam That Says "AI" 19 Times https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/The_Register_MS_Has_Just_Published_Paid_Spam_That_Says_AI_19_Ti.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/The_Register_MS_Has_Just_Published_Paid_Spam_That_Says_AI_19_Ti.gmi [16:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights The Register MS Has Just Published Paid Spam That Says "AI" 19 Times [16:50] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Android_Leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Android_Leftovers.1.gmi [16:50] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Android Leftovers [16:51] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [16:53] TR News "Skips the weights that matter least" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-ai-inference-works-clearly-explained | Source: Red Hat Official [16:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.redhat.com | How AI inference works, clearly explained [16:53] TR News Red Hat selling slop plagiarism, not Linux [16:53] TR News "To help you strategically plan and execute your Red Hat Enterprise Linux modernization" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/migrate-confidence-how-red-hat-consulting-de-risks-your-linux-transition | Source: Red Hat Official [16:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.redhat.com | Modernize with confidence: Build a threat-resistant Linux foundation with Red Hat Consulting [16:54] TR News "Container (operator), virtual machine" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/modernizing-database-workloads-red-hat-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official [16:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.redhat.com | Modernizing database workloads on Red Hat OpenShift [16:55] TR News Red Hat selling slop bots or automation that makes mistakes and waste people's time: "Enriched tickets with validated summaries, ready for human review or downstream action" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/taming-agent-beast-monolithic-prompt-modular-agentic-workflow | Source: Red Hat Official [16:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.redhat.com | Taming the agent beast: From monolithic prompt to modular agentic workflow [16:59] *FANTOM (~fantom@freenode-crc.udo.r9g5d1.IP) has joined #boycottnovell-social ● Aug 27 [17:00] TR News Slop all the way at IBM Red Hat https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/27/llm-d-flow-control-priority-queuing-for-shared-gpu-inference [17:00] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/27/llm-d-flow-control-priority-queuing-for-shared-gpu-inference ) [17:01] TR News Slop slop slop... barely anything else going on at Red Hat because of IBM https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/26/reinforcement-learning-from-verifiable-rewards-with-training-hub-on-red-hat-openshift-ai [17:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/26/reinforcement-learning-from-verifiable-rewards-with-training-hub-on-red-hat-openshift-ai ) [17:02] TR News Slop and nothing else, this is a hype machine, not a tech company https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/26/how-ai-observability-works-mlflow [17:02] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/26/how-ai-observability-works-mlflow ) [17:03] TR News They market everything as slop now, they don't try to call out the pyramid scheme instead https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/26/try-ansible-playbook-generation-lab-gemini-and-openai they also help Microsoft sell proprietary software here [17:03] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/26/try-ansible-playbook-generation-lab-gemini-and-openai ) [17:06] TR News LLM plagiarism in code https://blog.verbum.org/2026/08/27/1936/ [17:06] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.verbum.org | For agentic code execution, generic tools + skills and sandbox Colin Walters [17:06] TR News Security updates for Wednesday https://lwn.net/Articles/1090732/ [17:06] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Security updates for Wednesday [LWN.net] [17:06] TR News Just because you are the only person criticising something does not make you wrong [17:07] TR News It often turns out, other are simply afraid to do the same, it's not that it is wrong [17:07] TR News "You should not talk about this, you might get in trouble" [17:08] TR News And yet, someone does need to talk about what is wrong. If nobody does it, then the oppressor or the corrupt entity will get its way, unchallenged [17:20] TR News Confirmed: Evri Support (Over E-mail) is Just a Bot! https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/27/confirmed-evri-support-over-e-mail-is-just-a-bot/ [17:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Confirmed: Evri Support (Over E-mail) is Just a Bot! [17:26] TR News 'Major casualties': Devastating floods wash away villages on Nepal-Tibet border https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260826-major-casualties-devastating-floods-wash-away-villages-on-nepal-tibet-border [17:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260826-major-casualties-devastating-floods-wash-away-villages-on-nepal-tibet-border ) [17:26] TR News Live: At least 160 dead and 400 tourists missing in Nepal landslide https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260827-live-at-least-160-dead-and-400-tourists-missing-in-nepal-landslide [17:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260827-live-at-least-160-dead-and-400-tourists-missing-in-nepal-landslide ) [17:26] TR News What we know about the environmental causes behind the Nepal landslide https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260827-what-we-know-about-the-environmental-causes-behind-the-nepal-landslide [17:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260827-what-we-know-about-the-environmental-causes-behind-the-nepal-landslide ) [17:27] TR News Apple II adventures continue https://www.rubenerd.au/iigs-adventures-continue/ [17:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rubenerd.au | Rubenerd: Apple II adventures continue [17:28] TR News FSF Blogs: Five more organizer tales: LibreLocal 2026, part three http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-librelocal-part-3 [17:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.fsf.org | Five more organizer tales: LibreLocal 2026, part three Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [17:31] TR News VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/26/vms-wont-contain-cyber-capable-agents/ [17:31] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.trailofbits.com | VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents - The Trail of Bits Blog [17:32] TR News The Minions of Avian Intelligence https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1168/the-minions-of-avian-intelligence [17:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.davidrevoy.com | The Minions of Avian Intelligence - David Revoy [17:32] TR News Shadow database scandal: noyb sends SCHUFA cease-and-desist letter; interest list for class action opened https://noyb.eu/en/shadow-database-scandal-noyb-sends-schufa-cease-and-desist-letter-interest-list-class-action [17:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-noyb.eu | Shadow database scandal: noyb sends SCHUFA cease-and-desist letter; interest list for class action opened [17:33] TR News Spyware for Babies https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/spyware-for-babies.html [17:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Spyware for Babies - Schneier on Security [17:33] TR News Search for 1,000 missing after deadly Nepal-Tibet floods https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/27/search-for-1000-missing-after-deadly-nepal-tibet-floods/ [17:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hongkongfp.com | Search for 1,000 missing after deadly Nepal-Tibet floods [17:36] TR News CarotOS GNU/Linux distribution for learning cybersecurity https://www.linuxlinks.com/carotos-linux-distribution-cybersecurity/ [17:36] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-CarotOS - 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[18:29] TR News Raphaël Hertzog: Debians General Resolution on Hey Hi (AI) and LLM https://raphaelhertzog.com/2026/08/26/debians-general-resolution-on-ai-and-llm/ [18:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-raphaelhertzog.com | Debians General Resolution on AI and LLM [18:30] TR News Kubernetes v1.37: Garhwal https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/08/26/kubernetes-v1-37-release/ [18:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-kubernetes.io | Kubernetes v1.37: Garhwal | Kubernetes [18:31] TR News SoundCloud Adds On-Platform Support for Paid Downloads, Says Artists Will Keep 100% of Each Sale https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/26/soundcloud-downloads-beta/ [18:31] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/26/soundcloud-downloads-beta/ ) [18:31] TR News Shockwaves throughout the country following gruesome killings in Haitian mountain retreat https://www.france24.com/en/shockwaves-throughout-the-country-following-gruesome-killings-in-haitian-mountain-retreat [18:31] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/shockwaves-throughout-the-country-following-gruesome-killings-in-haitian-mountain-retreat ) [18:32] TR News Gocaster lightweight terminal-based podcast https://www.linuxlinks.com/gocaster-lightweight-terminal-based-podcast/ [18:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Gocaster - lightweight terminal-based podcast - LinuxLinks [18:32] TR News Goodbye, Lloyd Robertson https://www.rubenerd.au/goodbye-lloyd-robertson/ [18:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rubenerd.au | Rubenerd: Goodbye, Lloyd Robertson [18:33] TR News Beyond Syslog: Building a Tamper-Proof E-Commerce Audit Trail with immudb https://fossforce.com/2026/08/beyond-syslog-building-a-tamper-proof-e-commerce-audit-trail-with-immudb/ [18:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-fossforce.com | Beyond Syslog: Building a Tamper-Proof E-Commerce Audit Trail with immudb - FOSS Force [18:33] TR News Dolly Partons Other Legacy: A Fortune Given Away, Dollar by Dollar https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/business/dolly-parton-philanthropy-books-covid-vaccine.html [18:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/business/dolly-parton-philanthropy-books-covid-vaccine.html ) [18:37] TR News vixalien: Adding Debug Adapter Protocol Support to GJS https://www.vixalien.com/blog/gjs-dap/ [18:37] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Adding Debug Adapter Protocol Support to GJS - vixalien's blog [18:37] TR News From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social control media access https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/from-australia-to-europe-countries-move-to-curb-childrens-social-media-access6 [18:37] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media access | The Straits Times [18:38] TR News F.D.A. Approves the Drug Daraxonrasib Thats Poised to Transform Pancreatic Cancer https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/science/pancreatic-cancer-daraxonrasib-approval.html [18:38] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/science/pancreatic-cancer-daraxonrasib-approval.html ) [18:38] TR News Tim Curry's Cause of Death Still Unknown After Actor Revealed Terrifying Health Struggle Before His Death at 80 https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tim-curry-celebrating-life-cult-icon-versatile-actor-1816492 [18:38] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.ibtimes.co.uk | Tim Curry's Cause of Death Still Unknown After Actor Revealed Terrifying Health Struggle Before His Death at 80 | IBTimes UK [18:39] TR News Nepal-Tibet floods: At least 9 South Koreans missing, response team set to depart for Nepal https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/nepal-floods-at-least-9-south-koreans-missing-10-others-confirmed-safe [18:39] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Nepal-Tibet floods: At least 9 South Koreans missing, response team set to depart for Nepal | The Straits Times [18:39] TR News Nepal-Tibet floods: At least 55 Malaysians missing, Malaysian military ready to assist: Defence minister https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/nepal-floods-at-least-11-malaysians-missing [18:39] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Nepal-Tibet floods: 11 Malaysians missing, rescue efforts ongoing | The Straits Times [18:40] TR News Malaysia to regulate e-commerce platforms following complaints https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-to-regulate-e-commerce-platforms-following-complaints [18:40] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Malaysia to regulate e-commerce platforms following complaints | The Straits Times [18:40] TR News Over 340 tourists, among them Australians, Indians and Malaysians, missing in Nepal-Tibet floods https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/who-are-the-foreign-tourists-missing-in-nepals-flash-floods [18:40] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Over 340 tourists among those missing in Nepal-Tibet floods | The Straits Times [18:41] TR News Number missing in Tibet after Nepal mudslide tops 550; China flags upstream risk https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/number-missing-in-tibet-after-nepal-mudslide-tops-550-china-flags-upstream-risk [18:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Number missing in Tibet after Nepal mudslide tops 550; China flags upstream risk | The Straits Times [18:41] TR News Nepal Border Mudslide Today Wipes Out Villages in Under a Minute as Hundreds Feared Dead or Missing https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nepal-china-border-flood-americans-missing-1816547 [18:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.ibtimes.co.uk | Nepal Border Mudslide Today Wipes Out Villages in Under a Minute as Hundreds Feared Dead or Missing | IBTimes UK [18:42] TR News With many Taiwanese embassies closed, China shifts target to representative offices https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/with-many-taiwanese-embassies-closed-china-shifts-target-to-representative-offices/ [18:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.aspistrategist.org.au | With many Taiwanese embassies closed, China shifts target to representative offices | The Strategist [18:42] TR News No formaldehyde detected in Chinese cabbage shipments to South Korea so far, say authorities https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/no-formaldehyde-detected-in-chinese-cabbage-shipments-to-south-korea-so-far-say-authorities [18:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | No formaldehyde found in Chinese cabbage imports to South Korea, authorities say | The Straits Times [18:43] TR News China joins India search for 22 missing after cargo ship sinks https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-joins-india-search-for-22-missing-after-cargo-ship-sinks [18:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | China joins India search for 22 missing after cargo ship sinks | The Straits Times [18:43] TR News Inside Evergrandes unfinished fairytale castle and the long shadow of Chinas property boom gone bust https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/inside-evergrandes-unfinished-fairytale-castle-and-the-long-shadow-of-chinas-property-boom-gone-bust [18:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Inside Evergrandes unfinished fairytale castle and the long shadow of Chinas property boom gone bust | The Straits Times [18:43] TR News What triggered the catastrophic flood on the Nepal-Tibet border? https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/what-triggered-the-catastrophic-flood-on-the-nepal-tibet-border [18:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | What triggered the catastrophic flood on the Nepal-Tibet border? | The Straits Times [18:44] TR News Nepal rescuers hunt survivors of devastating flood; 162 dead https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/rescuers-search-for-survivors-after-devastating-nepal-flood [18:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Rescuers seek nearly 1,500 still missing in Nepal and China after flash flood | The Straits Times [18:44] TR News Hundreds missing in Nepal catastrophic flash floods https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260826-hundreds-missing-in-nepal-catastrophic-flash-floods [18:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260826-hundreds-missing-in-nepal-catastrophic-flash-floods ) [18:44] TR News Officials disrupt Chinese espionage operation that hit multiple federal agencies https://cyberscoop.com/qtfy-china-espionage-group-infrastructure-seized/ [18:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Officials disrupt Chinese espionage operation that hit multiple federal agencies | CyberScoop [18:45] TR News Freak Landslide Completely Swallows Entire Mountain Village https://futurism.com/science-energy/freak-landslide-swallows-mountain-village-nepal-china [18:45] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Freak Landslide Completely Swallows Entire Mountain Village [18:46] TR News A Bill of Rights for Whom? H.R. 9799 Misreads the Modern Retail Market https://project-disco.org/competition/a-bill-of-rights-for-whom-h-r-9799-misreads-the-modern-retail-market/ [18:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-project-disco.org | A Bill of Rights for Whom? H.R. 9799 Misreads the Modern Retail Market - Disruptive Competition Project [18:46] TR News Ketamine Has a Hidden Effect on The Brain Researchers Have Been Missing For Decades https://www.sciencealert.com/unambiguous-ketamine-is-an-opioid-new-molecular-evidence-shows [18:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Ketamine Has a Hidden Effect on The Brain Researchers Have Been Missing For Decades : ScienceAlert [18:46] TR News Tiny Channels in Your Neck Might Determine How Your Brain Ages https://www.sciencealert.com/tiny-channels-in-your-neck-might-determine-how-your-brain-ages [18:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The Size of The Lymph Nodes in Your Neck Could Influence How Your Brain Ages : ScienceAlert [18:53] TR News 'Game-Changing' New Sunscreen Ingredient Blocks One of The Most Elusive Types of Solar Radiation https://www.sciencealert.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-game-changing-new-sunscreen-approved-by-the-fda [18:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-'Game-Changing' New Sunscreen Ingredient Blocks One of The Most Elusive Types of Solar Radiation : ScienceAlert [18:53] TR News Alzheimer's Damage in Mice Reversed With Just Two Injections https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reverse-alzheimers-damage-in-mice-with-just-two-injections [18:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Alzheimer's Damage in Mice Reversed With Just Two Injections : ScienceAlert [18:54] TR News Forget Acid Rain: Electrically Charged Raindrops Can Corrode Metal in a Way We Never Knew About https://www.sciencealert.com/forget-acid-rain-electrically-charged-raindrops-can-corrode-metal-in-a-way-we-never-knew-about [18:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Forget Acid Rain: Electrically Charged Raindrops Can Corrode Metal in a Way We Never Knew About : ScienceAlert [18:54] TR News Radical Overhaul to Milk Production Would Use Up to 96% Less Land Than Cows, Study Suggests https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-overhaul-to-milk-production-would-use-up-to-96-less-land-than-cows-study-suggests [18:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Radical Overhaul to Milk Production Would Use Up to 96% Less Land Than Cows, Study Suggests : ScienceAlert [18:56] TR News People Are Still Being Exposed to Chemicals Banned 2 Decades Ago https://www.sciencealert.com/people-are-still-being-exposed-to-chemicals-banned-2-decades-ago [18:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-People Are Still Being Exposed to Chemicals Banned 2 Decades Ago : ScienceAlert [18:56] TR News Scientists Find 'Ominous' Signs of Artery Damage in Nearly 8 in 10 Young Adults https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-ominous-signs-of-artery-damage-in-nearly-8-in-10-young-adults [18:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Scientists Find Signs of Artery Damage in Nearly 8 in 10 Young Adults : ScienceAlert [18:58] TR News Armbian 26.8 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1090741/ [18:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Armbian 26.8 released [LWN.net] [18:58] TR News Autonomous weapons prompt renewed push for binding global rules https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/autonomous-weapons-prompt-renewed-push-for-binding-global-rules/ [18:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.jurist.org | Autonomous weapons prompt renewed push for binding global rules - JURIST - News [18:59] TR News (NEW): Armbian 26.8 Released with Linux 7.1, Revamped Installer, and UEFI ISO Images https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/25/Armbian_26_8_Released_with_Linux_7_1_Revamped_Installer_and_UEF.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/25/Armbian_26_8_Released_with_Linux_7_1_Revamped_Installer_and_UEF.gmi [18:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Armbian 26.8 Released with Linux 7.1, Revamped Installer, and UEFI ISO Images ● Aug 27 [19:00] TR News Your Coworkers Are Becoming Meat Proxies for Hey Hi (AI) https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/coworkers-becoming-meat-proxies-ai [19:00] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Your Coworkers Are Becoming "Meat Proxies" for AI [19:00] TR News Top WSJ Editor Approves AI-Assisted Writing, Says Hey Hi (AI) is a Fact of Modern Life in Major Inflection Point for Media Industry https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/wsj-ai-writing-fact-of-life [19:00] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Top WSJ Editor Approves AI-Assisted Writing, Says AI is a "Fact of Modern Life" in Major Inflection Point for Media Industry [19:01] TR News Meta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/technology/meta-settlement-social-media-addiction-lawsuit.html [19:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/technology/meta-settlement-social-media-addiction-lawsuit.html ) [19:01] TR News Judge Allows Postal Service Effort to Restrict Mail Voting, for Now https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/us/politics/states-lawsuit-mail-ballot-order.html [19:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/us/politics/states-lawsuit-mail-ballot-order.html ) [19:01] TR News Engineer Says She Was Raped in Bed Aboard US Navy Ship Judge Dismisses Lawsuit as Workers' Comp Case https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/civilian-engineers-rape-lawsuit-dismissed-workers-compensation-1816485 [19:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.ibtimes.co.uk | Engineer Says She Was Raped in Bed Aboard US Navy Ship Judge Dismisses Lawsuit as Workers' Comp Case | IBTimes UK [19:03] TR News US Justice Department seizes domains it says Chinese state-sponsored hackers used to infiltrate systems at NASA, Senate, Federal Reserve, and more FBI moves forward with domain seizures https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/us-justice-department-claims-chinese-state-sponsored-hackers-infiltrated-systems-at-nasa-senate-federal-reserve-and-more-fbi-moves-forward-with-domain-seizures [19:03] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | US Justice Department seizes domains it says Chinese state-sponsored hackers used to infiltrate systems at NASA, Senate, Federal Reserve, and more FBI moves forward with domain seizures | Tom's Hardware [19:04] TR News Estate planningof credentials https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/estate-planning-of-credentials/ [19:04] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.pentestpartners.com | Estate planningof credentials | Pen Test Partners [19:04] TR News China tells citizens to leave Taiwan-allied Eswatini https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/26/china-tells-citizens-to-leave-taiwan-allied-eswatini/ [19:04] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hongkongfp.com | China tells citizens to leave Taiwan-allied Eswatini [19:05] TR News Gang attack in Haiti: Anger mounts over police failures https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260826-gang-attack-in-haiti-anger-mounts-over-police-failures [19:05] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260826-gang-attack-in-haiti-anger-mounts-over-police-failures ) [19:06] TR News Three 10.0 security flaws fixed across Ubiquitis UniFi line https://cyberscoop.com/ubiquiti-unifi-critical-vulnerabilities-patched/ [19:06] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Three 10.0 security flaws fixed across Ubiquitis UniFi line | CyberScoop [19:07] TR News Case Study: Conquering the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) with 1,400 Upstream Security Fixes https://openssf.org/blog/2026/08/26/case-study-conquering-the-eu-cyber-resilience-act-cra-with-1400-upstream-security-fixes/ [19:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-openssf.org | EU Cyber Resilience Act Case Study: 1,400 Upstream Fixes [19:07] TR News CISA Warns of Exploited Gitea Vulnerability https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-warns-of-exploited-gitea-vulnerability/ [19:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-CISA Warns of Exploited Gitea Vulnerability - SecurityWeek [19:08] TR News Sensitive Information Exposed in Nutex Health Data Breach https://www.securityweek.com/sensitive-information-exposed-in-nutex-health-data-breach/ [19:08] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Sensitive Information Exposed in Nutex Health Data Breach - SecurityWeek [19:08] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [19:09] TR News The MFA Identity Trap: When Authentication Creates a False Sense of Security https://www.securityweek.com/the-mfa-identity-trap-when-authentication-creates-a-false-sense-of-security/ [19:09] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The MFA Identity Trap: When Authentication Creates a False Sense of Security - SecurityWeek [19:10] *psydruid has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [19:11] TR News CISA: Over 100 Internet-Exposed Water Systems Targeted in July Cyberattacks https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-over-100-internet-exposed-water-systems-targeted-in-july-cyberattacks/ [19:11] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-CISA: Over 100 Internet-Exposed Water Systems Targeted in July Cyberattacks - SecurityWeek [19:11] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 253 seconds) [19:13] *FANTOM (~fantom@90.251.50.60) has joined #boycottnovell-social [19:14] TR News Adobe and Nvidia Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities https://www.securityweek.com/adobe-and-nvidia-patch-dozens-of-vulnerabilities/ [19:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Adobe and Nvidia Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities - SecurityWeek [19:15] TR News A mini inventory management system perfect your electronic components https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/08/26/a-mini-inventory-management-system-perfect-your-electronic-components/ [19:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.arduino.cc | A mini inventory management system perfect your electronic components | Arduino Blog [19:20] TR News Whats Changing For Teens on Instagram and Facebook (Farcebook) After Meta Settlement https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/technology/meta-instagram-facebook-settlement.html [19:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/technology/meta-instagram-facebook-settlement.html ) [19:21] TR News After Meta Settlement, Teens Divided on New Instagram and Facebook (Farcebook) Restrictions https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/style/teens-meta-instagram-facebook-restrictions.html [19:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/style/teens-meta-instagram-facebook-restrictions.html ) [19:21] TR News Meta reaches $17 billion settlement with US states over social control media harm to teens https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260826-meta-reaches-17-billion-settlement-with-us-states-over-social-media-harm-teens [19:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260826-meta-reaches-17-billion-settlement-with-us-states-over-social-media-harm-teens ) [19:21] TR News Meta settles closely watched social control media addiction lawsuit for $18B https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/26/meta-settles-closely-watched-social-media-addiction-lawsuit-for-18b/ [19:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Meta settles closely watched social media addiction lawsuit for $18B - SiliconANGLE [19:22] TR News Huge Leak Shows Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Salaries Thatll Make You Jump Out the Window https://futurism.com/future-society/microsoft-spreadsheet-leak-reveals-salary-engineers [19:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Huge Leak Shows Microsoft Salaries That'll Make You Jump Out the Window [19:23] TR News IBM = Italian Business Man [19:23] TR News Week 10 + Week 11: Subsetting for freetext annotations is merged https://ojasmaheshwari.github.io/b/2026/week-10-week-11-subsetting-for-freetext-annotations-is-merged [19:23] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ojasmaheshwari.github.io | Week 10 + Week 11: Subsetting for freetext annotations is merged [19:24] TR News Banana Pi BPI-AI2N A Renesas RZ/V2N-based SoM and carrier board for Vision Hey Hi (AI) applications https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/26/banana-pi-bpi-ai2n-a-renesas-rz-v2n-based-som-and-carrier-board-for-vision-ai-applications/ [19:24] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.cnx-software.com | Banana Pi BPI-AI2N - A Renesas RZ/V2N-based SoM and carrier board for Vision AI applications - CNX Software [19:24] TR News Bicom 5.2.1 https://distrowatch.com/bicom [19:24] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/bicom ) [19:25] TR News Photos: A Deadly Flood Tears Through Nepal and Tibet https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/world/asia/flood-nepal-tibet.html [19:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/world/asia/flood-nepal-tibet.html ) [19:25] TR News Re-Introducing KQuickImageEditor: New Features and Design Philosophy https://noahdvs.wordpress.com/2026/08/26/re-introducing-kquickimageeditor-new-features-and-design-philosophy/ [19:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-noahdvs.wordpress.com | Re-Introducing KQuickImageEditor: New Features and Design Philosophy Noah's Blog [19:26] TR News Microsoft Paint and Photos apps add invisible watermark to AI-generated content developer reverse engineers GUID embedding https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-paint-and-photos-apps-add-invisible-watermark-to-ai-generated-content-developer-reverse-engineers-guid-embedding [19:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Microsoft Paint and Photos apps add invisible watermark to AI-generated content developer reverse engineers GUID embedding | Tom's Hardware [19:26] TR News 'In Ceuta, they are eating the cats': Fake images and a persistent rumour https://www.france24.com/en/ceuta-eating-cats-fake-images-persistent-rumour [19:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/ceuta-eating-cats-fake-images-persistent-rumour ) [19:28] TR News Windows TCO: Who Has Admin Rights in your Entra ID Directory, (Wed, Aug 26th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33284 [19:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-isc.sans.edu | Who Has Admin Rights in your Entra ID Directory? - SANS ISC [19:31] TR News HomeMaster MiniPLC An ESP32 DIN-rail PLC controller for Home Assistant https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/26/homemaster-miniplc-an-esp32-din-rail-plc-controller-for-home-assistant/ [19:31] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.cnx-software.com | HomeMaster MiniPLC - An ESP32 DIN-rail PLC controller for Home Assistant - CNX Software [19:31] TR News We Now Have an 'Addiction Economy' Trapping a Generation of Young American Men, Family Researcher Warns https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/addiction-economy-young-men-mental-health-1816509 [19:31] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.ibtimes.co.uk | We Now Have an 'Addiction Economy' Trapping a Generation of Young American Men, Family Researcher Warns | IBTimes UK [19:33] TR News Dirk Eddelbuettel: linl 0.0.6 on CRAN: Maintenance http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/08/26#linl_0.0.6 [19:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-dirk.eddelbuettel.com | Thinking inside the box [19:34] TR News In LaMonica McIver Dissent, Judge Ambro Describes Costs of Politicized Prosecution and Speech and Debate https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/26/in-lamonica-mciver-dissent-judge-ambro-considers-politicized-prosecution-and-speech-and-debate/ [19:34] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-emptywheel.net | In LaMonica McIver Dissent, Judge Ambro Describes Costs of Politicized Prosecution and Speech and Debate - emptywheel [19:34] TR News Building Tyr in Rust, part 3: Managing GPU memory https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2026/08/26/building-tyr-in-rust-part-3-managing-gpu-memory/ [19:34] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.collabora.com | Building Tyr in Rust, part 3: Managing GPU memory [19:43] TR News A Year of Patent Cert Denials https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/08/a-year-of-patent-cert-denials.html [19:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-patentlyo.com | A Year of Patent Cert Denials | Patently-O [19:44] TR News Fake ladders that are commercials/ads/spam for sponsors https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/juve-announces-nominees-for-patent-law-firm-and-in-house-patent-team-of-the-year/ [19:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.juve-patent.com | JUVE announces nominees for Patent Law Firm and In-house Patent Team of the Year [19:45] TR News AI Tools and the Patent Prior Disclosure Problem https://blog.patentology.com.au/2026/08/ai-tools-and-patent-prior-disclosure.html [19:45] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.patentology.com.au | AI Tools and the Patent Prior Disclosure Problem ~ patentology [19:47] TR News X Open Sources Ranking Algorithm, Offering Transparency on Shadowbans And Even a Roadmap for Going Viral https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/26/x-open-sources-ranking-algorithm/ [19:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/26/x-open-sources-ranking-algorithm/ ) [19:48] TR News Security advisories: CVE-2026-80212 and CVE-2026-80213 https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/08/27/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-resolv/ [19:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.ruby-lang.org | Security advisories: CVE-2026-80212 and CVE-2026-80213 | Ruby [19:48] TR News The emerging role of Hey Hi (AI) in governance discussion https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/26/the-emerging-role-of-ai-in-governance-discussion/ [19:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.apnic.net | The emerging role of AI in governance discussion | APNIC Blog [19:48] TR News EC Chairs Preview: September EC Meeting and APNIC 62 https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/27/ec-chairs-preview-september-ec-meeting-and-apnic-62/ [19:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.apnic.net | EC Chair's Preview: September EC Meeting and APNIC 62 | APNIC Blog [19:50] TR News Designer Creates Worlds Most Hideous Hawaiian Shirt to Hide From Hey Hi (AI) Surveillance Cameras https://futurism.com/future-society/hideous-shirt-hide-artist-ai-surveillance-camera [19:50] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Designer Creates World's Most Hideous Hawaiian Shirt to Hide From AI Surveillance Cameras [19:50] TR News Chrome 152 Patches Over 300 Vulnerabilities https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-152-patches-over-300-vulnerabilities/ [19:50] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Chrome 152 Patches Over 300 Vulnerabilities - SecurityWeek [19:51] TR News Meta agrees to court-enforced limits on teen social control media use in $18B settlements https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/meta-agrees-to-court-enforced-limits-on-teen-social-media-use-in-18b-settlements/ [19:51] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.jurist.org | Meta agrees to court-enforced limits on teen social media use in $18B settlements - JURIST - News [19:52] TR News Hong Kong privacy watchdog warns 3 domestic workers over use of employers data for loans https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/26/hong-kong-privacy-watchdog-warns-3-domestic-workers-over-use-of-employers-data-for-loans/ [19:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hongkongfp.com | HK privacy watchdog warns domestic workers over employer data use for loans [19:52] TR News 47 potentially dangerous glacial lakes pose risk to Nepals river corridors as Himalayan hazards back in focus https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/47-potentially-dangerous-glacial-lakes-pose-risk-to-nepals-river-corridors-as-himalayan-hazards-back [19:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | 47 potentially dangerous glacial lakes pose risk to Nepals river corridors as Himalayan hazards back in focus | The Straits Times [19:53] TR News Judge Strikes Down Texas Drag Law Again, Warns Wording Could Even Criminalise a Dolly Parton and Elvis Presley Tribute https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/federal-judge-blocks-texas-drag-law-1816515 [19:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.ibtimes.co.uk | Judge Strikes Down Texas Drag Law Again, Warns Wording Could Even Criminalise a Dolly Parton and Elvis Presley Tribute | IBTimes UK [19:54] TR News AI Speeds Up Malware Development, Not Its Success Rate: Analysis https://www.securityweek.com/ai-speeds-up-malware-development-not-its-success-rate-analysis/ [19:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-AI Speeds Up Malware Development, Not Its Success Rate: Analysis - SecurityWeek [19:55] TR News Apple threat notifications and spyware: what everyone should know https://www.accessnow.org/apple-threat-notifications-and-spyware/ [19:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.accessnow.org | Apple threat notifications and spyware: what everyone should know - Access Now [19:55] TR News Rockstar releases statement after a week of GTA VI leaks, avoids mentioning leaker's demands says that gameplay leaks have been heartbreaking for our team https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/rockstar-releases-statement-after-a-week-of-gta-vi-leaks-avoids-mentioning-leakers-demands-says-that-gameplay-leaks-have-been-heartbreaking-for-our-team [19:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Rockstar releases statement after a week of GTA VI leaks, avoids mentioning leaker's demands says that gameplay leaks have been heartbreaking for our team | Tom's Hardware [19:56] TR News Improve low-battery warning https://bkhome.org/news/202608/improve-low-battery-warning.html [19:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bkhome.org | Improve low-battery warning ● Aug 27 [20:01] TR News "Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.7 today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and Rust-based graphical desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems." https://9to5linux.com/cosmic-1-7-desktop-environment-improves-cosmic-files-cosmic-edit-and-more [20:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-COSMIC 1.7 Desktop Environment Improves COSMIC Files, COSMIC Edit, and More - 9to5Linux [20:02] TR News Meet the Writer: Systems Engineering from the Cessna Cockpit to the Linux Kernel with Vitaliy Gribko https://hackernoon.com/meet-the-writer-systems-engineering-from-the-cessna-cockpit-to-the-linux-kernel-with-vitaliy-gribko [20:02] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hackernoon.com | [20:04] TR News "The Armbian team released Armbian 26.8 today as a major update to this Debian/Ubuntu-based distribution and build framework for ARM devices with a revamped installer, UEFI ISO images, and expanded hardware support." https://9to5linux.com/armbian-26-8-released-with-linux-7-1-revamped-installer-and-uefi-iso-images [20:04] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Armbian 26.8 Released with Linux 7.1, Revamped Installer, and UEFI ISO Images - 9to5Linux [20:04] TR News IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-08-24-ibm-unveils-next-generation-dual-architecture-processor-for-ibm-z-and-linuxone [20:04] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-newsroom.ibm.com | IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE [20:05] TR News "A lot of that came from the scandals around proprietary software and cloud services in the 2000s/2010s, plus videos of people like Richard Stallman convincing me that free software is the way to go. I still largely agree with that philosophy." https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1w01zv8/have_you_moved_away_from_selfhosting_towards/ [20:05] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-old.reddit.com | Welcome to Reddit [20:06] TR News 'self-hosting' proprietary spyware https://www.makeuseof.com/self-host-pairdrop-for-windows-android-iphone-linux-file-transfers/ [20:06] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.makeuseof.com | I self-hosted AirDrop and it works with Windows, Android, iPhone, and Linux [20:07] TR News Proton VPNs anti-censorship Stealth protocol finally lands on the stable Linux release https://tech.yahoo.com/vpn/articles/proton-vpn-anti-censorship-stealth-112047591.html [20:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-tech.yahoo.com | Proton VPNs anti-censorship Stealth protocol finally lands on the stable Linux release [20:08] TR News "The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 26.8 today as a major update for this open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems." https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-26-8-open-source-office-suite-officially-released-this-is-whats-new [20:08] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-LibreOffice 26.8 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is Whats New - 9to5Linux [20:08] TR News Exploits and vulnerabilities in Q2 2026 https://securelist.com/vulnerabilities-and-exploits-in-q2-2026/121091/ [20:08] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Analyzing the vulnerability landscape in Q2 2026 | Securelist [20:17] TR News Proton VPNs anti-censorship Stealth protocol finally lands on the stable Linux release https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/proton-vpns-anti-censorship-stealth-protocol-finally-lands-on-the-stable-linux-release [20:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Proton VPNs anti-censorship Stealth protocol finally lands on the stable Linux release | TechRadar [20:17] TR News (NEW): Omarchy Quattro Review: Year of the Linux Desktop? https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Omarchy_Quattro_Review_Year_of_the_Linux_Desktop.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Omarchy_Quattro_Review_Year_of_the_Linux_Desktop.gmi [20:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Omarchy Quattro Review: Year of the Linux Desktop? [20:17] TR News Slopfarm amplifying scam from so-called 'Linux' Foundation https://www.scworld.com/brief/linux-foundation-to-govern-trace-specification-for-ai-agent-security slop based on https://www.securityweek.com/linux-foundation-to-govern-trace-an-open-standard-for-ai-runtime-attestation/ [20:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.scworld.com | Linux Foundation to govern TRACE specification for AI agent security | brief | SC Media [20:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Linux Foundation to Govern TRACE, an Open Standard for AI Runtime Attestation - SecurityWeek [20:18] TR News This simple antivirus tool is the easiest way to scan your Linux PC for threats - for free https://www.zdnet.com/article/clamav-gui-antivirus-tool-is-the-free-easy-way-to-scan-linux-pc-for-threats/ [20:18] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-This simple antivirus tool is the easiest way to scan your Linux PC for threats - for free | ZDNET [20:18] TR News "A 'trusted' Linux device can impersonate an Apple device and access already-shared Find My locations" https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/security-expert-hijacks-apples-find-my-network-to-share-data-with-a-linux-device [20:18] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Security expert hijacks Apple's Find My network to share data with a Linux device | TechRadar [20:19] TR News Amplifying scam from so-called 'Linux' Foundation https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/linux-foundation-trace-standard-ai/ [20:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.infosecurity-magazine.com | Linux Foundation Introduces TRACE Standard for AI Runtime Evidence - Infosecurity Magazine [20:20] TR News "runs on 96.3 percent of top web servers" https://www.techtimes.com/articles/325592/20260826/linux-35-rust-now-permanent-kernel-after-memory-bugs-drove-80-percent-cves.htm [20:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.techtimes.com | Linux at 35: Rust Now Permanent in Kernel After Memory Bugs Drove 80 Percent of CVEs [20:20] TR News "These are 7 discontinued Linux projects I still miss today." https://www.howtogeek.com/7-discontinued-linux-projects-i-still-miss-today/ [20:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.howtogeek.com | 7 discontinued Linux projects I still miss today [20:21] TR News "AI-generated commands look more trustworthy than they are - Written with confidence, executed with errors" https://www.howtogeek.com/a-55-year-old-linux-tool-revived-chatgpt-is-driving-me-back-to-man-pages/ [20:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.howtogeek.com | A 55 year-old Linux tool revived: ChatGPT is driving me back to man pages [20:22] TR News I ran the one command in Linux you should never run. Here's what happened https://www.howtogeek.com/i-ran-the-linux-command-you-should-never-run/ [20:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.howtogeek.com | I ran the one command in Linux you should never run. Here's what happened [20:22] TR News "It's been over 20 years since I had to compile a Linux kernel, and that's because the boxed copy of Red Hat Linux someone gifted me wasn't going to work with my PC back then without adding stuff that is standard today." https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-you-might-want-to-compile-your-linux-kernel-from-source/ [20:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.howtogeek.com | 5 reasons you might want to compile your Linux kernel from source [20:23] TR News Intel introduces a new BFF Linux driver to deal with aging silicon & stuck bits https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/08/26/intel-introduces-a-new-bff-linux-driver-to-deal-with-aging-silicon-stuck-bits/ [20:23] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/08/26/intel-introduces-a-new-bff-linux-driver-to-deal-with-aging-silicon-stuck-bits/ ) [20:23] TR News temporary https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-temporary-things-forget-windows/ [20:23] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.xda-developers.com | Linux was supposed to be temporary, but these things made me forget about Windows entirely [20:26] TR News (NEW): Linux Kernel: AMD GPUs on Linux, Vitaliy Gribko, Intel BFF Driver https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Linux_Kernel_AMD_GPUs_on_Linux_Vitaliy_Gribko_Intel_BFF_Driver.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Linux_Kernel_AMD_GPUs_on_Linux_Vitaliy_Gribko_Intel_BFF_Driver.gmi [20:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Linux Kernel: AMD GPUs on Linux, Vitaliy Gribko, Intel BFF Driver [20:27] TR News (NEW): Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly, Designed in California, and Smashing Security https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Audiocasts_Shows_FLOSS_Weekly_Designed_in_California_and_Smashi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Audiocasts_Shows_FLOSS_Weekly_Designed_in_California_and_Smashi.gmi [20:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: FLOSS Weekly, Designed in California, and Smashing Security [20:29] TR News (NEW): Games: Godot, GTA VI, Alien Deathstorm, Blood Dungeon, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Games_Godot_GTA_VI_Alien_Deathstorm_Blood_Dungeon_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Games_Godot_GTA_VI_Alien_Deathstorm_Blood_Dungeon_and_More.gmi [20:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Games: Godot, GTA VI, Alien Deathstorm, Blood Dungeon, and More [20:32] TR News (NEW): Capacity Growing https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Capacity_Growing.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Capacity_Growing.gmi [20:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Capacity Growing [20:34] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/today_s_howtos.gmi [20:34] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines today's howtos [20:36] TR News (NEW): Red Hat: "Red Bait Consulting", Flatpak, and a Ton of Promotion of Slop Plagiarism and Bot Errors https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Red_Hat_Red_Bait_Consulting_Flatpak_and_a_Ton_of_Promotion_of_S.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Red_Hat_Red_Bait_Consulting_Flatpak_and_a_Ton_of_Promotion_of_S.gmi [20:36] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Red Hat: "Red Bait Consulting", Flatpak, and a Ton of Promotion of Slop Plagiarism and Bot Errors [20:37] TR News (NEW): Another reason to leave WordPress behind and comment on over-engineering https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Another_reason_to_leave_WordPress_behind_and_comment_on_over_en.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Another_reason_to_leave_WordPress_behind_and_comment_on_over_en.gmi [20:37] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi 5, Banana Pi, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_5_Banana_Pi_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_5_Banana_Pi_and_More.gmi [20:37] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Another reason to leave WordPress behind and comment on over-engineering [20:37] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi 5, Banana Pi, and More [20:39] TR News (NEW): FSF / Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty / Self-hosting Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/FSF_Software_Freedom_Digital_Sovereignty_Self_hosting_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/FSF_Software_Freedom_Digital_Sovereignty_Self_hosting_Leftovers.gmi [20:39] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines FSF / Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty / Self-hosting Leftovers [20:39] TR News (NEW): Immudb, DuckDB, and YottaDB https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Immudb_DuckDB_and_YottaDB.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Immudb_DuckDB_and_YottaDB.gmi [20:39] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Immudb, DuckDB, and YottaDB [20:41] TR News (NEW): KDE/Qt and GNOME/GTK Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/KDE_Qt_and_GNOME_GTK_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/KDE_Qt_and_GNOME_GTK_Leftovers.gmi [20:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines KDE/Qt and GNOME/GTK Leftovers [20:41] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [20:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [20:42] TR News (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi [20:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers [20:42] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi [20:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines GNU/Linux Leftovers [20:46] TR News (NEW): Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/Security_Leftovers.gmi [20:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Security Leftovers [20:48] TR News Techrights Links 27/08/2026: Facebook to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion to Cover Up Known Harms, Nepal Landslide Kills Many https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Links_27_08_2026_Facebook_to_Pay_Up_to_17_1_Billion_to_Cover_Up.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Links_27_08_2026_Facebook_to_Pay_Up_to_17_1_Billion_to_Cover_Up.gmi [20:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Links 27/08/2026: Facebook to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion to Cover Up Known Harms, Nepal Landslide Kills Many [20:50] TR News "Game Bub is a completly open source FPGA platform by default it is configured with the Game Boy. It can run games on cartridges or on sdcards. There is a user interface to select the game to start." gemini://gmi.noulin.net/2026-08-27-i-have-got-my-game-bub-fpga.gmi [20:52] TR News "I sometimes miss this, because now I can just go out and pay for whatever I have decided to spend my money on. In the past I have put some money into a box every month and called it "Bastelkasse"[a]. So whatever I bought from this money I did not have to justify much. Of course, I ceased doing this at some point." gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2026/20260827-re-worth-the-wait.gmi [20:54] TR News Revive old computers with Haiku OS gemini://sava.rocks/blog/revive-old-computers-with-haiku-os/ [20:55] TR News "Requesting that URL returns a blank page. I recommend making your gemlog return a proper 51 Not Found response on such URLs. Cosmos knows how to purge those automatically." | Screen Piggery gemini://spell.mywire.org:1960/~stack/0266.gmi gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Cosmos/47677 [20:56] TR News "It's been a a few days since I've been playing, but recently I had a look at Pokmon fan games and picked Rejuvenation to give it a try. So, let's reminiscent about the first impressions." gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/260827Reju.gmi [20:57] TR News "Of course Oklahoman Republicans voted for the Trump nominee. Of course Oklahomans voted to put voting requirements in the constitution despite them already being in law and voting being safe and secure here." gemini://dhepworth.smol.pub/of-course-oklahoma [20:57] TR News "The sad passing of Dolly Parton puts me in mind of the only time I visited Tennessee." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-08-27-divided [20:58] TR News "considering a tweak: what if i did all my selecting for the day - reading, music, videos etc - in the morning, moved those tabs to my "offline" account and treated that as if it's stuff i've downloaded for the day?" gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/limitinginternetweek3 [20:59] TR News Slop "companies are laying off thousands of employees while promising a better future with less work. This article traces how the 2026 layoff wave, broken trust and digital resistance fit a pattern already seen with Keynes' 15 hour work week and the computer era, and asks where this cycle is actually heading this time." gemini://schreibfaultier.pollux.casa/blog/2026-08-27-ai-digital-resistance.en.gmi [20:59] TR News "Almost a century later, this rhetoric repeats itself almost word for word. Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, tells his children to expect a three and a half day work week. Elon Musk claims that eventually no one will need a job at all." [20:59] TR News "Leading AI companies publicly promise their tools will empower workers rather than replace them. At the same time, 2026 is seeing some of the largest layoff waves in recent tech history, at companies posting record profits, of all places." ● Aug 27 [21:00] TR News "Not every voice sounds this uncritically optimistic. Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, warned at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2026 about a concrete risk. AI, he said, could do to office workers what globalization once did to industrial workers." [21:00] TR News "He therefore called for a credible plan for broader participation in the gains from AI development. This concern is not new, since economists voiced it already during the automation wave of the 1980s. Back then, it had little lasting effect on how productivity gains were actually distributed." [21:00] TR News "These numbers reveal something notable: the layoffs are not primarily driven by economic hardship, since most of the affected companies report growing revenue and profits. Officially, corporations usually justify the cuts with consolidation or efficiency gains tied to AI transformation." [21:01] TR News "In practice, however, a significant share of the freed up money flows directly into building AI infrastructure. Oracle, for instance, estimates that its workforce reduction frees up 8 to 10 billion dollars for AI investment." [21:01] TR News "Whether today's AI investments in the tech industry are subject to the same kind of delay, or whether they form a lasting bubble, cannot be conclusively assessed at this point." [21:02] TR News "What stands out, however, is the simultaneity of three developments: record investment in AI infrastructure, high valuations for the companies involved, and large scale workforce reductions, all while solid evidence of a corresponding economy wide productivity gain remains absent." [21:02] TR News "Historically, this pattern is more the rule than the exception for new general purpose technologies, since high expectations paired with a lack of measurable benefit have shaped earlier introduction phases as well." [21:03] TR News Cmo provocar un incendio y por qu. gemini://acastillog.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-08-27_provocar-incendio.gmi [21:03] TR News "That's quite a decision to make at a fairly tender age. My Dad was an engineer and he suggested that German would be the more practical choice, but he assumed that I'd follow a similar career to him and that I'd meet German engineers and perhaps even be able to work there if I could speak the language." gemini://kdan.smol.pub/learning_latin [21:04] TR News "A while back, Ava wrote a post that I enjoyed (as always), but at times offered a perspective that didn't entirely sit right with me. Ava's issue of concern is a lack of precision around labeling, using "vegan", "almost vegan" and "basically vegan" as examples." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/re-show-respect-name-things-correctly [21:05] TR News "It's been more than two months, and I still want to put things onto this gemlog, so I count that as a positive. I also often wonder what to actually write. I'm at home because of disability. (It still feels so weird and imposter syndrom-y calling it that.)" gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/260822stuffs.gmi [21:05] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [21:09] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 27/08/2026: Oklahoma, Tennessee, Haiku OS, Digital Resistance, and Staying Offline https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Gemini_Links_27_08_2026_Oklahoma_Tennessee_Haiku_OS_Digital_Res.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/27/Gemini_Links_27_08_2026_Oklahoma_Tennessee_Haiku_OS_Digital_Res.gmi [21:09] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Gemini Links 27/08/2026: Oklahoma, Tennessee, Haiku OS, Digital Resistance, and Staying Offline [21:14] TR News (NEW): We Started in Tennessee https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/We_Started_in_Tennessee.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/27/We_Started_in_Tennessee.gmi [21:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines We Started in Tennessee ● Aug 27 [23:44] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [23:44] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social ● Aug 27 [01:10] *nobody has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [01:13] *nobody (~nobody@rz9tbdmkm7bz8.irc) has joined #techpol [01:47] admfubar https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/catholic-bishops-tell-florida-theres-no-religious-reason-for-vaccine-exemptions/ [01:47] -TechPolBot/#techpol-arstechnica.com | Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions - Ars Technica [01:57] admfubar https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/26/alaska-us-house-primary-federal-prisoner-eric-hafner [01:57] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.theguardian.com | Man in prison in New York advances in primary for Alaskas US House seat | Alaska | The Guardian ● Aug 27 [02:43] admfubar https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/ice-tries-fails-to-illegally-raid-an-immigration-law-office-settles-for-empty-threats-instead/ [02:43] -TechPolBot/#techpol-ICE Tries, Fails To Illegally Raid An Immigration Law Office; Settles For Empty Threats Instead | Techdirt ● Aug 27 [08:58] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techpol ● Aug 27 [09:00] *psydruid has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Aug 27 [13:08] *nobody has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [13:54] *nobody (~nobody@xn36c5yja4qi4.irc) has joined #techpol [13:56] *nobody has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Aug 27 [14:03] *nobody (~nobody@xn36c5yja4qi4.irc) has joined #techpol ● Aug 27 [16:15] TR News "Trump sends Saudi civil nuclear agreement to Congress for review - France 24" https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260826-trump-saudi-civil-nuclear-agreement-congress [16:15] -TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260826-trump-saudi-civil-nuclear-agreement-congress ) [16:16] TR News Hollowing out the most battle-tested and most lethal, proven leaders in a time of war means troops are less safe and were less likely to win, Representative Pat Ryan, Democrat of New York and a former Army intelligence officer, told the daily newspaper." https://newrepublic.com/post/214747/hegseth-army-purges-undermined-iran [16:16] -TechPolBot/#techpol-newrepublic.com | Hegseths Army Purges Have Undermined Military Leadership on Iran | The New Republic [16:16] TR News Were doing generational damage to the sense that the military is an apolitical trusted organization that swears an oath to the Constitution, not to a president. https://newrepublic.com/post/214747/hegseth-army-purges-undermined-iran ("Hegseths Army Purges Have Undermined Military Leadership on Iran | The New Republic") [16:17] TR News "And look, its not news to anybody that Trump is ego-driven, disconnected from reality, and at the same time, somehow commands a level of deference and obedience from the entire machinery of the federal government that no president has ever had before. So this is really quite serious." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/der-untergang [16:17] -TechPolBot/#techpol-paulkrugman.substack.com | Der Untergang - Paul Krugman [16:17] TR News "What I dont think people are fully aware of is just how bad it can get, given that Trump is so obviously dissociating, decompensating, that hes not all there." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/der-untergang [16:22] TR News "What Every Democratic Candidate Should be Saying" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-most-important-question-of-the [16:22] -TechPolBot/#techpol-robertreich.substack.com | What Every Democratic Candidate Should be Saying [16:25] TR News "Dolly Parton was even more generous than you knew | Vox" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/500687/dolly-parton-philanthropy [16:25] -TechPolBot/#techpol-Dolly Parton was even more generous than you knew | Vox [16:25] TR News "Trump, 80, Appears to Forget That He Blew Up Canada Trade Talks | The New Republic" https://newrepublic.com/post/214760/trump-forget-canada-trade-talks [16:25] -TechPolBot/#techpol-newrepublic.com | Trump, 80, Appears to Forget That He Blew Up Canada Trade Talks | The New Republic [16:25] TR News "Dolly Parton always explained the magic trick she was doing - Los Angeles Times" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2026-08-26/dolly-parton-appreciation [16:25] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.latimes.com | Dolly Parton always explained the magic trick she was doing - Los Angeles Times [16:25] TR News splitting the ticket -- again https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/08/27/Are-Too-Many-Vancouver-Progressives-Running-Mayor/ [16:25] -TechPolBot/#techpol-thetyee.ca | Are Too Many Vancouver Progressives Running for Mayor? | The Tyee ● Aug 27 [18:23] TR News Lithuanian president says he was informed of CIA chiefs Moscow visit https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3033270/lithuanian-president-says-he-was-informed-of-cia-chief-s-moscow-visit [18:23] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.lrt.lt | Lithuanian president says he was informed of CIA chiefs Moscow visit - LRT [18:23] TR News From patron to partner: Syrias new relationship with Russia https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2026/0826/russia-syria-military-bases-moscow-middle-east [18:23] -TechPolBot/#techpol-From patron to partner: Syrias new relationship with Russia - CSMonitor.com [18:24] TR News Ukraines edge in war: Esprit de (military) corps https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0826/Ukraine-s-edge-in-war-Esprit-de-military-corps [18:24] -TechPolBot/#techpol-Ukraines edge in war: Esprit de (military) corps - CSMonitor.com [18:24] TR News Russia: CIA director visits Moscow https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260826-russia-cia-director-visits-moscow [18:24] -TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260826-russia-cia-director-visits-moscow ) [18:25] TR News Latvian PM Kulbergs given Ukrainian honour https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/diplomacy/25.08.2026-latvian-pm-kulbergs-given-ukrainian-honour.a660413/ [18:25] -TechPolBot/#techpol-eng.lsm.lv | Latvian PM Kulbergs given Ukrainian honour / Article [18:25] TR News Latvian volunteer soldier killed in Ukraine https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/26.08.2026-latvian-volunteer-soldier-killed-in-ukraine.a660454/ [18:25] -TechPolBot/#techpol-eng.lsm.lv | Latvian volunteer soldier killed in Ukraine / Article [18:31] TR News Shockwaves throughout the country following gruesome killings in Haitian mountain retreat https://www.france24.com/en/shockwaves-throughout-the-country-following-gruesome-killings-in-haitian-mountain-retreat [18:31] -TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/shockwaves-throughout-the-country-following-gruesome-killings-in-haitian-mountain-retreat ) [18:42] TR News With many Taiwanese embassies closed, China shifts target to representative offices https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/with-many-taiwanese-embassies-closed-china-shifts-target-to-representative-offices/ [18:42] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.aspistrategist.org.au | With many Taiwanese embassies closed, China shifts target to representative offices | The Strategist [18:58] TR News Autonomous weapons prompt renewed push for binding global rules https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/autonomous-weapons-prompt-renewed-push-for-binding-global-rules/ [18:58] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.jurist.org | Autonomous weapons prompt renewed push for binding global rules - JURIST - News ● Aug 27 [19:01] TR News Judge Allows Postal Service Effort to Restrict Mail Voting, for Now https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/us/politics/states-lawsuit-mail-ballot-order.html [19:01] -TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/us/politics/states-lawsuit-mail-ballot-order.html ) [19:04] TR News China tells citizens to leave Taiwan-allied Eswatini https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/26/china-tells-citizens-to-leave-taiwan-allied-eswatini/ [19:04] -TechPolBot/#techpol-hongkongfp.com | China tells citizens to leave Taiwan-allied Eswatini [19:05] TR News Gang attack in Haiti: Anger mounts over police failures https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260826-gang-attack-in-haiti-anger-mounts-over-police-failures [19:05] -TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260826-gang-attack-in-haiti-anger-mounts-over-police-failures ) [19:08] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techpol [19:10] *psydruid has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [19:15] admfubar thing is ... trup did... https://www.alternet.org/trump-corporations-micromanaging-dei/ [19:15] -TechPolBot/#techpol-Companies that told Trump to get lost outperformed competitors that caved: study - Alternet.org [19:53] TR News Judge Strikes Down Texas Drag Law Again, Warns Wording Could Even Criminalise a Dolly Parton and Elvis Presley Tribute https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/federal-judge-blocks-texas-drag-law-1816515 [19:53] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.ibtimes.co.uk | Judge Strikes Down Texas Drag Law Again, Warns Wording Could Even Criminalise a Dolly Parton and Elvis Presley Tribute | IBTimes UK ● Aug 27 [23:44] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techpol